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I Revived My Feminine Energy By Leaving the U.S. · Mindful Success Path

• 0:32
  In order for me to get back in tune with my feminine energy, I did something that a lot of people would consider to be quite drastic and maybe even a little bit crazy.
• 0:42
  I left the United States.
• 0:44
  In fact, I left the United States a few years ago.
• 0:46
  I've now been in Mexico almost three years.
• 0:49
  And one of the things that has come to my mind or my awareness after my husband has helped hundreds of people move abroad and after I've experienced living abroad as an American and an American woman, is the fact that sometimes in order for you to get back into your feminine energy, you need to actually change your environment.
• 1:10
  And in this video, I'm gonna be talking about how I, as an American woman, got back into my feminine energy by leaving the United States, why this topic is trending so much, and why you're starting to see more American women all over the world with YouTube channels talk about how leaving the United States is one of the best things that they ever did for their feminine energy and for their nervous systems.
• 1:34
  Hi, my name is Amanda.
• 1:36
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• 2:11
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• 2:39
  And for those of you who've been asking specifically about moving abroad, moving to other countries, I will also have resources available in the first comment.
• 2:49
  These are resources that my husband has put together over the last three years of running his Entrepreneur Expat brand on YouTube, helping hundreds of people move abroad.
• 3:00
  He's got, like, 10 years of experience living as an American abroad.
• 3:04
  He helped me through my entire process of moving to another country, and he's put it all into guides, courses, and resources to help you with the different aspects of planning a move abroad.
• 3:16
  So we're talking logistics, taxes, immigration, how to pick a country, visas, all that kind of stuff.
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  I will leave them in the first comment for you for those of you who've been asking.
• 3:26
  So let's get into it.
• 3:27
  Let's get into how, um Leaving the United States helped me get more into my feminine energy.
• 3:35
  As always, I'm going to start with context and a little bit of background, uh, so that everybody's on the same page with terms, with story, and everybody's at a level playing field.
• 3:44
  And then I will go into, uh, just the very obvious differences of living outside of the United States that actually help a woman regulate her nervous system, get more back into her feminine energy, and just calm the F down again.
• 4:01
  So for context, I'm on my three-year anniversary of having left the United States.
• 4:07
  I have the most experience in Mexico.
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  But a lot of the things that I'm going to be saying in this video, I have seen American women creators who expatriated and moved to countries all over the world talk about the things that I'm going to be talking about today.
• 4:23
  So although I have experience in Mexico, we have friends and colleagues who have moved to France, who have moved to South Africa, who have lived in Korea for 15 years, who have moved all over Latin America, the Middle East, you name it.
• 4:36
  So it's not just my experience and my word for it.
• 4:40
  You have women, American women, who've moved all over the world saying a lot of the same things that I'm going to be saying in this video.
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  Number two, um, I want to acknowledge that the United States, and me having been born and raised in the United States, has given me a lot of privileges.
• 4:57
  So one of the things that I'm very grateful for is that both mine and my husband's families fled communist revolutions, my family from Cuba, so I am Latina, and his family from Ukraine, which was the USSR at the time, to start over in the United States, and our families did pretty okay for themselves.
• 5:16
  The United States gave our families an, a- an absolutely new lease on life.
• 5:22
  We are forever grateful for that.
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  The problem is that back then you could make certain arguments, right?
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  You could make arguments like,"Yeah, healthcare is crazy, but at least you're getting good quality," or,"Yeah, the cost of living is more expensive, but you have a much higher quality of life," or,"Where else are you going to go?
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  Because other countries aren't really that developed yet." All of that to say that when our families, our, our parents and grandparents, came to the United States 50, 60 years ago, it was a very different country than it is now.
• 5:54
  But I do want to acknowledge that the United States gave both of our families a second chance that I am forever grateful for, and the only thing my husband and I are doing is giving ourselves a second chance somewhere else.
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  That's all.
