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Playing catch-up with 麻豆原创 Hall of Famer Shaquem Griffin \u201916<\/strong> will require mental reflexes. At least a dozen subjects wrestle for his \u2014 and our \u2014 attention during a conversation: family, business, technology, football, business again, training, faith, being a good father. The list goes on. Everything on it, in some squiggly way, connects to Griffin\u2019s childhood memories in the family garage. He\u2019ll take us there, but first he needs to do the catching up part.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to explain everything in a sizzle reel,\u201d he says before doing his best to provide a rapid-fire montage of life since retiring from the National Football League in 2022. He works as a community coordinator with NFL Legends, is actively involved in six companies, manages several real-estate holdings, travels to speak at corporate events and schools, serves on the Big 12 Alumni Council, writes books, is co-founder (with his twin brother, Shaquill Griffin \u201922<\/strong>) of Consumer Launch Pad to help entrepreneurs streamline innovative ideas into manufacturing processes, cares for his three children at home in Anna Maria Island, Florida, and is working on a movie script about his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also training for three track and field events at the Paralympics \u2014 the long jump, 100 meters and 200 meters,\u201d he says. \u201cI plan to be in Los Angeles in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you know anything at all about Shaquem Griffin, then you know enough to take him at his word when he sets his mind to anything. And that seems like a perfect bridge into the expected subject of sports, specifically Griffin\u2019s determination to play linebacker at the highest level despite having his left hand amputated when he was 4 years old.<\/p>\n

But Griffin\u2019s mind is set on something bigger, newer and just as personal as the sport that brought his story into the public eye. It\u2019s his collaboration with smartARM, a tech company dedicated to developing prosthetics using a rare combination of artificial intelligence (AI), cameras, 3D printing, cosmetic appeal and, at the heart of it all, genuine compassion.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve been approached by countless prosthetic companies,\u201d Griffin says. \u201cBut they only wanted to use me for my name and likeness. The moment I met the people from smartARM, I knew there\u2019s something different about them \u2014 not only what they\u2019re doing with technology, but why<\/em> they\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin says this today from the perspective of a smartARM user. A few minutes ago, he was cleaning his son\u2019s bottles with the help of a smartARM. Yesterday, he picked through produce at his favorite market with it. Every time he lifted an apple, the prosthetic collected real-time data and fed it into a constantly improving algorithm. When he picks up an apple tomorrow, the arm will be smarter than it was yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know how helpful it would be until I started using it,\u201d Griffin says.<\/p>\n

The technology, however, is just part of the reason he wanted to join the smartARM team.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir values match mine,\u201d he says. During his initial conversation with smartARM\u2019s founders in 2022, he heard a story about a friend of theirs who never had a commercial-grade prosthetic because of the high cost. Griffin heard words that had been missing from his brief discussions with other prosthetic makers: affordability and accessibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could relate to those issues,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m at a point now where I can say my challenges were part of God\u2019s purpose for me \u2014 to overcome obstacles and be in a position to do more good for others. smartARM fits that purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s go back to the Griffins\u2019 garage in St. Petersburg, Florida. Before Shaquem and Shaquill helped put 麻豆原创 on the national football map, before Shaquem was named defensive player of the year in the American Athletic Conference, before he set the record for the fastest 40-yard-dash time by a linebacker at the NFL combine, before he was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks and before he\u2019d ever heard of smartARM, there was just a set of tools and a workbench in the garage. Griffin\u2019s father also brought vision into the garage. In his mind, he saw a prosthetic his son could use for training. But instead of taking out a $40,000 loan to buy it, he\u2019d build it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho can afford that kind of money?\u201d Griffin says. \u201cI\u2019ve always thought it\u2019s wrong that people who really need prosthetics often don\u2019t have access to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through middle school and high school, Griffin would use \u201cdad\u2019s contraption\u201d as he calls it to lift weights. Shaquill was his dedicated spotter. Whenever the contraption broke, dad would buy a replacement part and fix it, or he\u2019d build a new one. When Griffin arrived at 麻豆原创 to prepare for his freshman season, the Knights training staff surprised him with a commercial-grade prosthetic.<\/p>\n

He returned the favor by surprising them, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019d never seen someone doing pullups and pushups the way I did them. They didn\u2019t expect me to increase my bench press to 385 pounds with the prosthetic either. Looking back, I was changing the way people think about disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin was growing off the field, too, earning a degree in human communication<\/a>, which prepared him to share his powerful story with large audiences. He studied business books so he could be a discerning investor, and he immersed himself in technology to learn how it works and how it can be improved. Whenever a prosthetic company came along to pitch Griffin about a partnership, he knew exactly what to ask.<\/p>\n

“What kind of advanced tech do you use? How do you plan to scale it?” And most important: “What will it cost the person who needs it?”<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a D-1 football player gave me access to resources that others don\u2019t typically have,\u201d he says. \u201cThose resources shouldn\u2019t be exclusive. With smartARM I have an opportunity to bring them to a space that\u2019s been lacking forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin now has something more tangible to share with families who frequently contact him simply for an encouraging word.<\/p>\n

\u201cParents of disabled children have approached me since I was a teenager, asking if their child would ever make friends, if they\u2019d be able to play sports, if they\u2019d find someone to marry,” he says. “Honestly, I didn\u2019t know what to say because I was going through it myself. I\u2019d hear comments like, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s pretty good for being handicapped.\u2019 I thought all of that would change when I made it to the NFL, but it didn\u2019t. Eventually, I realized I was trying to erase something that could actually make me a blessing to others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proving others wrong once motivated Griffin. Today, perspective drives him. He knows how the workbench in the garage morphed into his platform. He\u2019s spreading awareness, assembling like-minded investors, and participating in technology advancements. With his help, the cost of a smartARM is almost one-fourth the cost of most bionic prosthetics \u2014 and he\u2019s hopeful that insurance plans will soon cover the costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just the start,\u201d Griffin says. \u201cMy goal is for more people to commit resources to help others the way smartARM is doing. Let\u2019s provide access so we can see the capabilities of those who have been marginalized. You\u2019ll be surprised what they can do. That\u2019s my message and it\u2019s now my purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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