Hope Unlocked 🔑 | Christian Testimonies, Hope & Healing, Faith-Based Inspiration, Purpose & Calling, Kingdom Business & Ministry
Feeling uncertain or overwhelmed in your faith journey? Hope Unlocked is here to inspire and equip you with real-life stories of resilience, breakthrough, and unwavering faith. Whether you’re navigating the highs and lows of business, ministry, or personal challenges, this podcast offers powerful testimonies and practical insights to help you overcome obstacles and rediscover your purpose. Each episode dives into biblical truths, actionable wisdom, and heartfelt encouragement to reignite your HOPE and empower you to live boldly in your God-given calling. Subscribe today and join a community of listeners who are ready to unlock HOPE, deepen their faith, and step confidently into the abundant life they were created for. May the God of HOPE fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in HOPE.â€â€ Romans‬ â€15‬:â€13‬ †With His HOPE & JOY, Kristin Kurtz The Hope Unlocked🔑 Podcast is a clarion call to keep going. Wild testimonies of faith & courage cut through the noise & ignite hope. Every financial gift helps amplify these voices & spread hope around the world — and you can also leave a note to share how the podcast has encouraged you. Join me in carrying this sound of freedom forward. Partner here - https://buymeacoffee.com/hopeunlockedpodcast%20 🎙️ Ready to take your next BOLD step? Book your Hope Unlocked – Unlocking Session, a 45-minute coaching conversation with host Kristin Kurtz, founder of New Wings Coaching. This is your invitation to pause, press in, and activate the bold step God is calling you to next—at special listener pricing. Schedule your call - https://bookme.name/newwings/hopeunlocked Ways to connect with Kristin Kurtz, the Hope Unlocked Host - Website - https://www.newwingscoaching.net/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/renew.wings/
Episodes
In this episode of Hope Unlocked, Kristin Kurtz sits down with author and publisher Greg Pai to explore a powerful testimony of transformation. From growing up in poverty in the Bronx to achieving worldly success, Greg shares how deep depression and disconnection ultimately led him and his wife to surrender their lives to Jesus. Together, they discuss spiritual discernment, spiritual warfare, and Greg’s &ldquo...
In this episode of Hope Unlocked, Kristin Kurtz sits down with pastor, author, and speaker Cory Rosenke to explore quietness, spiritual formation, and living with an eternal perspective. Cory shares his journey from financial hardship and homelessness in Canada to ministry in Silicon Valley, revealing how books, faith, and unexpected life experiences shaped his calling. Together, they discuss spiritual disciplines, ...
What do you do when life changes with a single phone call? In this powerful episode, nurse and mom Jenna Schutt shares her journey from caring for patients to facing a rare bone marrow disease, IV chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, and ongoing healing. We discuss faith over fear, Christian encouragement for chronic illness, resilience, anxiety, healing scriptures, neuroplasticity, and practical ways to renew your m...
What happens when faith, marriage, mental health, and identity collide? In this powerful conversation, Tom Anderson shares the journey of his 53-year marriage, battles with depression, struggles with people-pleasing, and the life-changing impact of Isaiah 43. Together, we explore identity, sonship, belonging, relational faith vs transactional religion, self-awareness, hope, healing, and spiritual growth. Tom unpacks...
What do you do when God gives you a dream, but the journey feels longer than you ever imagined? In this hope-filled conversation, Teresa Krafft shares the behind-the-scenes story of walking through a wilderness season that seemed endless before launching Reliht, a journaling and reflection app designed to help believers capture what God is saying and revisit those moments over time. We talk about trusting God when t...
What happens when life forces you to stop and ask bigger questions? For Rob Rene, it happened more than once. A truck ended his dream of becoming a professional runner. Years later, the pandemic disrupted a successful career and sparked a deeper search for truth, health, and purpose. In this conversation, Rob shares how studying Scripture transformed his faith, how serious health challenges—including a heart p...
What happens when you refuse to accept that chronic pain is simply something you have to live with forever? In this episode, I sit down with Daniel Esposito to explore his journey through chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and the discouraging prognosis of future joint replacements. We talk about fascia, inflammation, collagen, oxidative stress, hydration, castor oil, red light therapy, fasting, and other approaches that l...
Constance Hastings knows what it means to wrestle with doubt and still discover that Jesus never lets go. In this powerful conversation, longtime educator, counselor, and author Constance shares how God pursued her from childhood through years of questions, challenges, and spiritual growth. We explore the intersection of faith and mental health, the role of prayer and the Holy Spirit in counseling, and why being an ...
