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(00:00):
Today is Amanda's two yearanniversary since moving to
beautiful Mexico.
Today we're gonna talk aboutwhat inspired her to move down
here, uh, to Guadalajara,Mexico, and now the Lake Chip
area, uh, what the process waslike and what lessons she's
learned along the way as well.
Welcome to Entrepreneur Expat.
I'm Justin, obviously.
(00:21):
This is Amanda, and on thischannel we talk about everything
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And setting your life up forsuccess abroad, if that's
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And let's jump right into it.
So Amanda, two years ago youmoved to Mexico.
I did.
Well, two years ago I booked aplane ticket to Mexico not
(01:03):
knowing I was going to stay inMexico.
And for context, uh, I booked aplane ticket from the United
States.
So I left the United States, uh,two years ago, which seems to be
a trending topic on theinternet.
Sure does these days.
Um, so I booked a plane ticket,uh, to Mexico.
I was staying with you.
You and I were, were dating atthe time.
(01:24):
We were getting pretty serious.
You just met my whole family inMiami and you were already
living in Mexico and I booked aplane ticket.
The plan was, I was just gonnastay six weeks and we started
traveling all throughout, youknow, and Halco and that whole
area.
We were more nomadic at first.
Uh, and then I just didn't goback.
(01:45):
That's what happened.
So let's, so let's back up andnow we're married.
Yeah.
So let's back up.
Um.
What, what were your firstthoughts when I said, I mean, we
just had started dating, we'dactually met online, you know,
through, through work and thingsthat we were doing, uh, in the,
in the online coaching space.
Way, way back in the day, itfeels like forever ago, right?
(02:05):
Like time to ago.
Yeah.
Um, where we were, we were likeonline marketing and sales
coaches and whatnot.
Um, so we, we met online andthen I, I'd come to Miami
actually before then.
I said, you know, come down toMexico.
And I was like, no.
And she said, no, you have tomeet my Cuban parents first, and
my entire family, ladies who aredating.
Take note.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which, which makes sense.
(02:26):
I get it.
Um, and then I, then I came downthere and I'm like, okay, why
don't you just, just come moveto Mexico?
Like, what were your firstthoughts?
I mean, I'd been to Mexicobefore.
I loved Mexico except, you know,the, the air, the place where
I'd been to Mexico before wasmore like Cancun, which I hated.
It was just like a flyingthrough Cancun type of thing.
Mm-hmm.
Hate that part of Mexico.
I don't like the tourist inMexico.
And then I'd been in chiastaying with a friend in know
(02:48):
Oma called San Cri de Las Cace.
Explored a lot of Chiapas, fellin love with Mexico.
I think for me, I was just kindof gobsmacked because I had
spent many years.
Uh, I was like shocked becausebefore you and I had met, I had
spent many years.
Uh, researching what it would belike to live in other countries.
Yeah.
I had like tentative tripsbooked to Metagene and Mexico
(03:09):
City, both of which I had tocancel, either due to COVID or a
family emergency.
Um, so I'd been thinking aboutliving in other countries for a
really long time, Mexico was onthe list, but it was like Mexico
City.
I had never remotely considered.
Uh, this part of Mexico.
So I was like, open to it.
I think for me it was just like,for a lot of people, like a lot
(03:30):
of emotions started coming uplike, oh my God, what about my
business, my family, this, that,you know, it's, I think I was
more shocked, which ironicallyyou were running a fully online
business.
I was running a fully onlinebusiness, ironically.
What was that you thought youcouldn't do overseas or what
were like the.
What were like thepreoccupations that you had?
Honestly, I thought that inorder to move overseas, I needed
(03:51):
like buku money.
I needed like, and have all yourdebts paid off.
I have my debts paid off andhave like millions of dollars to
take advantage of like taxstrategy and all that kind of
stuff because again, I'd beenresearching this for a long
time.
Uh, and I was an entrepreneur.
We're gonna have to do a videoon the Entrepreneur's Guide to
moving Overseas.
That'll be interesting.
That's, that's gonna be one ofthe next subscribe, subscribe
(04:12):
video.
So make sure you subscribe sothat you don't miss that one.
Oh, so we're gonna have a guidecoming out about it and
everything.
But yeah, I thought I had tohave everything automated.
I needed employees basically.
I was like overcomplicating inmy head.
Turns out all those thingswould've made my life worse
moving abroad.
And I've since learned,obviously, if you have a
business and you're anentrepreneur, like get help, uh,
in.
(04:33):
Creating this process.
But I was in a stage in mybusiness, in my career where
like I was pretty much ready totransition out of it anyway, so
it was actually easier for me tojust shut it down and start
over.
Um, and that ended up being moreadvantageous for me than what I,
all the crap I'd made up in myhead about what I needed to do.
(04:54):
Yep.
You know, so on the note aboutlike finances and thinking that
you need a bunch of buku money,like you said, and, and also
let's talk about the financesfirst and then maybe about the
debt situation.
What was, what was yourexpectation about that versus
reality on the ground?
Uh, I had a lot of business debtfrom, uh, a business that I had
previously.
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I thought I had to get that allsorted out.
But as it relates to Mexicospecifically, like.
What, what was it that openedup?
Because a lot of people, uh,maybe even some of you guys
watching now are thinking, youknow what, in order to move
overseas, like I've gotta haveall my credit cards paid off.
I've gotta have, oh, no.
Have my, my mortgage paid off.
I can't have a car loan.
Like, it's actually kind ofbackwards when you think about
it, because what I realized waslike, yeah, I mean, you could
(05:37):
also just like, you couldstruggle, right?
And work your ass off and be inhustle culture, or you could
just bite the bullet, spend somemoney to hire, help move
overseas.
And then, you know, eventuallythe, the cost of living is so
low in other countries that youcould just more easily pay off
your debt that way withoutrunning yourself into the.
(05:57):
Ground.
So I, it is actually easier onceyou like, move abroad to pay off
your debt than to think youcan't move abroad until you pay
off your debt.
Yeah.
And, and it's so much cheaperhere also you wanna talk, talk
about that a little bit, like interms of the cost of living
differences, we live reallywell, obviously.
I mean, you were living withyour parents when, at least when
we met, you'd moved back in tohelp with my grandmother after
(06:18):
COVID to help with your familyand all that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um.
