The most significant questions about becoming a digital nomad revolve around whether or not you need to make significant career-related changes. Which types of careers will let me travel? Do I need to switch careers to travel? How much money do I need to earn in my career? One of the most significant life changes you can possibly make is changing jobs. Even more significant is changing careers. The idea of "starting over" is a terrifying idea to most people. In this episode, Marisa explains her ...
May 28, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Why would someone want to become a digital nomad? Instinctively, you would think that most people become digital nomads because they want an excuse to travel more often. While that CAN be true, it seems that the truth has many more layers. Jeff and Marisa have been digital nomads themselves for 12+ years, and have interacted with hundreds of other digital nomads. Based on their personal experiences and the digital nomads in their community, they created and shared a list of the top 5 reasons peo...
May 20, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 148
One of the most commonly asked questions by up-and-coming digital nomads is how much money they need to make and how much to save to live as a digital nomad. Jeff and Marisa have been digital nomads for over ten years, and they are part of a community of 1k+ digital nomads. With their combined experience, they explain: The top expenses you will need to budget for, in order of cost. Examples of actual costs around the world. An estimate of how much total money you need to make per year. Relevant ...
May 14, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Tune to to find out what the data says will be the hottest digital nomad hotspots in 2024! In order to make these predictions, Jeff, Marisa and Diego pulled data from a community of over one thousand digital nomads to find out where people will be traveling, and where they are most interested in traveling over the next year. What we know about digital nomad hotspots is that they are constantly changing from year to year. Destinations can be a bit trendy from year to year, falling in and out of f...
May 06, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Jeff and Marisa take on the second half of the top 10 most searched questions about digital nomad life. Think of this episode as a the ultimate guidebook (with references to amazing resources) to becoming a digital nomad. In this episode you will hear the top most commonly asked questions about digital nomad life and jobs answered candidly, from years of experience from seasoned digital nomads and an expert career coach. Episodes referenced: Episode 38 - 13 reasons it's hard to be a digital noma...
Apr 29, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Google searches for digital nomad related questions are growing exponentially. For example: 2,700 people per month search "What is a digital nomad?" 350 people per month search "How do I become a digital nomad?" In this episode, Jeff and Marisa found the top 10 most Googled questions you ask about the digital nomad lifestyle and how to make money to live as a digital nomad. Episodes referenced: Episode 1 - What is a digital nomad? Episode 10 - Top 6 starter locations for digital nomads Episode 3...
Apr 23, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 144
In this episode Jeff and Marisa discuss four fully-remote (work from anywhere) companies with current job listings. Jeff and Marisa clearly outline exactly what you should be looking for in a job listing and company's website to determine if the company is high quality, and will actually give you permission to travel the world while you work. They discuss specific language to look for in job listings that can be either green flags or red flags. They walk through the keywords you should be tuned ...
Apr 15, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Finding legitimate, fully-remote job listings is NOT a straightforward task. As a matter of fact, job boards are a bit of a mirage. With thousands of "remote" job listings posted at any given time, you would think that your potential for finding a strong opportunity is good. In reality, around 1% of those job listings are legitimate, fully-remote, and from quality companies. In this episode, Marisa and Jeff walk you through the exact steps you need to take in order to identify remote jobs that g...
Apr 08, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 142
Is it dangerous to live as a digital nomad? One of the biggest fears about becoming a digital nomad (and traveling in general) is personal safety. There are a lot of factors that factor into that question that Jeff and Marisa break down in this episode. To make things easier, they came up with a list of nine of the safest locations they have lived in as digital nomads. In order to qualify for this list, each location must: Be very safe from personal harm. Have a digital nomad community. Have wor...
Apr 01, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 141
This episode is jam-packed with the latest data on the world of digital nomads! Who are they? Where are they from? What is their education level? What are their jobs? All answered backed with the latest data. In this episode, Jeff and Marisa talk about Total numbers of digital nomads The number of digital nomads worldwide and within the United States. The current growth rate of people becoming digital nomads. Who they are Where they are from in the world. Their average age range. Their gender br...
