Meet the Cast Monday #14: Cousin Kevin

I know you are all excited about this week's cast member. Cousin Kevin is a pretty cool guy who you have read about several times previously. He was instructed to answer these questions without using the word "stripper" which might be his favorite word, since this is a PG rated blog. By some miracle, he complied with that instruction.

Anyway, Cousin Kevin owns a fudge company and a few cows and lives on a little place outside of Houston. Dont' tell him this, but he'd be right up there at the top of my list of "heroes" if I wrote them down. When he's not making fudge he's probably chasing one of his kiddos around at their athletic events, or giving me life advice. If you're ever in Houston, give him a call and he'll give you some too!

Meet....Cousin Kevin!

How did you owning a fudge company come about? My partner and I started and built a successful business in the oil/gas industry. We had the opportunity to sell the business in March 2009 – it was a good opportunity and I was ready to do something different, so we sold it. While we were at the closing table, the broker we were working with told us about a little fudge company that had come up for sale. My partner and I looked at each other – we agreed, “That’s weird – let’s do it.” So we bought it – and we’re having a lot of fun trying to figure out how to grow it. You've built two businesses from the ground up...what's your best piece of business advice? Don’t waste your time doing something that doesn’t excite you. If it excites you, and you enjoy it, you’ll do well. {Remember this same question to Miss Canada? I think they are onto something here!}

If you could go back and re-live one day again, what day would it be? Tough question. I thought hard about how to answer this. There’s things that seem obvious – birth of my kids {I'm sure he meant to include by birth of his favorite cousin in there too...}, times spent with parents and grandparents and family, competitions won, etc. But the truth is, I don’t think there is one. Not to go Dr. Phil on you {he has been called that on this blog before}, but I guess I believe today is cooler than yesterday – tomorrow is even more exciting. Why do it again? That would be boring.

What's been the best part about having kids? I’ve got four. That means I got a total of 5 childhoods (counting my own also, Tiff – in case you’re struggling with the math). {Really cute, Kev.} I think this is what keeps me so immature.

Give us one piece of relationship advice. Don’t waste your time doing something that doesn’t excite you. If it excites you, and you enjoy it, you’ll do well.

What was the best vacation you've ever taken? I’ve never taken what I think of as a traditional vacation (pack everybody up and go somewhere for a week or two). I’ve taken several little 2-3 day trips here and there. Probably my favorite one of those was a trip to Grand Cayman – it was my first (and only) time to go scuba diving – I swam with stingrays and fed them out of my hand. That was cool!

What/where is your favorite bar? In case my mother reads this, I don’t like bars and I don’t go to them. But if I did, I would probably like a bar with live music, really cold beer, good friends who have good jokes and funny stories, and a good dance partner. But I don’t like bars and I don’t go to them. {I was going to bust him on this, but I used the "my mom reads this blog" excuse last week, so I can't say much!}

What is one (or more) item(s) on your bucket list? I want to learn to play the guitar – just have to get past the “no musical ability” issue. I want to go to Moscow. {I have been trying for a while now to get him to apply with me for The Amazing Race.....they go to Russia sometimes, Kev!}