Beach Commute - Digital Nomad Experts

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...

Our teachers and our parents hammered it into our heads since we were kids: "You cannot have a gap in your resume!" and "You cannot quit your job without having another job lined up!" And these beliefs have created deep-seated fears in people and many times prevents them from making career changes in their lives. And that, in turn, prevents them from becoming a digital nomad.  But are those f...

Becoming a digital nomad MIGHT not be for everyone.  Or...perhaps there are certain "blockers" that make you THINK that the digital nomad life is inaccessible to you, but in reality, those blockers are very easy to overcome.  The Beach Commute community is very active, and people regularly write into the show with their concerns about why they might not be able to hack it as a digital no...

Meet Laurie LeDuc, an original digital nomad who got her start back in 2008 when she worked in Australia for Catster, a social network for cats. From there, Laurie joined Khan Academy (but the role wasn’t fully remote yet). She then convinced her employers to let her start traveling domestically in the United States to start. (You’ll have to listen in for tips on how Laurie convinced her company t...

Life as a digital nomad can be extremely awesome, but forgetting or overlooking a few (seemingly small) details can result in a dream trip turning into a disaster. And that holds true from the perspective of productivity, comfort, fun and respecting the culture! Jeff, Marisa and Diego have seen and made plenty of mistakes as digital nomads. With these “learnings” they managed to come up with a lis...

Do you have the desire to travel the world as a digital nomad, but maybe you have no idea what type of career you’re actually qualified for (or want to do) remotely? If so, the Salesforce industry may be just the career path you didn’t even know you were meant for, just like our podcast guest this week. In this episode, we interviewed Alex Warneke, a marine scientist and park ranger who was statio...

Hollie and Rusty have taken digital nomad life to a completely different place: The wilderness.  Quite literally, they work from the most remote national forests in the United States, all while working online in digital marketing and IT security.  Hollie used to work with Jeff Baker as a content marketing strategist for Brafton. But late into her tenure she (using her own words) "strong...

Join us as we take a look back at the best and worst moments of our 2022 travels On Instagram, life as a digital nomad looks perfect…the epic destinations, the freedom, the adventures. However, while digital nomad life is filled with some of the most amazing “pinch me” moments, it doesn’t come without its drawbacks. On the Digital Nomad Experts podcast, we like to share both the highs AND the true...

Jeff and Marisa decided to come up with six personal questions to ask each other about being a digital nomad.  Neither person had any preparation beforehand to see or think about the answers to these questions.  So basically, you get raw, unfiltered perspectives about all the highs and lows about being a digital nomad.  These questions ranged from funny and lighthearted to deeply pe...

Being a digital nomad has an insane amount of positive aspects. You’ll get an amazing amount of culture, adventures, language skills, food experiences, etc. But if you don’t find a community of likeminded people, it can get vey lonely. And one of the potential best positive aspects of being a digital nomad is finding community and making lifelong friends to share your experiences with. Fortunately...

Becoming a digital nomad can feel like an absolute black box of "should I do this?" and "what's the best way to do that?" with extremely important personal decisions.   Fortunately, Marisa, Jeff and Diego are able to tease out all of the "good" advice from the noise, and even possibly "bad" advice.   Marisa in particular has worked with over 1,000 people as a career coach and a...

Announcement alert! Are you trying to land a remote travel job so that you can become a digital nomad? We have a master class designed specifically for you. On December 6th and December 7th we will be hosting a webinar called “The 5 crucial steps to get your first remote travel job.” In this webinar you will hear from Marisa, who has over ten years of experience coaching over 1,000 people during h...

Our listeners have awesome questions about being a digital nomad.  And we have the answers! In this episode we respond to your questions on the fly, with no preparation!  Seriously, this is a FUN episode, all thanks to our listeners. Without seeing the questions beforehand, Jeff and Diego ask and answer 6 real questions about being a digital nomad. Here are the questions they covered in...

Ihor Bauman was inspired to create a software company for a very unusual reason.  In 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic Ihor's mother lost her job as a therapist. As a matter of fact, a ton of freelancers  So Ihor created a platform for freelancers to create a website, take bookings, collect payments, and manage accounting all on one platform.  As a result of having lots of freel...

We are again joined by Rob Bone, a digital nomad who has been testing productivity hacks for years. The early days of turning into a digital nomad can be a rush: People are always going out to cafes, restaurants, dancing, etc. It can become very difficult to be productive with all the distractions. Rob and Jeff have spent quite a bit of time learning various productivity hacks that have helped kee...