About Abroad

Erkan Munishi steps out from behind the scenes today and shares a bit of his story with us, which takes us from war torn Kosovo to building digital nomad visas alongside multiple governments around the world. Erkan became a world traveler at a young age as a refugee, and this experience propelled him into the digital nomad world, which eventually led him to working with politicians to create visas...

16 years ago Elsa left her home in the Canary Islands and built a career at the World Bank, traveling the globe to help stoke economic activity in developing countries. This offered her the opportunity to live in multiple countries, and consult with local entrepreneurs and governments across the developing world. After helping to build sustainable economies in places ranging from Morocco to Papua...

Ilana Milkes joins us today as one of the leaders behind Latin America’s first digital nomad visa in Colombia. She and her team helped the local government create a program that allows digital nomads to come, work, live and stay in one of the world’s most popular destinations, for up to two years! Alongside this, she’s also developed E-Pioneers, a service dedicated to making it super cost-effectiv...

Marcos Carvalho has been a global citizen his entire life, and now he’s putting that experience to use at Boundless Life, where they’re curating multi-month experiences in incredible international destinations around the world - specifically catering to the modern traveling family. As cofounder of Boundless, Marcos walks us through what life is currently like in the small village of Sintra, where...

Mita Carriman joins the show today to share her experience as a world traveling digital nomad entrepreneur and community builder. Mita is well known around the world for having created some incredible digital nomad communities, particularly throughout the Caribbean, and most recently on the islands of Barbados and Dominica. We spend some time discussing the new digital nomad visas offered in these...

Plamen is the co-founder of Nomad Balkans, which is dedicated to helping remote workers and teams soak up all the beauty that the up and coming nomad hotspot of Bulgaria, has to offer. He walks us through his journey around the world, what eventually brought him back to his home country, and why he hopes to share it with the world. Bulgaria is quickly becoming one of the most attractive destinatio...

Andy Wood is the Principal at The Green School in Cape Town, South Africa and today he stops by to share with us what exactly it means to attend a Green School. With locations in South Africa, New Zealand, Bali and more to come around the world, they are fast becoming one of the hot discussion topics for traveling families and those looking to spend a few months abroad, while keeping their childre...

Nicole takes a break from her side hustle as the host of The Expat Cast, to stop by About Abroad and share her experience living and working in one of Chase’s favorite places in the world, Freiburg, Germany. Tucked in the rolling green hills of the pre-Alps in the south of Germany, right on the Swiss and French borders, this town of around 200,000 people is what we refer to as “Pleasantville” thro...

Today my friend Claire joins me from the Bahamas, where she and her husband are currently calling “home”. She and her husband traded their regular lives in the US for a new life aboard their catamaran. They now spend their winters island hopping, spearfishing and exploring the different cultures across the Caribbean. The best part is - as we come to find out, anyone willing to “just sail away”, ca...

Aurélie joins the show today to take us on her journey from France, around the world, and eventually landing in Dubai. She explains what attracted her to the United Arab Emirates, how it’s possible to live tax free here, and the steps you can take to follow in her footsteps. We also chat about the realities of living abroad in the Middle East, especially from the standpoint of a female, and the li...

Tarek Kholoussy joins the show today from Bali, where he Nomad’s Giving Back. Tarek is well known in the digital nomad world for his philanthropic and community building work, but today we learn a bit more about his back story and what brought him to this point in life. From ditching the corporate grind at leading organizations like Goldman Sachs, to running ultra marathons across foreign islands,...

Lily Bruns joins the show today to discuss Plumia, the world’s first online country and a potential solution to residency for people who want to live abroad. She also takes us on a locals tour through Chiang Mai, Thailand, and shares why this continues to be such a special place for digital nomads. We also dive into her experience moving abroad several times through her younger years, and touch on...

Vanessa M.W. is the founder of the wealth & wanderlust platform, Wander Onwards. As an American currently living in Berlin and having spent many years globetrotting around the world, she knows a thing or two about building a life abroad. She shares her journey with us and how her clients are following in her footsteps to create exciting opportunities in foreign places (in a financially respons...

