From Selling Bibles to Building an Empire: Wade's Inspiring Journey of Perseverance and Success

Wade Shealy is one of America’s top leaders in resort real estate development, marketing and sales. In 2010, in response to a market need to help second homeowners realize more value in their ownership, he founded and launched THIRDHOME, pioneering the only luxury exchange club that includes second homes, residence clubs, resorts, yachts and private islands.

As Vice President of Intrawest, a premier North American mountain resort and adventure company, Wade directed sales and marketing for 12 different resorts with locations from New England to the Caribbean, successfully closing over $500 million in sales annually. During his years in resort real estate, he developed and sold more than $3 billion in real estate.

Wade is recognized as the visionary force behind a series of high-profile real estate development projects, including the purchase, vision and development of Hampton Island, Georgia, an exemplary coastal community with one of the lowest impacts on the surrounding environment. Wade is deeply proud of his three grown children and the success they are achieving in higher education and entrepreneurship. He lives on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee where he raises horses, chickens and bees. Inspired by his early background in nature preservation, he designed and built a natural swimming pond on his farm, one of the first of its kind in the U.S.