{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Peaceful Hugs Podcast","title":"Pain Is a Universal Language — Mark & Lorelei's Midseason Reflection","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2463,"description":"In this special midseason episode of the Peaceful Hugs Podcast, hosts Mark Zahringer and Lorelei Cromer step away from guest interviews for a conversation that is entirely their own — reflecting on the remarkable people they've met in the first half of the season, and the life-changing journeys that took them both far from home.Lorelei just returned from her third trip to Uganda, where Unbridled Acts' Mazizi program has been quietly transforming lives in the villages of Jinja and Kayunga for 14 years. She shares what it's like to watch children they once scholarshipped through school now return as staff — Ugandan nationals serving their own communities — and why a country that is only 40 years removed from civil war still manages to produce some of the most generous, content, and present human beings she's ever met. She also opens up about the pilot service trip that brought two colleagues from their for-profit partners on the ground for the first time, and what it means to build a program that is truly rooted — not dependent, but self-sustaining.Mark, meanwhile, spent a month in Spain and Portugal on a journey he had been trying to take for three years — one that finally came together in the aftermath of one of the hardest seasons of his life. What he found at a small monastery along the Camino de Santiago was not the answers he went looking for. Instead, over three weeks of facilitating daily gatherings of pilgrims from 36 countries, he found something he didn't expect: that pain is a universal language, that hugs cross every border, and that a French woman who barely spoke English could hold him tight and whisper you're going to be okay — and mean it completely. He came back without a roadmap. He came back with peace.The two also look back on the season's guests — from Temwa Wright and the Persian refugee crisis, to Jillian's raw conversation about mental health, to Reverend Antoine Colvin's vision for Detroit, to David Farmer and the unexpected revival...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bgKQmlXaG4OOkIff2_iy3QZkjJOFJaQIr6PEBrZx4Vk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MGU1/MmJiYzc1MjljNmE1/MjNjMDZiY2IwOGI1/ZWFjMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}