Producer and Show Host
Visionary Author, Videographer, and Light Worker
I have documented my journey in an effort to report from my heart the truths that run deep within our beloved planet Earth. I am reporting on my experiences, hoping to build a metaphorical bridge between humanity’s consciousness and our daily lives.
Krystal Kelley
Growing up in Seattle, my mind travelled to far off places. I dreamed of being just like Jane Goodall, but I didn’t want to live with animals. I wanted to be a reporter on National Geographic. I wanted to go on wild adventures and share them with the world. I wanted to connect to people. At age 15, I went on my first International adventure to Southern France. The bug to travel had transformed from a dream to a reality.
I came home to Seattle and began studying Broadcast Journalism and International Studies at University of Washington. At 18, serendipity brought me to a TV station internship interview. It was standing room only in the lobby of the station, but the panel of 5 producers unanimously chose me as their intern. I began working for the Queen of Soaps, Cindi Rinehart. Cindi’s reports were imaginative, and despite my naivete about Soaps, I enjoyed the opportunity.
For the next 7 years, I worked for numerous networks, tv stations, and independent projects, all centered around broadcast news and sports (ABC, FOX, CBS Sports). I was on my way to living my childhood dream. I LOVED the work and the people. However, I began to notice a pattern, it started slowly, but apexed on September 11, 2001.
On 9/11, I sat in the booth as we were broadcasting the horrific events live. I was pulling the live feed from the AP Wire and Reuters. The wire was feeding faster than ever, papers flying all over. Amid the chaos, the pattern was right in my face. I read the feeds and the story changed again and again, contradicting itself from one moment to the next. And then, it happened, Master Control yelled into our headsets, “We aren’t live!! We have no feed!”
New York had pulled our live broadcast. All news that day was fed from one source, no independent reporting, no free speech. All my work and dreams shifted that day–I realized that TV News was no different than reporting about soap operas, in fact it was worse. While soap opera reporting had been fun and imaginative, TV News was dark and fear-based. I felt as if I was working within a system that no longer aligned with my dream.
A few weeks after 9/11, I walked out of the newsroom for the last time. I pledged to myself that I would use my skills to make a positive difference in the world. I had no idea how, but I trusted I would find out. At 24, I got my real estate license and started a home staging company in Seattle. I worked and travelled as much as possible until shortly after my second daughter was born, in 2007.
In February of that year, I came down with a brain and spinal cord infection that halted all work. I awoke in a hospital room where all the nurses and doctors had on Hazmat suits. At first, I thought this was a hallucination from my wild imagination, but it was real. Overcoming and recovering from that virus ignited a healing journey for me that developed into a deep and spiritual path.
By 32, I had sold my staging company and written a children’s book, “The Little Bird Who Poops Art”. I went on a self-guided tour, promoting my book. While on this tour, serendipity brought me to a street in downtown Chicago, where I met Peter Hetzel. Peter told me about Shifting Circles and I was instantly involved. This chance encounter bridged my TV broadcast experience with my new dreams for a new world.
A few months later, in August of 2011, I traveled to the Altai Mountains in Siberia with the intention of documenting the Altai Fellowship and their ceremonial work to open a portal and ground the energy into Mother Earth. This expedition brought me into contact with Carol Hiltner, Karah Pino, Maia Rose and Patricia Ann Davis.
I returned from Altai with the inspiration to form a collaborative project called Mind Unwind. Mind Unwind ran from 2012-2016 as a collective art studio that taught adults and children to use their creative imagination through art and meditation. I continued to study the teachings of Patricia Anne Davis and other indigenous cultures through travel, plant medicines, sound healing, and ceremonies.
These experiences have affirmed for me over and over the interconnectedness of all living creatures, including Mother Earth. I envision a world of harmony, singing and dancing with lots of laughing and happiness.
I have documented my journey in an effort to report from my heart the truths that run deep within our beloved planet Earth. I am reporting on my experiences, hoping to build a metaphorical bridge between humanity’s consciousness and our daily lives.
I hope you will join me: KrystalKelley.com
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