What Porsche Owners Taught Me About Life Before I started this Porsche blog, I lived by the belief that “work is what gives life meaning” and “giving work your all is the path to a fulfilling life.” After working in sales at a high-pressure company, I started my own business. I watched business owners around me aim for an IPO or work to expand their companies, and I came to believe that if you wanted...
Why It Matters to Share Your Goals and What You Know Every Saturday, my husband and I chat on Twitter Spaces. We often hear people say, “We’d love to hear you talk about things other than cars, too.” So lately, we’ve sometimes ended up talking about topics that have nothing to do with cars at all. During a recent Space, my husband was talking about the next goal he wants to pursue. It seemed like...
What Inspired My Husband to Start a Business? A reader left this comment on the blog: I’m thinking about starting a business, but I don’t know anyone who’s done it. I’d love to hear the two of you talk about what inspired you to start a business and when you decided to take the leap—on the blog or in a Spaces chat. My husband and I both run our own businesses. We each started our...
What My Porsche-Driving Husband Is Like After a recent, long-overdue conversation with my husband, I wrote an article called “The Porsche Owner’s Work Philosophy | I Bought a Porsche but Was Too Busy to Drive It—What Did I Do?” It struck a chord with a lot of readers. During that conversation, my husband also talked about how he wants to earn a living in the future. I found his perspective pretty fascinating, so I thought...
I Bought a Porsche, but Had No Time to Drive It In 2016, my husband bought his first Porsche: a manual 981 Boxster GTS. But after buying it, “I’d finally bought a Porsche, but I was so busy with work that I had no time to drive it. I needed to delegate more and build a business that could run without me. From now on, instead of focusing on my annual income, I’d work on...
Earn More to Make Porsche Ownership Possible The other day, I wrote an article called “Want to Buy a Porsche? Start by Earning More.” After reading it, someone sent me this message on Twitter: I don’t know any Porsche owners, so I rarely get the chance to hear about their experiences. I’d love to read about your husband’s philosophy on earning money and how he thinks. That got me thinking. I’ve written now and then...
To Buy a Porsche, You Need to Grow Your Income The other day, a tweet from my husband got shared quite a bit. You can’t buy a Porsche if all you do is cut expenses and you have no drive to earn more. — Hiro@ポルシェがわが家にやってきた (@boxster_gts) December 9, 2021 “You can’t buy a Porsche if all you do is cut expenses and you have no drive to earn more.” He had posted it almost offhandedly,...
I Want to Buy a Porsche Myself Around the start of summer this year, I took on a new challenge. A business owner I know asked me, “Would you be interested in taking something like this on?” I decided to seize the opportunity. Just like when I launched this blog from scratch, this project is about building something from the ground up and helping it grow. There was no guarantee of success, and with parenting...
Our Wedding Anniversary My husband and I are both hopeless when it comes to remembering anniversaries and special occasions. We’re also not very materialistic, so when I ask him what he wants for his birthday, he usually says, “I don’t need anything.” So every year, I give him a Porsche T-shirt and call it a day. And when he asks me, “What do you want for your birthday?” I say, “Hmm, I can’t think of...
The Dream of Owning Two Porsches Back when I had no interest in cars at all, the idea of owning two Porsches would have been unthinkable. I could understand having two family cars—a minivan and a kei car, for example—each suited to a different purpose. But two sports cars, and Porsches at that? And what if they were both two-seat convertibles…? These days, though, plenty of people around us—including my husband—own multiple Porsches. So when...
