Co-founder Jeff has had a lifelong background in dealing with mental health issues, in particular, OCD. Jeff explains in detail how OCD and depression occur in the brain, and what feeds them. He explains how these disorders hijack the brain and can cause debilitating mental and physical effects. He talks about his experience in modern psychotherapy and how western medicine turned his “therapy” into drug peddling which resulted in him getting addicted to prescription drugs for over 18 years. Soon...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Great places to travel as a digital nomad with Alex Holzhammer | Ep 90 Alex Holzhammer is a marketer from Cologne, Germany, who started his journey as a digital nomad in late 2018. In this episode he discusses the logistical steps he went through in order to fulfill his dreams of traveling, and how he maintains this lifestyle today. Since becoming a digital nomad, Alex has been all over the world. He talks about his favorite places to travel and some of the key things he looks for when selecting...
Apr 03, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Grace is currently a certified movement disorder specialist (working with patients who have had strokes), and works in education. Unfortunately Grace finds her current occupation to “wear her out”, and it’s resulting in her not living in the physical environment that’s fully pleasing to her. Cofounder Marisa Meddin is a career couch who helps clients find their passions and turn them into careers. In Grace’s case, Marisa helped her find potential career paths that allow her to work and travel. M...
Mar 27, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Rachel is a longtime digital nomad and friend of the Beach Commute founders. A longtime digital nomad, Rachel has been working as a project manager while working and traveling remotely for the past five years. Rachel started her journey by joining Wifi Tribe and signing up for six chapters in a row across multiple continents! A seriously aggressive start to the lifestyle. And she did all this without telling her employer that she was traveling! She explains how she managed to get through this “g...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Do you ever look at a job listing and think "I'm not 100% qualified to apply for this job, so I'm just going to pass?" After analyzing the results of our community survey, it turns out that this type thought process is EXTREMELY common. Unless folks feel like they fully satisfy every one of the job listing's "desired qualifications", they won't even apply. But here is the secret directly from Jeff and Diego who have created job listings, and hired dozens of people: We fully know that the person ...
Mar 13, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Julie Kornfeld has one of the most interesting backgrounds out of any of the digital nomads we have interviewed. Julie was a refugee lawyer representing people throughout the globe who were looking for a legal path to finding a place of safety. She represented people from Burma to Guatemala, Nicaragua, and everywhere in between. She’s quite literally worked with clients throughout the world. As part of her career path on a trip to Uganda that she caught the travel bug. A spark was lit inside her...
Mar 06, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 86
If you had a chance to live anywhere in the world for one day, one week, one month, one year, and ten years, where would you choose? Jeff, Marisa and Diego challenged each other with exactly those questions in this week’s episode of the Digital Nomad Experts podcast. They had no idea which locations each person was going to choose! They discussed why each location made sense for a short or long-term stay, and provided recommendations to new digital nomads on what to expect. If you’re an upcoming...
Mar 01, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Meet Colette Williams, a fellow digital nomad and friend of Jeff, Marisa and Diego. Colette started working remote soon out of college as a sourcing specialist for a sales and marketing company. But at this point she hadn’t started traveling yet. She worked from her parents’ home for a couple years, then decided she wanted to jump headfirst into a travel lifestyle. Her very first digital nomad trip was to Bolivia on a Wifi Tribe chapter where she met Jeff, Marisa and Diego for the first time. Bo...
Feb 21, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 84
In this week’s episode Jeff interviewed Marisa to lowdown on her wild ride from rising through the ranks of corporate life at Pepsi, to owning a dessert shop, leaving an engagement, and becoming a top career coach and digital nomad having traveled to 75+ countries. Throughout this episode you’ll learn: Marisa getting her start as an exemplary marketing student, and following her education into a career in the same field. Becoming a high-power marketer with Pepsi, working with Lil’ Wayne, Sofia V...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Our teachers and our parents hammered it into our heads since we were kids: "You cannot have a gap in your resume!" and "You cannot quit your job without having another job lined up!" And these beliefs have created deep-seated fears in people and many times prevents them from making career changes in their lives. And that, in turn, prevents them from becoming a digital nomad. But are those fears actually justified anymore? Do hiring managers actually care about resumes gaps and "loyalty" anymore...
