Not all men do find happiness here that's when the Forbes article came up and little dumag Getti was number one back then she may be pregnant with his baby he don't care he's gone if we don't make something
happen it's never going to again I don't care what they do CU I don't care what they think hey YouTube Alex here and in today's video we are sitting down with the one and only old dog new tricks
I'm sure most of my subscribers are familiar if you haven't already I provided a link in the description below I know that many of you have come to this channel from the interview that I did with him I
was very fortunate to be able to turn the camera on him and to get some of his thoughts we did overlap a bit with the lunch rush hour and so there's a little bit of noise I did try
to cut that out thought I'd let you know so let's get into the interview with Paul well I want to thank Paul as you all know he is the old dog with the new tricks I've been a fan
of Paul for years I started watching Paul back in 2019 I felt that he had this brilliant way of telling stories and I'm so grateful to have finally met him it's a pleasure and it's an honor Paul without
further Ado I'd like for you to introduce yourself to the two people that subscribe to this channel that aren't familiar well you got two people watching that's one more than I normally get I feel honored to be here
what do you want me to tell them if you could just uh introduce yourself oh okay I my name is Paul and I moved over to the Philippines 7 years ago and looking for for a different way uh
of Life primarily for economic freedom and here I am 7 years later enjoying the benefits of that move very good Paul that's a great introduction so let's go ahead and get into the questions here I see you as
a Pioneer a lot of guys see that you came here how many years ago now seven years ago so you've been here for seven years whose footsteps were you following in what inspired you to go halfway around the
world that my friend is a very good question a very fair one I'm glad you asked it there were three guys in the Philippines that I knew of one was his name is R has a little CH great
Channel life beyond the sea um there was a gentleman by the name of Ned and he had a channel called Philippine dreams and then there was a gentleman by the name of Bud Brown and I think his channel
was called Bud Brown in the Philippines or something like that he since moved back to America and so those were the only guys that were really out here there were some peripheral people that were in other areas but
as far as quality of content and information those guys were the were the stars yeah so that's who I followed that's super helpful and I also think humble to uh share those guys who help to inspire your journey
the next question I have for you a lot of younger guys are watching channels like yours they're seeing the success in your journey and also just the beautiful life that you've built for yourself and for your wife and
your community what is your best insight for younger guys who they're not getting a social security check but they want to make the move maybe they're in a solid career they're a trades person they're a sales person and
they're thinking okay I can't do it today but maybe 10 years from now or 15 years from now if I live below my means then I can do it so yeah what's your Insight for guys in that situation
that is very easy easy peasy to to respond to if they are your age 30s 40s even 50s I would suggest what I did well actually what I did I didn't do I was invited in 2005 so we're
talking 20 years ago practically to go visit with my friend in Thailand the thought had never even occurred to me to go halfway around the world I thought that my best friend at the time he's my best friend
today and we had worked together for so many years he told me what his what his experience had been there he' been going there since the 70s or the 80s so I said you know what the hell at
that point in my life I was doing very well fin eventually and I had a lot of free time it was easy for me to take a couple of weeks off or a couple of months off if I
wanted to I was doing my own thing so at 2005 I made the trip over there and I was in my early 50s if if 50 yeah like 50s something like that it set me in stone I knew
what my future was in my 50s when I came over to Thailand not the Philippines I saw an entirely different world that I never knew existed you'd watch National Geographic right it doesn't give you you know you see
the people starving on the desert or you see The Safaris or if they went to Thailand they would just show a bunch of long boats they had no desire to go over there and fish with that guy you
know when I went there and I got immersed in the culture my twoe vacation turned into two months I just kept extending out my plane ticket until they finally said that's that's the last one sport and so I
begrudgingly came back home but you know what happened from 2005 I knew what my destiny was and it gave me inspiration and it was just this almost total reassurance that came over to me is that for once in
my life I knew what my future held I didn't know the details of it but I knew I had this objective and I had this goal line to carry the ball over make the touchdown in life every time
I had a tough time at home home tough time at the job tough time in life in general it was so cool cuz I could just fall back and remind myself dude one day you're going to be back
to where it is you love to be and then in 2009 four years after that I actually moved there for a year so I was still doing okay and went to Thailand bugged out for a year really immersed
myself really cemented the entire concept I know I moved to the Philippines but I had always had the objective of Thailand and so the reasons I changed from Thailand to Philippines that's another story that was basically just a
