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Don Kennedy

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in Kissimmee, The United States

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D. E. Kennedy was born in Kissimmee, Florida in 1951 to a waitress and professional bull rider. His early years were spent with his mother and two siblings, moving as gypsies from town to town in central Florida.

At the age of eight, he discovered surfing at New Smyrna Beach, Florida and grew up working and surfing the east coast and California and has never stopped hitting the waves; Hawaii, Costa Rica, El Salvador.

Don always worked to survive and surf. He sold mistletoe in front of drug stores at age nine, packed cucumbers with migrants in the fields near Virginia Beach at age fifteen, and pounded railroad spikes in the Petersburg, Virginia heat at age seventeen. Along the way his rambunctious spirit and purple Ford van earned him his sur D. E. Kennedy was born in Kissimmee, Florida in 1951 to a waitress and professional bull rider. His early years were spent with his mother and two siblings, moving as gypsies from town to town in central Florida.

At the age of eight, he discovered surfing at New Smyrna Beach, Florida and grew up working and surfing the east coast and California and has never stopped hitting the waves; Hawaii, Costa Rica, El Salvador.

Don always worked to survive and surf. He sold mistletoe in front of drug stores at age nine, packed cucumbers with migrants in the fields near Virginia Beach at age fifteen, and pounded railroad spikes in the Petersburg, Virginia heat at age seventeen. Along the way his rambunctious spirit and purple Ford van earned him his surfing nickname, the Coydogg.

His final high school years were spent in Key West, Florida as a general student not expected to attend college. Late one night, while mopping floors at the worn Key West Naval Hospital, he spoke with a young doctor and that evening decided medicine was his calling. Why not be a doctor and a surfer?

Dr. Kennedy’s thirty-year practice of family and geriatric medicine began with pre-med studies at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida. During his six years in the U.S Air Force, graduated with his a BS degree in biology and chemistry from the College of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana then attended The University of Health Sciences in Kansas City and completed a family medicine residency at the University of Missouri.

At the age of fifty-two, Dr. Kennedy returned for his master’s degree in business at Stetson University in Deland, Florida and completed his PhD in Leadership at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee in 2015. Remember, he wasn’t expected to attend college.

The surfer-doctor has extensive business and marketing experience. He was founder and CEO of three family medicine practices, set-up and managed urgent care centers, worked with migrants in the National Health Service Corp, and is a co-founder of the Mind, Body, and Soul Surfing Club ™.

Most importantly, Dr. Don Kennedy writes to improve lives and is the only physician in the country practicing Motivational Medicine. His first published book and self-help program, 5 AM & Already Behind, was written on a dare by best selling author and friend, Michael Gerber (The E-myth).

The story about finding your Bahbit™ was published in three languages. Don has used 5AM in his medical practice and seminars to teach hundreds of patients and students how to achieve a healthy and purposeful life balance.

His latest book, The Surfer’s Journey, is a research-based fable using Don’s love for Mother Ocean to motivate and develop socially conscious leaders he calls transformational heroes. The book is a unique symbol-based manuscript Dr. Kennedy uses as a textbook to teach the ten leadership principles of surfing at universities, in businesses, with private clients, and at his destination-based Surfer’s Journey retreats. Hint – Watch for these.

Don lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife of thirty-five years and has four children and three grandchildren. The Coydogg still surfs. ...more

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	5 A.M. & Already Behind by Don Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Michael E. Gerber (Foreword) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Attorneys, The Soul, Addiction, and Heroes

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March 2021

I am a doctor. Last month I saw a vacationing young attorney who tripped over her daughter’s baby carriage and broke her right wrist. After we splinted her arm she asked for a written excuse. Odd. Why? She explained she needed the wording to be explicit: Please excuse [name] as she will have decreased productivity for the next four