Today we’d like to introduce you to Krys Smith.
Hi Krys, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I’m Krys Smith — a woman who has lived through enough chapters to write several books, but I’m still here, still standing, and still shifting.
My story didn’t start in a place of strength; it started in survival mode. I grew up carrying childhood trauma I didn’t have the language to explain. As an adult, I navigated a painful divorce, multiple miscarriages, and battles with mental health — including being diagnosed with ADHD later in life and fighting through seasons of depression that tried to silence me.
Life didn’t slow down. I survived domestic violence, rebuilt after homelessness, and weathered the kind of grief that changes you forever — losing my grandmother, my father, and my nephew-son back-to-back. I was trying to stay afloat in corporate America at the same time I was trying to hold my personal life together. There were moments it felt like everything was falling apart at once.
But in every season, even the darkest ones, God protected me. And piece by piece, I started rebuilding — my confidence, my identity, my faith, and my purpose.
Out of all of that pain, purpose was born.
That purpose became The Shifted Woman.
The Shifted Woman is my movement for women who are healing, grieving, growing, and rebuilding — not perfectly, but honestly. It’s for the woman who is “heal-ish,” the woman who’s becoming, the woman who’s shifting on purpose even while life is still happening.
I created this space because I didn’t have it when I needed it… and I knew other women didn’t have it either. Today, I’m a claims adjuster by profession and a storyteller, community-builder, and mentor by calling — helping women heal out loud, rise with intention, and realize they’re not alone.
Everything I’ve lived through became the foundation for the work I do now.
This is my story — and it’s still being written.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Absolutely not — it has not been a smooth road. My journey has been layered with setbacks, detours, and seasons that felt impossible to survive.
I’ve faced childhood trauma that I didn’t even begin unpacking until adulthood. I went through a painful divorce, experienced multiple miscarriages, and spent years battling depression, anxiety, and the confusion of being diagnosed with ADHD later in life. I survived domestic violence — including moments that could’ve cost me my life — and that experience changed me in ways I’m still healing through.
On top of that, grief hit my family back-to-back. I lost my grandmother, my father, and my nephew-son in ways that shook the foundation of who I was. At one point I was unemployed, homeless, and trying to rebuild my life from a twin bed in my mother’s house while carrying all of that pain.
I’ve had to navigate the pressure of corporate America while silently fighting for my mental and emotional stability. I’ve had friendships collapse, relationships end, and faith-testing moments where nothing in my life made sense.
But every challenge became part of my becoming. Every setback became a seed. And every painful season taught me resilience, compassion, purpose, and the power of healing out loud.
The obstacles weren’t easy, but they shaped the movement I’m building now — a movement for women like me who are shifting, surviving, and rising even when the road hasn’t been smooth at all.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about The shifted woman ?
The Shifted Woman is a healing-centered movement and community designed for women who are rebuilding their lives, rediscovering themselves, and rising into the version of themselves they were always meant to be. We specialize in helping women heal out loud, shift intentionally, and create a life aligned with purpose, wholeness, and emotional honesty.
At its core, The Shifted Woman is a safe space for women who are navigating real life: grief, trauma, heartbreak, disappointment, mental health challenges, life transitions, and the pressure of being strong when you feel anything but. We offer practical tools, emotional support, spiritual grounding, community, and accountability for women who are becoming — not perfectly, but powerfully.
Through journals, e-books, workshops, The Shifted Circle support community, and healing-focused content, we help women confront their stories, rewrite old narratives, and walk in authenticity. What sets us apart is that our foundation isn’t built on perfection or performance — it’s built on truth. It’s built on the real experiences I’ve survived: domestic violence, grief, childhood trauma, divorce, miscarriages, depression, ADHD, homelessness, and starting over from nothing. I created what I needed when I didn’t have it.
The Shifted Woman is known for being raw, faith-rooted, emotionally safe, and deeply relatable. Our tagline, “Healing Out Loud. Shifting On Purpose,” reflects everything we stand for — courage, transformation, community, and intentional growth.
What I’m most proud of is that this brand is giving women permission to be human. It’s giving them language for their pain, space for their healing, and a tribe for their journey. It’s empowering women who thought they were alone to realize that they’re never alone — and that their story still has purpose.
I want readers to know that this isn’t just a brand — it’s a movement. A home for the heal-ish. A place for real women doing real healing. And we’re just getting started.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
My entire life has been a blend of obedience, courage, mistakes, impulsive decisions, and risks that didn’t always make sense in the moment — but somehow always led me exactly where God needed me to be.
My journey in women’s empowerment actually started in 2008 when I created Women of Destiny, which later became In a Room Full of Sistahs. I had no blueprint, no mentor, no strategy — I just knew I heard the voice of God telling me to gather women, even though I didn’t fully understand why. I led that movement for years until I closed that chapter in March 2022, not knowing that by December 2022, my nephew-son would be murdered and my entire world would flip upside down.
That loss broke something in me — but it also birthed something new.
The Shifted Woman was born from that heartbreak.
Risk has been the story of my life. Some risks were holy and spirit-led… and some were just me being hardheaded or chasing a dopamine boost I didn’t know I needed at the time. I’ve taken risks knowingly and unknowingly. I’ve made mistakes on purpose and by accident. But every risk taught me something, humbled me, or shifted me.
I’ve packed up and moved to DC without knowing a single person.
I’ve jumped up and moved to Austin for work.
I’ve picked up and moved to Florida when I first started my career in insurance.
If something in me said “go,” I went — even when it didn’t make sense or feel safe.
Risk is honestly part of my wiring. Now that I understand ADHD and how my brain works, I know I was often seeking stimulation and a fresh start. But even in all that, God was still guiding me, even when I didn’t realize it.
And then there’s the risk of obedience — which is sometimes harder than the risk of rebellion. I’ve had to say yes to things that scared me, say no to things that felt familiar, and step into seasons where I battled imposter syndrome, feeling unqualified, misunderstood, and unseen.
But here’s what I’ve learned:
God doesn’t call the qualified — He qualifies the called.
Every risk, every move, every mistake, every moment of obedience, every moment of confusion… it all led me to this purpose. The Shifted Woman isn’t just a brand — it’s a testimony. It’s proof that even the risks that hurt can grow you. And the risks that scare you can shift you into who you were meant to become.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://stan.store/theshiftedwoman/p/start-your-shift
- Instagram: The shifted woman
- Facebook: The shifted woman
Image Credits
Brandon Allen
Kwaune Burton