s up due to research and watching videos and YouTube videos couple three years prior to retirement CU When retirement started Al Loom that is when I knew I would have a cash flow a steady cash flow that was
when I started to get on Google and best places to retire that's when the forbs article came up and little dumag Getti was number one back then now it's not even on the list it's all your fault yeah
I'm thinking oh hell I should have gone to Ecuador thank you so much for sharing that Insight Paul I think that you talk about getting this taste and that taste is what gave you the drive to keep working
toward your goal to hang in there with your stressful job the challenges in your life we all have challenges probably most of us watching this that are back in the US or UK Australia we have stressful jobs we're
trying to pay the bills we're trying to move up we're trying for that promotion and we want to just keep our job right in a downturn I know firsthand what it's like to go through a layoff you want
to keep that ball rolling so you had that taste and it helped to motivate you through those difficult times so the next question I have for you I think this is a pressing one because a lot of guys
my age only look at the vacation mode they're seeing the vacation mode videos they don't understand the potential missteps what do you see as the biggest missteps that younger guys make trying to come over here I honestly don't
see the guys that I've associated with that are younger that are your age really I don't see very many missteps to be quite Frank with you I'm sure they happen but I have to tell you the truth most
of the guys that I see that are coming over here they year age maybe a little bit older have simply gotten sick and tired of being sick and tired with their situation in America with the Advent of the
internet they've been able to come over here and perhaps work remotely or they do YouTube they find a way to try at least to generate an income stream sometimes they do sometimes they don't and a lot of them
are just traveling throughout the Philippines they're younger they're stronger they've got their wits about them they're not an old man like me who can't you know stay on a motorcycle for more than an hour without needing to rest
or you know whatever take a nap and so I have not seen the misdeeds that I have seen is that there are guys that come over as you say in vacation mode because they're younger because they're good-looking because
they're flashing some do they've been able to attract a Filipina girls and I say that plural more than one and they have created absolute havoc in some of the women's lives these were friends with mine of mine women
that I knew as friends only and then they hooked up with these guys and the drinking getting their bodies tatted up coloring their hair just as decadent kind of behavior the men were in they brought the girls along
and the girls played into it and then guess what the guy did he got up and left he went back home to America or Sweden or Norway or wherever he came from and so all of a sudden he's
now absent she may be pregnant with his baby he don't care he's gone and she is aged 10 years in 9 months you know because of the the drinking and all that that's very small minority but I have
observed that so I would say that's the worst thing they bring is they bring in this sort of um oh I don't know just a decadent type of of lifestyle and they introduce that to the culture which I
think is a crime yeah I think that's so accurate right that there's this cultural Clash where people they're inexperienced young people just haven't had the time to learn from hard lessons they just haven't lived enough of Life inexperience
that may not be a big deal in their home country right they've got their Community around them saying hey you get home at a decent time none of that exists here for young Travelers there's nobody telling them hey
do the speed limit so I think it's so powerful to just be cognizant that your actions do affect people here even though you may have an expiration date you may have your $110,000 and once it's done you're going
back home the people that live here have to live with those decisions they can't just undo the impact whether positive or negative that you make on them so to just be self-aware what you do really does matter so
I think that's so powerful and I'm not here of course to chastise gu guys but I do think it's important to just be aware of that moving on to the next question a lot of us have had challenges
back in our home country whether we're 30 or 70 now naturally the guy who's 70 has had more challenges than the guy who's 30 in most cases do you feel that the struggles of your life back home have
enabled you to better Savor the life that you've built here that's a great question I think the difference between 31y old and a 61y old or a 71y old is just as you put at life experience and so
we are at the realization that we are in our last chapter and we realize that our proverbial days are numbered and that if we don't make it now we're never going to make it if we don't make something
happen it's never going to and when we come over here we find a lot of uh opportunities that just didn't exist for someone our age and we're also able to embellish the experience with our wisdom and our life
experiences and we have a little different attitude we stop becoming takers and we start as we get older to become givers I think that's just an instinct in us we've already understood and come to terms with the fact
that we don't we're not out to impress anybody that's probably the biggest life lesson that an elderly person like myself will share with a younger person is that you're wasting your time if you're trying to keep up with
the Joneses or show off or impress people because there's always going to be somebody bigger better richer better looking than you so it's a Non-Stop cycle and it's one that is just an absolute total waste of time how
