Emily Cole

Well, I was actually in the industry before we met.

So a lot of people think that because Jesse is... The banana industry.

Yeah, that he brought me into it.

But we both worked in the industry and I was working for Ripken Baseball at the time.

Jesse was probably the youngest general manager ever.

He was 23 and was just a sponge and trying to learn.

So he hosted his own conference, which is unheard of for anybody, but for a 23-year-old.

Really lofty, right?

And he invited a lot of the executives in the industry from around the country to his conference.

And my boss from Ripken Baseball went and heard him speak and walked outside and called me and said, I just met the guy that you're going to marry.

I was 24 and not interested in getting married, you know, on the path to running teams and really building myself in my career.

But I said, okay, I'll at least reach out to him.

And he was doing things like hosting grandma beauty pageants and having flatulence fun night and things that were very odd.

in the industry, but I was intrigued.

And so I emailed him as one does in 2009.

Yes.

And we stayed in touch.

We emailed and disconnected professionally for a little while.

And then in 2011, we actually had our meet queue, as you say.

We both walked into the Minor League Baseball promo seminar in Myrtle Beach, and that's where we kind of locked eyes from across the hotel lobby at that opening cocktail hour and really have been talking and dreaming together ever since.