Empowering Women: Kayla Pila’s Journey to Multi-Million Dollar Success

What would you say to women that feel like, well, that's the only way for me to become successful is for me to

monetize my my looks or my body. In year two of your business, you made 500K. >> Yes.

>> And then your best year was 1.2 million. So from 3K in your first year to 500K, how

how social media, you know, people don't people don't realize like all it takes is one video.

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. Today I am bringing you an amazing interview by Kayla Pila. She is a

designer, an entrepreneur, a mentor, an investor, and an allround grounded young woman. The reason why I wanted to get

Kayla on the channel is because she embodies what I've been trying to teach you women. She's grounded, she's humble,

she's hardworking, and she's successful. And I know that you guys will be so blessed by today's interview. So, take

out your notepads, grab your pens, grab a snack, and enjoy today's interview. >> Hi, Kayla.

>> Hi. >> How are you? >> I'm good. How are you?

>> I'm fine, thank you. How's your day been? >> It's been It's been okay. It's really

rainy right now, so it's just like a little slow. >> Oh, is it?

>> Oh, okay. Well, we're going to get straight into the interview. My name is Breeny Lee, by the way. Um, and today

we're just gonna be talking about, for me, this interview is about inspiring young women. The way I came across you

was on Tik Tok. And I was like, who the heck is this? Who is this with all the boldness, all of the vim, all of the

energy? And I was just like, I need her on the channel ASAP. Propaganda I'm not falling for is wasting your 20s. Like,

I'm literally in a fivestar hotel. ordering room service and I'm sitting courtside tomorrow at a basketball game

and I didn't have to depend on anybody to make this happen for me. I travel when I want. I shop when I want. I don't

have an alarm clock. I don't have to work 40 hours a week. I literally can live life exactly how I want to live it.

And that comes from literally taking your 20s serious and not just being a distracted and falling for that. Enjoy

your 20's BS because yeah, enjoy it, but once you waste it, you're gonna be 30 and you're gonna be struggling. If

that's what you want, have fun, party every weekend, and don't lock in. But I will take this any day. This freedom,

travel when I want, do whatever I want. I take this any day over just wasting my 20s.

>> People that don't know who Kayla is, tell me who you are in your own words. I am a not I'm not a one lane type of

person. Okay. I am Kayla. I would say I don't have a niche. I'm just everything just in one. And I, you know, I'm good

at entrepreneurship. I'm good at business. I'm good at content creation. Um I'm good at a lot of things, but I

don't let just one thing describe me. I'm everything. um multi-talented and you know skilled and purposeful and um I

have a business, I have social media and I have a lot of knowledge to give. So that's me.

>> How old are you if you don't mind me asking? >> I'm 25.

>> 25. Okay. And where do you live background? >> So I live in uh Florida, South Florida.

Um in Penrook Pines, Florida and that's where I was, you know, born and raised. and I I love it. And what about you?

>> I'm from London. London, UK. Born and raised. Um enjoying life. >> Nice. I love that for you.

>> Yeah. So, I've watched a few of your interviews, so I know a lot a lot about your story growing up, but obviously on

this channel, we want to delve more into um for me, it's about the mindset of a winner, the mindset of someone that is

successful. Um, so like I heard you grew up with your parents divorced at one point in time. Is that correct?

>> Yeah. So I was about like eight or nine or 10 around that time I think. And um it's such a long time ago. My parents

were together. Uh they did have a divorce and then my mom was a single mother and we had to move with our

grandma. Um it was a little hard of a time for us in that moment. But as I got older, you know, we were back and forth,

back and forth. I started to realize, you know, more about life and the reality of life is, you know, if you

don't do something for yourself or you don't start something for yourself or have a plan, you could easily end up in

a cycle or you could easily fail or live a life that, you know, you're just not going to be proud of. So, I had to make

that decision early on. >> As a woman, how do you feel like the effect of the divorce like affected you

like emotionally? I could say as a child it as a child it affects me but as a woman um I feel like

it just made me realize like um you know I love both my parents and um unfortunately some things just doesn't

work out in a perfect world there would be no divorces but we don't live in a perfect world so for me it realiz it

made me realize like I can have my own family one day and I could learn from my parents and I could do the right thing

going forward or I could repeat some mistakes that I've noticed in my family you know because a lot of everybody

body's family. They all have their, you know, pros and cons. So, I I figured as a woman it affected me to realize like

family is everything. And, um, regardless of the divorce that my parents had, um, they were both very

great parents and, you know, they co-parented very well. So, I figured, you know, in my future, I want to have

my own family, but I want to keep my family together forever. >> That's exactly how I feel as well. I

came from a single mother home as well and I felt like there's obviously there's no point in blaming the past but

all all we can actually do is actually create a better future for our children but I know at the same time my father

not being there created a sense of a lack of identity. Obviously I didn't know that at the time but I feel like

looking back I feel like women need their fathers. They need their mothers as well. the affirmation, the the love,

the attention, and for me personally, me not having that made me look for it elsewhere. I don't know if that was your

story, but is there any way that maybe your Did you get still see your father even though you were living with your

mother or was he still very present in your life? >> Yeah, my dad actually he actually didn't

live in um America. He actually moved to his hometown, but you know, he would come visit and I would talk to my dad

like every single day. My mom got me upset. I'm like, "Dad, like I hate mom or dad." Be like, "Don't say that you

hate your mom." D like he always reassured me to respect my mom and he was my best friend um no matter what.

Although he might have been there every day, he was still a good co-parent and visited when he could. And um you know,

obviously, but nothing beats that two parent household though. I will say nothing beats that. And although you

know he might have been there, there's just still, you know, those things that doesn't beat that having mom and dad

every single morning. And I had it, but just not forever. >> Yeah.

