Hey guys, so it's been a while and I wanted to give you a little bit of an update here about my life. This is June 2026 and I bet most of you don't know what's happening.

We moved to Lisbon

Seven or eight months ago—wow, time flies—my partner Eva and I decided to move to Lisbon, Portugal. We packed all our stuff. I came from the United States after visiting my properties in Milwaukee, and Eva came straight from Israel. We met at our connecting flight in Munich, and from there we flew to Lisbon together.

We spent the first month moving around Airbnbs and looking at apartments. The budget was definitely more than we used to pay in Haifa, Israel—closer to Tel Aviv prices, but cheaper than Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is one of the most expensive cities in the world, so that makes sense. I'd say the prices here are more like Herzliya, or maybe the old north of Tel Aviv.

We ended up finding a place we absolutely loved—a very nice apartment in a super nice neighborhood. It's very flat, very green, and we have a metro to the city center. But we live a little bit off the city center, so it's less crowded and less noisy. We're really enjoying it here.

Settling in

We've been through all the seasons already. This is our first summer. We experienced the end of fall, winter, and springtime was absolutely beautiful here, guys. Me and Eva really enjoy our lifestyle here.

I don't know if you remember, but we were traveling quite a bit before—six or seven different cities, maybe more. We used to live like one month in each city. We've been to Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, and multiple cities in some of these countries.

A few things I can note: the quality of life is over the roof. It's a very international hub, and all the people here are entrepreneurs, digital nomads, solopreneurs. This is the vibe I'm getting, at least in networking.

One thing I can say—the supermarkets are absolutely great quality. We're coming from Israel, where the supermarkets are amazing. But in most of the world, it's not easy to find the right pepper, if you get what I'm saying. I'm very grateful for the quality of food we have here.

The weather is very nice and this country is very beautiful. I'm lucky to have Portuguese nationality as well, so I'm exploring this side of my heritage. The language is Portuguese, which is different—I speak Spanish, so it's closer but not the same.

It was so difficult to find an apartment and move to a brand new place. Right now we're settled and we feel at home, but I think it took us two or three months to actually get here. We celebrated New Year's in January, and that was the point where the house was kind of getting in shape—an actual house with furniture and everything. Finding and furnishing an apartment abroad is a project, guys. Very consuming.

Real Estate

I started buying properties in Alabama (adding to WI and NC). I have great partners over there, and we're doing our third deal, maybe our fourth deal very soon. We bought like crazy, three in a row very fast. Now we're negotiating on the fourth one. All of the deals are with my investors, my dear investors. So far, so good.

We have had quite a few hiccups in Milwaukee. We switched property management companies and had a lot of vacancy. At some point I had five units vacant, which I never had anything like that. That was very rough, but hey—it is what it is, isn't it?

Right now, we've climbed back up to baseline. I have only one unit vacant now. Still one to go. Hopefully this week we'll have some good news. It's posted—wish me luck.

I have another cool story I'll share in a future post about an insurance claim. We're claiming $30,000 and it's actually a very interesting case that I think there's a lot to learn from. I'll try to record an episode or post about it. Stay updated and see what's happening.

Dan Shine & Coaching

In terms of my career, you probably noticed what's happening. I am Dan Shine, Coach & Speaker.

What is Shine? Shine is my middle name in Hebrew (יאיר - will be shining), and I translated it into English. It really reminds and resembles my original last name, Shimony. It is my name. I feel so connected to that name. I love it. It feels so right that in Hebrew, that's my name. And now in English, people understand the meaning behind my name as well, which is fantastic.

With that rebrand, I started doing coaching. For some of you this might be, "Oh, that's so much like you, Dan." And for some of you, it's going to be, "What? Coaching? Are you serious? Why don't you do real estate?"

For me, it's the same. Real estate was my path to coaching.

What I've gone through in real estate and my entire becoming process in real estate was a coaching process. I always say that to people. People ask me, ""Dan, how did you do that so fast? on your 25th birthday—you purchased your first property in the US. That's crazy, How did you do that so fast?"

The reason I did it so fast was because of coaching. I knew exactly what I was after. And when resistance came up, I knew what I was after again. That integration—being in integration with who I am and what I want—that's what unlocked my first purchase.

Since then, it's all been about coaching. It's all about helping people show up at their best. But I didn't have the tools. I had the commitment and the intention and this way of being. Remember the events in Israel and Tel Aviv we did? I had this mindset, but I didn't have the tools.

So what I did is I went to study at the best school in the world. Literally, I did Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini—whatever deep research you can do to find the best institution in the world. In all my research, one came on top: CTI in California.

I did the entire program remotely and went through all of it super fast. I'm almost a year in now and about to finish my certification, which was a journey, to say the least.

The biggest thing I learned is to actually listen to the person talking—not listening to myself, not trying to give advice, not trying to fix the other person—actually listening to them and finding what's alive in them. This is something that is so missing in today's society. It's so important in today's lifetime that it's such a big gift.

The other thing I learned is that in order to overcome things—in order to, and I quote here, "fix the problem"—you don't need to fix the problem. You just need to grow the person. If you focus on the person and not on the problem, the person expands. And when they expand, they can do anything.

As I told you, when it was very clear to me what I was about to do in real estate, since then I've raised more than 1.7 million dollars in private equity, cash from investors, single-handedly—only me. Wow. I never imagined anything like that.

My First Talk in Lisbon

Last week, I had a talk here in Lisbon called "What Do You Want?" Between 30 to 40 people showed up. A moment of fulfillment for me. A moment of achievement. I'm so happy.

That's the kickoff for my international speaking career and my international coaching career. I already have my first few clients. I'm so excited about this. I can't wait to see what's happening.

This talk, "What Do You Want?"—it's something I had in me for like seven years, maybe more. And I pushed it away, pushed it away, pushed it away. I did it a little bit, but I pushed it away. I thought maybe real estate would be better for me, or whatever—going after tiny objects.

But finally, guys, I'm doing exactly what I was meant for. I'm doing exactly what I want. I'm aligned. My actions—not every day, not every day—but more and more, my actions are aligned to who I am. And that creates fulfillment.

Thank You

Thank you for listening to this. If you want to share the love, feel free to do so, my friend. And if you're ever here in Lisbon, let me know. We might be able to catch one another.

I want to finish here with a request from you.

Think about something you want to do. Visualize it for a second. Now raise both hands up in the air. You can do it. Don't worry. Just raise your hands and keep seeing exactly what you want. It could be something small. It doesn't have to be something big, but something.

Both hands in the air. Deep breath here.

There you go. Talk to you soon.