2025 Year in Review

 
 

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2025 was full

Full of dream clients.
Full of so much unbelievable magick.
Full of travel and retreats.
Full of sisterhood and community.

2025 was a year straight out of 12-year-old me’s dreams. (Truly, I can’t even begin to tell you how many literal dreams of mine I got to watch come true last year.)


There were hard moments, of course, but also so many pinch-me, stackable moments that moved me to happy tears on a near-daily basis. 🥹

My intentions for this year were simple:
🗝️ Step out from behind the camera and let myself be seen beyond the labels of photographer and videographer
🗝️ Double down on depth, presence, integrity, artistry, and embodiment
🗝️ Work with fewer clients, and pour more intention and care into every experience from start to finish


Looking back, I feel like I honored all of that, and then some.

I showed up in places and spaces I only ever dared to dream about being in.

I let myself be vulnerable and messy and weird and wild in front of my sisters.

I dedicated myself even more to my artistry, my craft, and my intention and care.

I worked with the fewest clients ever in a year and made more than I ever have in my business.


2025 saw the birth of MYTHIC LEGACY and a deepening of the Initiation Immersion, and both of these offers felt even more like pieces of my heart and soul offered up to the world.

I hit a new record for Retreat Magick: capturing sixteen retreats in 2025!!! (And captured my 65th retreat since 2017 😅)

What we created together in 2025 was published in Amazon Best-selling books (yes, more than one!), one New York Times billboards, the face of multiple 6 + 7-figure launches, and featured in dozens of international publications.

Like I said: full.


Entering 2026, I feel even more clear and rooted in my mission and purpose.

I’m doubling down even more on artistry, intentionality, and deeply embodying the magick and medicine I am here to share with the world.

I want to continue stepping into my leadership, continuing to be a student and learn and try new things, and let myself continue to ‘come out from behind the camera’ more.

I want to continue to lean into community, spend more time in nature, and soak up as much slowness and nourishment as possible.

Looking back at 2025, I am incredibly proud and grateful for everything that happened, everything that I made happen for myself. It wasn’t always easy, it wasn’t always pretty, but it was full of pinch me moments that changed my life, and for that I’ll forever be grateful.

No matter what the next year brings, I know 2026 is going to be a year I’ll never forget.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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Monica Justesen

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