Welcome to your September 2019 newsletter.

I’ve recently returned from a 5-week stint through 7 countries in Europe where I had business meetings, filmed a stack of videos, interviewed a lot of people and wanted to see what was happening for myself.

Unless you go there yourself, you only have what you see in the media to go by, and let’s face it, can you really believe what you see on the fake news and TV anymore?

I aim to go into more detail over the next few months, but just quickly, Estonia and Lativa were my highlights. The Old Towns of Tallinn and Riga are fairy tale stuff.

Stockholm was lovely, but the people stand-offish at first... Russia is huge, and a massive surprise in a positive way.

Prague is incredible and the Czech people believe in fairness for all. Berlin was most similar to Australia, and I noticed police and ambulance sirens every hour, without fail, plus a lot of kebab shops!

Finland was clean, nice, polite, helpful... Dubai is excessive, expensive and has me worried, I doubt I’ll stop there again.

On arriving home a friend asked me ‘so what did you learn?’

And off the top of my head, this is what I told her:

 – All people are the same. Regardless of country, ethnicity, religion, etc, all people love their children and families, and generally are nice and helpful, and are happy to live and let live.

 – All countries have peak hour traffic congestion and the vast majority of people are exchanging time for money, trying to make a living and get by.

 – All people know there are increasing problems / tensions in the world and many have become very frustrated / suspicious of their governments.

 – All people are limited by their conditioning and habits. Most don’t think about why they do what they do and don’t realise they have the power to choose. Their choices are confined to the little things, like what job will I take, where will I live, holiday this year etc. Few think of freedom, starting a business or financial independence and are content to do what they see everybody else doing.

In terms of the strategies, the biggest thing that stood out to me was the number of people I met staying in Airbnbs. For example, I met two lovely girls from WA in Prague. In their mid 20’s, one was an occupational therapist, the other a teacher on her way to live in London for 2 years. They started out with a third friend, and the 3 girls had Airbnb’d their way across Europe for 3 months.

Then I met Nick, 42, a digital nomad at an incredible vegan restaurant called MIR in St Petersburg. Nick too was from WA and has a website development business. He was working about 5 hours a day whilst travelling, and also only stayed in Airbnb’s – plus all his tours and activities he did, he booked through the Airbnb website as well, which I found very interesting.

Another chap I met was a Spanish-speaking, eco-tourist guide from the north of Chile, this time in Berlin. Whilst he wasn’t staying in an Airbnb, he had an Airbnb property back home that was paying for his travels.

Even in Russia, Airbnb was very popular, so it’s definitely a global opportunity that only seems to be getting stronger, more commonly used, and expanding into offering unique experiences and becoming more and more, a one-stop-travel-shop.

It’s been the most important new trend for property investors and entrepreneurs in Australia for a couple years now, and if it’s something you’d like to discover more about, be sure to check out the Gift of the Month below.

Finally, by far the most important interview I did was with the Head of the Central Bank of Finland’s Money Museum. I couldn’t believe what came out of his mouth and it confirmed everything I know to be true about banking and money...

And in truth, I’ve never wanted to come home so fast, sell everything and put it all into Gold and Silver as I did that day. (That’s not financial advice, and that’s not what I am doing, but it is how I felt). Be sure to watch or re-watch the video below.

Enjoy this month’s newsletter, and remember, get educated and get prepared, now.

To Your Success.