Carl Richards, CFP®, spent four years living in New Zealand. He came back with a different view of money, work, and what actually matters.

Carl is the New York Times Sketch Guy. He turns complex financial ideas into simple drawings. He has written multiple books, including his newest, Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches.

He joins host Arielle Tucker, CFP®, EA to talk about why he moved his family to the other side of the world, what he learned from detoxing from US work culture, and why most of what we worry about never happens.

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WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
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0:00 - Carl Richards, CFP®: New York Times Sketch Guy and author of Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches
1:06 - How a desperate drawing on a whiteboard for confused clients became a 10-year New York Times column
3:34 - The lesson: show up, be consistent, and put yourself at risk for good things to happen
6:11 - Why Carl's family moved to New Zealand in 90 days. The detox from US money and work culture. Moving teenagers abroad during a senior year of high school.
12:55 - Cultural shifts abroad: why New Zealanders ask about holidays and weekends, not jobs
17:50 - Stop using money as an excuse. How to stop worrying and actually move.
21:36 - The worry list: a blank page. A list of things helped by worrying. It is blank.
25:41 - The cognitive load of a simple grocery store in a new country
26:52 - Carl's daughter's advice: you thought you were going to have an adventure without it being hard

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ABOUT THE GUEST
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Carl Richards is a certified financial planner, the creator of the Sketch Guy column at The New York Times, and the author of multiple books including The Behavior Gap and Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches. He lives in Utah and speaks internationally about behavioral finance, risk, and decision-making.

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ABOUT THE HOST
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Arielle Tucker, CFP®, EA is the founder of Passport to Wealth™ and a cross-border financial planner who has lived abroad since 2011. She specializes in helping globally mobile Americans navigate the intersection of US investments, international tax compliance, and expat life.

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ABOUT PASSPORT TO WEALTH™
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