LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For practically a decade, Ayumi Moore served within the military. Now, she traded her fight boots for content material creation, and she or he’s utilizing her social media to make a distinction for individuals who stood in her footwear.
Moore comes from an extended line of army service which included everybody apart from her mom. Following her eight years of service, she discovered one other calling on the planet of social media.
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“I tried TikTok, and that’s kind of when I blew up overnight,” Moore defined. “That’s when my career started as a social media influencer full-time.”
Throughout all her platforms, she has 1 million followers. She’s utilizing her attain as a pressure for good by spreading consciousness of veteran assets to assist her brothers and sisters in uniform.
“They reached out to me and said, ‘Hey, can you collaborate with us and spread awareness about Veterans’ Day? Great Clips will be giving out free haircuts for veterans,” she gave for instance.
One other veteran group she helped is the Simple Day Basis, which goals to assist veterans transition again into civilian life. The group affords a wide range of assets, like its Heroes Employed program in partnership with UNLV, which affords fits and interview preparation to assist veterans get jobs.
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“I’ve spoken personally with veterans that we’ve helped, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan 20 years ago, to people that are my age or younger. And we’re trying to expand our reach more and more,” stated co-founder Frank Fertitta IV. “At the AMAs, we invited influencers, a lot of them being veteran influencers, to share stories and posts.”
A kind of influencers in attendance was Moore, who helped unfold the group’s mission.
“It was so much fun. I was able to talk about their resources. They posted it on their page, I posted it on mine,” she stated.
Moore calls the chance to assist different veterans via her platform “amazing.”
“People don’t understand what families go through. I think it’s great just to give people another perspective,” she stated.
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Moore additionally stated she enjoys breaking stereotypes relating to army members.
“There’s a lot of times where I might come to a veteran event, and they’re like, ‘Where’s your spouse?’ I’m like, ‘Nope, I’m the veteran,’” Moore said. “You could be girly! You could be a diesel mechanic and put on mascara.”
