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2025-12-0450 min2025-12-041h 012025-12-041h 03Life UnwastedAnnaLife is complicated. Embrace the good, the dark, the bad, the hard, the joy.They all mean something. Life is worth living when you're living all of it.
2025-12-041h 002025-12-041h 02Life UnwastedSeason 1 FinaleYou're all phenomenal individuals. Thank you to our guests and also our listeners who've all joined us in this fascinating journey. We will be back in a couple of months.
2025-12-041h 022025-12-041h 03Life UnwastedMattForgiveness is mine to give. The journey from 'hurt' to 'heal'.Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions related to sexual assault.
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Life UnwastedIanauthentic presencesharing traumasYou're much better than you think you are.You're a good person.
2025-12-041h 04Life UnwastedClare: From Faith Academy to a Faith of Her OwnIn this conversation, Caleb and Kyumin sit down with Clare, whose story stretches from Faith Academy in the Philippines to Lancaster, England, where she now serves as a priest and chaplain at a secular university.Clare grew up as a missionary kid in institutional settings where “normal” family life was replaced by dorms, rules, and carefully managed emotions. Early boarding school experiences meant systemic homesickness, distance from parents, and the sense that her own feelings weren’t safe to express.After returning to the UK, Clare wrestled with what it mea...
2025-11-271h 33Life UnwastedMicah: From Boarding Schools to a Life UnburdenedIn this episode of Life Unwasted, Kyumin and Caleb talk with Micah, a Brazilian missionary kid who grew up between West Africa and South America, in dangerous neighborhoods and strict boarding schools. Micah shares what it meant to live between cultures, lose a close friend in high school, and slowly reevaluate — and ultimately leave — the faith that shaped his childhood. Join us for this incredible interview with another fantastic missionary kid…In This Episode, We Talk About: • Micah’s parents’ experience of being sent to boarding school in Senegal at a very young age
2025-11-201h 53Life UnwastedJosh: When You Get to Rewrite the ScriptIn Season 8, Episode 2 of Life Unwasted, Kyumin and Caleb talk with Josh about the long, messy work of making sense of your story when faith, family, and “calling” were all tangled together.Together, we explore what it’s like to carry experiences you were never given language for, how shame and silence can shape a kid’s whole world, and what healing can look like years later when you finally start telling the truth — to yourself and to others.This conversation sits right in the heart of what Life Unwasted is about:making space for...
2025-11-131h 40Life UnwastedWhat We Pass On: An Interview with Ben Between Africa’s Ari AliSummaryCaleb and Kyumin, both former missionary kids, sit down with filmmaker Ari Ali, creator of Ben Between Africa. Ari tells the story of trying to understand her mother’s MK experience and what that journey opened up inside their family. We talk about love, calling, silence, and what it takes to start real conversations at home. This episode is for MKs, parents, and anyone curious about the long arc of repair.Why this mattersMK stories often live in the gaps between what happened and what was ever said. Ari’s film gives language and...
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Trigger Warning: Episode contains mention of sexual assault and suicide/self harm.
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Trigger Warning: Episode contains mention of sexual assault.
Please listen with discretion.
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Life UnwastedByronLean into the present. Don't waste any of the precious moments with your loved ones.
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2023-05-1153 min2023-04-271h 032023-04-1206 min2023-01-121h 102023-01-051h 022022-12-291h 192022-12-151h 002022-12-081h 072022-11-2458 min2022-11-1058 minLife UnwastedTimPassing tones: living life as a master jazz musician.
Chateauneuf-du-Pape: struggles that produce rich fruit.
2022-11-031h 032022-10-2711 minLife UnwastedErinYou belong to yourself. Your body is yours. You make your own decisions. Living life unwasted to the fullest.
2022-09-021h 022022-07-261h 012022-07-231h 01Life UnwastedBackground (Caleb and Kyumin)Some context and background for our listeners to better understand the stories being told.
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Conversation on parenting as a TCK.
2022-06-071h 00Life UnwastedDebbieOn learning to accept what you can't change
and being happy with where you are in life.
Keyword: tranquility, serenity, acceptance
2022-05-301h 06Life UnwastedRunning commentary - bonus episode 2Going deep over our past shows.
Kyumin revealing some of his experiences.
2022-05-2729 min2022-05-2726 min2022-05-2029 minLife UnwastedRachel Part 1On how to become a better parent, learning how to say no,
and so many other issues
2022-05-2026 minLife UnwastedCarl Part 2Part 2 of our convo with Carl.
Unfortunately, the latter half of our dialogue was not recorded.
I'll look into the technicalities so that we won't make the same mistake in the future.
2022-05-0609 minLife UnwastedCarl Part 1An in-depth conversation with Carl.
Part 1, where we talk deeply on deconstruction.
2022-05-0628 minLife UnwastedAdam Part 2This is Part 2 of our talk with Adam.
In it, we go deep on our experiences at Faith Academy and how it has formed us.
2022-04-2229 minLife UnwastedAdam Part 1We talk to our very first guest, Adam!
We delve into all sort of issues.
Enjoy!
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