Raising An Executive: Igniting Your Son’s Inner Executive to Outperform His Peers and Continue Your Legacy

By True Tamplin

Raising An Executive is the ultimate kick-in-the-pants for prominent businessmen, politicians, and even pastors who should be spending more time with their sons.

When True was 13, his father Ken Tamplin was offered to be the lead singer for Journey. Despite desperately needing the money, the 5-year touring contract was too great of a sacrifice. Because of his father's decision to choose his family over his career, True went on to accomplish everything an executive could want for his son: covering the local newspaper, getting a full-ride athletic scholarship, maintaining a 4.0 GPA Suma Cum Laude, giving his grad speech, creating a succesful SEO business, and becoming an internationally recognized public speaker and #1 Bestselling Author all by the age of 22. True's story has become his plea for executives to spend more time with their sons. 

Get ready for some sensitive issues and painful adjustments. Both being an executive and raising one is not easy, but it’s worth every sacrifice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: True Tamplin
• Release date: Aug 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781718090866

Book preview

Notes

Raising An Executive

Igniting Your Son’s Inner Executive to Outperform His Peers and Continue Your Legacy

Raising An Executive

Igniting Your Son’s Inner Executive to Outperform His Peers and Continue Your Legacy

True Tamplin

Copyright © 2018 True Tamplin

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 9781718090866

Who This Book Is For

This book is for fathers who are successful in the workplace who long to have their son continue their legacy one day. I made the book as short and concise as possible (short enough to be read in one sitting).

There is unfortunately an epidemic of hyper-successful politicians, businessmen, and even pastors whose sons completely go off the deep end. We’ve all seen the correlation between the success of a father in his workplace and the likelihood that his son will rebel. There are a number of reasons why this happens, but the most obvious is neglect – successful men often compromise their success at home for success in their occupation.

If the thought of your son getting addicted to drugs, porn, or video games, having a teen pregnancy, or simply not wanting to be anything like his dad makes you sick to your stomach, then this book is for you.

This book will equip you with the tools and mindset you need in order to be both a successful businessman and father.

Get ready for some sensitive issues and painful adjustments. Both being an executive and raising one is not easy, but it’s worth every sacrifice.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Most of my interviews, keynote speeches, and even this book give a lot of airtime to my dad, but not enough to my amazing mother. My mom was crucial to my development, and I can honestly say that I needed both parents equally. While my dad’s story is a little bit bigger and sexier, my mom loved and supported me like no other mom that I know. You need both parents to raise an executive.

1 Sacrificing Your Journey

I was thirteen when I got the call. Hey True, daddy and I have to share something with you when you get home from Dayton’s.

Yes, as a 13-year-old I was still saying Daddy.

I got home and was presented with the following news: Daddy may become the lead singer for a very, very large rock band. The pros are, we would get money (which we desperately needed), and my dad who was a lifelong musician would get to fulfill his dreams.

There was just one problem. It was a 5-year contract requiring him to be on the road for 9 months out of the year, and ages 13 to 18 are quite the formative years.

Before I give you the name of that rock band, I need to color in some pertinent details which made this decision extra difficult.

The year was 2007. The housing market had crashed, my mom was a recruiter who gets paid to find talent for companies (not the best biz when unemployment is through the roof and budgets are tight), and my dad who placed music in Film & TV had no work due to the Writer’s Guild of America Strike in 2007-2008 (no more movies = no more music placed in those movies). My dad was so out of work that he was in the process of applying to become a census bureau counter for $12/hr.

Here’s the punchline, which you probably guessed from