My Story | Tyler Brianne | Kindred Spirit Ventures Austin TX
I built Kindred Spirit Ventures in Austin, Texas in the middle of something chaotic and heavy.
I was leading a classroom of PreK students and grinding through graduate studies. That daily grind had left me feeling tired, stretched, and running on the kind of exhaustion that comes from pouring yourself into work you love while forgetting to pour anything back in. It was in that season that I found Reiki.
My first experience with Reiki was not in a quiet studio, but at the Shangri-La festival in Minnesota, at a gathering that felt exactly like where I was supposed to be. I lay down not knowing what to expect and came out carrying something I still cannot fully put into words: a release, a settling, a peace so deep and grounding it changed the direction of my life. I came home, found a Master Teacher, and began the path toward attuning myself and eventually others. It was with that experience that Kindred Spirit Reiki was born.
The other half of this story happened in my classroom, one parent conversation at a time. For nearly a decade, families came to me with questions about their children:
Behaviors they could not understand
Big emotions they did not know how to hold
Development they felt left out of understanding
The more I listened, the more I saw something that did not sit right with me: parents are not given the knowledge and support they deserve. They are left feeling like they are failing at the most important thing they will ever do, and I could not accept that. So I took everything I had learned through years in early childhood education, my counseling studies, and brain and nervous-system science and built Kindred Family Connection to help bridge that gap and change things for the better.
In my life outside of work I am a free-spirited, deeply passionate advocate for children and families. My undergraduate degree in Anthropology taught me to look beneath the surface of human behavior and ask why, not just stopping at what. That curiosity lives in everything I do. My partner Ryan gave me the courage to stop dreaming and start building. My best friend Emily, an early childhood educator and mother of two, shaped me into the educator and advocate I am. And my mother helped make this possible in more ways than I can count, helping me focus when my neurospicy ADHD brain wanted to do everything, everywhere, all at once.
Franz Boas once wrote that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments. Those words are not just a quote I admire — they are the reason this exists. My vision for Kindred Spirit Ventures goes beyond a private practice. I want to see this grow into something that creates real systemic change:
A nonprofit that builds families up
A community fund that makes coaching accessible to families who cannot afford it
An impact that moves from local to national
I believe we are at our best when we take care of each other. I believe the problems of tomorrow are being shaped right now, by how we tend to our own healing and nervous systems, and by how we raise our children today. Above all, I believe that if we stand together, we can build something genuinely different.
That is what this is. Not just a business, but a beginning.
