Tag: Legacy


  • Schooling Options for Your Second Residencies or Plan B Locations

    The System That Taught Me Won’t Teach My Kids I grew up in the public school system in a small Canadian town. It wasn’t great, but there were good lessons being taught. I excelled in math and engineering disciplines โ€” the kind of skills that got rewarded in the 90s and early 2000s. I could…

  • What Your Children Gain When They Grow Up Everywhere

    My son doesn’t know he’s lucky. He just knows that in Brazil, soccer meant running barefoot through neighborhood parks every evening, the whole community cheering from the sidelines. He knows Festa Junina means dancing in a straw hat while bonfires flicker and the air smells like sweet cake and smoke. And this weekend, like so…

  • You Donโ€™t Have to Uproot Your Life to Give Your Kids a Global Future

    I still remember the moment each of us was handed our permanent residency cards in Panama. My spouse first, then me, then each of our children. Four cards. Four keys to a door that can never be locked. Standing in that office, it hit me: our kids will always have somewhere to go. No matter…

  • The Four Paths to New Citizenships: And How to Stack All of Them

    Iโ€™ve sat across from families whoโ€™ve built extraordinary wealth โ€” eight-figure, nine-figure or more portfolios, multiple businesses, real estate across different markets. By every conventional measure, theyโ€™ve won. But when we start talking about the future โ€” where their kids will live and grow up, what happens if tax policy or the social climate shifts,…

  • Citizenship as Insurance: Why I Got My Kids a Second Passport

    Five years ago, I stood in a government office filling out visa paperwork to enter the country where I was born. My passport had always been my golden ticket. For decades, Iโ€™d traveled freely, never thinking twice about borders or permissions. But there I wasโ€”needing a visa for the place I was born. Thatโ€™s when…