Neva has been thinking about something that doesn’t get talked about much—assets. Not the dreamy, polished version often seen online, but the real kind. The kind that requires getting hands in the dirt and figuring things out along the way.

She didn’t inherit assets. No land handed down, no safety net built in. Every piece of what’s been created has come through slow, steady work—one decision at a time.

Getting dirty is part of it.

Building anything—whether it’s a homestead, a short-term rental, or a business—means starting from the ground up. It’s not always clean. It’s not always pretty. Even after years of work, there are still hard decisions, unknown outcomes, and messy days.

That doesn’t mean something’s wrong. It just means it’s real.

Neva shares more than just the good parts of homesteading, because she believes the beauty is in the whole picture. The mud, the sweat, the growth, and the hard-won lessons.

For anyone in the middle of building—slowly, imperfectly—this is the encouragement: keep going. And getting dirty? That’s where the real work happens.

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