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The Nomad Together Podcast | Location Independent Families & Digital Nomad Families

Paul and Rebekah Kortmannomadtogether.com
Location independence as a family is possible for everyone! Along our travels, we have met families all around the world who have embraced this lifestyle. This podcast is all about how you too can choose to live a location independent lifestyle as a family. We cover topics such as homeschooling, roadschooling and worldschooling as well as remote working and running a location independent business. Join us as we fly, sail and RV around the world!
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Episodes

Episode #63: Healthcare Elsewhere with John Cote

https://nomadtogether.com/healthcare/ Many people wonder how families can travel long term when healthcare is "so bad" outside of the US. If you are one of them then listen this episode which is all about healthcare elsewhere with John Cote. John is an award winning author who has published three Amazon.com #1 Best Selling books. As the creator and host of Healthcare Elsewhere, the worlds leading medical tourism podcast. In his role as patient advocate and educator, he interviews patients who sh...

Nov 01, 201750 min

Episode #62: Worldschooling Your Tribe with Jennifer Sutherland-Miller

https://nomadtogether.com/jennifer/ Are ready to be taken to a worldschooling tribe? Fasten tight as Paul invites Jennifer Sutherland-Miller, who will walk you through. Together with her husband and four children Jennifer has spent most of the last nine years adventuring full time across six continents. Worldschooling the young people, birth through university and building a career as a successful travel writer and editor while exploring far and wide have been fantastic adventures. She is deeply...

Oct 17, 201738 min

Episode #61: The “Why” behind Location Independence with Craig and Jana Holland

nomadtogether.com/thehollands Do you want to know more about location independent families? The you MUST listen to this episode where Paul interviews Jana and Craig Holland. At the end of 2010 The Hollands! recognized a huge disconnect in their marriage, family, spirituality, global footprint and finances. They were the typical middle class American family, working full-time, pursuing their musical passion, school committee’s and organizing neighborhood gatherings. Trials came their way which le...

Oct 10, 201738 min

Episode #60: Entrepreneurship and the Nomadic Lifestyle with Awilda Rivera

https://nomadtogether.com/entrepreneurship This week's episode is especially for those who want to run a business, or who are running a business. Listen carefully as Paul invited Awilda Rivera. Awilda is a trusted, results oriented Success Coach, Spiritual Advisor and Yogi who has dedicated her life to helping others succeed. Whether you are an Entrepreneur or Career Professional, Awilda has the tools to assist you in making the progress you desire. https://nomadtogether.com/entrepreneurship...

Aug 23, 201742 min

Episode #59: Volunteering While Traveling with Ricky Shetty

https://nomadtogether.com/volunteer/ On today’s episode Paul invited Ricky Shetty. Ricky is the owner and operator of Daddy Blogger , where he writes about parenting from a father’s perspective with a big emphasis on family travel with young kids. Currently, Ricky and his family are on a 1 year Round-The-World Trip visiting Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Central America. https://nomadtogether.com/volunteer/...

Aug 14, 201740 min

Episode #58: Transitioning from the 9 to 5 with Bryanna Royale

nomadtogether.com/virtualbusiness/ This week’s episode focuses on how to earn location independent income. Paul invited Bryanna Royale from Crazy Family Adventure who was already featured in episode #30. If you are aspiring family wanting to explore the world or interested how you can earn online money, then listen to this episode! Bryanna, her husband, 4 kids, and 2 dogs sold everything, bought an RV and have been traveling full-time around the US since May 2014. If they aren’t out climbing mou...

Jul 21, 201748 min

Episode #57: Becoming a Location Independent Midwife with Lerato Majikfaerie

https://nomadtogether.com/naturalliving On today's episode, you will hear Paul talking with Lerato Majikfaerie about midwifery and natural birthing as a modern nomad. Lerato (LE-RRATO, Magic Farie) is a home birth midwife having practised remotely around South East Asia and a mother to a 13 year old daughter who was raised Unschooling and traveling around the world. Lerato is Very focused on natural living, and now based in Australia in the rainforest where they're establishing an intentional co...

Jun 21, 201748 min

Episode #56: Travel Blogging with Caz Makepeace of Y Travel Blog

nomadtogether.com/ytravelblog/ This week's episode focuses on travel blogging. Do you want to start a blog or are you already a blogger, but struggling what you can create out of your blog? Then listen to Paul and Caroline Makepeace, the co-founder of ytravelblog.com one of the world's biggest travel blog and have been featured by notable brands such as Forbes, CNN, The Today Show, Virgin Australia, Expedia, and Lonely Planet and was one of the top digital travel influencers to be invited to the...

May 23, 201742 min

Episode #55: Startups for Nomads with Eli David of StartupBlink

https://nomadtogether.com/startup On today's episode, Paul talks with Eli David about startups for nomads. Eli is a founder of StartupBlink , a global startup ecosystem map. He is also a digital nomad for more than 6 years and writes about his adventures at Become Nomad . He traveled in more than 60 countries and lived in more than 30 (for more than a month). https://nomadtogether.com/startup...

