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Justin Keltner (00:00):
Thinking about building a business and a life
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in Mexico or anywhere else inthe world for that matter.
Here are the mindsets that keepyou out of trouble, build real
community, and actually make youmoney.
I'm calling it the philosophy ofan entrepreneur expat.
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So there are seven philosophiestotal in the entrepreneur expat
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philosophy in the first, and oneof the most important for sure
is that you respect the placeand its people.
The idea is that you're a guest,you're not the main character.
And I would argue that this kindof applies not just when you're
living in another country, butreally anywhere in life.
You might think that you're thestar of the show.
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And believe me, I had my ownbouts, uh, with that, especially
in my twenties, where I'm like,you know what?
I'm, I am, I'm the maincharacter.
I've got the main characterenergy here.
Uh, but the reality is, in thisworld, and especially in another
country, you, you're a guest,right?
You want to learn how it'sactually done here before you
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try to import all of thosethoughts and ideas and
philosophies that you have abouthow it's done.
Back home.
So, uh, one example of this islearning the local language.
You wanna learn some of thelocal phrases, mere local
greetings, and the pace of thosegreetings.
Not just expect everybody to sayhi, uh, or hello in English, or
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kind of talk in your nativelanguage, whether you're in
Latin America or anywhere elsein the world.
Uh, the other thing is thingsare just gonna be done
differently.
So one example of this is mywife, Amanda and I, when we
lived in our last house inGuadalajara, uh, there were a
lot of things that had to befixed in terms of the house and
bringing it up to just basiclike safety standards in terms
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of electricity and, and plumbingand different things like that.
Uh, typically in the US thelandlord will properly maintain
the house because they legally,you know, have to, uh, in Mexico
and in a lot, lot of othercountries, though.
There's more of a burden of therenter to actually handle some
of the day-to-day maintenanceand things like that.
So I could have been reallyupset and taken it out on the,
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on the owner and said, you knowwhat?
I'm, I'm really mad.
Like you need to take care ofthis.
You need to do this, you need todo that.
And the reality is, uh, shewould've just been upset and
none of none of the thingswould've ever actually gotten.
Done, right?
So you realize, hey, the rent'slower.
But sometimes that comes withcaveats, like, Hey, we've gotta
take care of, uh, the waterheater, maintenance from time to
time, or different things likethat.
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So you wanna learn about howit's actually done, uh, locally,
even if maybe it's not spelledout that way in your rental
agreement.
Uh, the reality is there arelittle quirks like that whenever
you're living in differentcountries around the world.
So you always wanna ask, how wasit done here before?
Just assuming that you know theanswer because of how it may
have been done in your homecountry.
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You want to be receptive.
You want to trust the locals.
You wanna understand that you'rehaving this, this mindset that,
hey, maybe what I know fromwhere I come is not exactly the
appropriate thing or the rightthing, or the easiest thing,
even in this new country.
Now the number two philosophy ofan entrepreneur expat is
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community before money.
So relationships really runeverything.
It's true in the US and inCanada, but not to quite the
same extent.
Uh, there it's all about moneyand the hustle and, and getting
ahead and networking and, andall those other things.
And a lot of other parts of theworld though, especially here in
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Latin America where we currentlyreside.
It's all about relationships.
It's all about trust.
So one example is if you want tostart to build your social
circle, uh, or even just havelike people around you that,
that recognize you, that knowyour name, go and be a regular
at, at a cafe.
Uh, if you go to, let's say thesame coffee shop or the same
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restaurant multiple times aweek, uh, you know that you
learn the people's names there,the wait staff and the hostess
and and whoever else.
Uh, that goes a long way andperhaps.
Even farther than it mightsomewhere in Western countries,
because if you're in the US andyou're at a Starbucks, number
one, uh, the service isn't verygood.
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Number two, there's so muchvolume of people just coming
through all the time.
It's really like hard toactually build connections with
people.
And it's also just, just thegeneral.
Mindset of people in differentcountries.
They tend to be, especially downhere, very open and receptive,
especially to meetingforeigners.
So if you become a regular, yougo to the same coffee shop, you
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learn people's names, uh, maybeoffer to help locals or people
in your community, yourneighbors, if you see, hey, a
neighbor.
I mean, I, I did this a bunch oftimes when we were in
Guadalajara and out here, uh, inthe Lake Al area as well, where
like somebody is.
Maybe having an issue bringingsomething from their card or
their house, or someone's movingand you lend them a hand or
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perhaps, uh, you know, justlittle things where, where you
see somebody could use some helpand you offer help.
Uh, it's a lot more commonoutside of the US to actually
know your neighbors and actuallybuild relationships with people,
uh, around you.
I mean, part of the reason forthat is because unlike the
United States where you have todrive.
Everywhere and so many peoplelive in the suburbs.
When you're in Mexico, thingstend to be a lot closer, uh, to
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each other.
There's a lot more walkability,uh, better urban planning and
things like that.
So you actually do bump intoyour neighbors and also just
show up when it matters.
So one kind of interestingexample, uh, when we went back
to Guadalajara to go and visitsome.
