About Abroad

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 location independent business that supports other world travelers. We also dive into life in Nosara, Costa Rica - and why they chose this corner of the world as the place to settle down “forever” (in the McKeegan household, this means 12 months!).

Follow David’s work at https://www.greenbacktaxservices.com/ and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/greenbacktax

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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 involved, and how will the kids have friends? The Family Workcation curates experiences in foreign corners of the world so you and your family can go and spend time abroad with other young families, and interact with the locals, all details taken care of for you - from coworking to childcare, accommodations to activities. Kate tells us more, as well as shares how her experiences growing up as a 3rd culture kid shapes her work today.

Follow Kate’s work at www.thefamilyworkation.com Bespoke Experience offering: https://www.thefamilyworkation.com/destinations and on Instagram @thefamilyworkation

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business-friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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 Thailand.

Follow Brittnee's work at Brittneebond.com. Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/c/remotecollective on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/remote.collective/, and on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittneebond/

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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 us inside his life as one of the most interesting CXOs you’ll ever meet, and shares all the details about full time travel with a family and a career. From history class in the Colosseum, to studying marine biology via a PADI certification in Honduras, this family is living what many of us would call, “the life”.

Follow Ken's work at https://www.hotjar.com/about-us/ https://galileoxp.com/ and https://www.sunglassesrequired.com/ Follow Ken on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenweary/

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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 Asia.

Follow Chris's work at ubbrew.com  and on Instagram @CD_worldwide

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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-person summits for globally minded people. Olumide is a world-renowned leader in the digital nomad space, featured in Forbes and many other leading publications, and is followed by millions of people around the world on his social media accounts.

Follow Olumide on Instagram @olumide_gbenro.

Digital Nomad Summit: https://thedigitalnomadsummit.com/

Digital Nomad Week: https://digitalnomadweek.com/

Digital Nomad Festival: https://digitalnomadfestival.com/

Wealthy Penguin Island Club: https://wealthypenguinislandclub.com/ Discord for Wealthy Penguins Community: https://discord.gg/PVbQzZWcZY

Feed Bali (charity): FeedBali.Com

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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 gateway for remote workers to call this beautiful country home. In addition to being one of the most open countries to foreigners in the EU, they also offer hundreds of islands off the coast, fairytale-like cities and architecture, and an amazing art and coffee culture. We dive into it all today on this episode of About Abroad!

You can learn more about E-Recidency Estonia at https://e-resident.gov.ee/ and follow Hannah on Instagram @hannahmlbrown

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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 can make this your home - for a year, or a lifetime. We discuss a wide range of topics ranging from visa options to different areas on the islands, and what makes this place so special on the international stage.

You can learn more about running remote at runningremote.com and follow Egor on linkedin linkedin.com/in/egorborushko/

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.

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 business world today. Mikkel shares his perspectives on topics ranging from raising a family abroad to helping his clients build tax advantaged offshore financial structures and obtain residency abroad. They also dive into his latest venture, a virtual school built for the modern traveling family.

Follow Mikkel on his podcast  https://expatmoneyshow.com/ and Facebook Community http://expatmoneyforum.com

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This season is brought to you by Insured Nomads. They are absolutely the best when it comes to providing health, travel, medical insurance for nomads, expats, and all forms of world travelers. You can visit their website at InsuredNomads.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.

This episode was also brought to you by E-residency Estonia, the very best way to incorporate your business in Europe, without ever having to step foot in the EU. Register and manage your company’s filing 100% online in one of the most business friendly and digitally advanced countries in the world. Visit e-resident.gov.ee/  to learn more.