much better it is to jettison all that to just come in and understand that material objects things what other people think just don't have any relevance and it's more about the experience it's more about the journey than the
destination we know where we're going to go we know that our time is limited so we do try everything we can to live each day as full as we can and every day our capacity to do so diminishes
I was here at the age of 62 today at the age of 69 I cannot do some of the things I could do at 62 that's a true fact so in seven years I have already noticed that it's
there's a physical degrading going on that you're not going to stop you're not controlling of and that actually is a good wakeup call every day that you know what a year from now when you're 31 you think you're
32 you're going to be the same guy same body same mental capacity same full head of hair all that kind of you can't say that at my age one year from now could be a lifetime and you realize
that so you want to take each day I think the beauty of it is that with the wisdom that we obtain it's okay to do absolutely nothing some of my best days are the days where I just stay
home because I feel like staying home and I don't feel compelled to go meet with somebody or be invited to the party I don't get all butt hurt if I see other guys are getting together and I wasn't
called to be attend big deal it just again I don't care what they do because I don't care what they think and I'm not here to impress them I'm here to live my life and so there's where the
joy lives is you come comfortable within your own skin even though it's saggy and wrinkled and a bunch of hair in weird places you know those are some of the things you get to look forward to Pal stop
laughing thank you so much for sharing all this I think it's so powerful that you're able to live in the present you're not thinking about tomorrow you're not thinking about yesterday you're living in the moment you've got days
where it's just you and your life and that's plenty maybe even more than enough for you you feel that your cup is overflowing with joy and a sense of connection you don't feel like oh I'm missing out cuz
I'm not the life of the party which a lot of us salespeople we love being the center of attention I've gotten that from so many of my sales mentors like we're naturally the types that we love that and
sometimes you know we miss that but I think when you self-actualize then you realize that's not the end all be all so I've got two last questions and I'd like to tie them together why does so many men
find happiness here the second part of that is in what ways are you happier here first of all Not all men do find happiness here some men come here and are totally unhappy and they bail out and they
go back home it's not their cup of tea I want to be really clear about that this is not the magic pill that you get to swallow the Philippines for some people is a horrible fit but I have
always always always when I've had the opportunity to meet those guys I've always commended them for giving it a try you at least getting up their and checking it out themselves but some can't handle the weather some can't
handle the language the food the lack of Medical Care like that so those things exist and that's the one thing I want to just put out there I've never used the word Paradise when I'm explaining the Philippines because
if it was Paradise everybody would be here okay you know what I'm saying so I kind of forgot your question what was it the second part of the question is in what ways are you happier here oh okay
I have to say I've you know I've been saying this for seven years is I love the Financial Freedom that the Philippines affords me that was my goal when I came over here I'm still bearing the fruits of
that we use the term minimalist a lot well minimalist is almost the only way to go here you're almost not forced into it but you certainly have more choices here to cut back on the outgo you find that
it's not what you make it's what you spend and that's true at our home country if you're out racking up credit card debt and buying two cars and a bigger house and taking on all this luggage as far
as Financial burdens well you're going to end up losing at the end it's going to kill you it's going to take over so immediately when I came over here there was just this roof or this house lifted off
my shoulders of I can stay within my Goofy little social security check and still save money I couldn't ever accomplish that in America that's my fault I didn't put enough throttles or Governors on myself or those that I
was married to or the kids but that was then this is now so like I said I focus on now I have saved more money over here than I ever did in a lifetime in America in seven years
my savings account is bigger here than it is there there's the financial aspect of it as far as romance that wasn't even on my radar when I came over here it wasn't a priority for me but it only
took about 6 months for me to open my eyes and leave myself open to that opportunity again I thought when I came over here I that was in my past I had made so many poor decisions I'm not
ex-wife bashing I own it you know it was shouldn't no there was no shotgun wedding all right it was my choice and I made it for the wrong reasons so I have to own that I cannot blame the
woman but I didn't trust myself when I came over here when it came to selection of of a significant other so I said well if a date comes along maybe I'll go on a date maybe I won't I'm
perfectly comfortable with just being by myself anyway I could explore the island I can go here I can go there I can make some periperal friends but nothing too deep and I found the opposite to be true I
found that whether I wanted it to or not I made some very strong intimate connections with other expats and with other Filipinos and Filipinos both men and women and so that just was sort of like this unintended consequence
