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Faith Radio PodcastOutten, Leah - The Ampersand Initiative Guest: Lean OuttenOrganization: The Ampersand InitiativePosition: Co-FounderTopic: for National Adoption Month (November), she shared about choosing life as a teen, choosing adoption for her daughter, and maintaining a relationship with herWebsites: leahoutten.com, theampersandinitiative.com
2025-11-1716 minFaith Radio PodcastOutten, Leah - The Ampersand Initiative Guest: Lean OuttenOrganization: The Ampersand InitiativePosition: Co-FounderTopic: for National Adoption Month (November), she shared about choosing life as a teen, choosing adoption for her daughter, and maintaining a relationship with herWebsites: leahoutten.com, theampersandinitiative.com
2025-11-1716 min
The Tom Roten ShowPregnant At 16, She Chose AdoptionLeah Outten was in a crisis pregnancy situation as a pro-life teenager. She chose open adoption. Now 21 years later, with a family of her own, Leah still keeps in contact with her daughter and the family that adopted her. November is National Adoption Awareness Month.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tom-roten-show--5987430/support.
2025-11-1136 min
The Schilling ShowThe Schilling Show: Tony Holland, Tyler O'Neil, Leah Outten, Clifford D. MayTony Holland, health insurance industry veteran and expert: ACA Open Enrollment Consumer Tips.Tyler O’Neil, senior editor, The Daily Signal; author, Making Hate Pay and The Woketopus: Spanberger to Reverse Youngkin Policies.Leah Outten, birth mom; open adoption advocate; adoption educator: National Adoption Month.Clifford D. May, founder and president, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, columnist, Washington Times, and host of the “Foreign Podicy” podcast: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood.All this and more on a Manic Monday Edition of The Schilling Show.
2025-11-101h 14
Parenting DifferentTwo Birth Mothers, One Mission: Healing and Joy in AdoptionIn this episode of Parenting Different, host Anna Bernacki is joined by Raquel McCloud and Leah Outten to explore what healing looks like in adoption. Together, they share how retreats built around laughter, creativity, and community are helping adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents find space for both grief and gratitude. From discovering the freedom of play to launching The Ampersand Initiative, Raquel and Leah open up about their journeys as birth moms and the intentional ways they’re creating spaces for adoption-connected families to heal, connect, and thrive. Join the Parenting Different newsletter here: https://www.parentingdifferent.com/fr...
2025-11-0639 min
Everything Made Beautiful with Shannon ScottEMB EP53 | Flourishing Hope with Leah OuttenToday's conversation is about holding grief and grace at the same time, and how God meets us in crisis moments we never saw coming. My guest is Leah Outten, author of The 16th Year, a memoir about becoming pregnant at 16 and choosing open adoption for her daughter. Leah's story is marked by an unstable childhood and searching for love and acceptance in all the wrong places. But at 16, when she found out she was pregnant, that rock bottom moment became the turning point that drew her to the Lord.We talk about how God has used her...
2025-10-2745 min
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The Hole in the Pro-Life Movement: A Birthmother's StoryToday, we’re talking about California, the Chapman’s adventures there, the reason Kate is sharing her story as a birth mother in her documentary The Inner Sea, and why the conversation around adoption and abortion in pro-life circles needs to deepen. Show Notes:The Inner SeaSprings of LoveBuilding Belonging: Six Steps for Fostering and Adopting in Faith (An Adoption Education Curriculum)The Chapman’s Adoption Story (produced by Springs of Love)Leah Outten (birth mom support from a Protestant perspective)Cradled in Grace...
2025-09-021h 08
Life Beyond AbortionEmbracing Open AdoptionMelissa Ohden hosts Leah Outten, who shares her journey as a teen mother choosing open adoption. Facing pressure to abort, Leah found hope in open adoption, fostering a lasting bond with her daughter. Now, she advocates for adoption education through her nonprofit, the Ampersand Initiative.You can find out more about Leah's story at leahoutten.com00:00:00 - Introduction00:03:34 - Teen Pregnancy Story00:06:22 - Choosing Open Adoption00:09:16 - Adoption’s Hope 00:13:11 - Adoption Triad Dynamics00:18:20 - Navigating Openness00:22:14 - E...