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  We're doing the exact same thing that our parents and our grandparents did, just in a different time period, different options, and I will get into all of that.
• 6:15
  The other thing that I want to acknowledge that was...
• 6:18
  I'm very grateful for, for the United States before getting into it, to it, is that the United States does teach you how to make money, and it does teach you how to solve problems, and it does teach you how to, um, take care of yourself, which when it's balanced, then those are really great skills to have.
• 6:36
  And I will get into that because those are skills that are obviously useful if you want to be moving to, uh, different countries.
• 6:44
  You can take a lot of the skills that you learn in the United States through business and entrepreneurship and things like that, take them to other countries, and you're already gonna do pretty great for yourself, um, in that regard.
• 6:55
  So I want to acknowledge that I am grateful for the United States for certain things.
• 6:59
  I do not want this to be a bashing the United States video, which brings me to another caveat and another point, which is there is no such thing as a perfect country.
• 7:11
  So although, um, I'm spending time in Mexico and although leaving the United States has really served me and a lot of women in terms of getting more in tune with their feminine energy, and I will go into the reasons why, there's no such thing as a perfect country.
• 7:26
  So don't come to my comment section and be like,"Yeah, but Mexico has this problem," or,"Korea has this problem," or,"The Middle East has this problem," or,"Fr- uh, Europe has this problem." I don't care.
• 7:36
  There's no such thing as a perfect country.
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  No one ever said that there was.
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  The only purpose of this video is to give people who, number one, have been asking me about this in the comment section, and number two, who are looking for other options for their own lives, to give them the information that it is that they're looking for, because the reality is that we do have more options than ever in the world than we have ever had in any time in human history.
• 8:01
  Now, I also wanna give context insofar as my husband and I actually own a brand on YouTube called Entrepreneur Expat.
• 8:09
  On that brand, we talk about moving abroad, relocation, international real estate.
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  My husband pretty much runs it, um, at this point, but that's how this whole thing started.
• 8:19
  So three years ago, when I made the move to Mexico and I announced that I wasn't coming back to all the social media followers that I had back then, we got bombarded with questions about how to do it, how to move to Mexico, how does residency work, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
• 8:32
  If you're interested in that specifically, then go check out Entrepreneur Expat, which is my husband's YouTube channel, where we go deeper into those things.
• 8:42
  And once again, I will leave a lot of the resources that we have created through that brand in the first comment.
• 8:48
  In addition to that, because my husband has helped so many people move abroad, and because he runs a popular brand on YouTube and on Instagram, we hear stories all the time from Americans who've decided to move to other countries, and also sometimes Canadians, Australians, Europeans.
• 9:04
  You may not relate to this entire video, uh, per se, but you may relate to parts of it.
• 9:09
  Uh, the Americans are gonna relate 100% to everything I'm about to say.
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  The Westerners, the other Westerners, you might relate to parts of it.
• 9:16
  Some are very particular to the United States, um, and Americans.
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  But we hear stories on Instagram, um, and on in our emails about how people's lives have improved by leav- leaving the United States.
• 9:29
  And we started doing this, and we did this before it was trending, before it was popular, when people thought you were nuts.
• 9:34
  I'm on three years.
• 9:35
  My husband's been out of the United States for, like, a better part of a decade.
• 9:40
  So we have a lot of experience in what it is I'm about to say.
• 9:43
  And not only that, my husband was literally just interviewed on an international news station all about the trend of Americans moving abroad.
• 9:52
  So as I go through this video and as I go through how leaving the United States helped me get in tune with my feminine energy, just know it's not just my experience.
• 10:01
  We get hundreds and hundreds of stories through the Entrepreneur Expat brand, and we are considered experts in this area to the point where my husband's being interviewed by international media.
• 10:14
  All of that to say, it's not just anecdotal, we know what we're talking about and I'm gonna be drawing from a lot of stories.
• 10:24
  Final caveat is obviously this is a lot easier when you run your own online business.