May 10, 201731 min

Episode #54: Earning Location Independent Income through Real Estate with Paul Moore

https://nomadtogether.com/multi-family/ On this week’s episode, Paul talks about earning Location Independent Income through Real Estate with Paul Moore. When Paul entered the real estate sector, he completed over 85 real estate investments and exits. He also appeared on an HGTV Special Real Estate episode, rehabbed and managed rental properties, built a number of new homes, developed a waterfront subdivision, and started two successful online real estate marketing firms. Three successful develo...

May 03, 201744 min

Episode #53: Making Location Independent Money through Web Development with Joe Kashurba

NomadTogether.com/Web On today's episode, Paul invited Joe Kashurba. Joe grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets for some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies. Joe now advises and mentors other freelance web designers and digital agency owners on how to develop an...

Apr 12, 201739 min

Episode #52: Revolutionizing Education through Worldscooling with Ashley Dymock

https://nomadtogether.com/revolution-education/ On today’s show, Paul talks with Ashley Dymock de Tello about revolutionizing education through Worldscooling. Ashley is originally from Utah, but has spent five of the past seven years living abroad. She currently lives in Mexico with her husband (who she met while doing research there) and their son. For the past year and a half Ashley has worked as the head writer and editor at Nomad Capitalist and she has just written her first book, “World Sch...

Apr 01, 201740 min

Episode #51: What it Means to be Independent

https://nomadtogether.com/independent On today's show, Paul and Becky Kortman, founders of the NomadTogether Podcast grab the mic and bring the audience up to speed on what they've been doing and where they have been over the last two months. Finally, they chat through what it means to be independent. You might think this is insider baseball only meant for those who are location independent or who are digital nomads, or even for the friends of Paul and Becky, however, the message throughout this...

Mar 28, 201750 min

Episode #50: A Conversation on Midwifery with Cristina Alonso

NomadTogether.com/childbirth On today's show Becky talks with Chris Alonso. Chris is a midwife (CPM) and holds a Masters in Public Health. After consulting in sexual and reproductive health in Central America for several years she founded Luna Maya Birth Center in Chiapas, Mexico where she worked for 13 years. In 2014 she moved to Mexico City where she opened Luna Maya in Mexico City. She currently serves as president of the Mexican Midwifery Association . She continues to mentor midwifery stude...

Mar 22, 201757 min

Episode #49: Exploring Unschooling with Pam Laricchia

NomadTogether.com/Unschooling3 On today's show, Paul interviews Pam Laricchia to dig even further into the unschooling movement. Pam is a longtime unschooling mom from Ontario, Canada. Her three children left school 14 years ago. She loves writing about what she has learned through their experience, and has been published in a number of magazines. She has also written three books on the topic, and she regularly shares her experiences and stories on The Exploring Unschooling Podcast . Since there...

Mar 01, 20171 hr

Episode #48: The Secrets of Essentialism with Gen and Nick of The Great Anomaly

NomadTogether.com/Essentialism On today's episode, you'll hear from Gen and Nick, the co-creators of The Great Anomaly, a blog and podcast where they share their journey as "couplepreneurs", digital nomads, and owners of three online businesses. This conversation focuses on a concept called essentialism, which is similar to minamalism in a lot of ways. Stay tuned to find out the difference between the two and see how this mindset impacts your family, your travels, your business, and just about e...

Feb 22, 201745 min

Episode #47: Slow Travel Philosophies with Jessica Sueiro of Goodie Goodie Gumdrop

NomadTogether.com/GGG On this week's show, we've invited Jessica Sueiro from Goodie Goodie Gumdrop and WorldTowning.com on to the program. The Sueiros are a family of four who are slow traveling around the world, and they are currently spending a year in Southern France. They are world schoolers, digital nomads, dream chasers, minamilists, and much, much more. Their goal is to inspire other families to slow travel, learn through the world and live a life authentic to their desires. NomadTogether...

Feb 15, 201758 min

Episode #46: Long-Term Nomadic Life with Harris Fellman of WanderlustLiving.com

NomadTogether.com/WanderlustLiving After a short hiatus, we have returned this week to share an interview with Harris Fellman, who created WanderlustLiving.com with his wife Andrea. They both own and run online businesses, which allow them to work from anywhere in the world. The Fellmans have two children, 10 and twelve years old, and they have chosen to live a nomadic lifestyle a little bit differently than most. They prefer to live in the places that they travel to for a few years at a time. I...

Feb 08, 201742 min

Episode #45: The Kortmans Travel to the Lone Star State

NomadTogether.com/Texas This week's episode is a special audio update on our family. We just wanted to reach out to our audience and fill you in on what has happened since our most recent Visa Run to Texas. Listen in as we explain the process that we went through in attempting to establish permanent residency in Mexico. If you are considering applying for residency, this is one podcast you don't want to miss. NomadTogether.com/Texas...