So you weren't really payinganything in rent, but if you
were like,'cause I know you wereliving on your own, uh, well,
with a roommate, I guess inBrickle for a while.
Yeah.
And even that, I mean, how muchwere you guys paying in rent
utilities?
That condo was 3000 a month.
In rent?
Yeah.
In Brickle.
Yeah.
So for a a two bedroom condo,you're paying three KA month.
(06:38):
And how much are we paying now?
For a house on a mountain intown with the Lakeview$550 a
month.
Yeah, so it's one.
Yeah.
15%.
You're basically saving 85% onjust.
Rent.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, as, as a, as a couple,we're saving like 85% on, on
(06:59):
rent from Miami.
And arguably, I, I would ratherlive here.
We'll put in some pictures ofthe, of our, of our view in our
backyard and everything.
But I, I would arguably livemuch like more preferably here
where we have our, our condothen in the middle of a big city
like Miami.
Yeah.
Or even even Guadalajara.
'cause we left, we leftGuadalajara.
(07:19):
It was just like too much.
Too much energy.
Yeah.
We're driving now.
We're in the country.
We're, we're driving in rightnow to run a couple errands and
then we're running right back tothe countryside.
Yep.
Because we're country peoplenow, at least for a little while
until the, we decide where we'regoing next.
But uh, yeah, I think for methat was a big one.
I know that's something we heara lot.
People are like, I gotta pay offmy debt, I gotta get this sorted
out.
I gotta get that sorted out.
(07:40):
And they don't realize that it'sgonna be a lot easier for them
to sort stuff out when they'reno longer living in the stress
of the United States.
Yeah, exactly.
So I think that's a big mindsetshift for a lot of people.
And also like for those of youwho are concerned about your
credit, like your credit meansjack shit in other countries.
So it means absolutely nothingin other countries.
(08:02):
So why even worry about it thatmuch, I guess.
Yeah.
And, and in terms, can you speaka little bit more to the mindset
though too?
Like what, what might helppeople shift their mindset of
thinking that, Hey, I've gottahave all this done before, like
I've gotta have all my ducks sorow.
I think it's that notion ofbeing responsible.
I think it was David Nagle whenwe were coaching with David
Nagle a while ago, where he'slike, Hey, people get stuck
(08:22):
because they think that theresponsible, because of
responsibility or what theythink is responsible thing to
do, or reasonable mm-hmm.
Thing to do.
I think that's what it is.
They're reasonable.
Uh, thing to do, and most peoplewho are reasonable never get
what they want in life.
So, yeah, I think that's what itis.
Like what's, what's reasonable,what's responsible, and then
(08:44):
their version of responsible isjust what they've been told,
what responsible is.
But when you take all theprogramming out of it and you
take all the emotion out of itand you just run the numbers,
you might realize that the mostresponsible thing to do would be
to just leave and then you canmore easily handle your
responsibilities.
Exactly.
Because, because you're nolonger as stressed, you're not
(09:06):
in hustle culture, your moneygoes further, so your money goes
way further.
So you've got more money eitherto invest or to pay off debts or
both.
In fact, we're.
We're on track now to startdoing a lot of both.
Yeah.
We just finished our allocationplan for money.
Uh, just yesterday.
We, we took all day and westarted looking at different
investment opportunities, uh, inMexico and where we can be
putting our money, whether it's,uh, whether it's like CDs here
(09:27):
that pay a lot more than in theus Uh, there's a lot of like
different investment accountsand.
And things like that.
The banks here on average,depending on the, the bank or
FinTech that you best with.
Yeah.
That was shocking to me.
Yeah, they pay out a lot interms of interest.
Yeah, that was really shockingto me in a lot of ways.
Um, I think that's one of thethings that's shifted and
changed.
'cause the first time you askedme this about a year ago, I
think I was still in the woo ofit all and we'd been traveling
(09:49):
so much and I was dealing withmy immigration.
Yep.
So the second year.
I was able to like, makefriends, build a community,
learn more about the systemshere, uh, and how they work.
And that was one of the onesthat was utterly shocking to me
was how much higher interestrates they pay out here, uh, on
savings accounts and CDs, uh,and things like that.
And Mexico's not the only placewhere you can get much higher
(10:11):
places.
There's other countries, uh, inthe world, but that's definitely
been something that's reallyinteresting is learning about
banking systems in differentcountries.
But I digress.
That's a conversation foranother time.
Yep.
So what was it that you fell inlove with?
Because we, we did actuallyexplore, I mean, you wanna talk
a little bit about how we wentto different towns also on the
(10:32):
Pacific coast, because youthought, you know what, I'm from
Miami.
I don't, I don't wanna liveanywhere, but not by the ocean.
Yeah.
Um, so what was it like checkingout some of the maybe more
touristy places like Vallartaand Ulta and other areas on the,
on the coast?
Not for me.
Yeah.
Just not for me.
Um, I, and why'd you decide onGuadalajara?
Like what, what was the beachtown scene like here, and why'd
you decide on.
On moving to Guadalajara out ofall places, the beach scene in
(10:55):
Mexico is kind of frenetic, isthe best way that I can explain
it in terms of energy.
It's also completely full oflike gringos and foreigners.
Mm-hmm.
And you know, I have the fortunethat.
My family's Cuban, so I've beenspeaking Spanish my entire life.
So I basically went to you and Iwas like, if I'm gonna be in
Mexico, I'm gonna be in Mexico.
Yep.
You know, even now when we movedout by the lake, we're like by a
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side of the lake where there'sway less foreigners, you know,
um, more like VAEs and, andstuff like that.
So yeah, our neighbors are cows,our neighbors are horses and
cows and cowboys and it's great.
And, um, and a lot of people whowork in agriculture and it's
awesome.
Because we get fresh food fromthe farms all the time.
Um, so I think for me, like Ihad the, I guess luxury is what,
(11:40):
I don't know if it's a luxury,but like I spoke Spanish
already, so I was like, we couldliterally go wherever in Mexico
and it's, I'm gonna be fine.
Yep.
Kind of a thing.
So, but I've been speakingSpanish or anywhere in Latin
America or anywhere in LatinAmerica.
I'm gonna be fine.
But again, I've been speakingSpanish my entire life.
So that's, and I, I learned inColumbia because it was really
hard to pick up thecolumbiana's.
(12:00):
Without a good knowledge ofSpanish, it was kind of awkward
with Google Translate, you'rehaving an issue with the psa.