Uh, some colleagues and somefriends there.
Uh, our, our neighbor wasactually about to have her baby.
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Amanda helped her out and madeher some, some tea and some
food, uh, because the hospitalhad like, sent her back and
said, Hey, come back and, youknow, four hours, you're not
ready yet.
Sometimes they do that here, butAmanda just, just.
It was nice and like kind oftook care of her, uh, and made
sure she was okay.
And, and everything else.
It's about showing up becauseyou never know when maybe you
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need something and somebody isthere for you because you were
there for them.
It's just a different kind ofphilosophy than perhaps what
we're used to, uh, in the us.
Number three is start now.
So action always beats overplanning.
I can't tell you how many timeswe hear from people in our
community where they're like, ohyeah, like I'm, I, I'm thinking
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about moving to Mexico.
I'm thinking about moving toPortugal.
I'm thinking about, uh, movingsomewhere else, but it's like my
five year plan or my 10 yearplan.
I got all of these things that Ihave to figure out back home.
I need to sell my car.
I need to get out of debt.
I need to find a remote job.
I need to do this.
I need to do that.
But if you go into any decisionin life, but especially moving
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abroad with that mindset, youknow, it's like you can't steer
a parked car, right?
You have to actually take thefirst action.
So maybe the first action toachieving the location
independence of your dreams issimply to go to another country.
Go and visit.
Spend a month there if you can,or take a few weeks off, uh,
from your vacation time at workif you have a job.
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Go and actually see the place,meet people, find the city.
Maybe you would actually like tolive.
You gotta take the first step.
Even if it's not like, you knowwhat, I'm gonna sell everything.
Uh, I'm gonna just.
Move cold Turkey without knowinga single person and try to
figure it out all my, all on myown, which I don't recommend.
Uh, we do actually help peopleand guide people through the
process.
In fact, we have two clientsjust this week that are coming
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down to the Chapala area so thatwe can handle the second part of
their immigration.
They were already approved fortheir visa.
They're coming down in a coupledays here.
So if you, if you don't hearfrom us too much, or if you see
that our calendar is fullybooked up the next couple weeks.
That's why, um, we do helppeople with those processes all
the time because sometimes youdo need a hand.
And if you do want support likethat, you can absolutely go to
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entrepreneur expat.com/consult.
And we also have, uh, otherresources, including our
guidebook that we just released,uh, that will link to below this
video that you can, that you canbuy.
Uh, that's an easy way to getstarted and just take that first
action step even if you're notready for us to help you.
Uh, with the entire white gloverelocation process right away.
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But do something right.
Take the first step, book a 30to 60 day test.
Stay, look at one neighborhood.
Uh, try to figure out how tomake your, your routines
portable.
So maybe you're working a jobright now and you can work a
couple days remote.
So if you can increase that andeventually get them used to you
not having to show up at all,maybe look at different ways,
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uh, to get.
Sell coverage overseas.
Hey, you're on at and t.
Maybe you wanna switch toT-Mobile because.
T-Mobile will give you, uh,unlimited data when you're, when
you're traveling, right?
Just, just little things likethat.
Take the first step.
Look into housing, look intocoworking spaces.
Maybe it's you start takingSpanish lessons or another
language of a Portuguese, right?
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You want to go to Portugal,start learning Portuguese.
Take that first step, becauseunless you take that first
action step and actually starton that path, you're never gonna
move forward towards your goals,right?
People will tell us, yeah, I'mgonna do it next year.
I'm gonna do it in, in, in fiveyears.
I'm gonna.
And it never happens.
They end up having the samemundane, frankly, miserable life
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that is not at all what theywanted to create because they
don't take that first actionstep.
So philosophy number four isbuild portable income.
Amanda and I have actually beenhelping people with this for the
last 15 years In variouscapacities.
We run marketing agencies, werun sales training agencies.
We've run masterminds where weteach people how to grow their
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businesses online.
Freedom needs cash flow that youcan carry from one place to the
other.
If you're stuck in a job whereyou have to go in person in the
US and your money is dependenton that job, your finances are
dependent on that job.
Well, you can't just pickeverything up and come, let's
say to Mexico.
Because you don't have a remoteincome stream.
So level one is perhaps find ajob, which is getting more and
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more difficult, but find a jobthat will allow you to work from
anywhere.
It's, it's tricky.
Most people, uh, mostcorporations in the US will not
allow you to work from othercountries, even if it's quote
unquote remote.
Right?
So what are your skills that youhave?
How do you inventory thoseskills?
And look at, Hey, I can do thisand I can do that.
And maybe the skills that Ilearned over time in my job I
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could actually do in aconsulting capacity.
And, uh, with that, okay, whatare the clients I can serve?
How do I learn things likeLinkedIn Sales Navigator to be
able to literally reach anunlimited amount of, uh,
potential leads for yourservices.
We do training on LinkedInregularly as well to help you
build that sales and marketingcomponent of your business.
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And in terms of the actualexecution.
You know, do you, do you need toget a, a cell phone plan with a
hotspot that works overseastrial, these different things
while you're maybe still in yourhome country?
Document those processes.
