Karlie Kloss: Why young women should learn to code

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

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Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This is a rebroadcast of Ep. 100. This episode was first released on Nov. 12, 2018. Supermodel Karlie Kloss was discovered when she was only 13 years old and since then has become one of the most recognizable faces in the world. From walking the runways for top designers to modeling in international campaigns to appearing on the cover of countless magazines, Karlie has developed a platform that extends across the globe. Off the runway Karlie is passionate about STEM, she began taking coding classes a few years ago and found it so rewarding she decided to create Kode With Klossy - a nonprofit program offering free summer coding camps for teenage girls. What started out as a one-time scholarship has turned into 50 coding camps in 25 cities across the country, in less than 4 years. On this episode, Karlie opens up about her modeling career, creating Kode With Klossy and why it's important to teach girls how to code; plus she talks Project Runway and what’s next for her personal life and career. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneurs of the Week: Leandres Christopher and Ambra Jordan, Co-Founders of Knot-ed Find out more: https://www.knot-ed.com/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	Everybody expected me to be one thing,
0:05.0	like to be on the catwalk store in magazines
0:09.0	and don't kind of steer out of your lane.
0:12.0	And I'm really glad that I didn't let it derail me.
0:15.0	I have had the most bizarre, an amazing, thrilling decade.
0:21.8	And I just feel so grateful, and I don't know if it's the Midwest thing that, like, when
0:27.1	I go home, I'm like, wow.
0:29.4	Like, I feel like a Cinderella story.
0:32.0	I really do.
0:34.0	From ABC, it's no limits.
0:37.0	I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game,
0:44.4	trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there in all the tradeoffs.
0:50.6	Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.
0:57.4	On today's episode, how supermodel Carly Klaus has turned her love of science, technology, engineering, and math into a platform to empower young women.
1:07.3	About four years ago, she created Code with Klausi.
1:10.8	It's a program offering free summer
1:12.6	coding camps for teenage girls. And what started out as a one-time scholarship turned into
1:18.2	50 camps in 25 cities across the country. What I love about this St. Louis native and her story
1:24.0	is that she has walked runways all over the world, been on covers of countless magazines, including Vogue.
1:30.4	But she's never let anyone put her in a box.
1:33.5	She's a supermodel, a coder, a content creator through her popular YouTube channel, Clossie, an investor in startups like a way.
1:41.6	She's just 26 years old, and she's a new host of Project Runway. I caught up with her
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