Nomad Summit Podcast: Fuel for Your Nomadic Journey

In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Palle Bo sits down with Jimena Serfaty – also known as Jimmy – an Argentine entrepreneur, systems specialist, and location-independent founder based in London. Jimmy has been travelling for 16 years and living location independently since 2020. She runs Jimmy & Co., where she helps coaches, service providers, and small business owners clean up the messy...

Moving money across borders is one of those things many digital nomads know is important – but still find confusing, frustrating, and sometimes painfully expensive. In this episode, Palle Bo sits down with Zoey Lee, co-founder of Glintz, to make sense of cross-border payments in normal human language. Zoey grew up in Taiwan, worked in fintech in Singapore, relocated to Canada, and has spent more t...

What if growing your business does not have to mean building a bigger company? In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Palle Bo sits down with Gal Tzhayek – entrepreneur, speaker, software founder, and what he calls a "turtle-like nomad," currently traveling with his wife and three children. Gal has built, acquired, and scaled education businesses that reached more than 30,000 students and ge...

In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Christoph Huebner is back on the road – this time in India, deep in the jungle near Dandeli, at Jungli The Nomad Village. He's there for the very first India Nomad Festival, a small and intentional gathering of digital nomads, co-living founders, remote workers, creators, and community builders from across India and beyond. Christoph sits down with Geet...

After more than seven years of digital nomad life and 37+ countries, Kate Guner thought she knew what freedom, flexibility, and intentional living looked like. Then she got pregnant. In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Kate joins Palle Bo and Alexandra to talk about what happens when a long-time nomad decides to start a family without completely letting go of the nomad mindset. Kate share...

In episode 55 of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we meet Kex – a German-born techie, digital nomad, and startup founder who has spent the last three years building companies while traveling around Southeast Asia. After starting out in tech consulting, Kex made the leap into entrepreneurship, launching first THRIFTZ – a digital thrift marketplace for fashion lovers in Southeast Asia – and later Fanclip,...

What if the nation state is just one chapter in human history? In this thought-provoking episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we sit down with Vikram Bharati – founder of Draper Nation – to explore one of the biggest questions imaginable: What comes after the nation state? Vikram shares why he believes we may be entering an era of digital nations, borderless communities, and entirely new ways of o...

In episode 53 of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we sit down with Elias Hezron for a fascinating conversation about ambition, opportunity, remote work, entrepreneurship, and growing up in Uganda before entering the global tech world. Elias shares his journey from a small village in Uganda to building a crypto payments startup that expanded across seven African countries before being acquired. Today, he...

In episode 52 of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we meet Yuliia Siletska – a Ukrainian entrepreneur who started her first business at just 17 years old and went on to build ÜLKA into an international beauty-tech company selling in more than 50 countries. What began in a small apartment with one handmade dust collector for a nail artist friend has grown into a factory with 80 employees in eastern Ukraine...

In Episode 51 of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we sit down with Ilona Vinogradova – a former BBC journalist turned global traveler who challenges the very idea of what it means to be a digital nomad. Ilona has spent years living without a permanent home, moving across countries while building a location-independent career. But she resists the label "digital nomad" entirely. For her, travel is not abou...

What does it really take to reach financial independence – and what happens after you get there? In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Christoph and Alexandra sit down in Da Nang with entrepreneur and FIRE advocate Seven Chan. His story is anything but linear. From becoming a millionaire at 18 to losing it all a year later, Seven spent years chasing the "right" investments – only to see the...

Digital Nomad in China – The Reality In this bonus episode, we wrap up Christoph Huebner's four-week journey through China and take a closer look at what it's really like to live and work remotely in the country. After exploring cities like Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Dali, this is where we zoom out and connect the dots. What worked? What didn't? And what would you do differently next time? O...

In this fourth and final episode from China, Christoph Huebner travels to Dali – a small town in Yunnan province that's often described as the "Chiang Mai of China." After exploring megacities like Shenzhen and Shanghai, and spending time in Chengdu, this stop feels very different. Slower. More relaxed. And with a much stronger sense of community. Christoph arrives at a co-living space in Dali whe...

