Ken Rideout

i can't believe i did them i did that there's still part of me that's like i'm a drug addicted loser i did these things but through all those things you come out and i'm like wow i did this the book's coming out the book was like a few months out all the work was done and my wife gets diagnosed with cancer and i would have given i would have taken terminal cancer given away every single thing i have

to make my wife healthy in that moment.

Thank God it was stage one.

She's all good.

She just had her last surgery this week.

But the point is, a rich man has a million problems and a sick man has one.

And the hard things in life never stop.

So if you don't have resilience and the mindset that people like yourself have, you're going to get chopped up.

It never gets easy.

You could be like, I sold my company for a billion dollars.

Now what?

Okay, let someone get cancer and see how much the money makes you feel better.

That's one of the challenges with being a dad, man.

You're only as happy as the saddest or sickest child.

Very difficult.

Very difficult, man.

When my kids are struggling, I have an adopted daughter.

She's 15.

She's Ethiopian.

she struggles sometimes with being different right because it's predominantly white but we have some awesome black families in the neighborhood that are just incredible in in nashville but it is very hard when she's and she's not like coming to you know she's a teenager she's not gonna be like hey dad listen to what's going on but i can kind of decipher and man when she's when she's struggling i'm struggling and i'll tell my wife like