She’s also an incredible business person, leader, and salesperson because she’s able to do that.īRYAN WISH: Where do you think she compliments you and where do you compliment her?ĭAVE KERPEN: I was just doing some coaching and talking to an entrepreneur about how it’s really hard, if not impossible, to focus on growth and profit-building at the same time. That has made me a very lucky guy and I am very fortunate to have a terrific wife. She was and continues to be, this many years later, completely radiant and completely able to own a room but also when she’s having a one-on-one conversation with me or with anyone, she’s so focused on that person that that person feels like they’re the only one in that room as well. There’s a female me and she’s better than me. I’m a very high energy, very positive, but it was like she walked into the room and it was like, “Oh my God. People have described that I could sort of own a room and take over a room. Thank goodness for that One Away moment.īRYAN WISH: What about her made you connect?ĭAVE KERPEN: I love that question because people don’t ask me that a lot, especially on business podcasts. 15 years later, we have three wonderful kids and have built 3 or 4 wonderful businesses and written a bunch of books. We started dating and the rest is history. I said, “I had to be in New York the following week to meet with my agent,” which of course, didn’t exist. ![]() What are you doing?” She said, “I’m going through a divorce.” I said, “I’m so sorry to hear that.” Did a little fist pump secretly. I said, “Hey, I’m hanging out with the people from American Idol. My One Away moment was calling her from the red carpet and trying to brag. It had been about a year since we had last talked and I was on the red carpet at the American Music Awards and I missed her still so much. After the show, I was living in L.A., a celebrity, and I had to let her go, of course, and try to move on but I had a weak moment. I went on a reality TV show to find true love. ![]() I did what anyone with unrequited love would do. She ended up leaving the company, moving to New York with her husband to focus on her marriage. I fell madly in love with her but there was one problem: she was married already. I was the number one salesperson in the country until she started working at the office and dropped me to number two. Building strong, healthy personal relationships is the key to finding happiness in work, too.īRYAN WISH: What is your One Away moment that you want to share with us today?ĭAVE KERPEN: In 2002, I fell madly in love with a woman in Boston when we were working together at Radio Disney.
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