Feb 08, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Becoming a digital nomad MIGHT not be for everyone. Or...perhaps there are certain "blockers" that make you THINK that the digital nomad life is inaccessible to you, but in reality, those blockers are very easy to overcome. The Beach Commute community is very active, and people regularly write into the show with their concerns about why they might not be able to hack it as a digital nomad. Jeff and Marisa compiled the top reasons people have told us that they think that becoming a digital nomad ...
Jan 31, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Meet Laurie LeDuc, an original digital nomad who got her start back in 2008 when she worked in Australia for Catster, a social network for cats. From there, Laurie joined Khan Academy (but the role wasn’t fully remote yet). She then convinced her employers to let her start traveling domestically in the United States to start. (You’ll have to listen in for tips on how Laurie convinced her company to let her work remote and her recommendations for new digital nomads.) Then she went on a legendary ...
Jan 23, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Life as a digital nomad can be extremely awesome, but forgetting or overlooking a few (seemingly small) details can result in a dream trip turning into a disaster. And that holds true from the perspective of productivity, comfort, fun and respecting the culture! Jeff, Marisa and Diego have seen and made plenty of mistakes as digital nomads. With these “learnings” they managed to come up with a list of 18 things to avoid (this is a two-part podcast). You’ll have to listen in to hear the list of 9...
Jan 16, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Do you have the desire to travel the world as a digital nomad, but maybe you have no idea what type of career you’re actually qualified for (or want to do) remotely? If so, the Salesforce industry may be just the career path you didn’t even know you were meant for, just like our podcast guest this week. In this episode, we interviewed Alex Warneke, a marine scientist and park ranger who was stationed at a National Park in California while working for the government ( a very non-remote job) 🐠🏕️...
Jan 10, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Hollie and Rusty have taken digital nomad life to a completely different place: The wilderness. Quite literally, they work from the most remote national forests in the United States, all while working online in digital marketing and IT security. Hollie used to work with Jeff Baker as a content marketing strategist for Brafton. But late into her tenure she (using her own words) "strong armed" her employer to get them to let start working remote out of Colorado. Technically she made this possible ...
Jan 02, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Join us as we take a look back at the best and worst moments of our 2022 travels On Instagram, life as a digital nomad looks perfect…the epic destinations, the freedom, the adventures. However, while digital nomad life is filled with some of the most amazing “pinch me” moments, it doesn’t come without its drawbacks. On the Digital Nomad Experts podcast, we like to share both the highs AND the true lows with you…so that you have real expectations of what your life will be like when you begin livi...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Jeff and Marisa decided to come up with six personal questions to ask each other about being a digital nomad. Neither person had any preparation beforehand to see or think about the answers to these questions. So basically, you get raw, unfiltered perspectives about all the highs and lows about being a digital nomad. These questions ranged from funny and lighthearted to deeply personal and introspective. As a preview, in one segment Jeff goes into detail about how being a digital nomad has impac...
Dec 19, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Being a digital nomad has an insane amount of positive aspects. You’ll get an amazing amount of culture, adventures, language skills, food experiences, etc. But if you don’t find a community of likeminded people, it can get vey lonely. And one of the potential best positive aspects of being a digital nomad is finding community and making lifelong friends to share your experiences with. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone! Aside from finding ad hoc communities on Nomadlist and social netwo...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 74
Becoming a digital nomad can feel like an absolute black box of "should I do this?" and "what's the best way to do that?" with extremely important personal decisions. Fortunately, Marisa, Jeff and Diego are able to tease out all of the "good" advice from the noise, and even possibly "bad" advice. Marisa in particular has worked with over 1,000 people as a career coach and at a fortune 500 company, so she's well-equipped to help future digital nomads drill down into the most important stuff. In t...
Dec 06, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Announcement alert! Are you trying to land a remote travel job so that you can become a digital nomad? We have a master class designed specifically for you. On December 6th and December 7th we will be hosting a webinar called “The 5 crucial steps to get your first remote travel job.” In this webinar you will hear from Marisa, who has over ten years of experience coaching over 1,000 people during her time at a fortune 500 company, and her personal coaching business. In this webinar you will learn...
