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 has 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….
My Story in Four Videos
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 four-part 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 video shapes some context about how I arrived to birth the Secret Keys project, based on my past projects mostly in India building a retreat center and founding an environmental charity organization.
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.
Pavones Sanctuary
This video highlights one of my main passion projects of growing a food forest and sustainable organic farming. In hopes of inspiring you to do something similar, this is something you may have thought too difficult to attain, but is now at your fingertips with my help.
Secret Keys
This video outlines the framework for the services I provide. Together we will customize a program that fits your needs and reaches your goals. Noting to lose, reach out for a free call to see if we are a good fit for each other.