I was, I was having an issuewith the pisa.
They didn't speak any English,not the ones I wanted anyway,
so, uh, I had to, I had to learnmy Espanol.
So I, I learned in about a yearin Columbia managing.
Um, but yeah, we speak Spanish,so like a city that is more,
more of a local vibe just made alot more sense.
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And then we got, you know, wekind of got tired of the city,
um, and moved on and now we'relike, what other country are we
gonna spend six months in?
Exactly.
So.
So obviously, okay, you're like,I wanna live in a more Mexican
sort of city or neighborhood orwhatever.
Um, why Guadalajaraspecifically?
Like what were some of thethings you really like about
Guadalajara, um, that kind ofinfluenced your decision to, to
stay there out of all the morelocal places like Mexico City
(12:45):
that you maybe could have beenin, or I could find anything I
need in Guadalajara without theutter chaos of Mexico City.
Just flying through Mexico Cityis complete utter chaos.
Um, and also like the areas, Imean, granted we speak Spanish,
we probably wouldn't have beenin these areas'cause we could
find less expensive places thataren't gringo price.
Like you have the issues goingon in like Polanco and all those
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places.
Uh, what is it?
Polanco and Polanco esa.
All the issues.
It's a lot of the riots were tooanti, anti-American rights.
Granted, because we speakSpanish and we're smart with
money, we probably wouldn't havebeen living in those places
anyway.
Right, right.
Um, we would've found betterdeals elsewhere and gotten more
bank for our buck.
But the, yeah, it was, MexicoCity is just very chaotic.
(13:30):
Even just flying through MexicoCity is chaos.
So I was like, yeah.
And I think I was at a stagewhere like I was ready for my
nervous system to start settlingdown a little bit more.
And Mexico City just wasn'tgonna cut it.
For that, if I'm being honest.
Um, now Guadalajara is not ascrazy as Mexico City, but it was
still a big city.
I could get anything I needed.
I mean, we're driving through itright now to run some errands.
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I'm like, yep, you couldliterally find anything you
need.
It's a giant metropolitaninternational city.
Yep.
You know, so for a while, I, I,I liked the vibe for a while.
You know, I wanted to try it andI wasn't ready for the country
yet.
I didn't like the beach townsand I was not ready for the
Pueblos yet.
That's basically what it was.
And I hadn't traveled.
(14:13):
Uh, so obviously since settlingmore in Guadalajara, we've
traveled to a lot of places, uh,in Mexico and also the
Caribbean.
And now we'll start expandingoutside of that.
So now I have more, um, datamm-hmm.
To work with.
In terms of, you know, where arewe going next and where we are
now and all that.
But Guadalajara was a goodtransition city for me.
(14:34):
Cool.
And so, uh, what, what else doyou wanna say about just kind of
your adventure and, and how, howyou actually decided to stick
around in Mexico?
Like what was it about, uh.
Living here.
Let's say those, those first fewmonths where you're like, okay,
you know what?
I think I might really wannamake this my home for a little
while as it compares to, let'ssay, Miami.
Where you from?
Yeah.
(14:54):
Well, it's like I said, I alwayswanted to live in other
countries.
Mexico's an easy place to start.
I already spoke Spanish.
I'd been here.
I un I am Latina, so Iunderstand Latin culture.
Um, Mexico's pretty stable interms of Latin American country,
so I was like, okay, I can dothat.
Uh, doesn't seem like a hugeissue.
Um, so it's a good startingplace and there's so much to see
(15:15):
and discover in Mexico.
I mean, it's crazy.
You'd have to be here years tosee everything there used to see
in Mexico.
Um, and, you know, Mexico's apretty magical country, so I was
like, good place to start.
Um, I guess what decided interms of staying those first six
weeks?
I mean, I think it's what mostpeople say.
I was like, wait a minute, Icould get better quality
healthcare here at a fraction ofthe price.
(15:36):
Uh, the food quality is so muchbetter.
Uh, hustle culture is not reallya thing in Mexico.
Granted, you have like theMexican version of hustle
culture in the cities, like inGuadalajara.
I'm seeing it like as we'redriving, but it's not like the
US version of, of hustle cultureat all.
It's just different.
Um.
I mean, it just kind of seemedlike a no brainer if I'm being
(15:59):
honest.
And then, you know, because I'dbeen already, because I was
interested in this sort oflifestyle already, the
international lifestyle, I'dalready been paying attention
to, like how the world waschanging.
Mexico was emerging, it wasmoving in the right direction,
uh, as well as some othercountries that were interested
in.
Hopefully it stays that way,knock on wood.
Um, for, I would hope so forMexico, that it stays that way.
(16:22):
That would be awesome.
For Mexico and the Mexicanpeople.
Um, so I'd already been seeinglike quality of life and things
just continuing to decline inplaces like the United States
and Canada and then starting toimprove in things like Mexico.
I was already aware of thatbecause I'd been researching
this stuff for a while, um,before I even met you.
Like, I think I startedresearching this stuff in 2019.
(16:44):
Mm-hmm.
Was when I started getting intoit, and then we didn't meet
until 2022.
Yep.
You know, so I think that, so itwas already kind of a long time,
long time dream of yours anyway.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Uh, Guadalajara, like I said,not remotely on my radar though.
That was a surprise.
Tola, I just happened to be herealready and you're like, all
right.
Yeah.
To not remotely on my radar.
(17:04):
Didn't even know it existeduntil I got here.
So that was the surprise.
Yep.
And now, so now we decided to,to go and live in a small town,
um, you know, relatively small,like near the lake chip area.
What was that transition foryou?
'cause I know that we were bothkind of getting sick of the, of
the city.
Mm-hmm.
So what was it for you where youwere like, oh, you know what,
(17:27):
maybe no more city for a while.
Like I wanna be out in nature.
You know what I think it mightbe, I was thinking about this
the other day.
I think once you start gettinginto the international
lifestyle,'cause I was thinkingabout this.
I'm like, wow, two years inMexico.
But it feels like lifetime.
And the reason it feels likelifetimes is because we've had
so many different experiencesjust in the last two years, not
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just in Mexico, but travelingthrough the Caribbean, traveling
in the US when I was back andforth, uh, in the beginning,
handling like immigration andall that stuff.
Um, we've had so many differentexperiences.
