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How do you love the place God has called you to, especially when culture stress makes it hard? Karli Von Herbulis joins Amy and Bernie to share 30 Days of Prayer and Learning, a guide to praying for your host culture from its systems down to its most overlooked people. They also talk about using it with your team and your supporters, or even when moving back to your passport country. 🙏 Get your copy of 30 Days of Prayer and Learning for Your Host Country (included in Insiders) Other Resources from Third Culture Thriving This year: ✈️ Transition Workbook for when you are transitioning to a new country (included in Insiders) 🛂 Passport Country Trip Planner (included in Insiders) Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

How do you keep up with work while traveling without missing the point of the trip? Amy and Bernie share practical ways to travel with less pressure: adjust your expectations, simplify your workflow, and use a pocket notebook to stay present in conversations. They also discuss why the simplest tool can sometimes work better than the fanciest one. ✏️ Obsidian Notes at https://obsidian.md/ 📔 Here are Field Notes on Amazon or you can link to Field notes here: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/ Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

In this episode, Melanie Moxness joins Amy and Bernie to explore the characters who often shape our inner lives: Managers, firefighters, and exiles. Drawing on the book Boundaries for Your Soul by Dr. Allison Cook and Kimberly Miller and Internal Family System theory, they discuss how this framework can help cross-cultural workers recognize emotional patterns, tend their souls, and seek support as they grow in the field. 📘Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies by Dr. Allison Cook and Kimberly Miller 🫖 Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder, CO Related Podcast Episodes 🌿 Caring for Your Soul as a Global Worker: Lessons from Karli von Herbulis 🌿 Vices and Virtues: How to Tend Your Soul With David Wu and Beth Forshee 🌿 Soul Tending for Resilience: A conversation with Virgil Tanner Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Sometimes the guide you need shows up in the last place you'd look. For Amy, it was a book about seven U.S. presidents. Life After Power by Jared Cohen follows what each of them did once the White House was behind them, and somewhere around the third president she thought, "Wait, this sounds a lot like cross-cultural workers." Whether you're in the middle of a transition, watching one get closer, or haven't thought about life after the field at all, Amy and Bernie talk through what these unlikely mentors have to teach us. If you're wondering whether life will stink after you leave the field, this one's for you. 📗 Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House  by Jaren Cohen 📝 7 Paths After the Field from 7 Unlikely Mentors —article by Amy Young Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

In this episode, Amy and Bernie talk with counselor and author Charlene Benson about her book Unstuck and her simple but powerful model for navigating relational conflict. Using the metaphor of a road with two ditches—Others-Focused and Me-Focused—Charlene unpacks how fear keeps us stuck and offers practical steps to move toward win–win, healthy relationships on teams, in families, and on the field. 📚 Unstuck: Move from Powerless to Empowered in Your Relationships by Charlene Benson Articles from Global Trellis for your relationships: 👥 Can people from different cultures actually make decisions together? 👥 How to Give Feedback in a Cross-Cultural Setting 👥 What's hard about being a teammate? 👥 How to handle being hurt by others 👥 Conflict Management on the Field Workshops from Global Trellis for your relationships: 🌿 Red, Yellow, Green Model on the Field 🌿 Transition Workbook: The Spaces Between Nations 🌿 Capacity Series Discussion and Activity Guide 🌿 A Mediator's Guide to Listening 🌿 Forgiveness 103: Forgiving Others 🌿 One Another Challenge: Working as a Team {5 Days} Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Amy and Bernie have a fun and helpful conversation with Melanie Moxness who shares how long COVID, injury, and prolonged physical healing led her to a practical "theology of the body." Melanie shares her story helping listeners discover God's presence, grace, and purpose in physical limitation when that becomes more of your calling than you'd like. Dr. Brad Fanestil (The Boulder Institute for Mind Body Medicine) Keith Demmon (PT, DPT, TPS at CU Sports Medicine) Dr. Lee Warren (follow on Instagram @drleewarren) The Anxiety Opportunity by Curits Chang And @melheals_longcovid where Melanie shares her LC healing journey Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

