Bonjour! Quickly, let me double check what number podcast this is. It's been a while.

Obviously right now reporting from the middle of the COVID pandemic and this will also be available on YouTube.

So if you're watching this on YouTube you can check it out by podcast. If you're listening by podcast you can check it out and watch it on YouTube.

Okay, this is going to be part of season one. Not season two, season two's with guests which I'm planning to get some on soon.

This is episode 20, season one, the James Smith podcast.

So today I'm going to be talking about some things that are going on in the world, just a basic update behind the scenes

and delivering a podcast at the same time because there's quite a few important topics that I've been wanting to talk about.

Now unfortunately I had to leave my Bali challenge three days early.

So if any of you that don't know, every three months I take a group of my James Smith Academy members for an all expenses trip to Bali.

It's not a retreat, it's like a paid holiday. It's more of the socializing, less of the training.

They almost jump into the life of what Dern and I would get up to there.

Training at an MMA gym or going to the beach for beers, for sunset, etc. etc.

But I was feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety when we're in Bali.

The first week with the challenge was fine but I couldn't believe in such a short period of time how much the world flipped on its head.

And halfway through the second week I was in a position where I was genuinely worried about whether or not I would get home.

So although I'm British and I'm a citizen of the UK, I spend a lot of time in Australia.

I'm over here for work commitments, my business partners here, my business is set up here.

So I've worked between the two.

But I'm not a resident of Australia. I'm a resident for tax purposes.

The Australian government perfectly fine-taxing me here, but they won't let me live here permanently.

Not yet.

So when Canada closed its borders?

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