• 10:28
  A lot of people will ask us questions about finding remote jobs and this, that, and the third, and I always say,"Go learn how to make money online.
• 10:35
  Run your own business." Because that is what gives you the real flexibility to be able to go to this consulate or that consulate or do an immigration process or go to this country.
• 10:45
  Uh, if that country doesn't work out, you can go to this country.
• 10:47
  Like, it's just really hard to do that when you have a job.
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  Uh, you can also more easily meet requirements.
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  There's certain visas that are specific for digital nomads and people who run online businesses.
• 10:58
  It just gives you a lot more options.
• 11:01
  I've been in online business for 15 years.
• 11:04
  Um, my husband and I got our visas to Mexico, so we started with our temporary residence.
• 11:09
  Um, my husband's about getting his permit.
• 11:11
  He just did the, the tramite, the, the f- uh, paperwork or the, the process to convert that to permanent residence, and then, you know, we'll consider citizenship or a passport in a year.
• 11:24
  Um, but the reason we were able to do that, my husband had it before I did, because when I met him, he'd already been doing this American living abroad thing.
• 11:33
  Uh, we had online businesses.
• 11:35
  My husband ran a marketing agency for 15 years before doing what he does now with Entrepreneur Expat and the business consulting stuff that he does, and I ran a training company for marketing and sales for about just as long.
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  So we were both making money online.
• 11:49
  We were well above the threshold that Mexico was asking for in income to give you temporary residence.
• 11:55
  So people are always like,"Well, how do I get it?" Or,"How do I make money?" Or,"How do I find a remote job?" Forget the remote jobs and just learn how to run your own business.
• 12:04
  I'm just gonna say that right now Okay, so I think that's the end of the caveats, uh, and the context.
• 12:10
  So now that we know context, background, and where I stand, let's go into m- all the ways that leaving the United States actually helped me as an American woman regulate my nervous system and get more in touch with my feminine energy.
• 12:27
  So the number one way that leaving the United States actually helped me get in tune with my feminine energy was by actually opting out of the insanity.
• 12:37
  So here's what I mean by opting out of the insanity.
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  The United States likes to have women in particular, I'm talking to the ladies here, think that either one political party or the other political party is interested in your rights and your wellbeing, when the reality is that neither of them are.
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  So let me give you an example.
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  On one side, you have the left, and the left is like all your rights and this and that, but then you're like a miserable liberal woman who keeps attracting feminized men, and it also goes to the extreme of, well, you can't rely on men, so you have to rely on, you know, the government, which doesn't care about you, or your employer, which also doesn't care about you or yourself, which is just going to leave you exhausted and drained and with a bunch of adrenal problems.
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  On the other side of it, you have, I guess, the more right or conservative, which talks all about family values and traditional roles and all these things that women who are interested in feminine energy might gravitate a little bit more toward that, but they don't support any of the social systems that are necessary for women to even be able to do that.
• 13:39
  None of these people are your friend, right?
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  And when you leave the United States, you start to realize that, and you start to see that the whole system right?
• 13:49
  And the way that they have people arguing against each other is basically futile.
• 13:54
  And to be clear, it's futile in pretty much every country, which is why when you leave the United States, you-- one thing that happens to Americans and American women is they just don't participate in this stuff anymore.
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  They're just like,"I'm out.
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  I'm not participating in this anymore.
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  It's all a farce.
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  It's all a circus.
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  None of it actually serves me.
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  So that's one of the things, um, that changes because a lot of women, um, and men and whatever are basically stuck in the middle of a system that literally does not care about their well-being.
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  And like I said, everybody's stuck in this, but women in particular are stuck in the middle.
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  So what happens?
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  Women find themselves having to navigate these systems that literally make no sense for them, right?
• 14:38
  So but when a woman leaves and she goes to a country that perhaps does have better social safety nets or safety systems, then she can start to relax a little bit.
• 14:47
  In the United States, we don't really have a social safety net.
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  It is not a thing.
