Digital Nomad Experts - Beach Commute – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Is the digital nomad lifestyle sustainable for the planet, indigenous cultures, and nomads themselves?

Some people accuse digital nomads and the lifestyle they bring with them of gentrifying impacted nomad hubs, raising the local cost of living, pushing out local businesses, and being culturally insensitive.

But is it justified? What are the facts? What can digital nomads do to minimize their global footprint?

In this episode Jeff and Marisa use data and personal experiences to help answer these questions. You can interact with the Beach Commute team on this topic by sending an email to hello@beachcommute.com

There is a growing list of digital nomad hotspots all around the world! But, when you're traveling as a digital nomad, sometimes you want to venture off the beaten path and explore some less-commonly traveled places.

In some cases for better, and in other cases for worse.

In this episode, Jeff and Marisa talk about six destinations that they lived for a significant amount of time as digital nomads.

They review the highs and lows of each destination and rate them on how well they may stand up as a digital nomad location in the future.

Listen in if you want to hear about some interesting destinations off the tourist track.

Make sure to check out the Anywhere Atlas, a database of fully remote companies that let you work from anywhere in the world. Working for a fully remote company is the fastest way to become a digital nomad!

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: 

1. Peer reviews - how people who actually work for the company feel about working with them. 
2. Remote work culture - how much the company embraces a fully-remote work style. 
3. Employee perks - the benefits the companies offer like 4 day weeks, laptops, medical coverage, etc. 
4. Company culture - the type of positive environment management fosters for employees. 

Get access to the Anywhere Atlas today!

Beachcommute.com/atlas 

Are megacities good places to live as a digital nomad? 

It's a really tough question, and the true answer is: "It depends on the city." 

So, in order to put together a halfway intelligent method, we created a set of 6 criteria points to determine how well a megacity qualifies. They are: 

1. Community - How easy it it to find and build community? 
2. Safety - Is the location physically safe to travel, or are there pockets that are safe to travel? 
3. Internet - Is the average internet speed strong enough to support working online? 
4. Cost of living - Is the cost of goods/accommodations sustainable to live for at least a month? 
5. Coworking - Are there cafes or coworking centers available, or will you be stuck in your accomodations? 
6. Transportation - Is it easy to get around by foot/transit, or is everything a hassle to get to? 

Based on these six criteria, we came up with a list of seven locations that fit the bill. Some better than others, but all were within what we considered acceptable levels. 

Without giving away all the details, we will give you just a little teaser into the countries we discuss: Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Portugal, Argentina, Spain and Brazil. 

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Becoming a digital nomad will be one of the most impactful decisions you will ever make in your life. 

Without. A. Doubt.

We talk about the five most obvious reasons to us that you'll LOVE being a digital nomad. Mind you, there are many, many more, but we will leave some of the surprises to you and your experiences. 

1. You can't see as much on normal vacation: When the only time you can use to travel is your 2-4 weeks of vacation per year, you'll never accomplish 1/10th of your travel goals as you can as a digital nomad. Also, you'll be much more likely to end up in the tourist traps. 
2. Adventures: And more specifically, UNPLANNED and random adventures happen all the time as a digital nomad. Normal Saturdays as a digital nomad could be the types of adventures that most people talk about as life highlights that they talk about the rest of their lives. 
3. Culture: It's REALLY hard to get a true cultural experience on a quick 1-2 week vacation. As a digital nomad, there will be countless times you will even accidentally end up in a cultural experience. 
4. Food: Closely related to "culture", you'll likely taste the best, and sometimes strangest food you'll ever try in your life (like llama, ah!). 
5. Building community: As a digital nomad, you will meet some of the most interesting, intelligent, compassionate friends of your life. Digital nomads tends to be very like-minded in values, so it will feel like you're talking with a lifelong friend the very first time you meet. 

Which of these reasons do you want to become a digital nomad? Did we miss anything? Write us at hello@beachcommute.com. 

Interested in visiting Africa as a digital nomad? You're not alone!

While Latin America, Bali, and Thailand get the most press for top digital nomad destinations, Africa has quietly been turning into a digital nomad powerhouse. 

