2021-04-05_Major_Travel_in_2021
00:00:00.000 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,
00:00:03.220 | skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while
00:00:07.360 | building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.
00:00:10.640 | My name is Joshua Sheets.
00:00:11.640 | Today on the show, I want to share with you some of our exciting plans for this year,
00:00:15.800 | my family's plans for these coming at least six months, although time will tell.
00:00:23.120 | To cut straight to it, we're going traveling again.
00:00:26.040 | At the moment as I speak to you, my house is full of boxes, stuff is flowing out the
00:00:30.600 | doors.
00:00:31.600 | We are in the process of minimizing and downsizing once again.
00:00:35.240 | We've been living in a rented house for quite a while now, for the last couple of years,
00:00:40.160 | and we are getting rid of all of our stuff yet again, keeping just a few things, the
00:00:44.200 | important things in life, you know, books and more books and more books, keeping books,
00:00:48.460 | but otherwise getting rid of all of our personal possessions and downsizing for our family
00:00:52.960 | of six down into just a handful of suitcases again so that we can hit the road.
00:00:58.120 | And in this next month, in May, at the beginning of May, we will be traveling full time.
00:01:04.000 | We're, again, getting rid of our house, hopping on an airplane.
00:01:07.240 | We're going to begin in the Americas.
00:01:09.880 | In May, we will be in Mexico.
00:01:12.360 | In April, we will be in Costa Rica.
00:01:15.480 | In June, we will be in the United States of America.
00:01:18.740 | And in July, we'll see.
00:01:20.760 | We are planning to head to Europe, but of course, there's still some uncertainty there
00:01:24.520 | given all of the European travel restrictions.
00:01:27.840 | But this summer, and so I can't tell you exactly the countries, but this summer, we intend
00:01:32.280 | to spend some time in Europe, spend some time in Portugal, hopefully in France, in Spain,
00:01:39.840 | going to go check out Malta, going to go to some in Eastern Europe, planning to go to
00:01:45.160 | Serbia, then some of the Balkan countries, possibly along the coast, Croatia, Montenegro.
00:01:54.600 | We may go from there to Georgia and Armenia.
00:01:58.720 | I'm interested in what's happening in Georgia and Armenia, possibly Azerbaijan.
00:02:05.120 | From there, we may go on and spend more time in Europe, or we might head to Asia via India.
00:02:10.960 | I'd like to go to India and spend some time looking around for opportunities in India.
00:02:16.720 | This fall, I would like to be in Asia.
00:02:19.720 | So specifically, we'll see.
00:02:22.440 | But Hong Kong, Singapore, looking for investment opportunities, finance opportunities, may
00:02:28.160 | go to Malaysia, to Cambodia, to Vietnam.
00:02:32.120 | And then at this point in time, we'll see.
00:02:33.600 | And of course, all this is subject to a number of things.
00:02:35.720 | We may pop down to Indonesia, pop into Australia, maybe go to New Zealand, or we might not.
00:02:41.640 | We'll see.
00:02:42.640 | So the reason I'm being a little bit cagey is simply that I don't even have tickets yet,
00:02:46.640 | and the world situation is still somewhat unknown.
00:02:49.560 | We're dealing with the kind of the back end of a global pandemic.
00:02:54.160 | We're dealing with some tight lockdowns and travel restrictions in some of those places,
00:02:57.880 | and so that can make immigration, traveling places, tourist difficult.
00:03:02.200 | And then of course, also, I need to be cautious and careful about what my family can handle.
00:03:08.200 | My wife and I are not strangers to travel, even to extended travel.
00:03:12.200 | In 2018, we did this already.
00:03:14.320 | We got rid of all of our stuff and hopped in an RV and spent six months traveling around
00:03:19.320 | the United States.
00:03:20.840 | And on that trip, we also didn't have a specific timeline.
00:03:23.720 | We didn't know if we're going to go for three months.
00:03:25.120 | We didn't know if we're going to go for a year.