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  Uh, healthcare we know is an expensive disaster.
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  There's no, like, mandated maternity leave.
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  We know that all of these things don't, don't exist.
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  Childcare is through the freaking roof.
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  So what happens is you're constantly in this state of survival.
• 15:06
  You are constantly in this state of high alert.
• 15:09
  "Oh my gosh, if I get sick, can I afford to go to the doctor?" I don't worry about that in Mexico.
• 15:14
  If it's something basic, I just go to the pharmacy.
• 15:17
  If I need a specialist, maybe it costs me 50 bucks, but I'm not constantly worried about this stuff.
• 15:22
  And to give you an idea, the last time my husband and I We're in the United States, he got sick.
• 15:27
  He got a flu.
• 15:28
  And even with the traveler's insurance that we had, it still would've cost us$1,000 for him to get treatment for a flu, for a cold.
• 15:38
  That's it,$1,000, even with the traveler's insurance.
• 15:42
  So not only did we pay the insurance because we knew that we were going to be traveling, that was to cover us in such situation, it was also going to be$1,000 bill once, you know, he had done everything he was supposed to do.
• 15:54
  Do you wanna know what my husband did?
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  He called the airline.
• 15:57
  He was able to get our flight rescheduled for, like, three days later.
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  He sucked it up.
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  He took a lot of ginger and a lot of lemon.
• 16:03
  Um, and then he was fine in three days, and we came back to Mexico.
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  And when we came back to Mexico, I could breathe because I was like,"Oh my gosh, if something like that happens, like, we're okay.
• 16:13
  It's not going to bankrupt anybody.
• 16:15
  It's not going to be$1,000.
• 16:16
  We can see people right away." You know, if there's any issue you can literally get your doctor's number and WhatsApp them in Mexico.
• 16:24
  So obviously, when you're not constantly in a state of high alert or, you know, afraid of getting sick because God forbid you get sick because it's not good care and it's also very expensive, then obviously that, that helps to calm you down quite a bit.
• 16:41
  So that one's pretty obvious.
• 16:43
  When it comes to family care and those kinds of things, I saw a creator, uh, who's American, but she's been in Korea for about 15 years.
• 16:51
  She's married to a Korean.
• 16:52
  When she got pregnant, they had this, like, happy mommy card.
• 16:56
  So basically, she got a debit card from the Korean government to give her money to support her in her pregnancy for buying things that she needed to buy while she was pregnant.
• 17:07
  Her doctor's appointments were free.
• 17:09
  I mean, we don't have stuff like that in the United States.
• 17:13
  It's not possible.
• 17:14
  It's not possible to have stuff like that in the United States because of the way that the system is set up when it comes to corporate greed, which is what causes a lot of the issues.
• 17:23
  Which, speaking of which, let me get to the next point In Mexico, I eat much better food quality.
• 17:30
  I don't have to think 15 times about what I'm going to be eating and how it's going to mess up my hormones like it would in the United States, because here in Mexico, the food is much higher quality.
• 17:41
  It is fresher.
• 17:42
  I mean, when I order groceries, it's literally coming from the local farms.
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  It's not coming from another country.
• 17:48
  It's not coming from, um, g- another state that's 3,000 miles away, and I know that it's fresh.
• 17:55
  I know that it's local.
• 17:56
  Now, in other countries, you also eat more seasonally than you do in the United States.
• 18:01
  The good thing about Mexico is that it's basically fertile all year round, you know?
• 18:05
  So we don't have an issue with that.
• 18:07
  But to give you an idea, our neighbor here owns a berry farm, so whenever she's got, like, a big cosecha, she's got a big harvest, g- guess where I'm getting my berries from.
• 18:16
  I'm getting it from my neighbor's farm.
• 18:18
  But even when we lived in the city, in Mexico, we could get good quality meat.
• 18:23
  We could get vegetables.
• 18:24
  We could get grains that we needed, and I don't have to think 15 times about how to put this together because I know that it's much better food quality.
