The Global Goer Podcast

Dozens of you have written in since my book came out asking the same question: how did you publish your book? Today I'm answering it — and giving you three different paths depending on why you're writing and what kind of book you're dreaming about. We start with the most important question: why are you writing a book in the first place? Is it a memoir for your family's legacy? A framework or idea...

SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS (BANGLADESH) This is the finale of the Short-Term Trip Summer Series — and we're going to Bangladesh. Two twenty-five-year-old millennial vloggers named Luke and Paul. A retired sixty-something businessman named John. A Muslim driver and guide. And me. We flew to Dhaka, hired a car, and just started driving south through four districts with eight million...

SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS My favorite kind of short-term trip is the one hardly anyone is planning. The Short-Term Trip called a Survey Trip goes where no long-term workers live. Where if you look up the city in a missions database, you get back almost nothing. Where the people you ask say — no, nobody is working there right now . Not that we know of. In this episode I define wha...

SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES : PROFESSIONAL TRIPS Last week I took you to Mumbai to show you what a Vision Trip looks like — the Red Light district, the Dharavi slum, Titus and his chai, the maps-on-the ground prayer meeting. That's a Vision Trip entering as a learner, getting more out than you give. Today is different. Today is about being useful. In this episode I...

SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: VISION TRIPS Rather than tell you the difference between a Vision Trip and a Professional Trip and a Survey Trip (the three trip types), I want to show you what a Short-Term Vision Trip actually looks like. Not a slide presentation. Not a bullet-point list of activities. A real trip, with real moments, that did something real to everyone who went. I'll illustrate the...

I have a confession to make. Years ago, I led a short-term trip to India with twenty-two people and the best intentions in the world. We stuffed twenty-two of our forty-four duffel bags with Beanie Babies for orphan children. We built a medical database nobody asked for. We spoke at a Bible school where no one understood our English. And when I came home, I felt confused, depressed, and deeply dis...

Why is it that women are often more unleashed in overseas movement contexts than in Western churches? And what does that tell us about the theology we've accepted without examining? In this episode, I'm wading into one of the most important — and most understudied and misunderstood — topics in global missions and the church: headship theology. I'll clearly define it, then addre...

I just got off a call with a former Anderson Consulting executive who coaches aspiring cross-cultural workers how to start legitimate businesses in countries where religious visas don’t exist. And I thought — he is not at all what I imagined a global goer would look like. That’s what this episode is about. After a lifetime of living among cross-cultural workers and walking alongside hundreds of fa...

Discerning Your Calling — Part 2: Called to a Who, Not a Where This is Part 2 of my two-part series on discerning your calling as a Global Goer. If you haven't listened to Episode 14 yet, I recommend you start there first. In this episode I tackle the question that trips most people up once they think they might be called: where? I make the case that calling is probably not a where first — it's a...

A couple of years ago, I sat in a room with about 50 cross-cultural workers living in South Asia — veterans, people with 20+ years on the field. We asked the ones who stayed: what kept you here? Every single one of them said the same thing: calling. Not strategy, not a great organization — a deep sense that God had called them to a specific people, a specific work, and hadn't released them yet. &n...

In this episode, I get personal about my physical health journey — what woke me up, why it matters specifically for global goers, and the practical changes I'm making now. From walking and strength training to learning to see food as medicine, this is a candid, encouraging conversation about taking care of the body God gave me for the long haul. Resources Mentioned: Book: Across the...

If you grew up overseas — or you're raising kids who are — this episode is for you. Jeannie Marie is a classic TCK who grew up in the Philippines and moved to the US at 18. In this first episode of a planned TCK series, she talks about: what we all have in common, what shapes us, what we struggle with, and what an incredible gift this life really is. IN THIS EPISODE What a third culture kid actual...

Have you ever thought about creating an online business to help fund your life overseas or supplement your nonprofit work? What if your years of training and knowledge could reach people while you sleep — and outlive you long after you’re gone? In this episode, I’m sharing one way I have funded my own global passion and helped others do the same — through digital courses, memberships, and coaching...

Easter is one of the most important celebrations in the Christian faith — but do you know how to explain it to someone from a different faith background? In this episode, I walk you through how I explain Easter to my Muslim friends, my Hindu friends, and even culturally Christian people who have grown up with Easter eggs and bunnies but aren’t quite sure what it all means. And even if Easter has a...

Some news stories you can scroll past. This isn't one of them. My father and I were in India when the war in Iran broke out — my tickets routed through Qatar, checking flight apps every hour, eventually driving five hours to a different airport and routing home through Thailand and Japan just to get back to the US. Qatar is still closed. That experience sent me deep into every news source she coul...

Why I Celebrate Eid with My Muslim Friends (And You Should Too) Eid is coming up this weekend, and millions of Muslims around the world are preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan with family, food, generosity, and community. And that raises an important question many Christians ask when building friendships with Muslims: Is it appropriate for Christians to celebrate Eid with their Muslim friend...

I'm recording this episode from my hotel room in India, looking out over a sea of coconut trees and blue sky and just beyond it, the Arabian Sea. And I have so much to tell you. Twelve years ago our family of six landed in this city - kids ages 5 to 15 - in a tropical, chaotic, beautiful unreached city of one million Muslims. We came expectant and hopeful and we had to leave much sooner than we wa...

🎙️ Travel “Rules” So You Don’t Lose Your Passport — or Your Mind In this episode of the Global Goer Podcast , Jeannie shares her personal travel rules for international trips — the kind learned the hard way after decades of traveling across cultures and continents. Recorded just before boarding a flight to India, these tips were fresh on her checklist — and they might save you serious stress on yo...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: I’m posting this episode from India — the city where our family once stepped into a dream that felt far bigger than us. Years ago, God placed something on our hearts. It required risk. Obedience. Movement. And a willingness to take the first step before we saw the whole staircase. Not every dream becomes reality. But some do. So what makes the difference? In this episode, I re...

Thinking about moving overseas someday? Or maybe you're supporting friends who are considering it? In this episode, I'm sharing 15 real expectations vs. reality insights from a decade of living overseas and watching dozens of people make the move. From the importance of choosing the right team to why it gets harder before it gets easier, these are the things I wish someone had told me before I mov...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Ramadan starts February 17, 2026—and this is one of the most strategic times of the year to engage with your Muslim friends. For 30 days, Muslims fast from sunup to sundown. No food. No water. No smoking. No swearing. And MORE praying, MORE reading, MORE giving, MORE openness to spiritual things. So why not join them in their spiritual quest, in our own way? In this episode, I...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Let's talk about what many of you are experiencing in your church: What do you do when your lead pastor doesn't share your passion for the nations, for global missions? Maybe you're fighting for 3 minutes of stage time on Sunday morning. Maybe you came back from the field and nobody remembers who you are—not even the pastor. Maybe your church treats global work like one of man...

Welcome to The Global Goer Podcast! I'm sitting at a Thai restaurant in Arizona with my daughter, and for a moment, I'm transported. The smells, the sounds, the elderly Asian woman shuffling over to fill my tea—I feel alive, like I'm accessing a part of who God made me to be. If you've ever felt that same pull toward other cultures, that apostolic yearning to reach the edges of the Kingdom where t...

Welcome to The Global Goer Podcast!  I'm Jeannie Marie, author of Across the Street and Around the World , and I'm so glad you're here. This podcast is for people who've always known they were meant for more —whether you're a parent dreaming of raising globally-minded kids, a young professional wondering how your career could open doors overseas, or someone who took a short-term trip yea...