Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders

Living Abroad & Digital Nomad Life

Explore podcast episodes about living abroad, digital nomad life, and long-term travel, including working remotely and building a life overseas. Hear real stories of expat life, slow travel, and creating a sustainable travel lifestyle.

What does it actually take to build a life overseas? This collection of conversations from The Maverick Show explores living abroad, working abroad, and designing a travel lifestyle that allows people to move between cultures and countries. Guests include digital nomads, expats, entrepreneurs, and remote professionals who share what it’s really like to build a life overseas and work while traveling. These episodes explore everything from moving abroad and navigating visas to building community in new places and redefining the meaning of home. If you’re interested in expat life, working while traveling, or creating a long-term travel lifestyle, these stories offer both inspiration and practical insight on both getting started and sustaining the lifestyle over time in a way that is joyful and fulfilling.

356: How to Become a Digital Nomad and Build Community Around the World as a Solo Traveler with Janessa Klatt

Learn how to leave your 9-5 job and build a fulfilling life of long-term world travel rooted in a supportive community. Janessa Klatt joins Matt from Winnipeg, Canada over a bottle of wine and tells the story of her Grandparents’ experience immigrating to Canada from Germany, and then talks about her experience growing up in…

320: How to Hit Refresh, Move Abroad After 30 and Adopt an Immigrant Mindset as a Superpower with Cepee Tabibian

Learn how to make a life pivot in your 30s, move abroad, reinvent yourself and become the person you really want to be. Cepee Tabibian joins Matt from Malaga, Spain and starts off talking about her parents’ journey immigrating to the U.S. from Iran and Colombia respectively, and then reflects on her own experience growing…

316: How to Become a Digital Nomad with Yuri Chu Su

Learn how to leave your corporate job and transition into the digital nomad lifestyle with the skills you already have. Yuri Chu Su talks about her Chinese-Peruvian identity while growing up in Lima, Peru. She reflects on her first visit China at age 9 and then moving to Canada with her family. Yuri talks about…

296: Researching Digital Nomads and Lessons From 30 Years of Immersive World Travel with Dr. Kaisu Koskela

Learn why digital nomads are not using digital nomad visas, and who the term “digital nomad” applies to anyway. Kaisu Koskela starts off talking about her experience growing up in a remote town in northern Finland near the Arctic Circle, gives tips for visiting the region, and talks about her all-female motorcycle club. She then…

244: Lessons from 30 Years of Travel to 140 Countries with Stephanie Zito

Stephanie Zito talks about growing up in the U.S. and developing her interest in travel, as well as her early interest in finding creative ways to get free stuff. She talks about connecting with her Italian heritage through multiple trips to Italy over the years and also reflects on the impact of studying abroad in…

235: Empowering the African Diaspora to Pursue a Life Abroad, Hip Hop From the Bronx to the World, and Building “Blaxit Global” with Chrishan Wright

Chrishan Wright takes us on her journey growing up in the Bronx during the golden era of hip hop, then traveling the world, and eventually deciding to move to Lisbon, Portugal. Matt and Chrishan talk about the origins of hip hop in the Bronx, its political impact, and its proliferation around the world. Chrishan then…

205: The Suitcase Office: What Digital Nomads Can Teach Us About Location Independent Work with Koen Blanquart

Koen Blanquart starts off talking about growing up in Belgium and giving some travel tips for people that want to spend time in Belgium. He then talks about his entrepreneurial trajectory and his transition into the digital nomad lifestyle. Koen then reflects on his world travels, including his love for New York City, the time…

192: Digital Nomad Life During the War in Ukraine with Orest Zub

Orest Zub takes us on his journey growing up in Lviv, Ukraine, developing his passion for travel, making friends through tennis while traveling, becoming a digital nomad, and traveling to 129 countries. He shares the story of how he met his wife, proposed on an airplane, and has since been traveling the world with her…

177: Moving Abroad with Intention and Empowering Black Women to Flourish in the Foreign with Christine Job

Christine Job takes us on her journey growing up in Atlanta, studying abroad in Spain, becoming location independent, traveling the world, and eventually choosing a base in Valencia. She reflects on her experience studying abroad, including the racial and class dynamics, and why she chose to go back and live in Spain again afterwards. Christine…

162: Jimmy Naraine on Being a Full-Time Nomad for 8 Years and Connecting With People Across Cultures Through Hip Hop

Jimmy Naraine takes us on his journey growing up in Poland to mixed parents, getting into graffiti and skateboarding as a form of rebellion, and eventually embracing hip hop and beatboxing. Jimmy beatboxes live on The Maverick Show and then explains how he still uses it in his personal and professional life today, as well…

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