00:03:26.600 | But we wound up conceiving a baby, and so we needed to be stationary for a time when
00:03:31.080 | the baby was going to come along.
00:03:32.200 | That was what ended our trip then, and we decided to leave the United States too.
00:03:36.840 | So things can happen.
00:03:39.200 | My biggest concern in terms of timeline is just how are my children going to respond.
00:03:44.040 | I think that they'll do okay.
00:03:45.760 | We have some experience traveling, and so I think they'll do okay.
00:03:50.000 | But it might be that they feel displaced.
00:03:53.640 | They may not feel secure if we're moving around all the time.
00:03:56.240 | And if as a father, I see that, then I want to be free to change and adjust because I
00:04:01.120 | do have young children, and I need to make sure that they're healthy and doing really
00:04:05.080 | well.
00:04:06.080 | And so we'll see, but that's our tentative plan.
00:04:08.200 | And so how does that involve you?
00:04:09.600 | Well, first of all, I'd like to share a couple of lessons with you and then share how you
00:04:13.440 | can get connected and keep pace with us on these journeys.
00:04:18.560 | First lesson I'd like to share with you is simply this.
00:04:21.720 | It's only hard until you've done it.
00:04:24.520 | Or related to that, it's only scary until you've done it.
00:04:29.060 | We are in the midst of doing something that is for most normal, sane people, scary and
00:04:35.200 | difficult.
00:04:37.040 | Getting rid of all of your stuff, getting rid of your house, and packing your young,
00:04:41.880 | large family into suitcases is for any normal, sane person, scary and difficult.
00:04:51.100 | But while it's not easy, and it's not without some cautiousness on my part, I don't think
00:04:58.440 | of it now as scary and as difficult.
00:05:01.360 | I want to tell you why that is, and it's simply this.
00:05:04.200 | It's because I've done it.
00:05:05.200 | I did it.
00:05:06.200 | I did it in 2018.
00:05:08.600 | And I've done it in testing different ways, different times along the way.
00:05:12.800 | I've tested so much of this that for me, what we're doing, which is certainly the stuff
00:05:17.000 | of dreams for many people, doesn't feel all that scary and all that difficult, because
00:05:22.360 | I've tested it in micro doses.
00:05:25.160 | And I believe that this is a strategy that you can implement into your life if there
00:05:27.760 | are plans and things that you want to do, that you would like to do, to make things
00:05:33.920 | less scary and difficult.
00:05:35.780 | The first is to be willing to dream big dreams, and be clear on what you want to do and how
00:05:40.000 | you want to live.
00:05:41.840 | But if you have a dream and you have a goal, recognize that it's going to be scary and
00:05:46.320 | difficult until you do it.
00:05:49.240 | And there's no easy way around it.
00:05:50.720 | You have to do it.
00:05:52.200 | But as you do it, it will become easier.
00:05:55.620 | So let's start with a little bit of backstory.
00:05:57.160 | First of all, over the years, my wife and I have traveled in a number of different ways,
00:06:02.520 | and we've proven to ourselves that we can be happy, that we can have a good relationship,
00:06:07.040 | that we're both pretty low maintenance, and that we can do it in all kinds of different
00:06:10.120 | ways.
00:06:11.120 | Over the years, we've slept in cars, we've slept in tents, we've had nice hotel rooms,
00:06:15.200 | we've rented luxury villas, we've had big, fancy, expensive experiences, and we've had
00:06:22.320 | poor person experiences.
00:06:23.960 | We've enjoyed all of it.
00:06:25.680 | As children have come along, we committed that we were going to keep on going.
00:06:29.520 | And it's not easy.
00:06:30.520 | I don't think any parent would say that it's easy to travel with children.
00:06:34.440 | You go camping with your kids, and your kids get filthy, and they get the stuff filthy,
00:06:38.200 | but you learn lessons.
00:06:39.440 | Our lesson is we take a Rubbermaid tub and dunk the kids in the tub and use it as a bathtub.
00:06:42.800 | It's easier than going to the bathhouse.
00:06:43.800 | And you figure things out as time goes on.
