Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work.

We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sam.

We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online.

And now we help other families do the same.

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What's going on, everybody?

Welcome back to the flipped lifestyle podcast.

It is great to be back with you again this week.

Super excited to entertain you guys, to inspire you guys, to inform you guys, to help you find and use your God-given gifts, your knowledge, your skills, your talents, your experience. So you can go out, you can build an online business, you can make money online, you can gain influence, you can make an impact, you can build an inheritance for your children's children. You can live life on your terms. That's what we're all about here at Flip Lifestyle. We got a great show for you today. And we're going to kick it off today with an interview with an amazing guy that I just met recently. His name is Andrew Bustamante. Now, I first heard about Andrew over on the Lex Friedman podcast. I love that Lex Friedman show. It's got a lot of great topics. Just fun to listen to when you're driving somewhere, when you're walking around an airport, when you're hanging out. Oh, Lex Freeman's got an amazing show. And I was listening to it the other day, and I was looking at it.

And there was some great copy. There was a great headline. And it said, Andrew Bustamante, former CIA spy. And I'm like, oh, this is amazing. This dude's been a spy. That's incredible. So I start listening to Andrew and I'm like man this is amazing he's talking about politics he's talking about

his time as a spy is talking about all these other things and then I start listening I start

getting those So then I started listening to Andrew. And I'm like, man, this is amazing. He's talking about politics. He's talking about his time as a spy.

He's talking about all these other things.

And then I start listening.

I start getting those subtle clues that I got an online entrepreneur on my hands, right? You know, Andrew's got a podcast. Andrew's got a website. He's got the Twitter account over at Everyday Spy. He's got the website over at Everydayspy.com.

So I go to Everydayspy.com and I'm like, oh, what's this?

This looks like an opt-in. He's got the website over at Everydayspy.com. So I go to Everydayspy.com and I'm like,

ooh, what's this? This looks like an opt-in. Wait a minute. Did I just opt in for an email list? Ooh, there's a quiz here I can take. Wait a minute. I just got an automated email. Wait a minute. I clicked the link. Wait a minute. Here's a sales. I'm in a sales funnel. This is a sales funnel. back on it. And I was like, dude, this dude's an online entrepreneur. He's doing the same things that we're doing. He's doing an online business. This guy's making his entire living online. He's not a spy anymore. He's become an online entrepreneur. And as I listen to this podcast and I checked out all of his stuff, I was like, man, I've got to bring this guy on the show. He's doing some amazing things. And I know a conversation with Andrew is going to be just what the flip lifestyle community needed this week on the podcast. So I recently sat down. I had a great conversation with Andrew Bousamante. We talked about all things, spy stuff. Now, we're not going to go, you know, into a 60 minute, two hour conversation about him being a spy. We'll link to some other podcast out there.

Lex Friedman did a great job talking about Andrew's background as a CIA spy. So we'll link out to that if you want to get the full story. We're going to talk about it a little bit, but really we're going to get into why did he stop being a spy? What was the change in his life that made him go a different direction. And then what happened after he was a spy? Like, how do you make a living when you've been

a spy your whole career? Are you even allowed to talk about being a spy? Like, how are you allowed to put that on a resume? Like, like what happens after you leave the spy world? And then we're going to spend a lot of time talking about Andrew's online business. How did he get into online business? How did he launch the online business? How does he

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