Mar 26, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 140
The idea of living and traveling around the world sounds like a dream to most people. As Jeff and Marisa explain, it very much can be for the majority of digital nomads. There are many, many pros to the lifestyle. Just the once-in-a-lifetime experiences alone are reason enough for becoming a digital nomad! But, as Jeff and Marisa pride themselves on giving realistic, candid information about the realities of the digital nomad lifestyle, they also share the actual drawbacks you could run into. In...
Mar 18, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 139
If you search online for "top digital nomad jobs" you're going to find a lot of misinformation. Don't trust these lists! Jeff and Marisa have been digital nomads for a combined 10+ years and have a community of 1,000+ people. With their deep experience in the digital nomad community, they put together a list of the 7 most common high paying jobs they have seen in their travels. Here's the good news: The most common digital nomad jobs make over six figures annually! Most people are surprised to f...
Mar 11, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 138
In this podcast episode, hosts Marissa and Jeff dive into the hotly debated topic of slow versus fast travel for digital nomads. What are the benefits to fast travel? What ere the benefits to slow travel? Are there any drawbacks you need to be aware of when deciding the duration of your travel? Jeff and Marisa reveal the realistic pros and cons to both styles of travel. They also discuss specific locations that are idel for both fast and slow travel. We at Beach Commute do all of this work for y...
Mar 05, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Remote job boards are a mirage, full stop. With the thousands of "remote jobs" listed daily, you might think that your opportunities for getting a remote job are limitless. But it's 100% fool's gold. Once you start applying for jobs, you'll see that just finding legitimate listings is a job unto itself. For starters, over half of job listings online are fake. Yeah, you read that right. If you've applied to remote jobs online, chances are you've submitted your personal information to someone harv...
Feb 26, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Otherworldly: Relating to an imaginary or spiritual world. One of the many, many benefits of being a digital nomad is that you sometimes end up in places that look like a completely different planet. These are places where you have to pinch yourself, because you're looking at landscapes that you have only seen in movies, or your dreams. These locations aren't often the places where people live and work as digital nomads, but rather nearby destinations that you travel through on mini adventures. ...
Feb 19, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Managing money is one of the biggest fears people have before becoming a digital nomad. Jeff, Marisa and Diego get budgeting-related questions from listeners on a weekly basis. Will it cost me more money to become a digital nomad? Do I need to save money before becoming a digital nomad? How do I budget as a digital nomad? How do taxes work as a digital nomad? How do I invest as a digital nomad? Where are the cheapest places to live as a digital nomad? Michael Kim, CPA and personal finance coach ...
Feb 12, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 134
People of all ages are embracing the digital nomad lifestyle around the world. But perhaps the biggest hurdle to kicking off this lifestyle is getting a fully remote job that lets you travel the world while you work. And there may be subtle biases during the hiring process that you need to be aware of. Legally, hiring managers are not allowed to discriminate against any applicant based on age. But, we don’t live in a perfect world, and implicit biases exist, whether we like it or not. In this ep...
Feb 05, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Welcome to another round of "Your top 6 digital nomad questions answered!" Beach Commute gets A LOT of correspondence from you, their amazing audience. Listeners write in all the time asking awesome questions about what life is like as a digital nomad, how to get remote jobs, logistics of travel, cultural experiences, etc. Jeff and Marisa save these questions to a document (without reading them!) and ask the questions to one another on the podcast. The reader doesn't know what the question is, n...
Jan 29, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Announcement alert! We are launching a new the improved Digital Nomad Jobs Daily solution designed to get YOU a digital nomad job and traveling the world as quickly as possible. For the past four years we've listened to you and everything you had to say about your experiences trying to find fully remote jobs. Here's what you said: Job boards are a nightmare . Listings are often not fully remote, but rather limited to specific geographies, or hybrid. They may be fake, or listed by a headhunter ra...
Jan 23, 2024•11 min
There are THOUSANDS of "remote" job listings listed on the web every day. Go hop on LinkedIn and see for yourself...there are more opportunities to investigate than you have time. But despite the seemingly endless opportunities to get a job that (supposedly) would let you become a digital nomad, people are still struggling to do so. But why? We will give you a hint: What you're seeing on job boards is a mirage. What you're seeing is Fool's Gold. In this episode, Marisa (longtime career coach) di...