>> It did have some effects. >> Right. Right. Right. And how was like your upbringing when you did grow up

with your your mother and your grandmother? How would you say like financially? Was you how would you say

middle class, workingass? Um I would say um I don't even know what's how to describe this but it was

just like it was just a really tough time. I would say whatever class the tough time came after 2008 a lot of you

know of the experience was like my mom like she was you know struggling to you know get a better job and you know just

really elevate and uh living with my grandmother you know sometimes when you guys are living in a household where you

know there isn't lack you know people are in lack there's not much uh positivity sometimes and there could be

you know some arguing or some fussing or whatever and that could you know play a role in family dynamics sometimes people

are you know bumping heads because everybody's just in survival mode trying to figure it out. Um, and obviously like

there always just has to be that one person in the family that just recognizes everything and all the chaos

and just steps out and just realize, okay, there has to be a change. And usually most families have that one

person that recognizes everything and just like, okay, there has to be a change.

>> And that was you. >> Yes, I believe so. >> Yes.

>> So, what what what was what was your motivation behind saying that I'm going to be the change? Did you feel like you

were different? >> Um, I knew that I was different, but not in a ways of like I'm the smartest or

I'm the greatest. I knew that I was different because I was just a really creative kid. Like I was into the weird

stuff, into like uh, you know, Minecraft or these nerdy games, right? So, I just knew that I was different from my my

sisters. Not in like, oh, I'm better than them way, but I was just a little bit um into different things. I was very

creative. I was into art. And I noticed that I had uh some certain I had certain skills that I feel like could help me in

the future. Yeah. >> And um I knew that um I just had that realization like wow like I could do a

lot. I just need to you know lean into my childhood skills and just really elevate and you know go on top of those

things. >> Right. So when you were younger what did you want to do when you grew up?

>> I wanted to be a veterinarian. I wanted to help animals and save animals. And then I got a little older. I'm like okay

I could probably get a decent job doing social security or something some government work. uh making 80k a year

and then >> whatever pays the money. >> Yeah.

>> Whatever pay whatever pays well. >> Whatever paid whatever paid decent or well, you know, I was just like

whatever. >> Right. So then how did you how did you make the transition into uh knowing that

you wanted to start a business? >> I was just on Instagram one day and I feel like Instagram shows us like a

different side of the world. Some people hate on it but I love it. You know, it shows us uh different sides of people's

lives and what they do. and I seen a person designing on their computer, I'm like, "Okay, I know I'm artistic. I can

do that, too, if I really put my mind to it and tried." And that's where it all started from.

>> Right. And prior to social media and doing what you're doing now, what were the types of jobs that you had?

>> Um, I was a cashier at Kids Fil Locker at a point. I was earning like $7.25 an hour. And then after that, I quit. I

didn't like how they were how they would talk to me. And then I got another job at a school as a afterare counselor um

at my old middle school and after that I you know quit the job and that's when I started my business right after.

>> Right. Okay. So for those that don't know can you tell us a little bit about the first business that you started and

so the clothing line was that the first business that you've ever started? >> Yes that is the first and only business

I've ever started. >> Right. Okay. So what was the inspiration behind getting into that?

The inspiration behind that, I would say, was just viewing um a Instagram story. I seen a friend designing a shirt

and then I'm like, hm, clothes. I love clothes. I love to shop sometimes. I don't have the money to shop right now,

but what if I can create my own clothes? Uh one day, I was a broke college student or I was entering college and

I'm like, shoot, I feel like I can design these things. And then I tried it and I'm like, okay, cool. I'm I I failed

at first. I'm like, I don't I give up. I don't care about this anymore. Three months later, I'm like, "Let me try it

again. You You need to learn this. You need to focus." Got on my computer. I started designing clothes and I'm like,

"Okay, I can definitely do this." And it literally that's how it all like opened up for me.

>> So, your right. So, what are the stats of your business right now? How much have you made in total

>> with my clothing business? >> Yes. >> So, we recently just passed over $4

million in sales. >> Congratulations. >> Yes. Thank you so much. and um over I

think like 35,000 orders and 39,000 orders. Over 39,000 orders. So that's um where we are at currently. Hoping to

pass over 5 million by December. Um so yeah, that should be another Instagram reel once we complete that.

>> Amazing. And when did you start the clothing line? What year? >> Um I started in 2019. Um yeah, 2019. And

that year was a pretty crazy year. So >> Right. So just before the pandemic, you decided to launch a clothing line.

>> Yes. >> And your clothing line is men's. Would you say it's unisex or is men's? Because

all of your models are men. >> Okay. Yes. I would say unisex because I do use a lot of male models, but

sometimes I'll hop in the videos to just show people like, okay, a girl can wear it, too. You know, you guys can wear it

with your boyfriend or your brother or whoever. You can match, right? Um it is unisex. Um, and I do have some girls try

to come in and model, but majority of the time it's the boys because um, that's just like majority of my

audience. >> Right. Amazing. So, what what was the inspiration

behind the hoodies and the street wear? What was that? Is that your vibe? Are you like a casual babe? Casual glam

babe? Um, I would say it used to be my vibe when I was like younger. Um, I used to

play basketball, so I was kind of like a tomboy. Um, I did like, you know, uh, tomboy clothing, streetear clothing, and

I was like, "Okay, cool. Like, I can wear a hoodie. I love hoodies. I love jackets." And, um, that was in the past,

but I figured I'll always have an eye for it. It's like if you know how to cook, you know, right now, you will

always know how to cook forever. So, I know how style how styles look good back in the day. I know that it'll, you know,

I can keep evolving with what is trending and what will look good for the future,

