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“It’s a miracle I’m alive today to be honest with you.”
Kenzie Taylor remembers scouting the products at every adult shop within a three-hour radius of LA before launching her company in February.
The enterprising star selected turquoise for her signature Feelz lubricant bottle with her logo appearing in white font—a color combo she knew would stand out.
“I just wanted to do something that was different,” Taylor says. “And then I chose the name because I wanted to have something very short, sweet and easy to remember.
“And something that I can use as a brand so I can do other things than just the lube.”
Not unlike her approach to everything else, Taylor doesn’t want to limit her start-up to only the realm of sexual wellness.
“That is my biggest thing,” Kenzie tells AVN. “I never in my entire life wanted to be in a box. “I always want to be outside of the box and go to the moon.”
She’s on her way.
The former licensed practical nurse in the past eight years went from hitting “bottom” to
becoming an AVN Award-winning performer, producer, director, touring feature dancer and podcast host.
And now the Michigan native is an entrepreneur who is poised to release more Feelz by Kenzie Taylor products as she builds her lifestyle brand into something she never would have imagined creating on her Day 1 in March 2015.
“That’s all thanks to being in this industry,” Taylor says. “Being a performer is where it all started. It’s opened so many doors for me. It’s insane how many different things I do now.”
It’s just past 11 a.m. on the third Monday of August and Taylor already has completed a business meeting in San Diego, where she discussed a potential international deal for Feelz, and drove back to LA in time for brunch.
Later in the day she’ll head to a studio in Hollywood to record a new podcast for “The Sauce”—which she now co-hosts with her best friend, Sarah Taylor.
Kenzie debuted “The Sauce” in 2022 but tells AVN she has rebranded with a new logo that reflects her partnership with Sarah Taylor—no relation—who is in her second year in adult.
“I love it,” Kenzie says. “I’m a very extraverted person and I love talking to people and giving others a platform to be heard, whether that be to have fun or to talk about more serious things like mental health.
“So really it started out as a passion project and now it’s growing.”
Taylor, who at press time had more than a million followers on Instagram and 600-something credits for every major studio in adult, enjoyed her first performing breakthrough less than a year into her career in 2016, when she signed a scene contract with ArchAngel Video.
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