Without giving away the specific cities (you'll have to listen to find out!) we talk about: 

1. South Africa: Our destination boasts: A massive digital nomad community, amazing places to hike and take pictures, up-and-coming coworking spaces and laptop-friendly cafes. 
2. Mauritius: Looking for an island vibe FAR removed from civilization? Lush jungle-y feeling? Clear blue waters? It's not exactly an up-and-coming digital nomad community, but it's moving in that direction. 
3. Nigeria: For the brave adventurers and digital nomads out there, Nigeria is an incredibly raw cultural experience, albeit a difficult place to work remotely. It's not the easiest, but it's doable. 
4. Egypt: Another one (and our city in particular) that's definitely on the up-and-coming digital nomad destination list. And if you're into diving, this is one of the top places in the world. 
5. Namibia: The land of adventures on the Serengeti. Definitely not set up for the digital nomad life (yet!), it is one of the coolest countries in the world and worthy of the extra work to make the trip work. 

Have a topic you want to suggest for an upcoming podcast? Write us at hello@beachcommute.com

We've come up with a list of the 7 questions you're most likely going to be asked when applying for, or asking your boss to become a digital nomad. 

After interviewing and working with over 1,000 digital nomads, Diego exactly how to approach these questions. 

Hint: Yes, there is a right way and wrong way to approach these questions. 

Here are the seven questions: 

1. What does “working remotely” actually look like for you?
2. What do you need in your physical workspace to be successful in your job?
3. How do you handle your calendar and schedule? What apps/systems/communication do you use?
4. How do you prepare for meetings and facilitate meetings? What do you make sure to do during a meeting?
5. How would you handle lack of face-to-face contact when you work remotely?
6. How do you balance your work life and the rest of your life?
7. Why do you want to work remotely?

Listen in to get the exact blueprint on how to answer these questions so that you nail that interview, and become a digital nomad as soon as possible. 

We found 52,581 current remote job listings for 5 different types of jobs, currently accepting applications.

Are these US-based jobs? NOPE, anyone around the world can apply for these. 

In this episode we talk through five different types of remote jobs along with: 

• Their average hourly pay
• The number of jobs listed on LinkedIn alone
• A specific job listing - who the company is, job requirements, and job responsibilities.

In this episode we lift up the hood on 4 of the more common digital nomad jobs (along with one awesome bonus listing!)

We discuss the average salary, total listings, and a hand-picked available job role for the following jobs:

1. Virtual Assistant
2. Data Entry
3. Typist
4. Accounts Receivable
5. Travel host with Wifi Tribe

If you're currently looking for a remote job, you should listen to this podcast and get onto our email list ASAP, because we send them out all the time. 

This episode is going to help you slingshot past years, and potentially hundreds of mistakes 

Using years of data and experience, we have outlined the fastest path possible to working and traveling. 

Marisa has worked with thousands of clients over the past ten years (professionally) to figure out exactly where people are going wrong when trying to become a digital nomad. 

She saw thousands of ways to NOT become a digital nomad. 

Unfortunately, sometimes it's seeing all the ways that don't work to figure out what does work.

With that information, Marisa has created the cheat code to becoming a digital nomad. 

It's like playing a video game, but Marisa knows where all the monsters are, and how to defeat them. 

Here's a few hints on what you're going to get a taste of: 

1. Job selection - most people are making a huge mistake when going through the selection process 
2. Failure insurance - there are lingering doubts that you will fail, what do you do with those thoughts and how do you safeguard against them?
3. Resume issues - believe it or not, people are terrified of having a gap in their resume. Hint: the answer is clear-cut and painfully easy to solve. 

If you're on the ledge, and have been for quite awhile, this episode may be the thing that pushes you over the edge. 

Links mentioned: 

Go Remote Employment course

91 top remote jobs

You may have heard many episodes of Marisa and Jeff talking about travel and remote careers, but you haven’t heard their full stories, failures and triumphs on their own journey to digital nomad life.

Until today…

In this episode, Marisa interviews Jeff on his story from college dropout to getting paid a remote salary as a marketer who got out of a deep depression by traveling the world.

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Jeff managed to build a great, high paying remote career for himself after dropping out of college for several years, and finally graduating at age 27
• The one person who changed the course of his career
• How Jeff actually LOST money in his first corporate career
• Why Jeff still felt completely unfulfilled and  became depressed while working from home (before traveling), even though he had a great career and a great salary
• How Jeff got promoted 7 times at his company WHILE traveling the world (he reached CMO level while we were together in Bolivia)
• How travel and ayahuasca helped Jeff stop taking depression medication for the first time in 15 years
• The biggest challenge Jeff faced while traveling the world while working as a remote employee
• Jeff’s (incredibly surprising) FOUR WORDS OF WISDOM to anyone considering whether or not to get a remote career and start traveling the world

Links:

91 digital nomad jobs that people in our community are actually doing while traveling the world: www.beachcommute.com/91