Jeffrey A. Epps, MBA

Digital Nomad, Marketer, Investor, Educator

Jeff manages his travel business, Outcast Vagabond, where he provides marketing and consulting services to travel-related brands and individuals. He has been to over 100 countries and aspires to travel to every country and territory in the world. Jeff has lived and taught full-time in 3 separate Chinese cities, from 2012 to 2019, and taught online, part-time, from 2020 to 2023, while traveling full-time. Jeff returned to China in 2023 and is teaching full-time again in Wuhan on his 8th year in China. Jeff has been a Florida resident since 2012, based out of Miami.

As an avid investor, he helps to coach others on money management and with investment advice. He has 3 college diplomas including a Bachelor's in Marketing (SIUC), MBA in Marketing (SFASU) and a MALS degree from the University of Miami.

Jeff is a heritage traveler who likes to create travel media content that focuses on peoples’ ancestry, cultural traditions and ethnic identities. He believes that heritage is sacred and that it should be protected and preserved at all costs, and that forcing a person or people to disown their own heritage is sacrilegious. When he travels he visits places of historical significance and likes to immerse himself into local cultures, in efforts to understand why places are the way they are, why people are the way they are and how these places can be better understood by the world. He likes to discuss topics such as race, race-relations, gender issues, American politics, geopolitics, Sino-American relations, global affairs, social issues, controversies, conflict resolutions, human rights issues and informational integrity. He has spent the last 15+ years as a white, English-speaking minority in places such as Miami, Mexico, Philippines and China, which has given him a very unique perspective on race, culture and his own identity as an American world-traveling expat.

Jeff also manages Outcast U Travel Education, an ongoing video series that highlights wisdom from his last 8 years as a world-traveling digital nomad; emphasizing heritage travel, travel tips, money-saving advice, finance and investing, brand partnerships, improving Sino-American relations, opportunities in China, life philosophies and travel therapy.

Other video projects that Jeff is currently working on are “Heritage: A Travel Campaign” and “Road Trippin’ USA: A Travel Adventure Series.”