We need to go back to July 2007 and shift all the way to Treviso, a splendid Italian town pretty close to Venice. Me and my wife, Maria, were traveling on a business trip. She had a small marketing company with a partner and I had taken a day off from my regular job as the editor in chief of a computer magazine owned by a very major Italian publisher.
The center of Treviso - courtesy of redbubble.com
Maria had been selling on me the idea that it was time for me to quit the journalistic profession I had been doing successfully for over 30 years and build my own company. And she is great at sales.
On our way back to Milan, we had stopped in Treviso to look at the beauty of it and to have some time together, and while I was kissing her on top of a romantic wooden bridge right in the center of the town, she voiced the wild idea: why don’t we move to the US?
My twins Stefano and Alex shortly after arriving in Florida. Getting both ready for a party 
The following 12 months were an escalation of activity and a challenge that we all met as a team: me, Maria and our two twin boys, Alex and Stefano. We decided that our destination was going to be Clearwater in Florida, both Maria and I had been there and I started to make my plans to gradually leave my job and we began to sell everything: our houses (we had two of them on Milan), our cars, or records and books. Everything went and we were all on a plane on July 9, 2008 headed toward the United States with the project of starting a business in real estate by using the knowledge I had accumulated in the months before my departure and by investing the capital we had put together in a lifetime of work.
The dream was to have a business that could provide us an increasing revenue stream without us always working on it. I was going to use the financial formula I had learned for Robert Kiyosaki and several others. It has been an incredible ride so far and I sure it will still be. This blog starts today with the objective of telling a bit of the past, present and future of my family and my business so that you too can follow some of your dreams.
Roberto Mazzoni
Hi Roberto,
thanks for sharing with us your experience in this blog
in bocca al lupo for everything
I think this is a great idea: a blog about your life and the adventures with your family! thank you very much for shearing and please keep on going with it! It is not always easy to follow one’s dreams particularly when you need to change everything for them… so your story could represent a hope for many. I am looking forward of reading more. Kisses, Elly
I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!
Thank you for the very encouraging comment. I like it to be the first of this long, long walk that opens up today. I wish you will also have your walk toward your future.
Roberto, thank you for your inspirational story! May America be everything and more than what your family hoped for
Imran
Gook Luck for the blog and your business!