Life Upside Down

What if the darkest moment of your life was actually God's grace? In this episode, Karina continues sharing one of the most difficult seasons she has ever walked through. After receiving news that her estranged father was dying from brain cancer, she traveled to say goodbye, expecting grief but encountering something she never expected God to reveal. As she stood beside her father's hosp...

What happens when a young family is raising kids, pursuing ambitious career goals, and navigating the uncertainty of a global pandemic all at the same time? In this episode of Life Upside Down, Karina shares how she began pursuing her dream of dental school while balancing the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, and higher education. At the same time, Ryan was working toward his real estate...

Ryan saw a house in a vision while taking a shower. At the time, it made no sense. They didn't own it. They weren't looking to buy it. In fact, years would pass before that house would become a major part of their story. What started as a rental eventually became the home their family desperately needed. But when the opportunity came to buy it, the odds were stacked against them. The tim...

Church hurt. False prophets. The problem of evil. What justice really looks like. And what it actually means to call yourself a Christian. This episode covers it all. In this episode of the Life Upside Down Podcast, Ryan and Karina Martinez sit down with Daniel, known online as @danielsixten, a Christian influencer who works as a lawyer by day and teaches apologetics, highlights religious freedom,...

They left everything familiar behind for a new opportunity. A new city. A new future. A fresh start. Karina had landed a career opportunity that seemed like the next step for their family. She was the breadwinner, and together Ryan and Karina packed up their lives and moved away from home believing this was where they were supposed to be. But only three months later, everything started falling apa...

Their marriage almost didn’t make it. In the early years of Ryan and Karina’s relationship, things were a lot harder than people realized. The fighting, the friction, the uncertainty… at times it became so overwhelming that Karina wanted to leave. What looked like a strong marriage from the outside was actually two young people trying to figure out how to love each other through pain, pressure, im...

He was just a kid chasing a thrill. It started small. It always does. Skateboarding. Friends. A little rebellion that didn’t seem like a big deal at the time. But by 17, Dan Graves found himself going down a path that was anything but harmless. What began as experimenting with drugs slowly pulled him into something darker… until he was running with real criminals. By the end of his senior year, Da...

He lost both of his parents in a car crash. Instead of running from God, he ran toward Him. And it changed the course of his life forever. In this episode of the Life Upside Down Podcast, Ryan and Karina Martinez sit down with Pastor Tyler Schenzel, head pastor at Waypoint Church, a non-denominational church in Omaha, Nebraska and part of the Antioch movement. Tyler shares his full testimony for t...

He embarrassed her the first time they met. She was about to ask him to be a groomsman in her wedding. Instead, he asked her to marry him. Ryan and Karina come from two completely different backgrounds. Different upbringings. Different lifestyles. Different everything. They met working together when Ryan was 18 and Karina was 16. And Ryan’s first impression? He told her a dirty joke that completel...

Her dad walked out... Then she lost her mom and brother in the same accident. Then she walked away from God. He never stopped chasing her. Episode 2 is here. Karina’s story is one of the most layered testimonies you’ll hear. She grew up in a predominantly Catholic household with a father she was deeply close to. And then he walked out. Her parents separated. The man who was supposed to be her foun...

In the first episode of Life Upside Down, Ryan Martinez shares his full story…from a broken childhood and addiction, to the moment everything changed. This isn’t a highlight reel. This is the real, unfiltered journey. The pain, the mistakes, the years of searching for something that never satisfied. And the moment God stepped in and flipped everything upside down. If you’ve ever wondered whether y...