of moving over here from a guy that never wanted to have anything to do with women again not a woman hater a woman lover her but I didn't trust myself from a guy that didn't even want to entertain
that thought I'm now married so there you have that and so it was a very slow metamorphosis it didn't happen overnight and I think that that was because it wasn't my intention I've met other guys that their only
intention is to meet somebody and I found unfortunately that a lot of those guys fail because they tend to lack impulse control and the first pretty face or the first person that's nice to them female they jump right
in with both feet and I've always said in my own little world when people ask advice I say slow down because just take your time you know work on that decision decide if you need it or if you
want it if you want it don't get it but if you need it you'll buy it and big difference between want and need I I think that's so powerful Paul I think it's so helpful for the audience to
understand that they need to come with a backpack full of patience that coming here and I agree with this too hinging on the make or break is the relationship no if you want to stay here longterm which is
certainly not for everybody some guys will come for a month they'll find ah it's a nice place to visit not a place for me to live but if you want to live here long term you really need to
have the patience to develop a deep appreciation for the country it's not going to be vacation mode here every day and I think that's what you found is that it's not just that you love your wife but also
that you love her country and that you love the community that you've built you've invested the time to really build this beautiful life and I think it's just something that we can all appreciate and look up to and
I think we all in some way want to achieve some of what you've achieved in your life not exactly the exact this and the exact that but the sense of fulfillment that you really exude in your videos and
we can see your transformation over time from your videos you first arrive to the videos today I personally can attest that you smile more and more and your smiles are bigger and deeper and that you really have undergone
this beautiful transformation so definitely if you haven't watched Paul's Channel old dog new tricks I'm sure you have if you're watching this but if you haven't go over there and check it out he's an incredible Storyteller I think
one of the best storytellers in this country I do want to give him a chance by the way we'll throw the link to his channel in the description below I do want to give him a chance do you
have any final words for our audience today Paul well I want to thank you for the opportunity to talk to you I really enjoyed interviewing you more than you interviewing me I've never been comfortable on the side of
doing this you know I got to be honest with you I'll be asking the questions yeah yeah you ask the questions apparently you've read my file so I don't know it's I would say follow Alex my channel is
just a little video diary in my life that's what it started out as it's what still is and I think V Alex is g to duplicate that with much more efficiency and a much different perspective and a new
and fresher I'm ready for the younger guys to come over here and pass the a ton and let you guys start showing it I would love nothing more than for this to stop being a retirement community and have
it turn into more of a gymnasium you I'll get some young fresh blood in here I think it would not only help the individual but I really think it would help the a generation I think if more and
more younger people get up off their put the phone down put down the video game and all that other hoopla and just come over here and take a good kick in the face face and take a good look
at poverty and take a good look at not getting your way be challenged challenged is so important because there's such a feeling of accomplishment when you get all these little roadblocks are put in front of you man when
you first you're laughing your because you're like I you know what you want me to do what and you GNA do it how and I could give you examples but we'd be here for three days and but you
know what you have go out and you have especially when you're first here you have these tough days where you're just trying to figure out how to acclimate change money fit in where to go what to see what
to do and at the end of the day you got to sit back you can't help but give yourself a pat on the back because you survived it and you were challenged and you were taken out of your
comfort zone and you know there a I just read there's a clinical fact that if people are taken and put into a strange environment it actually activates you have we have DNA and we have brain capacity that is
lying dormant because we get into these routines that tend to become mundane and repetitive you put somebody into a brand new environment it will actually activate parts of your brain that you never would have activated had you not
challenged yourself and and sometimes you're afraid and sometimes you're in panic mode and sometimes you're lost and other times you're overwhelmed with joy and with pleasure and your brain actually starts to grow as opposed to degenerate and so
I don't know it's to me it's just been like a swallowing the Fountain of Youth a little sip of the youth Water you know I don't know how else to put it instead of the Kool-Aid we're drinking we're
drinking the Philippines water we've been drinking the freaking Kool-Aid for 62 years and now we're getting a little Aquafina in US okay so remember folks no matter what you do hydrate okay those are my last words well thank
you so much for your time today Paul it's been brilliant I think that you have a wealth of insight to share with us I can't thank you enough for joining us I've really enjoyed our time together today thanks
so much everyone we'll see you soon
