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Digital Nomad Life Podcast

by ChristabellaTravels · English · Business

This podcast is for the dreamers who feel stuck in a life that looks good on paper but feels wrong in their heart. It is for the people who know they were meant for more than fluorescent lights, two weeks of vacation, and waiting for retirement to finally feel free. Welcome to the Digital Nomad

New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 1 hr 4 min
Latest: 1 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026 · 52 min

128) From 12-Hour Nursing Shifts to Building a Remote Business: How Katie Quit Her Nursing Job

Today we have on my Digital Nomad Life Academy client Katie Souza, who went from working 12 HOUR nursing shifts with only 30 cent yearly raises, to now finally quitting nursing altogether living in Tennessee with her remote podcast manager business, Narrative Nest Studio. And this is so common. I have so many nursing clients that come to me wondering how they and quit their nursing job, will it match their income and do they have any transferrable online skills? Today we are...

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Earlier episodes 29 most recent

17 Sep 2026 · 58 min
127) Why the 9 to 5 Doesn’t Work for People with ADHD ( But Perfect for Digital Nomads )
🌍 Wondering if you are ready to take the next steps to become a Digital Nomad? DM me @christabellatravels “RRR” on Instagram to book a Remote Readiness Rating call. If your ADHD isn’t the problem… but the life you’ve been trying to force yourself into is? If you’re an ADHD entrepreneur who has ever felt like you’re “bad at being an adult” because you don’t wake up at 5 AM, can’t focus on boring tasks, work better at night, or need a deadline breathing down your neck to actually get shi...
3 Sep 2026 · 47 min
126) How to Get Your First Clients for Your Digital Nomad Business
Today I wanted to make this episode to give you an understanding of what "getting clients" actually even really means from a practical perspective. And I want this episode to be something where you can immediately get to work taking action on things I'm going to share with you today. But before you turn off the episode because you don't have a business idea, I just want you to know and to be reassured that if you don't have a business idea yet, that's okay. I'm still gonna be catering t...
6 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
125) From Stressed BBC Journalist to Becoming a Digital Nomad: How Lara Escaped Corporate
I'm so excited for today's conversation because I'm sitting down with my friend Lara Maysa from Haus of Light from a live studio here in Bali, Indonesia. We've only known each other for a short time, but the moment I heard Lara's story, I knew I had to bring her onto the podcast. If you're someone who's been dreaming about creating more freedom in your life, building a business online, or escaping the traditional corporate path, but you also want your work to feel deeply meaningful, this epis...
23 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
124) How Gabrielle Became a Digital Nomad Mom & Started Her Family Abroad
Today I am in a studio in Bali, Indonesia, recording this episode with my dear friend Gabrielle Martorana, who I've known for many years and since I know her her life has changed so much. Gabrielle is a new mom with her first child who is living abroad in a Southeast Asian country. She didn't start there though, she used to work in corporate in a big fancy job in San Fransisco till she realized there was another way.. From pitching her employer to become her first freelance client to...
9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
123) The 5-Step Plan to Quit Corporate & Build a Digital Nomad Business - with Luiza Samarova
Today I'm joined in the podcast studio in Bali with my friend and fellow remote business mentor, Luiza Samarova who transformed her life from climbing the corporate ladder in Germany to building a thriving location-independent marketing business and helping others do the same. One of the things I loved most about this conversation is that Luiza teaches a very similar philosophy to what I teach inside the Digital Nomad Life Academy. Different stories. Different personalities. Same truth: You d...
2 Jul 2026 · 56 min
122) How Lorna Built THREE Remote Businesses That Let Her Travel the World as a Digital Nomad
Today, I am recording this episode live in Bali and I am joined by my now dear friend, Lorna, who actually started off as one of my clients in the Digital Nomad Life Academy four years ago. She's gonna be telling us all about her third business that she has created since she stepped into her entrepreneur journey, which all began with the Digital Nomad Life Academy way back in the day. This week's episode is proof that you don't need to have it all figured out before you take the first s...
