Hard-won lessons from building a business, raising a family, and trusting God when the numbers don't make sense.
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In this episode, Nathan shares hard-won lessons from building a business, raising a family, and trusting God when the numbers don’t make sense. After losing a major contract, he reflects on how easy it is to second-guess the very decisions once made in faith.
Nathan talks about buying land, building for future generations, finishing 75 Hard with his wife, and the discipline required to keep moving forward when outcomes lag behind obedience. He also opens up about a conversation with Ben Greenfield that reshaped his vision for Tactical Household—shifting from selling digital products to creating real-world brotherhood rooted in faith, training, and community.
[00:08:00] Business Disappointment — The $266K Contract That Didn’t Close
Nathan Spearing: [00:00:00] So, what’d y’all think of that John Moody episode? Huh? Talking with him about maybe making that a more regular thing. Got some good feedback from. Those in the inner circle at my church, et cetera. So, uh, anyway, I, I was trying not to doubleheader John Moody, uh, publishing in the life on target feed. I’m not saying that you particularly wouldn’t be able to handle it, but there are weaker minds about if you just, uh, scroll on social media, you’ll find, uh, proof of exactly what I’m talking about there.
But, uh, I just wanted to. Hop on here and talk about some of the unique challenges that I am facing with the business, with the family vision, with building something of value for multiple generations. Um, probably talked about this before a little bit, but one of the conversations or [00:01:00] themes of some of the conversations my wife and I have been having lately is the.
Belief that we kind of swung for the fences a little bit. We bought a lot of land and we moved into the bus and didn’t really think that through super well, except for we will figure it out, we’ll muscle it through. And then not only did we, uh, buy 20 acres, build a barn, finish out the bus. Then we also saw that, uh, he was surveying the land next door and we had the opportunity to buy another 34 acres at a lot more expensive price point than the 20.
So we had to liquidate some real estate and do that. We, uh, were able to do some tax, uh, stuff to [00:02:00] minimize the effects of that, but essentially liquidated. An asset and put it into a generational asset, if you will, that we wasn’t gonna really pay off monetarily. It was gonna give us the fiscal location to build houses for our kids.
I think that we’ll talk about that. I don’t think we’ve talked about that here on life on Target, but I’m very much, I would say it’s probably mostly influenced because of John Moody, uh, that the whole, like I made it on my own. Uh, my kids can do it. My kids can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and, and, you know, I’m gonna, that kind of boomer mentality of having, they’re gonna spend all their money and, and, uh, you know, kids can sort it out for themselves.
That’s just a, is a terrible mindset and, and, and methodology to approach family living. And so. You know, buying this land [00:03:00] being something, the reason that we’re buying it, besides, I’m sure if you follow us on some of the social media channels, you’ll see that we just did our fifth annual Feast of Tabernacles Camp out.