Book Review
For the rising number of free spirits seeking inspiration and a road map to leave their safe but soul-crushing day jobs and chase their dreams, Tamara Jacobi in her new book, Wildpreneurs, shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap.
Wildpreneurs by Tamara Jacobi illuminates how surf guides, ski builders, yoga and wellness instructors, environmental activists, nature lovers, food trucks, podcasters, artisans, and other creatives achieve an adventurous lifestyle and financial viability. Whether you’re stuck in the nine-to-five grind, are an enterprising college graduate, a dynamic retiree, a family of daydreamers, or are just an out-of-the-box thinker, it’s time to embrace your free spirit and become a Wildpreneur! The possibilities are infinite . . .
Tamara Jacobi understands the challenge and reward of turning your passion into a business. Over ten years ago, she and her family started the Tailwind Jungle Lodge, a treehouse style eco-lodge in the jungle on the Mexican Pacific coastline. Jacobi shares the lessons she has learned, alongside stories and wisdom from other Wildpreneurs, revealing the joys and realities of making their business dreams come true.
In this wild guide, Tamara will show you how to:
Access a practical blueprint for starting and managing an unconventional business.
Receive the support needed to stay on track with what can be a difficult path filled with unexpected challenges and is absolutely worth it in the end.
Gain insights into the world of Wildpreneurship, its characters, and the lifestyle that is within anyone’s grasp, if they want it badly enough.
Discover an alternative to living on autopilot, an opportunity to move beyond fear, come alive, and tune into inspiration while also making a living.
Let Wildpreneurs help you blaze the path to your own journey of meaning, purposefulness, and adventure—and start living the life of your dreams.
Author quotes
Here in the jungle, with me at the helm of our business venture, the journey to success has been WILD.
We have created a fun-loving and holistic business that focuses on conscious living, which includes quality of life, sustainability, and health in all aspects of our lives.
Why “wild” entrepreneurs? We are far from conventional! As we blaze our own trails, we define success as a quality of life and richness of experience beyond dollar signs.
If this book has landed in your hands, you, too, may be following an unchartered entrepreneurial road - starting your dream business, living wild, free, purposefully, out-of-the-box, tuned into your heart, aligned with your values.
About the author
Tamara Jacobi was raised on a lake in rural Quebec and homeschooled for several years while traveling throughout Mexico and Central America, where her parents instilled the blueprint for wildpreneurship within her. She graduated from Middlebury College (VT), where she studied environmental economics and wrote up the business plan for the Tailwind Jungle Lodge, while attending a class called Entrepreneurs 101. She has been CEO and manager of the Tailwind Jungle Lodge for over ten years. Tamara is an avid writer, reader, surfer, yogi, skier, adventurer, traveler, and former holistic nutrition coach (Jungle Girl Health), certified by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Why LoA loves it….
It is always inspirational to read the stories of women entrepreneurs who are driven by their individual passions to startup in business. Every story is different, but the common thread is the energy, the determination, to build a business that is as much a lifestyle choice as well as an economic one. Tamara’s story is not only a wonderful read but also an insight into how, at a practical as well as emotional level, it is possible to build a successful, passion driven business that can go the distance. — Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo of Lionesses of Africa