Hi Ben, my name is Josh and my secret is that my wife and I had great

international careers for 15 years. We tracked in jungles, survived cobras and

vipers, and even paramilitary groups, but nothing had prepped us for our final job, which resulted in us burning every bridge in our career to get out.

Today, the Secret Room presents for the love of adventure. I got 15 years into this career. I don't know Ben I was like we can make it to the end of the year and what did your wife say?

She said you got kids.

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Today my guest Josh tells us about how his family's globetroting career went from boom to bust and about the plan they devised to save themselves.

But did it work? Let's find out.

Hi Josh and welcome to the secret room.

Hey Ben, this has been a long time coming.

Right.

When you wrote to me you said that your story really begins with a question that your then-girlfriend now wife asked you. What was it?

I was in elementary education major and if you don't know anything about that field

it's like all my classes were like 88 girls and two guys, so I was very lucky and this lovely lady who I started dating and I'm this farm kid she says hey do you enjoy traveling? Do you like to travel and that was the moment that I would change my life

forever and start lying my pants off so I was like yeah I'm totally into travel

travel super exciting to me I grew up on a farm band and I didn't even grow up in the town. I was like 12 miles out of town. I was the first kid picked up on the bus and the last kid dropped off. So I was scared to go school clothes shopping but here I was

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