00:06:46.760 | And then you just keep on going.
00:06:48.480 | When we had two young children, we bought our first motor home, and we traveled in that,
00:06:53.000 | really enjoyed that.
00:06:54.000 | Nothing crazy, just a week and a half.
00:06:55.720 | I think our longest trip in that was two and a half weeks, maybe, something like that.
00:06:59.440 | But in that two and a half weeks, we did all kinds of different things, and we learned
00:07:02.360 | that, yeah, you know what?
00:07:03.640 | We could have a great time with a couple of children and a couple of dogs in this tiny
00:07:06.540 | little space.
00:07:07.540 | And then we outgrew that, and we sold that thing, and we kept on going, and we've tried
00:07:11.320 | different things.
00:07:12.680 | When we went off in our RV trip, we'd already downsized, right?
00:07:15.840 | We'd already sold our house.
00:07:17.000 | We'd already moved to a smaller apartment, and we enjoyed that.
00:07:19.400 | But we were done with the apartment, ready to move anyway, and so we decided to go ahead
00:07:22.560 | and travel in the RV.
00:07:24.300 | And traveling in the RV taught us a lot of things about what was easy and what was not
00:07:27.760 | easy, what we liked and what we didn't like.
00:07:29.840 | There were some things that were wonderful about it, and there were some things that
00:07:32.520 | weren't.
00:07:33.560 | And so as this information comes, you start to test your boundaries, and you start to
00:07:36.400 | see what you can do.
00:07:37.980 | And you build your skills and your capabilities by trying things and by doing things.
00:07:41.960 | Well, fast forward.
00:07:43.560 | After you've lived in an RV for a time, it's a lot less scary to think of moving into suitcases
00:07:47.680 | and living in an Airbnb than it is if you have a big house and you're accustomed to
00:07:51.280 | having the big house.
00:07:52.280 | So we sold the RV, moved abroad.
00:07:55.000 | When we moved abroad, we didn't really have a really great plan.
00:07:58.280 | I had a credit card and a passport, and that was about it.
00:08:01.240 | So we just flew outside of the United States.
00:08:03.600 | I rented a house sight unseen on Airbnb.
00:08:06.400 | I rented a car sight unseen on some random rental car website.
00:08:10.020 | And we showed up, and guess what?
00:08:13.200 | Everything was okay.
00:08:14.600 | It worked.
00:08:15.600 | We went and bought some stuff for the kitchen and figured out how to do things in a new
00:08:19.440 | place, but it pretty much worked.
00:08:21.280 | And then along the way, we changed a few different things and moved around a couple times and
00:08:24.800 | been here, been there, et cetera.
00:08:26.360 | But along the way, we do more and more of it.
00:08:28.080 | So today, it was funny that when I was talking to my wife about going traveling in the RV,
00:08:32.920 | it took quite a lot of convincing, a lot of time, because she thought it was kind of crazy.
00:08:36.160 | Only crazy people did that.
00:08:37.200 | And so we made good progress there.
00:08:38.800 | But then remarkably, as we've started talking about this last time, it's been a fairly easy
00:08:44.120 | thing.
00:08:45.120 | And so having kind of picked up your roots and then having put down your roots in another
00:08:49.300 | place has showed us that it's not that difficult.
00:08:54.320 | But what I would say is it's not that difficult for us at this point in time.
00:08:58.760 | It's not to say there won't be hard times, right?
00:09:00.560 | There's going to be some cranky kids and some fussy flights, I'm sure, and some tiredness
00:09:06.800 | and some wastes of money and some not fun days.
00:09:11.840 | That's normal life.
00:09:13.720 | What I mean is that psychologically, it doesn't feel hard or scary or difficult to me.
00:09:20.280 | And so we're heading into an open-ended trip with one-way tickets and no specific return
00:09:28.480 | plan, and I'm going into it filled with confidence, knowing that I can do it.
00:09:35.800 | But it's because I've done it.
00:09:37.080 | You say, "Josh, but that's a cop-out.
00:09:39.240 | What if I haven't done it?"