>> right? Okay. So for those of us who are, you know, working a 9 to5, who may be the same age as you or older,

what what are the pros of being a entrepreneur versus having a 9 to5? And what do you think about do you feel like

everyone should be an entrepreneur or do you feel like people should do what they're good at? if that makes

sense. >> Um, I would say people should do what they're good at, but you know, not

everybody is going to have the uh drive or the skill set to be Tom Brady. Some people might have the skill set to be,

you know, the other team member on the team. Some people have the skill set to be like the quarterback, you know, the

head of the operation, but not everybody has that, and that's okay. Now, there is pros to being an entrepreneur. You know,

you get your freedom back. You get to make a lot of money. um you get to utilize holidays versus where as a

nine-to-five you got holidays off, you're not making any money. Um 9 to fives though, people I I I admire the

fact that they do get, you know, benefits, health insurance, you know, health care, um things like that, which,

you know, makes a lot of things easier when you have a job or you let's say like your mom or dad has a job, you can,

you know, go on their benefits. So, I say each one has their pros and cons, you know. Um, and people should do what

they're good at. But if you know that you're one of those people that just has bigger dreams for yourself and you don't

know how you're going to get it with your 9 to5, you know, there's other ways to uh grow your money by becoming

financially literate by maybe even starting a business. It doesn't have to be something that you want to do

forever, but you never know. That could be the vehicle to getting you some more financial, you know, growth in your your

bank accounts, your investments, whatever. But I really feel like regardless of what you do, the most

important thing is financial literacy. But the easiest and the best way to accumulate large amounts of money is

through entrepreneurship and business um and skills like having good skill set. >> How does a person know they're ready to

leave their 9 to5 and pursue entrepreneurship? How do how do they know that this is their time?

as soon as they're tired of their 9 to5 and they're like, "Okay, this is getting a little tiring." Because sometimes

we're such in a cycle that we don't even realize like you're so used to waking up at 6:00 a.m. and then getting up to go

to work and then you become in a cycle that you're just so comfortable with. But then eventually you start to think,

hm, like what if I just, you know, question like the more that you when you start to question life more, that's when

you know you're ready for entrepreneurship. When you go through life in just the same motion every day

and you're not really questioning life or like how can I be better, what can I do to become better, how can I make more

money, you're not ready. When you start having those questions about how can I elevate, how can I make more money, is

this job going to pay me, is this job going to help me retire early. Um, when you have those questions, that's when

you know you're ready and it's time for you to start doing your research and it's time for you to start your plan.

>> But what if someone's questioning, am I enough? Can I be an entrepreneur? Can I work for myself? because I do tr

I've been an entrepreneur since university. So I didn't really have like a working 9 to 5 job like ever. Um so I

kind of went from university straight into entrepreneurship and working for myself. But there are some people that

you know took the route of 9 to5 and now they feel like they're stuck. Maybe it's the safety or maybe it's the fear of the

unknown or maybe they don't feel that they're capable. What would you tell someone that wants to make the leap but

something's holding them back? I would say that when you if you want to take the leap and you feel like you have

a safety net, understand that with you taking the leap, you don't have to feel like this is your one and only

opportunity in life because we are meant to fail. And I'm pretty sure that one person that might be afraid to take the

leap has had a failed relationship before. a failed friendship, right? And you probably went into that relationship

thinking that's your last person. That's the person you're going to marry, you're going to be with for the rest of your

life, right? The same thing applies for business where it's like you want this thing to work forever, but you won't

know until you try. You won't know until you show up and you fail. And you treat failures as not so much as you're

losing, you're not doing good enough, but you're learning. And we all have to get out of our comfort zone. And it's

like, if something's easy and you're just so, you know, it comes too easy to you, how can you grow? You have to be

comfortable with being uncomfortable. And um if you can't break out of that mindset, I'm sorry to say, but you might

just need to settle. And but who wants to settle? Are you okay with settling for something for the rest of your life?

You have to ask yourself that question because if somebody's okay with settling, there's nothing that you can

do to break them out of that. >> So what what would be a practical first step for someone that that is like that

that is in that mindset of I want to but I'm not sure. What was that first initial step would you say?

>> I would say create a list of what will happen if you don't try and then create a list of all the things that could

potentially happen if you did try and when you win. Not if you win but when you win because thinking about if what

or maybe is not going to really get you in the right mindset. Thinking about what can go right and focusing on what

can go right. If I stay at this 9 to5, same salary, 50 cent raises, same money, same problems, whatever. Trying

entrepreneurship, what can I do? And what will happen when I win? I could make a lot of money. I can have my

freedom. I can have my time. I could help my mother. I can help my sister, whoever. I can do a lot of more things.

And you focus on what can go right and you act in ways that will help you get to that level.

>> Right. >> I would say. >> Right. So,

on the topic of what can go right, I just wanted to share uh some of your stats. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

So, in your in a year one of your business, you made 3,000. >> Yes.

>> In year two of your business, you made 500K. >> Yes.

