When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features

amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of his

garden in the UK, David Ralph.

Yes, hello there, good morning, everybody out there listening to another edition of Join Up Dot. It's nice to have you on board and of course you wouldn't

go anywhere else. Not when we've got amazing stories like we've got today. And I'll be honest with you,

I kind of like the kind of the the

travely kind of stories when somebody has done a leap of faith and

they've quit their corporate job and then they're literally

navigating through the countries of the world with their laptop.

I kind of get inspired by those and I'm sure you're going to be inspired by today's guest.

Because he is a man who has learnt the secret of traveling the world whilst being funded by something he already had.

If that sounds a bit cryptic, all will be revealed in the show, but it's true to say that today's

guest does not follow a normal path in life.

Starting his adult path in life.

Starting his adult work in life after finishing his education in the Netherlands,

he worked for an arbitrage trading firmly for six years.

It was a normal kind of job that many of us have endured, long hours,

boring work, but at the end of the day it pays. of he re-evaluated his life goals and came up with a question to ponder.

Did he want to slave away at a mildly stimulating profession so he could perch

atop a pile of assets at the right age of 65 and after asking himself

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