00:09:40.240 | Well, my answer is you're going to have to do it.
00:09:42.240 | And this is the same in anything, right?
00:09:44.640 | Your first time buying a house, when you're going into it, it feels so scary.
00:09:51.120 | But then when you go into it, "Well, I could do that again."
00:09:53.720 | You sell your house and hopefully make a little bit of money and, "Okay, that was good.
00:09:57.240 | I could do that again.
00:09:58.240 | I could do that again."
00:10:00.120 | It's funny.
00:10:02.440 | Imagine just something as simple as proposing.
00:10:04.920 | When I was a kid, I always imagined how proposing to a girlfriend and asking her to be your
00:10:09.680 | fiance would be the hardest thing in the world.
00:10:12.400 | And then you kind of come to that phase of life, and it's not actually that hard.
00:10:15.640 | But then once you've done it, once you've gotten married, I often think, "If my wife
00:10:19.840 | died, it wouldn't be that hard to do again.
00:10:21.920 | I'm sure I could do that again."
00:10:22.920 | You see people repeat this kind of thing all over the world.
00:10:26.240 | And so it's only hard and scary until you've done it.
00:10:30.240 | But once you've done it, it opens up the thrill of the thing to you, and you can take advantage
00:10:36.120 | of those times in life.
00:10:38.600 | I've got some specific plans for our traveling.
00:10:43.040 | A lot of them involve you.
00:10:45.920 | Not necessarily meetups.
00:10:46.920 | I don't know how many audience members I have in Serbia.
00:10:51.760 | I'm sure a couple.
00:10:53.400 | We'll do a meetup in Belgrade if I can get there.
00:10:56.240 | But what I do think a lot about is your opportunities.
00:11:02.560 | Where can I send you for opportunities?
00:11:05.680 | And very much what I'm interested in is partly – I'm a big offshore and international
00:11:11.520 | diversification advocate these days because as a performer – I guess technically still
00:11:16.640 | a – I could still call myself a professional financial planner.
00:11:20.560 | As a professional financial planner, it just solves so many problems for people.
00:11:25.480 | It's simple things, whether it's offshore relocation, whether it's just simply banking
00:11:31.000 | offshore, if it's investing offshore.
00:11:33.120 | It solves so many problems so elegantly.
00:11:36.360 | I'm amazed how little most professional financial advisors and most professional counselors,
00:11:44.480 | countenance and such, actually know about offshoring.
00:11:51.080 | Last couple of months, I'm part of a Facebook group that has a bunch of financial planners.
00:11:55.520 | There was a financial planner that came in and said, "I've got this client – forget
00:12:00.920 | – mid-20s, making a couple million dollars a year with an online business.
00:12:04.880 | I think it was Amazon FBA.
00:12:07.560 | Here's his things.
00:12:08.560 | Here's his setup, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:12:10.320 | Does anybody have any great ideas about how I can help him save money because his tax
00:12:12.960 | bills are too big?"
00:12:14.320 | I'm reading all these dozens of responses and it's just all the same old effective
00:12:18.480 | stuff for US residents and whatnot, but kind of same old, same old.
00:12:22.400 | I kind of piped up and I said, "Well, you ought to at least – I think you owe him
00:12:25.960 | a professional obligation to let him know that he could run that business pretty much
00:12:30.680 | 100% tax-free if he just left the United States and put into place some offshore stuff."
00:12:38.920 | Over the years, I've seen the magic of it and I've done the magic of it and I've
00:12:43.760 | looked for effective solutions and I found a lot of the international solutions effective.
00:12:48.440 | There are so many more places in the world today where you can make money.
00:12:50.800 | Right now, my biggest thrust personally and professionally is in the subject of investments.
00:12:55.200 | I am deeply frustrated with the US investment conversation because where we basically devolved
00:13:03.040 | to as a society is the fact that you and I who have worked hard and who have saved our
00:13:08.280 | money are basically – if we're to believe popular financial advice, we're supposed
00:13:12.760 | to tuck it into a computer-run index fund and we're supposed to sit back and be happy
00:13:17.920 | with 6%.