>> And then your best year was 1.2 million. >> Yes. That was a that was a third year >> in a third in a third year. Wow. I mean,

wow. So, from one from 3K in your first year to 500K, how how

>> social media, you know, people don't people don't realize like all it takes is one video and and some momentum and

all all sometimes all it takes is just a little bit of momentum, you know, like once you get some momentum from your

business or your social media accounts or your pages, you have to keep riding that momentum. You can't let the the

match or the fire die out. You got to keep adding to the fire and keep fueling the fire. You cannot let it die out. And

that's the one thing that I did to get that to that 500k. And it's like I could have gave up on that $3,000 year. An

entire year I only made $3,000. That couldn't do anything for anybody today. And I could have easily just

said, you know, this is just not working out for me. Maybe I should just stick to the 9 to5. I would have never seen the

$500,000 year if I just said I quit. You know, so social media got me there. you know,

posting, you know, utilizing a free opportunity that we all have. We all have the opportunity to sign up for our

Instagram page today. We all have the opportunity to share our story, right? YouTube, uh, Instagram, Twitter, we all

have the same resources to share our story and our product. We don't have to pay to use these apps. So, I figured,

let me utilize them as much as I can. One thing I realized about social media is that because it is so easy, sometimes

people don't see the opportunity right in front of their face. And I find that because it is a I feel like if it was

free, if it was if you had to pay for Instagram or you had to pay for social media, I I kind of have a sense that

maybe people will use it. But there is this sense of fear that a lot of people have with putting themsel out there. And

one thing that I've noticed from Gen Z's to millennials, I'm in a millennial C category. And one thing that I guess I

started in with so I started with on social media is this kind of like perfect curated content. And sometimes I

get stuck in that rut of oh, it has to be perfect. But what gives you the inspiration to just, you know, whip out

your camera and just start talking? Cuz every time I scroll my TikTok, your face is there. Every time I scroll on my

Instagram, you're there and you're talking your boldness and you don't care. You have friends like everyone

else has friends. You have family that know you like everyone else that are scrolling and looking at you. But

there's something in you that doesn't actually care. What is that thing in you that says, "I'm going to pick up my

camera and I'm going to film. So, because I know if I create this content, I'm going to create sales."

What is What is that I don't care attitude? And where did where did it come from?

>> I feel like um that comes from me. I used to want everything to be perfect and or just look good or make sure that

my my everything looks good about me before I film or make sure that you know it's a day that the sun is out or

whatever. And I figured there's somebody else that is you know doing what I do in my niche and there's women like that I

actually follow right now that are posting every single day and I'm like wow I know their stats. I know how much

they're earning. I know how much they're making um because we're all in mutual fields of business and we have the same

colleagues and whatever. And I'm like, "Wow, what what are these women doing that I'm not doing?" And I realized

they're posting two times a day, three times a day, story, everything. They're not making sure that they look perfect

all the time. They're just posting. They're posting. They're posting. They're posting. I'm like, "Their work

ethic, right? They're making how much they're making because their work ethic, they're they don't care. They're

posting. They're just doing whatever. They don't care about the likes. They don't care about the views. At one

point, I was caring about my views. I'm like, "Wow, this person doesn't care and they're making a a huge amount of money.

Why should I care?" Right? If you have an audience you're trying to talk to, it doesn't matter if you get 100 views.

That's 100 people. Imagine 100 people coming up to you and saying, "Hey, uh, I want your book bag or I want this."

Like, you're like, "Wow, my god, this is a lot of people." So, I'm like, it it doesn't matter. Like, I just have to

post. And I think about every single time I post, I'm like, look, like that that, you know, that big house is not

going to get itself, you know, keep posting. >> You got to keep posting. And that's how

I go about things. I just don't even care anymore. Like I don't care. I I I don't know. It took me to start posting.

I I forced myself. I set alarms. I'm like, "Okay, first reel of the day, second reel of the day." Okay, I post my

first reel by like 2:00 p.m., second reel by 8:00 p.m. or before that. And I beca I started to get in a habit of, you

know, first I would do three reels a week, then I'm like, "Okay, let's do five reels a week." I'm like, "Okay, the

girls that are really eating out here and doing it are doing like 10 reals a week. Okay, let's amp it up." And I

started doing that. I just I tried it and I just kept pushing myself regardless of how I felt because when

you feel how you feel, you get stuck in your your feelings. You know, that's that's about everything in life. When

you when you allow yourself to feel everything how you feel for too long, you get stuck there. I remember Beyonce

said something happens to her, whatever. She's sad. She gets herself 72 hours to feel everything and after that it's in

the past. And a lot of people that are stuck in like, oh, I just they're they victimize themselves. They they are

stuck in their feelings and in the past. They're stuck in that feeling. You cannot be stuck in your feelings if you

want to move forward. And that's what I realized. I cannot be stuck in my comfort zone. Okay, two wheels a week,

that's not enough. Do 10. And I started doing 10. No, that's actually really good advice because I find that a lot of

people suffer from embarrassment. Like you said, oh, my real only got 100 likes or I think the hardest thing,

especially for creators that are already established, if one re gets 30,000 likes and the other one gets 100 and everyone

can visually see it, I think people get stuck with that. But you're saying that even if it's a hundred and one thing I

will say is that because you have a business that you're selling and it's not the business that you're selling is

not just yourself. I feel like you have more incentive to actually get up and get it done because you know that those

videos are going to convert into sales, right? It's not just because you want it's not vanity metrics in a sense of

you're just doing shooting content because you want everyone to like your content if that makes sense. So, you

actually have a goal. And also, one thing that you said is that you follow a lot of people that post a lot. And I

think that's really key because who you're following and the bubble that you put yourself in can either be

limiting or inspiring. And you have a bubble that's inspiring, that is working and moving. So, you don't feel like the

weird one. >> Yeah. >> You just feel like part of it. So who we

follow is actually you would say is very important as well. Who you surround yourself with, right?