Say, Hey, I, I need a, a cellphone plan with this much data
based on the.
Based on the types of thingsthat I do, um, I need to look
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at, you know, maybe a differentemployer or this employer will
they let me work remotely.
Take that first action step onbuilding your remote income, and
we do actually have a guide forthat as well.
It's the Make Money FromAnywhere Guide.
So you can also find a link tothat below this video if you're
looking to take those firststeps or just understand the
basics of how to build incomeremotely.
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Now philosophy number five isdon't take shortcuts.
So this is something that theytalk a lot about in Latin
America because it's so commonto say, oh yeah, you know, it's,
it's just easy there.
Like you can just pay somebodyoff and get, uh, fake license
plates for your car to keep yourcar here.
Or maybe we only got approvedfor temporary residency, but if
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we pay$2,000 more to this.
To this, uh, this, this guy, Mr.
Fto, whatever, uh, he's gonnaget us permanent residence in a
day or two.
Like, there are things likethat, and sometimes they, they
work these shortcuts, sometimesthey don't.
But even when they work, you'rekind of constantly looking over
your shoulder like, Hey, uh, youknow, this maybe was not
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completely legitimate.
Am I gonna get in trouble forthis later?
So those quick and dirtyshortcuts really do get
expensive later.
It's important to do thingsright and that's part of our
philosophy when we work with ourclients as well, through those
white glove relocation services.
Like I mentioned before, you cango to entrepreneur
expat.com/consult to talk withour team about how we can help
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you with those things because welike to, uh, cross all of our
T's and dot all of our i's.
To make sure that everythingthat we're doing for you to get
you a visa in another country iscompletely legitimate.
It's done right, it's done atthe right pace, it's done with
the right people, and you've gotall of the proper checks and
balances in place, uh, so thatyou're not just doing things
quickly, you're doing things ina totally.
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Legitimate way this applies withthings like taxes as well.
You always want to get help withlicensed professionals.
So, uh, when you book yourconsult call, uh, at that link
that I just mentioned, and we'llpop it on this video here as
well.
When you book your call with us,we can also direct you to real
estate professionals, forexample, and professionals and
not just will sell you a house,but actually check the title.
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You wanna always do your duediligence.
Tax professionals thatunderstand the laws between
different countries.
You want to always make surethat you're getting help from
professionals.
This, by the way, isn't justsomething that defines the
entrepreneur expat philosophy.
It's also, and, and myself,having been an entrepreneur for
over 15 years, uh, this is themindset that I've created as an
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entrepreneur because.
A lot of people like to justsay, cheap out, you know what?
I can do my own, uh, 10, 10 40,or I can go and use TurboTax or
go to, you know, pop into an hand r block.
And that's fine if you're anemployee and you're just living
in one country, but.
As your needs scale and asyou're, you're thinking about
things like actuallyestablishing a business.
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If you try to apply that samemindset to actually making money
as an entrepreneur out there inthe world and not just as, uh,
some corporate employee, thingsget trickier and trickier.
So you need to move from thisidea of, Hey, I'm gonna save so
much money if I just sort ofhalf-ass this and maybe do it
the wrong way to.
Yes, I might have to invest acouple thousand dollars a year
to get quality accounting andlegal and, and bookkeeping
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support, but it's gonna preventme from being bitten in the ass
later and getting audited and,and everything else.
Now, this is not legal.
Uh, this is not financialadvice.
Consult your professional.
As always, this is our opinion,but hey, it's saved our ass a
lot of times to use thisphilosophy and think about the
right way.
To do things.
Um, I'll just finalize withthis.
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If you hear somebody saying, oh,you know, everyone does it this
way in this country, so that'sokay.
Even though you know, deep downthis doesn't really sound like
something that is legitimate,that sounds like it might be a
shortcut.
That's your cue right there toactually check and verify.
Uh, like Reagan said, andactually Reagan stole this, uh,
from the, the Russians from theSoviet Union.
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You have to trust but verify allthis trust, but verify.
Uh, my, my Ukrainian motherwould also, uh, say things like
that you gotta trust but verify.
You wanna make sure that whatyou're doing is actually fully
legitimate and that you're nottaking shortcuts.
Now, philosophy number six isplan for change maybe in your
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life right now, whether you'reworking a job or whether you've
had the same sort of career orbusiness for many, many years.
Things might not really changethat much.
When you decide to become anentrepreneur, expat, you want to
plan for change.
The only thing that's gonna beconstant in your life is change.
Now you might find that aftertwo or three years you find the
neighborhood, you find the city,you find the country that you
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really like.
You decide to settle down alittle bit and that's totally
fine.
Um, what we're doing personallylike is.
Is, we like to travel around,but more of the slow travel.
We'll spend a couple years in a,in a given country, maybe come
back, maybe establish differenthome bases everywhere.
But with all of that comes a tonof change.
And even if you're not movingaround.
Just the fact that you're comingfrom one society to a different
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kind of society, where the rulesand things are are so much
different.
The rules are changing, theprices are changing, and also
you're constantly adjusting fromyour old model of the world to
this new model of the worldthat's based on the new place
that you're at.