Rory Paquette lost everything in the 2008 real estate crash and found himself in a darkness so deep he nearly didn’t survive it. What emerged from that breaking point was not just a comeback story, but a complete transformation of faith, purpose, and voice. Today, Rory runs seven podcasts and equips podcasters, authors, speakers, and creators to stop hiding and finally share the message they were born to carry...
What happens when faith feels dark, prayers feel unanswered, and life completely shifts? In this heartfelt conversation, Allison Byxbe shares her powerful testimony of walking through family brokenness, grief, parenting challenges, and her son’s rare genetic disorder diagnosis while learning to cling to God through anger, exhaustion, and uncertainty. We talk about honest faith, community support, healing throu...
What happens when God invites you to slow down in a world addicted to hustle? In this powerful episode of the Hope Unlocked podcast, Kristin Kurtz talks with Jessica DeYoung about full-time RV living, surrender, faith, rest, and learning to trust God in the unknown. Jessica shares how life on the road in a 40-foot RV became a Holy Spirit-led journey of letting go of control, embracing stillness, and discovering peac...
From arriving in America with almost no English to serving seven years in Burkina Faso, Kasha Jankowski shares a raw and powerful testimony of faith, healing, missions, and hearing God’s voice on the Hope Unlocked. We unpack spiritual pressure, depression, grief, trauma, and the inner healing journey that reshaped her life and calling. They explore missions in West Africa, the ministry of hospitality, propheti...
Doreen Virtue shares her powerful testimony of leaving the New Age movement after years of global influence and discovering the truth of Jesus Christ through Scripture and repentance. In this eye-opening conversation, we discuss discernment, spiritual warfare, deception in wellness culture, and how Jesus transformed her life through conviction, mercy, and truth. Doreen opens up about the backlash she faced after pub...
What if your successful career still feels like a cage? Kristin sits down with Anna McLaughlin, recovering attorney, faith-based coach, and host of the Overwhelmed to Overcomer podcast, to unpack burnout, people-pleasing, career transition, and finding peace in God’s timing. Together they explore courage, Sabbath rest, purpose in the waiting, and how to leave well when God calls you into something new. If you&...
What do you do when your body suddenly stops feeling safe? In this deeply raw and hope-filled episode of the Hope Unlocked podcast, Naomi Kracht shares the full arc of her testimony—from surviving a traumatic brain injury and fighting her way back, to facing a devastating health collapse she connects to a COVID vaccine reaction. Naomi opens up about terrifying autonomic nervous system symptoms, losing stabilit...
What if your body has been trying to get your attention—and you’ve been missing the signals? In this episode, Rebecca Stewart, board-certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and founder of Liberty Wellness and Co, shares the moment a glucose monitor exposed stress-driven blood sugar spikes during an everyday commute—and what that reveals about anxiety, inflammation, and symptoms often missed by &...
Have you ever tried so hard to be a “good Christian” that your soul went numb? In this powerful episode of Hope Unlocked, Tony Stoltzfus shares how burnout, grief, and loss shattered striving and led him back to the grace and love of God. We unpack what real coaching is, why powerful questions create breakthrough, and the truth that grace is often learned when merit is lost. Tony also shares two life-cha...
He was taught to hide when the school bus came. Literally. In this jaw-dropping conversation, Calvin Bagley shares how growing up isolated on a rural Utah farm shaped a life marked by fear, shame, and control...and how he fought his way into freedom. We talk religious trauma, rebuilding faith after spiritual abuse, therapy, healing childhood wounds, and learning the difference between fear-based religion and real lo...
In this moving episode, Kristin Kurtz sits down with Jody Hudson for a powerful conversation about a mother’s faith journey through her daughter Alex’s battle with Lyme disease, chronic illness, and unimaginable loss. At the heart of this episode is Alex’s courage, unwavering faith, and the “parting gift” Jody says changed how she carried grief forever. Jody shares the reality of naviga...
If your marketing feels loud but your message still isn’t landing, this conversation with Rich Kozak is a must-listen. In this episode of Hope Unlocked, we talk about branding vs. marketing, why brand clarity matters, and how unclear messaging can keep the right clients from connecting with your offers. Rich shares practical wisdom for entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, authors, and faith-based business owne...
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