25 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 16 min
121) How Bella Quit a $140K Corporate Job, Moved to Spain, and Built Her Dream Digital Nomad Business
Today, I'm interviewing Bella , a client of mine with an incredible journey. She went from a corporate job earning $140,000 a year to building her own business and creating a life on her terms. Fast forward just one year after joining the Digital Nomad Life Academy, and she's recording this podcast from Spain, her new home. She's built a thriving business, has clients coming in from multiple channels, and is truly living the life she once dreamed about. She's running her dream business, she's...
9 Jun 2026 · 57 min
120) Exactly How I'd Help You Replace Your Income and Start an Online Business If You Hired Me Today
What if you had a step-by-step roadmap to replace your income and build a business that gives you complete freedom? In this episode, I'm gonna teach you literally the step-by-step things that I would do if you actually hired me to help you replace your income so that you can have the lifestyle of your dreams. II've been living abroad since 2013, traveling to the countries I want, when I want. I've made anywhere from 3–8x my old salary through my online business, hit the million-dollar mark, a...
28 May 2026 · 56 min
119) How Jess Went All In On Her Remote Business & Quit Her Healthcare Jobs
Less than a year ago, Jess was commuting to her healthcare job in Australia, feeling exhausted, overworked, and secretly wondering if there had to be more to life than the traditional path. Now? She’s in Bali ( recording with me in a live studio) building her own location-independent business, signing clients online, working from her laptop, and literally on the cusp of fully replacing her income. The craziest part is that Jess didn’t start out knowing anything about marketing, sales, entrepr...
14 May 2026 · 53 min
118) How to Go From Burnt-Out Freelancer to Freedom Filled Business Owner
There are two main ways to make money online and become a digital nomad: being a freelancer or being a business owner. Inside the Digital Nomad Life Academy, I help people become business owners, but I’ve been noticing a lot of people are stuck in freelancer energy without realizing it — and honestly, it’s not sustainable. Freelancing can quickly turn into a grind where you’re working for your clients instead of for yourself. So in this episode, I’m breaking down the difference between freela...
23 Apr 2026 · 53 min
117) How to Know if it's Time for Your Online Entrepreneur Era
Today I want to talk about why you haven’t taken the leap yet into entrepreneurship and to go after your dream of a digital nomad life of freedom. But here is the thing… you landed on this episode for a reason. A small part of you believes it is possible more than being scared. On this episode, I’m gonna uncover some of the reasons why you have not yet taken the leap. I want to reassure you that it's not as scary as you might think, and it's actually so much closer to you th...
10 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
116) If Starting a Business Sounds "Too Complicated" Listen to This
If starting a business FEELS hard, it’s because you don’t understand these fundamental mindset concepts. In today’s episode, I want to go through a series of topics that I tend to talk about with my clients often, where it's like they're thinking about business with a mindset that actually keeps them in scarcity, or it keeps them confused, it keeps them feeling stuck. And then when I share my perspective about business, suddenly—boom—they're unstuck. Boom, suddenly they have clarity.&nb...
12 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
115) The Trip That Changed My Life: My Digital Nomad Origin Story
Today, I want take you back to where my nomad life all began because I happen to recording this where it all started, Costa Rica. And to be honest, being there on this trip has surfaced some emotional stuff for me that I wasn't fully expecting to surface and it’s kind of caught me off guard. I want to share the lessons that are coming up, my story and some things I want to come clean about. I've kind of been a little bit l offended when people ask me this question, wh...
26 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
114) How Aleigha Went From Working in a Basement to Owning Her Digital Nomad Business in Bali
Today, I am interviewing one of my previous clients, Aleigha Knight, who has such an amazing success story I wanted to share it with you. We are now recording this in Bali where she lives with her digital nomad business she built, but that isn’t where she started. She started in New York working a corporate job, getting no sunlight and working in a basement and realized this can’t be it for her. So she invested in my program, The Digital Nomad Life Academy to redirect and c...
