Krissy Cela Built a Global Activewear Brand to Empower Women Worldwide

Cela says customers will notice the difference especially in the collection’s leggings, which features a mid-rise waistband that sits lower than the Effortless leggings’. “The EnhanceLift leggings also have higher build lines, which enables the legging to really contour the body,” she explains. “The fabric itself is made up of a detailed knit structure, which, again, is designed to sit really closely on the skin and show off that amazing physique. You’ve put the work in, and we want to show it off!”

For Cela, balancing Oner Active along with her other ventures—including her schools initiative Project Power and the fitness app Evolve You—as well as being a mom to her son, Arlo, can be challenging. But she can’t imagine herself doing anything else. For our latest installment of Doing the Work, we caught up with Krissy to talk about it all.

Glamour: What is your typical morning routine? What time do you start the day?

Krissy Cela: I get up at five in the morning, and then I jump on my first call at 5:30 a.m. Because my time is split between LA and London, I have all my UK meetings in the morning. I get a coffee, some water, and then I get straight into my meetings until about 11:30.

What is your most comfortable work outfit or piece?

If I could live in one set from Oner Active, and you can bury me in this, it would be the straight-leg pants from Soft Motion. My God. I don’t what we did, but we did something with that. I could live in those pants forever. The Soft Motion scoop bra too. And then, I would throw in a zip-up hoodie from Oner. That is my uniform that I could wear over and over again.

So, you are a mom–

Mommy.

Mamacita! [Laughs] What’s the best parenting advice that you would give a new mom?

Don’t stop your life because you think that will make you a better mom. Your kid needs to grow up, see you still achieve the things that you want to achieve, because then they will be more inspired to achieve the things they want to achieve.

I feel like moms often think that if I spend more time with my kid, if I’m more present in their life, then I will have less mom guilt. Mom guilt is going to chase you whether you do more or less. That’s the reality of it. So I think you have to continue leading your own life, having your own aspirations and your own dreams, because you don’t want your kid growing up in a household where they saw their mom give up everything for one person, whether it was their person or not. It’s not the precedent I want to set for my son.

How do you typically deal with rejection in your field?

Oh my God, it’s the biggest blessing. If you reject me, number one, it was never meant to happen. It was never meant to be part of my overarching journey. I think being rejected by someone, by a brand, means that it’s only going to open up a much bigger door that’s way more aligned with your vision and mission and what you’re doing.