Middle Mini (Q&A, Tour Memories, and Motherhood Growing Pains)

You can play a three-hour show while 28 weeks pregnant, but you might need to ask for a chair mid-set. That’s the kind of real-life honesty we’re bringing to the very first “Middle Mini” as I answer YOUR questions! I share a few favorite road memories, from stepping onto the Red Rocks stage to a tiny acoustic run after COVID that somehow became even more meaningful. The best part of being a new mom, the hardest part (hello, sleep deprivation and the four-month sleep regression), and how trusting God has been the theme of this season for me. See you every other Wednesday for a new mini episode! Make sure you subscribe, and share this with a friend if you’re enjoying the podcast. After you listen, leave a review and tell me what you want to hear next! Tune in next week for a new full episode with an amazing guest!

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Transcript

Welcome To The Mini Q And A

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Hey guys, I'm Hannah Kurt and welcome to the first episode of the In the Middle Mini episodes. Um, these are gonna be just short little kind of thoughts from me or things that you guys submit and tell me that you're in the middle of. Um, QA, just something on my heart, all those things could be what these little mini episodes are. Um, and so this first one, I put a question box on my Instagram story and I asked you guys, what do you want to know? Let's do a little QA mini. So you guys sent in lots of questions. I probably won't be able to answer all of them in this mini episode, but I'll do what I can. Um, so let's start with this

Playing A Long Show Pregnant

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one. It says, I'm pregnant and wondering how slash if I can get through a three-hour show. That is my baby. If you hear that, if you hear that perfect little voice, that's my little son. Um, okay, I'm pregnant and wondering how I can get through a three-hour show in April. Girl, I don't know how you're gonna get through a three-hour show other than sitting down in a chair. Okay, I did a show at, I think I was 28 weeks pregnant. And even just getting to the show, the flight, all the things was very difficult. But then once I was actually playing the show, I had to ask the the um guy who was running the in-ear monitors if he would get me a chair because I was so out of breath. So I think drink lots, lots of water and also have a chair to sit in because that was something I had to learn the hard way. So um, let's see, any tour dates coming up? I do have a couple of shows coming up this year. Um, I don't know when you'll be listening to this, but just always check my website for the most recent um updates for touring stuff. But now that I have Owen, I will say that it is a lot harder for me to be on the road as much as I have been in the past few years, but I definitely still love playing shows, seeing you guys, meeting you in person. Um, and so I definitely want to want to do it. But check my website for the most up-to-date information on show stuff.

Touring Memories That Still Shape Me

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Your favorite Big Daddy Weave band member. Um, this is a hard question because they're all so great, and I really can't decide. Um, I think all the Big Daddy Weave guys are amazing, and I feel like I toured with them for over two years, and so I got to know all of them very well, and they all bring something really unique to the band. They all have different personalities, different quirks, um, things that they enjoy, and I really enjoy all of them. And I know that's kind of a political answer, but I'm just saying that I just enjoy all of them so much. Um, let's see. Your favorite memory of touring. I mean, so many memories. I have been on the road on and off for about 10 years, which is crazy. Um, I was just looking at pictures from 2016, which is when I released my first album, Overflow, and just how much has changed since then, how many things I've been through since then. And I feel like touring is just such a joy. And I mean, it's a mixed bag. There's good things and hard things, but I've had so many good memories, good experiences on the road. Um, I remember back in 2016, I played at Red Rocks. I was opening for Casting Crowns, and that was such a surreal, crazy experience because I Red Rocks has always been like a bucket list venue for me to just attend a concert there, but then to actually play a concert there. That's definitely a favorite memory for me. Um, and then this is kind of random, but I I was on tour with Colton Dixon back in 2021. This was like coming out of COVID, and we played the show. Well, first of all, the tour was literally five of us. There were only five people on the bus. It was Colton, me, my husband Jason, a sound guy named Ryan, and Jordan Saint Cyr. Like that was the tour. It was just acoustic. And we played the show at a farm in North Carolina. And after the show, the promoter of the show invited us to like a bonfire on the property, and we had a bonfire and we made s'mores, and like everyone that stayed later at the concert like was at the bonfire too. And I just remember looking around the bonfire at all the people that helped us put the show together and my friends and my husband, and I just felt like I was exactly where I was supposed to be. And it just hit me that yes, I've done cool things like played red rocks and you know, done big tours and whatever, but on the smallest tour I've ever done in the middle of a farm in North Carolina, I felt like I was exactly where I was supposed to be. And so I don't know, I I've come back to that a lot in my life, in my career, like whenever I have compared my career to other people or, you know, got lost in that comparison game, and just remember that a moment where I felt like I was completely aligned and where God had me, I was at a farm in North Carolina where, you know, it wasn't the biggest show, it wasn't the biggest crowd, but it just meant the most to me. So, anyways, long answer to that question.

