Krystal Kester Photography & Coaching

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ND + Global I help women step into the most powerful version of themselves through unapologetic self-expression, visual storytelling, and deep identity evolution.

Building a business... It takes a fu***ng lot.There will be seasons where you work more than you want to.You'll spend mo...
09/07/2026

Building a business... It takes a fu***ng lot.

There will be seasons where you work more than you want to.
You'll spend money before you're completely comfortable spending it.
You'll post when 12 people like it.
You'll try s**t that doesn't work.
You'll make the wrong decision and have to fix it.
You'll answer emails, make the sale, do the work, send the invoice, fix the website, clean up the mess and then wake up tomorrow and do it again. 😂
There are going to be nights you're working while everyone else is watching TV.... or even sleeping.
There will be weekends you choose the business, over gatherings.
Trips you don't get to take.
Money you put back into the business instead of spending it.
And seasons where “freedom” doesn't feel very damn free.

That's the part I don't think we should bulls**t people about.

Building something successful requires sacrifice. But the sacrifice is supposed to be temporary. Eventually, the thing you spent years pouring into should start pouring back into you.

You'll actually start seeing more money in your bank account.
The freedom to have a spontaneous random day off.
The opportunities, you never saw coming.
The ability to take your family on the ridiculous boujee vacation.
To make your own schedule.
To hire people to do the work that saves you more time doing what you're best at.
To walk into a grocery store and buy what you want without adding everything up as you add it to the cart.
To help somebody because you have the money to do it.
To create experiences your family will remember forever.

There are seasons for building & hustling. There are seasons for sacrificing.
And there damn well better be seasons for enjoying and splurging just because you can! That's the whole point.

But make sure you enjoy the journey, celebrate, and live along the way. Thats the biggest piece people miss, is they forget to LIVE while Building.

I don't believe you need to grind yourself into the ground forever to deserve success. But I also won't tell you that building something extraordinary requires nothing from you. It absolutely does.

When you Live Like You Mean It.. it gets really fu***ng good! 🖤

Hi. 😂I made LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT for you.The woman who's ready to stop talking about the life she wants and start makin...
09/07/2026

Hi. 😂

I made LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT for you.

The woman who's ready to stop talking about the life she wants and start making the choices that actually create it, because you're not done becoming, building, experiencing, loving, earning and LIVING.

Come be a Founder. 🖤
DM me LLYMI

You have got to stop asking:How can I make a little more money?How can I get just a few more clients?How can we take one...
09/07/2026

You have got to stop asking:
How can I make a little more money?
How can I get just a few more clients?
How can we take one more vacation?
How can I squeeze this into my schedule?

The questions really need to become:
What would have to change for this to be 10X better?
What would it take to have 2 or 3 trips this year?
What would it take to 10X the result.

When you stop trying to go for a little and go big... I promise you will get further faster.

You only keep your goals small because it feels safer. It feels realistic. It's still comfortable & not much needs to change.
Yet it doesn't usually get you very far. Because when you're trying to make a little more money, get a few more clients, grow a little more, or make life a little better...
you usually just do more of the same s**t you're already doing.
Work a few more hours.
Post a little more.
Ask a few more people how to do it.
And then you barely get anywhere... dun dun dun

But ask yourself how you'd make 10X more?
Well s**t. 😂 That changes the scope of things.
& Now “work a few more hours” obviously isn't the answer.
You HAVE to think differently.

What would I have to stop doing?
What would I have to change completely?
Who could help me get there faster?
And better yet...
What will actually move the needle forward or jump the needle forward vs just cause more busy work?

A small goal lets you keep your current plan and stay comfortable.
A big enough goal forces you to get uncomfortable but you also start seeing options you couldn't see before & THAT is how going bigger can actually get you further, faster.

Your mindset sets the stage for the kind of life you allow yourself to create.We get really deep with this and understan...
09/06/2026

Your mindset sets the stage for the kind of life you allow yourself to create.

We get really deep with this and understanding each area inside of Live Like You Mean it. DM me LLYMI when your ready to get yourself back.

You may not have chosen the circumstance, but you still have choices now.
09/04/2026

You may not have chosen the circumstance, but you still have choices now.

