About Amanda Medina Coaching

Public Speaker and Coach

I’m Amanda Medina, a public speaker, coach, writer, and woman of faith.

For much of my life, I relied on strength, control, and determination.

I learned how to keep going, how to take care of what needed to be taken care of, and how to find a way forward, even when I wasn’t sure what that way would be yet.

And for a long time, I believed that was what strength looked like.

Trying harder.

Pushing through.

Holding everything together.

Until I reached a point where I could no longer ignore the fact that the way I was living wasn’t working.

I knew I wanted things to be different.

I knew I wanted to respond differently, live differently, and feel differently.

But knowing what I wanted and knowing how to get there were not the same thing.

That realization began a long process of looking inward.

Long before I became a coach, I began trying to understand myself.

I looked at my story, the experiences that had shaped me, the patterns I kept repeating, and the ways I had learned to move through the world.

I began to understand why certain things felt so difficult, why I reacted the way I did, and why knowing better had not always been enough to help me do better.

And as things began to make sense, I began to change.

Change became possible because I was no longer trying to force a different response without understanding the one I already had.

Over time, that understanding gave me more choice.

It created room for me to respond instead of simply react. To loosen my grip on the things I could not control. To stop treating every difficult moment as something I had to fight my way through.

It also prepared me for the faith I would later find.

By the time my life changed in a way I could not prepare for, prevent, or fix, surrender did not feel like defeat. It felt natural.

That journey became the foundation for the work I do today.

Through Amanda Medina Coaching, I work with people who find themselves in the space between what they intend to do and what actually happens.

People who know what they want to change, but continue returning to the same reactions, patterns, habits, or ways of holding on.

People who have tried planning, promising themselves that next time will be different, and pushing themselves harder, only to end up wondering why knowing what to do still hasn’t been enough.

My coaching is not about telling you what to do.

Most likely, you already know.

It is not about fixing you or giving you another list of things you should be doing better.

It is a place to slow things down, look more closely at what has been happening, and begin to understand your version of the space between intention and action.

My background includes formal coach training, but what shapes my work most is lived experience, listening closely, and a deep respect for the stories we carry.

Before launching my coaching practice, I founded This Adoptee Life, a blog and podcast created from my own experience as an adoptee and my need to understand parts of my story I had never been given language for.

That work showed me how much can change when something we have carried for years finally begins to make sense.

It also taught me that our experiences do not affect all of us in the same way.

Our stories matter.

What happened matters.

And the meaning we made of it matters too.

All of this pours into my work as both a speaker and a coach.

On stage, I share what my own journey has taught me about understanding, trust, and letting go.

In my coaching work, the focus turns toward you.

What do you know you want to do?

What keeps happening instead?

And what might exist between the two that you haven’t understood yet?

Sometimes, knowing what to do is not enough.

Sometimes, understanding is where we need to begin.

Courage, Love & Blessings, Always,

Amanda Medina