Uh, because when you startpartaking in that international
lifestyle, you are constantlybeing pushed outta your comfort
zone and you're constantlyexploring something new.
(18:09):
Mm-hmm.
Um, so that, I don't know, Idon't know if you're getting
dopamine hits or, I don't knowwhat it is, but that's why it
feels like, even though it'sbeen a short two years, it feels
like lifetimes.
Yeah.
Because we've had so manyexperiences, a lot of
stimulation, a lot thingshappening, a lot stimulation, a
lot of things happening.
That's, it's a lot of picklesand predicaments around us for
sure.
Pickles and predicaments.
Um.
So I was thinking about this,where it was kind of like when
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you start embarking on theinternational lifestyle, I think
what's happened to me is I'vegotten more comfortable with
adventure and I've gotten morecomfortable with, okay, let's go
try something new.
Yeah.
So I think that's what it is.
And also I, I think we, werealized, you know, I mean that
the city was sort of a, a nicelittle, uh, transition
(18:51):
transition.
But then we sort of realized,hey, we knew it wasn't a forever
thing.
Yeah.
'cause the city was a, a softerlanding for you.
And we know chappal is not aforever thing and we're starting
to realize that maybe we're notlike a forever stay in one place
kind of people.
Yeah.
I wanna talk a little bit about,um, yeah.
Just the transition.
'cause one of the things yousaid was that Guadalajara was
kind of easier for you totransition to from Miami.
Like if you would've, let's say,gone straight to a rural
(19:14):
chapala, I would've lost behind.
Uh, it would've been just liketoo much.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
How, how was that for you and doyou think that for most people
as well, they would be betteroff most likely if they're gonna
move to another country to, tojust go to a, a city like
Guadalajara?
Uh, where there are a lot ofexpats?
I think it depends.
I think there's plenty of peoplewho live in cities in the US now
who are dying to get into thecountry.
(19:36):
I think it just depends on theperson and where they're at, and
we can help you figure that out.
So, entrepreneurexpat.com/consult/consult?
Yeah.
I think it depends on theperson.
There is no one size fits allformula for any of this.
So what's next?
It's basically your yearanniversary, your anniversary of
moving, uh, moving here toMexico.
What, what do you feel is likethe, the two to five year plan?
(19:59):
I.
Like where, where do you seeyourself in terms of
entrepreneur, expat in the nextfew years?
Entrepreneur, expat life.
Yeah.
Um, well obviously we started anew business, uh, in the last
year, so that was more of like asecond year thing, not a first
year thing.
Um, and now we're getting intoreal estate, helping people
relocate, globaldiversification.
(20:20):
And not just in Mexico, but webuilt partners in Costa Rica,
Panama.
I think when we startedentrepreneur, expat.
One of my dreams was just like,I wanna have friends all over
the world.
Yeah.
So I could go travel the world.
And now we do.
And now we do.
We have friends in Thailand and,uh, Vietnam.
And I was helping, I was helpingour neighbor Columbia with a, a
visa situation in France theother day with friend, a friend
(20:43):
that I have in France because ofthis work that we're doing.
Um, so I, I foresee a lot moretraveling.
You and I were just talkingabout, all right, maybe we're
looking at now, you know, sixmonths in Mexico and six months
in another country.
Are we looking at Buenos Aires?
Are we looking at.
Uh, Metagene.
Are we looking at somewhere inEurope?
Like, what are we, you know?
So now we're starting to, um,it's funny, I thought that like
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the pace was gonna slow down andit's actually kind of picking up
in a way, but it doesn't feellike it's picking up because now
I'm used to it because again,I'm used to that adventure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's what I foresee.
How about you?
What do you foresee?
Uh, yeah, I, I think, I thinksame sort of thing, not staying
in one place for too long.
Obviously this time we're more,more of, uh, you know, just
(21:28):
expats not quite as much nomads.
Um, because we were building anew business.
We were kind of settling down,figuring out what, what it, what
it was like in Mexico, buildingour network here, getting
married.
Yeah.
Um, ideally though, I meanobviously there's tax benefits
of this too, but just, just interms of lifestyle, maybe being
in one country for four or fivemonths.
Uh, and then going to anothercountry and kind of hopping back
(21:49):
and forth between maybe two orthree main places, and then
spending the rest of the timetraveling around and exploring,
because I love to explore.
I don't really see myself, atleast not for the next 20 years.
At least, um, just staying inone place completely still.
And plus it helps us, you know,we're gonna get great content
for the people, explorecountries, uh, the channel.
We grow as people.
We, we obviously grow.
We'cause that, that's one of thereasons that I like to do this
(22:11):
as well is, is to be able toreally understand people all
around the world.
Yes.
Because understanding differentcultures, different languages,
um, different cuisines,countries, what's going on in a,
in a given place,idiosyncrasies.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Like, it helps me understand.
Uh, really understand the world.
You points, perspectives.
Yeah.
When, when I understand people,I understand more of the world
and I understand more of thehuman condition.
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Gu Ajara is a beautiful city.
It really is.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
All the trees, it's turninggreen.
Mm-hmm.
Because of the rainy season.
Um, yeah.
And then the other thing I wasthinking about is more global
diversification.
So this is what you and I weretalking about over the weekend.
It's like, okay, well now we'vegot, you know, bank accounts in
Mexico.
Like what's the next country?
What investments are we lookingat?
What countries are good for whatinvestment?
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Uh, because we don't.
That, that, again, this isprobably a whole other video.
Maybe we'll record that on theway back from Gu Laja today,
which is, you know, theimportance of global
diversification, you know, withinvestments, with bank accounts,
uh, with residencies,citizenships, things like that.
I think I posted on Facebook theother day.
I don't want, just want afinancial portfolio, I want a
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passport portfolio, becausethat's what freedom, that's what
financial safety and freedom is.
And as the world gets morechaotic is being able to have
mobility and sovereignty andaccess to your money.
And you have to diversify, but,you know, conversation for
another time, uh, on thischannel.
But I think that's so somethingthat I'm starting to foresee
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happen, you know, as well.
And we're already starting thatprocess, you know, here in
Mexico.
Yeah.
Amazing.
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Today is Amanda's two yearanniversary since moving to
beautiful Mexico.
Today we're gonna talk aboutwhat inspired her to move down
here, uh, to Guadalajara,Mexico, and now the Lake Chip
area, uh, what the process waslike and what lessons she's
learned along the way as well.