The Best And Hardest Of Mom Life

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But somebody said, your favorite and the hardest part about being a mom. So, for those of you who don't know, I mean, I'm sure if you're watching this, you do know, but I am a somewhat new mom. Um, I had a baby in July of 2025. And so I'm like very much still in the middle of learning how to be a mom. And it's the best thing that I've ever done in my life. I really feel like before having Owen, I didn't realize how amazing it really was to be a mom and to learn how to love someone more than you ever realized. Um, I think my favorite thing about being a mom is probably just watching this little human grow up right before your eyes. Like it's so fun. Owen, right now, as I'm recording this, is only like six months old. And to watch him learn to smile and laugh and become like a little person with preferences, and it's just such a joy. And it's it's been something that I wasn't expecting to love so much, just watching him be his own person. Um, I think before being pregnant, I or while I was pregnant, I kept thinking like, this little boy is half of Jason and half of me, and that's amazing. And it he is that, but he's also like his his whole like own little person. And I think that's so amazing to just kind of watch who he's becoming. So I would say that's my favorite part. Um, the hardest part, honestly, from a practical perspective for me being a mom is the sleep deprivation. Okay. Before having a baby, I was like an eight hours of sleep girl, no matter what. Like I needed to have eight hours or I didn't feel good, couldn't sing well, like I just felt like half a person if I didn't get enough sleep. And so I think since having a baby, I've realized like, wow, when people talk about the lack of sleep, they are not kidding. And I thought being on the road that I would be like a pro, you know, at not getting a lot of sleep. But I've realized that, wow, it's it's it's a lot. It's different than the on the road on a bus, you know, early morning plane sleep. That's a different, a different category than what, you know, having a newborn is like. But we have been really blessed with Owen because he is honestly a pretty good sleeper. Um, once once we got past the newborn stage, we we were getting some solid stretches of sleep, and then we hit a four-month sleep regression, which all the moms out there know exactly what I'm talking about. Um, and so we're still not quite out of the regression. We're still we're still working on our sleep cycles, but it's still the best. Okay, let's see.

New Music Trust And Prayer Rhythms

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Um, are you working on new music? Yes, I am working on new music. Um, I am writing once a week right now, which is just about as much as I can do with being a mom. Um, but I am working on new songs and I'm really enjoying it so much. Um, lots of songs about just being in a season of trusting the Lord. Um, being a parent has made me trust God in a way that I have never trusted him before. And I think it's because that's really all you can do when you're a mom. It's like, I love this little baby so much more than I even dreamed that I could. Like he's just the best person in the world, and I don't want anything to happen to him. And it's just trusting God in a new way and trusting that God loves Owen like even more than I do, which is hard to imagine. Um, but I know it's true. So lots of songs about that journey of just learning to trust God. Um, also a lot of songs about prayer. I feel like in the last year of my life, prayer has just become so much more important and real to me in my life. Like I've I grew up, you know, always praying and um I know it's important, but I feel like in this season of my life I'm talking to the Lord a lot more than um I have ever before. And that kind of is another question that someone said. They said, um, how have you been handling like your time with Jesus since having a baby? And I feel like my time with Jesus looks very different than it did before I had Owen. Like I've always been very um, like I'm I'm going to get up at this time and I'm going to sit in this chair, and I'm going to open my Bible to this page, and I'm following a reading plan and it's chronological and you know, all of that. Before I had Owen, that's what my time with the Lord looked like. And since having him, I'm realizing that I just have to take the moment whenever I can to spend time with Jesus. And I guess this year that doesn't look like reading through the Bible in a year. Um maybe, maybe I'll be able to catch up. But, you know, it's harder to have like a set routine and like a set I'm gonna read for 30 minutes. Um, so I'm I'm really just talking to God throughout my day. I'm reading any scriptures that he brings to mind. I'll just pull that up on my phone and read the whole passage. Um, I'm still trying to memorize scripture because I feel like sometimes I don't have my Bible handy, like when I'm in the middle of feeding Owen or, you know, on a walk with Owen and being able to call scripture to mind has been really important since I've had him. So I don't know, all that to say, my quiet time with Jesus looks a little less quiet and more just I have to be intentional with the moments when I have them. Um, but I will say that since having Owen and I am nursing him, and so like when I'm feeding him in the middle of the night or just, you know, I feed him like six or seven times a day, and I have so much more time to just sit there and pray. And man, when someone texts me and asks to pray for them, I'm like, I have the most time I've ever had to sit down and just pray for you. Um, because sometimes I don't have like a free hand to be able to like hold a Bible in my hands, but I always am able to just sit there and pray. Um, so that's been really sweet. Like I've really enjoyed just having time to sit down and to pray for my friends and to pray over my little baby as I feed him. And um, that's been a really fun thing about this season, honestly, is just the amount of time I have to just pray.

Favorite Song Grace And Closing Thanks

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Okay, what is your favorite song you've ever written? By the way, Owen is so sweet, and you're a wonderful mom. Thank you, Lillian. That's very nice. Um, my favorite song I've ever written, it's so hard to pick, and I also think it's very seasonal. Um, I would say If I were you is a song that is one of my favorites. It's on my As I Am album. I think my whole journey with God has been a waking up to realizing that He really loves me and that sometimes um I'm harder on myself than God is on me, which is hard to imagine. But the song is basically just about how if I were God, I would have looked at my life and all the things that I wish I could change, or um, my mistakes that I've made, and I would have given up on me a long time ago. Um, but we have a God who is so good and sees us obviously through the lens of Christ and um loves us so much and has nothing to do with how good we are or what we've done to um earn his love, because that's just not how it works. So that song is just a tender one for me of realizing that God does not see us as a lost cause. Um, he's so much better than we even realize. So thank God he is God and I am not. Um, that's kind of what that song is about. Okay, you guys, I feel like that there's a lot more questions, but maybe we could do a part two mini episode another time. Um thank you guys for listening to this podcast. Thank you for um writing in your questions. If you love in the middle of it and you want to download the podcast um every week, that really helps me to see who's listening and when you're listening and um what episodes you enjoy. So download the episodes that you love and let me know what you want to hear on this podcast, um, what you're in the middle of, what you want to hear topics um about what kind of guests you want to have on here. Um, but most of all, just thank you for listening and for being in the middle of it with me because I know we are all in the middle of so many things. And for you to take a moment to listen to this, whether you're driving or having, you know, a quiet time moment away from your kids, whatever it is, thank you for listening. And I can't wait to see you on these little in the middle minis. So thanks for listening.