We were lucky to catch up with Danielle Key recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Danielle, thanks for joining us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

Well, being a Spiritualist, I would say that it runs in my blood, Therefore, it was bound to happen one day. I grew up in the church and I attended FAITHFULLY! Being so, I acquired a lot of knowledge that I live by to this day, however, in this lifetime I also found myself praying to God and asking for the truth in which I was led out of Religion into a path of Sprit. I’ve been more aware of myself ever since. I don’t think there’s nothing that could have been done to speed that process up. Beautiful things happen in perfect timing and that’s something that cannot be rushed. One skill that I think was most essential to my path is me being easily excited to take on and do new things. I think life is all about leveling up and what better way to do that than in spirit. Not too many obstacles stood in the way but there were a few as in prejudgment (wondering what others would say), unlearning old habits and thinking, and learning that in this life there is always and will always be balance. No matter how destructive or beautiful that balance tend to be.

Now, being a writer, that’s something that developed during middle school. I had a teacher that was very much so into poetry. She opened me up to a new level of writing and a way to express. Who knew a middle schooler had so much to say?! This led me to writing 3 journals worth of poetry that I could publish, one day. I was told, while in the church, by a Prophet that I should keep writing. I never understood what she meant unfortunately until 3 years ago. I then realized the importance of that encounter. I honestly never stopped writing, but I also never finished anything that I started to write. The obstacles that stood in the way of learning or pushing through to finish would be, life! Honestly, when you don’t have a clear vision of where or what you want to do in life, things tend to get a little rocky. Once you’re on a solid foundation again, sometimes you can see a bit better because the turbulence has now smoothed out, you know?

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Well, I’m a small-town country girl. I was born and raised in the South in a town at the bottom of Georgia, called Baconton. Everybody knows everybody because majority of everyone there is related. Although I do have other brothers and sisters, I grew up as an only child, with both a mother and father. Throughout my life, I did face a LOT of things, however I have always managed to keep a smile and instill in myself that I could always cry about things not going the way that I wanted or intended them to be, however GOD has the last say so. With that, I’ve always been about my spirit. I have always wanted to be closer to God by any means necessary because I know that if anyone can get something done for me, it would be God. This alone led me at 12 years old to encourage my parents to take me to church. Before you knew it, all 3 of us was standing, waiting to be baptized. So, you can say that I grew up in the church which is where I developed my since of character, morals and values. Throughout my years, I have always carried those near and dear to the point where I started to be advocate. I thought I was growing closer to God, becoming more spiritual day by day. I could quote scripture, I tithed, I sung in the choir and was even a Christian singing group, I went to every church revival, church anniversary, union meeting, you name it, I was there. Yet, I felt like something was missing as I got older. In the South, there’s a thing called “laying hands” and when the Pastor “lay hands” on me I was never hit with the Holy Spirit as majority of the others in the church. So, I started to question why? What was it that wasn’t connecting? Yet, one day I got fed up and I prayed to God and asked God to show me the truth as to why I’m not feeling the way that everyone else does? Show me why I feel like I don’t have a connection with you when I’m coming to church and doing the work? A couple weeks later, he showed me by opening my eyes up to new information that I have never heard of before. Even then, I started to question was everything as real as we thought it to be. This experience alone has helped me to become more disciplined than I’ve ever been. Patience is Key and will always be. Because of my experience, I know and have come to understand that there are more people who have experienced the same things that I have more or less and some are still struggling to understand themselves. This led me to create my classes “Spiritual Elevation” so that people are able to become the best version of themselves and get genuine help because its needed. Along with the classes, I also provide tarot readings as well as medium readings, candles that aid and stimulate to certain areas of the body and the mind, and I am currently working on a project that will be dedicated to the elevation and healing of the Woman. The thing that sets me apart from others when working with my clients is; I’m here to help. I always pray before dealing with any client that the answers/solutions that flow through me are as accurate as can be so that the person that is getting the information is able to understand as well as trust the process to know that everything will work out to their greater good. I’m most proud of the fact that I have accomplished all of these things in the past 8 years and more excited to learn and do more in order to help out future clients. The main thing that I would like for everyone to know is that in this day and age there is a lot of controversy revolving around religion and spirituality, do what your heart leads you to do.

With movie writing and editing, I got into this after I met my now partner who is a Comedian/Actor. He introduced me back to writing after a night conversation about wanting to create his own film. He didn’t know how or where to start, and he also had trouble with putting his ideas together. Yet, I had no problem with writing and bringing things to life. Growing up as the only child gave me an imagination that is unmatched. I had so much time to be other people and go different places, so I took what I was given as a child and brought it forth into the reality of today and began writing our first film. 2 1/2 years later we are now halfway finished filming the movie with hopes to release the film Fall of 2025. Doing this opened doors for me which include writing songs and filming videos for local music artists.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

One lesson that I had to learn on this journey is that as much as I love to help others who may be struggling with a sense of self, every person is not my assignment to help. One would say well, you are a teacher and if the student comes you have to teach. Well, not all students are good students and not students will listen and retain enough information in order to graduate either. We see it all the time. I learned this by trying to help someone become the best version of themselves an offered them to attend the classes that I prepared. Everything was great until classes were being missed. The person then blamed me for not learning/retaining information. The lack of accountability showed me that the person could no longer be of my assistance and would no longer be my assignment. Another lesson I learned is that you cannot take everyone with you. No matter how much it may hurt to not share certain accomplishments or rewards with other people, some people are just not meant to be in the same place as you. This is how a lot of innocent people experience hurt, harm, danger, or death before their time. No backstory is needed for this lesson, it’s pretty self-explanatory.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

Yes. The goal that is driving my journey the most is to be able to make sure that in the years to come my two children will be able to follow their dreams and be whole life has called them to be. I do not want my children to have to worry or put up with certain petties of the world. I would rather them have those things figured out and taken care of therefore whatever their dreams/goals are they can work towards accomplishing those. I know how it feels to have to work on goals and other things simultaneously. I know how it feels to start working on a goal but it doesn’t get completed because other things in life happen or other people may have influenced a decision that wasn’t in your best interest. I know these things and I know how it felt for me to not have proper, educated, guidance on how to tackle things that come about in the world. I don’t want them to have to experience the things that I did. The mission is more so to help everyone that I can, that wants to be helped, spiritually. Movie writing/editing is just something that is hobby, but saving souls is my mission. There are things in and of this world that challenge us daily. I just want to be one of the multiple healers there are that makes a difference in this world.

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Credits: Brianna Turner