✨ After a Lifetime of Moving, I Am Ready to Revolutionize the Status Quo

Our exit plan from traveling photography has always been clear but seemingly out of reach:

Invest in a real estate rental portfolio that would allow us to stay home and do what we both do best—without sacrificing the life we love.

But knowing what you want isn’t enough.

Not when real circumstances stand between you and a goal that’s visible… but not yet available.

We knew what we wanted once the time was right. We didn’t change the dream to fit the moment. We didn’t shrink the vision to match convenience. We didn’t settle for something else that would be almost good enough.

Instead, we lived the dream in the meantime.

We built a life that aligned as closely as possible with what we knew was coming—so when opportunity and challenge arrived, we were as ready as we could be.

And this week…

we bought our first investment rental property. We close next week!

We’ve Known What We Wanted—But It Didn’t Happen Overnight

We’ve photographed over 7,000 residential properties, vacation rentals, and hotels. We have both managed rental properties in our previous lives. We remodeled two houses together. We understand residential real estate investing better than most.

But more importantly—we understand how to make decisions when your brain works differently.

The "obstacles" that kept us from buying investment properties earlier weren't character flaws or lack of ambition:

• We couldn’t manage investment properties while living on the road. After 15 years of full-time travel for our commercial photography business, we are finally home. For good.

• We couldn’t buy properties while navigating full-time caregiving. After two years of caregiving, my dad is now thriving—just two miles away at the Illinois Veterans Home.

• We couldn’t create a new business that required me to put my dream of writing full time on hold once again. After a lifetime of wanting this chance, I finally have it.

Each constraint was real. Each timeline was necessary. Each "not yet" protected something essential.

🧭 From The World’s Longest Honeymoon to Caregiving Chaos to Business Clarity

As we have rolled out the Neurosparkle Newsletter, we've shared the reality of navigating AuDHD while managing dementia caregiving and running a traveling photography business and maintaining a marriage. The executive function challenges. The sensory overload. The way neurodivergent brains process crisis differently.

What we haven't shared yet is how those same cognitive complications that made us amazing caregiver are exactly what make us unconventional business builders.

🏡 Introducing Hey Jude Holdings, LLC

This next chapter builds directly on everything we've explored together about loss, love, and unconventional life paths.

Hey Jude Holdings was formed on my mother's birthday—the same day our great nephew Jude died. I gave both their eulogies and now we get to continue their legacy. We bought this first property with the intent of giving back to caregivers.

It's our real estate investment company, but it's also a laboratory for what happens when you build wealth with purpose instead of building it despite pain.

The frameworks we developed to survive 15 years of travel, two floods, COVID, and caregiving while maintaining our marriage, our business, and our sanity?

They're the same ones we're using to build wealth without burning out.

🧠 Get to No University: Universal Decision-Making Framework

The decision-making framework I developed while navigating caregiving, neurodivergence, and business building isn't just for brains like mine. It's for anyone who has ever felt stuck between knowing what they want and knowing how to get there.

GTNU is a 4-step framework for anyone who is tired of chasing what looks good in theory—and finally ready to fail fabulously doing what they were built to do.

You don't need help dreaming bigger. You need a structure for saying:

• No to what doesn't serve you

• Not yet to what isn't ready for you

• So you can say Yes when what finally aligns catches up with you

🐇 Step One: The Rabbit Hole Roadmap

Before you chase what you can do, pause and ask: Should I Take This TRIP?

T — Tackle the Topic 

Acknowledge what's real right now. What is visible? What is available? What do you know to be true?
Example: Real estate investing is visible (we see properties daily). Available (we finally have stable location and capital). True (our experience gives us genuine advantage).

R — Research the Role

Are you made for this? What does success require? What does failure cost? Who's already doing this and what can I learn from them?
Example: Success requires property management systems, market knowledge, and emotional regulation during negotiations. Failure costs relationship strain and financial loss. We studied investors who failed during 2008 crash and those who thrived - including ourselves.

I — Interrogate the Inkling What will you have to give up if you "win"? What will you lose if you're wrong? What does your gut tell you if you stop arguing?

Example: Winning means less liquid capital and more responsibility. Being wrong means delayed retirement and damaged partnership. Much of business success is trusting your gut even when you can’t explain why.

P — Practice Pragmatic Positivity You're allowed to say: Not now. Not yet. Maybe not ever. So that when the time is right, you are able to say Hell Yes!

Example: We said "not yet" to dozens of probably perfect properties over the years. When this one appeared, every factor aligned. Hell yes was the only possible response.

🌱 Four Paths Forward

Starting next week, I'm launching four separate content streams:

The Neurosparkle Newsletter continues as critical thinking for the cognitively complicated. We'll explore how owls, eagles, hummingbirds, and parrots show us how to think differently about thinking differently—through the lens of the actual birds living adjacent to my hummingbird sanctuary.

Vision Quest, LTD is where we document building our dream like a business and our business like a dream. Lessons from 15 years as digital nomads with a a home base. Strategic decision-making. The business side of making dreams happen while honoring what matters most.

Hello Hummingbird was my original dream—365 daily observations from Cielo del Colibri, my ruby-throated hummingbird sanctuary. Simple. Profitable. The thing that would let me stay home for summer migrations.

If I could do one thing that earned me $250,000 and never had to do anything else? I would post about my hummingbirds and how I see them. That's it.

So why not try that first? And document how I use Get to No University to figure out what comes next.

Hey Jude Holdings will be where we spend our time building and documenting our real estate journey in real time—the SOPs, the systems, the Curated Comfort Concierge concept we're developing for Curated Comfort Zones for Caregiver-focused midterm rentals.

I realize that they don’t all work under one newsletter umbrella but each is a story that needs to be told.

📬 This is the last combined issue.

Next week, you will be asked to choose your adventure:

• Stay for Neurosparkle thinking - weekly newsletters to share critical thinking for cognitively complicated grown ups

• Follow Vision Quest, LTD blog - frameworks, systems and stories about how to build your dream like a business & build your business like a dream

• Hello Hummingbird - join us daily at Cielo del Colibri for short videos and fun fact lessons on hummingbirds.

• Track our real estate investment journey on the Vision Quest, LTD website as we roll out the concept Curated Comfort Zones for Caregivers

• Or subscribe to all four and watch how different perspectives on the same life create different kinds of value

The framework is universal.

The applications are infinite.

The house and the hummingbirds are just the beginning.

I am so excited to see where the journey takes us next.

May you choose to see what was always there,

Auntie Paige

📬 Subscribe now for the next issue of The Neurosparkle Newsletter, where I’ll show you exactly how I use the Rabbit Hole Roadmap and how it’s helping us build Vision Quest, LTD from the ground up.

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