Keep On Pushing

With Guest Olympian, businessman and author of Keep On Pushing: Hot Lessons From Cool Runnings, Devon Harris.

This show speaks to the idea of persevering, being persistent, and never giving up. Devon says “It is impossible to achieve high-level success without meeting opposition.” We will discuss strategies and steps from Devon’s life lessons which our listeners can apply in this critical year 2012. 

Devon Harris. Born on Christmas Day, 1964 and raised in the most notorious enclave of Olympic Gardens in Kingston, known as Waterhouse, the greatest gift Devon Harris ever received was the belief that a positive attitude and a never say die philosophy would carry him farther than a sense of injustice and a heart filled with anger.

A graduate of the prestigious Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England, Devon received a Queen’s Commission in December 1985 and served in the officer corps of the Jamaica Defence Force until December 1992 when he retired as a Captain.
Encouraged by his commanding officer, Devon tried out for and was selected as a member of Jamaica’s first bobsled team which competed in Calgary, Canada in 1988. The Disney blockbuster movie Cool Runnings was based on that experience. Devon also competed in the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France and the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan.

Devon is married with five children, resides in New York and travels internationally as a Motivational Speaker, offering a captivating message of persistence, teamwork, inspiration and hope. He is the author of the motivational children’s book, Yes I Can!, and the semi-autobiographical motivational book, Keep on Pushing: Hot Lessons from Cool Runnings.