The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide for being Your Own Boss & Achieving Financial Freedom by Carrie Wilkerson

Author:Carrie Wilkerson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2011-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

My husband lost his sister when he was a senior in high school. His sister was exactly four years to the day older than he was. Laura and her husband had been married about six months when they had a carbon monoxide leak in their home and died in their sleep.

Eddie was seventeen and the tragedy had a huge impact on him. He and his sister were the only children and his parents were so absorbed in their own grief that Eddie’s grief really wasn’t acknowledged. They were in survival mode, they were trying to cope, and he was just kind of left to deal with it.

There was a man in his church named Jim. Jim was a crusty older guy who had not had kids and was married to Judy, the love of his life. He was a ceramic tile guy, very much a manual laborer, just as “country” as the day is long. He saw what was going on with this hurting teenage boy and reached out to him.

“You know, every March I go out to the lake and I go fishing; my wife’s family has a cabin out there. I really could use a net man, someone to help me bring in the big fish when my hands are full.”

Eddie had never been bass fishing; he had done a little dock fishing, but he was not a bass fisherman and there is a lot of skill in that. Anyway, he was really nervous about it, but he was thrilled at the attention and the care that Jim showed him. So Eddie went with him that spring break as a senior in high school. They did that every year for seventeen years.

For seventeen years they fished at the same lake during spring break week and a lot happened in my husband’s life during that time. He went off to college (the same college his sister had attended).

But every spring break, fishing was a priority. Jim was very patient with Eddie. He taught him how to cast, what kinds of bait to use, what kinds of rods and reels, how to drive the boat, fishing manners, and even some wise older-man philosophy, and Eddie was a willing student.

Jim really, for lack of a better term, mentored him. Eddie became his fishing apprentice. They had a great time and developed an amazing relationship. Jim and his wife didn’t have any children, so Eddie filled that gap for them as well.

At the point Eddie was struggling because his parents were grieving, Jim saw a need and helped fill it. Eddie and Jim became inseparable in so many ways. Even after we met and started dating, one of the tests I had to pass was the “Jim” test. Was Jim going to like me? Was he going to approve of me?

Two thumbs up, I passed big. Jim and I were buddies. We were very close and I really adored him. I adored him mainly for that need he filled in my husband’s life.

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