Borderless Podcast

In this episode I spoke to Brandon Pearce. He is a fellow traveler I met here in San Miguel de Allende. After launching a successful piano teaching software he turned his interest towards traveling and helping other families travel and live the life they truly wanted to.

This year he is organizing the Family Adventure Summit in San Miguel de Allende, which he describes as the following:

“The Family Adventure Summit is an opportunity for families to connect in person around the topics of long-term travel and location independence, remote income, education, community, life fulfillment, and more. We’ll discuss tips and tools, the ups, the downs, and everything in between.”

We speak a but a whole range of issues. I hope you get some great info and if me make down to the summit perhaps I’ll see you there.

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In this episode I spoke to Vincenzo Villamena, founder of Online Taxman. We speak about a variety of subjects relating to international tax and good places to live as an expat. After this podcast I decided to work with Vincenzo for a little while and took off to Medellín. I hope you enjoy it!

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Show notes:

• I’m in Medellín! (0:30)
• My Wife’s $2-Million Dollar IKEA Desk (2:14)
• Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (5:00)
• We he decided to move overseas (6:36)
• Life in Medellín (13:13)
• Tax filing with Cryptocurrencies (16:40)
• The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) (23:35)
• New strategies after the Trump tax plan (28:17)
• Renunciation trends (33:06)
• How to get started living internationally (35:00)
• Good ways to get remote income (39:40)
• Differences in life between New York and Medellín (42:20)
• Expatistan – Numbeo – Nomad List (46:23)

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In this episode I spoke to Bobby Casey of Global Wealth Protection. He has been an expat and international investor for decades and now concentrates on helping other with asset protection.

We talk about all kinds of things associated with making sense of the economy and the current political environment. Listen to hear how we are able to stay sane in the ever more politically obsessed culture of the US.

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Show notes:
4:30 The Trump administration's effect on the economy
8:20 How to make sense of the debt based economy
10:30 The infrastructure bill
13:11 The obsession with politics in the US
20:30 How Trump red-pilled America
27:30 The erosion of privacy
41:15 The trend for remote work
47:00 The economics of living abroad
54:40 Life in Latvia
59:00 Offshore banking report

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In this episode I spoke with Matthew Kind. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and host of The CannaInsider Podcast which was voted new and noteworthy by iTunes. He has been featured in Forbes, The Chicago Sun-Times and The Aspen Times.

When he is not traveling the world with his family, Matthew enjoys discovering and exploring the nascent field of CBD Oils that are non-psychoactive hemp and cannabis compounds that many people are turning to as an alternative to traditional medications.

In addition to the Cannabis industry, he's also involved in Amazon selling, Crypto currencies and world schooling his two children all while traveling the world.

He's been here in San Miguel for a while and so it was great to be able to do this podcast in person. I hope you enjoy it!

Show notes:

Borderless Podcast reviews, leave your own here and I'll read it on the podcast. (1:00)

Matthew's journey to becoming an entrepreneur (2:55)
World Schooling (5:00)
How he started in the Cannabis industry (7:11)
How he escaped the rat race (10:00)
How he was able to get his family on board with world schooling (13:15)
Some of his favorite places he's been to on his travels (17:30)
His impressions of San Miguel de Allende (20:40)
Some of the differences between living in and out of the US (23:30)
How to invest in the Cannabis Industry (29:00)
Will large companies take over the industry (36:30)
The medical aspects of Cannabis (38:30)
Cryptocurrency (40:30)
How to get started as an entrepreneur (52:30)

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In this episode I spoke to Borja Rodriguez, the founder of Vacation Marbella. After quitting his job in finance he decided to try his hand at the vacation rental business. He started by sub-leasing a few properties on Airbnb, Booking.com and VRBO and in less than three years later he has grown a full fledged business manage over 70 properties with 16 employees. To get a full idea of his operation you can watch the Marbella episode of Sense of Place where you can see his whole operation.

