My story
Ben Ashara: Founder, Secret Keys Costa Rica
Secret Keys is a service built around the culmination of my life experience living and building businesses worldwide for the past 30 years. From fashion design to event production, building schools and retreat centers to NGO work in the Himalayas, my entrepreneurial journey has spanned many genres.
The last 10 years have been spent settling and growing roots in the lush jungles of Costa Rica. Here I have built my dream home, planted food forests, and optimized my health. I can help you do the same. Being one of the most crypto friendly countries in the world, combined with plentiful fresh water, clean air, organic food, and a legal framework that makes investing as a foreigner secure, I have not found a better paradise to call home.
Secret Keys offers a whole systems approach to everything you and your family need to actualize your new life in Costa Rica. From Immigration, Real Estate, Construction, Birth Abroad, to Bitcoin and Crypto services, I look forward to making your transition smooth, to avoid all the pitfalls most expats fall victim to due to lack of guidance.
Surfs Up! See you in the water….
Costa Rica has a way of calling people into a new chapter, one with more nature, more presence, and more freedom to design your life with purpose. This video series is my story: how I followed that call, what I built, and the philosophy I live by. Watch the chapters in order. Each one is a step deeper, from past projects to the work I now do to support others.
The Origin Story
This short video describes my past projects in India, building a retreat center, and founding an environmental charity, and how that experience applies to the creation of Secret Keys
The Transition to Costa Rica
This video gives a brief backstory of what my personal experience was like relocating my family to Costa Rica, and how I built my new life here.
Food Forest Sanctuary
This video shares my passion for planting food forests, the importance of food and water sovereignty, and how the system I have developed is affordable and attainable.
