We hear how an off-road wheelchair Zack built for Cambry when they started dating reopened her world and changed hundreds of lives. Also: life lessons from a singing grandad and a young climber; and King Charles turns DJ.
Chapter 1: What is 'The Happy Pod' about?
Hello, it's Alan Smith with you for half an hour or so of uplifting stories from around the world. This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. And in this edition, how one couple's love of outdoor adventures inspired an invention that helped hundreds of people.
So just riding the rig has opened my world. And yeah, I love it.
Seeing people out and enjoying life and the outdoors, that's super satisfying.
Why you're never too old to succeed at something new.
Living Laura came to me and said, Amanda, you're going to go on TikTok. I said, you're going to go on what?
Or too young to inspire others.
I was so scared of falling from so high up. I need some time to step back and reflect.
Plus, we've Italy's top dog.
She likes to cuddle, but she loves to run and to have fun on her favourite beach. When she's in the rain, she's like, look at me.
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Chapter 2: How did Zach and Cambry Nelson revolutionize mobility for the disabled?
Is it A, rain, B, something in a frying pan or C, static crackles on an old style radio? I'll tell you the answer and why it makes me happy at the end of the podcast. Our first story is about the extraordinary lengths one man went to for a woman he'd just started dating, something that ended up changing both their lives and helping hundreds of people.
When Zach Nelson met Cambry six years ago, he wanted to share his love of hiking and the great outdoors. But the wheelchair she used because of a spinal cord injury wasn't up to going off-road and they couldn't afford those that were. So instead, he invented and built something just for her called The Rig.
The couple, who are now married and live in Utah, went on to set up their company, Not A Wheelchair, to try to reduce the costs and delays others face getting custom-made mobility equipment. Zach and Cambry Nelson have been talking to Harry Bly, starting with the moment Cambry tried out the very first version of the rig.
I was just kind of blown away. Like I just kept smiling. It was so fun. Like I could go on grass and not have any issues because in my manual wheelchair, like I can't get very far on gravel and grass and dirt. And so it was really fun to just go. I don't know. The first day we went a few miles. It just kind of felt like the world reopened.
because I just got used to like the pavement and being in accessible places. So just riding the rig has opened my world. And there's just a feeling you get when you feel like
Yeah, I love it. It's really fun to ride. Getting outside was something that I enjoy doing, and I wanted her to come with me. And so that was the goal, to get her outside. But also, the more I got to know Cambry, the more I realized that everything about accessibility is just super, super expensive.
There was other off-road wheelchairs out there that cost $10,000 or $20,000, but when you're dating... Um, that's not, uh, that's not a good day date, you know, price point. Um, so I decided to weld two electric bikes together to make that first prototype.
I don't know. I think Zach is very like practical and logical and he wants everybody to be on the same playing field. And so I, I see that being really rewarding, but I think also when we get videos of people enjoying their rigs, like it hits a deeper level that sometimes we forget about the impact it really has on people's lives. And That's really fun.
So the whole thing is just fun for us because like we've sold, you know, hundreds of these active wheelchairs, seeing people out and enjoying life and the outdoors and knowing that they didn't break the bank to get there. Like that's super satisfying, I think.
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