S2 Ep15: From Food to People: Why Curiosity - and Really Seeing - Matters

The Rest is Just Geography · May 7, 2026 · 51m

In this final episode of Season 2, Chesed sits down with her former dorm dad, Mark, who reflects on a life shaped by curiosity and intentionality. Having spent more than 40 years living internationally - first as a TCK and later as a missionary - he shares how a willingness to be curious opened doors he didn’t expect. The conversation begins around food: the dishes the cultures he was living among highly valued, and the meals he learned to say yes to. Those simple yeses became doors to forging relationships in new places with new people.

From there, Mark moves beyond what’s on the table to…