You always wanna plan forchange.
So that's both in terms of yourmindset and also in terms of,
hey, maybe the things that we'reused to working.
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The, the same way that they wereback home, maybe were used to,
uh, the internet being up allthe time, or the power being up
all the time.
I will say Mexico has a prettydecent infrastructure.
We don't have too many poweroutages other than with like
pretty major storms.
But same thing happens, let'ssay in Miami, but you want to
think of your plan Bs now morethan ever because you're coming
to a new place, you're learningnew cultures, you're, you're,
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you're learning new systems,you've got.
Uh, different internetproviders, different laws,
different regulations, so alwayshave a plan B in order to plan
for that change.
This means plan B for yourhousing, for your internet, for
your banking, uh, especiallywhen your source of income might
be in one country.
You're living in anothercountry.
You don't wanna just come toMexico, for instance, and just
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have one card in the US becauseif something happens and then
that card gets blocked by yourbank because you're traveling or
there's a fraud alert orwhatever, what are you gonna do?
Have emergency cash on you?
Maybe buy a little bit ofBitcoin, not too much.
Again, this isn't financialadvice, but have your money in
different sorts of accounts,maybe with two different banks,
and then you also open.
A local bank here in the countrythat you live, that you live in,
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uh, build uh, a portfolio, builda profile on, on wise, have a
wise account, have emergencycash, have uh, extra copies of
your keys and extra copy of yourpassports.
And I will say with the Plan forChange thing.
Maybe the things that youthought you'd really like about
another country don't come outto to be true when you actually
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go and move there.
So have backup plans forresidency as well.
We know a lot of people whomaybe aren't ready to move to
Mexico yet, but they get that asa plan B.
Uh, so that they have thatresidency in their back pocket,
and in a lot of cases we evenhelp them work on a third
residency or passport as well.
You can never have too many.
The world is getting crazy rightnow, and we don't know what's
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gonna happen in 2, 3, 4, 5years.
Whether you stay where you're ator whether you move somewhere
else, you wanna embody thisphilosophy, which is always plan
for change.
Number seven, last butdefinitely not least.
Abundance is everywhere, sothere's always a next step.
There's always a way out.
There's always a solution.
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Let's say that you're looking toget a visa here in Mexico and
you're not able to get approvedfor the income or for the
savings requirements.
While there are ways where youcan start a business here, you
can create jobs and startbringing money into the country
and get approved basically tosponsor your own visa.
There's always a way and there'salways abundance everywhere.
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Uh, another example of this isrecently we decided, hey, we're
gonna start launching more ofthe digital courses because a
lot of people on our channel arenot yet ready to move to another
country.
We've had over a thousanddollars of sales on just some of
those digital products andcoaching products in the last
few weeks.
And that's sort of sleep money,right?
That's, that's sleep moneywhere.
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I don't have to be doinganything for that money to come
in.
Right?
And maybe it's a thousanddollars a month now it, it's a
little bit more next month.
It's a little bit more nextmonth.
But that's just passive incomethat comes in.
And the reason that thathappened is because I said, you
know what?
We're gonna, we're gonna adjust.
Not everybody's ready to dothis.
Now.
We're gonna create ourmembership site, we're gonna
enhance it, we're gonna put morethings there.
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And people are buying thesecourses.
Left and right.
It's amazing.
We'll include a link to some of'em down below.
But the point is you alwaysrealize that there's abundance
out there, right?
Even if you're just a beginnerin your career or in your, your
field of expertise, you canstill help one or two people
every single week and get paidfor that.
Do your research, go onLinkedIn, ask people questions.
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You don't necessarily have tofind another job, and you
definitely aren't gonna find a,a job in that country, right?
That's never gonna work.
And it defeats the whole purposeof, of geo arbitrage.
So maybe that next action, thatnext abundance move that you do
is, is saying, Hey, based on mynetwork, like, based on all the
things that I abundantly haveall around me, my connections
past employers, colleagues, thatI have connections on LinkedIn
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and Facebook.
There's never like a dead end.
That's that's the key here.
There's never a dead end, andthere is always, always, always
more that the universe is goingto be serving up.
You just have to be open, youhave to be receptive.
You have to not be a victim andinstead.
Be the creator of your owndestiny.
I know this sounds like veryTony Robbinsy, um, but it's
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true, and I've applied it in mylife.
Amanda's applied it in her life.
I've had many colleagues andfriends and clients that have
embodied this philosophy of justbeing willing and open to
receive that abundance that isall around us.
And let me tell you, itabsolutely works.
So those are the seven corephilosophies of an entrepreneur
expat.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
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reaching.
All of the people that this cando good for and support, and
we're so happy to have you alongthis journey.
If you'd like to take things tothe next level, go to
entrepreneur expat.com/consultor buy one of our programs down
below this video.
We've got so many differentthings that can help you on your
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journey, starting at just$27.
Uh, we have our new guidebookfor relocation on sale, so we'll
link that below as well.
And, uh, we would love to haveyou.
Keep being a part of ourcommunity.
So thank you so much again, andwe'll see you again next time.
