Every adventure begins with a leap of faith. If you’re doing something adventurous, there is inevitably a level of the unknown involved; new experiences require you go somewhere previously unheard of, unfelt, unseen. You may know what you want to do but have no idea what the experience is going to do to you. Like, you decide to move to Thailand and raise your five children so they can be more worldly; can be bilingual, bicultural—discovering, appreciating and establishing a connection with their Thai roots. That sounds pretty damn adventurous, right? Like nobody would do that. But Nathan Tia’s mom did. And Thank Buddha for that because those Thai roots would push son Nathan, the third of five children, to pursue his own adventure: launching Nate Made Goods©. And in reality, NateMade Greats. From custom leatherwork to photography prints, Nate is nailing it.   I really just want to make all sorts of puns about giving Nates Made Goods© a Thai, or Thai-ing out one of Nate’s wallets for yourself. In fact, he even makes a leather bowtie…but that’s too easy. And it turns Thailand’s influence on Nate into wordplay when it clearly goes so much deeper than that. Nate spent the first 17 years of his l