What’s your wild idea?
Wildpreneurs will launch you from daydreams to action. Inspiring vignettes from the creation of the Tailwind Jungle Lodge (San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico) will entertain and spark your inspiration while brainstorming sessions, visualizations, tips and tricks offer a trail map for your journey.
Interviews with free-spirited Wildpreneurs globally are woven throughout the book to motivate, illuminate lessons and guide you along. Discover how Wildpreneurs such as adventure guides, digital nomads, ski photographers, surf lodges, tree-house builders, yoga/wellness instructors, nature lovers and diverse free-thinkers have created their dream businesses. This book is designed to empower, inform and offer a practical resource for dreaming AND doing.
It’s not just work; it’s passion, purpose and lifestyle.
Author Tamara Jacobi followed her passion to create a jungle lodge, write Wildpreneurs, and most recently, to become head of the guide community at Thermal. This new project is about following your passion, wherever it may lead you…it’s time to explore the possibilities!
Follow your passion, wherever it may lead…
Join a community of free-spirits globally…
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Now available in Spanish (gracias HarperCollins Mexico!)
Praise
“In this highly readable and practical book, Tamara Jacobi recounts her grand adventure and guides readers towards discovering and living their own natural purpose. This book is destined be become a classic of the genre.”
— Raj Sisodia, co-founder, Conscious Capitalism movement
*****
"Wildpreneurs is a family adventure story, a start-up guide, a real-world class in the challenges of turning passion into profit, and a call to action for dreamers --all rolled into one. Practical and inspiring."
—Francis Barry, Bloomberg Opinion
*****
“A lot of people have dreamed about building this kind of business, and only a few of them have taken on the dream and made it work. Maybe you’re a dreamer, and maybe you’re a doer—and maybe, with the help of this volume, you can be both.”
—Bill Mckibben, author of Deep Economy and winner of the Right Livelihood Prize, nicknamed the “alternative Nobel”
*****
“This is the kind of book business schools should use. In Wildpreneurs, you get all thegrit; the real story and playbook, what you need, to build your "wild" idea into a sustainable, thriving, hero business...on your own terms.We need more wild businesses like Tailwind Jungle Lodge!”
–Sharon Rowe, CEO /Founder Eco-Bags Products & Author: The Magic of Tiny Business
*****
"I remember watching Tamara incubate her wild business idea in our college dorm. She not only dove head-first into entrepreneurship right after graduation, but she did it in the middle of the jungle with her parents. The qualities that make Tamara such a unique, resilient, and open-minded person shine through in her book with raw honesty. And she doesn't just want people to read the book and learn from her, she has intentionally curated an experience with interactive exercises so readers can develop their own blueprints. The Wildpreneurs is inspiring and right on time for the growing movement of adventurous creatives."
—Carolyn Barnwell, Documentographer at National Geographic
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“A fascinating blend of memoir and practical advice for the entrepreneur seeking outside-the-box information on how to start your dream business. Tamara’s personal stories, at times, are fabulous adventures, and at others funny, honest, and self-reflective, offering insight into her own entrepreneurial mistakes, with the hope that others can avoid them. A must read for the next wildpreneur.”
—Herta Feely, award-winning author of Saving Phoebe Murrow