00:13:19.400 | Meanwhile, we get 0.3% on our savings accounts.
00:13:25.120 | I find that utterly unacceptable and I've tried to handle it over the years by focusing
00:13:29.360 | on the value of investing in your own business where you can make thousands of percents of
00:13:34.120 | rate of return if you have the right business opportunity.
00:13:37.440 | But at the end of the day, even if you are in business, you still need a place to park
00:13:40.640 | your money and you still need some better asset management strategies than just sticking
00:13:44.760 | your money in an index fund and getting 6%.
00:13:47.760 | And of course, who knows about the 6%?
00:13:49.800 | Maybe it'd be higher, right?
00:13:50.800 | Long-term history of the US stock market is of course higher than 6%.
00:13:54.280 | But then of course, there are legions of sophisticated, responsible people telling us we should buckle
00:14:02.660 | in our pants and settle for low growth prospects in the future.
00:14:06.440 | Well, I don't buy it.
00:14:07.800 | I think that's a uniquely Western constraint and there's no reason not to go and search
00:14:12.860 | for higher return.
00:14:14.400 | Now when I sit and look at my investing lifetime, I mean let's just do some math, right?
00:14:18.600 | Let's just pretend you're 30 years old, right?
00:14:23.160 | You've got $200,000 of present value in your portfolio.
00:14:29.560 | You're investing $20,000 per year in between 401ks, etc.
00:14:35.680 | And you've got a 35-year investment time horizon and let's put it in 6%.
00:14:40.040 | Well, at 6%, you can get rich, right?
00:14:42.760 | You can have $3.9 million in 35 years.
00:14:46.840 | But at 12%, you can get really rich, right?
00:14:50.400 | You can have $20 million, $20.2 million at 12%.
00:14:55.120 | Well, I'm not interested in sitting around and taking 6% if I can have 12%.
00:14:59.280 | I'm willing to get on a few airplanes.
00:15:00.800 | I'm willing to go and look for some more interesting markets and I'm willing to learn a few languages
00:15:04.160 | and I'm willing to learn some new skills in order to get me to the $20 million instead
00:15:09.040 | of the – and you hopefully – to the $20 million instead of the 3.whatever million
00:15:14.640 | dollars.
00:15:15.640 | So those are some of my purposes professionally is that I'm going to be doing a lot of work
00:15:19.960 | along the way.
00:15:20.960 | I'll of course be podcasting, creating videos, creating content, creating courses, talking
00:15:25.760 | to you, teaching you, answering your questions, sharing what I'm learning along the way.
00:15:30.360 | But I'm looking for opportunities because the world is full of opportunities for those
00:15:33.880 | who go looking for them.
00:15:35.800 | You can sit back and just wait and be shocked when only a couple of opportunities come along
00:15:40.640 | or you can go look for them and be amazed at the sheer volume of opportunity that the
00:15:45.080 | world offers for you.
00:15:46.240 | Now there's no question though that part of what we're doing is just fun, right?
00:15:51.520 | There's no question.
00:15:52.520 | I'm looking forward to it.
00:15:53.520 | I'm looking forward to traveling the world with my children, showing them the world,
00:15:57.280 | right?
00:15:58.280 | I really appreciate the concept of world schooling.
00:16:01.400 | For me, my experience traveling the world has opened my eyes to many things.
00:16:06.200 | I really appreciate the concept of world schooling.
00:16:09.600 | My wife and I, we do home education with our children but we don't fit into any neat bucket.
00:16:14.440 | I just draw inspiration from different philosophies.
00:16:18.600 | We don't have one easily definable philosophy that controls our approach.
00:16:23.080 | But I really believe that there is value in exposing your children to the way it's done
00:16:26.760 | in different places and to the opportunities that exist all around the globe.
00:16:30.960 | And so that's important to me.
00:16:33.040 | And what is also very important to me is take advantage of the freedom that you have in
00:16:37.560 | life.