>> Yeah. And honestly, I don't even hang out with these people. Like we're just mutuals on social media. They don't I've

never went out to hang out with them. I just see, okay, they're killing it. And I have a mentality. If I see somebody

doing better than me, I'm inspired immediately and I take notes of what they're doing, right? And I add it to my

own game. So that's how I go about things. Some people be like, hm. like they'll see somebody doing their thing

on social media, they'll be like, you know, maybe it's just fake or maybe, you know, I don't think like that. I think,

wow, like what can I learn from this person? How are they how are they doing so well marketing? What can I learn from

this? And I I take what I can learn and I I apply it. So, >> what would you say is the Kayla mindset

that motivates you every day to like get up and keep going? And even the mindset that you had to have in the beginning to

start the business? What is that mindset that most women your age just don't have? What do you think it is that makes

you different to the point where you're actually able to run a successful multi-million dollar business? What

differentiates you from everybody else? Would you say? I think that women my age or, you know,

around my age group, um, they're very like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I I want to

do this, but I mean, I like this, but I I don't know. They don't know. And I'm also someone that sometimes I don't even

know what I want to eat. Okay, I can't decide that sometimes. But when it comes to uh creating something um like a

business, starting my business, the mentality that I had was just like, okay, I started to learn how to

organize. I organized the same way that if you want to take a trip, sometimes girls are good at organizing things,

planning out their birthday, whatever. That's the same thing that applies to starting a business. You don't have to

be like a super hyper focused person. You just need to be able to create a plan and just sticking to it without,

you know, being all over the place and being like, I don't know. When you're all over the place, you just don't know

anything. You don't know where to start. You don't know what to do. Having a plan, it doesn't have to be extremely

detailed or make a $100,000 by tomorrow plan. It just needs to be the simplest of things. And when you start getting on

that habit of planning and having your life organized, things become easier. You become in a schedule. You get in

good habits. You develop, you know, discipline. And um that was easy for me because I I I know I used to play sports

so I I learned how to become disciplined at an early age. Yes, I still have my very lazy moments. Like I don't want to

get out of bed and I'll sit in bedrock for however long I want but when it comes to my work um and important weeks

I will sit, plan, organize and follow through with what I have to follow through with.

>> But what is motivating that? Because some people just want to lay in bed all day, every day, every week, every month.

Like they don't want to work. >> That motivating part, I would say, comes from seeing more. Like the more that I

see, the more that I want to be. And it it it becomes a game. Like I would say success can it could become a toxic game

sometimes because once you start seeing your wins, like I I didn't come into the success game like thinking like I want

to make a million dollars. I just came into it like I want to start something. I want to be good. I want to hopefully I

can save $20,000. Hopefully I can get a BMW one day. Not a not a crazy BMW, just the most basic regular BMW. I that's all

I wanted. All I wanted was $20,000 and just maybe to graduate college. Like that's I had the most simplest, you

know, goals. But I learned a good discipline and then I got blessed with 10 like way more than what I was, you

know, expecting for myself because I figured out how to, you know, organize and then the motivation came from just

seeing more. like there's people that have BMWs and then I see I went to my family's house and I seen like uh one of

my uh my uncle's wife's his his her family's house and I seen like they have a huge house. I'm like okay that's

motivating that motivated me. That's the one thing I will say just motivated me out of everything. Like I just seen they

have a huge house. I'm like wow people live like this. I would love to do this one day. So if I just maybe stick to

this business plan um things could work out for me. And I was really shocked that I made $1,000 in a day. And I'm

like, "Wow, imagine if I did this just 10 more times. I'd have $10,000." And I just kept following through.

>> There are some women um within the Gen Z and the millennials that don't feel like they should have to

work. What do you think about that? >> Um

>> they want a soft light. They want a soft life. They want to be taken care of. What do you think about that?

um if that's what they want, you know, you have to want something to try it to experience it. So, um if you want

something, I would say go for it. You know, I don't really, you know, know how that I know how it goes, but if that's

what they want, you know, go for it. If you meet someone that actually loves you and wants to give you that life, like go

for it, you know, sounds like a good dream to me. Sounds cool. >> Why is that not your dream?

Um it is my dream actually. I do it is my dream too. And um you know I've I for me it's like I I know even though I have

like my own you know investments you know business and everything that still doesn't take away from the fact that I

would want someone to you know uh you know lead provide and start a family with one day. you know, I would want

someone there and I would want companionship one day. But just because I have what I have, that doesn't really

um take away from the fact that I would, you know, want that life too as well. I'm just I'm just able to give it to

myself in the meantime um until I am married and meet that person. But um it's, you know, girls that want that

like there's nothing wrong with that. You could still have a business and you could still meet someone that you know

wants to provide and do all these things for you. I' I've seen it. Um I myself I I've met some great people and you know

it's definitely it's not something that's that can't happen. You know it's that's what you want. You want want what

you want. It's real out there. >> So if you met someone and they wanted to retire you you have to work anymore.

Would you give up your whole business for that? >> Hey I mean when when do you want

>> do you want me to retire? you know, um I feel like I'm I'm in a pretty good position to where um I could do that to

where even if they wanted me to retire and give up my business, I still have, you know, built a a great uh foundation

and and base for myself to not need to work again anyway. So, it's like, you know, when that if that's what somebody

wants to do, like I'm not stopping you, you know, like, hey, it's it's all right. So, is it that you you you like

to work or do you feel like you're working because you have to? Cuz if someone was to take that away from you,

do you feel like you would miss that hustle and that feeling that comes with winning?