You’re doing better than you think! In this episode, Amy shares five very different milestones—spanning 18 months to 90 years—converging to reveal one core truth: your quiet, faithful work is building more than you can see and why your faithfulness matters more than you know. 🌿 Sexual harassment on the field resources: https://globaltrellis.com/lets-talk-about-sexual-harassment/ 🎉 The One Hundredth Episode: A High-Five of Celebration: https://globaltrellis.com/episode/100/ Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Which zone are you in? Scott Brennan along with Amy and Bernie explore the comfort zone, stretch zone, and panic zone—a simple framework for understanding spiritual formation. Many cross-cultural workers stay in the  stretch and panic zones, burning out in the process. Drawing on the Desert Fathers, Celtic spirituality, and real field experience, Scott unpacks why genuine rest matters, when stretch is healthy, and how to recognize (and exit) panic—for the sake of both your soul and your ministry. You're going to love this conversation! 📚Scott’s Substack (https://scottbrennan12.substack.com/, you’ll find the Stretch Zone article behind the paywall) 🌿 Rule of Life Podcast episode: https://globaltrellis.com/episode/26/ 🪏 How To Build a Rule of Life (article): https://globaltrellis.com/how-to-build-a-rule-of-life-for-cross-cultural-workers/ 🪴12 Week Build a Rule of Life for Cross Cultural Workers (included in Insiders): ​​https://globaltrellis.com/shop/build-a-rule-of-life/ Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Lori Ferrell joins Amy and Bernie to explore play as a spiritual practice, drawing on her own burnout and the sabbatical that helped her rediscover joy. They talk through why adults lose the habit of play, and how small things — baking bread, nature exploration, or a simple 15 minutes of fun a day — can reconnect us to a playful God. 🔖  Read Lori's article: Let's Play! (Global Trellis) 👀  Watch the workshop: You Need to Laugh (included in Insiders) 💚 Visit Lori's website: sanctuaryvero.com Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Amy and Bernie go through the High Five of Celebration as they review the first 100 episodes. High-five to you, our guests, listeners, and stream members who have one hundred episodes of Global Trellis: the Podcast possible. We also share from you and the listeners survey. Find out where around the world this podcast is listened to, favorite episodes, and more. Join us today as we celebrate 100 episodes and look to what is next. Thank you, thank you! We are so grateful for you. ✋Get the High-Five of Celebration (PDF and short video) https://globaltrellis.com/how-to-be-better-at-celebrating/ 🎉 Listen to the episode about the High-Five of Celebration: https://globaltrellis.com/episode/27/ Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Amy and Bernie talk to author Heather Fallis about her newest book, For Those Who Send: Prayers for Those With Loved Ones Serving Abroad. Heather shares how launching her daughter to college exposed the deep, unseen cost borne by parents, families, churches, and supporters as senders—and how liturgy gives them language for both grief and joy for their loved ones. Looking for a supporter gift? This episode, and book, could be just what you’re looking for! 🌐Heather’s Website: https://www.liturgiesforalifeabroad.com/ ☝️Heather’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liturgiesforalifeabroad/ 🙏Interested in liturgies? Read this article interview with Heather and listen to this podcast with Heather where she explains them https://globaltrellis.com/episode/43/ 🎁 Looking for a supporter gift? Or a way to pray as a sender yourself? Get your copy of For Those Who Send: Prayers for Those With Loved Ones Serving Abroad today! Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

When a global move is on the horizon—be it planned or abrupt—how do you handle the logistics, as well as the soul work of leaving well? In this episode, Amy and Bernie talk again with Karli VonHerbulis about a transition workbook, created especially for cross-cultural workers. This valuable resource is packed with practical tools, reflective prompts, and debrief-style questions to help cross-cultural workers transition with intention instead of regret.  ✈️ Transitions Workbook: https://globaltrellis.com/shop/transition-workbook-the-spaces-between-nations/ 🌿 Transition Workbook included in Global Trellis Insiders: https://globaltrellis.com/insiders/   ✅ Kari VonHerbulis on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karlivonherbulis/ Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Have you ever gone from talking to a neighbor in one language straight into a team meeting in a different language? Or written a newsletter and then WhatsApp messaged siblings about aging parents? Or worked all day and then headed to a ministry event in the evening. If you have, I bet that at times, those daily transitions haven't always gone as smoothly as you'd hoped. Why? Because you didn't know how to lock-through in your daily life. In this episode, Amy talks boats, locks, and how you can handle daily transitions. You can be “locked-in” and “locked-through.” This is our first episode that comes with a PDF download and use as you listen to the episode. (You can listen without it, but after listening, you’ll want it!) 🚢 Get your PDF on being Locked-in and Locked-through here. https://globaltrellis.com/a-resource-for-transitions-you-face-every-day 📚 Strong Ground by Brené Brown  Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

Most organizations have a sexual harassment policy to handle incidents within their organization. Far fewer have a plan for what to actually do when an incident happens in the host culture. Stacey Covell returns to the show to join Amy and Bernie in unpacking best practices for handling the “dog bites” (isolated incidents) and “mosquito bites” (frequent reality) that your people experience. We’ve created a “best practices” document that you can download and use as is. Or feel free to use it as a starting point. It’s yours to use! Now you can cover incidents within your organization and within the host culture. 🙌 📖 Read and download the best practices here: https://globaltrellis.com/best-practices-for-handling-sexual-harassment-abuse-and-assault-within-a-host-culture/ 🔬 You can also find it on the Research page for Let’s Talk About It: Sexual Harassment, Abuse, and Assault on the Field: https://globaltrellis.com/lets-talk-about-sexual-harassment/ Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders

It’s no surprise that Amy and Bernie love books! In this fun episode each brings three books they’ve recently read—a novel, a cross-cultural pick, and a surprise—to spark your imagination, help tend your soul, and strengthen long-haul life in ministry. What are you reading right now? Leave your answers in the comments! We’d love to know!  Theo of Golden – Alan Levi  A tender, character-driven novel about an 86-year-old who quietly blesses strangers, inviting readers to really see and honor the image of God in others. Kindness in action.  Have You Seen Luis Velez? – Catherine Ryan Hyde A moving story of friendship between a vulnerable blind woman and a teenage boy, exploring dignity, cross-generational connection, and learning to really notice people. You’ll love it! Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life (2nd ed.) – Makoto Fujimura Argues that culture is a garden to be cultivated, not a war to be won, offering a hopeful vision for artists, leaders, and cross-cultural workers as “border-stalkers.” You’ll be inspired. The Major and the Missionary: The Letters of Warren Hamilton Lewis and Blanche Biggs – ed. Diana Pavlac Glyer A decades-long letter exchange between C.S. Lewis’s brother and a missionary doctor, giving rare, honest insight into cross-cultural life, friendship, and long obedience. Delightful read. Liturgies of the Wild: The Myths That Make Us – Martin Shaw A beautifully written, imaginative meditation on themes like death, envy, and prayer that helps restore a “myth-rich” inner world and tend the soul of those who never quite feel at home. Food for your soul! Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great – Eric Ries Explores how systems drift toward corruption and short-termism, and how to design structures with a “gravitational pull” toward long-term health—highly relevant for ministries and organizations. Must read (or listen to)! Global Trellis: The Podcast Join Insiders