Until October 2023, Dana Perino has been a political commentator on data. However, one behind her TV personality is a story of strength survival useful coping with work pressures, a marriage stars without children and personal health concerns regarding her relationship to Peter McMahon Michigan-born husband.

Perino’s journey, chronicled in her new book “I Wish Someone Had Told Me,” is a steady ascent from Wyoming to the highest ranks of political power. Internships, mentorships and other experiences defined her early work experience, honing her communication skills and paving the way for a burgeoning career path. Going from the White House to Fox News was central — access to a broader audience and shaping the political discourse with her wisdom.

While Perino has found career success, her 26-year marriage to British businessman Peter McMahon has drawn public interest. While the couple’s life is perhaps idealized by many accounts, the couple faced challenges that, play out in many marriages, not the least of which included the glamour demands of successful careers. The couple have always prioritised authenticity over convention, as demonstrated by their spur-of-the-moment elopement in 1997 to escape their families’ extravagant ideas of what a wedding should be.

But Perino and McMahon made the decision that they would not have children, choosing their careers and relationship over it. So this was a conscious choice — the result of their broad-ranging work lives and personal beliefs — that freed them up to take time to devote to professional development and being a couple. And through Perino’s honesty about that choice, she is subverting traditional ideas about family life and showing that many people in different situations make perfectly reasonable decisions.

Perino had just recently demonstrated incredible fortitude dealing with her husband’s health crisis while continuing to make her work obligations. Their bond — and Perino’s fierce support for McMahon — was beautifully captured in that time. Dana Perino, depicting a dynamic team leader, always finds time for others — and affirming that behind every power whatthere is a person. With the publication of her new book, opportunity at hand, she can share poignant life lessons and establish her legacy as a media role model, a leader.