How I met my wife Kari, was it luck?

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How I met my wife Kari, was it luck? Gina Mangieri of The Cole Academy interview Henk Rogers of Blue Lava and Jamdat Doug Ho of Classic Coins Hawaii, Inc Lori Komer of Leahi Swim School and the things people will answer Website update Countdown to September 3 launch Transcript: Today is August 10, 2005 and this is Evan’s Journal, coming to you live from Honolulu, Hawaii, my upstairs office. [00:00:11] Okay, so today we’re going to start off talking about how I met my wife, Kari. So, for those of you who aren’t interested, please fast forward. It comes about because Kari is really, more or less soft-spoken, just a real sweetheart and in some cases she’s kind of quiet. In most social settings I’m the one that’s more talkative, outgoing and a bit more extroverted. So, my auntie’s always tell me, oh you’re so lucky to have a girl like Kari, you’re just lucky. And the word “luck” keeps coming up and you know what, I guess you could say it’s partly luck. But as we’ve discussed before, opportunity and preparedness equals luck. Let me explain this a little bit. In the winter of 1995 I was working with a company called Equinox International and that was a multi-level marketing company. I was young, I think about 23, 24 at the time and it was really an exciting deal. I got to travel all over the country and go to exciting training seminars and a lot of really good looking people, everybody was young and seemed to be having a blast. Unfortunately, on the downside is that a lot of people weren’t making any money and a lot of it was hype. There was a time there where I was supposed to be doing really well and I was doing mediocre at best and absolutely just wondering if it was going to work or if I should be doing it or quit, but I’d worked so hard on it that I didn’t want to quit. And I didn’t want to come home. At the time I was living in Utah, Orem Utah, in a house which a friend of mine and I were renting. We were supposed to be doing really well, but we were doing somewhat mediocre. So we needed to save on rent and the room, I think was about, was smaller than my office that I’m sitting in now. I think the room was about 10 feet by 10 feet at the max and my roommate at the time was probably was about 320 pounds or so, a big Samoan guy, about 6’1” or maybe even 6’2” but about 320 at least. I mean he was a big guy. So we had two beds, side-by-side, almost touching each other. The guy snored like an animal, really cool guy, but he snored just too loud. We had a small little area to put our clothes and everything and we shared a bathroom with this other guy that was renting another room. And I didn’t want to come back home for Christmas. I had gotten sick of the whole dating thing because at the time, with all this hype, everybody was pretty, pretty horny is really what it was. So anyway, I decided that, that’s not going to be what I want. I want a serious relationship with a woman that I can fall in love with and has all the qualities. And the only way I knew how to do that was make a list and set some goals. So I sat down, it was Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or somewhere between that time and New Year’s because I didn’t come home and I was all alone inside that small room. Orem, Utah is quite a bit colder, my roommate was gone doing his own thing and I was sitting there. And if any of you folks have spent time away from your family and kind of secluded, it’s pretty darn depressing. But I had a lot of time to think to myself and I wrote down a huge list of everything from emotional to physical to social to mental to spiritual, a huge list. I believe it was about ten pages long. I mean it was massive. There were hundreds of items on there, everything from height to hula dancing hula, I mean everything. Then what I did was say a prayer on it a really, really sincere, strong prayer.

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