Hi! I’m Kristi (she/her),

Coach Training:

Martha Beck and the faculty at Martha Beck Inc have been fabulous mentor coaches. I received world-class coach and master coach training and mentorship from Martha, JVo, Carla, Jen, Renee, Amy, and others.

Facilitation:

I’d like to offer a nod to Adi Shakti, founder of SoulWork, for the trauma-sensitive and trauma-informed group facilitation, yoga teacher, and meditation and pranayama teacher trainings that have made my offerings richer.

I’d also like to pay my respects to Chris Maddox, founder of The Wild Woman Project, for the work she’s offering the world in women’s circle facilitation and soul re-wilding.

And to my 12-Step sponsor way back in the day (who must remain anonymous), an enormous thank you. My path would be very different today — and not for the better — if it weren’t for our weekly phone calls.

Vocational Guidance+:

I hold so much gratitude towards Megan Leatherman, founder of A Wild New Work. Megan offers such rich, undefinable, and accessible programming on the origins of capitalism and how to navigate it through the lens of moving into right relationship with the land and with the help of our wise and well ancestors. I am deeply‍ ‍drawn to her work and am ever so grateful that she offers it.

I spend time in solitude every morning, though what I do in solitude shifts with life’s seasons.

I’m writing this in June 2026, and my current morning ritual is to wake up without an alarm at around 5:30 or 6, steep a mug of green tea, and spend maybe an hour in the backyard with my thoughts, journal, and possibly a book.

I’m always barefoot — feet in contact with the dewy grass — and with a Pendleton throw draped over my lap. The golden hour is my favorite time of day, and once the sun rises above the garage, I meander back inside.

From there, anything goes. If I’m struggling with something, I’ll pull some cards from my absolute favorite new deck by Lindsay Mack: Soul Tarot. If I have a newsletter to write, I’ll do that. Maybe I’ll spend more time reading. Or maybe I’ll check my email and make breakfast.

In other seasons, I’ve sat in silent meditation first thing, sometimes with the addition of a self—guided yin yoga practice followed by a walk to Gompers Park Lagoons.

I’ve learned not to get too attached to a particular morning ritual and instead follow what my soul’s yearning for.

I have an adult daughter who has flown the nest and who I have a great relationship with.

I live with my partner and half-time with his two kiddos. We have a couple of rescue kitties, which often make cameos in my newsletter. I used to foster pit bulls and may do so again someday.

My partner and I are night-and-day different. I’m staunchly anti-capitalist and he is the director of business development for a boutique hedge fund accounting firm. He is also a comedian, and I am a quirky-but-never-even-remotely-funny human! He loves Vegas and I just want to be a hermit in dark sky country. But we work so well together — we have a lot of love and mutual respect — and so who TF cares that we’re so freaking different. I love you, Bob.

My family of origin lives in Montana and Alaska, and I lived in Montana for over a decade. If it weren’t for Bob and if it weren’t for the near-constant ban on outdoor fires, I’d probably be there right now. For their privacy, I don’t think I’ll say more than that.

Activism+:

I’m a barefoot, tree-hugging, Gen X hippie. I once sat in a tree slated for logging, got arrested for locking down in Senator McCain’s office on the 2000 New Hampshire primary election, and got run over by a motorcycle cop at the Battle of Seattle.

I’ve been invited into sacred sweat lodges in Minnesota and Arizona led by tribal community elders, smoked peace pipes and smudged in sacred ceremony, and joined the ex-wife of longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier on a five-day spiritual fast during his failed 2000 clemency bid.

I’ve drunk from a bottle of cheap wine concealed in a paper bag while in the bucket of a 48 — December wind whipping through my hair — while riding the rails in the PNW.

I’ve been a short-term editor at the EarthFirst! Journal, worked as a union spy, and — a decade later — was on the receiving end of recruitment attempts by the CIA. My adult life is filled with not-so-common experiences that have shaped who I am today.

Mental health:

I spent my formative years depressed and suicidal, with a total of four weeks of involuntary hospitalization under my belt. I nearly died from a suicide attempt on my 20th birthday that brought me to the ER followed by days in the ICU. My first spiritual awakening happened a few months later, when I heard an actual voice out of nowhere say: “You are responsible for your own happiness.”

That simple declarative did what a cocktail of meds and years of therapy couldn’t: free me from my constant state of suffering.

Today and for most of the last 30 years of my life, my mental health is extremely solid. I do have a therapist because my health insurance covers it, and I feel so blessed to have Shelby in my back pocket during those times when I’m really struggling with something. It is my wish that everyone had a Shelby to process the hard shit with.

I currently work as a senior financial analyst at a wonderful nonprofit that provides early childhood education and supports to under-resourced children and families. I love my coworkers and the organization, but I struggle with its recent mandate that I embrace agentic AI, as well as the fact that my work doesn’t allow me to make use my gifts. I am grateful to receive a paycheck in this economy from such a great organization, AND I look forward to eventually transitioning into work that allows me to thrive. My desire is that someday this will be full-time Deeper Integrity.

Education:

• MPA from University of Montana

• BS in economics from Montana State University

• Extensive post-graduate study in applied economics

Human Design: 1/3 Reflector

Astrology:
Sun: Leo
Moon: Libra
Rising: Cancer
Chiron: Taurus, 10th or 11th house

Myers-Briggs: INFP

Kolbe A: Quick Start

CliftonStrengths: (1) Connectedness, (2) Responsibility, (3) Strategic, (4) Developer, (5) Belief

Neurodivergence: AuDHD, with a very high dose of justice sensitivity.

Being barefoot — seeing with my feet — whether I’m inside or (my favorite!) on a muddy, clay-packed trail.

Sitting in silent meditation. This is what got me through one of the most grueling dark nights of the soul imaginable.

Journaling by lantern light. Or just sitting in darkness.