It’s Saturday. Time for my weekly wrap-up on this wild journey:
👉 Trying to start a business in the U.S.
👉 Preparing to spend months in Spain
👉 Untangling what’s left of our Canadian life
We leave on September 2. Our home’s already spoken for—loaned to a young family from our church while we’re away. We don’t know exactly where we’ll be. But the point of this move was never certainty. It was purpose.
This week brought up a powerful theme: how you see the world shapes everything you do.
Two Fathers. Two Worldviews.
Last night we spent time with friends—another business-owning family.
My friend is also a Christian, husband, father, and entrepreneur. But the lens through which he sees the world is different. His entire mission right now is simple and sobering:
"Build enough wealth so my kids can survive in Canada."
He’s not optimistic. He doesn’t believe his children will be able to afford homes, raise families, or live free without hisfinancial intervention.
He’s not bitter—just realistic. And in his mind, Canada’s future is already priced in. So he’s doing what any dad would do: fighting for his kids’ future with what’s in his hands.
And that’s when it hit me:
We’re both seeing the same problems. But we’re answering them in very different ways.
The Lens I Choose to See Through
For me—and for my wife, Lisa—it’s not about escape. It’s about assignment.
We’re not leaving Canada because we think the U.S. or Spain is a utopia. We’re going because we believe our lives are meant for more than survival.
And our lens?
It’s the one rooted in our Christian faith. A lens that filters everything through a simple idea:
God created the world. People are the most valuable thing in it. And serving them is the point.
From that place, everything changes:
- Work becomes mission.
- Uncertainty becomes opportunity.
- Risk becomes worship.
- And sacrifice becomes joy.
Leaving Is a Step of Faith. Not Just a Strategy.
We’re not rich. We still have to work. I’ve still got payroll to hit, contracts to manage, and a new business to launch in the U.S.
But we’re leaving anyway—because we believe we’re being called into something, not just away from something.
🇺🇸 In the U.S., I want to see if the “American Dream” still has life in it. I want to build something that matters—something that serves.
🇪🇸 In Spain, we’ll continue supporting a small Montessori preschool run by our church community. What seems like a small act might—who knows—ripple out for generations.
🌎 And wherever we go, we want to be people who build, not just consume.
Canada: A Land of Potential. But Not for Builders.
You’ve heard my rants. And if you haven’t—scroll back to yesterday’s episode.
I love what Canada was.
But I can’t pretend it’s still that place.
As a business owner, I can’t thrive in a country with:
- Tax disincentives for innovation
- A government operating without a real budget
- No plan to fix broken systems, only slogans and spending
- A growing divide between public sector security and private sector collapse
And as a father?
I can’t watch my kids inherit a version of this country where the only path to stability is government work or generational handouts.
So we’re not staying to fix it.
We’re going to serve elsewhere. That’s our calling.
Serving Is the Only Bottomless Opportunity
I’ve said it before:
You can buy the cars, the homes, the vacations, the experiences.
And still feel hollow.
But serving people?
That’s the one pursuit you’ll never reach the end of.
And it’s the only one that fills that gnawing, restless void inside so many of us.
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