Nomad Summit Podcast: Fuel for Your Nomadic Journey

Is SEO really dying, or is it simply changing again? In this episode, Palle Bo and Christoph Huebner sit down with SEO expert and entrepreneur Kyle Roof, who famously proved just how mathematical Google's algorithm can be by ranking a page filled largely with gibberish. Kyle explains why he believes the fundamentals of SEO are still very much alive, even as Google, ChatGPT and other AI tools chang...

What's changing in the digital nomad world – and what does that mean for Nomad Summit 2027? In this special episode, Palle turns the tables on his usual co-hosts, Christoph Huebner and Alexandra Mielnicka, and puts them in the guest seats. They look ahead to the next Nomad Summit in Chiang Mai and share what they're planning, what they learned from previous events, and how the community itself is...

Oliver Kuiz isn't joining us with a perfectly mapped-out digital nomad success story. He's right in the middle of trying to create one. After becoming homeless at 17, Oliver learned to survive by constantly starting over – sleeping in his car, living in a storage unit, travelling around Europe on £5 flights, and trying different businesses along the way. Now he's a 27-year-old single father prepar...

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What happens to your fitness routine when your gym, kitchen, schedule, and time zone keep changing? In Episode 69 of the Nomad Summit Podcast, we talk with Riley Schinella, founder of Digital Nomad Fitness, about staying healthy when life on the road is anything but predictable. Riley shares how she went from a corporate job and personal training in New York City to traveling the world while build...

What happens when location independence stops feeling like an adventure and simply becomes your life? Francesca Ciucci has spent 14 years living abroad across eight countries. The Italian-Canadian founder, speaker and author joins Palle Bo and Alexandra Mosnitska to talk about the realities of building a life across borders – from arriving somewhere without the language or network to eventually as...

In Episode 67 of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Maya Middlemiss joins Palle Bo, Christoph Huebner and Alexandra Mosnitska to look back at the first Nomad Summit Remote Work Edition in Tallinn – and what it revealed about people trying to make the leap into remote work. Maya shares what surprised her about working behind the scenes at a Nomad Summit event, why the Tallinn audience felt different from th...

What does it actually take to become someone a global company wants to hire, trust, and keep working with? In this episode, Palle Bo and Alexandra talk with Josh Gould, Group CEO of thebigword, a global language-services company working with around 15,000 linguists and contractors across more than 80 countries. Josh shares what he has learned from leading teams while travelling between markets inc...

What happens when you finally reach the point where work becomes optional? In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Palle Bo sits down with Doug Mann, better known as PhotoMann. Doug spent more than 30 years living and working abroad as a software and systems engineer before retiring at 57 and making Chiang Mai, Thailand, his home. But Doug's international life started much earlier. Born in It...

Ric Gazarian has visited 190 of the world's 193 UN countries, built a location-independent life around travel, and made Bangkok his base for more than a decade. In this episode, Palle Bo and Alexandra talk with Ric about the turning points that moved him away from traditional corporate life, whether he actually considers himself a digital nomad, and how extreme travelers differ from nomads who pre...

In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Palle Bo sits down with William Campbell, a strategy, communication, and leadership advisor who has been working remotely since 2009 – long before remote work became mainstream. William has built a remote-first professional life across communications, organizational leadership, facilitation, public sector work, nonprofits, education, and strategy. With...

Jake Snow went from working at an Australian winery and playing Australian football to travelling full-time, building an audience of 1.6 million followers and developing boutique hotels across Bali and South Africa. In this episode, Jake joins Palle Bo from Mallorca to share how a chance meeting with his wife, Marie, on a beach in Thailand changed the course of both their lives. After quitting the...

What happens when an early video game developer, AI artist, fractional CTO and digital nomad decides to redesign his life around creativity, exploration and freedom? In this in-person episode, Palle Bo meets Steve Tietze at his new office in Chiang Mai's Nimman neighbourhood. They begin by exploring why Chiang Mai remains one of the world's strongest digital nomad hubs – from its surrounding natur...

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...