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EXPAT LIFE.
Videos, writing and conversations about work, reinvention, Southeast Asia, money, identity — and whatever comes next.
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THE VISA TRAP NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
What looks like freedom from the outside can become another kind of dependency once you actually build a life abroad.
Watch on YouTube →You don’t need
another newsletter.
Neither do I.
I send something when I have something worth sending — new videos, ideas I’m working through, things I learned the expensive way, and occasional opportunities that don’t make it onto YouTube.
I left.
Then life got interesting.
I’m Brandon Cole. I make videos, build businesses and live in Southeast Asia.
I originally came out here as a guy with a camera. Somewhere along the way I built a production business, became a father, started a family, and discovered that leaving America was the easy part.
Follow Brando is where I work through what comes after that.
The longer version →How much money does your escape cost?
Figure out what leaving actually costs before you blow up your life.
Get the kit →Want to talk?
I occasionally open a small number of conversations with people working through an interesting decision, business, reinvention or move.
I don’t do relocation concierge work. I don’t have a course to sell you. And I probably can’t tell you which SIM card to buy.
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