Digital Nomad Experts - Beach Commute Beach Commute

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: 


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

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:


Do you need to wait to have a significant other before starting to travel?
What if you want to travel and your partner doesn’t?
Do you have to choose between having a life partner and living a nomad life?
How do people meet significant others while traveling? (Apps, meeting locals, meeting other digital nomads, etc.)
How do you date while being a digital nomad? (Logistics, long distance, etc.)
Can you travel and have kids?

If you have podcast topic requests, send them to hello@beachcommute.com!

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 hello@beachcommute.com 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!