Book Review: Caitlin Crosby's 'You Are The Key'
Caitlin Crosby has shown complete vulnerability in her new book, “You Are the Key.” She lets you into her perfect imperfections, into her beautiful brokenness, and into her flaws, which she has learned to embrace over the years. Painting the picture that all humans are on earth for a reason, Caitlin invites readers into her life, into her mistakes and into her high moments, showing that despite her ups and downs- despite our ups and downs- God has purposed us all for a reason.
Caitlin is a former Hollywood talent who didn’t finish college, never got an MBA, and wasn’t supposed to become a CEO, yet that’s exactly what she did. God has taken her on a journey of limitless encounters where she has been purposed to shine the light of Christ to a lost and broken world. And while she doesn’t have formal degrees, she has been able to start and build a multi-million dollar internationally recognized business that gives back to an area of the world, Los Angeles, a city ravaged with homelessness. Through her stories and flaws, she dispels the lies we all hear in our heads, the fear that tells us not to start that dream thing. Because it’s when we listen to our Peace-O-Meter [Holy Spirit] we find out what we are they key to bringing light and hope to the world.
Caitlin’s passion for people led her to launch The Giving Keys, a give-back jewelry brand with the mission of helping its employees transition out of homelessness. Each of their one million plus keys sold represents a person who wore it, then shared it with someone else, in a unique pay-it-forward model. She walks the reader into how the company was started, details ways in which she was betrayed by those who she tried to empower and uplift on her staff- yet she kept going. Life’s setbacks, a theme throughout the book, is what Caitlin says are setups for our purposes. It's when press into God and search for Him, desiring to know our calling that He reveals where we can heal and give others hope to the earth.
She invites readers into her own body flaws and how it has been a process to accept herself the way she is. Caitlin invites wandering eyes into her casting calls, where she had hopes for the TV and silver screen, which she didn’t manage to make her big break into. And, the early days of her marriage were not left off the table where she shares the highs and lows, loving moments and arguments that she had with her husband, and his own addictions. It’s through learning to surrender that Caitlin has learned to entrust life’s most challenging moments into God’s hands.
You won’t be able to put down “You Are the Key” because it’s relatable, as Caitlin lets the reader into the secret parts of her relationships, company, let downs, a hope for a career in film, her self-body image issues, and her marriage. This is why you won’t be able to put it down because parts of her life will resonate with your own life journey. And you’ll finish the last page being reminded that you are purposed and the key to a problem on this earth, and because of that ‘you are an instrument of peace, pardon, faith, hope, light, joy and love,’ according to Caitlin.
This is a book you won’t want to let slip by.