Jeff D. Opdyke

Jeff Opdyke was born and raised in South Louisiana in 1966 and has been traveling the world ever since. He spent 17 years covering personal finance and investing for The Wall Street Journal in Dallas, Seattle, and New York, and for seven years wrote the Journal's nationally syndicated Love & Money column that chronicled the real ways personal finances and personal relationships clash. As executive editor for The Sovereign Investor and Total Wealth Insider, Jeff traveled the world meeting with politicians, economists, institutional investors, taxi drivers, waitresses, hotel bellhops, and supermarket checkout clerks to better understand local economies and local consumers in a quest to find investment opportunities outside America. His book, Replay: Your Second Chance to Invest in the American Dream, was a direct result of those years of global encounters. Jeff has traveled to nearly 70 countries and currently works as a digital nomad living and writing from Prague, Czech Republic, where he serves as editor and columnist for the monthly Global Intelligence Letter, and Field Notes daily e-letter, writing about retirement lifestyle, travel, and global investing. He regularly contributes, as well, to International Living magazine.