{"id":3624,"date":"2016-02-08T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:57:24","slug":"how-one-womans-mission-to-preserve-her-mothers-mobility-lead-to-a-great-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/how-one-womans-mission-to-preserve-her-mothers-mobility-lead-to-a-great-invention\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Woman&#8217;s Mission to Preserve Her Mother&#8217;s Mobility Lead to a Great Invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: Stephen Key<\/p>\n<p>The most successful inventors I know are passionate about their ideas. Makes sense, doesn\u2019t it? Becoming an entrepreneur isn\u2019t for the faint of heart. I can tell you this: Everyone who makes it experienced rejection countless times before. It\u2019s inevitable. To play this game, you have to be willing to keep at it.<\/p>\n<p>You have to let rejection roll off your shoulders. You can\u2019t lose sight of what\u2019s at stake. Being personally invested can really help. Because when the going gets tough, what\u2019s going to propel you not to give up? Purpose. When you\u2019re passionate about your mission, nothing can stop you.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s absolutely true of Lesli Jenkins Wang, one of my students. In 2007, Wang began searching for a product that would help her mother preserve her mobility. When she couldn\u2019t find what she was looking for, she was surprised. \u201cEvery website I checked offered the same few products, which were industrial-looking and cumbersome. I thought, \u2018That isn\u2019t good enough for my Mom.\u2019\u201d Wang explained. \u201cShe couldn\u2019t be the only one experiencing this problem. So I needed to figure it out. That\u2019s really where it started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s mother had become increasingly uneasy about venturing outside of her home, because it was difficult for her to use restrooms without commode frames. The hundreds of products developed to assist with mobility and the activities of daily living had missed an obvious gap. Wang said. \u201cHow do you negotiate using a public restroom if you cannot lift yourself on and off the toilet, even with a four-wheel rolling walker or wheelchair?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/270142\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; READ MORE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: Stephen Key The most successful inventors I know are passionate about their ideas. Makes sense, doesn\u2019t it? Becoming an entrepreneur isn\u2019t for the faint of heart. I can tell you this: Everyone who makes it experienced rejection countless times before. It\u2019s inevitable. 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