A traveler and financial educator shares how online businesses funded his move abroad, then reflects on being one of the few Black people in Chiang Mai in 2011. Local kids called him "chocolate man" while he filmed on a $200 camera, sparking thoughts on how Black travelers are seen and why staying open-minded matters.
The kids are like, oh, chocolate man, chocolate man. Thing is, when you got no money, you got no voice. People might know me for Passport Heavy, but also I've owned one of the biggest financial companies for for black people in the world with my business partner Tiffany the Budgetista. We own a company called Live Richer Academies, where we had over you know a million people in the community, forty thousand people in our paid community. So people see the travel, but that's not even how I was making money. That's that's how. became free is building businesses, you know, online through marketing. And then so with that, I was able to travel. And when I was going to these different places, I was like, damn, I'm in Thailand, right? In 2011, I'm in like Chiang Mai and I see 4 Black people in about 4 months. I was like, I wanna tell stories. I pick up the camera, little $200 camera. Wow. I'm filming. I'm like, this is so different. And the kids are like, oh, chocolate man, chocolate man. Really? Yeah, there ain't none of us at that time, right? The old ladies are coming up. Oh no, man. Oh, and so I'm a new kind of thing back then, and so I document that because I want other people to know, okay, even though it's a little bit different, you safe out here. They mess with us, but they might be curious. But don't bring that energy of like, oh, why are you staring at me? It's, it's just different. Life is too short. Now turn that corner.
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