Story to Strategy
VIDEO PRODUCTION
AI INTEGRATION
STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS
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Great businesses don't always grow — great stories do.
We find yours, tell it right, and create a plan to put it in front of the people who need to hear it.
HOW WE HELP YOU GROW
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VIDEO MARKETING
Your audience isn't reading — they're watching. We produce video content that stops the scroll, holds attention, and turns viewers into customers. From brand films to social content, we make your business impossible to look away from.
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STORY TO STRATEGY
Most videos get made and then get forgotten. We don't just produce your content — we build the complete roadmap for getting it into the world. Using AI and proven distribution strategy, we turn one great piece of content into a full marketing engine that works across every platform, long after the cameras stop rolling.
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AI INTEGRATION
Imagine getting back ten hours a week — without hiring a new employee. We help you implement AI into the way your business actually runs, so strategies get built, and you keep moving, focusing on everything else only you can do.
About
Hi, I'm Kristen Kellogg — Founder, Border Free Media
It started at the Nantucket Film Festival, where I was volunteering to drive filmmakers around to their premieres. At the end of one documentary producer’s debut, the entire room rose to its feet — myself included. The applause, the tears, the electricity in that room — I felt something shift inside me. That's when I knew I wanted to tell stories. Not just any stories. Stories that move people the way that film moved that room. That moment, more than fifteen years ago, set everything in motion — and I have never looked back.
What followed was a career built on crossing borders — literal and figurative. I spent over a decade marketing destinations around the world, helping tourism brands and global companies like Skype and Rosetta Stone find the stories that encouraged people to step out of their comfort zone, visit new places, try new things and find brands they could feel connected with and trust.
I’ve built other businesses along the way — a wellness brand and a travel company — and marketed them myself, which gave me something most strategists never have: a genuine understanding of what it feels like to be the one with everything on the line. That's where my commitment was born. Not in a boardroom, but in the quiet moments of watching an owner talk about why they do what they do — the passion, the purpose, the impact they're trying to make — and knowing that connecting that story to the right audience is exactly the work I was put here to do.
After years of telling stories that moved people across oceans, and living in many places around the world, I've come to call the St. Louis area home again — and I'm here on purpose. I'm focused on something that feels even more personal: making real impact with businesses right here in my own community. I still take on travel and destination projects several times a year because that work is in my blood. But my heart is now closer to home, helping the businesses, people, and places get seen, heard, and shared the way they deserve. If you've been searching for someone who truly gets it — the craft, the strategy, the tools, and the heart behind it all — you just found her.