Dec 07, 201652 min

Episode #44: The Culture of Worldschooling with Lainie Liberti

NomadTogether.com/WorldSchooling In episode 31, we spoke with Cassandra Vore about the ins and outs of radical unschooling. Today, you'll be hearing from Lainie Liberti (and briefly from her son Miro Siegel) of Project Worldschool. They will be digging into some deeper concepts on how to facilitate worldschooling with teens. For those of you who don't have teenagers yet, don't fret. Lainie's message teaches us about how worldschooling can apply to children of all ages. NomadTogether.com/WorldSch...

Nov 23, 201649 min

Episode #43: Connecting with Worldschoolers with C.J. Singer

NomadTogether.com/WorldschoolerConnect This week's episode is a pretty unique conversation. There are three major topics covered in this podcast, as well as some extra goodies. You'll hear from C.J. Singer, who is better known as 1/4 of the Traveling Chimps . On today's episode, Paul and C.J. discuss house sitting, worldschooling, masterminds, and a new community that C.J. has been developing called Worldschooler Connect . NomadTogether.com/WorldschoolerConnect...

Nov 16, 201633 min

Episode #42: A Teenager's Perspective on Location Independence with Réka Kaponay

NomadTogether.com/Reka So many people wonder how location-independent lifestyles affect our kids. On this week's episode, we hope to clear up some of those questions as we'll be speaking with 15 year old world traveler Réka Kaponay and her father George Kaponay. Réka is no ordinary teenager. She is a published author of fiction who is currently traveling the world on a book tour. Stay tuned to hear Reka's story and be inspired about the ways that our children can thrive as nomads. NomadTogether....

Nov 10, 201632 min

Episode #41: Creating Success Out of Failure with Clark Vandeventer

NomadTogether.com/Unworking On last week's episode, we spoke with Erin Bender about how the Benders make money through travel blogging. This week's guest has an even more unique source of location-independent income. Clark Vandeventer has a background in politics and has recently written a book titled "Backdoor to the White House". That's not why we have invited him on our show, though. Clark and his family have managed to turn a life event that many would consider to be a major failure into a m...

Nov 02, 201643 min

Episode #40: The Secrets to Successful Travel Blogging with Erin Bender of TravelWithBender.com

NomadTogether.com/TravelBlog We are often asked how a nomadic family can make money from the road. One of the many ways to do that is through Travel Blogging. This week's guest is Erin Bender from TravelWithBender.com , the #1 family travel blog with over 100,000 page views a month. Erin has been traveling with her husband and their two children since May of 2012 and they are on an open-ended, unplanned, round-the-world trip. If you have ever wanted to run a travel blog, or are interested in how...

Oct 27, 201634 min

Episode #39: A Dad's Perspective on Babywearing with Danny the Babywearing Dad

NomadTogether.com/BabyWearingDad This is the third and final installment in our three part series on Babywearing. On this episode, you're finally going to hear the dad's perspective, as Becky is speaking with Danny "The Babywearing Dad" LeBron. Danny has a passion for supporting and bringing awareness to women's rights, especially regarding breastfeeding and body autonomy. He is also a babywearing advocate, and encourages male caregivers to be active in attachment parenting lifestyles. Tune in t...

Oct 15, 201637 min

Episode #38: Tips for Wrapping Your Baby with Diana Rosenfield

NomadTogether.com/WrapYourBaby Today's episode is the second part of our three part series about babywearing. Click here to listen to the first part. This episode is all about how to properly wrap your baby while babywearing, and there was no better person to speak to about this than Diana Rosenfield. Diana is a mother of three and has been wrapping her babies for ten years. She founded Wrap Your Baby in 2005 to show others how you can include babies and toddlers in an active lifestyle. She and ...

Oct 06, 201649 min

Episode #37: A Guide to Modern Babywearing with Jay McMillin

NomadTogether.com/Babywearing This week's episode is the first in a three-part series about a topic that a lot of parents hold very dear: Babywearing. In this episode, Becky is speaking with Jay McMillin, a professional babywearing and lactation educator, and mother of a four year old daughter. Jay is also certified with the Center for Babywearing Studies and is the voice behind the blog Modern Babywearing . Jay is working to normalize the practice of Babywearing and has a lot of advice and know...

Sep 28, 201651 min

Episode #36: The Blueprint to Location Independent Money with Avery Breyer

NomadTogether.com/Income-Streams Today's podcast is the second in our two-part series about money. On this episode, we'll be speaking with Avery Breyer, the multiple-time bestselling author of the Smart Money Blueprint Series. Avery has been featured on live radio, along with many other national publications. We talk with Avery about redesigning your life from the ground up, building online income streams, and living the digital nomad lifestyle with a family. If you want to know how to make mone...

Sep 14, 201636 min

Episode #35: A Radical Approach to Finance with Joshua Sheats of Radical Personal Finance

NomadTogether.com/Financial Today's podcast is the first of a two-part series about something that we all love, hate, need, want, and spend way too much time thinking about: money. In this first episode, we're speaking with Joshua Sheats from RadicalPersonalFinance.com . You'll hear Joshua talk about ways that you can save more, ways that you can spend less, and whether home ownership is really worth it. The financial tips that Joshua shares in this episode are fantastic and can apply to anyone ...

Sep 08, 201653 min
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