About Abroad

Rolf Potts is the author of one of the all time great travel books, Vagabonding, as well as his latest creation, The Vagabond’s Way, alongside a variety of other travel books and articles, as well as his podcast, Deviate. As one of the world’s best known nomads, Rolf stops by today to share his perspectives on the past, present, and future of global mobility, and long the way we touch on subjects...

Countries around the world have recently started providing financial incentives to lure location-independent workers across their borders - but little did we know Italy put this into place decades ago! Today, Paolo Rigo, the CEO of Studio Rigo - an international tax consultancy in Verona, Italy - joins Chase to dive into a program that allows foreigners to move to Italy and reduce their taxes by 7...

Today the tables have turned as Chase is interviewed by his friend, Matt Bowles, who is the host of the world famous Maverick Show. Matt has been traveling the world and interviewing location independent entrepreneurs for years, so if you’re interested in hearing a bit more about Chase’s journey then this is the episode for you! And if you love what we’re exploring here on About Abroad, then you’l...

Lauren Razavi is the Executive Director of Special Projects at the fully remote company SafetyWing, and leads the charge for the Plumia project, which aims to build a global border pass and eventually, a country on the internet. She’s also a former writer for The Guardian who is set to release her first book, Global Natives, any day now (pre-order available!), as well as a world-renowned author, s...

Johannes Voelkner is an OG digital nomad who has gone on to build Nomad Cruise, Nomad Safari, and Nomad Base - all three providing incredible experiences and opportunities for perpetual travelers to find their tribe abroad. Today we dive into Johannes’ personal story, touching on his early motivations to create these projects and the roots of his success building passive income and location indepe...

Communities around the world are starting to compete for remote workers by offering wild incentives to make the move to a new town. They want you to bring your remote salary, and in exchange, they offer you a better quality of life, lower cost of living, a community that wholeheartedly wants to welcome you, cash (sometimes $10,000+!), and a range of additional benefits - from courtside seats at th...

Cepee Tabibian is the Founder of She Hit Refresh, and a true pro when it comes to helping people refresh and build a life abroad. An American with a 20 year love affair with Spain, who decided to trade her good life for a great life, she has personally tested the waters with many visa options in España, and as of recently, has climbed the immigration ladder all the way to citizenship! Today we div...

Jason Moore is the host of Zero To Travel - the leading travel podcast in the world - as well as founder of his latest endeavor, Remote Norway. An American expat and lifelong world traveler, Jason has been calling Norway home for many years. Now he’s helping facilitate incredible remote work experiences for groups and teams who want to come and experience all that Norway has to offer. So today we...

Maris Kohv is the Founder & CEO at Minoma, formerly known as Borderless Retreat. Her journey has taken her from a deskbound job as an architect, to a worldwide leader in the mindfulness + nomad space, who now spends her time curating retreats around the world in exotic locations. Today Maris shares her personal story, and along the way we touch on how Minoma is helping remote workers and digit...

Ali Greene is a longtime digital nomad, a well-known thought leader in the remote work space, and now the co-author of her newly published book, Remote Works. Over the years she’s lived as a nomad, a slo-mad, and an expat, and claims the most important inflection points in her career came during her times abroad. She now weaves her work into her traveling lifestyle, and currently joins me from Fra...

David McKeegan stops by the show today to update us on his experience hitting the road again for the first time since pre-pandemic. As a family of five with three children, he and his wife, Carrie, have been somewhat nomadic for quite some time - so slowing down and settling into a life abroad for the past few years in Costa Rica was a bit different. But they just finished a nine month tour throug...

Tony Jamous is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oyster, one of the world’s leading Employers of Record, with 700+ employees in 80+  countries, and helping companies from 150+ countries employ thousands of employees from all corners of the globe. After growing up in Lebanon he made his way to France as a teenager, and then over the years ended up living in more than 20 different places, from Switzerland t...

Dean Kuchel earned the King of Nomads nickname as he started rapidly accruing passport stamps and building communities of nomads around the world. He’s the Founder of the UN (United Nomads) and the Digital Nomads of Israel (37k+ members), as well as a public speaker and entrepreneur, in the remote work and nomad space. Originally from Israel but now a perpetual nomad that sometimes calls Bali his...