In this third episode from China, Christoph Huebner travels from Shanghai to the Chengdu region to explore the digital nomad scene – and what he finds is a tale of two very different communities. First, we go back to a rural village outside Shanghai, where a digital nomad co-living project is quietly thriving. Here, the focus is on people, connection, and shared experiences. Guests arrive for a fe...

In this second episode of Christoph Huebner's four-part journey through China, we land in Shanghai – a city of 25 million people, towering skylines, and cutting-edge infrastructure. But beyond the impressive surface, what is it actually like to live here as a foreigner? Christoph spends a week in Shanghai, staying in a vibrant co-living space called Dweller, where community, creativity, and shared...

What is it really like to be a digital nomad in China? In this first episode of a four-part series, Christoph Huebner travels across China to explore what the digital nomad scene actually looks like – starting in Shenzhen, one of the most futuristic cities in the world. From drone deliveries dropping coffee from the sky to a digital infrastructure where everything just works, Shenzhen feels like a...

In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we sit down with Daycia, a digital nomad whose journey didn't start with privilege or a clear path. Instead, it began in a challenging environment where she had to figure things out on her own. Without a strong support system, she made a conscious decision early on – to focus on education as her way forward. That choice became her ticket out of a toxic...

What happens when a group of students meets at a hackathon-style competition with only a short time to build something meaningful? At the Nomad Summit Buildathon in Chiang Mai, teams were challenged to create innovative ideas and present them in front of judges. In this episode, we meet the students behind  SkillScoop , the project that ended up winning the competition. They share how their team c...

Palle Bo and Christoph Huebner meet Yash Sharma, an aspiring digital nomad from India and one of three 2026 Nomad Summit scholars. Yash shares his raw journey from rock bottom as a second-generation lawyer – burnt out, leaving the office at 2 AM – to quitting on March 10th last year and waking up "breathing a different air." He reveals how facing fears at Vietnam Nomad Fest and a scholarship win s...

Palle Bo and Christoph Huebner sit down with software engineer and indie hacker Joey Kudish, the founder of Tether Mobile, to solve a pain every digital nomad knows: how to keep your phone number and receive critical SMS codes without paying crazy roaming fees or juggling SIM cards. From emotional attachment to old numbers to banking one-time passwords that never arrive abroad, they unpack why thi...

Palle Bo and Christoph Huebner sit down with Jonathon and Quinn Button, a nomadic power couple from California, in Chiang Mai's Bella Goose Cafe at the Hill. Fresh from speaking at Nomad Summit, the Buttons share their 12+ years of nomading – from Nicaragua startups to spotting global trends and borderless investing. Amid coffee chats and couple travel tests, they reveal how neuroplasticity fuels...

Kevin Hofmann went from getting his jaw broken at a rave in Vienna to building impact‑driven tech projects as a digital nomad. In this episode, he shares how that low point pushed him into meditation, co‑living, and ultimately to Chiang Mai as a Nomad Summit scholarship winner. We talk about his Buildathon project "Chiang Ride", a platform to make scooter rentals in Thailand transparent and trustw...

In this episode of the Nomad Summit podcast, host Christoph Huebner sits down with British writer, private tutor and long-distance hiker Danielle Hurren. From accidentally discovering nomadism via a Gumtree ad in London to tutoring high ‑ net ‑ worth families across Italy, Kazakhstan and beyond, Danielle shares how she built a deeply personal, travel ‑ rich career around the British education syst...

Sound artist and nomad village founder Diveakssh "Divi" Schae joins hosts Christoph and Palle to unveil the brand‑new Nomad Summit theme music, crafted entirely from the everyday sounds of Chiang Mai - crosswalk beeps, street greetings, and a shy "Welcome to Chiang Mai" from a local girl. He shares his philosophy of "sound hunting," why he loves both music and "noise," and how years of traveling w...

This episode is recorded a few days after Nomad Summit 2026 in Chiang Mai and captures the atmosphere, stories, and reactions. The episode opens with a live side event hosted by Palle Bo and Christoph Huebner, recorded in front of an audience. Here, the focus is on two in-depth guest conversations that set the tone for the episode. Toti: Building a Life Around Travel and Storytelling The first mai...