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My name is Joshua Sheets and on today's show I'm going to continue my series on why I left the United States.

And in this episode, I'm going to share with you the simple fact that a massively important reason

why I left the United States was for my children. I wanted to

plan and prepare so that my children's lives could be better and more protected

and more resilient than my own life.

Being the father of now five children,

I feel this responsibility quite acutely,

that I have a need to protect my children.

Now there are two specific risks that I was most concerned about protecting my children with

and one positive thing, the positive thing that I'll talk more about at the end

is simply that I wanted my children to be prepared for global opportunities.

It seems to me that those who have a little bit of cross-cultural

experience, those who have a little bit of cultural and linguistic dexterity are

more well-prepared for the future that we will live in over the coming decades than

those who don't. But I'll talk about that at the end of the show because the two defensive measures were much more influential for me and still are.

The defensive reason number one is that I wanted to make a plan so that my children wouldn't get drafted and die in a useless and or immoral

war.

When I was worrying about this six, seven, eight years ago, it didn't seem like that much of an issue.

But, as I've stated recently, I believe the best time to plan and prepare for things is long before you ever need them.

If I had made a podcast, six or seven or eight years ago, I think that maybe 10% of people would

have heard my ideas and said, yeah, well, that's probably worth paying attention to,

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