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I had a very good salary, so I bought half a dozen investment properties all over the U.S., and my wife and I were renting them out. For college, I had studied in Costa Rica and I loved it, so a friend and I decided to build eight luxury villas overlooking the ocean; it felt like a dream. I was flying back and forth to Costa Rica to work on this development project.In 2008, the U.S. economy collapsed.
We lost the majority of our life savings paying back the investors for all of these projects; it was crazy. By the time it was November 2008, everything had collapsed before my eyes. We were in shock. It was a rough time for us as a family, we were regularly reduced to tears. We wanted to be intentional about shaping a life that we really wanted. We had a little bit of savings left, so we were able to live for those four months. We spent our days hanging out as a family.
In hindsight, it seems crazy. I was doing odd jobs like working in a local ski resort in our town, and my wife baked bread to sell to people. She also ran kids camps, but we barely had enough food to scrape by. Thankfully, our church friends helped us by providing us with food.Tim Geisler During that time, we started our business, Nautilus Sailing, and we began teaching people how to sail. I got my training as an instructor and I was giving weekend lessons.Over time, people from different states began signing up to take our classes and people from Canada and cities like San Francisco began emailing us. Slowly but surely, our business gained momentum, which was shocking.
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