• 18:32
  In the United States, I had a bunch of thyroid problems.
• 18:35
  When my husband left the United States, he was on a ton of medications.
• 18:39
  They told him that he was never gonna be able to get off of those medications for the rest of his life.
• 18:44
  Three years in Mexico, he takes nothing.
• 18:46
  Takes absolutely nothing, and that was because you can get good quality care here, the food is much better quality, and things like holistic healing, like natural things, are not seen as a luxury.
• 18:58
  Self-care in Mexico, and in a lot of other countries, is not seen as a luxury.
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  It's just seen as a normal part of your everyday life.
• 19:06
  It's not something that only people with money, uh, can do.
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  So in that sense, Mexico has helped me get more back into my feminine energy because my hormones are regulated.
• 19:16
  I don't have to be so stressed out about what I'm putting in my body, so that's a part of it.
• 19:20
  Um, there's easier access to things that can help you regulate yourself, calm down, um, holistic healing.
• 19:27
  We live like 10 minutes down the road from a bunch of thermal spas that are awesome with thermal waters.
• 19:32
  Like, these things are just normal in Mexico.
• 19:35
  They're not seen as things that are like luxuries that you need to be able to have access to, and I know that a lot of other countries are the same.
• 19:42
  I know that, for example, some people have told us that they live in Asia, and in Asia it's like, okay, well, I mean, just getting your weekly massage, that's, that's just part of the protocol.
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  Like, it's not a special thing.
• 19:53
  It's not a luxury thing.
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  It's just part of the overall protocol.
• 19:57
  So in that sense, because the food is better quality, because we have good access, uh, to things that are healthier for us, then yeah, of course that helps me get back into my feminine energy because my body's not under a ton of stress The next way that moving out of the United States helped me get back into my feminine energy, and we gotta talk about this, is because I don't have to be stressed about cost of living.
• 20:20
  The United States is at a point where you need two people in the household to go work.
• 20:24
  And I'm not talking about, like, the guy makes a ton of money, and he's a millionaire, and then, you know, she's able to stay home.
• 20:31
  I'm talking about, like, for the average person.
• 20:34
  The average person, both adults need to go work because between, uh, childcare, between gas, between healthcare, insurance, uh, groceries, uh, the roof over your head, like, it's gotten ridiculous in the United States, so You are forced to be in a position where both of you are in freaking survival mode in order to go make money.
• 20:55
  Now, obviously, in Mexico, we're not paying as much as we would in the United States.
• 20:59
  We just ran the numbers.
• 21:01
  Um, we live really well on less than$2,000 a month, and I live in a condo with a view of Lake Chapala.
• 21:08
  Um, that includes our health insurance every single month,'cause in Mexico, there is private health insurance.
• 22:15
  All that stuff depends on the country, of course.
• 22:17
  Uh, that includes eating really well.
• 22:19
  That includes, uh, someone-- a house helper who comes to help us cook and clean.
• 22:24
  That includes all that stuff, and we're doing it for less than, like,$2,000 a month.
• 22:29
  Hello.
• 22:29
  In the United States, that kind of a lifestyle would be a hell of a lot more than that.
• 22:34
  I mean, I was paying$1,500 a month just for my half of the rent on a condo in Miami, and that was about seven years ago, so I can only imagine what it is now People are working three jobs in the United States.
• 22:48
  They're working 40 hours a week, and they can't even pay their bills.
• 22:51
  And a lot of people will say,"Well, they're wasting money.
• 22:53
  They're doing this, they're doing that." I can tell you after having been a financial expert for eight years, you can go Google my name, and you can go see everything that I did for eight years in the finance industry, um, the math ain't mathing.
• 23:07
  Something is very wrong, and anybody telling you that it's because you're wasting too much money is absolutely gaslighting you and is not paying attention to the actual economic reality of what is going on in the United States.
