Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza.
What charity or cause are you passionate about?
The Conservation Alliance.
What’s the first thing you do when you get home after a long day at work?
Pour a glass of wine with my boyfriend, Brad, and we do a garden walk… Tour the garden and see what sprouted.
What vacation spot is on your bucket list?
Portugal.
If you could domesticate a wild animal, what animal would it be?
Definitely a fox.
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza.
What charity or cause are you passionate about?
The Conservation Alliance.
What’s the first thing you do when you get home after a long day at work?
Pour a glass of wine with my boyfriend, Brad, and we do a garden walk… Tour the garden and see what sprouted.
What vacation spot is on your bucket list?
Portugal.
If you could domesticate a wild animal, what animal would it be?
Definitely a fox.
Off the Cuff
uccess is in the bag for Heather Kelly. Literally, her Heather’s Choice brand of dehydrated foods, packaged in handy pouches, is distributed nationally at REI. As CEO of the multi-million-dollar company she founded in 2014, Kelly oversees a staff of sixteen at her Anchorage kitchen and warehouse, and her team’s happiness makes her most proud. “That’s something that I didn’t see coming as I was building Heather’s Choice out of the back of my pickup truck,” she says.
Yet her path seems inevitable. A national champion collegiate rower, Kelly worked as a rafting guide in Colorado before returning home to Alaska. She applied her studies in sports nutrition to her outdoor recreation needs, creating portable, wholesome meals (bestsellers include buckwheat breakfasts, bison chili, and salmon chowder). “The fact that we have a lightweight, shelf-stable product that can be shipped all across the country is a huge benefit to us,” she observes.
Heather Kelly: Take my dog Django for walks… listening for woodpeckers. It’s pretty fun to find those little suckers on our 2-mile loop. I spend as much time as I can weightlifting… clearing my head, listening to terrible ‘90s music for an hour and pumpin’ iron.
AB: Is there a skill you’re currently developing or have always wanted to learn?
Kelly: Currently I’m cultivating my green thumb.
AB: What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?
Kelly: A twenty-five-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. I was 22 years old. I didn’t know anybody on the trip. I had never oared Class V whitewater before… I was really scared, but I had the trip of a lifetime.
AB: What are you superstitious about?
Kelly: Oh, too many to count. If you call astrology a superstition, I’m super into it. Geeked on reading my horoscope every day, staying in tune with that stuff [she laughs].
AB: What’s your favorite local restaurant?
Kelly: Crush [Wine Bistro & Cellar].
AB: Dead or alive, who would you like to see perform live in concert?
Kelly: Oh, that’s fun. I think a Neil Young concert would be really interesting.
AB: What’s your greatest extravagance?
Kelly: Good food… Friday night steak dinners; I’m pretty into grillin’ up some ribeyes.
AB: What’s your best attribute and worst attribute?
Kelly: My best attribute is my ability to perform under pressure; I can stay very level-headed. My worst attribute would be that I’m not necessarily an early riser… If I’m here before 10 a.m., people know something’s wrong.
