Beach Commute - Digital Nomad Experts

Life as a digital nomad can be extremely awesome, but forgetting or overlooking a few (seemingly small) details can result in a dream trip turning into a disaster.

And that holds true from the perspective of productivity, comfort, fun and respecting the culture!

Jeff, Marisa and Diego have seen and made plenty of mistakes as digital nomads. With these “learnings” they managed to come up with a list of 18 things to avoid (this is a two-part podcast).

You’ll have to listen in to hear the list of 9 things, but amongst the 9 tips, we talk about.

Check out the full episode to get 9 very useful tips on how to be a successful digital nomad. 

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Do you have the desire to travel the world as a digital nomad, but maybe you have no idea what type of career you’re actually qualified for (or want to do) remotely? If so, the Salesforce industry may be just the career path you didn’t even know you were meant for, just like our podcast guest this week.

In this episode, we interviewed Alex Warneke, a marine scientist and park ranger who was stationed at a National Park in California while working for the government (a very non-remote job) 🐠🏕️🐙

However, she and her husband had a dream to travel the world...so she started searching for remote career opportunities, even though she absolutely had no idea what she was qualified to do without having to get another degree (and had absolutely zero experience working online) 💻

Listen to the full episode here to find out:

To join the free 5 day email challenge to learn whether or not a career in Salesforce may be right for you, click here now to sign up  (this is the same email series Alex joined that led to her first job offer in the industry too!).

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Talent Stacker is an AWESOME SalesForce career development program founded by Bradley Rice (episode 57). He created this program to help people become marketable SalesForce certified experts. 

It was exactly the type of career Alex Warneke was looking for... 

Alex was a marine scientist who yearned to become a digital nomad, but her career and background just wasn't the right fit for the lifestyle. 

Then she heard about Talent Stacker, and signed up for the program.  In Bradley's program she went headfirst into career development program. 

She quickly nailed her first certification. She continued to follow the Talent Stacker program to build her experience, skillset, and marketability. Towards the end of the training recruiters started messaging her!

The program put her in a position where she was fully marketable and assessing job offers. And most importantly they were all remote-friendly jobs!

She quit her job and went on her first digital nomad trip to Canada. From there she laid out a plan to travel the United States on a yearlong rock climbing excursion. She now has plans to stay in the EU with her husband for the next year on a mini-retirement experiment!

Check out Talent Stacker to get you started on a career development program that will enable you to become a digital nomad. 

To join the free 5 day email challenge to learn whether or not a career in Salesforce may be right for you, click here now to sign up  (this is the same email series Alex joined that led to her first job offer in the industry too!).

Hollie and Rusty have taken digital nomad life to a completely different place: The wilderness. 

Quite literally, they work from the most remote national forests in the United States, all while working online in digital marketing and IT security. 

Hollie used to work with Jeff Baker as a content marketing strategist for Brafton. But late into her tenure she (using her own words) "strong armed" her employer to get them to let start working remote out of Colorado. 

Technically she made this possible by first proving herself to the organization for years, then converting to a consultant so that Brafton didn't need to incorporate in a new state. Both parties got what they needed out of the deal. 

Soon after going remote, she met Rusty and decided to go on a weeklong vacation living out of truck camper in national forests. That weeklong trip turned into six weeks. And that six weeks turned into a lifestyle in which they spend about half their time living and working remotely out of a camper van in the forest, and the other half the time in short-term leases around the United States. 

They are living the lives of the dreams every day. They wake up with the most beautiful views in the entire United States for half the year, and the other half the year they choose whichever new city they want to explore. 

You won't be able to find Hollie or Rusty anytime soon, because they are going to be moving to a remote island off the coast of Alaska next year!

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Overlander

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Join us as we take a look back at the best and worst moments of our 2022 travels

On Instagram, life as a digital nomad looks perfect…the epic destinations, the freedom, the adventures. However, while digital nomad life is filled with some of the most amazing “pinch me” moments, it doesn’t come without its drawbacks.

On the Digital Nomad Experts podcast, we like to share both the highs AND the true lows with you…so that you have real expectations of what your life will be like when you begin living as a digital nomad.

As 2022 comes to an end, Jeff, Diego and Marisa take a look back at 2022, and share some of their favorite moments, destinations and experiences…as well as some of their least favorite experiences and travel mess ups. You'll get a lot of laughs as these 3 goofballs recap the good, the bad, and the ugly of their travels this year.

By the end of the episode, you’ll learn:

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Jeff and Marisa decided to come up with six personal questions to ask each other about being a digital nomad. 

Neither person had any preparation beforehand to see or think about the answers to these questions. 

So basically, you get raw, unfiltered perspectives about all the highs and lows about being a digital nomad. 

These questions ranged from funny and lighthearted to deeply personal and introspective. As a preview, in one segment Jeff goes into detail about how being a digital nomad has impacted his lifelong OCD and depression. And Marisa goes into detail about whether or not she is running away from "real life" by becoming a digital nomad. 

If you're looking for raw, unfiltered perspectives on how traveling has impacted two long-time digital nomads, this is the episode for you. 

Please tell us in the Spotify poll whether or not you think this type of podcast is something you want to hear more of, or if you want us to kill it. 

Being a digital nomad has an insane amount of positive aspects. You’ll get an amazing amount of culture, adventures, language skills, food experiences, etc.

But if you don’t find a community of likeminded people, it can get vey lonely. And one of the potential best positive aspects of being a digital nomad is finding community and making lifelong friends to share your experiences with.

Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone! Aside from finding ad hoc communities on Nomadlist and social networks, there are companies who help foster connections.

Ranging from hyper-coordinated to super-lax, Jeff, Diego and Marisa discussed seven communities that have a successful track record of attracting digital nomads.

In this episode, they discuss:

Note: Diego is a cofounder of Wifi Tribe, and both Marisa and Jeff are members of the company. We did our very best to be objective about a topic that is generally very subjective. In this episode we shared our experiences and anecdotal stories about each of the companies we know. 

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Becoming a digital nomad can feel like an absolute black box of "should I do this?" and "what's the best way to do that?" with extremely important personal decisions.  

Fortunately, Marisa, Jeff and Diego are able to tease out all of the "good" advice from the noise, and even possibly "bad" advice.  

Marisa in particular has worked with over 1,000 people as a career coach and at a fortune 500 company, so she's well-equipped to help future digital nomads drill down into the most important stuff.  

In this episode we cover:  

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Our listeners have awesome questions about being a digital nomad. 

And we have the answers!

In this episode we respond to your questions on the fly, with no preparation! 

Seriously, this is a FUN episode, all thanks to our listeners.

Without seeing the questions beforehand, Jeff and Diego ask and answer 6 real questions about being a digital nomad.

Here are the questions they covered in this episode:

Want your questions answered in another Q&A sessions? Send us a note at [email protected]

Ihor Bauman was inspired to create a software company for a very unusual reason. 

In 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic Ihor's mother lost her job as a therapist. As a matter of fact, a ton of freelancers 

So Ihor created a platform for freelancers to create a website, take bookings, collect payments, and manage accounting all on one platform. 

As a result of having lots of freelancers on his platform, he was able to gather data on the top 6 jobs with a relatively low barrier to entry and reasonable pay. The top jobs he has seen on his platform are: 

Oh and check out Workee's careers page because they are currently hiring a content writer, marketing manager, and developer! 

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