We were lucky to catch up with Kay’La Mumford recently and have shared our conversation below.

Kay’La, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Was there an experience or lesson you learned at a previous job that’s benefited your career afterwards?

How to interact with people with a trauma informed approach and be mindful of how I interact with people. Most of the world is healing and most of us do not realize how their approach can be harmful or cause triggers. Being a birth worker truly helped me evolve my communication style and how I interact with people. It helped me learn to provide people space in their own lane to shine and feel safe while maintaining my own. And before I had my own company it taught me how I wanted to treat my employees differently and make them feel important and valuable.

Kay’La, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am a woman of many traits. Most of my work stemmed from the motivation driven from my kids. I am a mother of 3 beautiful children who inspire me to evolve. I became a doula in 2019 after my second birth and from their evolved in birth work as a Doula, Project Director, and now founder of my own non profit where I train other aspiring doulas and have a team servicing SouthEast WI. In 2023 I reunited with my passion for modeling and am on a pursuit to grow my modeling career as well but to inspire people and use my beauty and my words to captivate people to change. My main focus now is my Coaching & consulting business I am launching where I use my visionary, business, & birth goddess skills to help others cultivate the life they want. I use tactics from all of my experiences to inspire the most change in people. By birthing new opportunities and finding the beauty in you. I have already helped clients scale their business to multi-figures, managed other models, and built a great brand around me.

I am a person that dedicates a lot of time into my craft and want to be my own brand. I am an advocate for self discipline and inspire people to change themselves to change the world. I am most proud for my ability to make a way when not even I knew how it was possible and for maintaining determined through the trials of life and going after the vision I seen for myself. I want my fans to know that they can be anything they are willing to work for. That you just have to take the steps and as long as you are putting action into what you want it will come to you in time. I want my fans to know me as a visionary and birth goddess using my innate powers and abilities to ignite a path of opportunity for others.

What sets me apart is that I use my creative energy (birth energy) to conceptualize opportunity for others. My modeling, birth work, coaching, financial consulting and other gifts are all shared with those I inspire to give them the confidence, strength, discipline, determination, roadmap they need to be the person they want to be. I show people the best in them by giving them the best of me and maintaining committed to my dreams. My versatile creativeness allows me to help all sorts of creatives. I also coach artist with my partners org www.twinboyent.com and have managed dance teams and basketball teams as an adolescence www.divinekay.com

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

Everyone is a creative. We all have creative energy. Life is creation within itself so when we think about that we have a better respect for creatives who need to express their creation through their art. Some of us creatives can not tame our creativity to fit into societal norms, such as 9-5 jobs. That is the thing most people’s creativity gets stripped from childhood because we have to join the “real world”. People who are not in a creative industry should understand that because us creatives who live in our creativity have to live in our creativity. We have to express our creativity and find a place to be able to live in it and exist in society. These people need to understand that that creativeness helps us manifest and cultivate our creative visions. Understand that when someone is creative we need to support them in finding a way to utlize their creativity to its fullest potential and in some cases for those who want to live a life & career in their creativity find a way to monetize so they can survive. I’ve experienced people just wanting me to focus on the learned skills because of the guarantee of a salary that was capped far before it reached my potential.

If you are a non creative please take time to remove judgement and evolve those talents of the creatives around you. Allow them to be them and if you help cultivate their creativity you may find your own creative spark!

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Through out my journey it has not been easy. I dealt with toxic relationships including DV. Being a single mother figuring out a way to make it work. In 2021 I resigned from my position as a Project Director for a program I developed under another company. In that moment I said I would work for myself and focus on my craft. It was a tough decision especially since I did not have a clear plan on how I would bring money in. In the last few years I have been thriving on faith and belief and because of that everything manifested. I honestly felt in the last few years I was on autopilot just focused on the outcome despite everything life kept throwing at me. I was homeless several times but told myself I won’t allow nothing to stand in my way this time because I could feel everything I desired so close.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.divinekay.com
• Instagram: @kaylamumford
• Facebook: Kay’La Mumford
• Linkedin: Kay’La Mumford

Image Credits
My Children: Naomi, Anaya, Zaccari Indigenous Group: Oneida Nation On stage: Performing and managing models at Tee Grizzley Concert for Twinboy ent (Models in pic Trinity Kelley and Natasia Cooper) Birthing Family: the Troxell’s