How Digital Nomads Can Move to Spain in 2025 ft. The First Gen Mentor Gigi Gonzalez [WASHDAY WOOSAH]

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

BA Fam, today’s Wash Day Woosah is a treat. We’ve got our girl Giovanna “Gigi” Gonzalez aka The First Gen Mentor, author of Cultura & Cash, and three-time BA guest back on the mic. But this time, she’s not joining us from Chicago… she’s calling in from Spain!

In this episode, Gigi shares the money moves and life decisions that made it possible for her and her husband to pack up and move abroad. We talk about:

The financial planning behind her big move (and what she wishes she’d known sooner).
How she turned her biggest regret—never studying abroad—into a mid-career dream come true.
The not-so-sexy side of moving abroad: visas, taxes, and the Spanish version of the IRS (spoiler: don’t mess with Hacienda).
What’s surprised her most about living in Spain (yes, even the credit cards work differently).
Why she’s pushing for a Spanish-language version of her book to serve first-gen families across borders.

We also get real about career pivots, the rise and fall of DEI budgets, navigating relationships with neurodivergence, and why sometimes the real flex isn’t retiring early—it’s having the freedom to choose how and when you work.

Resources & Links:

Follow Gigi on IG and TikTok: @thefirstgenmentor
Grab her book Cultura en Cash wherever you get your books
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Email: [email protected]

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0:46.1	Hey, VA fam, welcome to Brown Ambition.
0:52.9	I don't know if y'all have clocked it, but every Sunday, if you're listening to the show right now, actually, in fact, it's Sunday.
0:54.5	It is a very special day.
0:59.8	It is a brand new episode that I have started the past, I don't know, like a few weeks,
1:05.3	a couple months now that I've been doing it. I'm calling it wash day. Wusa. And now if you all know,
1:10.6	wash day is the day. And that can mean wash your hair. It can mean wash the windowsills. My mom was always obsessed with washing the windowsills and all those little nooks and crannies. It was like a deep clean kind of day. But it's the kind of episode that I want y'all to listen to while you are doing some self-care, while you are catching up after a crazy week of work and wifing and partnering and friending and sistering and
1:30.1	daughtering and neighboring and all the things. It is so much. I'm hoping that these Sunday
1:35.4	episodes will just be a time for you to unplug a little bit. And while you are catching up on some
1:40.0	self-care or whatever you have to be doing, that you can be listening to Brown Ambition,
1:44.9	get a little inspo, get some food for the soul and for the mind. And I'm really, really grateful to be here
1:52.6	with my guest for today, friend of the show, two-time Brown and, well, now three-time Brown Ambition
1:57.1	guest. She came on for a BAQA, but we have Giovanna Gigi Gonzalez here,
2:04.0	aka the first gen mentor.
2:06.3	And she's here with us.
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