David Ahearn

David Ahearn has spent thirty-five years making audiences laugh, and most of those years asking what sits beneath the laugh. He co-founded the improvisational comedy show Four Day Weekend in Fort Worth and led it for twenty-three years. He co-wrote the national best seller Happy Accidents: The Transformative Power of "Yes, And" at Work and in Life, and he delivered a "Yes, And" keynote to the United States Congress.

His novel I'Eternal follows one soul through four lifetimes: a granite chamber in ancient Egypt, Renaissance Florence, Paris in 1940, and a stone tower in Newport, Rhode Island.

He is the author of twelve books, including Quietude: The Wisdom of Rumi, 12 Universal Laws, and Listen, Laugh, Connect. He writes the weekly newsletter Memoirs of a Renaissance Man for 9,000 readers. He also founded Secret Blue Butterfly, a kindness initiative. Some of his earlier books appear under the pen name David Daniel.

He lives on Galveston Island and at Sovereignty Ranch in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and creative partner, Adi.