Borderless Podcast

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I have been writing for a while about what seems to me to be an obvious bubble that has been building for years in the college debt market. Here is one article from a little over two years ago that I wrote about the what I saw going on in this market and how you may be able to profit from where things are going. This week I revisit this topic with Antony Davies  who  is a scholar at the Mercatus C...

This is one of the most informative interviews yet! It was a pleasure speaking to Jason Hartman as I have been following him quite a while. I remember being very impressed with his videos when I was 18 years old. Now he is 660 podcasts down and the amount of information he has available on jasonhartman.com  is incredible. During the interview we talk in depth about some of the commandments of real...

Lydia Lee is the Business Creator coach at Screw The Cubicle , web TV host at Screw The Cubicle TV , and podcast host of The Cubicle Crashing Podcast .  After leaving her six figure job in Canada years ago in pursuit of a path less conventional, this had led her to now be an advocate for location independency, and meaningful work with purpose. Now based in Bali,  she spends her time teaching peopl...

Johnny Mueller is the host of The Expat Files , a podcast where he gives on the ground advice about living and working in Latin America. After over 26 years living and doing business as an expat he has quite a lot of exciting stories that are great to listen to and learn from. He describes what he calls The Gringo Advantage that benefits US expats in Latin countries and the Latin American real est...

During his recent trip to Santiago, Chile James was able to meet Michelle Clarke and he thought she would be a great guest for the show. She is an executive expat and leadership coach. She uses web based video technology to work with clients around the world. She also develops workshops and talks and is available at short notice to go wherever a client needs her in person. More and more clients ar...

Gloria Zuluaga was born in Medellin, but relocated to Europe when quite young. It was a rich experience and led to her speaking four languages. But her beautiful hometown called and she returned to find a great need: relocation services for expats. In this week's episode, we talk about the positives (very many!) the negatives (hardly any!) and how her company, Medillin Executive Relocation, can he...

Imagine you've come to grips with the fact that a soul-sucking job just cannot be your future any longer. So you start a business, it starts doing pretty well...then you realize you're stuck again—working your ass off and ultimately NOT living the life you'd planned on! Matt Inglot is the creator FreelanceTransformation.com where he helps fellow consultants and creative services providers to earn...

Johnny Ward came from a poor, single parent family in Ireland. Maybe not having certain advantages cultivated an insane drive to succeed. But success is not about the money; it's about the lifestyle--always. Although the money's nice too! At 32, he's almost completed his goal of being the only Irishman to visit every country in the world. He talks about rejecting the 9-to-5 life, the importance of...

Gregory Diehl is a personal coach and educator who learned the art and science of compelling communication through a decade of full-time international travel. In this week's podcast we speak to him about how he has been able to make a living for himself while traveling the world and and his experience writing his first book. Get full access to Borderless at jamesguzman.substack.com/subscribe

To a lot of people, working in the music promotion business might be a dream job. But Tim Leffel found it pretty much like any other corporate environment. So he started traveling and writing about it, never looking back.  He's lived in Istanbul, Seoul, Yucatan and Guanajuato, Mexico, and has become a highly award-winning travel writer. His book,  The World's Cheapest Travel Destinations  is now i...

Imagine selling store-bought firecrackers on eBay, along with many others, but because of your political stance being singled out and imprisoned for 10 months. It might make a person consider alternative life options.  Maybe that's why, almost singlehandedly, Roger Ver funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses.  In this week's episode, we talk to Roger about just...

Skinner Layne founded  Exosphere  as a learning and problem-solving community of immersive learning programs and experiences. After 10 years of adult life, he came to realize it wasn't best to "arrive"; but instead to keep asking questions in an infinite game.  In this week's episode, he explores the parallels between the Roman and Post-Rome period to help draw wise conclusions about rational dire...

While the US government has been cracking down on governments and banks throughout the world, forcing them to submit to onerous regulations that divulge your private information, why have they refused to do the same? Is the US the world's new favorite tax haven? Michael Menzies of  Pembroke Tax Advisors  is Jonathan's new tax strategist, and in this week's episode we discuss this--along with offsh...

Karsten Aichholz  is a German/British pro-gamer turned tech entrepreneur. Not only has he lived in Thailand for ten years, he's also taken the time to blog about it in an effort, among other things, to help prospective expats.  In this week's Borderless Podcast we talk to him about the spots most expats like to settle in, banking, visas, residency, weather, cultural differences and whether or not...

Simon Black is a West Point graduate and former Army Intelligence officer. It was a poor career move, but inevitably he came to question the nature of wars, governments and the banking system. The creator of Sovereign Man, he travels the globe looking for personal and economic opportunities to enrich his and his subscribers' lives. This is Jonathan's favorite interview ever and is a guilty pleasur...

Danny Flood hasn't worked a traditional job for more than 2 months. An entrepreneur since age 9, he went from broke ramen-eating college graduate to growing a profitable online business and pursuing lifestyle design with reckless abandon. Now based in Bangkok, he's rolling out a great digital magazine called  Open World . In this week's episode we discover how his father raised him, what led to hi...

For this weeks podcast it's just James and Jonathan! We go over some of our favorite podcasts throughout the year as well as what we see coming for 2016. Get full access to Borderless at jamesguzman.substack.com/subscribe

Zak Slayback is an Ivy League apostate. When he realized the traditional education path was going nowhere, he dropped out of Penn to join forces with a couple of other visionaries as the Business Development Director of Praxis . It’s a one-year program for entrepreneurial young people in which they both complete a year-long education program–while also being placed in growing startups and small to...

As a gift to those in our awesome audience (that’s you!) we have put together some extra special free content for this holiday season. We got together with Pete Sisco, who has been one of out most popular guests, to do a special podcast with SPECIFIC tips for building online income. Pete has definitely proven himself in the area of online marketing by starting and operating many wildly successful...

This one will piss you off. When Brian Aitken needed to transport legally owned guns within New Jersey, he called the State Police to make sure he followed the law explicitly. But when an out-of-control police officer and judge equate gun possession with criminal activity, the law is a minor inconvenience. The result: he went to prison, his passport was confiscated and he hasn't seen his little bo...

Brought up in the Bible Belt Prairies of Canada, Gabriel Scheare has come a long way; both philosophically and physically. Originally attracted to Chile by the promise of a freedom-loving community, which fell apart in grand fashion, Gabriel and partners have learned the lessons and are creating community catering to entrepreneurs and freelancers in Valdivia, Chile. In this episode we hear about b...

Justin Cooke didn't plan on starting  Empire Flippers  when he headed for the Philippines in 2010, but when the business he worked for started falling apart--and he pictured having to go back to the US, pull his stuff out of storage and start over again there--he got serious. Today Empire Flippers is matching online business sellers with buyers, and helping them through the process of making the e...

D.R. Fideler was location-independent before location-independent was cool. But he was worried his clients might not like it. So he just didn't tell them he'd moved to Bosnia. And he pulled it off! The good news: when he eventually broke the news, they were happy for him. In this week's Borderless Podcast, we find out how he did it, his motivation and why this life of freedom is much better than d...

Every week we receive messages from people who are frustrated in their attempts to go Borderless. Some of the reasons are substantive, but others are psychological. Enter Pavlok, a wristband that helps people break bad behaviors through "zaptic feedback." In this week's episode we talk with Pavlok's creator, Maneesh Sethi. Even though he authored an international best-seller at 14 and went on to a...