12 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 14 min
113) Doing It Scared: How Virginia Started Her Entrepreneur Journey Without Having It All Figured Out
Today's episode we recorded in Bali, Indonesia, where I live with my good friend, Virginia Campo, who like many of the listeners comes from a pretty traditional corporate background but ultimately networked her way into an amazing digital nomad opportunity with Selena Hostels. She coins the word “intreprenuer” where she moved in and out of “Intrepreneurship” to “Soloprenuership” and now runs an agency. We also dive into how she has toyed back and forth from being nomadic to living a tradition...
29 Jan 2026 · 46 min
112) Saying YES to Life, Even When It Looks Irresponsible
Today's episode is not a normal business episode. It’s more of a life episode with business woven through it. I’m taking you behind the scenes of the six weeks where I basically ignored my to do list and said yes to life instead. I share what was going through my head as work piled up, why I chose presence over productivity, and what actually happened when I stopped trying to control everything. There’s a bit of story time, a bit of honest confession, and a lot of lessons about tr...
15 Jan 2026 · 56 min
111) How to Become a Digital Nomad in 2026
Today's episode is about making 2026 the year you finally make money from anywhere doing work you actually enjoy. We are not talking about affiliate marketing, e-commerce, or get-rich-quick schemes for your online remote business.. I’m talking about real, sustainable, high-ticket online businesses, the kind that give you freedom, stability, and the ability to live anywhere in the world without hating your work. We are also talking about the tidal wave of AI and how to prepare yourself a...
25 Nov 2025 · 59 min
110) How to Set the Price For Your Offer and Make More Money in Your Online Business
Today’s episode is for any entrepreneur out there who has already started their digital nomad business, but isn’t quite sure what to charge their clients. I’m here to help you come up with a price that you feel really good about—a price that makes you feel well compensated for what you’re doing, but also feels fair. But I am guessing you might be feeling resistance or even imposter syndrome when it comes to charging the price you want. Or maybe you’ve been pricing your offer based on “i...
11 Nov 2025 · 56 min
109) Not Sure If You’re Cut Out for Entrepreneurship? Here’s How to Find Out.
A lot of people want the digital nomad lifestyle and the perks of being an entrepreneur, but they think “ but I'm not cut out for it because I'm not entrepreneurial or I'm not Insert whatever quality it is that you think that you need in order to make that lifestyle happen.” Well, here is the thing. I think that there's these common misconceptions that people have about what entrepreneurship looks like. People out there like Alex Hermosi will have you thinking to become an entrepreneur you ha...
28 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
108) The AI Wake-Up Call: Save Yourself, Start Your Business and Take Back Your Time
Hate to break it to you, but AI isn’t going anywhere , but your job might. In today’s episode, I want to teach you how and why you need to save yourself. We’re diving into how AI can fit into your business, how to protect your time, and how to start building your freedom. Technology is evolving fast, but you get to choose how you live your life. Lately, I’ve had a massive wake-up call with technology, both the rise of AI and my own screen-time addiction (I know you’re probably addicted ...
15 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
107) How Reverse Culture Shock Maybe Your Wake-Up Call to Move Abroad
Today I want to talk to those who are truly not resonating with the country that you were born in and how you are not stuck and you CAN move abroad. There is another way to live life. The is another way to not be part of a system that, that you were born into, but you didn't really actually have consent to. If you wanna be part of a different system, if you wanna go to a culture that has values that are more aligned with who you are as a person, you can. But here's the thing, unle...
30 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
106) Why Evan Left Medical Sales and Chasing Money for a Spiritual Fueled Digital Nomad Life
Today we have on Evan Gage to talk about his journey of becoming a digital nomad and how he has exited the matrix and he is never going back. Evan started his career in medical sales chasing money, women and just really doing the whole corporate nine to five thing for many years. Now we are recording this in Bali both as digital nomads and entrepreneurs who can live from literally anywhere, and work from anywhere. Today he has got a coaching business where he hel...
