You enjoy working with each other even through all the bad luck? Wow that’s kind of a superpower. I think you need to figure out how you manage to keep things going well between you and consider being life coaches or something like that. Keeping it together despite adversity is pretty cool.
My 2c is to not pile up 50 hours of youtube and 10 books to get ready. Just start as best you can. Scan read books and articles and learn to find the nuggets as fast as possible. Write the gist of good bits down. Learn to move on quickly if something isn’t useful.