Beach Commute - Digital Nomad Experts

Announcement alert! We are launching the Nomad Career Accelerator program! This "do it for you" program is designed for the folks who are in the more advanced stage of their career and want to find a job that allows them to travel. We realize that it takes A LOT of time and effort every week to find job listings, craft your resume, write cover letters, network with the right people and h...

Jeff interviews Will Hatton, founder of The Broke Backpacker, one of the first and most popular digital nomad/adventure travel blogs on the web. Will started his journey at 19 years old backpacking through India on $10 per day (literally a broke backpacker). From there, he went on some of the most interesting adventures we have ever heard on the podcast (both from a business and personal perspecti...

Does it feel like your dream of becoming a digital nomad is so overwhelming that you don't even know where to start? Totally understandable, but it's not as daunting as you think! With the clear steps Jeff and Marisa outline on this episode, you'll feel WAY more comfortable with the idea. You'll also have some clear, actionable steps you can take along with the mindset you need to...

Digital nomad life is all about Instagram Influencers, working from the beach, day drinking, and working two hours a day. It's basically an everyday vacation from real life... NOT! There are a LOT of myths about what daily digital nomad life looks like. And the problem is that these myths make people think that becoming a digital nomad is unrealistic for everyday people. Jeff and Marisa certai...

Do you dream of traveling the world, but have a fear deep down that you may not feel safe, or that something bad will happen, when you begin your travels? And if you’re a female, maybe this fear feels even more present for you? And what if you're traveling solo? Fear not! In this podcast interview, Jeff interviewed Marisa to get the scoop on all the safety tips that female travelers should con...

Living as a digital nomad is an AWESOME way to have amazing experiences, make lifelong friends and community, and see the different cultures of the world. The freedom you experience is unmatched. However, traveling all the time can be quite exhausting. The reality of being a digital nomad is that you end up missing the little creature comforts of living in familiar place. And of course you may mis...

Guess what? Most digital nomads aren't Instagram influencers or trust fund recipients. Despite what you see on social media, the reality is that most folks are way more relatable than you think. The majority of the time, they are normal folks doing very normal jobs (oftentimes jobs that you're used to seeing in office environments). But what exactly are these "normal jobs" that a...

For the 100th episode anniversary, Marisa (with the help of ChatGPT) came up with 15 hard-hitting questions for the group. But here's the kicker: Only Marisa knew what the question prior to recording, making this a genuine, rapid-fire session. The episode was TONS of fun, but also jam-packed with tips based on real life experiences. The group talked about things like: Which gadgets you need to...

Looking for a job that lets you become a digital nomad?  Our audience often writes in asking awesome questions about how to get remote jobs that let them travel.  They write in questions about job searching, interviewing, pitching themselves, logistics of working on the road, etc.  In this episode Jeff and Marisa read to each other five questions directly from emails our audience writes in.  With...

You would be shocked how much a different work schedule can impact your entire outlook on life. As a digital nomad, you will experience all the highs and lows that come with working strange (for you!) hours.  For example: You might be used to the routine of starting your day with the intention of working - getting up early, eating breakfast and going straight to work.  But what if you had the enti...

Who wouldn’t want to go to places like Rome, Paris and Madrid?  Where do you dream of going in Europe?  We all know the major hotspots in Europe that everyone wants to visit at some point in their lives.  But should those places be on your list as a digital nomad? Sometimes these locations are better suited as vacation destinations rather than digital nomad destinations.  Jeff, Diego and Marisa br...

Imagine a beautiful tropical beach cafe in the Caribbean. You’re wearing your flip flips, a t-shirt and shorts. You grab a spot overlooking the ocean, open your laptop, and that’s your office for the day.  Idyllic, right?  Just 3-5 years ago, this was not even a remote possibility in tons of locations where digital nomads now live regularly.  The infrastructure (mostly wifi speed) just didn’t allo...

Have you ever sent out 100s of job applications and never gotten a single response?  Do you want a higher hit rate with getting interviews?  This podcast unlocks the expert secrets that will 3x or 5x your response rate.  The problem most applicants have is that is that they and thousands of other applicants are taking the exact same approach, and they’re not standing out from the crowd.  Jeff and...

From the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, Jeff and Marisa share their  top and bottom real-life experiences living as a digital nomad over their past 10+ combined years of traveling.  Your capacity for happiness is much, much higher in life living as a digital nomad. Your Tuesday could be: swimming with whale sharks in the morning, working from the beach curing the day, and climbing a mount...

Dmitrii founded a fully remote marketing agency that allows its employees to work wherever in the world they want. Even more revolutionary - he allows his employees to work their own schedule that best suits their lives.  This “freedom of work” system maximizes employee happiness, productivity, and quality of work.  Dmitrii started RegexSEO as a physical office based out of Houston, Texas. After c...

that takes pride in employing a team of fully remote employees (and they’re always/currently hiring!). Jeanna was a successful marketing professional in San Francisco climbing up the corporate ladder. From the outside looking in, she was was absolutely killing it, doing everything American culture would describe as “successful.”  But as she describes, “What society told me I should be doing wasn’t...

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”...

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 worl...

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 career...

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 w...

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...

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 pa...

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-te...

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 tri...

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 c...