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A podcast about how helpers can thrive in their mission. Whether you are a missionary living overseas, in ministry, or a missional mother, this podcast will offer practical tools on how to remain spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy while living missionally. The missionary life is lonely and full of loss, trauma, heartbreak, disappointment, and life not turning out how we expected. I want you to be able to heal from these experiences and build resilience. Learn to prevent and hea ...
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What if you could love your body no matter your size? We are often so self-critical of our bodies, we make our body the enemy instead of our friend. When we live overseas, we might gain weight because of lack of access to proper nutrition or exercise, and in ministry, church culture, or every day life, we compare our bodies to others. Amy Stern is …
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Re-entry is one of the most difficult experiences a missionary can go through and we are often unprepared for the grief and trauma associated with it. It is like navigating the world underwater, everything disorienting and muted. Shonna and I dive deep into her 3-phase Renewed Hope approach of Receive, Rebuild, and Restore to go through the transit…
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What if your marriage could thrive on the field? Marriages on the mission field face complex suffering, stressors, ministry demands, and isolation. They are constantly being tested by grief, hardship, power and water outages, exhaustion, and parenting. Stephanie Gutierrez, host of the Modern Day Missionaries podcast, lived in Peru with her husband …
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Have you ever wondered how to develop grit on the mission field, the kind of resiliency that gets you through hard times? Or maybe you're wondering when is it time to leave and how will I know? Eva and Sue wrote the book Grit to Stay, Grace to Go, and in this podcast, we'll answer those burning questions and more! You can buy their book here and us…
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Burnout is an occupational hazard for missionaries, ministers, and those in helping professions. Merideth Hite Estevez is the host of the beloved Artists for Joy podcast. She speaks with beauty and wisdom on how rediscovering creativity helped her recover from burnout, how she lives life now as a working mother without succumbing to burnout again, …
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Missionary Kids and their parents can often face adversity on the field, and have a special identity that makes them who they are. Mk’s are amazingly adaptable, thoughtful, cross-culturally wise, and yet many suffer from perfectionism, shame, and isolation, and are plagued by the traumas of their youth. With Michele Phoenix, MK advocate we uncover …
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How do you know when it's time to leave the mission field? How do you do it well for yourself and your kids? On this podcast I interview Naomi Hattaway about her life overseas and her work with expats. We discuss what it means to be a triangle, what it looks like to trust your gut in the leaving process, and how to navigate re-entry with your famil…
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As missionaries, caring for our bodies can be difficult and feel like an after-thought. Self-care on the field sometimes seems impossible so many of us stop taking care of our physical bodies, and the results are disastrous, resulting in everything from adrenal fatigue, to autoimmune disorders, gut imbalance, hypothyroidism, weight gain, exhaustion…
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Sadly, spiritual and sexual abuse is very prevalent in missions, with those living overseas being three times more likely to experience some kind of abuse, and almost 30% experience some kind of sexual harm. Rebecca is a journalist for Christianity Today and we explore what constitutes spiritual and sexual abuse, why there is so much of it on the m…
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Marilyn Gardner spent the majority of her childhood living in Pakistan and attended boarding school there, and later raised her own 5 children in Egypt. She describes the beauty, joy, and heartbreak of living as a TCK, and being a mother to TCK's and feeling out of place when she returned to the States. TCK's face unique challenges and have a speci…
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Wow! This is a significant and nuanced episode where I speak with Anna Hampton, author of Facing Danger, A Guide Through Risk, and Facing Fear, about her life in Afghanistan, and how global workers can take mitigated and Holy Spirit-led risks on the mission field. We discuss how we as mothers can both protect and entrust our children to Christ as w…
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I'm delighted to have Rachel Pieh Jones with me as we talk about her new book Pillars, How My Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus, and what it means to navigate the mystery of faith when we are confronted with other cultural beliefs like Islam. Rachel spent the majority of her life in Somalia under Taliban rule and had to deconstruct her faith wh…
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Why do we need millennials in missions even though they make mistakes? How can we learn from the failures and experience of older-generation missionaries who have gone before us? Seth Barnes knows a lot about failure, but he parlayed that failure into launching one of the biggest missions sending organizations in the world: The World Race. He belie…
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This is my favorite episode so far as I'm honored to have Amanda Held Opelt, sister of Rachel Held Evans, and author of A Hole in the World, sharing about the excruciating grief she went through with the loss of her sister and how through the practice of rituals she was able to heal and reconnect with her faith. We also discuss her humanitarian aid…
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In this very first episode of Missionary Life, I speak with Pastoral Counselor Jonathan Trotter about his life on the field in Cambodia, and his new book, Digging in the Dirt. We dive deep into maintaining your emotional health in ministry and discuss practical tools to move through anxiety, anger, grief, and the trauma missionaries experience over…
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Clearly Tony Ann is really talented but even more so-he's smart. Tony didn't get discovered by The Chainsmoker's on Youtube and asked to go on their nationwide Memories tour by luck, he earned his right to that spot on stage. In this episode I talk to Tony about how he got The Chainsmoker's to notice him above all of the Youtube noise, what he did …
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Who better to get advice from then a professional mentor? On this episode of The Passion Series Podcast I talk with Jacob Rakowski, a mentor to young entrepreneurs with their ambitions set high. Jacob tells us how he landed his dream job and built the life he's always wanted. As we talked overcoming adversity and his advice for newbie entrepreneurs…
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What does it really mean to give without expectation of return? My guest today is Eddie Guerra, a man on a mission to spread awareness about childhood cancer and one particular little girl's journey. Eddie has made the decision to spend the next few months of his life preparing for the journey of a life time-he's going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in O…
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I'm writing this overview a few minutes after finishing this interview and all I can say is, "Wow." Caitlin's story starts with her buying a one way ticket to Bangkok, traveling the world on a whim and living in places such as Barcelona, Bali, Morocco, Japan AND MORE. Here's what you'll learn in this episode: 1. The number one way to make sure your…
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Say hello to Todd Brison, author and online influencer to 36,000 people! Super casual. The coolest part about this interview is that we were able to do it IN PERSON at my favorite coffee shop in East Nashville. That coffee shop has seen me grow from an aspiring blogger to a full time freelancer/blogger and now interviewer. The feels are so real. In…
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Welcome to The Passion Series Podcast! Ever wondered how somebody turned their passions into a career? Ever wondered how somebody FOUND their passion at all? I want to connect those dots. I want to help you find the people that can inspire and show you how they created the life that you have always wanted. My first guest is Chris Connors. You can f…
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