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local Friday 22 July 2022

Crystal Leito:

“Believe in yourself because you can, and if you want to do it, just

do it and don’t worry what other people think or say.”

Crystal Leito, like many routine. She considers her- participate in kickboxing
other young people in the self a morning person, and because still a lot of people
era of technology, is very she likes to start her day by associate kickboxing with
active on social media. This training in the morning. aggression or just for men.
resulted for extraordinary But for Crystal, it’s really not
opportunities for Crystal, It’s been about a year and like that. She emphasizes
kickstarting her career as a half since she started that it’s something for ev-
a social media influencer. training in kickboxing, and eryone, it’s a sport that em-
Crystal told our reporter this became part of her powers many and provides
how she came to her ca- daily routine. “I really like a lot of discipline.
reer, her hobbies and her it, I find it’s a great cardio
vision for the future. exercise but also a stress re- Regarding her vision for the
lief workout, it really is all-in- future, she says that her
Crystal studied at the Inter- one”, she says. main goal is to eventually
national School of Aruba, launch her own social me-
and later continued her For many, kickboxing is dia and marketing business.
studies at Flagler College, specifically for men. For “I think that being really an
Florida, where she stud- women to participate in image myself on social me-
ied Business Administration this was, and for some peo- dia already, I want to grow
and Marketing, earning ple still is, seen as a taboo. into this and eventually be
her Bachelors last year. Af- Crystal always had a big completely on my own,
ter graduation she worked interest in kickboxing. She with my own social media
in administration for two says that her father is a box- and marketing business.”
years, and currently she is ing commentator and her
working as a freelance so- brother was in kickboxing in To finalize, Crystal has a
cial media coordinator for karate since he was eight message for women who
different businesses. years old. But Crystal could always wanted to try any
never join because she is hobby or follow a dream,
She says that her career as dia presence. And so her she commented. a girl, and kickboxing is an but because of taboo or
a social media influencer career as a social media aggressive contact sport. any other limit, never dared
started around two years influencer started. But like any career, social to try. “I was myself one of
ago, during the Covid-19 media influencers confront But now as a grown-up, them for some time, and I
pandemic. Because every- “I did different promotions. many challenges. One of Crystal decided to try it, would say to that, just be-
thing was closed during the I even did one from the these is the accounts of and personally she finds lieve in yourself, that’s very
pandemic, social media Netherlands, a business companies on social media kickboxing a sport which important. Believe in your-
exploded, and as some- which a young woman had which many times turn out empowers women. “It’s not self, because you can, and
one who was always very just started and contacted to be fake. Crystal explains necessarily that you’re ag- if you want to do it just do
active on social media, me to give exposure to that she also went through gressive, it’s really empow- it. Don’t worry with what
various local companies, their name. So yeah, I do such an experience, but to ering to think ‘wow I did other people think or say
big and small businesses different things and it var- avoid falling for these sorts that, I pushed my limit’. It’s regarding your hobbies
approached her to help ies. It can be sports, beau- of lies, she tries to research really great”, she added. and dreams. If you believe
them with their social me- ty, drinks, it’s really varied”, the account of supposed in yourself and it’s what you
companies that reach out. She commented that it’s want, go for it.”q
“I try to check properly still a taboo for women to
because you can receive
a message that can be
spam, often is spam. So I
try to check out their page,
check their interactions,
because maybe they have
a lot of followers but their
interactions don’t match
the amount of followers
on their page. That’s how
often you can tell if the ac-
count is real or not”, she
says.

Crystal is also very active
with sports training, and re-
cently she is more involved
with kickboxing. She says
that she always liked physi-
cal activity, and she was
always active with run-
ning, going to the gym – it
was always a part of her