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.

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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

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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

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