Podcast
Ibi's Digital Nomad Stories
People with interesting lives. No lessons, no frameworks. Just someone's story, the way they want to tell it.
Selin TürmanThe Coding Chef
Episode 20
Selin Türman is the community manager at Burgas Coliving, and the day before we sat down in the courtyard her first printed cookbook arrived from the printers. But this conversation isn’t just about recipes…
Matt DavisonThe Facilitator
Episode 19
Matt Davison left South Africa because of its tainted past and spent fifteen years travelling the world trying to find somewhere else to call home. He found…
Haz MemonThe Community Builder
Episode 18
Haz Memon doesn't believe in scaling. He's turned down market opportunities to expand to ten, fifteen, twenty locations because he knows that growth destroys…
Jennifer ChuuThe Comic Artist
Episode 17
Jennifer Chuu didn't want to go to university. Four years felt too long, so she went to Vancouver Film School for one year instead, studying game design…
Kristen WombleThe Creative Consultant
Episode 16
Kristen Womble spent years living divided. There was travel Kristen and there was home Kristen, and they didn't talk to each other. She'd studied abroad in…
Yelena McElwainThe 10-Year Retiree
Episode 15
Yelena McElwain discovered FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) at 25 when she read Tim Ferriss's "The Four Hour Workweek." But she didn't want to…
Andreea RusuThe Connector
Episode 14
Andreea Rusu was sad and depressed in her Bucharest flat in June 2021, post-COVID, with no money to travel. So she bought a one-way ticket to Spain, spent…
Ab KhuranaThe Experimenter
Episode 13
Ab Khurana treats his entire life as a series of experiments, including the experiment of having a normal life. Two years ago, the timing was right to…
Elle OtaThe Modern Athena
Episode 12
Elle Ota spent her summers underwater, diving to fourth-to-sixth-century Roman shipwrecks off the coast of Sicily. She studied classics and ancient Greek…
Miranda MillerThe Midlife Nomad
Episode 11
Miranda Miller didn't wait for the remote work revolution. She was already there. Since 2006, fighting for $15-an-hour writing contracts as a single mum in…
Jocelyn Macurdy KeattsThe Activist
Episode 10
Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts spent ten years trying to save the world from inside Washington, DC. She worked as a political consultant, produced events for…
Kayleigh FranksThe Seeker
Episode 9
Kayleigh Franks didn't stumble into digital nomadism. She hunted it down. In 2016, she flew to Chiang Mai and spent three months interviewing 24 digital…
Dave NealeThe Storyteller
Episode 8
Dave Neale did the sensible thing. He studied English literature at university, got a PhD in psychology from Cambridge, became a Cambridge professor, and…
Sarah ColsThe Dream Catalyst
Episode 7
Sarah Cols spent six years as a career counselor in Brussels asking unemployed people about their dreams—questions most had never been asked. She was…
Katia DimovaThe Catalyst
Episode 6
Katia Dimova pioneered remote work years before COVID made it mainstream, managing a distributed team across Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria with nothing but…
Yello BaloliaThe Optimist
Episode 5
Yello Balolia started a publishing company 15 years ago with zero business experience, zero publishing knowledge, and zero qualifications. His strategy? "How…
Mathilde AndersenThe Virtual HR Consultant
Episode 4
Mathilde Andersen left Switzerland with no clients, no business plan, and zero freelancing experience. Today she runs a virtual HR consultancy for Swiss firms.
Jeanne FontaniereThe Slow-mad
Episode 3
Jeanne Fontaniere didn't plan to become a digital nomad. She was just bored during Paris's second Covid lockdown. So she convinced her events agency boss to…
Tracy BellevueThe Hustler
Episode 2
Tracy Bellevue quit both jobs, broke her lease, sold her car for cash, and left America with nothing but savings and a book she needed to write. No clients…
Edouard RenardThe Maverick
Episode 1
Edouard Renard walked away from a thriving robotics startup just before they were set to raise outside investment. Today, he teaches robotics online to…