J.L. Collins

Tom was a client of mine in the 1990s, very smart, savvy business guy in the advertising world.

But Tom had a run of really bad luck.

He had a couple of expensive divorces.

He got involved with a financial manager who just savaged his wealth.

And Tom wound up at the age of 62, a broke, he lost his house to foreclosure.

Uh, he lost everything financial.

He took social security at 62, which means a smaller check, but you do what you gotta do.

He had a very small pension from one of the companies he'd worked for.

Uh, he was unemployable at that, at that point, at that age and that business, nobody wanted an ad executive who was 62, but Tom.

is also the single happiest person I've ever met.

I've never met anybody where things financially went so bad, and yet he's the single happiest person I met.

He's got the best attitude.

He is a pleasure to be around.

So he now has a job in the Henry Ford Museum.

He lives in the Detroit area.

where he works on the farm.

They have a farm there where they do things the way they were done in the 1800s.

And it's an actual operating farm.

And people like Tom dress in period clothes.

They do actual farm work and they engage with the tourists.