• 23:19
  So obviously, when you don't have as much financial pressure on you, then you can be a lot more in your feminine energy, and not just more in your feminine energy, but more in your creative space to come up with really good ideas.
• 23:32
  My husband works with a lot of entrepreneurs, and he talks about how, for example, um, if you leave the United States as an entrepreneur and you have more breathing room, well, once you have more breathing room, then you can come up with more creative solutions.
• 23:46
  You can come up with better business ideas.
• 23:48
  But if you're constantly under this sense of insane pressure just to survive, it's very difficult to even think.
• 23:56
  It's very difficult to even think when you are under that amount of pressure, and that's how a lot of people are feeling in the United States right now.
• 24:06
  So when we left the United States, although my husband and I, with the money that we make, could afford to live in the United States, it's kinda like what's the point, right?
• 24:15
  It's like what is the point, honestly?
• 24:17
  Because it's like the healthcare isn't even that good, and it's very expensive.
• 24:21
  The food makes you sick.
• 24:22
  Uh, the cost of living is crazy, so you have to work three, four, five times as hard.
• 24:26
  You could literally just take the money that you're making from your US-based business and go to another country and live well.
• 24:32
  You could literally just do that and solve a whole lot of problems for yourself Now, one of the things that I noticed, and sometimes we've noticed this with, uh, the relocation clients that my husband helps, one of the things that I noticed is the first six months that I left the United States, I was crying a lot.
• 24:50
  Um, I was in tears, like, constantly, and I thought there was something wrong with me, but I was like,"I'm not homesick," right?
• 24:57
  I actually really enjoy Mexico.
• 24:58
  My life is improving.
• 24:59
  It's getting better, but I'm, like, crying, like, just all the time.
• 25:03
  It took six months for my husband to realize that what was going on was the fact that my body was releasing a lot of pent-up stress and emotion that I had basically collected over, you know, seven to eight years of being in full-on survival mode.
• 25:21
  The other way that moving out of the United States helped me get more into feminine energy, and what I'm about to say might be, like, Latin America specific, because Latin America's kind of famous for this, what I'm about to say, is that, um Your entire life doesn't revolve around how much money you're making, okay?
• 25:40
  Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy making money, okay?
• 25:43
  I enjoy being creative.
• 25:46
  I enjoy, business.
• 25:48
  I enjoy these things.
• 25:49
  That's why this YouTube channel exists.
• 25:52
  Um, but my whole life doesn't have to revolve around it anymore.
• 25:59
  Now granted, you could say,"Well, you've got really good systems.
• 26:02
  You and your husband use a lot of AI in your businesses." You could say all of that, right?
• 26:08
  But there is a portion of it that is basically just the culture of the country.
• 26:12
  So in Mexico, people work hard in Mexico, but they also party really hard.
• 26:16
  I don't know if you've seen a lot of the stuff going on with the World Cup and all the stuff coming out on social media about people partying in Mexico.
• 26:24
  Mexico's like that all the time.
• 26:26
  It's not just a World Cup thing, it's all the time that Mexicans are like that.
• 26:30
  They will create any excuse whatsoever to get together to have a social gathering, a family gathering.
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  They don't even need an excuse.
• 26:39
  People in Mexico live well.
• 26:42
  They know how to have a social life.
• 26:44
  They know how to have deeper relationships.
• 26:47
  In the United States, we've completely forgotten how to do that, okay?
• 26:51
  We don't, we don't know how to have deep relationships anymore.
• 26:54
  More people have relationships with their phones than they do with other human beings, because in the United States, a lot of it is just work and survival.
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  That's it.
• 27:02
  It's work, survival, productivity.
• 27:05
  That's it.
• 27:06
  But all these other things that make for a good quality of life, they're just not in the United States anymore.
• 27:13
  There was a time when it was, and we hear it from, uh, a lot of the retired people, a lot of the retired Americans that are near where we live.
