James Guzman: Borderless Living & Life in Mexico
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiO6E-Gesc
James and I met in the scenic San Miguel de Allende to discuss his work with Borderless as well as topics such as international living and diversification, the economic crisis, expatriation and living in Mexico.
Show Notes
Borderless Interview with Guadalajara Geopolitics
James Guzman Interviewed by the Nomadtopia Podcast
Websites
itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/borderless-podcast/id938410733#
facebook.com/pages/Borderless-Blog/203137143180027
About James Guzman
James Guzman is a American born writer and investment consultant specializing in non-conventional markets and countries. He is a native of San Diego, California but as the son of a sailor in the US Navy spent his youth around many different cultures and areas. Growing up as a third culture kid has made him accustomed to working with people from many different backgrounds.
James joined the US Navy straight out of high school and was stationed onboard the USS Bataan from 2004-2008 during which he took part in Operation Enduring Freedom and Hurricane Katrina Relief. He then used the GI Bill to go to Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain and graduated with a Bachelors degree in International Business. He also studied Economics, Philosophy and Political Economy at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Since graduating he has worked as a broker for Euro Pacific Bank, real estate agent from Coldwell Banker Premier in Mexico and content contributor to many publications. He currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and helps people with many things pertaining to buying real estate, immigration issues and online marketing. He has been to over 17 countries and lived and worked in six and in addition to investments is also knowledgable of citizenship/residency laws.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here we are in the wonderful San Miguel de Allende at the Casas Chiquita, right? |
| 0:14.7 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah, and we're talking with James Guzman of Borderless Blog, right? |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah, Borderless Blog, borderless podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | And this is the Guadalajara Geopolitics podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | And we're here with James who lives in San Miguel, and we wanted to get to know a little bit about his borderless philosophy as well as talk about geopolitics and what people can do during geopolitical crises is ways to, to, you know, |
| 0:43.3 | ride out the storms that are going on around the world. So James, why don't you tell us a little |
| 0:47.6 | bit about yourself. You were in the U.S. Navy. You studied international business. You worked for |
| 0:53.0 | Peter Schiff's Euro-Pacific capital, |
| 0:56.1 | and you ended up here in San Miguel. So just give us a quick bio. Okay. Yeah. I mean, |
| 1:01.2 | that was pretty quick and that was good. I mean, I was in the Navy. I went to Iraq. I was also |
| 1:05.1 | part of Hurricane Katrina Relief. While I was there, I was stationed on board of large. |
| 1:10.6 | Ship, L.H.D, kind of a mini-aircraft carrier. I was there for I was stationed on board a large. Shipp was LHD, kind of a mini-aircraft carrier. |
| 1:13.3 | I was there for four years. |
| 1:14.9 | After that, I went and I studied international business, like you said, in Madrid, Spain. |
| 1:20.6 | And, yeah, at that time, the only thing I wanted to do was study with Peter Schiff. |
| 1:26.1 | He really influenced my ideas on economics and things like that at the time. |
| 1:31.3 | So I just badgered him for a job. I went to the office, Europe Pacific Capital in New York. |
| 1:38.3 | I went to the one in Santa Monica. I called into his radio show. |
| 1:41.3 | Did everything I could. And then finally they offered me to be one of the first brokers at Europe Pacific Bank. |
| 1:48.7 | So immediately moved out there to Barbados. |
| 1:51.7 | It was one of the first brokers out there. |
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