Amanda Medina
Resilience creates safety.
Safety creates trust. Trust creates surrender. Surrender creates peace.
Amanda speaks to audiences navigating uncertainty, adversity, and circumstances beyond their control.
Drawing from her journey through faith, personal challenges, and martial arts training, she teaches why trust can feel so difficult, how resilience is built, and how lasting peace becomes possible.
Her message leaves audiences encouraged, equipped, and better prepared to face life's challenges with confidence and faith.
Meet Amanda
Amanda Medina is a faith-based speaker, storyteller, podcast host, and martial artist who helps audiences develop the resilience needed to navigate life's uncertainties with greater trust and peace.
Drawing from her experiences with adversity, faith, personal growth, and martial arts training, Amanda shares powerful stories and practical insights that help people move beyond fear, control, and overwhelm toward deeper confidence in God.
Her message is honest, relatable, and rooted in the belief that resilience can be developed, and that trust becomes possible when we learn how to keep moving forward through life's challenges.
Amanda in Action
Amanda's presentations combine authentic storytelling, practical wisdom, and faith-filled encouragement in a way that is both relatable and deeply impactful.
Audiences appreciate her ability to speak honestly about adversity, fear, and uncertainty while offering hope, perspective, and practical next steps. Drawing from real-life experiences, Amanda creates an environment where people feel seen, challenged, encouraged, and inspired to move forward with greater confidence and faith.
Her speaking style is warm, engaging, and conversational, leaving audiences with both meaningful insight and practical application.
What People are Saying
Hear from audience members, event organizers, and ministry leaders who have experienced Amanda's authentic storytelling, engaging presence, and practical message of resilience, trust, and faith.
Whether speaking at churches, conferences, retreats, or community events, Amanda leaves audiences encouraged, inspired, and equipped to face life's challenges with renewed perspective and hope.
SAFE ENOUGH TO LET GO
How Resilience Fills the Gap Between Faith and Surrender
Many people long to trust God more deeply and surrender the things they cannot control, yet find themselves carrying burdens they desperately want to let go of.
In Safe Enough to Let Go, Amanda Medina shares her journey from survival and self-reliance to resilience, trust, and surrender.
Through powerful personal stories of adversity, faith, martial arts, and loss, she explores why surrender is often harder than it sounds and how resilience creates the safety that makes trust possible.
Combining authentic storytelling, practical insight, and biblical truth, Amanda helps audiences understand the relationship between fear, trust, surrender, and peace.
Rather than offering easy answers, she provides a framework for navigating uncertainty with greater confidence, resilience, and faith.
Amanda will do everything in her power to serve you well. She is thoughtful and intentional, and she is deeply committed to helping people move toward healing and hope. She has a gift for speaking honestly about the challenges we face while pointing people back to what is true. Her heart to serve shines through in everything she does.
Brooks Fuller, Pastor, Newbreak Church
About Amanda
Amanda Medina is a faith-based speaker, storyteller, podcast host, and martial artist whose life has been shaped by resilience, faith, and the unexpected challenges that often become our greatest teachers.
Born in Colombia and adopted to Sweden at age two , Amanda's journey has included seasons of uncertainty, personal loss, financial hardship, motherhood, and profound spiritual growth. Through each chapter, she discovered that resilience is not about becoming tougher or having all the answers. It is about developing the capacity to keep moving forward, trust God in the unknown, and find peace even when circumstances remain unresolved.
Today, Amanda shares those lessons through speaking, writing, and conversations that encourage others to navigate adversity with greater trust, courage, and hope. Her unique perspective is informed by years of mentoring adoptees through This Adoptee Life, a background in coaching, and the discipline of martial arts, where perseverance, humility, and trust are practiced daily.
When she's not speaking, Amanda hosts the God Story Podcast, where she explores the ways God is at work in ordinary lives through honest conversations and personal testimonies. She also homeschools her daughters, trains in karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and writes about faith, resilience, and personal growth.
Whether on a stage, behind a microphone, or on the training mat, Amanda's passion is helping people understand why trust can feel so difficult, and how resilience can become the bridge between fear and peace.
Amanda's Signature Talk
SAFE ENOUGH TO LET GO
How Resilience Fills the Gap Between
Faith and Surrender
Most people think surrender is the starting point.
Amanda's message challenges that assumption.
Through powerful stories and practical insight, audiences discover how resilience creates safety, safety creates trust, and trust makes surrender possible.
The result is a fresh perspective on faith, adversity, and the path toward lasting peace.
Audiences leave with:
• A new understanding of why trust and surrender can feel difficult
• A practical framework for navigating uncertainty
• Greater resilience in the face of adversity
• Renewed confidence in God's presence and faithfulness
• Hope, peace, and courage for whatever lies ahead
What People Are Saying
See what some of the people who know or have worked with Amanda have to say about her.