I wouldn't know until I experience it, honestly. But personally, it's like I personally sometimes I'm I work because

it's like it's fun. Sometimes it's great. It's just like my hobby. Um, but if I got work taken away from me, I

would fulfill my life in other areas like that I already do just 10 times more. But it's like it's like if you

want to go to the gym, you have to do it in the small time window that you have because you have work or you have to

pick up your kids or you have to do this with your friends. But let's say that you didn't have work. You were allowed

to go to the gym at any time that you want. You can go to dinner at any time that you want. You could cook and spend

a lot more time cooking meals that you don't even know how to cook and you know have time to make mistakes because you

have all the time to do that, right? But when you're on a schedule, it's like, okay, I have to work then I have to

cook. Why not cook something that I already know how to cook cuz it's going to take me 30 minutes versus I have all

the time in the world. I could learn a new meal. I can try this. I can do that. I can paint. I can learn how to do a

instrument. You get more time to do everything, you know? So, it's just all about how you go about it. So, if I said

housewife or entrepreneur, which one would you choose today? >> Um,

if the house is uh I mean does the house in the suburbs like Yeah. I mean, shoot. I don't I don't mind like you know being

a housewife it's like it's not just like not doing anything like you're still going to have passions and things that

you do. So, um, if I had the opportunity to choose to be a housewife, I mean, I would I'd just probably be on TikTok

scrolling or making content still cuz it's fun to make content. Like, it's fun. So, I don't know. Like, I'd have to

exper I wouldn't I wouldn't know cuz I never experienced it, you know, fully. So, it's like

>> it's like damn, I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to know like if I was a housewife, I'd be like, "Okay, I don't want to do

this or whatever." But, I mean, who doesn't want to be a housewife? Like, >> okay. On the topic of I guess dating, um

do you feel like the type of do you feel like dating has changed for you as you've become more successful and is it

harder for you to then meet someone that is on your level? In that sense, I would say that dating has changed. Um,

I feel like when you are a woman that you have like your life together, you have everything in line for yourself,

you figured your life out. Um, you're probably going to meet a lot of older people um, and successful people as

well. It's just, you know, the morals, you have to make sure that the morals are line and everything, but I feel like

dating has changed for me. It's just like there is, you know, quality options, but it's probably less than

it's like if I was just a normal person. I'd probably get a lot of DMs if I post like a picture or whatever versus like

my Instagram might just seem like a businessoriented thing where I might just get DMs from people that are on my

level or, you know, just it'll probably filter out a lot of people that might be afraid to shoot their shot because

they're like, "Oh, she's too good for me." or something, you know. So, I would say that that's how it changed, you

know. But >> so you're saying So you're saying that there's less options the more successful

you get. Is that what you're saying? >> I would say there's less of a flood of options. It depends on how you run your

Instagram because I don't even My Instagram is like just a business Instagram, you know? So it's like I

don't know like it's just it's hard to explain. I would say that there's more quality options just less people are

going to like lust after you. more people are going to contact you if they know they're serious to try to to try to

talk to you versus like, you know, before before I had my business Instagram, I just post regular pictures.

I'd get like hundreds of heart eyes, just hundreds. Cuz all my Instagram is is just of me me posting my selfies, me

looking good, me posting myself. Like, it's like when you don't really have anything to post like, oh, I just

dropped this cooking book or this ebook. It's like the only thing on Instagram, the only thing on Instagram that you're

marketing is yourself. Like, oh, I look cute today. I'm doing this. I'm at the beach. I'm doing this. So, it's like,

what else can people say to you besides you look good, I like your outfit, you look sexy, whatever. And that's just

what it was. Now, my Instagram is more, hey, like I like what you're doing. It's just less of that, but you know, more

quality people that I follow and interact with. >> What about in real life? Do you get

approached in Miami? Yes. If you're in Miami, you're going to get approached. Like,

always anywhere you go, you're going to get approached. Um, but yes, I do get approached, but that doesn't really like

mean much to me. You know, sometimes, uh, sometimes you get approached outside if you look good or whatever, but it

doesn't really mean much to me. I feel like um, is it hard to date in Miami because of the superficiality? And I see

that you're a woman of substance. You're not just going to go for anything, right? And you don't And one thing about

you that I see is that you don't lead with your looks. You're a beautiful woman. You don't have to try too hard.

you have you post all these beautiful pictures, but I feel like people men respect you, which is probably why

you're not getting these floods. But if that p that right person that will filter through, they'll step to you in a

different way than I guess if you're walking on on the beach or you're walking down the street. Do you know

what I mean? They'll be a different type Yeah. There'll be a different type of person. And I definitely do believe that

like you I feel like as a woman when you lead with more than just your physical

appearance, there is a different there's a different level of respect and

intention coming from the opposite sex. Would you would you agree with that? >> I would strongly agree because of the

experiences. It's just like a lot of things that I hear like people go through is like, "Yeah, I met this guy

and he didn't even ask me this. He didn't even open the door for me. He didn't do this for me." It's like, you

know, some people just, you know, it's life, you know, respect it. It's life. A lot of people, if you see somebody at

the if if you go out right and you see a guy and he's uh he's fit, he's in shape, you know, other men are probably going

to respect him because he respects his body. He has, you know, built up something for himself. It's just

automatic respect levels. You know what I'm saying? Like if you look out of shape and you're trying to sell me a

car, it's like you don't respect yourself. You know, people that are in shape or are fit, they get more respect

just organically, naturally. And that's like the same thing with like women and men, right? Um it's just it's just life.

