TF Tierra Firme
Qualified Advisory, Not Guesswork

Three Seats At The Table

Not just co-hosts — a structure. Every episode walks the same arc: the first rung you can afford, the income you put on it, and the honest read on the risk.

Murphy Cheatham
Act I · The Ground

Murphy Cheatham

Global real estate expert Private Clients Director, CBRE · Dallas

On the show: the first property you can actually buy — what your income reaches abroad, and how to own it without getting burned.

Murphy D. Cheatham II is a commercial real estate executive and strategist with more than two decades of experience across development, finance, brokerage, and economic development. As Private Clients Director at CBRE, he advises clients on complex real estate and investment decisions. Murphy holds a B.S. in Accounting from Grambling State University and a Master of Real Estate Development from Arizona State University.

Shawn Leamon
Act II · The Build

Shawn Leamon

Global businessman Founder & Managing Partner, LaGrande Global · Bogotá

On the show: the small business or income stream you can start abroad, built and run on the ground where the cost of entry is within reach.

Shawn Leamon is an investor, investment advisor, and entrepreneur specializing in cross-border investment strategy. He is founder and managing partner of LaGrande Global, an investment and advisory firm focused on opportunities across Latin America. His work spans private investments, real estate, and strategic advisory. Shawn holds degrees in Economics and Philosophy from Dartmouth College and an MBA from IE Business School.

Todd Allyn
Act III · The Read

Todd Allyn

Global economist Founder, Sovereo Intelligence Research

On the show: currency, political, and structural arbitrage — how the play shifts as the dollar and the regime turn, and how to be the last one standing.

Todd Allyn is an economist, business executive, and founder of Sovereo Intelligence Research, a data-driven, decision-science-based intelligence firm focused on cross-border risk and opportunity. His career spans more than 25 years across economics, financial services, business education, and executive leadership, including helping build the Jack Welch School of Management. Todd holds an MBA from the University of Akron with concentrations in Finance and International Business. His work integrates economics, geopolitical analysis, and decision science to evaluate capital, business, and geographic risk across borders.

Why Three

Experience, access, contacts.

The moat isn't a spreadsheet — it's presence. Real estate valuation, on-the-ground operating experience, and the arbitrage framework, from three people who've each stayed in long enough to be the last one standing.

The Name

Why "Tierra Firme"

"Tierra Firme" — solid ground. That's the whole point. For people locked out of ownership at home, it's real ground they can finally stand on: assets and businesses, not paper. The name is bilingual by birth, and was historically the Spanish name for the South American mainland — a fit for a US/Canada/Europe-to-Latin-America thesis, and a signal of the on-the-ground credibility the show is built on.

Production Note

Despacho

Every episode is cut twice. Despacho is the Spanish-language line — it earns authentic on-the-ground access in-market and reaches a huge, underserved audience of bilingual, priced-out households across the Americas.

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