{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fashion Designers Get Paid: Build Your Fashion Career On Your Own Terms","title":"SFD081 When Your Parents Don't Support Your Fashion Design Dream","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5244,"description":"Kayla’s fashion career journey has been an uphill battle. First, her parents didn’t support a “artsy” degree. Not that uncommon. But then? During her senior year of highschool, her dad became incarcerated. There was no money to pay for her college education. She explored alternate, more “practical”, career paths like accounting and biology, but they bored her. So she took a chance on a creative career and enrolled in a liberal arts state school because FIT was too expensive. Her journey is long and trying. It involves many failures and countless rejection. Pretty much NOTHING has gone her way. But now? 3 years after college graduation? She works in Manhattan as a fashion CAD designer. How’d she finally get her big break? Learning the skills brands needed that she didn’t have (like Illustrator). Doing an exceptional job and being a good worker. And showing confidence...even when she didn’t feel confident. Kayla’s story is inspiring and motivating. She proves that ANYONE can make it in this brutal industry...no matter your financial situation, your family situation, or how many times you hear no. In the interview (which you'll love) we will cover: The day-to-day responsibilities Kayla has as a CAD designer What Kayla’s #1 software choice is How Kayla finally decided to go to school for fashion...and how she decided which school to attend How she earned the opportunity to continue with her internship and secured a job after graduation How her parents felt about her first job offer right out of school What she did after she was laid off...the first time How she took initiative to learn what she needed to outside of school How Kayla kept at it day after day to roll with the punches and keep going after her DREAM SHE ALWAYS KNEW Kayla grew up doing a lot of art. Even when she was young she would draw and sketch clothes on models! Without really knowing what a fashion designer was when she was little, she would swipe clothes out of the donation and trash in her house...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aKuVxL8JmweBENlQ3ijRBkKP2y4MyoOXJoGtd_pgZ84/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MDEx/Y2M3YzBjYTI4NTM4/ZWNjY2QzNDUyZTY5/N2VhYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}