She Quit Corporate, Moved Her Family to Spain & Bought a House in Cash for Under $70K

Yo Quiero Dinero

Jannese Torres

Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Generational Wealth, Budgeting, Investing, Financial Literacy, Business, Wealth, Personal Finance For Latinas, Equal Pay, Saving

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever fantasized about packing up your life, leaving the US, and actually doing the damn thing — this episode is your sign. I'm sitting down with Alicia Sanchez, founder of Felicita & Faustina studio shop, marketing expert with 20+ years in the game (American Express, ESPN, Klaviyo — the girl's got credentials), and now a full-time entrepreneur living her best life in Southern Spain with her wife and six-year-old daughter. She bought a house. In cash. For under $70K. And she wants you to know it's more doable than you think.

We get into the real — not the Instagram-filtered version. The financial planning, the digital nomad visa process, what attorneys actually cost (hint: not $10K), the tax reality, and why the thing that changed her life the most wasn't the house or the visa. It was watching her daughter have a childhood. This one's going to make you ask yourself: what's really keeping you?

WE GET INTO:

00:38 — Intro: Alicia's back + why this episode exists

03:07 — Who was Alicia before all of this?

05:23 — What her Dominican grandmothers taught her about money

09:03 — Why she said "hell no" to corporate

10:35 — Build your business before you quit

11:13 — Why corporate stability is a lie

15:05 — Why Spain (she lived there before)

17:11 — The decision: February 2025

18:23 — The timeline: pods, visa, house

20:41 — Financial planning behind the move

22:06 — Buying a house in cash under $70K

24:50 — Digital nomad visa explained

27:07 — Biggest misconceptions about Spain

30:08 — What attorneys actually cost (not $10K)

33:07 — Bringing family on your visa

34:25 — Documentation you need to qualify

36:22 — The tax reality

40:50 — How their daughter's life transformed

42:33 — What's really keeping you?

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Don't wait to quit before you start building — start now, quietly, while you're still employed
Corporate "stability" is a mask. You can be laid off tomorrow. Build income outside your W-2
The digital nomad visa: apply in Spain (not the US) and get 3 years instead of 1
You do NOT need to spend $10K to get your visa. The government fee is set. Be an educated consumer
As a Latino/a, after 2 years on the digital nomad visa, you can switch to permanent residency through your lineage
For the digital nomad visa, max 20% of your income can come from Spain — the rest must come from outside the country
Clean, consistent bookkeeping and invoices are your best friend when applying
A 5-bedroom home in Southern Spain — bought in cash, under $70K. Eliminating a mortgage changes everything
Spain does a quarterly tax system. Know this before you go
The lifestyle shift is real. No active shooter drills. No metal detectors. Their daughter just went on a museum field trip
You are one decision away from a completely different life

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0:00.0	This week on
0:02.2	So there's almost just like this feeling of
0:06.7	like, but what are you leaving?
0:10.7	We sacrifice everything to be here.
0:13.6	What do you have to say to that?
0:15.0	You know, that's your journey.
0:17.3	This is my journey.
0:19.1	Leaving is not as hard as we think. If we put everything in place that we need to do for today, corporate has different income streams. Oh, whole bunch. And one of them is our creativeness. And that's where I was like, nope, you're not going to cash in in my creativeness anymore.
0:39.4	You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoero, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina.
0:45.5	I'm your host, Janice Torres, award-winning Latina personal finance expert.
0:50.2	I didn't always have my financial shit together, but when I started looking for POC-friendly
0:54.9	personal finance podcasts, I couldn't find any. And so Yo Quiero Dino was born. On this show,
1:00.4	I'll show you how to make dinero, how to keep your Dino, and most importantly, how to make it
1:05.3	grow. Each week, I'm connecting you with the most brilliant minds in the world of money and business.
1:10.6	So you can learn about investing, entrepreneurship, and building wealth.
1:14.2	The best part, I'm dishing up all this knowledge with a sassy side of sason.
1:19.4	So if you're ready to be Poderosa with your Dinero, you've come to the right place.
1:24.1	Let's dive in.
1:26.0	Hello, my gente.
1:26.8	Welcome back to I Kuo Kiro Dino. We have an incredible. Hello, my gente. Welcome back to I
1:27.8	Kuo Kiro Dinero. We have an incredible repeat
1:30.3	guest here, Ms. Alicia Sanchez.
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