She also ditched her on-again-off-again partner for good - after deciding her family was better off without him.
At age 33, Kiani Mills is now a serial entrepreneur, speaker and a leading figure in the property industry in Australia.Not only is Kiani building her own but also helping others, through the property, to build theirs. KLM Conveyancing transitioned into Imperiale in 2022, with ‘Imperiale’ being the feminine translation of the word ‘empire’.Kiani asked for a $1600 loan from her grandmother to pay for her conveyancing license, bought a $100 printer and started KLM Conveyancing from home, where her clients signed documents on her kitchen bench.She returned to work only to be informed she no longer had a job.Kiani discovered she was pregnant again with her daughter Summer, who was later diagnosed with ADHD and autism. While her career was skyrocketing, her personal life was imploding.At this time, she was working full-time as a Paralegal and supporting her unemployed boyfriend who was now on parole. At 23, Kiani discovered she was pregnant with her first child Koby.At 22, she met the man who would become the father of her children, later discovering he was a drug dealer who would be arrested in front of her and serve time in prison.She commuted every day from Frankston, eating sausage rolls from 7/11 on the train, as that was all she could afford. After leaving school to pursue a career in law, Kiani landed a job as a Legal Trainee earning $14,000/year.She left the family home at 16 to live with her boyfriend, working a part-time job at Big W to pay the rent.In grade 8, at age 14, Kiani had her drink spiked and was raped at a party.She was focused on working to make rent and saw school as a social pastime rather than a serious space for learning. In the years which followed she was stalked, bullied, harassed, made to feel worthless and was often 'completely penniless'.īy age 16, Kiani was failing all of her classes except legal studies and had moved out of home to live with her boyfriend.
Today she has owns a thriving conveyancing firm, has stakes in a law firm and part ownership of an advocacy group.īut as a teenager Kiani was trapped in a cycle of despair which began the night she was drugged and raped at a party when she was 14.
Her plan for a new beginning started with a $1,600 cheque from her grandmother, a passion for law and a $100 printer.
She told FEMAIL she couldn't wait to 'get out' of the area and had her eye on a glamorous life in the city. Kiani Mills, 35, was born and bred in Frankston, a working class suburb in Melbourne's south-east. Kiani Mills, 35, has revealed how she fought her way out of povertyĪ single mum-of-two has revealed how she clawed her way out of a life of poverty and ditched the 'toxic', drug-dealing father of her children to build a multi-million dollar conveyancing company.