#413: Nick Watson built a special running chair and bike so his disabled son could race triathlons by his side.

Nick Watson is a former Royal Marine who moved to Dubai in the late 1990s and later founded Team Angel Wolf, a nonprofit built around his son Rio, who is 23 and lives with a rare chromosome condition. The wider mission behind Team Angel Wolf, teaching communities and schools across the UAE what real inclusion looks like.

Timestamps

0:57 Nick and Spencer meet after 21 years of near misses

2:12 Why Nick says the timing wasn't right before now

2:56 Growing up in Cornwall and his parents' cafe in Falmouth

4:06 Leaving school at 16 and the family's move to central France

5:38 Discovering art and the dream of designing cars

6:31 Finding triathlon and building a community in Toulouse

9:56 Choosing the Royal Marines over art school

10:35 Joining the Marines at 21

13:19 The hardest decision of his career, stay or leave

14:50 Meeting his wife Delphine on a personal training course