The Expat Money Show - With Mikkel Thorup

Today’s guest is Kristin Wilson, known by her YouTube name, Traveling With Kristin, and is an expert on living the digital nomad lifestyle.  Kristin is the author of Digital Nomads for Dummies and hosts the top-rated podcast Badass Digital Nomads, with over 250,000 downloads in 170+ countries.    TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH KRISTIN Before the pandemic and after the pandemic . How lives have cha...

Today on the Expat Money Show, Angela from Texas is next in our series of bonus episodes.  Angela was unhappy with the current government situation and didn't see anything good for the future. Listen as she tells her tale of why she felt it so important to become an expat in Panama.  Here you can listen to the past four episodes: #204 with Joe & Stacy #205 with Travis #206 with Mike & Ivy...

Today on the Expat Money Show, Keith & Yvette from Arizona are next in our series of bonus episodes. Keith & Yvette began this journey many years ago and actually visited Panama to see if this could be their plan B new home. They wanted more for their retirement, and you can hear their story in this episode. Listen Now. Listen here to episode #204 with Joe & Stacy , episode #205 with T...

Today on the Expat Money Show, Mike & Ivy from Canada are next in our series of bonus episodes. Mike and Ivy share their experience of what an international life would look like. Ivy is from China; Mike is Canadian, and they’re living in Texas and buying property in Turkey. I think you’ll love how this amazing couple came to be so international. Listen to Monday's episode #204 with Joe & S...

Today on the Expat Money Show, Travis from the USA is next in our series of bonus episodes. We talked to Travis about his experience of leaving the USA and living in Brazil and why the expat community is so important to him. Today Susan from my team chats with Travis from California about his expat journey. Enjoy, Mikkel PS. If you missed it, you can listen to the first bonus episode we did on Mon...

Today on The Expat Money Show, we will be doing a bonus episode. I have never done this before, and I thought it was such a cool idea. We're going to showcase several of our private clients over the next 2 weeks. We're doing a special book of case studies, and I thought, what the heck, the best way to go about this is to do it interview style. You’ll hear their stories, the difficulties they might...

Trevor Wright started his company in 2014 called Mile Method, a 1-on-1 service that helps Americans travel anywhere in the world for almost free by earning and redeeming US credit card signup bonuses. North Dakota-born, Nebraska-raised, his travel experiences have evolved from study abroad student to broke backpacker to the luxury traveller. He has averaged $13 per flight to 133 countries while st...

Francisco Litvay is the Co-founder of Settee, an internationalization company. At age 17, he moved from Brazil and, at 21, became a digital nomad, having been in more than 20 countries on 4 continents since then. He specializes in Special Economic Zones and Charter Cities and is an ambassador for the Free Private Cities Foundation and Head of Internationalization at the Adrianople Group, a busines...

Today on the Expat Money Show we're going to republish a webinar presentation that I did a few days ago with my friends Ally and Patrick from EcoVillages. It was an awesome presentation, and we had literally hundreds of people on the line. I also know that there are thousands of people who listen to the podcast from every corner of planet earth, many from different time zones, who were not able to...

Today we celebrate episode 200. Holy moly, I can’t believe it’s been 6 years since I bought my first podcasting equipment and made the move into full-time podcasting. In my heart, I knew this was the right move, and every week, with more and more listeners and as we grow, you all reaffirm my commitment to the expat life and helping every one of you to move offshore.   HERE’S WHAT I DISCUSS IN...

Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Foster Gamble. Researcher, Co-Writer and Visual Designer of the documentary THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take? and THRIVE II: This Is What It Takes. Previously, he was CEO of MindCenter Corporation and an instructor in the non-violent martial art of Aikido. H e was the on-screen host for the PBS documentary Aikido - The Way of Harmony and created three con...

Chuck Smith is the co-founder of the Polyglot Gathering, contributor of Duolingo’s Esperanto course and founder of the Esperanto Wikipedia, among other Esperanto and polyglot projects.  He had the idea for a GPS device to find fellow Esperanto speakers while travelling through Brazil in 2002 but needed to wait 15 years for the technology to catch up, so he could pursue this dream.  Now he looks fo...