Dec 02, 2022•9 min
Our listeners have awesome questions about being a digital nomad. And we have the answers! In this episode we respond to your questions on the fly, with no preparation! Seriously, this is a FUN episode, all thanks to our listeners. Without seeing the questions beforehand, Jeff and Diego ask and answer 6 real questions about being a digital nomad. Here are the questions they covered in this episode: What is your favorite country to live in? How big is your suitcase and how do you work around extr...
Nov 28, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Ihor Bauman was inspired to create a software company for a very unusual reason. In 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic Ihor's mother lost her job as a therapist. As a matter of fact, a ton of freelancers So Ihor created a platform for freelancers to create a website, take bookings, collect payments, and manage accounting all on one platform. As a result of having lots of freelancers on his platform, he was able to gather data on the top 6 jobs with a relatively low barrier to entry and reason...
Nov 21, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 71
We are again joined by Rob Bone, a digital nomad who has been testing productivity hacks for years. The early days of turning into a digital nomad can be a rush: People are always going out to cafes, restaurants, dancing, etc. It can become very difficult to be productive with all the distractions. Rob and Jeff have spent quite a bit of time learning various productivity hacks that have helped keep them on track. Many techniques they have discarded, some they have kept. They discuss: Can you bui...
Nov 15, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Julio Monzon began his journey as a digital nomad 9 years ago, making him on of the most experienced digital nomads we have interviewed. Julio took a very strange path to becoming a digital nomad... Rather than asking his boss to work and travel, or becoming a freelancer, he actually CREATED a company with the purpose of travel. This was a very rare mindset for someone to take back in 2013, when the whole concept of a "digital nomad" was brand new. He thought, "If there isn't anything out there ...
Nov 07, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Meet Danielle Lee, an ex-accountant for Xerox from the United Kingdom. Back in 2019, Xerox gave her three weeks off for her to travel (and work a tiny bit) from Peru. She left the trip loving life, and asked if she could do this “digital nomad thing” more often, but they told her that it was only going to be a one-off type of allowance. Bummer, but Danielle didn’t give up her dream. She then doubled down and asked to go to Bali, to which they said “no, absolutely not.” At that point, she had dec...
Oct 31, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Have questions about being a digital nomad? We have answers, and in this episode we answer them on the fly, with no preparation! Seriously, this is a FUN episode, all thanks to our listeners. Without seeing the questions beforehand, Jeff and Marisa ask and answer 7 real questions about being a digital nomad. Here are the questions they covered in this episode: What are some of the strangest things you've seen as a digital nomad? Which locations are going to be the next digital nomad hotspots? Ho...
Oct 24, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Are megacities good places to live as a digital nomad? It's a really tough question, and the true answer is: "It depends on the city." So, in order to put together a halfway intelligent method, we created a set of 6 criteria points to determine how well a megacity qualifies. They are: Community - How easy it it to find and build community? Safety - Is the location physically safe to travel, or are there pockets that are safe to travel? Internet - Is the average internet speed strong enough to su...
Oct 17, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Becoming a digital nomad will be one of the most impactful decisions you will ever make in your life. Without. A. Doubt. We talk about the five most obvious reasons to us that you'll LOVE being a digital nomad. Mind you, there are many, many more, but we will leave some of the surprises to you and your experiences. You can't see as much on normal vacation: When the only time you can use to travel is your 2-4 weeks of vacation per year, you'll never accomplish 1/10th of your travel goals as you c...
Oct 12, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Interested in visiting Africa as a digital nomad? You're not alone! While Latin America, Bali, and Thailand get the most press for top digital nomad destinations, Africa has quietly been turning into a digital nomad powerhouse. Without giving away the specific cities (you'll have to listen to find out!) we talk about: South Africa: Our destination boasts: A massive digital nomad community, amazing places to hike and take pictures, up-and-coming coworking spaces and laptop-friendly cafes. Mauriti...
Oct 03, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 64
We've come up with a list of the 7 questions you're most likely going to be asked when applying for, or asking your boss to become a digital nomad. After interviewing and working with over 1,000 digital nomads, Diego exactly how to approach these questions. Hint: Yes, there is a right way and wrong way to approach these questions. Here are the seven questions: What does “working remotely” actually look like for you? What do you need in your physical workspace to be successful in your job? How do...
Sep 26, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 63
