March 08, 2022

What to do if you get hurt or sick as a digital nomad (Interview with SafetyWing's Sondre Rasch) | Ep 35

36 minutes

Services like AirBnb and Uber have disrupted the age old hospitality and transportation industries and vastly improved the experience for nomads. The insurance remained largely in the stone ages in terms of usability, accessibility and alignment of incentives until SafetyWing.

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Sondre Rasch is a co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing - building a global social safety net. SafetyWing’s mission is to remove the role of geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunities and freedom for everyone with a global home country on the internet. Sondre first founded SuperSide (YC W16), a platform for freelance designers. It was here he discovered the lack of a safety net for online remote workers. He encouraged colleagues to take up the torch and address the deficiency but when nobody did, he took it on himself and started SafetyWing.

In this conversation, Sondre shares his story on how the moment he fell in love with the magic of Tuscany inspired him to explore digital nomadism. Sondre explains how SafetyWing deals with one of the biggest hurdles which is finding THE place to go. In case of emergency, you cannot really think stuff through and do research, communicate with medical staff in a foreign language, and be aware of the medical bill.

In this episode, you’ll learn

How Sondre scaled from being a Political Advisor to the Government to become a Digital Nomad.

How Sondre operates his business with fully remote and distributed teamwork.

The scenarios you can do when/if you get injured abroad.

What is the typical scenario of having to deal with a health concern in a foreign country VS What would that journey be like if you had SafetyWing?

Solving most of pay out of pocket or die concerns in foreign private healthcare systems.

How does the Safety Wing Insurance work in real life.

The story when Safety Wing flew a person with a heart attack in a low altitude flight from Ghana to South Africa because there wasn’t a hospital that can take care of this medical condition in Ghana.

What’s on the roadmap for Safety Wing

Spend 36 mins with Jeff and Sondre to learn a ton on how to have insurance regardless of your passport and current country. Health related accidents can happen to anyone and anywhere so it's always nice to travel with a true international health insurance plan.

You can connect with Sondre via Twitter and don't forget to check out SafetyWing.

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