00:16:38.560 | This is a big deal for me.
00:16:39.560 | From my story, I've wanted to be a guy who could make his living on a laptop since I
00:16:45.000 | was 15 years old.
00:16:46.920 | I'm not kidding.
00:16:47.920 | I was a 15-year-old who was buying e-books about how to make money online.
00:16:51.760 | That was important to me.
00:16:52.760 | Now it took me a lot longer than I ever thought it was going to be to figure it out.
00:16:57.280 | Today I could figure it out a lot faster.
00:17:00.120 | But that said, I figured it out.
00:17:01.920 | But along the way, I've given up a lot of opportunities to keep certain kinds of freedom.
00:17:07.640 | So there are different kinds of freedom.
00:17:09.000 | There is financial freedom, how much money you have, and that is a very important freedom.
00:17:13.920 | Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
00:17:15.280 | Making more money will gain you a higher level of personal freedom.
00:17:19.520 | You'll have more choices.
00:17:21.320 | However, I have sometimes made choices in life where I give up financial opportunity
00:17:28.560 | to keep time freedom and geographic freedom.
00:17:33.080 | And so I would rather earn less money but have full control of my daily and weekly schedule
00:17:39.760 | and of my physical location than earn more money and be locked into a specific location
00:17:45.360 | on a specific schedule.
00:17:46.880 | That's the choice that I have made.
00:17:48.960 | And yet when you do that, I think you really got to take advantage of it, right?
00:17:53.320 | And that's what's a little bit funny.
00:17:54.680 | Over the last couple of years, I've been fairly stationary and I work on a fairly normal
00:17:59.440 | schedule.
00:18:00.440 | I go to my office 9 to 5, Monday to Friday.
00:18:03.720 | And I've often wondered, "Well, Joshua, when are you going to take advantage of this freedom
00:18:06.160 | that you have?"
00:18:07.160 | Well, it's time to take advantage of this freedom that you have.
00:18:08.840 | And I would encourage you, when life gives you opportunities, take advantage of them
00:18:13.080 | because you can't always connect the time and the money.
00:18:16.760 | But if you can connect the time and the money, just recognize there are some things you can
00:18:20.600 | do in life that you can't do at a different time in life.
00:18:25.960 | There are certain times at which you can spend time with your children and times you can't.
00:18:30.600 | There are certain times when you can take a break from your career and certain times
00:18:33.720 | you can't.
00:18:34.720 | And so you want to really focus in and do the things that are most appropriate at certain
00:18:39.200 | times in your life.
00:18:40.760 | How can you apply this?
00:18:41.760 | Well, if you have a job, I encourage you, be prepared for when that job ends.
00:18:46.320 | Take a little mini retirement, a few months off, maybe a year off.
00:18:50.380 | Take a little retreat, a little sabbatical.
00:18:54.120 | That means save money so that when you get laid off, you have money in the bank and you
00:18:57.120 | can take a little sabbatical and go and do whatever it is that you've been wanting to
00:19:00.200 | do.
00:19:01.200 | Pay attention to those inflection points in your children's ages.
00:19:04.480 | Maybe they're finishing up at their elementary school and they're enrolled in elementary
00:19:08.080 | school but it only goes through sixth grade and they're going to have to change schools
00:19:10.680 | anyway.
00:19:11.680 | Well, why not pull them out for a year and go spend a year bouncing around Europe showing
00:19:15.120 | them the history of Western society instead of – and then go ahead and enroll them in
00:19:22.840 | the school next year.
00:19:24.720 | Things like that.
00:19:25.720 | Look for those opportunities in your life.
00:19:27.060 | And so at the moment, we've got a good opportunity where it kind of fits in our life and timing
00:19:32.400 | where we're going to go and travel and I think it makes a lot of sense.
00:19:34.680 | Then remember this, that if you're looking for a way to travel and if you're interested
00:19:39.960 | in long-term travel, remember that if the costs of travel are added to your current
00:19:45.840 | cost of life, then those costs can be pretty substantial.
