About Mamas in Spirit
Mamas in Spirit is a mini-retreat in a podcast. Each week, Lindy sits down with a guest to hear how God converted her heart and transformed her life — intimate conversations that feel much like the witness talks you'd hear on retreat.
Through these stories, listeners discover just how deeply they are loved, that they are never alone, and that God provides exactly what they need in every circumstance — even the ones that feel too heavy to carry. They leave inspired to love and share the gift of who they are.
The guests come from every walk of life, because when we look beneath the surface, we discover how much we share at the soul level, as one human family. Every person is profoundly valuable. Every person knows both suffering and joy. And when we open our hearts to God, we find that he can transform anything — even what seems impossible.
Lindy is also a speaker and retreat leader. Learn more here →
A Little Bit About Lindy’s Mama Heart
“When I was in college, I went on a service immersion trip to Tijuana, Mexico. One of the places we visited was an orphanage — and that single day changed the entire trajectory of my life. I reveled in the joy of the children even as I felt the heartbreak of knowing they had no families. Some had parents too poor to care for them; others had no parents at all.
I returned the following summer to volunteer, and a seed was planted in my heart to adopt. Twenty-six years later, my husband and I are still raising our three adopted children. Two are biological siblings we adopted from foster care, at ages three and six; our youngest we adopted as an infant through a private adoption. Two of our children have special needs.
What I have learned on my journey to becoming an adoptive mother is that love knows no bounds. God has knit us together as one human family, and he calls us to accompany one another in the most intimate of ways — and to care for the poor and the vulnerable.
May the stories shared in Mamas in Spirit help us do just that.”
How Mamas in Spirit Began
After watching three different friends (who were all wives and mothers) fight for their lives, I was struck how each strived to live as long as she could to prepare their children and families for life without them. This witness caused me to study the fragility of life and strength of the soul.
I also considered my own mortality and the fact that I did not know how long my life would be. I decided I wanted to create something for my daughters that would enable me to still love into them—and guide them in the most important ways—even if anything ever happened to me like these women I held dear.
I spent the next year writing fifty-two letters to my daughters encompassing all the things mamas want to be able to talk to and journey with their daughters through: God, faith, relationships, marriage and life.
The day I finished writing the letters I heard the call to have heartfelt conversations about the fifty-two topics in my letters with others and record them as a podcast. Both through ministry work and as a mother through adoption, I knew so many women out there are starving for support, encouragement and wisdom.
I had never listened to a podcast at this point. Yet I made a year-long commitment to create and release fifty-two podcasts—this began “Mamas in Spirit, a mini-retreat in a podcast.”
I am now in my fifth year of Mamas in Spirit and have recorded over 200 podcasts, each with as featured guest with something that felt vital to share. They discuss how God has converted their hearts and changed their lives through trial.
As an adoptive mother I have learned that love knows no bounds. Mamas in Spirit’s mission is to share stories of people in every walk of life facing unimaginable circumstances (much like my girlfriends’), to inspire listeners to open their hearts to the transformative love of God and share this love themselves—especially with the poor and vulnerable.
There is no topic that is untouched in Mamas in Spirit—there are podcasts about illness, infidelity, addiction, loss, grief, incarceration, abuse, foster care, infertility and so much more. The conversations are unscripted, authentic and loving, just as my conversations with the women who inspired me to sit down and write the letters to my daughters were. I want listeners to know they are never alone and while struggles can be unimaginably difficult, the love, healing and transformation that God offers is always greater.