It's how life is. A lot of people don't really want to hear that reality of things that unfortunately, yes,

sometimes when you go on Instagram pages or you go on someone's Instagram page, the first thing that you see is what

you're probably going to go based off of. If you go on a man's Instagram page and you see, you know, real estate

investor and you see him posting, you know, houses and knowledge and things like that, he's probably going to get

more respected and you're probably going to be more inclined to see, you know, what this guy's about versus if a guy

you go on his Instagram, he's in a ski mask or he's displaying like he's in the streets or something, you're probably

like, uh, I don't want to talk to that guy, right? It depends on your standards, too. But know different

levels of, you know, of that, you know, aspect. I feel like the way that you portray yourself, you know, people want

to do business with you versus if you portray yourself a different kind of way. People might not want to do

business with you. It's like your image is everything. Like how you portray yourself is everything. Whether people

like it or not, it's just a realistic thing about life, >> right? What what do you feel about like

I'm not sure. Maybe we're in like different worlds because I feel like I see a lot when I look at Instagram and

because I do have like follow a lot of influencers. I do see that there's a seduct a

seduction for maybe regular people or regular women to lead with their appearance

because that's what they feel like they have to in order to get attention. However, I look at someone like you and

you have the confidence you can come in no makeup makeup baddy bust down whatever and still show up. Where does

that level of confidence come from? Where you're a beautiful girl. You could have just like relied on your looks. You

were posting pictures of yourself before. You could have continued doing that and maybe lived a similar lifestyle

to what you're living now, but it wouldn't have come from that level of hard work and brains.

>> Yeah. What what what would you say to women that feel like, well, that's the only way to for me to become successful

is for me to monetize my my looks or my body or all these other things. What would you say to a woman that maybe

doesn't have the looks or doesn't have the body to monetize, but in a world like we are in now, it feels like that's

currency for women. What would you say as someone that I believe doesn't lead with that and has still has confidence

if not more confidence? Because for me, you seem like someone that's very well grounded. And that's why when I came

across you on TikTok, I was like, "Wow, a girl not talking about how pretty she is. Oh, wow. A girl not talking about

her body." And I'm not saying that to put anyone down, but it's actually it sometimes be becomes like all you see.

And so when I came across you, I was like, "This is so refreshing." Very, very refreshing, especially as a young

woman. So, what would you tell someone that feels like that's all they all they have to do in this market?

>> I would say um showing up as a woman, like yes, as a woman, you know, your looks can be currency sometimes, but it

could only be currency for so long. There's tons of beautiful women that don't have any substance to them and all

they have is their looks. >> And um I would say that you don't always have to lead with their looks. Being a

beautiful woman is a plus. It's amazing. You know, you you get a lot of perks from being a beautiful woman,

>> but you know, you should always want to have some type of substance to yourself or have something for yourself to where

you don't always have to just lead with your looks. Because at the end of the day, there's a lot of men that would be

like, "She's a beautiful woman, you know, but they might get, you know, tired of her because she's not really

that good on the inside. She probably has no substance. She doesn't stimulate his, you know, mind. She doesn't really

do much. She doesn't care about anything because all she thinks that is that matters is just her looks." And uh, you

know, some women, they might get far with that, but not that far. You know, I know a lot of beautiful women that have

substance to them. Even if they don't have the business that I have, they still could be a normal girl that works,

but she still has substance. She's still a good woman. and she still has spirit. She does, you know, good things around

her community. She's kind. She's peaceful. Like, it's it's not just about your looks. And um some women understand

that. And for the women that, you know, might have that confidence or, you know, they they might not be, you know, to

everyone else's beauty standard, um there's going to be somebody that's going to appreciate you. And, you know,

you're there's going to be an audience that likes you for you, right? You know, I might not be um a IG model that postes

my body 24/7, but there's going to be my audience that cares about what I have to say in my niche, which is why I, you

know, post how I post. Like, I don't really care to, you know, do the most all the time. But, um, I have my

audience that I have to feed content to, right? I'm not marketing to all the the guys or whatever, the girls. Like, I'm

literally marketing to my audience. Like, this is what I do for a living. So, I just stopped caring. I I post how

I post. And whoever is out there that likes me is going to be for me. And that's just what it is. My audience is

my audience. And I cater to them first because that's the people that have got me to where I'm at today. They're my

platform. They're my audience. I have to cater to them first because that's how I'm going to keep growing in my field,

you know? >> That's amazing. That's that's very well said. Uh where do you feel like your

substance comes from? Um, just being me being curious. My

substance would come from just my mind. Like I'm just a very curious person and I'm very I like to share things. Like I

could literally yap anyone's ear off sometimes. Like I just like to talk sometimes. So my substance just comes

from my curiosity. I love learning things. I love learning from people. I love listening more than speaking

sometimes. I really do like listening to other people. So um that's where my substance come from. If I was always a

person that uh could just talk and talk and talk, I would have nothing valuable to say. I'm also the person that loves

to listen and learn, so I could also uh you know pour things out of my own mouth that are also valuable for others to

hear. And um that's where my substance come from. I was always a big observer. I was very quiet. I was very shy in

class, but that doesn't mean that I was just like a weirdo or just antisocial. I was antisocial, but I was not a weirdo.

I was just really quiet. Um and I was always an observer of my environment. That's how I am. like I'm an observer

which also played into my great discernment about who should who who I should be around who I should hang out

with and things like that. So just being an observer is what really uh you know really ties into my substance as a

person. I learn a lot of things by being able to just shut up and listen and just observe and just take in like that's

where my substance comes from I would say. >> That's amazing. Um I know you're a

believer. You're a Christian. >> Yeah. >> Um a little tell us a little bit about

that. When did you get saved? Did you grow up in a Christian house? What's your relationship like with God? A

little insight into Kayla's world, spiritual world. Um, I grew up in a Christian household.

