Technology
I shape a piece of clay while I walk you through the technology that shaped my life, including the internet that wasn't built for me. Solve for the hardest case first, and you solve for everyone.
Explore Technology SpeakingI'm Kelvin Crosby, the DeafBlind Potter.
When I decided to have joy in my deafblindness, the world started opening up in a whole new way.
Motivational Speaker. Live Pottery Demonstrations. You Matter, and You're Not Alone.
Invite Kelvin to SpeakThat joy started changing the way I see things, just like a potter shapes a piece of clay. There's pressure to shape a piece. There's pulling to shape a piece. There's challenges along the journey the clay is going to face. The question is: are you willing to trust the potter through the process?
You matter. You're here today because you were wondering how you can help the people around you realize they matter too.
People often walk into the room heavy, carrying something that feels impossible to move past, with no real hope that they'll get through it. They walk out having asked themselves a different question: not "how do I find happiness," but "how do I have joy in this." Happiness only solves a quick problem. Joy carries you through it. That one shift is what lets them believe they can live beyond the challenge instead of staying stuck in it.
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Who I Speak For
Corporations
Live, in front of your whole team, start to finish in 30 minutes: I shape a piece of clay while I tell you exactly what shaped me. Watch that get solved, and you'll start seeing how to solve for whatever your team is carrying too.
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Nonprofits
I shape a piece of clay while I tell the real story behind surviving suicide attempts, blindness, and addiction. Your people walk away knowing they matter, and that whatever they're carrying can still be shaped into something that changes the world.
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Ministry
I bring the wheel to your church or ministry gathering and shape a piece of clay while I share the Good Potter message, live, start to finish. Your people walk away knowing they matter, and that God is still forming them.
Explore Ministry SpeakingStay on the Wheel of Life
I've been speaking with a potter's wheel for over five years now, invited back more than once, keynoting at national conferences, on stages across the country, with one focus: helping people stay on the wheel of life and take on whatever's next. Suicide, addiction, and loneliness all come from the same place: isolation. I work it out one piece of pottery at a time, because nobody was meant to build alone. From big stages to small homeless shelters, I bring the same wheel, because every soul matters to a potter, and every piece of clay has a purpose.
Ways to Work With Me
Speaking
Book me to speak: corporate teams, conferences, and stages that want the real thing.
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Pottery Healing
A team experience I bring to your company, church, or school: one-on-one time at the wheel with each person, up to thirty minutes each, while they work through whatever they're carrying. Some things are easier to process with your hands.
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DeafBlind Potter
The ministry I lead, where the fuller story lives, including my faith, and where I speak for churches and faith-based events.
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Meet Kelvin Crosby
I was born hard of hearing. That wasn't a choice, mine or anyone's. But my parents made one: they decided to raise me as a hearing child. Hearing aids. Speech therapy. Years of appointments before I even understood what they were preparing me for. I didn't choose how my story started. I only got to choose what I did with it.
What Shape Are You?
This life is the potter, and we're the clay: every hard season either breaks you or shapes you. I chose to be shaped. My challenges didn't stop me. They turned into three things: sitting one-on-one with people to help them heal through clay, the ministry I lead as the DeafBlind Potter, and an invention built to keep blind people from being hit by cars, a risk 1 in 3 of us face. I didn't just survive it. I built something out of it.
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