Beach Commute - Digital Nomad Experts

Rosie Bell is an amazing example of someone who felt trapped working in an office every day, but had the courage to take a leap of faith and realize her dream of travel and location independence.

Rosie is now a freelance writer and location independence mentor & author of Escape to Self. Rosie has been featured on Forbes, National Geographic, Huffington Post and many others.

Rosie started her journey working in an office at a soul crushing advertising agency in the early 2010s.

She didn't understand why work had to be so "cutthroat, backstabbing and toxic."

Many of you can relate!

She's now been fully remote for over a decade! She initially found her new "home" in Panama, where she fell in love with the lifestyle and the people. At this point she started writing travel content, which was the beginning of her new career as a freelance writer.

Since then, she is 100% location-independent and has seen over 100 global destinations including Bali, Bonaire, and Brazil.

She's taken high-altitude trains in Argentina, swam in the Atlantic, gasped at the Panama Canal, and sipped umbrella drinks in Puerto Rico where the piña colada was invented – all while making a living from her laptop from various income streams.

Listen in for amazing inspiration for starting your digital nomad journey.

You can find Rosie at:

Website: discoversessions.com

Instagram: @thebeachbell

If you're looking for a company that will let you work from anywhere in the world, check out the Anywhere Atlas, a database of 300+ companies that let you work from anywhere.

Each company has been expert reviewed to ensure that they have zero geographical restrictions.

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Natalie Thomas is a mindfulness coach and digital nomad with a deep interest in how geography and astrology are interrelated.

Like most digital nomads, Natalie started her career in a typical corporate job and "followed the signs" that led her to a life of travel.

In this episode Natalie talks about how she was able to shift her career path in a way that supported her dreams of travel.

She also discusses astrocartography (travel astrology) and how it influences her understanding of living in different locations.

You can reach Natalie at: thenowwithnat.com with a discount on readings and her ebook using the coupon code: BEACH COMMUTE

If you want to become a digital nomad, the fastest and easiest way is to get a fully remote job.

Beach Commute's Anywhere Atlas is a hand-picked database of 300+ companies that ONLY hire fully-remote employees who can work from anywhere.

Each company has been internally vetted and rated by experts for: remote culture, employee perks, employee feedback, and company culture.

Get access today!

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One thing that you never get from your standard two week travel vacation is a truly cultural experience.

Typically you get stuck in the tourist loops - expensive hotels, overpriced restaurants, crowded attractions, and lots and lots of other vacationers.

When you live life as a digital nomad you tend to get way outside the tourist bubble.

In this episode Jeff and Marisa discuss 15 awesome events around the world that you can plan digital nomad trips around as anchor points. These events are best suited to a digital nomad lifestyle because typically they are a bit "out of the way", requiring quite a bit of time to get to and enjoy the experience.

As a teaser, Jeff and Marisa talk about:

The fastest and easiest way to become a digital nomad and start experience some of these amazing events is to get a fully remote job.

Beach Commute has created the Anywhere Atlas, a database of fully-remote companies that let you work from anywhere in the world.

This database is the result of 3+ years of manually reviewing tens of thousands of companies to give you a list of just the very best companies in the world.

beachcommute.com/atlas

Beach Commute has launched a database of 300+ fully-remote companies that let you work from anywhere!

This is the result of 3+ years of filtering through tens of thousands of companies from remote job boards, LinkedIn, and Beach Commute's personal and professional networks.

Only about 1% of remote job listings you find on job boards ACTUALLY let you work from anywhere. Most companies come with a catch: Geographical location restrictions, hybrid requirements, or quarterly meetups.

Not these companies!

Each company goes through a rigorous review and rating criteria by Beach Commute experts to ensure that each company in the database is 100% work from anywhere and will be an awesome place to work.

Along with requirements to be a "work from anywhere organization", each company listing is also rated and contains key information on a few critical factors:

Access to the Anywhere Atlas database also comes with daily company and job listing alerts sent straight to your inbox so that you never miss the hottest new companies and opportunities.

This database is worth more than a thousand job listings. Save dozens (or hundreds!) of hours job searching and get the job of your dreams quickly.

Get access today!

beachcommute.com/atlas

Most people assume that they can get a remote job by directly applying to job listings they find on job boards. 