• 27:22
  You know, they've got a few decades on us, and they'll tell us, like, there was a time when the United States was a bit more like how Mexico is now, where you could have the family gatherings, where people had social lives, where, um, you, you didn't have to work three jobs just to survive, where people weren't at each other's throats all the time over politics and BS, There was a time when that existed.
• 27:44
  It's just not that time right now, and that's why you see a lot more Americans, not just retired Americans, but younger Americans deciding to leave the United States,'cause they're like All the other things that make for a good quality of life just no longer exist here anymore.
• 28:01
  So that's another way in which, uh, leaving the United States has helped me get more into my feminine energy because I have deeper relationships.
• 28:09
  And to be fair, like the relationships that you make when you're an expat or you leave the United States and you meet other people who chose to leave the United States, like you're all just a little bit crazy, so like there's an instant connection there.
• 28:23
  But you make friends for life.
• 28:24
  I feel like the friends that I've made here in Mexico, the Mexican friends specifically, those are friends for life because Mexicans take their personal relationships very, very seriously.
• 28:35
  They take their family relationships very, very seriously.
• 28:38
  And again, this might just be a Latin America specific thing, but I have seen creators in other parts of the world, uh, share similar anecdotes how it was easier for them to socialize and have deeper relationships once they left the hustle and grind of the United States I'll give you another example.
• 28:57
  So when my husband and I lived in the city, in Guadalajara specifically, which was the second largest city in Mexico.
• 29:02
  We moved, we had left a year ago, uh, to be more in the Lake Chapala area and be closer to nature.
• 29:08
  But when we lived in the city, like Anything we could have possibly wanted to be social, like hobbies or events or whatever, We were getting constant invitations.
• 29:18
  We are constantly invited to things in Mexico, again, because that's just how Mexicans are.
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  We know all of our neighbors.
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  All the neighbors are in a WhatsApp group together.
• 29:29
  We all look out for each other.
• 29:31
  Um, it, it's just stronger bonds.
• 29:34
  And you don't even have to even know a person that well.
• 29:36
  Mexicans will c- treat complete strangers like they are family members.
• 29:41
  And again, Mexico is very famous for this, so it might just be like a Latin America specific thing.
• 29:47
  Some of it might even be a Mexico specific thing, because not even all countries in Latin America are as friendly as Mexicans are.
• 29:53
  Um, but it is something to note that that's, that it's nonexistent in the United States.
• 29:58
  We don't have those social circles.
• 30:01
  We don't have those social networks in the United States anymore.
• 30:04
  The most a person will have for a social network in the United States is their coworkers or their clients or their colleagues.
• 30:11
  That's it.
• 30:11
  That's your social network in the United States.
• 30:13
  There's no social network outside of that.
• 30:15
  In Mexico, when we lived in the city, our neighbor taught art classes, so I did that for a while.
• 30:20
  Our other neighbor taught flamenco classes.
• 30:22
  We were three blocks away from a holistic healing center where we got certified in holistic healers and we made a ton of friends.
• 30:28
  Those are the friends that I'm like,"Those are friends for life." It was constant.
• 30:32
  There was always something going on.
• 30:33
  Even out here, um, on the lake, although it has a lot more retired foreigners, although we are starting to see it change, they constantly have something going on.
• 30:43
  There's gardening clubs.
• 30:44
  There's kayaking clubs.
• 30:45
  Now the World Cup's going on so all the plazas are filled with parties and people, um, and people just having a damn good time.
• 30:52
  And in the United States, like those things don't exist, which brings me to another point.
• 30:56
  The other way that the United States has helped me get into feminine energy is by being more in community in general.
• 31:02
  So it's not just having just a social life, it's also just community bonds.
• 31:06
  So in Mexico, and again, this isn't just Mexico specific, I know this also happens in Europe and some other parts of the world, there's a lot more third spaces.
• 31:14
  So there's things like shared spaces like plazas, for example.
• 31:18
  So for example, right now what we're seeing in every town in Mexico and in every city, you could go to a plaza right now and you can go see the World Cup games and you can go party.
