A podcast for
the people behind
the calling.
Season One
The
conversations
we almost
didn't have.
Twelve conversations. No scripts, no highlight reels, no sermon voice. Season One is what happens when missionaries stop performing and start talking... about the loneliness nobody warns you about, the doubt nobody prays out loud, and the ordinary Tuesdays that make up a calling.
If you've ever wondered what it's actually like behind the platform, this is where you start.
Every episode
Miguel & Angela Martinez - Founders of This Is Vida
01
The one where the mask comes all the way off. Miguel and Angela answer the questions people ask them most, and a few nobody's brave enough to ask. It's the origin story of This Is Vida and the reason this podcast exists in the first place.
Nikki Jacobson -
(Missionary in Guatemala)
02
She said no the first time someone invited her to stay in Guatemala. Three years later she's still there, finishing a social work degree while working at a children's home. A real conversation about community, being the foreigner, and building a life she didn't plan for.
Felicity Stanley —
Missionary in training
03
Felicity talks through what it actually looks like to prepare for the mission field... the training, the support raising, the waiting. This one's for anyone standing at the very beginning of a calling and wondering if they're ready
"Emeri" —
Missionary to the unreached
04
She can't show her face or say where she lives. In one of the most unreached corners of the world, she's serving anyway. A rare, honest look at what it means to go where almost no one else will, and why she keeps saying yes.
Justin & Candace King —
Ministry to food-insecure families
05
A new house. No job. A kid at home. And still, they said yes. Justin and Candace talk about stepping into ministry to food-insecure families right when their own life felt the least stable, and what that taught them about provision.
06
Felicity Stanley, Pt. 2 —
Missionary in training
Felicity's back with an update from the field... evangelism in a Muslim country, the rejection that came with it, and what it actually cost her to keep going. Part two goes places part one couldn't.
Lakeshore Church Members —
First-time mISSION TRIP
07
Same questions, asked twice. Before their first mission trip and again right after, a group from Lakeshore Church gets honest about what they expected versus what actually happened. Expectation meets reality in real time.
Peter & Donna Pitman — Missionaries —
medical missions, Guatemala
08
Peter and Donna run a medical missions ministry in Guatemala, and this one goes straight at the parts nobody puts in the newsletter... marriage, burnout, and the boundaries they had to learn the hard way.
Josh & Kelly Tucker —
Missionaries —
Hope for Home, Guatemala
09
Josh and Kelly said yes to Guatemala right when their faith felt the shakiest. Four years into serving with Hope for Home, they talk about the marriage tension nobody warns you about, and why they'd say yes again even though it felt like a bad idea.
Daryl & Wanda Fulp —
Missionaries —
special needs ministry, Guatemala
10
Fourteen years in Guatemala and five special needs homes later, Daryl and Wanda know what long-term obedience actually looks like. This one's a masterclass in staying when staying is the hard, unglamorous choice.
Brittney Fulp de Caal —
Former missionary / missionary kid
11
Daryl and Wanda's daughter grew up on the mission field, and this is her side of the story... being a missionary kid, choosing the calling for herself, and growing up without the baggage that usually comes with it.
Julia Arreaga —
Missionary — Foster care & family reunification, Guatemala
12
Julia works in foster care and family reunification with some of Guatemala's most vulnerable kids and families. A conversation about showing up for the people the system too often overlooks.
Coming next
Season Two lands
January 2027.
We're already recording the next round of honest conversations. Follow along so you don't miss the first episode.