New Mom Podcast

In this episode of New Mom, Carrie sits down with Monika Kirkland, author of Ever With You, and mom of four, for a beautiful and encouraging conversation about motherhood, faith, and the heart of God.

Monika shares her family's beautiful adoption story, the joys and challenges of raising four children, and what it looks like to trust God's faithfulness through every season of life.

More From Monika:
https://www.instagram.com/monikakirkland/
https://www.monikakirkland.com/book

Connect with us on Socials!
https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/carriewampler/

Joy and grief can coexist❤️‍🩹 

Brittany Lutz has walked through a lot of grief the past few years, and also a lot of blessing. After suffering an early and very late miscarriage, she and her husband were blessed with two beautiful children. Then earlier this year, she unexpectedly lost her mom. Brittany walks with an honest grief, but also a deep hope in Christ. She opens up about late miscarriage, holding onto hope in the waiting of “infertility”, and also the reality of losing your own mom while being a mom. 

We pray this heartfelt episode touches the moms who need it. Those of you who are walking through grief while still showing up every day for your family. You are not alone.❤️

Brittany Gonzales Lutz is a former model and actress who now lives in Tennessee with her husband and two children. Raised in Orange County, CA, she spent nearly a decade in Los Angeles working in entertainment. 

Through it all, her true passion has been encouraging others. Shaped by her own hard seasons, she's on a mission to remind people, especially young women, not to settle for less than God's best. Through social media and her faith-based podcast, Embraced with Grace, she has reached thousands and heard from countless women who credit her honest stories about faith, singleness, marriage, and loss with helping them grow.

follow brittany on socials🫶🏼

https://www.instagram.com/brittanylynnlutz

Embraced With Grace Podcast 🎙️
https://open.spotify.com/show/0A4kFAAmc1t9tMovQW2GBm?si=iehvFRSgQiC6yap2YxpD2g&utm_source=copy-link

follow us on socials!! 🩷❤️

https://www.instagram.com/carriewampler

https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast

A fun cousin combo coming at ya! 💕

Carrie invites her cousin Paige (Wampler) Koznarski on the podcast this week! Paige is a mom to two precious boys, and is in the thick of postpartum. She welcomed her second son just a few weeks ago! Paige shares her birth stories, different C-section experiences, how she's learning to balance life as a working mom and how she's handling breastfeeding highs and lows. 

Follow us on socials! 
https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/carriewampler/

What NOT to say to a pregnant girl.  Symptoms  husbands like to pretend they’re also experiencing…And remembering to enjoy the 9 month journey! 

Merritt Puth is a dear friend of Carrie’s who is currently in her third trimester of her first pregnancy and the definition of a “new mom”. Merritt and Carrie have so much fun laughing at their silliest pregnancy stories, comparing symptoms, and sharing lessons learned for next time. 

Connect with Merritt on Socials 🩷

https://www.instagram.com/merritthunt

Connect with Carrie and the podcast on socials❤️

https://www.instagram.com/carriewampler

https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast

https://www.tiktok.com/@newmompodcast

Bethany Kimsey is a mom of 8, and the founder of  ‘Warrior Motherhood’, a ministry for Christian mothers. Bethany also hosts “The Warrior Mama Podcast”.  Today’s conversation is a note taking episode! Bethany gives us so many practical and spiritual tips that she encourages us to take into our motherhood journeys. She walks us through how to find the Lord in everyday moments of motherhood and highlights the importance of living lives as moms that point our children to Jesus. 

Connect with Bethany🩷 

Website Bethanykimsey.com

Prayer Journal https://bethanykimsey.co/products/a-warrior-mamas-prayer-journal

Learning the Art of Gospel Discipline Conversations (podcast study) https://bethanykimsey.co/products/learning-the-art-of-gospel-discipline-conversations

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bethanykimsey

Connect with Carrie❤️

New Mom Instagram https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast 

Carrie’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carriewampler 

Were you ready for kids before he was? Does God often speak to you first but “he won’t listen?!” 

In this bonus episode, Carrie shares personal stories of times in her marriage when God asked her to go to the “The Secret Place” to pray for her husband. She reflects on the powerful shift from trying to push her husband toward things he wasn’t ready for, to taking things directly to God and trusting Him to do the transforming, the growing and the aligning of hearts. 