Welcome to Entrepreneur Expat.
I'm Justin, obviously.
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This is Amanda, and on thischannel we talk about everything
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And setting your life up forsuccess abroad, if that's
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And if you wanna move to Mexicoas well, make sure you download
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And let's jump right into it.
So Amanda, two years ago youmoved to Mexico.
I did.
Well, two years ago I booked aplane ticket to Mexico not
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knowing I was going to stay inMexico.
And for context, uh, I booked aplane ticket from the United
States.
So I left the United States, uh,two years ago, which seems to be
a trending topic on theinternet.
Sure does these days.
Um, so I booked a plane ticket,uh, to Mexico.
I was staying with you.
You and I were, were dating atthe time.
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We were getting pretty serious.
You just met my whole family inMiami and you were already
living in Mexico and I booked aplane ticket.
The plan was, I was just gonnastay six weeks and we started
traveling all throughout, youknow, and Halco and that whole
area.
We were more nomadic at first.
Uh, and then I just didn't goback.
(01:45):
That's what happened.
So let's, so let's back up andnow we're married.
Yeah.
So let's back up.
Um.
What, what were your firstthoughts when I said, I mean, we
just had started dating, we'dactually met online, you know,
through, through work and thingsthat we were doing, uh, in the,
in the online coaching space.
Way, way back in the day, itfeels like forever ago, right?
(02:05):
Like time to ago.
Yeah.
Um, where we were, we were likeonline marketing and sales
coaches and whatnot.
Um, so we, we met online andthen I, I'd come to Miami
actually before then.
I said, you know, come down toMexico.
And I was like, no.
And she said, no, you have tomeet my Cuban parents first, and
my entire family, ladies who aredating.
Take note.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which, which makes sense.
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I get it.
Um, and then I, then I came downthere and I'm like, okay, why
don't you just, just come moveto Mexico?
Like, what were your firstthoughts?
I mean, I'd been to Mexicobefore.
I loved Mexico except, you know,the, the air, the place where
I'd been to Mexico before wasmore like Cancun, which I hated.
It was just like a flyingthrough Cancun type of thing.
Mm-hmm.
Hate that part of Mexico.
I don't like the tourist inMexico.
And then I'd been in chiastaying with a friend in know
(02:48):
Oma called San Cri de Las Cace.
Explored a lot of Chiapas, fellin love with Mexico.
I think for me, I was just kindof gobsmacked because I had
spent many years.
Uh, I was like shocked becausebefore you and I had met, I had
spent many years.
Uh, researching what it would belike to live in other countries.
Yeah.
I had like tentative tripsbooked to Metagene and Mexico
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City, both of which I had tocancel, either due to COVID or a
family emergency.
Um, so I'd been thinking aboutliving in other countries for a
really long time, Mexico was onthe list, but it was like Mexico
City.
I had never remotely considered.
Uh, this part of Mexico.
So I was like, open to it.
I think for me it was just like,for a lot of people, like a lot
(03:30):
of emotions started coming uplike, oh my God, what about my
business, my family, this, that,you know, it's, I think I was
more shocked, which ironicallyyou were running a fully online
business.
I was running a fully onlinebusiness, ironically.
What was that you thought youcouldn't do overseas or what
were like the.
What were like thepreoccupations that you had?
Honestly, I thought that inorder to move overseas, I needed
(03:51):
like buku money.
I needed like, and have all yourdebts paid off.
I have my debts paid off andhave like millions of dollars to
take advantage of like taxstrategy and all that kind of
stuff because again, I'd beenresearching this for a long
time.
Uh, and I was an entrepreneur.
We're gonna have to do a videoon the Entrepreneur's Guide to
moving Overseas.
That'll be interesting.
That's, that's gonna be one ofthe next subscribe, subscribe
(04:12):
video.
So make sure you subscribe sothat you don't miss that one.
Oh, so we're gonna have a guidecoming out about it and
everything.
But yeah, I thought I had tohave everything automated.
I needed employees basically.
I was like overcomplicating inmy head.
Turns out all those thingswould've made my life worse
moving abroad.
And I've since learned,obviously, if you have a
business and you're anentrepreneur, like get help, uh,
in.
(04:33):
Creating this process.
But I was in a stage in mybusiness, in my career where
like I was pretty much ready totransition out of it anyway, so
it was actually easier for me tojust shut it down and start
over.
Um, and that ended up being moreadvantageous for me than what I,
all the crap I'd made up in myhead about what I needed to do.
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Yep.
You know, so on the note aboutlike finances and thinking that
you need a bunch of buku money,like you said, and, and also
let's talk about the financesfirst and then maybe about the
debt situation.
What was, what was yourexpectation about that versus
reality on the ground?
Uh, I had a lot of business debtfrom, uh, a business that I had
previously.
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I thought I had to get that allsorted out.
But as it relates to Mexicospecifically, like.
What, what was it that openedup?
Because a lot of people, uh,maybe even some of you guys
watching now are thinking, youknow what, in order to move
overseas, like I've gotta haveall my credit cards paid off.
I've gotta have, oh, no.
Have my, my mortgage paid off.
I can't have a car loan.
Like, it's actually kind ofbackwards when you think about
it, because what I realized waslike, yeah, I mean, you could
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also just like, you couldstruggle, right?
And work your ass off and be inhustle culture, or you could
just bite the bullet, spend somemoney to hire, help move
overseas.
And then, you know, eventuallythe, the cost of living is so
low in other countries that youcould just more easily pay off
your debt that way withoutrunning yourself into the.
(05:57):
Ground.
So I, it is actually easier onceyou like, move abroad to pay off
your debt than to think youcan't move abroad until you pay
off your debt.
Yeah.
And, and it's so much cheaperhere also you wanna talk, talk
about that a little bit, like interms of the cost of living
differences, we live reallywell, obviously.
I mean, you were living withyour parents when, at least when
we met, you'd moved back in tohelp with my grandmother after
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COVID to help with your familyand all that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um.
So you weren't really payinganything in rent, but if you
were like,'cause I know you wereliving on your own, uh, well,
with a roommate, I guess inBrickle for a while.
Yeah.
And even that, I mean, how muchwere you guys paying in rent
utilities?
That condo was 3000 a month.
In rent?
Yeah.
In Brickle.
Yeah.
So for a a two bedroom condo,you're paying three KA month.
