Real talk from someone actually building a different life. Every Thursday: the week's money moves, the struggles, the wins. What it costs to leave the UK and rebuild in Southeast Asia at 48. No script. Same unfiltered perspective as the YouTube videos, but built for the gym at 6am. For anyone quietly running the numbers on whether a different life is possible. New episode every Thursday.
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Real talk from someone actually building a different life. Every Thursday: the week's money moves, the struggles, the wins. What it costs to leave the UK and rebuild in Southeast Asia at 48. No script. Same unfiltered perspective as the YouTube videos, but built for the gym at 6am. For anyone quietly running the numbers on whether a different life is possible. New episode every Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
I Still Don't Know If I'm Doing the Right Thing
<p>This week is about something I don't think we admit often enough.</p><p>From the outside it can look as though I've got a plan. We sold everything, left the UK, travel around Southeast Asia, manage our money carefully and build a YouTube channel for a living. It probably looks like confidence. The reality feels very different.</p><p>In this episode I talk about the constant self-doubt that sits underneath almost every decision I make. We discuss money mistakes, lifestyle inflation, learning discipline later in life, falling out of good habits and starting again, and why making a decision doesn't mean you're certain it's the right one. I also share how creating content, investing, travelling and building a new life all come with far more questions than answers.</p><p>The biggest lesson I've learned is that clarity and certainty are not the same thing. You don't need to have life completely figured out before taking the next step. You simply make the best decision you can with the information you have, learn from the outcome, and keep moving forward.</p>
July 9, 2026
Things Get Better. Just Not the Way You Expect.
<p>This week is about something I've been thinking about a lot recently.</p><p>People often say that time heals everything. I'm not sure that's true. I think time changes your relationship with what happened.</p><p>In this episode I look back at three moments that completely changed my life: losing my dad, leaving a 31-year career, and selling everything before leaving the UK. At the time, each one felt like an ending. Looking back now, I realise none of them ever really finished. They simply became different things to carry.</p><p>I talk about grief hidden behind paperwork, what happens when your job disappears but your identity doesn't know it yet, and why moving abroad turned out to be far less about beaches and far more about rebuilding an ordinary life from scratch. Along the way I reflect on what has genuinely improved, what still hasn't, and why I've stopped waiting for life to go back to how it used to be.</p><p>This isn't a conversation about getting over difficult experiences. It's about slowly learning to live inside the life that comes afterwards, and discovering that things can get better without ever going back to what they were.</p>
July 2, 2026
We Sold Everything to Live With Less
<p>This week starts on a train platform in Malaysia with one suitcase, two rucksacks, and a quiet realisation.</p><p>A year ago we had a house, two cars, a garage full of projects, thousands of records, and all the things that come with building a life over three decades. Today everything we own fits onto a luggage trolley, and Yvonne still thinks we could carry less.</p><p>I talk about clearing my late dad's house, discovering Swedish death cleaning, selling a lifetime record collection, and why I realised I missed what those things represented far more than the objects themselves. We also explore the strange relationship between possessions and identity, the hidden weight of owning more than you need, and why every purchase now has to justify its place in our lives.</p><p>This isn't an argument for minimalism or owning nothing. It's a conversation about what we choose to carry, what quietly owns our attention, and why freedom sometimes looks less like buying something new and more like finally putting something down.</p>
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