Carl Richards is a certified financial planner, the New York Times Sketch Guy, and the author of Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches. He moved from Utah to New Zealand with his family in a matter of weeks. His wife bought plane tickets ten days after hearing about a friend's available house. Ninety days later, they had moved.

This episode covers:

How Carl became the New York Times sketch guy (a desperate drawing on a whiteboard)
Why showing up and being consistent matters more
How Carl's wife pulled the rescue cord and moved the family to New Zealand
The detox from US money and work culture that Carl did not see coming
Moving teenagers abroad during a senior year of high school
Why New Zealanders ask about holidays and weekends, not jobs
The French cafe lesson: you think this is about money. It is about food.
The worry list: a blank page. Nothing is helped by worrying.
The cognitive load of a simple grocery store in a new country
Carl's daughter's advice: you thought you were going to have an adventure without it being hard
Why Carl would spend his savings again without thinking twice

Carl and host Arielle Tucker, CFP®, EA discuss why most of what we worry about never happens and why moving abroad does not require a perfect plan.

Resources

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