Author:Maura BranniganUpdated:Dec 5, 2019Original:Dec 5, 2019The model-multihyphenate has never been so ubiquitous — nor so multihyphenated, for that matter — as it is today, in this decade's one final exhale. A career like that of Karlie Kloss, with her free coding camp and scholarship program for young women, Kode With Klossy, is fast becoming the rule and not the exception.
WAYE, or Weekly Advice for Young Entrepreneurs, started from the knowledge that up to 800 million jobs will be replaced by technology as soon as 2030, a short decade away.
"We didn't even read magazines in my house because my mom didn't let us until we were about 17 or 18, so by then I had missed the boat," she says. "As I was scouted, I was finishing up my second year of my masters and sneaking out to photo shoots during exam time, building this secondary identity I was very confused about, as well."
So Bovell quit the dream job and leaned into modeling full-time, banking on the fact that she'd make a more natural return to her business roots eventually. Unsurprisingly, it hit her sooner than later: Why not interweave all the fibers of her professional life into one master thread that could be as fulfilling for others as it could be for herself?
In 2017, Bovell founded WAYE Talks, a practical and constructive speaker series in which technological experts discuss the digital changes already happening in our world and how they will affect us in the future. It boils down to one question: "What should we know and do today, in our personal and professional lives, to better prepare us for tomorrow?" Bovell believes that her background, her experience and her story helps answer that in a way others can't.
"I hope that I can inspire and encourage people of all backgrounds, of all mindsets, of all demographics to want to learn about something that's going to impact us all so greatly in the future," she says. "So the more I can continue talking about it and encouraging more people to come to the conversation, the better."
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