My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom Earlier this week I found myself at a very interesting conversation with some awesome people.

So I was sitting in a table and it was surrounded essentially by people just way smarter than me.

I had one guy who's on his way to becoming a millionaire within the next maybe two years.

And then across from me, I had another guy who's running one of the sexiest private intelligence

businesses that I've ever heard of.

And then on my right, I had a super smart,

super attractive like Uber female who was like ruling life and also on her way to independent

wealth. And now during this conversation, we were just friends. And I love my friends. I love

hanging out with the people that I hang out with. Everything is kind of

partially work, partially family, partially fun, partially, you know, crazy, hectic business building.

But these are the people that I spend my time with. These are the people who shape me and who I

have the privilege of shaping. And during this conversation, the guy across from me who runs a private intel firm started getting really serious.

Now, the conversation really turned, and I noticed as the topic changed,

that's when he got really emotional, really pointed, and really just frankly, angry.

And what he was talking about was that those of us that

leave CIA and focus on building something that had never been built before something like a

private intelligence firm something like a nonprofit something like a business we are in the

business of making opportunity happen

where opportunity never existed before. And it's the same thing that we used to do in the field.

It's the same work that we did at CIA. We would make an opportunity to collect secrets that

previously didn't exist. And it's awesome work. Creating opportunity is awesome work. But what he was finding

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