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Show Notes:
-  Sense of Place Episode 6 - Marbella - First Who, Then What (5:30)
- Borja’s background (8:36)
- His business strategy (9:40)
- How he built it into a stable, scalable business (11:40)
- His hiring practices (13:25)
- Is it hard to be an entrepreneur in Spain? (16:00)
- Options for financing a vacation rental business (19:20)
- Is the vacation rental market becoming too competitive? (28:40)
- How to drive traffic to your vacation rental website (34:20)
- Which websites are the best to use to get bookings (36:30)
- Which management softwares to use. (38:00)
- Meet the guest or self check in? (46:30)
- How becoming an entrepreneur has improved his life. (49:00)
- Some other good locations. (51:15)
- Recommendations to get started in Vacation Rentals. (52:30)
- Borja’s recommendations to aspiring entrepreneurs (54:00)

Links from the Podcast:
Matt Landau
Heather Bayer
David Angotti
Wheelhouse
Yourwelcome

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In this episode I spoke with Naresh Vissa about investments, read estate, location independence and internet marketing. We also talked about the Meet the Masters event and our take aways. There is a wealth of information in this one!

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In this podcast I spoke to Grace Taylor of Gracefully Expat. After cutting her teeth in the big accounting firms she recently went solo and now helps individuals with expat finance and tax strategy.

We discuss:

• Misconceptions about the foreign earned income exclusion.
• The Trump tax plan.
• At what point you need to contact a tax professional that specializes in working with Expats.
• The Tax Free Tour - (vpro backlight documentary - 2013)
• Her transition to being self-employed.
• Tips for using vacation rentals as a perpetual tourist.
• The world's most prolific Airbnb owner has 881 properties in London and earns £11.9m a year 
• How taxes work international vacation rental hosts.
• Court orders PayPal to give business account details to CRA
• The IRS Is Puzzled: Why Out Of 500,000 Coinbase Users, Only 900 Reported Gains Or Losses

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This episode's guest was Jordan Stanley Payne, founder of The Kingdom Real Estate. In only a few years he has acquired millions of dollars worth of rental properties through creative financing and teach others how to do the same.

We talk about how you can find and structure deals where you puts none of your own money down!

He also shares how he was able to build his own team and then branch out into making money online.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sitting in on the beach with your toes in the sand, sipping a Mai-Tai and coding the next ground breaking app. Does that sounds too good to be true? Well, that's because it usually is.

Search #digitalnomad on social media and you will see an onslaught of pictures with people in all kinds of strange positions with their laptops in locations that would be pretty inappropriate to concentrate on any kind of serious task.

That does not mean that it is all smoke an mirrors however. There was a very interesting Harvard Study done about the reality of the self-proclaimed digital nomads, the results of which were written about in an article entitled Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The Future Of Work Or Too Good To Be True? I think it's one of the best articles written on the topic. It turns out there are very few people who have staying power as a digital nomad.

So is being a digital nomad a viable long term path or a risky career gamble?

To answer that question Brian David Crane gave a talk entitled The Hidden Downsides of Being A Digital Nomad in which went over many of the unrealistic aspects of the digital nomad lifestyle. I thought it was well thought out and he made some interesting points to consider.

Three things that he says are essential in order to have staying power as a digital nomad are:

1. A plan
2. An in-demand skill
3. Self-discipline

Some of the drawbacks that he points out are:

• Undeveloped "Plate Discipline" which is knowing what to spend your time on once you are free from an office.
• Lack of mentorship.
• Your appearance can cause envy or perceptions that could jeopardize your career.
• Lack of sustainable momentum.
• Road fatigue.
• Lack of stability.
• An unhealthy mix of friendship and business.

However, that does not mean that working abroad is a bad option. He recommends to stop thinking of yourself as a nomad and more of an expat. Expats stay longer than a few months in at least one base where they have some kind of roots established.

After listening to this talk I realized that I am an expat and not a digital nomad, even though I have described myself as such in the past. This is a good realization because these bases could also be described as flags for which to apply PT Theory.

Much of what he recommends is similar to what I recommended in my recent video How to make money in Latin America.

At the end of the day the distinction may seem like we are splitting hairs but I think there are some important things to consider.

Please take a listen to my conversation with Brian David Crane on this topic, especially if you are thinking about taking the digital nomad plunge.

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Ka Sundance is a father of six who travels the world with his family while working on projects he loves. Sound too good to be true? In our chat he talks about how he is able to do this and why he thinks it is every parents responsibility to live their life to the fullest.

During the interview we discuss how he goes about educating his children while traveling, the problems with the normal schooling and career path, safety concerns while abroad and the techniques he teaches people for them to be able to make money doing something they love.

I think after listening to the interview you will agree that he is quite an inspiring guy. Check out all he has to offer at The Sundance Family website.

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