Kristy’s Faith & Work Story
Faith, Grit, & Dropping the Facade
A conversation with Kristy Geiger, Business Owner & Realtor
There's a version of Kristy Geiger that the world sees first: polished, confident, commanding. A commercial real estate broker. A corporate event entrepreneur. A woman who pivoted careers during a global pandemic and came out sharper on the other side.
Then there's the version she'll tell you about if you give her five minutes and a safe room to be honest: the one who is deeply self-conscious on the inside. The one who lost her father at 13 and never saw what it looked like to ask for help.The one who has sat with the hard questions about faith, about parenting, about why God gives us the children He gives us and chose to keep walking the path anyway.
Both versions are real. And Kristy would be the first to tell you that pretending otherwise is exactly the problem.
A Career Built on Pivots and Purpose
Kristy didn't arrive at commercial real estate in a straight line. For years, she ran a corporate events company; a business she loved, one she controlled. Then the pandemic hit, and the world stopped gathering. With her event business on pause and her natural drive refusing to sit still, she did what made sense to her: she enrolled in a 60-hour online real estate licensing course from her home office and didn't quit until she finished it.
"I didn't want to finish it," she laughs, "but I'm stubborn, so I knew I had to."
She started in residential, but something didn't fit. The market was frenzied, ethics felt stretched, and the drama wasn't her. So she looked at her existing network and made the switch to commercial. Five years later, she remains all in on commercial real estate.
The Faith That Holds It Together
Kristy was raised in the church. Faith wasn't something she came to later in life. It was the water she swam in. But losing her father unexpectedly at 13, navigating a miscarriage, raising a son with unanticipated challenges, and watching her husband discover his dyslexia as an adult through their youngest son's diagnosis; those experiences have a way of either breaking your faith or deepening it.
For Kristy, it deepened it. Not without questions. Not without moments of sitting in the dark asking God to please turn up the light.
"I'm like, Lord, it's not bright enough. Can you please turn the light on? Can you use arrows?"
But she keeps walking. And she keeps being honest about the walking.
One of the most striking things Kristy says is about her oldest son, who has faced emotional and developmental challenges. There were moments of serious doubt, real fear, and hard decisions. But when she looks back, she sees it differently now.
"I think he was just our gift. He was like, 'You're going to have to learn a lot, stretch a lot' but I feel like as I watch him get older, I'm like, okay. I'm starting to see the forest through the trees. We were meant to be his parents."
The Fear She's Still Working On
Ask Kristy about fear, and she doesn't hesitate. She knows exactly what it is.
"On the inside, I'm extremely self-conscious. I have a hard time giving myself the grace that I openly give to others. That is just a constant work in progress."
She's not performing vulnerability here. This is the thing she's working on: the gap between the confident, no-filter woman in the room and the internal voice that quietly questions whether she's enough. It's a fear that many high-achieving women know intimately and rarely name out loud.
Why Needle’s Eye
Kristy first found Needle's Eye through a friend's invitation to an InfluencHer luncheon. She didn't know quite what she was walking into, but the room felt different. No competition. No performance. Just women who happened to be professionally successful and also happened to believe that faith belongs in the workday.
She's since joined both the Real Estate cohort and the Owners & Execs cohort, and she works in the same office as Needle's Eye Real Estate cohort leader Christy Bacon.
“I love that camaraderie. I just feel like I could benefit from more of it because it fills my cup to know I can leave here and go back out into the world and be like, okay, I’m on the right path."
Kristy Geiger is a commercial real estate broker and corporate event entrepreneur based in the Richmond area. She is a member of Needle's Eye's Real Estate and Owners & Execs cohorts and a regular at InfluencHer events.
Needle's Eye is a community for Christian working professionals and entrepreneurs seeking to grow in faith alongside their careers.
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