Immediately after 14 yrs in the NFL, All-Professional wide receiver Anquan Boldin went into 2017 undecided about whether to play a person final season. He desired to get some time in advance of the year to obvious his head, so he and his spouse Dionne booked a getaway to South Africa with Explorer X, a Seattle-based mostly travel enterprise that focuses on the strategy of “transformational vacation.”

Not extensive just after Boldin returned from the trip, he introduced his retirement, leaving thousands and thousands of pounds in possible checks uncashed. Rather, he’d determined to concentrate on philanthropic do the job in the community. 

Explorer X co-founder Michael Bennett experienced a visceral reaction when he read the information: “Holy [expletive], I broke Anquan Boldin!”

The truth, nevertheless, is that he aided display the Boldin family — Anquan and Dionne have two sons — an off-the-overwhelmed-path route to which they’d like