People have confidence completely backwards.... We think confidence is what makes us finally take the step. Like one day...
09/03/2026

People have confidence completely backwards.... We think confidence is what makes us finally take the step. Like one day you're going to wake up, the nerves will be gone, everything will make sense, & you'll have the whole thing planned out and you'll finally feel READY. Yea... that's not how it actually works. 😂

Majority of the time you already KNOW what you want to do. You can FEEL it in your gut. But you're nervous. Which makes you hesitate so you don't think you're confident enough in the decision yet. So you wait.
You think about it some more & then you plan the s**t out of it hoping a better plan will make the nerves disappear. And then this is where you ask 6 people what they think because you want to feel more certain.
And now you have 6 different opinions, MORE s**t to think about...
and you don't move at all. 😂
We think, if this were the right move, I'd feel confident making it.

I am here to inform you... confidence doesn't come first... courage does.
Courage is feeling nervous and making the move anyway.
It's trusting the thing you can't fully explain yet.
It's betting on yourself before you know how everything is going to work out.
It's saying, I don't have the whole plan, but I trust myself enough to figure it on the way.

THAT is where confidence gets built.

You take the step. You figure some s**t out. You learn some lessons along the way. You realize you can handle more than you thought. You do it again. And eventually you have evidence and think Oh s**t. I can do this! And that feels really damn good.

So if you know what you want & If your gut keeps nudging you...
Maybe you just need 10 seconds of courage.

Say yes.
Say no.
Take the next best step.
You don't have to know exactly where the entire road leads to start walking down it.

Trust yourself enough to move.
Because you don't LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT by waiting until you're completely certain how the story ends. You do it by having the courage to actually participate in writing it. 🖤

Yup. I'm talking to YOU...The woman who has already proven she can run a business AND is damn good at what she does.You ...
09/02/2026

Yup. I'm talking to YOU...
The woman who has already proven she can run a business AND is damn good at what she does.

You have clients. You've gotten results.
When someone works with you, you don't wonder whether you're good enough.... You KNOW you're good at what you do. The problem is... not enough people know that yet.

You want to reach people outside your current circle, but you're not sure how to get in front of them OR what to say once you do.

Maybe you open Instagram knowing you should post and immediately think: What the hell do I even say?
So you post something educational.
A graphic about your service. Or a product that you sell and the price of it. Maybe a client result.
And then disappear again.

Or...

You've got opinions, stories and YEARS of experience in your head... but you water them down because you're thinking about what your old coworker, your neighbor, another business owner or some random woman from high school might think. 😂 and you dont want to say the wrong thing and get canceled. 🙄

Meanwhile, someone with HALF your experience is everywhere... getting attention, building relationships and becoming the person people think of first.
And it's making your eye twitch. 😂

THAT'S the gap we're closing inside
LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT: PLUS.

We're building the kind of business where people don't only know what you sell. They know YOU.
Your name. Your face. What you believe. What you're damn good at. Why you're different. And why they should trust you & ultimately work with you.

We're working on personal brand, messaging, content, visibility, sales psychology, networking, referrals & growth. Not so you can become an influencer.
So your reputation can finally travel further than your current circle does.

You already did the hard part:
You became really damn good at what you do.
Now let's make sure more people know about it.

Dm me PLUS if you’re ready for this level of business.

I've spent months thinking about this.Days obsessively building it.And more than a decade living the s**t that made me r...
09/02/2026

I've spent months thinking about this.
Days obsessively building it.
And more than a decade living the s**t that made me realize:

I wish a space like this existed years ago.

I didn't want another space teaching women to grow a business while ignoring their marriage. Or talking mindset while calling a bubble bath “working on yourself” when nothing about how you think, choose or show up is changing. Or separating self-care from money, ambition, standards, family, business & the LIFE you're trying to create.
Because it's all connected.

How you trust yourself affects your decisions & how you take care of yourself affects how you show up.
Your marriage affects your energy.
Your mindset affects your money, business & relationships.
Your standards follow you everywhere.
That's why I built LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT.

For the woman who knows something needs to change or knows she's capable of MORE.

You want to:

Trust yourself & stop polling everyone before making a decision.

Take care of YOU in ways that make you stronger.

Have a connected, fun, intimate marriage you genuinely enjoy.

Make enough money for freedom, trips, investments, the s**t you want & fewer decisions based on what you can afford.

Build a reputation where people know your name, trust what you do & think of YOU when they need it.

Build a life you're obsessed with living.

There are THREE ways in:

🖤 COMMUNITY — BUILD YOU FIRST

Mindset. Self-care. Marriage. Standards. Self-trust. Ownership. Your LIFE.

