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How Finland Designs Cities to Remove Stress You Didn't Know You Were Carrying
Episode 2 of my series on the world's happiest country is now live.
 • Jon Santiago
Why Free (and Cheap) Stuff May Be Key to Happiness in Finland
The first video in my series on the world's happiest country is now live.
 • Jon Santiago
How a California Town Builds a Float for One of America's Most-Watched Parades
No corporate sponsors. No million-dollar budget. Just a small California town that refuses to let this tradition die.
 • Jon Santiago
How a Single Dad Showed His Daughters 35 Countries (And Counting)
Not wealthy, just determined. Meet the Mississippi man giving his girls the gift of a global education.
 • Jon Santiago
How Travel Made Me Fluent in Uncertainty
I've learned to live with more questions than answers.
 • Jon Santiago
Being Bullied Almost Destroyed Him
Until He Saw Its Gift
 • Jon Santiago, William Kuegler, and Tom Kuegler
Growing Up in a Town With 1.5 Million Dead Neighbors
What life is like in a place where being surrounded by death is just part of the neighborhood.
 • Jon Santiago
She Traveled the World, Then Bought a Colombian Coffee Farm for $50,000: Here’s How
No debt, no stress. Just freedom for an American woman, who found a home for herself in Colombia.
 • Jon Santiago
Do You Ever Wonder How People See You?
I know how I see myself: a bit out there, crazy, random, inability to sit still, constantly chasing something.
Published on Life in Colombia • 
She Left America to Buy and Live on a Colombian Coffee Farm
What does it look like to start over in a completely new culture?
 • Jon Santiago
The Changing Rules of Modern Masculinity
A candid conversation about manhood in the world today.
 • Jon Santiago, William Kuegler, and Tom Kuegler
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I Traveled to See the World, But What I Found Was Something More
I took a leap that changed the way I thought about how to live forever.
 • Jon Santiago
World of Nuance
World of Nuance
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