Hi, I’m Pete.

(Your next Community Manager for Nomad Citizen.)

Thanks for indulging me with this website. I’d love to tell you a bit more about myself and why I’m a good fit for the SafetyWing team.

About me

For over 15 years, I’ve built communities that make people feel at home. From using football to unite mothers in one of Mumbai’s largest slums to recruiting 2,500 volunteers for the 2012 Olympics, my work has always centered around fostering meaningful connections across borders.

I haven’t lived in my home country of England for more than two years since I graduated university and I met my wife at a networking event (that’s a fancy way to say “in a bar”) in Shanghai in 2008.

Mumbai is perhaps my favorite place I’ve called home, but the two months I spent working with Special Olympics in Namibia are certainly up there. These days, I reside in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I freelance for organizations across the globe, all while traveling as much as possible.

Fun fact: Once, while renewing my visa in Mumbai, the office ceiling literally crumbled above me. After four hours of waiting, I seized the moment (yeah, ok, by feigning a minor head injury) to finally get seen.

Why SafetyWing?

I joined SafetyWing in 2021 because I needed insurance. The interface looked simple. The coverage seemed solid. Easy decision.

But the more I learned, the more I realized: ohhhh…this isn’t just an insurance company, is it? It’s a mission I believe in. A borderless world? A global safety net for nomads like me? Yes, please.

Since then I’ve also had the pleasure of partnering with SafetyWing on several YouTube integrations and I’ve consistently been blown away by the warmth and authenticity of the team. (Shoutout Preeti, Ebonie, Elena, and Alejandra!) I still remember our first collaboration: the team suggested a video call to get to know us– the first time a brand had made such a gesture. Such a small thing—but it turned a transactional deal into a real, human-centered partnership.

That experience stuck with me. It made me curious enough to follow along, regularly checking the site for job openings and even cold-emailing employees to ask to meet for a coffee in (hi, Luke, and thanks) in hopes I could learn more about the organization and that one day there might be a role that fits my skill set.

Why? Because I’ve lived the digital nomad life for the past few years, and I know how lonely it can be—and how powerful a good community is. I’m thrilled about the chance to help build that community for Nomad Citizen. It’s not often you see a company explicitly value relationships over scale—but that’s exactly the kind of approach I believe in and want to champion.

2021: the year that changed everything

I’ve lived abroad in Australia, Namibia, China, India, the US, and Thailand—but 2021? That’s when everything changed.

That summer, my wife and I were selected from 314,000 applicants (I can’t believe it either) to spend a year living in Airbnbs for at least 28 days at a time. With our two-year-old in tow, we crisscrossed the globe, navigating ever-changing COVID rules, visa headaches, and the occasional toddler meltdown. Each month brought a new country, a new community—and a lot of feedback for Airbnb on how to improve the platform for long-term stays. Or more simply: to make life easier for digital nomads like the ones this experience would encourage us to become.

Oh, and that’s also the year I discovered SafetyWing. ;)

Fun fact: We became quite popular in South Korea and in 2022, I got to film my first of several mukbangs for a popular Korean YouTube channel. Being paid to eat Korean food on camera? Sure, why not!

Then what?

After 18 months of full-time travel, the idea of returning to a “normal” life in Chattanooga, Tennessee felt… well, impossible.

So, I dove into freelancing. I provide strategic guidance and project management for nonprofits, consult with sports teams to improve game-day experiences through community partnerships, and work with a nonprofit pioneering mindfulness in sport to expand their programs and fundraising efforts. Meanwhile, I’ve been creating YouTube content to inspire others to travel, filming and editing (well, my wife does that part) videos nearly every week for the last four years, growing an audience of 116,000 and counting.

In short? I’ve built a patchwork of income streams to support what matters to me most: the freedom to travel and spend time wherever I choose.

Fun fact: I was looking for jobs in Australia after college but wound up seeing a posting for a job in Shanghai and thought “why not?” That one decision altered the course of my life.

And now?

Freelancing has been great, but I’ve realized I miss being part of a team with a bigger, shared vision.

Now, I’m ready to take everything I’ve learned—personally and professionally—and use it to build something bigger. Nomad Citizen’s mission is exactly what I’ve been looking for, and I’m excited to help create a community that not only gets the nomadic lifestyle but helps people actually thrive in it.

Since moving to Chiang Mai in September, I’ve been meeting people from all walks of life—whether through Instagram/YouTube (my wife and I have developed an online reputation of actually enjoying meeting our followers from the internet and regularly meet people this way), reaching out to podcast hosts, or attending local events. The beauty of living abroad is the constant flow of new faces and fresh perspectives, and it keeps me energized.

Digital nomadism can sound like a pipe dream from a cubicle. But when you’re out here, meeting folks who are doing it day in and day out? It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to roll up your sleeves and build something worthwhile. I hope I’ll soon have the opportunity to do that as the latest member of the SafetyWing team.

Here’s some stuff that doesn’t fit into a job application…

I’ve been to about fifty, but the answer to this question is easy. It’s India. Having a country I can visit over and over again until the day I die, know I’ll have great time, and always see something new? That can’t be beat.
Well I’m glad you didn’t specify which league, because it’s Exeter City all the way.
Well aside from Cornish pasties in my parents hometown of Falmouth, I really enjoy a dosa at Cafe Madras in Mumbai, the crab at O Ramiro in Lisbon, fried chicken livers at home in Tennessee, and a street-side jianbing in China.
I’ve been known to belt out “Tequila” by Dan + Shay every now and then. (Look, I didn’t say I was cool.)

Communities I’ve built

You asked for a 2-minute video about a time you built a community or cultivated a group of people and I’d love to share two examples: one from the 2012 Olympic Games and one from when I built a community of young women and their mothers in Dharavi, Mumbai.