00:19:49.640 | But if you can just simply replace the current cost of life with the cost of travel, then
00:19:54.320 | they're often pretty moderate.
00:19:56.060 | So if you look at your home and you probably won't want to do like us where you give up
00:19:59.760 | your home, but if you look at your home and you say, "We're going to keep this home,"
00:20:03.880 | look at renting it out.
00:20:05.280 | Put it on a vacation swap, home exchange away kind of home away or home exchange kind of
00:20:11.720 | site.
00:20:13.000 | Look for that.
00:20:14.000 | Or go ahead and sell your home.
00:20:15.200 | Maybe you have some profit in it.
00:20:16.280 | Take some profit, go travel for a time and come back and buy another house.
00:20:19.960 | Maybe you need to upgrade your house since that's a good time to sell a house and go
00:20:23.600 | on.
00:20:24.600 | Just look for these opportunities in life.
00:20:26.200 | Don't be scared to do something just because you haven't done it yet.
00:20:28.840 | Work your way towards it with little baby steps along the way.
00:20:31.640 | Now how does this involve you?
00:20:32.640 | So along the way I'm going to share with you a lot as much as I can.
00:20:37.520 | I'll do my best to bring you really useful content.
00:20:42.600 | When I go to Mexico, I am going to Mexico and I'm going to interview a Mexican immigration
00:20:47.600 | attorney for example.
00:20:48.600 | I'll bring you an interview with a Mexican immigration attorney.
00:20:51.240 | I did this with a Canadian immigration consultant and many of you went back and downloaded Brandon's
00:21:00.240 | book.
00:21:01.240 | You signed up and started working with him and are in the process of building your offshore
00:21:04.120 | plan by immigrating to Canada.
00:21:06.160 | I think Mexico is a really wonderful opportunity.
00:21:08.360 | In fact, basically any North American who talks to me, I basically always say you should
00:21:13.200 | go to Mexico first.
00:21:14.200 | That should be one of your first internationalization options.
00:21:16.640 | And so I'm going to go to San Miguel de Allende and interview a Mexican immigration attorney
00:21:25.600 | there and bring that interview to the show with you.
00:21:28.520 | So that will be coming to you in May.
00:21:31.600 | Also I'm going to be going to Andrew Henderson's Nomad Capitalist Live in Cancun in May.
00:21:37.440 | I would imagine some of you will be there.
00:21:39.440 | I really respect and admire what Andrew has built over the years.
00:21:43.040 | He was on Radical Personal Finance years ago.
00:21:46.520 | All the way back in episode 67 in September of 2014, Andrew Henderson was on the show.
00:21:53.200 | He'll be back on the show very, very soon.
00:21:55.760 | I have recorded the interview, just editing it and will be releasing that interview for
00:21:59.200 | you soon.
00:22:00.200 | And then I'll be going to Cancun to Nomad Capitalist Live May 12 through May 15.
00:22:04.760 | And then again following that, we'll be heading to Costa Rica.
00:22:08.080 | I am planning, stay tuned for the next couple of days for the information to be up, but
00:22:12.320 | I am going to be hosting an event.
00:22:14.540 | One of the big goals that I had for 2020 was to start hosting more live events.
00:22:20.520 | And I want to do these in the United States and elsewhere.
00:22:24.400 | But of course, the pandemic made that difficult.
00:22:26.280 | So I shelved that.
00:22:27.280 | But I will be hosting a live event in Costa Rica in May.
00:22:32.120 | So if you would like to brush off your passport, Costa Rica is totally open.
00:22:36.960 | No COVID test needed.
00:22:38.640 | Coming in, they just have a simple health form that you can complete.
00:22:42.320 | You will need to have health insurance, but that shouldn't be a problem.
00:22:44.760 | It's not expensive if you need to buy it.
00:22:46.640 | So this should be an easy country for you to get to.
00:22:48.720 | And then of course, you'll need to think about getting back into your other countries.
00:22:51.680 | If you're going to the United States, you'll need a COVID test to get back in the United
00:22:55.160 | States or elsewhere.
