In 1995, when he was 27 years old, Dana Perino met a handsome British named Peter on a plane flying from Denver to Chicago.
The two spoke for two hours in a row and, at the end of the flight, Perino was in love.
In the months that followed, they exchanged romantic letters and jumped between England and Washington, DC, to look.
But, Perino was not sure where things were heading with the man, who was 18 years old. She told her friend Kim Wilkerson that she couldn’t see how things could work in the long term.
“Stop. Do not miss the opportunity to be loved,” Wilkerson told her emphatically.
She was right. Perino, now Fox News presenter, and Peter McMahon have been happily married for 26 years.
“It was the best advice and led to the opportunity to build a wonderful life with this crazy British,” he writes in “I hope someone would have told me: the best advice to build a great career and a significant life” (Harper/Fox News Books, now).
With the new book, Perino aims to pay it, sharing wisdom of his friends and mentors, as well as his own life.
“There is an insatiable advice demand but a limited offer of the best answers,” Perino told The Post. “I wanted to gather something that I believe that each reader will benefit from having in their nightstand … It is a plan for a great career from university to retirement.”
His opinion is that young people are too obsessed with the balance between work and life too early in their careers.
“There are seasons in your life where you are going to work 18 hours, and if you work hard in your twenty years, you are more likely to have a better balance between work and life,” he told The Post.
Perino said he has been lucky enough to receive advice by highly successful people and high power over the years.
“I have received great tips on the way from a president, cabinet secretaries, journalists and commentators, officers in the Army, members of Congress and a wonderful group of pairs of professional men and women with similar professional challenges,” said Perino, who served as Press Secretary of George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009.
In the book, a series of big names, including the “America’s Newsroom”, Bill Hemmer, Country Dierks Bentley, the Tunnel to Towers Frank Siller and his news fox, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and Martha Maccallum CEO, share their knowledge.
His favorite pickles include Greg Gutfeld’s idea that one should not worry so much about what they are going to do in a job, but with whom they are going to work, and Bret Baier’s desire that someone has told him not to eat so many carbohydrates after 40.
She also loves that her good friend, the Communications Executive Mora Neilson, advises readers to laugh at her life.
“Just look around and say this is hysterical,” Neilson tells him in the book. “(And ask) ‘How did this happen?'”
The TOME touches several stages of life and career, including the decision of which industry to follow, get a first job, nail the initial impressions, level up professionally and discover what really matters in the end.
“This book is widely based on both genders and people of all ages,” said Perino. “I hope it is something they can read once and then, if they are thinking about their next promotion or maybe they want to become a father or thinking about retirement, they can say: ‘Let me return and see what Dana and his friends and colleagues said.'”
His Fox News co -workers provide some particularly acute ideas.
“Ask more questions than you make statements,” writes Bill Hemmer in the book. “Most people like to hear themselves talk. If you can listen and listen to them, they are more likely to listen to you when it is important for you.”
Jessica Turlov, “The Five” coanfrerion, writes that “if it doesn’t matter in five years, don’t worry about that today.”
Martha Maccallum, the executive presenter/editor of “The Story”, offers advice for working parents, writing: “Your children are always the first, but it is also important that you understand that you take your work seriously.”
Of all his friends and mentors, Perino said that George W. Bush has given him the best advice and “remains a wonderful influence” in his life.
The most critical, he told him to live for a constant moral.
“I often talked about how to live based on a set of principles facilitated decision making,” he writes in the book. “If you live with a moral code, then you will not find yourself in situations of commitment … you can keep your head up, even if the decision you make is unpopular.”
