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About Kris Kuester

Kris Kuester inspires people to change, to overcome, and to rediscover joy in their lives. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and daughter.

In college, Kris was an Academic All-NCC and All North Central Region baseball player at the University of North Dakota. In his twenties, Kris spent five years under the tutelage of Grammy award-winning songwriter and Nashville producer Dennis Morgan. In addition to touring as an independent country music artist, Kris worked with artists like Trisha Yearwood, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, and Sawyer Brown. Kris had a life of successes, happiness and well-being.

In 1996, at age thirty, a casual conversation with a physician on a golf course changed his life forever. Kris was diagnosed with syringomyelia, an incurable and neurodegenerative disease of the spinal cord. After two brain surgeries and a year of dark depression, Kris decided that he was going to teach himself how to walk again, how to play his guitar, and overcome the physical and emotional ailments in his life. Kris developed a formula for overcoming his obstacles and wrote the book Redefined describing how other people could do it too.

Kris has been a gifted communicator and musician for over fifteen years, and now serves others in this way through Living With It. He takes his message and mission to audiences around the country, speaking, singing and distributing his book to inspire people to overcome their It. Kris says, “You don’t have to have a spinal cord disorder like me to be living with something of great consequence that affects your daily life. Maybe you’ve lost a job recently or you’re having financial difficulties. Maybe someone in your family is sick. Maybe you’re struggling with an addiction. Your ‘It’ could be anything. The good news is that we have been given the tools we need so that we can begin redefining ourselves.”

About Living With it

Living With it began in 2009 as a not-for-profit entity with a mission to restore hope to people, and see lives changed forever. LWi is a principle defined by three life disciplines: foundation, faith, and focus, which seeks to inspire people to continually triumph over the it in their life, no matter how large or small.

In today’s world, there are so many people who feel that they have lost purpose in their lives. However, through applying Kris’s formula, anyone can begin to overcome their it and restore success, happiness and purpose back into their lives. Living With it has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, educational organizations, schools and religious organizations around the country, demonstrating how Kris's universal disciplines apply to all audiences.

Today, the LWi team is successfully accomplishing this mission. If you are interested in hearing Kris’s motivational message, listening to his songs, or reading his book, please visit the Contact Us page.