Thinking about building a business and a life
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in Mexico or anywhere else inthe world for that matter.
Here are the mindsets that keepyou out of trouble, build real
community, and actually make youmoney.
I'm calling it the philosophy ofan entrepreneur expat.
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So there are seven philosophiestotal in the entrepreneur expat
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philosophy in the first, and oneof the most important for sure
is that you respect the placeand its people.
The idea is that you're a guest,you're not the main character.
And I would argue that this kindof applies not just when you're
living in another country, butreally anywhere in life.
You might think that you're thestar of the show.
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And believe me, I had my ownbouts, uh, with that, especially
in my twenties, where I'm like,you know what?
I'm, I am, I'm the maincharacter.
I've got the main characterenergy here.
Uh, but the reality is, in thisworld, and especially in another
country, you, you're a guest,right?
You want to learn how it'sactually done here before you
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try to import all of thosethoughts and ideas and
philosophies that you have abouthow it's done.
Back home.
So, uh, one example of this islearning the local language.
You wanna learn some of thelocal phrases, mere local
greetings, and the pace of thosegreetings.
Not just expect everybody to sayhi, uh, or hello in English, or
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kind of talk in your nativelanguage, whether you're in
Latin America or anywhere elsein the world.
Uh, the other thing is thingsare just gonna be done
differently.
So one example of this is mywife, Amanda and I, when we
lived in our last house inGuadalajara, uh, there were a
lot of things that had to befixed in terms of the house and
bringing it up to just basiclike safety standards in terms
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of electricity and, and plumbingand different things like that.
Uh, typically in the US thelandlord will properly maintain
the house because they legally,you know, have to, uh, in Mexico
and in a lot, lot of othercountries, though.
There's more of a burden of therenter to actually handle some
of the day-to-day maintenanceand things like that.
So I could have been reallyupset and taken it out on the,
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on the owner and said, you knowwhat?
I'm, I'm really mad.
Like you need to take care ofthis.
You need to do this, you need todo that.
And the reality is, uh, shewould've just been upset and
none of none of the thingswould've ever actually gotten.
Done, right?
So you realize, hey, the rent'slower.
But sometimes that comes withcaveats, like, Hey, we've gotta
take care of, uh, the waterheater, maintenance from time to
time, or different things likethat.
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So you wanna learn about howit's actually done, uh, locally,
even if maybe it's not spelledout that way in your rental
agreement.
Uh, the reality is there arelittle quirks like that whenever
you're living in differentcountries around the world.
So you always wanna ask, how wasit done here before?
Just assuming that you know theanswer because of how it may
have been done in your homecountry.
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You want to be receptive.
You want to trust the locals.
You wanna understand that you'rehaving this, this mindset that,
hey, maybe what I know fromwhere I come is not exactly the
appropriate thing or the rightthing, or the easiest thing,
even in this new country.
Now the number two philosophy ofan entrepreneur expat is
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community before money.
So relationships really runeverything.
It's true in the US and inCanada, but not to quite the
same extent.
Uh, there it's all about moneyand the hustle and, and getting
ahead and networking and, andall those other things.
And a lot of other parts of theworld though, especially here in
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Latin America where we currentlyreside.
It's all about relationships.
It's all about trust.
So one example is if you want tostart to build your social
circle, uh, or even just havelike people around you that,
that recognize you, that knowyour name, go and be a regular
at, at a cafe.
Uh, if you go to, let's say thesame coffee shop or the same
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restaurant multiple times aweek, uh, you know that you
learn the people's names there,the wait staff and the hostess
and and whoever else.
Uh, that goes a long way andperhaps.
Even farther than it mightsomewhere in Western countries,
because if you're in the US andyou're at a Starbucks, number
one, uh, the service isn't verygood.
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Number two, there's so muchvolume of people just coming
through all the time.
It's really like hard toactually build connections with
people.
And it's also just, just thegeneral.
Mindset of people in differentcountries.
They tend to be, especially downhere, very open and receptive,
especially to meetingforeigners.
So if you become a regular, yougo to the same coffee shop, you
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learn people's names, uh, maybeoffer to help locals or people
in your community, yourneighbors, if you see, hey, a
neighbor.
I mean, I, I did this a bunch oftimes when we were in
Guadalajara and out here, uh, inthe Lake Al area as well, where
like somebody is.
Maybe having an issue bringingsomething from their card or
their house, or someone's movingand you lend them a hand or
(05:40):
perhaps, uh, you know, justlittle things where, where you
see somebody could use some helpand you offer help.
Uh, it's a lot more commonoutside of the US to actually
know your neighbors and actuallybuild relationships with people,
uh, around you.
I mean, part of the reason forthat is because unlike the
United States where you have todrive.
Everywhere and so many peoplelive in the suburbs.
When you're in Mexico, thingstend to be a lot closer, uh, to
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each other.
There's a lot more walkability,uh, better urban planning and
things like that.
So you actually do bump intoyour neighbors and also just
show up when it matters.
So one kind of interestingexample, uh, when we went back
to Guadalajara to go and visitsome.
Uh, some colleagues and somefriends there.
