Mark and John Cronin - Johns Crazy Socks

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, our guests are John Lee Cronin and Mark X. Cronin, father and son and Founder of John’s Crazy Socks. John’s Crazy Socks is a father-son venture inspired by Co-Founder John Lee Cronin, a young man with Down syndrome. They have a social mission and a retail mission, and they are indivisible. Every day, they demonstrate what people with differing abilities can do. And today, they are going to share with us they started their business and giving awareness about down syndrome</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[6:34]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to be told knucklehead towards selling socks. I tried to change the world. It’s our particular story. We can tell you how out of and about awareness to Down syndrome. And you got to hear how he took what could have been a problem and turned it into an opportunity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:10]</span> <strong>Story about Down Syndrome</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When John was born, his parents didn’t know he would be born with Down syndrome. Before he was three months old, he needed open-heart surgery. He needed what was tantamount to intestinal bypass surgery and acquired a Catholic priest to baptize him yet because we did not know if he would survive the operation. It’s like an old-fashioned Chinese menu, except you don’t get to pick and choose.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[9:00] The Kennedy Foundation now wants to work with startups and entrepreneurs that are innovating in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our 30% of people born with Down syndrome, born with significant heart defects. We did not know if he would survive the operation. What chance that a baby born with those medical issues have? And the answer is he could grow up to change the world.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[11:40]</span> <strong>What John’s really good at</strong></p> <p><