I remember approximately when I applied for Colombia’s Digital Nomad Visa because Donald Trump won the U.S. election on November 5, 2024, which is a completely ridiculous way to date-stamp your immigration paperwork, but here we are. I submitted my application right around the following day.

But when you're a 39-year-old woman like I was then, and you've always lived under a system where you feel unsafe as a woman walking down the street, when every time you plan something, it doesn't really come out the way you want, something is always late, something is always incomplete, something always costs more, it can be very difficult to plan for the future.