If you adore your husband and WANT to pray for him but don’t know where to start, or are in a season where you’re not aligned on a big decision, this is an encouraging and helpful listen. 

FULL BLOG 
https://www.carriealexander.blog/blog-1-copy-1-2/how-you-pray-for-your-husband-matters

FOLLOW US ON SOCIALS 

https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast

https://www.instagram.com/carriewampler

Lacey Jones was once told she may never have children of her own. After a painful season of walking through infertility with her husband, she was blessed with not only one but two beautiful children, who she lovingly calls her “miracle babies”.

Lacey shares the WILD story of the moment Jesus met her in a dream to tell her to take a pregnancy test, as well as the way God lead her to pray for her daughter by name for two years before she was born. Gods faithfulness and the power of prayer are all over Lacey’s story.

Lacey is a wife and mom of two, a working mom in corporate America, and has a heart for women’s ministry. Whether she’s speaking to women from the stage, or sharing on her social media, she is an encouraging and powerful voice for mothers everywhere. 

Follow Lacey on Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/laceyduncanjones

 Follow Us On Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/newmompodcast/

Lezl Gonzales is on the show this week for a FUN and light mom talk over coffee. She is a wife, mom of three and influencer. She and Carrie talk about the benefits of “feeling cute” as a mom, and finding our own practical mom fashion. 

Lezl also shares what made her change her mind about kids, all three of her birth stories, and dives into their decision to homeschool (for now)!

Follow Lezl On Socials: 

https://www.instagram.com/lezlkoe

https://www.tiktok.com/@xolezlkoe

Janice Armstrong’s story is one of loss, rebellion, healing, radical faith and redemption.

Growing up as a pastor’s kid, Janice knew about God from an early age. But after losing her mom young, grief and rebellion took her down a very different path eventually leading her to work as a go-go dancer. Then, a radical encounter with Jesus changed the trajectory of her life.

In this conversation, Janice shares her powerful testimony of finding faith, walking through nine years of debilitating sickness, experiencing healing, and eventually stepping into motherhood and the calling God had for her life.

Today, Janice shares the Gospel with thousands on social media, but her story is a reminder that the road to purpose rarely looks the way we expect. This conversation is raw, powerful, and full of hope for anyone walking through grief, waiting for healing, questioning their purpose, or wondering if God can redeem the broken pieces of their story.

Follow Janice for more encouragement: 
https://www.instagram.com/iamjanicearmstrong/

Have you even heard of a crash c-section?? Ansley Gordon hadn’t. But at her 37 week appointment she was told she would need to have one performed on her on the spot, in order to save her daughter’s life. What she didn’t realize until later was how much God was in every detail, from the moment she got to her OB appointment that day, to the miraculous way her daughter defied the odds in the days after birth. God is all over this story! 

Ansley also reflects on being a new mom living in Los Angeles during the horrendous fires in January of 2025, which left their home uninhabitable due to smoke damage. She and her husband rebuilt their lives while simultaneously learning how to be parents for the first time. She shares so much that she learned from that experience, and encourages moms to lean into deeper surrender and to trust that God always has a better plan than the one we have in mind. He is for you and He is for your family❤️

Ansley Gordon is an award-winning, Juilliard-trained, New York Times reviewed screenwriter, actress, and producer, who has sold, optioned, or been hired to write over 30 produced projects for platforms such as Netflix, Roku, Hulu, Hallmark, and more. She wrote the Netflix comedy You, Always, starring Adrian Grenier (Entourage) and this past holiday season, her Christmas film, Melt My Heart This Christmas, reached #1 on The Hallmark Channel. Recently she wrote, produced and co-starred in “All for Christmas” which will be released on a major streamer this holiday season and stars Whitney Leavitt (The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives/Broadway actress). She also wrote and produced A Christmas Frequency for Hulu, starring herself and Denise Richards and Operation Mistletoe for the streamer the following year. She penned Roku's How to Fall in Love by the Holidays starring Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) and Summer Sparks starring Jessie Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives/John Tucker Must Die). She is currently in development or pre-production on multiple projects for Hallmark, Lifetime, Great American Family and more. Ansley is based in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two fur babies. 

Follow Ansley on Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/ansleygordon