It’s VERY rare that people actually get jobs this way. The majority of the time these job applications get lost in the abyss of hundreds of applications. 

As a matter of fact, if your application DOES get looked at, the average amount of time a recruiter will spend on it is 6 seconds. 6 seconds is all you get!

You need to completely reframe the way you think about getting a job to maximize your odds of getting a job. 

In this episode Jeff and Marisa walk you through a technique that will optimize the likelihood of getting hired. 

Hint: The best way to get hired at a fully remote company is by following companies rather than chasing individual job listings. 

And the best way to do that is finding companies that truly give you the freedom to travel anywhere while you work. 

Fortunately, Beach Commute has spent 3+ years tracking down the very best companies in the world to work from. Beach Commute has launched a fully filterable database (called the Anywhere Atlas) of 300+ awesome companies, rated by four important factors: 

Get access to the Anywhere Atlas today!

Beachcommute.com/atlas 

Most people assume that being a digital nomad will cost similar to what they spend on a typical vacation.

That CAN be the case, but typically it's not.

Counterintuitively, most digital nomads spend LESS money when they are traveling than when they were stationary.

In this episode Jeff and Marisa walk you through 7 surprising ways that they and other digital nomads manage to save more money while traveling than while being stationary.

Make sure you get on the email list to get access to hundreds of fully remote companies so that you can start traveling the world while working wherever you want today!

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This is a listener requested episode!

The dating world for digital nomads is very, very different than that of a "normal" life living in one location.

In some ways it's better, and in other ways it can be more logistically challenging.

Jeff and Marisa both have experience dating as digital nomads, and have hundreds of friends/acquaintances who have dated as digital nomads.

In this episode, they explore:

If you have podcast topic requests, send them to [email protected]!

Jeff and Marisa love getting correspondence from their thousands of subscribers, so don't be shy!

For Beach Commute's anniversary, they are launching a new product called the Anywhere Atlas. It's an extensive database of the very best, full-remote companies that give you permission to work from anywhere.

The database was curated over three years of manually investigating tens of thousands of companies' employee feedback, company culture, fully-remote hiring status, and employee perks. Each company is scored based on Beach Commute's proprietary weighting scale and stored in the database.

It's the 1 list that’s worth more than 10,000 remote job postings

It truly is a database of the very best companies in the world for employees.

To get on the waitlist for the beta version of this database, send an email to [email protected] with the subject line "Anywhere Atlas."

Get in quick because prices will be going up after the launch!

In this episode Jeff and Marisa celebrate three years of podcasting by answering 21 questions created by a combination of Marisa's brain and ChatGPT.

Like always, they don't pre-plan their answers to these questions. They give raw, unfiltered responses while recording "live."

You will definitely learn something in this episode, and most importantly, you'll have a few laughs.

The most significant questions about becoming a digital nomad revolve around whether or not you need to make significant career-related changes.

Which types of careers will let me travel?

Do I need to switch careers to travel?

How much money do I need to earn in my career?

One of the most significant life changes you can possibly make is changing jobs. Even more significant is changing careers.

The idea of "starting over" is a terrifying idea to most people.

In this episode, Marisa explains her decision tree that you can use to help determine which scenarios warrant a career change, and which do not.

Curious about which types of jobs are best for being a digital nomad? Check out our ⁠91 jobs⁠ downloadable to get inspiration!

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Why would someone want to become a digital nomad? Instinctively, you would think that most people become digital nomads because they want an excuse to travel more often.

While that CAN be true, it seems that the truth has many more layers.

Jeff and Marisa have been digital nomads themselves for 12+ years, and have interacted with hundreds of other digital nomads. Based on their personal experiences and the digital nomads in their community, they created and shared a list of the top 5 reasons people become digital nomads.

If any of the items on this list sound like you, the digital nomad lifestyle might just be your thing!

Teaser: If you have a rebellious side, you might have a key ingredient of a digital nomad.

Episodes referenced:

10 Otherworldy destinations to visit as a digital nomad (Ep 135)

13 Cool locations you'll only get to as a digital nomad (Ep 129)

Curious about which types of jobs are best for being a digital nomad? Check out our 91 jobs downloadable to get inspiration!