I had a midlife crisis at age 32. Working 80 hours a week as a healthcare consultant in a messy industry left me miserable and completely burned out. Every day, I’d watch a co-worker, Ted, gallop into the office with such enthusiasm about his job, it made me feel even worse about my own ennui and dissatisfaction. It struck me that I needed to do something in my life that made me feel like Ted. I needed a Purpose.

So I quit my job. In 2003, I uprooted my wife and myself from Maine and moved to Chile, where I launched a thriving adventure travel company.