Amanda Mills Los Angeles

Amanda Mills is a California-based lifestyle blogger, as well as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amanda Mills Los Angeles (AMLA), an online boutique store and digital magazine. In building the Amanda Mills Los Angeles lifestyle brand, Amanda brought together her great passion for travel, fashion, food and life and merged them into the successful lifestyle brand that AMLA is today.   Originally from Dallas, Texas, Amanda Mills grew up on her family’s ranch near Houston. Her early years were shaped by a love of animals and simple country living. During this time, Amanda began experimenting with fashion, working alongside her grandmother to recreate the haute couture fashions that graced the covers of popular fashion magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. Amanda would then model the unique designs her grandmother and her created around the ranch.   As a young adult, Amanda earned a degree in Social Work and Psychology and went on to pursue graduate work in both Psychology and Art History.   While studying Yoga in Los Angeles, Amanda experienced a tragedy that would shake her deeply when her fiancé and love of her life committed suicide.   In an attempt to repurpose her life and heal from her devastating loss, Amanda traveled halfway across the world to Africa. During her time in the country, she traveled extensively and had the fortune of discovering the Ubushobozi Project, a vocational skills training organization dedicated to eradicating poverty and empowering the women of Rwanda.   Feeling reinvigorated and emboldened by her work with the Ubushobozi Project, Amanda returned to Los Angeles and recommitted herself to her yoga studies. She also began working on her lifestyle brand, which focuses on the concepts of conscious commerce and global philanthropy.   Since its inception in 2014, Amanda Mills Los Angeles has become a resource for today’s cosmopolitan woman, and Amanda uses here extensive and diverse background to offer unique fashion inspiration, advice, self-help tips and exclusive content to her large audience of followers.   In an effort to promote global philanthropy and awareness, she has also used her platform and large audience to support a variety of charities and organizations, including The Elton John Aids Foundation, Clint Eastwood Foundation, The Carousel of Hope, the Ubushobozi Project, Gorilla Doctors, The Shining Stars Foundation and The Wounded Warriors Project.   Outside of curating her lifestyle brand, Amanda is a devoted yogi who has completed more than 2,000 registered hours training with some of the most renowned and beloved yoga masters.  

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