Story Booth: Andreas Nussbaumer

Andreasnussbaumer: And then, three things happened. First thing was that my wife, Elizabeth, founded an organization, an organization for sustainability. So she helped sustain sustainable companies, organizations, and people to be shown on the internet and in Vanstartungen. She did some meetings to help them to be seen.

So she was in this sustainability, reduce, reviews, recycle, and I was on the plane five times a week. Flying around, and earning money. Something completely different. And that felt a lot of tension.

This was the first thing. The second thing was, I was, I don't know, anywhere in Germany. 1,000 kilometers away from here. And she called me in the morning, I'm doing breakfast.

In our oven, where the fire normally is, there is water. So that's not normal. And they said, no, that's not normal, we have a problem. And then I said, why does it always happen when I'm not here?

And she said, because you're always not here. Wow. Yeah.

Kerri Lake: And then…

Andreasnussbaumer: That's touched me very deeply, because it was, of course, it was the truth. And then came the third thing, as I told you before we started this meeting, it was Nippon. He invited me to a Wisdom Conference in Germany. It was a conference where Loebsang Punzag.

Also was talking, Nippun was talking, and Lop Sang was talking, and Lop Sang was talking about his, Children… He's in the Himalaya area. He has a place for children who were the… who have no parents. But also, where the parents don't have money. To feed the children, and where you have a two-day travel for an x-ray, for example.

And that touched me very hard because the day before I did my training and helped, I don't know, a mineral water company to bring the 60th bottle on the shelf, where one should be enough, actually, of course. But I helped them to bring the 60th bottle on the shelf. So, really kind of business. Earning more money, higher, bigger, faster, kind of that stuff.

And then I heard this story of this man, with his children, and we went to him after his talk. And told him, we have some money for you, and we want to give it to you for your children. And he was a little bit, yes, okay, I can take it. But I don't want to take it for my children.

And we thought, huh? And he said, yeah, we are currently doing something because in our region, so many people do not have enough food. And our children decided not to eat one evening and give the money we don't need to those people. And this was...

I don't know how to explain. My whole world crashed down. This moment. I was speechless.

I came from this higher, bigger, faster business. It's nonsense business. And on the other side of the world, children decided not to eat because somebody in the same area has nothing. Yeah, and then I decided to change my life.

And it took a little time, it took one and a half years, because I had, of course, a lot of appointments signed. Contract signed, but I lowered the training days. And then I totally quit. My business.

Kerri Lake: Hmm.