My grandma would pray to us at night, you know, like take us to church. I would go to church with my mom, my my my

my my dad, mom, grandma, whatever. And um, I'm Christian. I I I have my belief in God. I love God. And I feel like um

at one point in my life I was just doing whatever. Like I would say when I was like a teenager like I just I just like

I probably cursed a lot. I probably just you know was just doing whatever not being the nicest laughing being just

like regular teenagers. Not not knowing what life really is until I turned 17 and I realized okay about to graduate

high school in a year. Um I need to focus on my real life. And that's when I started to think about okay spiritually

um I learned about you know thinking in a positive way like I just really got into my spirituality like abundance like

what I learned what abundance was I learned what uh law of attraction was I learned you know the laws of the

universe I just learned a lot of things that also applies to what I read in the Bible it's like God literally tells us

control your thoughts you know control what you think because your thoughts control your life so these things just

like really started to impact me I started to realize like if I'm going to get somewhere in I need to change the

way that I think. Like I used to be very anxious, very oh my god, stressed out all the time. Like I have my phases

where I still have anxiety, but I really pray about everything um majority of the time. And I have gone through things

where now I'm at the point where anything could happen. I'm just like, "Yeah, God got it." Like I don't even

stress that much anymore. I know that God has it. I've seen, you know, me go through failures in my own business and

I'm like, "Okay, like do I really have faith? If I have faith, I know that this this is this situation is going to

prevail and it's going to work out for me." So yeah, that's where my faith lies.

>> I love that. It's very, very cutesy. Um Um I heard in one of your interview you said that you have like a I don't

think it was a real actually. You were talking about how you have your group of friends and you have the people that

care about you. So you don't really care about anyone else's opinion. Um your friends, would you say that they support

your business and they or they support you? And and does your friends have to

support your business? Because I hear a lot on social media that people say, you know, strangers support me more than my

friends. Has that been true for you? I would say I feel like sometimes like my friends I

don't I have friends but I don't have like close friends, but that's just how my personality is. I don't like to have

people that are too close to me because that comes with a lot of responsibility. Like that's just my personality. Like I

don't like to have everybody's close to me because everybody starts feeling entitled to my time, my my calls and

text. I don't like that. Like I'll talk to you in four months and we talk in four months and you don't be bothered by

that. Like that's how I am, you know? So my friends, they supported me um in the beginning. I would say um I know that I

know I I just I could tell which friends are genuine, which friends aren't genuine, which friends are just making

sure that they show up just in case things do work out. They could be like, "Yeah, I've been supporting you."

There's different tiers of people that you could that you have to pay attention to. But I would say yeah, my friends

supported me. Um, but friends that I met along the way, like people that I like like newly met, um, strangers, uh, they

support you like the hardest. And I I would I'm not even mad at that because we can't expect people, you know, to

just go hard for us. I have friends that went hard for me, but you can't expect everyone to do that. So, yeah,

strangers, they're going to fall in love with your story because they know nothing about you. They have no bias on

you. they're going to they're probably going to love you harder and support you harder than your own friends and and

that's okay, you know. So >> So you feel like you feel like women shouldn't put too much emphasis on

friends supporting what they're doing or agreeing with what they're doing because I do feel like a lot of women we feel

like we need that validation from the girl the girl cubs before we can actually like break out and do

something. But you've managed to create a separation I see from uh your sense of selfworth, your validation, and what

other people think, whether that's friends, family, whoever you you've you've been able to validate yourself.

Yeah, I've been able to validate myself since the beginning because when I started my business, I had friends that

were just being very weird to me and just I've got my my heart broken by friends just went through like a really

a lot of stuff and um it's just a hard situation to even talk on. But I would say that

um you know your friends are going to be here in the beginning and as long as they're in the beginning you know they

might get caught up and they might forget to support you but it's like as long as they show up to what really

matters like that's all that matters you know. Um, and our friends should support us in the beginning. Like if you're

starting a business, right? You don't need your friends validations to start, but their support should be there. Like

they should be commenting on your photos. They should be, you know, shouting you out. They should be, you

know, just supporting in the free ways that they can. You know, that's that's what matters. And I I did have some

friends that did do that um that I I still don't forget to this day. I I love them for that, of course. But yeah, your

friends should be there in the beginning. And as time goes on, like of course I post so much that I realize

like not all my friends, like people got used to my success. They're not going to comment on every single video every

single day. >> And that's okay. >> That's okay. And they'll comment my

birthday post. As long as they say happy birthday, we cool. Now, if you don't say happy birthday, I'm side eye you. But

you know, as long as you show up to what really matters over time, like it's only so much someone could keep up with every

single post, every single thing. Like it's a lot. So as long as they show up to what matters, like that's what you

should just pay attention to, you know? I think that's very wise because I do see a lot of like I don't have

expectations from people, friends, anybody. I know that if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it and whoever likes

it, whoever doesn't like it. But I do feel like a lot of women feel that they need

their >> they need it. They need it from their friends otherwise you're not my friend.

Um so that's actually really like really really good. Um I think I saw on your Tik Tok recently that you made a million

in in investing. >> Yeah. >> Was that totally from you starting

without any help or did you have tutors, teachers? >> Um from Oh, so I reached a million in

investing. That was just money that I was investing for my business, my clothing business. But the knowledge

that I gained to learn how to invest, I did my own research and I also had uh you know people around me that would I

would learn from. But I was I follow people that that inspire me, right? I don't follow people that don't really

inspire me too much unless they're my family like okay we cool we cousins I'll follow you. But majority of the content

that I'm trying to uh you know intake is inspiring things and I I learn from people that are doing better than me. So

somebody that has five million invested I want to hear what they have to say about investing and I study that. I take

it in. Um I make my mistakes along the way, but I still learn. And um that's how I pretty much got there was just

learning from people that are doing better than me in that area. I would say there's a lot of financial people that

are into the stock market that I watch videos on, YouTubes on, and just learn from in that aspect.

I hope you guys feel as inspired as I do right now. I will leave all Kayla's information in the description box

below, but do me a favor. Comment down below what you are taking away from today's interview. What inspired you?

What triggered you? And what are you going to do differently to shift your mindset? Until next time, guys. I'm

Breeny Lee, your mindset mentor.