The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
139: Passion, Purpose, and the Next Step with Kyle & Brent Pease
13 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm very lucky that passion and purpose have aligned. The growth that I experienced needed to happen, but I ended up where I always wanted to be and what I always wanted to be doing, which was just helping and supporting Kyle. And how amazing is it that I can do that and do it for a living and also share it with him?
Chapter 2: How did Kyle and Brent Pease build the Kyle Pease Foundation?
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Dive in with me to unearth entrepreneurial gems, learn from our experiences, and get educated. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for tuning in. If you didn't catch the first part of this episode, go back to last week, take a listen. Here's the second piece. We hope that you guys are getting everything that you need out of these conversations.
We appreciate you tuning in and listening and sharing and subscribing and all that kind of stuff. Thanks so much, guys. Have an amazing day and week, and we will chat with you soon. Enjoy. look at it and just go, I'm curious how you guys prioritize and how you juggle all the, all this stuff that you got going on.
Oh, we do a terrible job at it right now. And this moment, like literally we made a concentrated effort to spend more energy getting on more podcasts this year. Instead of just waiting for them to come, we hired somebody to help us. We sourced, scoured, looked, and you know, like this morning we're like, We got this one today and then we got zero next week and then three the week after.
Chapter 3: What challenges did they face during the New York City Marathon?
And then we go to Hawaii for two speeches. And so we're learning, you know, we're learning that how do we create the highest and best use for Brent and Kyle as it pertains to the business. And that might mean that for this year, we're not doing any big races because we need to be spending time here.
Like on Thursdays when I'm training for an Ironman, I'm on the bike indoors by myself for four to six hours. You know, so I get on the bike at 6 a.m.
Chapter 4: What lessons about humanity did they learn through their experiences?
and I'm on that bike till 10 or 12.
Chapter 5: What is Brent's hiring framework for the nonprofit sector?
Right. Well, who's doing the podcast? Who's doing the team meeting? Right. So we're learning like we're trying to get better at that. We can't be everything here. I mean, we have an 18-person team now.
Chapter 6: How do they manage family balance while pursuing their mission?
While we're sitting here with you or while I'm on the bike, who's making sure the business is running? So we're trying to get better, but we built this thing doing everything. We literally drove the trucks and packed them and sent out the emails and we would do thank you notes and videos at nighttime to donors.
Chapter 7: What advice did Dick Hoyt give Brent before the IRONMAN?
So it's evolving, but that's kind of why I've really been leaning into what I just said to you is that there's times this year where we just got to spend some more energy on what we do from a work perspective. And that'll free up some space when, you know, Kyle takes a break next week or I take a break to go recharge with family or friends or shoot to go ride bikes together.
From the business side, are you guys starting to structure things differently as it starts to grow, relying on or hiring or bringing on people with
Chapter 8: How did Kyle evolve into an athlete-coach?
The experience that you need versus kind of driving yourself? Like, what's that all experience been like?
Being a nonprofit, there's a great video that your listeners can look up. It's a TED talk called The Way We Think About Nonprofits Is All Wrong. And I make every new board member watch it. And it's basically they talk about comp structure and the way people say, well, you know, nonprofits got to make sure you're given X percent back to mission, right?
If you don't do that, you're not a good nonprofit. And while we don't fully think exactly like that, we're still a nonprofit that's trying to work really hard towards 80 cents of every dollar going back to the mission. But that means that when we go hire somebody new, we've got to be thoughtful that we need somebody that's passionate about what we do because we're not going to be able to pay them
what their market rate might be as a nonprofit. So it's looking where we have needs and figuring out, is there somebody in our network? Because finding people who love what the mission is, like that's more critical to me than finding the person who fits the exact role.
Because if you have somebody who loves what you do and believes in it, a true believer, if you will, then they're going to be able to lean into whatever the task is and grow because they're willing to do it for the people that we serve.
But there's one more balance to that, which is as we've built out this, what we call an inclusive employment team, for every person we hire, I want another employee with a disability here. I want to continue to grow that because it's providing real meaning to these individuals that work for us. They're not just sitting here stuffing envelopes. They're doing real work. We're starting to see that.
I mean, the operations team here is a three-person team now. Our fundraising team is now four people. So we're starting to build out better so that it frees me and Kyle up to spend time doing this or going to Hawaii for speaking engagements and things like that.
Yeah, yeah. Well, and I'm sure as you're building this, it can't be much different than any other business that you've got to invest in people in order to grow, serve more, be more. And so you can't always be this 80 20 number. I've heard that before with nonprofits. It's like, well, you can't always be there.
You know, sometimes you might have to be 70% because you've had to level up some staffing in order to get yourself to the next level. Cause then how would you be able to ever grow and serve, serve more?
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