2025-07-1533 min
Book Therapy with Kim Patton: Encouraging Foster and Adoptive Families One Book at a TimeFlowers After Fire: Flourishing Hope by Leah Outten and Katie McCoySeason 3 Episode 65: Pregnant at 16 years old, Leah found herself in a place of total confusion, panic and sadness. She was frustrated with her boyfriend and not sure what to do. Fast forward 20 years later; Leah has a powerful story of placing her daughter for adoption, as well as going on to parent five beautiful kids with her husband. Leah and Kim talk about therapy, self-blaming and shame versus grace and freedom, and enjoying moment of joy in the midst of hardship. (This episode is not sponsored by Chick-fil-A but it basically is, they j...
2025-03-2639 min
Straight Talk on Life IssuesSharing the Beauty of AdoptionLove the show? Text us your feedback! The abortion industry wants women to believe that killing their child is their only option. We know that is far from the truth. Women have many options including lovingly placing their child into a caring home. This week in celebration of national adoption month we are joined by Lisa and Gene Lumpkins as well as Leah Outten. Our guests share the beauty of both sides of adoption and the unique blessings it brings to both birth mother and adoptive family.
2024-11-1925 min
The Funding Love Adoption Podcast with Mal + KateBONUS EP 2: Profile Books Through the Eyes of a Birth MomIt’s time for another BONUS EPISODE of the Funding Love Adoption Podcast! This week, Mal + Kate talk with returning guest, Funding Love Birth Mom Vacation Alumna, and author of The Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir, Leah Outten. Leah reflects on her experience as an expectant mom looking through profile books to choose a family for her baby. She also give practical advice to those that are considering adoption and are looking for tips on how to create a profile book that is unique to your family, while also being sensitive to the expectant mamas that may read it...
2024-10-0328 min
Adoption DiariesEpisode 15 - Season 2: Birth Parent Perspective | Unveiling the Unheard Stories with Leah OuttenIn this episode of "Adoption Diaries" hosts Annie & Caitlin dive into the profound and often unheards stories of birth parents. They will engage in a candid conversation with Leah Outten, a birth parent, and the author of "The Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir." This episode will peel back the layers of Leah's experience, emotions, and insights into the intricacies of being a birth parent. Annie & Caitlin provide a compassionate space for Leah to share her story. Join us as we continue to amplify diverse narratives, this episode promises to be a moving and enlightening glimpse into a c...
2024-04-2939 min
Act Of Love AdoptionsLeah Outten - The Passion Behind AdoptionsLeah Outten is a birth mother in a fully open adoption of 19 years. She has been writing, speaking, and serving the adoption community since 2004. Her passion for helping others blossoms from the light found within the dark trenches of her life and the support surrounding her.Sharing vulnerably about the beauty and aches of a birth mother, she aims to inspire hope and show how open adoption can be done well. Leah’s writing and story have been featured on national platforms, including Focus On The Family, Epoch Times, LiveAction, and HuffPost. Her memoir "The Sixteenth Year" was pub...
2024-03-2843 min
Only God StoriesEp 13: God’s Whispers in the 16th Year with Leah OuttenSummary
Leah Outen shares her journey as a birth mom who chose adoption at the age of 16. She shares the confirmations and whispers from God that guided her decision and the ways in which God has shown up in her life in recent years. Leah’s book, ‘The 16th Year,' is a great resource for understanding and supporting birth moms.
Takeaways
Open adoption allows birth moms to maintain a relationship with their child while providing stability and a father figure.
Prayer and seeking peace are essential in making decisions.
God prov...
2024-03-0420 minBook Therapy with Kim Patton: Encouraging Foster and Adoptive Families One Book at a TimeGive Yourself Permission to Grieve: The Sixteenth Year by Leah OuttenE43: When Leah Outten chose open adoption for her daughter, she had no idea how it would work out. Though it hasn't always been easy, Leah has never given up on being the best birthmother she can be.
