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 careers. In Grace’s case, Marisa helped her find potential career paths that allow her to work and travel.  Marisa helps her explore what she truly loves working on, and how she envisions ..read more

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 without telling her employer that she was traveling! She explains how she managed to get through this “gray area” with her employer, and eventually moved into a role where working and trav ..read more

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 and Diego who have created job listings, and hired dozens of people: We fully know that the person with these ideal qualifications don’t exist. When we create a job listing, we are creating the ideal ..read more

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 part of her career path on a trip to Uganda that she caught the travel bug. A spark was lit inside her. She knew that travel had to be a major part of her life. While working as a refugee lawyer, she pu ..read more

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-term stay, and provided recommendations to new digital nomads on what to expect. If you’re an upcoming digital nomad, or just want to get a sense of the top destinations to start your journey, this epis ..read more

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 trip was to Bolivia on a Wifi Tribe chapter where she met Jeff, Marisa and Diego for the first time. Bolivia is no walk in the park for a new digital nomad - the flights are a difficult, the wifi can be ..read more

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 career in the same field. Becoming a high-power marketer with Pepsi, working with Lil’ Wayne, Sofia Vergara, and Snoop Dogg. Marisa realizing there is no “soda emergency”, and she didn’t buy into the ..read more

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 fears actually justified anymore? Do hiring managers actually care about resumes gaps and "loyalty" anymore?  We break down each of the five fears: Fear that you won't like the lifestyle and you ..read more

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 nomad.  Jeff and Marisa compiled the top reasons people have told us that they think that becoming a digital nomad won't work for them. Here are a few examples of the comments we have received over ..read more

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 to let her work remote and her recommendations for new digital nomads.) Then she went on a legendary Wifi Tribe trip to Jamaica in which she froze on Blue Mountain in search of the world’s best coffee ..read more