262. Kaylor Martin: From college graduation to Love Island, BTS of landing on reality TV, broke college kid mentality & the need to be busy
Trading Secrets
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5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Kaylor became a fan favorite during season six of Love Island where her humor, authenticity, and confidence caught national attention. Since leaving the villa, she turned that spotlight into a career, growing her platform, collaborating with some of the biggest brands in the country, and building a personal brand that is going well beyond TV.
Kaylor dives into the many different ways she was making an income before Love Island — from juggling six college classes and three jobs to tutoring on the side. She shares how she graduated college and flew to Fiji just a week later, what the application process for Love Island was really like, and why she decided to be bold and a little vulgar in her questionnaire. Kaylor opens up about her expectations going into the show versus what actually happened, her relationship with money, and why she still holds onto the broke college student mentality. She talks about spending the last of her money on Shein outfits for the show, how she hopes to use her platform moving forward, and whether she’d consider going back to school.
Kaylor also breaks down the value she sees in education, how she defines her brand, and why she’s sticking with content creation. She takes listeners behind the scenes of Love Island — including how she got some secret intel — reveals how much her first brand deal paid, and shares why she loves staying constantly busy. Plus, Kaylor opens up about filming Beyond the Villa during a dark time in her life, the other reality shows she’d consider joining, why she likes LTK and Amazon Storefront, and what her plans are for the future.
Kaylor reveals all this and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Kaylor Martin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. Today we are joined by Love Island USA |
| 0:19.7 | Standout and Rising Lif lifestyle creator Kayla Martin. |
| 0:24.2 | Kayla became a fan favorite during season six of Love Island where her humor, authenticity, |
| 0:29.0 | and confidence caught national attention. |
| 0:32.0 | But since leaving the villa, she turned that spotlight into a career, growing her platform, |
| 0:36.9 | collaborating with some of the biggest |
| 0:38.3 | brands in the country, and building a personal brand that is going well beyond TV. |
| 0:43.3 | Today, we're going to break down the business of reality television. |
| 0:46.3 | What really happens after the camera stopped rolling and how someone like Kayla is turning |
| 0:51.3 | opportunity into entrepreneurship? |
| 0:53.3 | Kayla, thank you so much for being on Trading Secrets. Thanks for having me. It's been a long time coming. I feel like we were supposed to do this like a while ago. A while. I know, but you are. You got a million things going. I feel like last time we saw each other was Art Basel Celsius. We were playing in that Padell tournament. Can you believe that was almost a year ago? No. And honestly, like it feels like it's like five years ago. Yeah. It's crazy. I say there's like |
| 1:16.4 | real time and then there's like this like post reality TV social media time and one year to me |
| 1:22.4 | feels like 10 lifetimes. Do you feel the same? There's so much going on. Yeah. Like so many events, so many, I mean, like great opportunities, but it's like just a lot. |
| 1:32.3 | And you kind of lose track of time. It's crazy. |
| 1:35.0 | And for you, when exactly was it that you started filming? |
| 1:37.7 | Was it like early 2024? |
| 1:40.6 | Oh, God. |
| 1:41.5 | Like, how long ago did you start filming? |
| 1:43.5 | We started, I think I remember being flown out to Fiji on May 13th, 2024. |
| 1:52.5 | I literally could have just botched that, honestly. |
| 1:54.7 | I think like early to mid-May we got flown out, but then you go into like quarantine for like three weeks. And then |
| 2:02.5 | we really started filming on June 7th, I believe, of 2024. So this for you has all happened, |
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