Tayo Rockson is a well known podcast host, author, professor, and consultant on subjects related to diversity and cultural differences. Today he joins the show to chat about his experiences as a 3rd culture kid, spending his formative years growing up as a Nigerian born foreigner in various countries around the world. Follow Tayo’s work at www.tayorockson.com Book: https://www.amazon.com/Use-Your-...

Allison Baxley joins us today from Lisbon, where she and her husband have just moved to with their two young children. Allison walks us through the move from the US to Portugal, the ins and outs of the D7 visa process, and what the experience has been like settling into a foreign country. We also touch on her side project, which helps others follow in her footsteps, and discuss all the benefits a...

David McKeegan is a US expat currently living in Costa Rica with his wife and three children. He’s also the co-founder of Greenback Tax, a fully remote team of tax professionals who help American expats with their international tax challenges (or opportunities, depending on who you ask!). David walks us through this globetrotting family’s background, living on multiple continents, and running a lo...

Kate Shifman is the founder of The Family Workation, a company that focuses on serving remote workers who want to dip their toe in the water of living abroad with their young families. Many people desire to spend a month or several months abroad, but they are not sure how to navigate this experience with children. Where will I work? Where will I find childcare? What if there is distance learning i...

Mitko Karshovski joins me today to discuss the past, present and future of the digital nomad world. A longtime laptop totting world traveler and serial entrepreneur, Mitko has become well known for his podcast, That Remote Life, and has recently launched Parable, which is dedicated to showcasing how high performing location independent businesses thrive. Today we talk about his journey to this poi...

Brittnee Bond joins the show today from a beautiful tropical island off the coast of Thailand. She takes us on her journey and inside life as an expat in the original hot spots for digital nomads in Southeast Asia. Brittnee left behind a corporate law career to seek adventure abroad, and after visiting 50+ countries and building communities all over the world, she has truly found her tribe here in...

Ken Weary is a well known leader in the tech and remote work space, as the COO of the fully remote team at HotJar. When not leading 100s of employees spread across 30+ countries, he’s just living a typical life as a nomad dad and husband, traveling the world, homeschooling teenagers, and trying to decide whether to settle in Portugal or move on to the next adventure on another continent. Ken takes...

Today’s guest delivers a full dose of inspiration as he shares how he overcame a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and near death experience, which left him craving a more fulfilling life abroad. Chris Dittrich says he is absolutely thriving and living his dream in Thailand, and in this episode he takes us behind the scenes of his story, into the streets of Bangkok, and on a quick trip around Southeast...

Olumide Gbenro joins the show today to tell us more about his life abroad in Bali, and how he’s leveraging the digital nomad community to give back to the locals on this island he has come to love. We also dive into his experiences growing up as an immigrant in the UK and US, and his most recent projects which involve NFTs, developing digital nomad private islands and hosting various online and in...

Hannah Brown joins us today to explore the famous e-residency program that has attracted tens of thousands of entrepreneurs to Estonia, where they legally establish a business in the European Union. In addition to exploring the program, we also discuss growing up in multiple countries, what life is like living in Estonia, and the new digital nomad visa the country has established to provide a gate...

Bali is one of the world’s most well known digital nomad hubs, but some expats have built longterm lives for themselves in this Indonesian island paradise. So, Egor Borushko joins us today to take us inside Bali, from the vantage point of a local. Having spent more than a decade here and experienced Bali before it was the Bali of today, he’s the perfect person to share some insights on how you too...

Today Chase is joined by Mikkel Thorup, the host of the very popular, Expat Money Show podcast, and a #1 best selling author, serial entrepreneur, and a Canadian expat currently living in Panama. Mikkel walks us through his journey, leveraging challenges during his childhood to take him on a journey around the world to more than 100 countries, and eventually propel himself to success in the busine...