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And how much are we paying now?
For a house on a mountain intown with the Lakeview$550 a
month.
Yeah, so it's one.
Yeah.
15%.
You're basically saving 85% onjust.
Rent.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, as, as a, as a couple,we're saving like 85% on, on
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rent from Miami.
And arguably, I, I would ratherlive here.
We'll put in some pictures ofthe, of our, of our view in our
backyard and everything.
But I, I would arguably livemuch like more preferably here
where we have our, our condothen in the middle of a big city
like Miami.
Yeah.
Or even even Guadalajara.
'cause we left, we leftGuadalajara.
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It was just like too much.
Too much energy.
Yeah.
We're driving now.
We're in the country.
We're, we're driving in rightnow to run a couple errands and
then we're running right back tothe countryside.
Yep.
Because we're country peoplenow, at least for a little while
until the, we decide where we'regoing next.
But uh, yeah, I think for methat was a big one.
I know that's something we heara lot.
People are like, I gotta pay offmy debt, I gotta get this sorted
out.
I gotta get that sorted out.
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And they don't realize that it'sgonna be a lot easier for them
to sort stuff out when they'reno longer living in the stress
of the United States.
Yeah, exactly.
So I think that's a big mindsetshift for a lot of people.
And also like for those of youwho are concerned about your
credit, like your credit meansjack shit in other countries.
So it means absolutely nothingin other countries.
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So why even worry about it thatmuch, I guess.
Yeah.
And, and in terms, can you speaka little bit more to the mindset
though too?
Like what, what might helppeople shift their mindset of
thinking that, Hey, I've gottahave all this done before, like
I've gotta have all my ducks sorow.
I think it's that notion ofbeing responsible.
I think it was David Nagle whenwe were coaching with David
Nagle a while ago, where he'slike, Hey, people get stuck
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because they think that theresponsible, because of
responsibility or what theythink is responsible thing to
do, or reasonable mm-hmm.
Thing to do.
I think that's what it is.
They're reasonable.
Uh, thing to do, and most peoplewho are reasonable never get
what they want in life.
So, yeah, I think that's what itis.
Like what's, what's reasonable,what's responsible, and then
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their version of responsible isjust what they've been told,
what responsible is.
But when you take all theprogramming out of it and you
take all the emotion out of itand you just run the numbers,
you might realize that the mostresponsible thing to do would be
to just leave and then you canmore easily handle your
responsibilities.
Exactly.
Because, because you're nolonger as stressed, you're not
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in hustle culture, your moneygoes further, so your money goes
way further.
So you've got more money eitherto invest or to pay off debts or
both.
In fact, we're.
We're on track now to startdoing a lot of both.
Yeah.
We just finished our allocationplan for money.
Uh, just yesterday.
We, we took all day and westarted looking at different
investment opportunities, uh, inMexico and where we can be
putting our money, whether it's,uh, whether it's like CDs here
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that pay a lot more than in theus Uh, there's a lot of like
different investment accountsand.
And things like that.
The banks here on average,depending on the, the bank or
FinTech that you best with.
Yeah.
That was shocking to me.
Yeah, they pay out a lot interms of interest.
Yeah, that was really shockingto me in a lot of ways.
Um, I think that's one of thethings that's shifted and
changed.
'cause the first time you askedme this about a year ago, I
think I was still in the woo ofit all and we'd been traveling
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so much and I was dealing withmy immigration.
Yep.
So the second year.
I was able to like, makefriends, build a community,
learn more about the systemshere, uh, and how they work.
And that was one of the onesthat was utterly shocking to me
was how much higher interestrates they pay out here, uh, on
savings accounts and CDs, uh,and things like that.
And Mexico's not the only placewhere you can get much higher
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places.
There's other countries, uh, inthe world, but that's definitely
been something that's reallyinteresting is learning about
banking systems in differentcountries.
But I digress.
That's a conversation foranother time.
Yep.
So what was it that you fell inlove with?
Because we, we did actuallyexplore, I mean, you wanna talk
a little bit about how we wentto different towns also on the
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Pacific coast, because youthought, you know what, I'm from
Miami.
I don't, I don't wanna liveanywhere, but not by the ocean.
Yeah.
Um, so what was it like checkingout some of the maybe more
touristy places like Vallartaand Ulta and other areas on the,
on the coast?
Not for me.
Yeah.
Just not for me.
Um, I, and why'd you decide onGuadalajara?
Like what, what was the beachtown scene like here, and why'd
you decide on.
On moving to Guadalajara out ofall places, the beach scene in
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Mexico is kind of frenetic, isthe best way that I can explain
it in terms of energy.
It's also completely full oflike gringos and foreigners.
Mm-hmm.
And you know, I have the fortunethat.
My family's Cuban, so I've beenspeaking Spanish my entire life.
So I basically went to you and Iwas like, if I'm gonna be in
Mexico, I'm gonna be in Mexico.
Yep.
You know, even now when we movedout by the lake, we're like by a
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side of the lake where there'sway less foreigners, you know,
um, more like VAEs and, andstuff like that.
So yeah, our neighbors are cows,our neighbors are horses and
cows and cowboys and it's great.
And, um, and a lot of people whowork in agriculture and it's
awesome.
Because we get fresh food fromthe farms all the time.
Um, so I think for me, like Ihad the, I guess luxury is what,
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I don't know if it's a luxury,but like I spoke Spanish
already, so I was like, we couldliterally go wherever in Mexico
and it's, I'm gonna be fine.
Yep.
Kind of a thing.
So, but I've been speakingSpanish or anywhere in Latin
America or anywhere in LatinAmerica.
I'm gonna be fine.
But again, I've been speakingSpanish my entire life.
So that's, and I, I learned inColumbia because it was really
hard to pick up thecolumbiana's.
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Without a good knowledge ofSpanish, it was kind of awkward
with Google Translate, you'rehaving an issue with the psa.
I was, I was having an issuewith the pisa.
They didn't speak any English,not the ones I wanted anyway,
so, uh, I had to, I had to learnmy Espanol.
So I, I learned in about a yearin Columbia managing.
Um, but yeah, we speak Spanish,so like a city that is more,
more of a local vibe just made alot more sense.
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And then we got, you know, wekind of got tired of the city,
um, and moved on and now we'relike, what other country are we
gonna spend six months in?
Exactly.
So.