• 31:26
  Like that's what you can do.
• 31:27
  And again, it's not just during the World Cup.
• 31:29
  This is constant in Mexico.
• 31:32
  There could be like nothing going on and there's still a party in the plaza.
• 31:37
  There's a lot more third spaces and a lot more, uh, areas for those community spaces.
• 31:44
  Doesn't exist in the United States because everything is so far apart and you need a car to get everywhere and then you're stressed out just from being in the car to having to go drive just to do your damn groceries.
• 31:55
  You know what we did in Mexico?
• 31:56
  Now we get our groceries delivered because we live up a mountain right now.
• 31:58
  But when we lived in the city, we just walked.
• 32:02
  To go get our groceries.
• 32:03
  We walked, we walked to everything.
• 32:04
  When we lived in the city, we were a 10-minute walk away from anything we could possibly need.
• 32:08
  We were a 10-minute walk away from a pharmacy, a bank, uh, three grocery stores, salons, uh, cleaners, like anything you could possibly need in order to just live your damn life, we were within a 10-minute walking radius when we lived in the city.
• 32:22
  And we weren't in the city center.
• 32:24
  We were like in one of the suburbs of the city itself.
• 32:28
  Now, like I said, it's a little bit different'cause we live up a mountain, but if we were to go 10 minutes into the nearest town, it's the same thing.
• 32:35
  You could live in that town, and you could just walk to anything within 10 minutes.
• 32:39
  So obviously, that also really reduces your stress levels Overall, the way that moving abroad has helped me get back into my feminine energy, leaving the United States has helped me get back into my feminine energy, is because I just don't live life so stressed out anymore.
• 32:54
  And this is what a lot of creators on YouTube, who are also American women who have left the United States, some for love, some for fun, um, some are married, some are single, but they're all saying the same thing,"I'm just not as stressed anymore.
• 33:08
  I was able to give my body a minute to relax.
• 33:11
  I'm just not constantly trying to survive on a hamster wheel in a society that has no safety nets, in a society that has no community anymore, in a society that doesn't really care about my well-being, in a society where the food is trash, in a society where I have to be constantly worried about healthcare, in a society where I can't even stay home with my kids because I have to go work because the cost of living is so much that both my husband and I have to go work outside of the home just to be able to make the bare minimum in the United States." So I hope this gave you a little bit more clarity for those of you who've been asking.
• 33:49
  Many of you have asked, a lot of the Americans who follow this channel have asked because you're interested in leaving the United States, in which case I do have the resources available for you before.
• 34:00
  And the non-Americans are just wondering what the hell is going on.
• 34:03
  The non-Americans are seeing this stuff all over their news that Americans are leaving in record numbers, and they're like,"What is happening?" So I hope this gave you a little bit more clarity on what is happening and why so many Americans, and especially American women, is one of the largest groups leaving the United States right now.
• 34:21
  I hope it gave you a little bit more clarity in terms of what, what our thought process is and what we're going through, and then, you know, how moving abroad actually helps us relax.
• 34:34
  That's the main thing.
• 34:35
  Like, life in the United States, like as a woman right now, you're not really able to relax.
• 34:41
  I mean, you can, but it's gonna come with a lot more effort.
• 34:44
  And as my husband says, sometimes the best thing you can do is to just change your environment.
• 34:50
  And when you change your environment, everything else starts to change.
• 34:54
  It's not the solution for everyone.
• 34:56
  But it was definitely a solution for me, and perhaps you might be listening to this and it might be a solution for you as well.
• 35:03
  I'm happy to answer any of your questions about moving abroad.
• 35:06
  And like I said, I will leave a lot of the resources below, and you can also follow my husband's YouTube channel where he talks more about the details of moving abroad and visas and investments and all the logistical stuff that comes with moving abroad.
• 35:21
  I hope this helped answer a lot of your questions.
• 35:24
  Thank you so much for giving me your time today, and I'll catch you on the next one.