Jan 22, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 131
If you want a crystal clear checklist for how to be immediately productive on a digital nomad trip, this is the podcast for you. How do you get set up to work as a digital nomad when you get to a new destination? How do you make sure you have solid wifi? What technology do you need to invest in to be a productive digital nomad? How do you ensure that you have an effective workspace in your new destination? You have a choice here: You can either figure it out on your own and make a ton of mistake...
Jan 16, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Possibly the biggest benefit of being a digital nomad is the opportunity to go on once-in-a-lifetime weekend trips, every week. Digital nomads typically spend their Monday through Fridays working a semi-regular work schedule. Outside work hours people will often go on mini-adventures: Finding hot new restaurants, hiking, going on tours, etc. On the weekends digital nomads often go on BIG adventures to nearby locations. You could spend the week working in Florence, and the weekend driving through...
Jan 08, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Many of the digital nomad job suggestions you see on the web in listicles and articles don't reflect reality! If you Google "digital nomad jobs" for inspiration and recommendations, you'll likely run into the same group of careers over and over again... Jeff and Marisa can tell you is that they often don't reflect reality. In this episode Jeff and Marisa go through the top "digital nomad jobs" you'll find on the web and explain why they aren't realistic direction to take for up-and-coming digita...
Jan 02, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 128
Join us as we take a look back at the best and worst moments of our 2023 travels As 2023 comes to a close, Jeff, Marisa and Diego share their travel experiences over the past year. Listen in as they talk about the highs, lows, adventures, surprises, and hilarious situations that can only come about from living in this crazy world as digital nomads. These three pride themselves on being absolutely candid about what life is actually like as a digital nomad. That means sharing the realities of life...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Contrary to many people's beliefs, becoming a digital nomad often makes your cost of living more affordable rather than more expensive. The reason being is that the majority of major digital nomad destinations have a relatively low cost of living. As a matter of fact, it's one of the biggest criteria when digital nomads choose their destinations. In this episode, Jeff, Marisa and Diego selected 9 awesome locations to live as a digital nomad. The criteria they used were: Cost of living under $2k ...
Dec 18, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 126
Can you still become a digital nomad if you have a pet at home? Who will care for your cat or dog? Do you have to give up on your dreams of travel for the sake of your furry one? Fortunately, the answer is a resounding no! Many, many digital nomads have pets and still manage to travel the world while working. Sure, it's a little bit more difficult logistically, but totally possible. Jeff and Marisa spent many years successfully traveling while owning happy pets. With the modern services availabl...
Dec 14, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Interested in becoming a digital nomad to escape the winter for beaches, warm weather and beautiful sunsets? This is the episode for you! Marisa claims that we potentially need to "go inwards" and experience winter "like a bear". While that may be true, most digital nomads do a yearly migration from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere in search of warmer climates. Jeff and Marisa came up with a list of eight locations they have lived as digital nomads that: Have comfortable climat...
Dec 07, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Which questions do YOU have about being being a digital nomad? Jeff and Marisa get questions from you on a daily basis. Instead of responding to questions individually, they gather all the questions the audience sends in and ask each other each of them without preparation. So you get raw, unfiltered advice and perspectives on life as a digital nomad, remote jobs, productivity, making money, and traveling the world. You'll have to listen to the whole episode for the the answers, but as a teaser, ...
Nov 28, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Return to office (RTO) mandates are here, and the reasons for implementing them are either poor, or outright lies. You're being told that RTO is to "increase productivity" and "foster a sense of community", when they just finished bragging about how effective, flexible and communicative teams had been mid-pandemic. Some even bragged about how much more efficient their teams were running. What's with the about-face change in tone? They're talking out of two sides of their mouth. They tell you tha...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 122
You have to get from point A to point B, and you want to do it as cheaply as possible...because it feels terrible to get a bad deal on a flight. Almost as equally as it feels great to get a good deal on a flight. It almost feels like you won a game. And it really is like winning a game, because how many other purchases can you think of where the cost of the purchase can range so wildly? Jeff and Marisa have over 12+ years of booking dozens of flights every year as digital nomads. Over that time ...
Nov 13, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 121