So obviously, okay, you're like,I wanna live in a more Mexican
sort of city or neighborhood orwhatever.
Um, why Guadalajaraspecifically?
Like what were some of thethings you really like about
Guadalajara, um, that kind ofinfluenced your decision to, to
stay there out of all the morelocal places like Mexico City
(12:45):
that you maybe could have beenin, or I could find anything I
need in Guadalajara without theutter chaos of Mexico City.
Just flying through Mexico Cityis complete utter chaos.
Um, and also like the areas, Imean, granted we speak Spanish,
we probably wouldn't have beenin these areas'cause we could
find less expensive places thataren't gringo price.
Like you have the issues goingon in like Polanco and all those
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places.
Uh, what is it?
Polanco and Polanco esa.
All the issues.
It's a lot of the riots were tooanti, anti-American rights.
Granted, because we speakSpanish and we're smart with
money, we probably wouldn't havebeen living in those places
anyway.
Right, right.
Um, we would've found betterdeals elsewhere and gotten more
bank for our buck.
But the, yeah, it was, MexicoCity is just very chaotic.
(13:30):
Even just flying through MexicoCity is chaos.
So I was like, yeah.
And I think I was at a stagewhere like I was ready for my
nervous system to start settlingdown a little bit more.
And Mexico City just wasn'tgonna cut it.
For that, if I'm being honest.
Um, now Guadalajara is not ascrazy as Mexico City, but it was
still a big city.
I could get anything I needed.
I mean, we're driving through itright now to run some errands.
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I'm like, yep, you couldliterally find anything you
need.
It's a giant metropolitaninternational city.
Yep.
You know, so for a while, I, I,I liked the vibe for a while.
You know, I wanted to try it andI wasn't ready for the country
yet.
I didn't like the beach townsand I was not ready for the
Pueblos yet.
That's basically what it was.
And I hadn't traveled.
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Uh, so obviously since settlingmore in Guadalajara, we've
traveled to a lot of places, uh,in Mexico and also the
Caribbean.
And now we'll start expandingoutside of that.
So now I have more, um, datamm-hmm.
To work with.
In terms of, you know, where arewe going next and where we are
now and all that.
But Guadalajara was a goodtransition city for me.
(14:34):
Cool.
And so, uh, what, what else doyou wanna say about just kind of
your adventure and, and how, howyou actually decided to stick
around in Mexico?
Like what was it about, uh.
Living here.
Let's say those, those first fewmonths where you're like, okay,
you know what?
I think I might really wannamake this my home for a little
while as it compares to, let'ssay, Miami.
Where you from?
Yeah.
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Well, it's like I said, I alwayswanted to live in other
countries.
Mexico's an easy place to start.
I already spoke Spanish.
I'd been here.
I un I am Latina, so Iunderstand Latin culture.
Um, Mexico's pretty stable interms of Latin American country,
so I was like, okay, I can dothat.
Uh, doesn't seem like a hugeissue.
Um, so it's a good startingplace and there's so much to see
(15:15):
and discover in Mexico.
I mean, it's crazy.
You'd have to be here years tosee everything there used to see
in Mexico.
Um, and, you know, Mexico's apretty magical country, so I was
like, good place to start.
Um, I guess what decided interms of staying those first six
weeks?
I mean, I think it's what mostpeople say.
I was like, wait a minute, Icould get better quality
healthcare here at a fraction ofthe price.
(15:36):
Uh, the food quality is so muchbetter.
Uh, hustle culture is not reallya thing in Mexico.
Granted, you have like theMexican version of hustle
culture in the cities, like inGuadalajara.
I'm seeing it like as we'redriving, but it's not like the
US version of, of hustle cultureat all.
It's just different.
Um.
I mean, it just kind of seemedlike a no brainer if I'm being
(15:59):
honest.
And then, you know, because I'dbeen already, because I was
interested in this sort oflifestyle already, the
international lifestyle, I'dalready been paying attention
to, like how the world waschanging.
Mexico was emerging, it wasmoving in the right direction,
uh, as well as some othercountries that were interested
in.
Hopefully it stays that way,knock on wood.
Um, for, I would hope so forMexico, that it stays that way.
(16:22):
That would be awesome.
For Mexico and the Mexicanpeople.
Um, so I'd already been seeinglike quality of life and things
just continuing to decline inplaces like the United States
and Canada and then starting toimprove in things like Mexico.
I was already aware of thatbecause I'd been researching
this stuff for a while, um,before I even met you.
Like, I think I startedresearching this stuff in 2019.
(16:44):
Mm-hmm.
Was when I started getting intoit, and then we didn't meet
until 2022.
Yep.
You know, so I think that, so itwas already kind of a long time,
long time dream of yours anyway.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Uh, Guadalajara, like I said,not remotely on my radar though.
That was a surprise.
Tola, I just happened to be herealready and you're like, all
right.
Yeah.
To not remotely on my radar.
(17:04):
Didn't even know it existeduntil I got here.
So that was the surprise.
Yep.
And now, so now we decided to,to go and live in a small town,
um, you know, relatively small,like near the lake chip area.
What was that transition foryou?
'cause I know that we were bothkind of getting sick of the, of
the city.
Mm-hmm.
So what was it for you where youwere like, oh, you know what,
(17:27):
maybe no more city for a while.
Like I wanna be out in nature.
You know what I think it mightbe, I was thinking about this
the other day.
I think once you start gettinginto the international
lifestyle,'cause I was thinkingabout this.
I'm like, wow, two years inMexico.
But it feels like lifetime.
And the reason it feels likelifetimes is because we've had
so many different experiencesjust in the last two years, not
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just in Mexico, but travelingthrough the Caribbean, traveling
in the US when I was back andforth, uh, in the beginning,
handling like immigration andall that stuff.
Um, we've had so many differentexperiences.
Uh, because when you startpartaking in that international
lifestyle, you are constantlybeing pushed outta your comfort
zone and you're constantlyexploring something new.
(18:09):
Mm-hmm.
Um, so that, I don't know, Idon't know if you're getting
dopamine hits or, I don't knowwhat it is, but that's why it
feels like, even though it'sbeen a short two years, it feels
like lifetimes.
Yeah.
Because we've had so manyexperiences, a lot of
stimulation, a lot thingshappening, a lot stimulation, a
lot of things happening.
That's, it's a lot of picklesand predicaments around us for
sure.
