Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Kayla Ashton was always drawn into fashion as an escape, an outlet for personal self-expression. Kayla started her career at 16 years old by walking on runway shows. But it wasn’t until after finishing high school at 18 years old that she made the ultimate decision to pursue fashion as a career. One of her first accomplishments, and a sign of her calling for modeling, was when Kayla went viral in the car industry. After that, her career started to expand, allowing her to appear in several music videos, magazine covers, and fashion catalogs—making her wildest dreams come true!
Even though Kayla has always dreamed of modeling, the proof that she is a well-rounded and fierce woman comes from her other passions and experiences outside the entertainment industry.
At the start of her modeling career, Kayla was also a funeral director– a profession that is typically seen as taboo. Kayla’s main calling for this was her vulnerability– her main purpose was to help and protect people, especially when they were going through such a difficult time. We, as a society, are always rushing into what’s going to happen the next day and the day after. But what really happens when we lose someone, and suddenly there’s nobody to guide us? Kayla expressed that even though that was a path she took, it wasn’t actually very linear with what she was aiming to do with her future career. She is proof that anything you do in life has the power to affect you. Kayla felt that after all of the advances and growth in her career, her main purpose was to help people.
Due to her experience and heart for this industry, Kayla is now the founder of a network called PassingOn, where she works with her brother to help and protect people who have lost their loved ones from being taken advantage of financially or personally.
Kayla is very much an entrepreneurial spirit; drawn from the passion she has always had and from her life experiences. Even though Kayla’s life may seem glamorous and stable, she has had to fight with a daily struggle: social standards. As a woman, she is always told how her life should look by a certain point on the timeline. But when you ask her about the main reason for her success, she responds with “I don’t follow what other people dictate my life should be.” Kayla has always been focused on her dreams and what she wanted to do. When you ask her what is your main purpose in life, Kayla’s answer is “being happy.” She’s discovered that when she puts her happiness first before other people’s wishes and noises, life will get her right where she’s destined to go.
Being a fierce and powerful woman nowadays can be intimidating and exciting at the same time. That’s why when Kayla thinks of a role model for her career, she says none other than Paris Hilton. Paris, as we know, is established as an early 2000’s icon; she was the elite representation of what it meant to be that fashionable girl everybody wanted to be. But the main reason why Kayla sees Paris as an influencer in her life is how Paris has built her empire and demonstrated how girls could do both. She proved that girls can be feminine and still be a businesswoman with priorities and not sticking to the status quo. Having icons like that have helped her see that her dreams are possible– even though people have a preconceived opinion about her, she still has so much more to offer.
Kayla proves that she is on her own “girl boss” path. She is an ambassador for the e-commerce team WeDoEcom4U, which helps people create their own income. Kayla is so glad to be part of a business company with a platform that allows her to learn and grow every day and do what she loves the most: help people!
As Kayla is an unstoppable woman, she is also working as the VP of Honey Drip Agency, in which she scouts girls who need a platform where they won’t be shamed and they can express their most genuine selves.
“It is so important to me and an honor to be… able to help thousands of girls to build their own platform,” Kayla said.
Kayla Ashton, a powerful, hardworking, vulnerable woman driven by her happiness, is looking forward to the future, as she hopes to eventually move to the calm and spiritual province of Bali. As Kayla makes meditating and connecting with nature a priority in order to balance her life, she’s figured that with a job that allows her to travel, she may as well move to the place she’s always dreamed of!
She is a woman driven by her aspiration to help others. Hey, world, look out for Kayla Ashton because there is no one who can stop her!
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