The Path of MOST Resistance: Breaking Free to Embrace Your True Calling with Kristin Kurtz

Have you ever felt like you're living in a "safe cage," yearning for a life of genuine purpose and fulfillment? In this episode of the Hope Unlocked podcast, join me, Kristin Kurtz, founder of New Wings Coaching, as I explore the bold and often challenging path of MOST resistance—a path that aligns with your God-given calling and unique gifts.

Drawing from my own journey of leaving the corporate world to pursue my purpose, I reflect on what it means to be a "spiritual midwife," helping women bring the ideas and gifts within them to life. Too often, fear leads us to self-abort our callings, but it's never too late to step into your Kingdom purpose. As long as you're breathing, there is still time to birth your potential and impact the world.

This episode is a heartfelt call to action for wild-hearted, adventurous women of faith: it’s time to break free from self-imposed limitations and walk courageously into the meaningful life you were created for. If you're ready to explore your capabilities, unlock hope, and boldly live out your true calling, this is for you.

Note: This episode originated as a Facebook Live—a powerful, timely message I knew needed to go beyond the limits of social media. I’m sharing it here because it’s meant for someone who needs to hear it now.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm your host, kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wildhearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations and thrive with confidence, courage and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to newwingscoachingnet and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together.

Speaker 1: 0:49

Well, I'm going to try this again. Okay, this must be a message for somebody. I just got done working out and I had a burning message that I knew someone needed to hear. I literally just tried recording in another spot and it kicked me off. Here, I literally just tried recording in another spot and it kicked me off. So I have moved myself to a different parking lot in hopes that this will work, because it disconnected me.

Speaker 1: 1:13

So I just got done with a class, a lot of it's resistance training and one of the things that I like to personally do. Sometimes the teacher will be going really fast and I'll just slow things down because it's like that time under pressure where you're actually going stronger. That's a word for somebody right. So I wanted to talk about the path of most resistance. I believe, whoever this is for, whoever's listening to this, I have such a privilege and honor to come alongside women who have big callings, who have mighty voices, and they're not the ones that are looking for the big platform. They're not the one who are looking for, you know, stardom or whatever. So, all that to say, as I was working out today, I just kept hearing the path, the path. So many of you actually are called to a path of more resistance, but you're staying on the path, the least resistance path, because it's easy. For example, maybe one of you here is listening to me and, like me, I knew years and years ago that I had more, that there was more for me to bring to the world than sitting in a cubicle and doing accounting work in a health quote unquote care corporate setting. I knew that there was more, but it was safe quote unquote. I was getting a paycheck every two weeks. We were getting really good benefits. A lot of people stayed there through the end of their life and they were miserable, completely miserable. I mean I was actually coaching. I call it ninja coaching people. I was asking questions and they were realizing oh my gosh, like I don't actually like this, but I have to be here. That was a lot of the answers. I have to be here, I need the benefits, I need the insurance, I need this, I need that. And I was like, okay, I'm going to do this, but I want to just question you like.

Speaker 1: 3:24

God created you for a purpose and a reason. You have a purpose. He knitted you in your mother's womb for a purpose. So if you're still breathing, you still have purpose. It's not too late to start something new. He actually gave you gifts. He gave you a specific assignment to live out in this world for kingdom purposes, but yet some of you are remaining hidden. You are remaining in this safe cage. That is actually not part of your calling, and what I love to do is to help women not only discover, maybe, what their calling is, but if you already know what your calling is, there's more. You are called to birth things in this world, and it was actually.

Speaker 1: 4:19

I was on a call with a client the other day and I was realizing you know, I help as a spiritual midwife. In essence, bring to life. You know the ideas that are within you, the giftings that are within you. Maybe you know business or ministry or whatever it is that you're being called to create. I get to come alongside women and help them bring it to life.

Speaker 1: 4:42

But here's what I was discovering the other day is that many women's callings, many women's things that they're called to birth, they're actually self-aborting. They're actually self-aborting. What it is that God's called them to bring to life is that God's called them to bring to life. Why? Because of fear? Why Because of people in their corner that are questioning them. They're like what do you think you're doing?

Speaker 1: 5:16

So what I was seeing, almost in the vision as I was driving here to this second parking lot, was that there's a trail, and many people are on this trail, that it's like there's no, there's no hills, it's just flat trail. There's no, you know, barriers, nothing to jump over. It's just a path that is just very boring and a path that is without um resistance. So one of the things that I feel as a trailblazer I have literally faced my whole life has been just resistance, resistance, resistance. Training to prepare me for this time, to help other women to come on to the path of most resistance. It's not an easy path, but it's a path that I believe he's calling many of you to.

Speaker 1: 6:13

And if you're hearing my voice today, it's time for you to get off the easy path. It's time for you to get off the path that is just way too easy for you. It's not your path, just is just way too easy for you. It's not your path. You were created for a purpose and your path that you're on is not part of your purpose. So what is that part of this path that you're on that is not actually the direction that God's called you to? Who are you following? Why are you trying to be somebody else? Do you know who you are? Do you know why God created you? Do you know your gifts? Do you know your assignment? In this season, because many are on the wrong assignment, they're out of alignment with their assignment. So if that's you, like I said, I was working out and I knew someone had to hear this message today the Lord, one of the things he's called me as a trailblazing, trail guide. So if you're ready to get on the proper path, the path that God has called you to, if you guys know Proverbs 3, 5 through 6, go look it up. He will make your path straight.

Speaker 1: 7:23

But it doesn't come without resistance and that's why we need people in our corner. I have people in my corner that help me continue forward, because this path that I've been on the last three years has been absolutely wild, but there's so much peace because I know that I'm in proper alignment now. So much peace because I know that I'm in proper alignment now I get to come alongside women and help unlock them, to discover who they are, to then develop who they are and then to deliver what it is that they are called to bring to life to this world, because I'm not about seeing women self-abort their calling, so I don't know who this is for today. But if you want to hear more about how I come alongside women to be like the spiritual midwife and carry a spiritual ultrasound to help you discover what it is within you that you're called to birth, even if you've already birthed something, there's multiples. Some of you have multiple things that you're called to bring to this world and yet you're getting distracted, you're losing hope, maybe because the time is taking too long. Some of us have to wait longer. Ask me how I know, and it's part of the process. So I just want to remind you to trust the process. I want to remind you it's not too late and I just like I'm seeing so many women that are on this path, like all together and they're going the wrong way, and he's saying turn around, it's time to take the path of most resistance.

Speaker 1: 9:00

Doesn't that sound like a great invitation? Well, reach out to me. I would love to hear where you're at. What path are you on, and is he calling you to step on a different path? But you just don't know the next steps to get to that path. I would love to hear from you. All right, have a blessed day. I knew this was for someone. Every time I come on here, it's for someone, and if you're that someone, let me know. I haven't come on and done a Facebook Live for a while, but I knew I had to share this message. So have a great day. Bye.