Congratulations on your successful and life-changing year!
I love your story and am very inspired by it since I and my husband always have been living the life on the other side, but we went through some very hard times so now we are doing both worlds for a while and hopefully really soon we can just get to the other side (we give another year or two) because we are still working hard both worlds since we always believed in working for ourselves and doing what we love and not staying in a job where you only live pay cheque to pay cheque, hating it, not being appreciated and the system never changes.
We also try to make our family see and jump into the other side, but nobody is listening and it is sometimes just to hard to explain since the fear and comfort zone is stopping them to even try jumping to the other side. And like you said, we feel like just pushing them over to the other side, but instead they all think we are crazy.
I am so very happy for you @ericancewalton and I really appreciate you sharing this amazing story with us.
Thank you @joalvarez! Sorry to hear about the hard times but I'm glad you guys are working through it. It's frustrating to try to convince others to make the transition. Some see the light, others don't. I think a lot of it has to do with how risk-averse you are. What people don't think about is how incredibly risky it is to work for someone else. I wish you and your husband good luck in this next year!