Uh, our, our neighbor wasactually about to have her baby.
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Amanda helped her out and madeher some, some tea and some
food, uh, because the hospitalhad like, sent her back and
said, Hey, come back and, youknow, four hours, you're not
ready yet.
Sometimes they do that here, butAmanda just, just.
It was nice and like kind oftook care of her, uh, and made
sure she was okay.
And, and everything else.
It's about showing up becauseyou never know when maybe you
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need something and somebody isthere for you because you were
there for them.
It's just a different kind ofphilosophy than perhaps what
we're used to, uh, in the us.
Number three is start now.
So action always beats overplanning.
I can't tell you how many timeswe hear from people in our
community where they're like, ohyeah, like I'm, I, I'm thinking
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about moving to Mexico.
I'm thinking about moving toPortugal.
I'm thinking about, uh, movingsomewhere else, but it's like my
five year plan or my 10 yearplan.
I got all of these things that Ihave to figure out back home.
I need to sell my car.
I need to get out of debt.
I need to find a remote job.
I need to do this.
I need to do that.
But if you go into any decisionin life, but especially moving
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abroad with that mindset, youknow, it's like you can't steer
a parked car, right?
You have to actually take thefirst action.
So maybe the first action toachieving the location
independence of your dreams issimply to go to another country.
Go and visit.
Spend a month there if you can,or take a few weeks off, uh,
from your vacation time at workif you have a job.
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Go and actually see the place,meet people, find the city.
Maybe you would actually like tolive.
You gotta take the first step.
Even if it's not like, you knowwhat, I'm gonna sell everything.
Uh, I'm gonna just.
Move cold Turkey without knowinga single person and try to
figure it out all my, all on myown, which I don't recommend.
Uh, we do actually help peopleand guide people through the
process.
In fact, we have two clientsjust this week that are coming
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down to the Chapala area so thatwe can handle the second part of
their immigration.
They were already approved fortheir visa.
They're coming down in a coupledays here.
So if you, if you don't hearfrom us too much, or if you see
that our calendar is fullybooked up the next couple weeks.
That's why, um, we do helppeople with those processes all
the time because sometimes youdo need a hand.
And if you do want support likethat, you can absolutely go to
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entrepreneur expat.com/consult.
And we also have, uh, otherresources, including our
guidebook that we just released,uh, that will link to below this
video that you can, that you canbuy.
Uh, that's an easy way to getstarted and just take that first
action step even if you're notready for us to help you.
Uh, with the entire white gloverelocation process right away.
(08:56):
But do something right.
Take the first step, book a 30to 60 day test.
Stay, look at one neighborhood.
Uh, try to figure out how tomake your, your routines
portable.
So maybe you're working a jobright now and you can work a
couple days remote.
So if you can increase that andeventually get them used to you
not having to show up at all,maybe look at different ways,
(09:19):
uh, to get.
Sell coverage overseas.
Hey, you're on at and t.
Maybe you wanna switch toT-Mobile because.
T-Mobile will give you, uh,unlimited data when you're, when
you're traveling, right?
Just, just little things likethat.
Take the first step.
Look into housing, look intocoworking spaces.
Maybe it's you start takingSpanish lessons or another
language of a Portuguese, right?
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You want to go to Portugal,start learning Portuguese.
Take that first step, becauseunless you take that first
action step and actually starton that path, you're never gonna
move forward towards your goals,right?
People will tell us, yeah, I'mgonna do it next year.
I'm gonna do it in, in, in fiveyears.
I'm gonna.
And it never happens.
They end up having the samemundane, frankly, miserable life
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that is not at all what theywanted to create because they
don't take that first actionstep.
So philosophy number four isbuild portable income.
Amanda and I have actually beenhelping people with this for the
last 15 years In variouscapacities.
We run marketing agencies, werun sales training agencies.
We've run masterminds where weteach people how to grow their
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businesses online.
Freedom needs cash flow that youcan carry from one place to the
other.
If you're stuck in a job whereyou have to go in person in the
US and your money is dependenton that job, your finances are
dependent on that job.
Well, you can't just pickeverything up and come, let's
say to Mexico.
Because you don't have a remoteincome stream.
So level one is perhaps find ajob, which is getting more and
(10:46):
more difficult, but find a jobthat will allow you to work from
anywhere.
It's, it's tricky.
Most people, uh, mostcorporations in the US will not
allow you to work from othercountries, even if it's quote
unquote remote.
Right?
So what are your skills that youhave?
How do you inventory thoseskills?
And look at, Hey, I can do thisand I can do that.
And maybe the skills that Ilearned over time in my job I
(11:08):
could actually do in aconsulting capacity.
And, uh, with that, okay, whatare the clients I can serve?
How do I learn things likeLinkedIn Sales Navigator to be
able to literally reach anunlimited amount of, uh,
potential leads for yourservices.
We do training on LinkedInregularly as well to help you
build that sales and marketingcomponent of your business.
(11:30):
And in terms of the actualexecution.
You know, do you, do you need toget a, a cell phone plan with a
hotspot that works overseastrial, these different things
while you're maybe still in yourhome country?