Kristi DePaul has been living abroad in Israel for the past eight years, raising an interfaith family, exploring the Middle East, and building her company, Founders, to sustain her location independence. As a non-Jewish person living in Israel, she provides an incredibly unique perspective on one of the most talked about countries in the world. Today we dive into her experience immigrating to Isra...

Jan de Jong is a serial entrepreneur from the Netherlands who made a life for himself in Croatia over the past 15 years. Croatia has become his home, and alongside building his businesses there, he also recognized an opportunity to help boost the country’s economy via the rise of remote work. He has gone on to co-found the Digital Nomad Association of Croatia, and played a key role in assisting th...

Daniel Thompson is the founder of Noma Collective and a true global citizen who spent his youth moving around the world, and today curates experiences for digital nomads who want to explore the world - without the headache, and with their tribe. In today’s episode we dive into “Noma” and how it intersects with the evolution of today’s remote worker, providing a stepping stone for those that want t...

David Comfort used to work on Wall Street and has enjoyed life in Southern California, but he traded all of that in to chase a dream to live a more well balanced life in Costa Rica. He has since developed Rise Costa Rica, an 800 acre community of expats coming from all corners of the world, with schools in place for their children, a coworking space, activity center, and a thriving social scene an...

Amin Greige grew up in Lebanon and when another crisis slammed the country and his daily commute went from four hours to seven hours, he decided now was the time. He discovered Cyprus, a European island nation in the Mediterranean, and one of fastest growing nomad and expat hotspots in the world due to the infrastructure they have in place for remote workers. From digital nomad visas to tax advant...

Lavinia Iosub is the the Managing Partner of Livit International, a co-working space, community, and startup incubator based in Bali. A true global citizen originally from Romania, Lavinia has traveled to ~40 countries, lived in 8 countries, and created a current reality that allows her to split her time between Bali and slo-mading around the world in her down time. She’s been calling Bali her hom...

Ryan and Sophie decided to leave their expat lives in Sweden behind, to set off on a new adventure - sailing around the world. Four years later they’ve criss-crossed the globe on their sailboat multiple times, working full time and building a massive following on YouTube along the way. Today they stop by to introduce us to their lifestyle and to share what life is like living abroad, aboard a sail...

Amir Salihefendic is known by many as the Founder & CEO of Doist, one of the pioneering remote-first companies, and the creators of Todoist & Twist, two leading tech products in their respective spaces. What fewer people know, is that he comes from a truly global upbringing. Born and raised in Bosnia, his family was forced to escape the war as refugees. He eventually found himself in Denma...

Nicole Caba joins About Abroad today to discuss her move to Lyon, France, and how her personal experience traveling the world with her dog, changed the trajectory of her life. She’s now the founder of Avvinue, a company hoping to reshape how we travel with our pets, which can unlock a life abroad for so many of us who feel this lifestyle is inaccessible because of our furry friends. We laugh throu...

Neel Parekh left his golden handcuffs role at a VC firm to travel the world and create his own version of location independence. 40+ countries later, he’s more than recouped what he lost when he left his career behind, and he’s built a highly successful national franchise that anyone can operate from anywhere in the world. Today Neel stops by to discuss this concept of converting bricks and mortar...

Sarah Hawley is a serial entrepreneur who started converting her businesses to a remote model back in 2014 when she realized being desk-bound wasn’t for her. Since then she has founded multiple companies with several seven-figure exits, and become a published author, public speaker, and a LinkedIn Top Voice for Remote Work (amongst other accolades), all while leading Growmotely, a globally distrib...

Gonçalo Hall is the CEO of NomadX, possibly the most influential digital nomad in the world, and the brains behind the concept of digital nomad villages. He’s been busy since the last time he joined us on About Abroad, so today he stops by to update us on the various projects he’s been working on - from nomad villages in the Swiss Alps, to beachside villages in Brazil, and islands off the coast of...