Beach Commute - Digital Nomad Experts

In this episode, Marisa interviews Emma McCann, a designer from New Jersey who had a dream to travel, and quit her corporate job with no backup plan in place. Emma now lives as a digital nomad, working as a UX/UI designer as she travels to epic locations in places such as Asia and The Middle East (while often keeping a homebase apartment in Brooklyn). Marisa and Emma first met while living togethe...

Murray le Roux is a digital nomad from South Africa who works as a developer while traveling the world. Murray and Marisa first met back in 2018 when they lived together in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and have traveled to several countries together since then. Murray is an all-around fun guy, and this podcast episode is full of laughs and hysterical travel stories. In the episode, you’ll hear: -How a br...

Meet Agnes Nyamwange, a digital nomad who grew up in Kenya, got her bachelor's degree in Uganda, and moved to the US to get her masters degree. Marisa and Agnes met in 2019 while living for a month together in Lagos, Nigeria. But traveling wasn’t always Agnes’ life… While visiting the gynecologist one day, the doctor asked her a very simple question that changed her life forever… She quit her job,...

Special guest Jaime Goodman joins our digital nomad podcast to talk about how she quit a six figure corporate job seven years ago to spend her life abroad. She discusses her emotional decision to sacrifice money for time and experience. Jaime decided that her yearning inside to travel the world and experience freedom outweighed her desire to work a high-powered corporate job, where she felt that s...

Are you currently working full-time for a company and wish you could travel more often? I've got good news! If your job can be done remote, your job can also be done on the road.  A lot of people don't realize that there are a few simple steps they need to take in order to become a digital nomad.  In this episode Marisa interviews Jeff on how he became a digital nomad while serving as th...

Do you have a dream of traveling the world and living as a digital nomad, but deep down, fear you’ll be lonely if you pack your bags and land in a foreign country? If you have a fear of being lonely while traveling, we’ve got great news for you! While the fear of loneliness is a very common fear for a solo traveler, we’ve found that living as a digital nomad has actually been the opposite of lonel...

Once referred to as “digital hippies”, remote workers are now becoming better understood as the workforce has turned increasingly digital. And with that, people are realizing that they can travel WHILE they work. While nearly NOTHING good came out of the pandemic, one good thing that happened was workers feeling empowered to say, “I want to work outside the office, forever.” And the companies who...

Welcome to Beach Commute, the ultimate digital nomad resource center.  In this inaugural episode, you'll meet Jeff, Marisa and Diego, three friends who met each other while working remote in Bolivia. In this pilot episode you will hear the stories about how they became digital nomads, and their specific moments when they decided, "There is no way I can go back to normal life."  They...