16 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
105) How to Go From an Employee to Freedom-Focused Digital Nomad
Today I sit down with my friend and entrepreneur Phoebe Kuhn- a marketing genius and seasoned digital nomad who’s been living and working around the globe for over six years. So, you maybe listening to this episode from your car on the way to work and listening to us record this from Bali as two digital nomads wondering- okay I want that lifestyle, but how? Well today, Phoebe explains the Four Quadrants of Success from Employee to a freedom focused business owner. We also dive into how ...
2 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 5 min
104) How Jessica Stopped Feeling Like a Black Sheep and Became a Digital Nomad in Bali
EPISODE WARNING: Discussion of religion, suicide and abortions are discussed in this episode if you are sensitive to those topics. Today is an episode for any listeners out there that feel like their are "black sheep" in their hometowns, society and career. This episode is here for you to realize it is okay if you do not fit in with your surroundings and if you want a different life than those around you. We have on one of my clients from the Digital Nomad Life Jessica from the Bu...
19 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
103) What My Recent Identity Crisis Taught Me About Being a Digital Nomad
Recently, I’ve been having an identity crisis around my business, and you may have seen me talk about it on my social media @christabellatravels. Today, I wanted to make this episode for anyone who is currently going through an identity crisis and to let you in on what’s been going on in my world. If you have a business — maybe you’re a freelancer, a content creator, or one of my clients who has gone through the Digital Nomad Life Academy — I think my story today will resonate with you. And m...
5 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 20 min
102) Europe Working 6 Hours a Week: Recap of my Digital Nomad Summer
I just got back from a big grand digital nomad adventure and today I want to fill you in on the behind the scenes of what I wasn't able to post on my Instagram stories. From Greece to Malta to Georgia to Armenia AND experiencing my 7th tour on the Nomad Cruise, I was able to travel and only work 6 hours a week with my business. So want to give a behind the scenes tour and experience of what it's really like to be working remotely to be running your own business while travelling travelin...
3 Jun 2025 · 1 hr
101) Becky’s Digital Nomad Journey From Burned Out Corporate VP to Feminine Energy Coach
This episode might be the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed. Today's guest and my former client Becky Evans was a former vice president in corporate investment banking who found herself have a panic attack from serious burnout and stress from her current life. She vulnerably shares how she left the corporate grind and redefined her identity, becoming an emotional energy coach and living her dream life as a digital nomad. If you're yearning for a different path but don’t know...
27 May 2025 · 1 hr 21 min
100) The 6 Freedoms That Change Everything (Q: How Big Would You Dream If You Had All 6?)
Today marks the 100th episode of the Digital Nomad Life Podcast, and I want to celebrate by talking about my favorite subject: abundance. I’ve traveled to over 66 countries before the age of 30, hit the million-dollar mark in my business just four years in, and now I’m living out my dream digital nomad life in Bali as an entrepreneur. But it hasn’t always been this way… In this episode, I’m sharing what my old life looked like in New York—stuck in a cubicle, working for horrible bosses, and l...
20 May 2025 · 1 hr 16 min
99) How Long Does it Actually Take to Build an Online Business?
Let’s get real. Are you tired of online gurus telling you that you’ll hit 10K months in 90 days- or is this just a smooth marketing tactic? Well I’m breaking down the real timelines and mindset shifts behind launching a location-independent business so you can finally live your dream digital nomad life. I'll walk you through the honest truth about how long it actually takes to build an online business that supports a remote work lifestyle. Whether you're starting from scratch with zero ...

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Digital Nomad Life Podcast is a English business podcast from ChristabellaTravels. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: ChristabellaTravels
Language: English
Category: Business
New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 1 hr 4 min
Latest episode: 1 Oct 2026
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