Through weekly guest interviews, hosts Melissa Ens and Tracy Vilanova offer gifts of understanding for those who have recently returned from living abroad, reflection for those who have been back for years, and insight for those who have never left their home country. These stories help us all understand the world and ourselves just a little better.
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87 | Grab a Cafecito and Prepare for Landing: Melissa and Tracy's Round-Trip Story about their Podcast
The Round Trip Stories Podcast serves to encourage listeners in their return journeys. We have been privileged to collect an anthology of 36 guests’ round trip stories of their time outside their home country and back again. There are stories from every continent (except Antarctica) and every decade beginning in the 1950’s until the 2020’s. In this episode we share a different round trip story: our beginning and ending to our podcast. Hear us answer our own interview questions about our journey in creating this for you and what it has showed us along the way.
Teaching Takes You Places: Information about teaching internationally (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCaMLyHZf4)
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30 Jul 2026
86 | Advice Spanning Seventy Years: A Compilation of Wisdom from Seasons 5 and 6
In this episode we share a rich compilation of advice from our guests from seasons five and six. At the end of our interviews, we always ask our guests for a last word of advice or encouragement. As we did in episodes 60 and 32, we have pulled together excerpts from the recommendations our guests shared. We hope that this wisdom encourages you once again, and perhaps this episode will inspire you to go back and listen to their interviews (again)! Surely it will warm your heart to hear their voices and advice all in one place.
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20 May 2026
85 | He is in Your Boat: Andy and Mary Ellen's Return Stories to Canada
Welcome back to Part 2 of our interview with Andy and Mary Ellen Faust, Canadian Americans who have worked with a mission organization focused on Bible translating for over 20 years. Mary Ellen is a recruiter and missions coach, and Andy is an instructor at the Canada Institute of Linguistics. Separately, they spent many before marriage in former Soviet bloc countries, and then they met in and returned to Central Asia as a young family. Listen to their stories of what they thought would be a short return to Canada that turned into 16 years.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
9 ratings
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5.0 / 5
4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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Social presence
90
YouTube
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Engagement
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