00:22:57.080 | Follow up with your own details there.
00:23:00.080 | And then, like I said, in June in the United States and then July in Europe, TBD as far
00:23:06.800 | as all of the destinations.
00:23:09.800 | In closing, I would love to invite you to come with me on the journey.
00:23:13.680 | I want to give you some ways to do that.
00:23:15.960 | So a couple of new things.
00:23:17.360 | Number one, I am launching a new text message opportunity to connect with me.
00:23:23.840 | I want to encourage you to send a text message.
00:23:26.880 | And perhaps you've been seeing this more and more people are doing texting, but I've set
00:23:31.680 | up a thing where you can text me directly and it comes right to my phone and I'll answer
00:23:35.200 | you and I'll respond.
00:23:36.280 | But I'm going to use text messaging as a way of announcing where I'm going.
00:23:40.000 | I'm going to be using it as a way of announcing where I am.
00:23:43.640 | And it just gives you a chance to ask any questions you want to have, et cetera, to
00:23:46.280 | reach me directly.
00:23:47.280 | If you'd like to text me, I'll give you the number.
00:23:50.240 | Grab your phone, I guess.
00:23:51.960 | Pull out your phone.
00:23:52.960 | Here's the number, 561-468-3158.
00:23:55.960 | Again, 561-468-3158.
00:24:02.160 | Send me a text message there and ask me any question you want.
00:24:06.040 | Give me a hello and that will get you signed up for my text messages.
00:24:10.720 | In addition, of course, you can sign up for the email list.
00:24:14.000 | The best way to do that is go to RadicalBooklist.com, sign up for my Radical Booklist reading list
00:24:19.520 | and that'll get you signed up for my email list.
00:24:22.040 | I'd love to have you there.
00:24:23.320 | Go to RadicalBooklist.com.
00:24:25.560 | In addition, please make sure to follow me on all of the social profiles.
00:24:29.440 | One of the things I didn't do when we traveled around the United States is at the time I
00:24:32.520 | wasn't posting on social media.
00:24:33.760 | Well, I've decided to change that.
00:24:35.000 | I'm going to open up and I've walked away from a lot of privacy and I'm open up to a
00:24:39.240 | lot more sharing.
00:24:40.240 | So you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @JoshuaSheets on all of those
00:24:44.920 | platforms.
00:24:45.920 | I'm easy to find.
00:24:46.920 | J-O-S-H-U-A-S-H-E-A-T-S.
00:24:49.520 | Find me on those platforms.
00:24:50.520 | I'd love to follow up, be connected with you there.
00:24:52.320 | Hoping to do some video and show you some interesting places, show you some interesting
00:24:55.840 | things along the way.
00:24:57.120 | Stay tuned for details on that as well.
00:25:00.600 | In closing, in addition to those things, I just did ask you, I'd love it if you would
00:25:05.280 | leave a review for Radical Personal Finance.
00:25:08.080 | So wherever you listen to the show, if you listen on Spotify, if you listen on iTunes,
00:25:12.000 | just take a moment and just drop a rating and a review, a couple of words, a few sentences
00:25:15.680 | is great but that would be really, really helpful to the show.
00:25:18.520 | I'm committed to continuing to serve you and helping the show grow.
00:25:21.680 | I hope to see you this year on the road but in closing I would just encourage you and
00:25:25.520 | say it's only hard, it's only scary until you do it.
00:25:31.400 | And so if there's something that you want to do, start figuring out what are some micro
00:25:35.320 | things that I can do to do certain aspects of this.
00:25:38.560 | You may not be ready to get rid of all your stuff and say, "Oh, this is going to be easy."
00:25:41.960 | It's not, it's not.
00:25:44.540 | But maybe you can take a trip.
00:25:46.440 | That's a good start.
00:25:47.680 | Get your passports.
00:25:49.600 | Just start.
00:25:50.720 | But start taking micro actions in the direction of your dreams and I promise it's only hard
00:25:55.800 | and scary until you do it.
00:25:57.800 | Text me, 561-468-3158.