Founding: $97/month

🖤 PLUS — BUILD THE BUSINESS PEOPLE KNOW

Personal brand. Content. Messaging. Visibility. Sales psychology. Networking. Referrals. Growth.

Founding: $800/month

🖤 ELITE — GET CLOSE. EXPAND FASTER.

Weekly coaching. Telegram access. Quarterly 1:1 planning. Hot seats. Strategy + expansion.

Only 5 Founding Elite spots.
$2,500/month

Founders lock in their pricing while active + get experiences & bonuses future members won't get the same way.

Founding enrollment is OPEN through September 12 at 11:59 PM MT.
There will only ever be one group of Founders.

If you've been reading my posts thinking...
Yup. She's talking to me.
Good.
I probably am. 🖤

DM me LLYMI Now!

You said you'd start taking care of yourself.Then everyone else needed something, so you canceled on yourself again.You ...
09/02/2026

You said you'd start taking care of yourself.
Then everyone else needed something, so you canceled on yourself again.

You said you'd have the conversation with your husband.
It felt uncomfortable, so you avoided it... again.

You said you wouldn't let one s**tty morning ruin the entire day.
Then 9AM went sideways and somehow Tuesday was canceled. 😂

You said you'd post the thing.
Take the walk.
Make the decision.
Follow through.
And then you didn't.

Nobody else knew.
Nobody was waiting for you.
So it became really fu***ng easy to let yourself off the hook & THAT'S where I think you need to be a little harder on yourself.
You don't need to be cruel or expect perfection.

But have higher standards. There is a difference!

Sometimes you need to be willing to say... I know I'm capable of better than how I'm showing up right now.
Your word to yourself has to matter even when nobody else knows you gave it.

Every time you say, “I'll do it tomorrow,” when you know you could do it today, you're teaching yourself something.
And every time you make the next best choice and follow through? You're teaching yourself something too.
That's how self-trust gets built.

By becoming a woman who believes herself when she says: “I'm going to do this.”

THAT'S the woman I built the Community for inside LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!

The woman whose life isn't falling apart, but knows she's capable of showing up at a higher level. the woman who feels like shes in a funk and isnt sure what to do next.

Inside, we're working on the whole damn woman:
How you lead yourself.
The standards you hold.
The promises you keep.
How you show up for yourself, your marriage & more.
And how you make the next best choice when s**t inevitably goes sideways.

How to show up better, do better, expect more, and take different action.

Showing up for yourself with the same conviction you have when everyone else is counting on you.
Higher standards. More self-trust. A life you actually mean to be living.

LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT. 🖤
OPENING TOMORROW!

Because there IS more.You make good money. You love your husband. Your life is objectively pretty damn good. And still.....
09/01/2026

Because there IS more.

You make good money. You love your husband. Your life is objectively pretty damn good. And still... you can't shake the feeling that you're capable of so much more.
Because you can see the gap between the life you're living and the one you know you're capable of creating. The one you really want.

You know the decision you want to make, but you're still asking your parents, best friend and ChatGPT what they think before you'll trust yourself enough to make it.

Your marriage isn't broken. You love the hell out of him.
But lately you talk more about kids, schedules, bills and tomorrow than you do about each other.
You're really good at what you do, but people with half your experience are becoming more known while you're still planning your next step.
You swear you'll prioritize yourself when things calm down... and somehow you're always the easiest thing on your calendar to cancel.
You send your husband the vacation:
We should totally do this.
Then close the tab.

Different problems?
Not really.

The decision you can't make.
The promise you keep breaking.
The conversation you're avoiding.
The move you're overthinking.
The post you won't publish.
The trip you've called “someday” for 3 years.
Underneath them all?...

Self-trust — lacking.
Standards — not held.
Ownership — who, me?
Integrity — situational.
Communication — I keep it to myself.
Intimacy — could be better.
Courage — yeah, right.
And THAT'S the gap you're feeling.

Not between a s**tty life and a good one.
Between the life you've built and what you know is still available to you.

Trust yourself and you make different decisions.
Communicate what you want and your relationships change.
Be willing to be seen and opportunities find you.
Raise your standards and what you tolerate changes.

It's all intertwined.

That's why I didn't build another coaching space that fixes one corner of your life while ignoring the rest.

The woman I created this for?
She's grateful as hell for what she's built.
She just refuses to believe this is as good as it gets.

And the thing I've spent months thinking about and days obsessively building for her?

LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Opens tomorrow. 🖤

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