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“For me it doesn’t matter the pay, it’s am I excited to be creating
this project or not?”
“But I need to start talking,” Kait adds. “I need to show people who I am and what I’m about and other things that I’m passionate about.”
Before adult, Kait’s passion for weightlifting and fitness took her places—such as several bodybuilding competitions in 2016 in Texas.
She studied finance for one year in college, competing in bodybuilding as a hobby while working full time for a high-end luxury hotel chain. Kait started out as a server in the restaurant and then later transferred into sales & marketing, where she sold hotel rooms and did group sales.
“So I was going to the gym regularly and I became part of a group. We were called Lifted and it was like 17 people that were at this gym,” Kait recalls. “We would all hang out and do different things and some of the guys were bodybuilders and some of the girls were doing competitions and that’s how I got introduced to bodybuilding.
“It was so cool to have that group of friends. There’s nothing like that these days. It was just people from everywhere, too. We would actually go to some competitions together just to watch. And somewhere around those months I met my coach and started prepping and doing competitions.
“And then I was still going to college and basically juggling all three things—prepping for competitions and working.”
But by the end of her first year of college, she felt bored with her finance major and wanted something more.
“My mom’s a director of revenue for hospitality companies for a long, long time and I was kind of following in her footsteps,” Kait says. “And I’m like this isn’t me, I’m obviously passionate about fitness.
“And it makes me so excited that I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and go to the gym and make it back to the gym after college and work that day for a second time.”
By May 2017, Kait decided she was moving to California, making a deal with her dad to sleep on his couch in Long Beach until she could get her own place.
“Because I was still 19 and I didn’t have a lot of money,” Kait says. “And he thankfully said that I could do that as long as follow all these rules. So I felt like a kid again and for me, I’m such an independent person. It was a struggle for me but I knew what I wanted to do. So I drove my little Corolla from Texas to Long Beach, all in one day, all by myself—in 2017. I was very determined. I was like, I’m getting here.
“And I lived with my dad for the summer and then I was also having to pay him rent, so he was very strict. My parents were always really good at never giving me anything. They always made me pay for my own car and stuff like that. So I was paying him rent to sleep on his couch. And I was able to transfer jobs, so I had my job here, thankfully.
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