Chris Rodriguez left the corporate ladder behind. But not in the way you'd think. After years in a high-paying engineering role, he and his wife took a five-month sabbatical across Latin America to dive into coding, design, and entrepreneurship. What came next was the launch of Solstice Web Studio, a boutique agency built on speed, security, and hand-coded precision. In this episode, Chris shares how they made the leap, the quiet resistance they ran into, and why networking turned out to be their unexpected growth engine.