Meet Kayla Moran

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kayla Moran. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kayla below.

Kayla, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
While I do think its forged through the fire we call life, I’ve always just had it. From a young age I knew what I wanted and went for it. I think part of it is that I listen to my gut and my body, I know when something doesn’t feel right but I’m also not afraid to go for it. I go all in if I’m passionate about something or I know it has a purpose in my life. I honed my resilience when I started being a lot more intentional about how I approach life and what I put time and energy into. We’re not always gonna get it right on the first or 10th try but if we believe in what we’re pursuing and ourselves, it happens when its meant to, you just gotta trust in that and keep working towards your goals.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am a trademark and contract attorney for creators and entrepreneurs in the creator economy. When I originally set out to go to law school, my goal was to be in-house counsel for a lifestyle company or do real estate and corporate work but during law school I realized I can make a career in the creator economy too.

I went to the University of Central Florida and as a junior in 2018, I started a blog chronicling my study abroad experience and the law school application process. At the University of Tennessee College of Law is where I really learned who I was and the power of following my intuition. Blogging was my outlet as I navigated the post college growing pains and a full-time course load. I shared everything from fashion to productivity tips and candid reflections on my law school experience and mental health, and brands began to take notice. It was when I started reviewing contracts for my own deals that I had the crazy idea to find a way to combine my passion for social media and legal training and to turn that into a career post grad.

As my community grew, I networked with attorneys who seemed to have the same crazy idea, so when I joined UT Law’s Transactional Law clinic, I was excited to get first-hand experience in IP law and start crafting a business plan. By graduation in 2022, I had been working part time as an influencer manager to get practical experience in the industry and I networked like a madwoman to seek mentorship and grow my online platforms to build a client base and be in the reach of the creators who could use my services.

I would have never considered entrepreneurship had I not become an influencer while in law school. After graduating, I moved back to Miami and took the Florida Bar. It was while waiting for Bar exam results, as I was still looking for a firm that would allow me to focus on IP and contract law that I had an inkling that going out on my own would give my the ability to practice the law I was most interested in. With the help of my family, mentors and professors who encouraged me along the way, I now have my own businesses: a law firm and an influencer management company, with the original clients from my time as a manager the year prior. Thanks to the community and platforms I built over the years, I was able to pursue being an entrepreneur full time within a year. Now I get to help influencers promote brands they believe in as a lawyer and entrepreneurs legally protect the brands they have built.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Networking! Being unafraid to ask someone you look up to for virtual coffee or slide into their DMs so you can learn how they got where they are and use all the info you learn to build your own roadmap. Ask for help too, they want to see you succeed and will do what they can to support you.

Curiosity. I was open to the change social media had on the way we market and how the legal industry can be a part of it. I wrote a paper in law school about that intersection and had it published, I want to be a pioneer in the space so I learned what I could and started seeking out people who could teach me more. Always be open to new ideas and perspectives and where they can take you!

Being self aware and having an open mindset. 2 for 1 really but you need both. Like curiosity, I am very open to whatever comes my way and I give it a chance 9 times out of 10. You just never know where an opportunity will lead and as the world gets smaller and more interconnected, you’re probably only 4 degrees away from some powerful people so having that willingness to reach out, learn and try new things is essential. Just start and ride the rollercoaster to see where your career takes you, its hard now to be dead set on one job or industry because they’re all evolving and the more you try, the more you probably will discover a white space. And being self aware enough to know when maybe its time to incubate your ideas or try something new, pivot etc too. It won’t always work and you have to know when enough is enough but you learn really valuable lessons to take to the next venture so its never a waste.

What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?
My mindset and being more go with the flow. I’ve always known what I wanted and had a vision for my life but as an entrepreneur I had to learn that life and business don’t always go according to plan so you have to pivot a lot and try again often. It’s made me do a lot of reflecting on the values I held close and the people in my life. I’ve reevaluated a lot of priorities and approaches in my personal life that I see the benefits of tenfold in my professional life too.

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