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2024-02-2829 min
Open Adoption ProjectBuilding an Adoption Profile: A Birth Mom’s TipsIn this episode of our National Adoption Month series, we hear from Leah Outten, a birth mom who consults with prospective adoptive parents, about her top tips for building an adoption profile with expectant parents in mind.
2023-11-1510 min
Open Adoption Project“I Don’t Think I Would Have Chosen Adoption Without Openness” with Leah OuttenIn this episode of our National Adoption Month series, we hear from Leah Outten, a birth mom who placed her daughter for adoption as a teenage mother, and maintained a very open adoption throughout her daughter’s childhood and on into adulthood.
2023-11-0150 min
Podcast - Infant Adoption GuideOpen Adoption Story with Author and Birthmom Leah Outten : Episode 104Leah is a birth mother of 18+ years in open adoption and a mother of five. She loves to write and share her story. She says, “my adoption story is my testimony of Jesus’ healing and redemption. Sharing vulnerably about the beauty and ashes within adoption, I want to inspire hope and show you how […]
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2023-06-0600 minOpen Adoption - Infant Adoption GuideOpen Adoption Story with Author and Birthmom Leah Outten : Episode 104Leah is a birth mother of 18+ years in open adoption and a mother of five. She loves to write and share her story. She says, “my adoption story is my testimony of Jesus’ healing and redemption. Sharing vulnerably about the beauty and ashes within adoption, I want to inspire hope and show you how […]
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2023-06-0600 min
Infant Adoption Guide PodcastOpen Adoption Story with Author and Birthmom Leah OuttenLeah joins me to share her open adoption story as a birthmom. Hear how and why she decided to place her daughter over 18 years ago. Learn what it was like to be the first expectant mom to have an open adoption in the agency she worked with. Find out why she initially didn't want to choose adoption for her daughter and why she eventually decided that it was the most loving choice she could make.
2023-06-0654 min
The Funding Love Adoption Podcast with Mal + KateThe Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir with Birth Mom, Leah OuttenListen as hosts, Mal and Kate, chat with birth mom, speaker, and author, Leah Outten, about her story of open adoption and the Kickstarter release her new book, The Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir.Leah is a wife and mom-of-five that placed her first daughter with an adoptive family nineteen years ago. She is passionate about sharing her experience with open adoption while helping to love and support the birth mom community well. She traveled with Funding Love on our 2022 Birth Mom Vacation. Her book, The Sixteenth Year, is currently on Kickstarter Pre-Sale. Click...
2023-05-0834 min
Fi2B RadioEP 37- The One About Postpartum With Leah OuttenIf only there was a magic formula for recovering moms right after they have their baby? Oh wait, there might just be one! This show's guest, Leah Outten, has birthed 5 babies and loves to encourage women through their postpartum recovery. She is the founder of The Grace Bond, and she has so many wonderful tips and wise words - not just for those giving birth - for those serving a supportive role. What is really needed? Is bed rest important? When is it safe to return to fitness? What should exercise look like?
2021-09-2257 min
Help Her Be Brave PodcastHelp Her Be Brave with Amy Ford - Leah OuttenThe way Woven Together helps birth moms that place their baby for adoption get connected to other birth moms as well as help them with their healing is so needed in the movement. You will love Leah's story and how she launched her amazing organization!
2021-03-0921 min
Fit2B RadioThe One About Postpartum With Leah OuttenIf only there was a magic formula for recovering moms right after they have their baby? Oh wait, there might just be one! This show’s guest, Leah Outten, has birthed 5 babies and loves to encourage women through their postpartum recovery. She is the founder of The Grace Bond, and she has so many wonderful [...]
2018-09-0557 minFit2B RadioThe One About Postpartum With Leah OuttenIf only there was a magic formula for recovering moms right after they have their baby? Oh wait, there might just be one! This show's guest, Leah Outten, has birthed 5 babies and loves to encourage women through their postpartum recovery. She is the founder of The Grace Bond, and she has so many wonderful tips and wise words - not just for those giving birth - for those serving a supportive role. What is really needed? Is bed rest important? When is it safe to return to fitness? What should exercise look like?
Read Leah's blog about what the placenta...
2018-09-0557 min