Karla is now a 6 figure Entrepreneur. After 13 years working as a Civil Engineer, she retired from her day job and decided to spend more time with her family and dedicate herself to her side gigs turned profitable businesses.
Karla is a mother of two children, Tatum and Gunnar, and married to her husband Mike for 16 years.
Originally from Lima, Peru, Karla put her roots in Arizona in2006. She came with 500 dollars in her pocket and a luggage full of dreams.
In 2010, she started to day trade during her free time and she also started to invest in real estate and as a private investor in startup companies.
In 2017, Karla and her husband opened a nursery decor business, The Polymath Mom. It started as a hobby but it quickly turned into a successful business. She started painting nursery signs to clear her head from work and escape the stress of day trading. With the music up, she would paint for hours late into the night. Today, The Polymath Mom shop has over 200,000 followers on Instagram.
Little after opening her home décor business. She decided to turn her private Instagram account into a lifestyle, family, and travel page. She now is a full-time content creator and has also founded a marketing company with her husband and provides services to businesses and other content creators.
Karla has over 300,000 followers on Instagram and over 400,000 followers on TikTok. She loves coaching and helping people become financially free. She shares her day trading tips on her stories and she also provides one on one coaching to businesses and influencers.
She mentions she had a hard time sharing a lot of her private life but then she soon realized so many moms and people need help and positivity so she got out of her comfort zone and decided to share her knowledge with others. Karla talks a lot about her struggles as an entrepreneur and being a full-time mother.
Her life-changing moment was one day when she was taking her kids to school and she almost falls asleep and crashed. She has dealt with insomnia since college and she would get little sleep due to all of her side gigs. So when that happened, she knew it was time to quit her job as a civil engineer and be more present for her kids.
Her family is so much happier now that she is more around and she has so much flexibility and can work from home and spend more time with her loved ones.
Karla has worked with a variety of brands, from clothes, beauty products to resorts. She loves the variety and different projects she gets with her job as a content creator.
Karla is currently partnering with a friend to expand her business and offer other products on her website. She is working on a ‘mommy and me’ apparel collection and helping small businesses by giving them exposure to their products on her platform.
Karla’s advice for success is to be disciplined and be consistent. She says she doesn’t watch TV except when she is looking for news on the stock market. She doesn’t take no for an answer and when a door closes you find or make another door or window.
Karla’s ultimate dream is to open a non-profit organization to help kids struggling from poverty or distressed homes and ultimately help families in her native Peru just like her parents did as she grew up.
Polymath Mom LLC
Website: www.thepolymathmom.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/polymathmom