Document those processes.
Say, Hey, I, I need a, a cellphone plan with this much data
based on the.
Based on the types of thingsthat I do, um, I need to look
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at, you know, maybe a differentemployer or this employer will
they let me work remotely.
Take that first action step onbuilding your remote income, and
we do actually have a guide forthat as well.
It's the Make Money FromAnywhere Guide.
So you can also find a link tothat below this video if you're
looking to take those firststeps or just understand the
basics of how to build incomeremotely.
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Now philosophy number five isdon't take shortcuts.
So this is something that theytalk a lot about in Latin
America because it's so commonto say, oh yeah, you know, it's,
it's just easy there.
Like you can just pay somebodyoff and get, uh, fake license
plates for your car to keep yourcar here.
Or maybe we only got approvedfor temporary residency, but if
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we pay$2,000 more to this.
To this, uh, this, this guy, Mr.
Fto, whatever, uh, he's gonnaget us permanent residence in a
day or two.
Like, there are things likethat, and sometimes they, they
work these shortcuts, sometimesthey don't.
But even when they work, you'rekind of constantly looking over
your shoulder like, Hey, uh, youknow, this maybe was not
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completely legitimate.
Am I gonna get in trouble forthis later?
So those quick and dirtyshortcuts really do get
expensive later.
It's important to do thingsright and that's part of our
philosophy when we work with ourclients as well, through those
white glove relocation services.
Like I mentioned before, you cango to entrepreneur
expat.com/consult to talk withour team about how we can help
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you with those things because welike to, uh, cross all of our
T's and dot all of our i's.
To make sure that everythingthat we're doing for you to get
you a visa in another country iscompletely legitimate.
It's done right, it's done atthe right pace, it's done with
the right people, and you've gotall of the proper checks and
balances in place, uh, so thatyou're not just doing things
quickly, you're doing things ina totally.
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Legitimate way this applies withthings like taxes as well.
You always want to get help withlicensed professionals.
So, uh, when you book yourconsult call, uh, at that link
that I just mentioned, and we'llpop it on this video here as
well.
When you book your call with us,we can also direct you to real
estate professionals, forexample, and professionals and
not just will sell you a house,but actually check the title.
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You wanna always do your duediligence.
Tax professionals thatunderstand the laws between
different countries.
You want to always make surethat you're getting help from
professionals.
This, by the way, isn't justsomething that defines the
entrepreneur expat philosophy.
It's also, and, and myself,having been an entrepreneur for
over 15 years, uh, this is themindset that I've created as an
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entrepreneur because.
A lot of people like to justsay, cheap out, you know what?
I can do my own, uh, 10, 10 40,or I can go and use TurboTax or
go to, you know, pop into an hand r block.
And that's fine if you're anemployee and you're just living
in one country, but.
As your needs scale and asyou're, you're thinking about
things like actuallyestablishing a business.
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If you try to apply that samemindset to actually making money
as an entrepreneur out there inthe world and not just as, uh,
some corporate employee, thingsget trickier and trickier.
So you need to move from thisidea of, Hey, I'm gonna save so
much money if I just sort ofhalf-ass this and maybe do it
the wrong way to.
Yes, I might have to invest acouple thousand dollars a year
to get quality accounting andlegal and, and bookkeeping
(15:06):
support, but it's gonna preventme from being bitten in the ass
later and getting audited and,and everything else.
Now, this is not legal.
Uh, this is not financialadvice.
Consult your professional.
As always, this is our opinion,but hey, it's saved our ass a
lot of times to use thisphilosophy and think about the
right way.
To do things.
Um, I'll just finalize withthis.
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If you hear somebody saying, oh,you know, everyone does it this
way in this country, so that'sokay.
Even though you know, deep downthis doesn't really sound like
something that is legitimate,that sounds like it might be a
shortcut.
That's your cue right there toactually check and verify.
Uh, like Reagan said, andactually Reagan stole this, uh,
from the, the Russians from theSoviet Union.
(15:51):
You have to trust but verify allthis trust, but verify.
Uh, my, my Ukrainian motherwould also, uh, say things like
that you gotta trust but verify.
You wanna make sure that whatyou're doing is actually fully
legitimate and that you're nottaking shortcuts.
Now, philosophy number six isplan for change maybe in your
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life right now, whether you'reworking a job or whether you've
had the same sort of career orbusiness for many, many years.
Things might not really changethat much.
When you decide to become anentrepreneur, expat, you want to
plan for change.
The only thing that's gonna beconstant in your life is change.
Now you might find that aftertwo or three years you find the
neighborhood, you find the city,you find the country that you
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really like.
You decide to settle down alittle bit and that's totally
fine.
Um, what we're doing personallylike is.
Is, we like to travel around,but more of the slow travel.
We'll spend a couple years in a,in a given country, maybe come
back, maybe establish differenthome bases everywhere.
But with all of that comes a tonof change.
And even if you're not movingaround.
Just the fact that you're comingfrom one society to a different
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kind of society, where the rulesand things are are so much
different.
