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Interview with Krystal Barter,
Founder of

What are three words or three ways that you would describe your philosophy
on life?

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Oh my goodness. Live every day, live every moment because I’ve seen all of my family
members and a lot of friends wake up one day and be told that they are not going to be
around for much longer. I firmly believe you’ve got to be present in the moment. With the
work that I do there are times in the year where I’m not as present in my family life as I
would like to be, but at the end of the year, I find time to really connect and I think that
that’s critical. We can work hard, we can achieve amazing things, but if your life at home
isn’t harmonious then what really do you have? Life is your health and your family. They
are the two things that you can’t live without.

Live every day,
live every moment...
Life is your health
and your family.

How do you encourage these qualities with your three beautiful babies?

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I include them in what I do as much as I can. Even my ten year old, he comes into the office and he’ll clean
up or he’ll pack envelopes or he will do things that really ground him. I always say to my kids, “you are so
lucky”. I have done a total technology cleanse in my house. There are no iPads, there are no Wii’s, there
are no… anything. It’s a technology free house, which has changed our lives. Our kids are playing Uno again and
jumping on the trampoline and having conversations with each other. I don’t think that I’m the best mum in the
world, but I think I’m doing an okay job. I’m trying my best to make them appreciate what they have and I think
grounding them and getting rid of the things that were distracting them, which was the technology, my kids
had no way of self-regulating. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done and will continue to do it.

In what ways do you maintain connection within your family?
Our home is our sanctuary. When the weekend comes I get invited to go out to amazing things and I’m literally
like, “oh, I just want to be at home with my babies. We sleep in and we go for walks and we go for bike rides and
we’re just…we are very close, and we live next door to my mum and my granddad and my dad, and my brother
lives behind us. My husband calls us the Brady Bunch.

I love that! It’s wonderful to keep that closeness with family.

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I consider myself very lucky. Not everyone has that harmonious family. I feel incredibly fortunate. I think there
is probably once a year that my mum and I have a fight, as most daughters and mothers do, but 99.9% of the
time we are like best friends. We wake up and the first person I call is her. I just feel that I’ve got a gift, I’ve got
an incredible family and I have to nurture that as best as I can and my kids are incredibly fortunate to have the
life that they have.

If you were to give your premama self a word of advice, what would you
say?
Oh my goodness. That would have been my eighteen year old self and I was an absolute rat bag. I went from
being a nightclubber party girl to staying up breastfeeding and cleaning poopy diapers! It went from literally
drinking cocktails until all hours, to actually physically getting no sleep because I was raising incredible children. At least I was prepared, I guess, for the sleepless nights! So, maybe I’d say to myself...buckle up! I wasn’t
prepared in any way shape or form, but sometimes it’s better to go in it blind, isn’t it, because if you overthink
it, you might not make it!

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