Pickles and predicaments.
Um.
So I was thinking about this,where it was kind of like when
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you start embarking on theinternational lifestyle, I think
what's happened to me is I'vegotten more comfortable with
adventure and I've gotten morecomfortable with, okay, let's go
try something new.
Yeah.
So I think that's what it is.
And also I, I think we, werealized, you know, I mean that
the city was sort of a, a nicelittle, uh, transition
(18:51):
transition.
But then we sort of realized,hey, we knew it wasn't a forever
thing.
Yeah.
'cause the city was a, a softerlanding for you.
And we know chappal is not aforever thing and we're starting
to realize that maybe we're notlike a forever stay in one place
kind of people.
Yeah.
I wanna talk a little bit about,um, yeah.
Just the transition.
'cause one of the things yousaid was that Guadalajara was
kind of easier for you totransition to from Miami.
Like if you would've, let's say,gone straight to a rural
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chapala, I would've lost behind.
Uh, it would've been just liketoo much.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
How, how was that for you and doyou think that for most people
as well, they would be betteroff most likely if they're gonna
move to another country to, tojust go to a, a city like
Guadalajara?
Uh, where there are a lot ofexpats?
I think it depends.
I think there's plenty of peoplewho live in cities in the US now
who are dying to get into thecountry.
(19:36):
I think it just depends on theperson and where they're at, and
we can help you figure that out.
So, entrepreneurexpat.com/consult/consult?
Yeah.
I think it depends on theperson.
There is no one size fits allformula for any of this.
So what's next?
It's basically your yearanniversary, your anniversary of
moving, uh, moving here toMexico.
What, what do you feel is likethe, the two to five year plan?
(19:59):
I.
Like where, where do you seeyourself in terms of
entrepreneur, expat in the nextfew years?
Entrepreneur, expat life.
Yeah.
Um, well obviously we started anew business, uh, in the last
year, so that was more of like asecond year thing, not a first
year thing.
Um, and now we're getting intoreal estate, helping people
relocate, globaldiversification.
(20:20):
And not just in Mexico, but webuilt partners in Costa Rica,
Panama.
I think when we startedentrepreneur, expat.
One of my dreams was just like,I wanna have friends all over
the world.
Yeah.
So I could go travel the world.
And now we do.
And now we do.
We have friends in Thailand and,uh, Vietnam.
And I was helping, I was helpingour neighbor Columbia with a, a
visa situation in France theother day with friend, a friend
(20:43):
that I have in France because ofthis work that we're doing.
Um, so I, I foresee a lot moretraveling.
You and I were just talkingabout, all right, maybe we're
looking at now, you know, sixmonths in Mexico and six months
in another country.
Are we looking at Buenos Aires?
Are we looking at.
Uh, Metagene.
Are we looking at somewhere inEurope?
Like, what are we, you know?
So now we're starting to, um,it's funny, I thought that like
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the pace was gonna slow down andit's actually kind of picking up
in a way, but it doesn't feellike it's picking up because now
I'm used to it because again,I'm used to that adventure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's what I foresee.
How about you?
What do you foresee?
Uh, yeah, I, I think, I thinksame sort of thing, not staying
in one place for too long.
Obviously this time we're more,more of, uh, you know, just
(21:28):
expats not quite as much nomads.
Um, because we were building anew business.
We were kind of settling down,figuring out what, what it, what
it was like in Mexico, buildingour network here, getting
married.
Yeah.
Um, ideally though, I meanobviously there's tax benefits
of this too, but just, just interms of lifestyle, maybe being
in one country for four or fivemonths.
Uh, and then going to anothercountry and kind of hopping back
(21:49):
and forth between maybe two orthree main places, and then
spending the rest of the timetraveling around and exploring,
because I love to explore.
I don't really see myself, atleast not for the next 20 years.
At least, um, just staying inone place completely still.
And plus it helps us, you know,we're gonna get great content
for the people, explorecountries, uh, the channel.
We grow as people.
We, we obviously grow.
We'cause that, that's one of thereasons that I like to do this
(22:11):
as well is, is to be able toreally understand people all
around the world.
Yes.
Because understanding differentcultures, different languages,
um, different cuisines,countries, what's going on in a,
in a given place,idiosyncrasies.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Like, it helps me understand.
Uh, really understand the world.
You points, perspectives.
Yeah.
When, when I understand people,I understand more of the world
and I understand more of thehuman condition.
(22:31):
Gu Ajara is a beautiful city.
It really is.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
All the trees, it's turninggreen.
Mm-hmm.
Because of the rainy season.
Um, yeah.
And then the other thing I wasthinking about is more global
diversification.
So this is what you and I weretalking about over the weekend.
It's like, okay, well now we'vegot, you know, bank accounts in
Mexico.
Like what's the next country?
What investments are we lookingat?
What countries are good for whatinvestment?
(22:52):
Uh, because we don't.
That, that, again, this isprobably a whole other video.
Maybe we'll record that on theway back from Gu Laja today,
which is, you know, theimportance of global
diversification, you know, withinvestments, with bank accounts,
uh, with residencies,citizenships, things like that.
I think I posted on Facebook theother day.
I don't want, just want afinancial portfolio, I want a
(23:13):
passport portfolio, becausethat's what freedom, that's what
financial safety and freedom is.
And as the world gets morechaotic is being able to have
mobility and sovereignty andaccess to your money.
And you have to diversify, but,you know, conversation for
another time, uh, on thischannel.
But I think that's so somethingthat I'm starting to foresee
(23:35):
happen, you know, as well.
And we're already starting thatprocess, you know, here in
Mexico.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Well, if you wanna learn moreabout how you can do the same
and move to Mexico.
Check out our Moving to Mexicoguide below this video, and if
you're at that point in yourjourney where maybe you, you've
been watching us for a fewmonths, or even since the
beginning for over a year, andyou're like, Hey, I want to work
(23:56):
with these guys.
I want to get absolutely toptier support moving to Mexico or
another country in LatinAmerica, and we're expanding to
more and more regions incountries every single day with
our partners.
Uh, go to entrepreneurexpat.com/consult and we'll pop
that link in the description aswell.
We can help you out.
If you're not subscribed, whatare you waiting for?
Subscribe.
Uh, we appreciate you and thanksfor being an amazing, uh, part
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of this community.
Bye.
We'll see you on the next one.
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