313: Finding Love and Partnership in the Digital Nomad Lifestyle and Choosing the Right Travel Medical Insurance with Ebonie Finley

313: Finding Love and Partnership in the Digital Nomad Lifestyle and Choosing the Right Travel Medical Insurance with Ebonie Finley

Author: Matt Bowles: Full-Time World Traveler Since 2013 December 2, 2024 Duration: 55:43
Learn how to find a romantic life-partner in the digital nomad life & why all travel medical insurance is not the same. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this episode, Ebonie Finley talks about her experience reconnecting with the Bahamas as an adult, and shares tips for visiting the Bahamas and Costa Rica. She then talks about navigating anti-Blackness in the digital nomad life, and why she feels Medellin, Colombia is one of the best destinations for Black women. Ebonie then talks about finding love, romance, and long-term partnership in the digital nomad lifestyle, and gives tips on maintaining a long-term nomadic relationship. She then talks about her experience working for SafetyWing after being a long-time customer of their travel medical insurance. Ebonie talks about why SafetyWing’s Nomad Insurance is so unique in the market, and who it is specifically suited for. She then shares tips for making friends around the world as a solo traveler, offers advice for aspiring nomads, and gives tips for sustaining a long-term life of world travel. ⁠ ⁠ → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU: See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally You can buy me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

There’s a certain texture to life lived in motion, a collection of stories that emerge not from postcards but from the messy, beautiful reality of planting roots in foreign soil. The Maverick Show: Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders captures that essence through long-form conversations hosted by Matt Bowles, who has been navigating the world full-time since 2013. This isn't a guidebook podcast; it’s a series of intimate dialogues, often unfolding casually over a shared bottle of wine, where the destination is understanding. You’ll hear from a diverse range of voices-expats, digital nomads, women forging paths abroad, and diaspora storytellers-each sharing the raw, unfiltered nuances of what happens when you cross borders for good. The focus is on the human narrative beneath the itinerary: the cultural misunderstandings that become breakthroughs, the loneliness and liberation, and the profound ways a global life reshapes identity. Listening feels like pulling up a chair at a cafe somewhere in the world, eavesdropping on a conversation that’s equally about internal discovery as it is about geographic change. Matt’s own experience as a long-term traveler informs these discussions, steering them toward the substantive lessons learned far from home. If you’ve ever wondered about the true weight and wonder of building a life between cultures, this podcast offers a genuine, thoughtful window into that journey.
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