Recently I was on Dann Reid’s podcast called the Culinary Libertarian. This was a fun podcast episode and I wanted to share it with you, especially if you are a new listener to our show. This is a great opportunity to understand what we are all about and how to get involved with a community of like-minded people. Dann wanted to really understand the concept of dual citizenship and getting a second...

Dr. Kolja Spori, Formula 1 Agent and Austrian Economist who has visited all 193 countries of the world. In his quest to seek truth and liberty, he met freedom fighters, guerrillas and warlords, such as the FARC leaders "Black Death" and Tanja Nijmeijer in the Colombian mountains, the Russian Nightwolf "Chirurg" in Crimea, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny, and Liberia's putschist Prince J...

Today on the Expat Money Show, I’m going to do a solo episode on Uruguay and my recent trip there. We will discuss what I went through, the experience, and what I learned while there.    WHAT I DISCOVER ABOUT URUGUAY AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW  If you are already a private client, you will love this episode! And if you are not, l isten in to hear how you can become a private client , be a part...

Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Joseph El-Khoury, who has a Ph. D. in Applied Human Sciences from the University of Montreal and an MBA degree with a specialization in managing sustainability. Today, we will be discussing food autonomy and sustainable/ecological living based on Permaculture Design. These are topics that I have wanted to discuss in more detail for several months now. &nbsp...

Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Larry Scharf, Senior Vice President of Scharf & Selden, Wealth Management of Raymond James. He specializes in portfolio management with a special passion for precious metals and mining companies . In this interview, we are focused on Larry's travels visiting dozens of mines around the world and his insights on investing in junior miners for fun and prof...

Peter Young is the Managing Director of the Free Cities Foundation. He leads the operational management of the foundation, with oversight over project delivery, communications and finance. Before joining the Free Cities Foundation, he spent most of his career based in Beijing, supporting trade links between the UK and China.   TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH PETER How the growth of countries like H...

Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Liam Martin, a serial entrepreneur who runs Time Doctor and Staff.com - one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world’s largest remote work conference - Running Remote.   TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH LIAM, How Covid changed the world for remote workers and the c...

Patrick Hiebert is the Co-Founder of EcoVillages, an eco-home and sustainable community design and development company based on libertarian values and the Founder of MavenNFT.io, a hard asset NFT marketplace.  EcoVillages has defined the “F.I.R.S.T. Community Certification” program whereby other eco-friendly and sustainability-based community developers can become certified as implementing best pr...

Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Fergus Hodgson, a New Zealand native who grew up on a sheep farm on the North Island.  University took him to the USA where he learned the importance of free speech, becoming the founding editor in chief of the PanAm Post and is the founder and director of Econ Americas, a financial consultancy devoted to Latin America.  He has travelled to 19 of 20 nations...

Tobias Ruck is a developer, entrepreneur and traveller. He founded be.cash, a company spearheading crypto NFC payments, and Lotus, a cryptocurrency based on eCash that focuses on stability, scalability and human flourishing. Currently, he’s working on Stamp, an end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer messenger and privacy wallet. Today we are going to be discussing privacy coins, crypto tokens and the...

Today I speak to Sean Aranda from 3D Print General. He began his 3D printing explorations by becoming the Operations Manager for SD3D in early 2015. With over a dozen FDM machines and a few hundred clients, he amassed thousands of hours of successful print time while with the company. He now runs a growing YouTube channel and promotes his new 2022 edition of 3D Printing Failures book.   SNEAK...

Hrvoje Morić is t he host and producer of The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast and hails from the United States. He was bred between the two worlds of America and his ethnic homeland of Yugoslavia/Croatia, moving back and forth between the two countries. He is also a naturalized Mexican, fluent in English, Croato-Serbian and Spanish, and truly a proud citizen of all three nations! My conversation...

Tim Hubbard is the CEO of Midtown Stays, a short-term rental accommodation company which has successfully accommodated over 15,000 guests with excellent reviews from all over the world. Tim has travelled extensively throughout the world, visiting more than 70 countries and staying in hundreds of different short-term rental accommodations.   SNEAK PEEK INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH TIM, The b...