The rules are changing, theprices are changing, and also
you're constantly adjusting fromyour old model of the world to
this new model of the worldthat's based on the new place
that you're at.
You always wanna plan forchange.
So that's both in terms of yourmindset and also in terms of,
hey, maybe the things that we'reused to working.
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The, the same way that they wereback home, maybe were used to,
uh, the internet being up allthe time, or the power being up
all the time.
I will say Mexico has a prettydecent infrastructure.
We don't have too many poweroutages other than with like
pretty major storms.
But same thing happens, let'ssay in Miami, but you want to
think of your plan Bs now morethan ever because you're coming
to a new place, you're learningnew cultures, you're, you're,
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you're learning new systems,you've got.
Uh, different internetproviders, different laws,
different regulations, so alwayshave a plan B in order to plan
for that change.
This means plan B for yourhousing, for your internet, for
your banking, uh, especiallywhen your source of income might
be in one country.
You're living in anothercountry.
You don't wanna just come toMexico, for instance, and just
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have one card in the US becauseif something happens and then
that card gets blocked by yourbank because you're traveling or
there's a fraud alert orwhatever, what are you gonna do?
Have emergency cash on you?
Maybe buy a little bit ofBitcoin, not too much.
Again, this isn't financialadvice, but have your money in
different sorts of accounts,maybe with two different banks,
and then you also open.
A local bank here in the countrythat you live, that you live in,
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uh, build uh, a portfolio, builda profile on, on wise, have a
wise account, have emergencycash, have uh, extra copies of
your keys and extra copy of yourpassports.
And I will say with the Plan forChange thing.
Maybe the things that youthought you'd really like about
another country don't come outto to be true when you actually
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go and move there.
So have backup plans forresidency as well.
We know a lot of people whomaybe aren't ready to move to
Mexico yet, but they get that asa plan B.
Uh, so that they have thatresidency in their back pocket,
and in a lot of cases we evenhelp them work on a third
residency or passport as well.
You can never have too many.
The world is getting crazy rightnow, and we don't know what's
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gonna happen in 2, 3, 4, 5years.
Whether you stay where you're ator whether you move somewhere
else, you wanna embody thisphilosophy, which is always plan
for change.
Number seven, last butdefinitely not least.
Abundance is everywhere, sothere's always a next step.
There's always a way out.
There's always a solution.
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Let's say that you're looking toget a visa here in Mexico and
you're not able to get approvedfor the income or for the
savings requirements.
While there are ways where youcan start a business here, you
can create jobs and startbringing money into the country
and get approved basically tosponsor your own visa.
There's always a way and there'salways abundance everywhere.
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Uh, another example of this isrecently we decided, hey, we're
gonna start launching more ofthe digital courses because a
lot of people on our channel arenot yet ready to move to another
country.
We've had over a thousanddollars of sales on just some of
those digital products andcoaching products in the last
few weeks.
And that's sort of sleep money,right?
That's, that's sleep moneywhere.
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I don't have to be doinganything for that money to come
in.
Right?
And maybe it's a thousanddollars a month now it, it's a
little bit more next month.
It's a little bit more nextmonth.
But that's just passive incomethat comes in.
And the reason that thathappened is because I said, you
know what?
We're gonna, we're gonna adjust.
Not everybody's ready to dothis.
Now.
We're gonna create ourmembership site, we're gonna
enhance it, we're gonna put morethings there.
(20:31):
And people are buying thesecourses.
Left and right.
It's amazing.
We'll include a link to some of'em down below.
But the point is you alwaysrealize that there's abundance
out there, right?
Even if you're just a beginnerin your career or in your, your
field of expertise, you canstill help one or two people
every single week and get paidfor that.
Do your research, go onLinkedIn, ask people questions.
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You don't necessarily have tofind another job, and you
definitely aren't gonna find a,a job in that country, right?
That's never gonna work.
And it defeats the whole purposeof, of geo arbitrage.
So maybe that next action, thatnext abundance move that you do
is, is saying, Hey, based on mynetwork, like, based on all the
things that I abundantly haveall around me, my connections
past employers, colleagues, thatI have connections on LinkedIn
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and Facebook.
There's never like a dead end.
That's that's the key here.
There's never a dead end, andthere is always, always, always
more that the universe is goingto be serving up.
You just have to be open, youhave to be receptive.
You have to not be a victim andinstead.
Be the creator of your owndestiny.
I know this sounds like veryTony Robbinsy, um, but it's
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true, and I've applied it in mylife.
Amanda's applied it in her life.
I've had many colleagues andfriends and clients that have
embodied this philosophy of justbeing willing and open to
receive that abundance that isall around us.
And let me tell you, itabsolutely works.
So those are the seven corephilosophies of an entrepreneur
expat.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
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All of the people that this cando good for and support, and
we're so happy to have you alongthis journey.
If you'd like to take things tothe next level, go to
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We've got so many differentthings that can help you on your
(22:19):
journey, starting at just$27.
Uh, we have our new guidebookfor relocation on sale, so we'll
link that below as well.
And, uh, we would love to haveyou.
Keep being a part of ourcommunity.
So thank you so much again, andwe'll see you again next time.
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