Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest on today's show is Miles, Miles Wakeham, welcome to the show.

Thank you, great to be here.

So I've had you on, we're going to have a chat about finances, you blog over at be unconstrained.

Come talking about your journey to financial independence and

specifically I've had you on because you have been doing well a recent series

but also having some recent experiences specifically on the topic of medical tourism.

You've been doing some work in Mexico and I want to hear all about that and talk about it because I think it's a very key financial strategy that more and more of us can and should implement.

But begin with just a little bit of your background.

How did you wind up in the United States doing the kind of work you're doing and how did you wind up

interested in finance?

It's a very interesting question. I've always been a, when I was a kid I was always

into business, I always liked businesses when I was eight years old I ran

paper rounds and then I decided to get two of them and three of them and scaled it up and became

like the king of paper rounds in my suburb in Australia. And that led into all different various businesses

and part-time jobs when I was a teenager all the way through to getting out of school probably way earlier than I should have and going into business on my own and I got lucky and got into the computer world in 1978 right when the personal computers first started coming out.

Built one of the first software companies in my hometown.

Employed dozen people and sold it when I was 24, 23, 24.

Got out, came to the United States because I was working, one of my clients was a defense

contractor building submarines in Australia and I met a lot of guys from the states when I was working there and one of them said, you sound like a smart guy, wouldn't you come over and work for me and I ended up in Los Angeles. I ended up doing a little

bit of work there and then stumbled into a company that got into this thing

called Bio- Technologies which I had no idea what that was and that company became

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