Speaker 1: Welcome to a bonus episode of Big Business, and a.
Speaker 2: Very special one at that.
Speaker 1: I am going to be chatting about, which I'm sure
Speaker 1: you have seen if you follow me on socials, my book,
Speaker 1: which is out now for pre order. It's called Just
Speaker 1: Getting Started. You can order it exclusively on book Topia.
Speaker 1: Producer x will be leaving a link in the show
Speaker 1: notes for you.
Speaker 3: You've never called me that before. That was really hot.
Speaker 2: Well that's what you've been calling yourself.
Speaker 3: You've never heard you say it.
Speaker 1: I was like Tingles, and I have actually three copies
Speaker 1: of the book here with me in the studio today.
Speaker 2: I've shown Xander. He felt. He goes, oh, it's so hard.
Speaker 3: How is this podcast?
Speaker 1: It's a hard cover, it feels nice. Oh that's what
Speaker 1: you said. She's thick, she's the And I thought maybe
Speaker 1: I could read a bit of the book.
Speaker 4: I want to hear it because I flicked through it
Speaker 4: because that's the only time I've had to have a
Speaker 4: little squeeze.
Speaker 3: But I haven't read anything yet.
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know if I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: be reading out my book on the pod.
Speaker 2: But we're just breaking the rules today.
Speaker 3: Here in a big business. We don't play by the rules.
Speaker 2: No, we break them. People have been asking, am I
Speaker 2: going to do an audio book?
Speaker 1: And we've had some conversations about that, and hopefully we're
Speaker 1: going to make it happen. But as far as I'm aware,
Speaker 1: recording an audiobook is a massive job. Yeah, it's reading
Speaker 1: a whole book out loud perfectly.
Speaker 3: Do you want to pay me to do it? I'll
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can be you. You can do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, we are looking into doing that, but
Speaker 1: for now we just have the hard cover copy.
Speaker 2: Like, you can hear it. Listen, let's do asmr Oh.
Speaker 3: That actually sounds so yummy, does it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'll be able to hear the pages.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do it when you like, flick them all the way.
Speaker 4: Oh, it sounds that sounds like a zipper.
Speaker 3: We are getting hot and business today.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well at the end of the book.
Speaker 1: So I've been writing this book for two years, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's how long it's taken, and probably the
Speaker 1: first year was me getting it like complete, and then
Speaker 1: the next year after that. So the last twelve months
Speaker 1: I've been going back and adding things to the book.
Speaker 2: I've also been.
Speaker 1: Changing things because it's so funny if you start writing
Speaker 1: something now, in two years, you'll feel different about the
Speaker 1: things that you said. And so I'll read you a
Speaker 1: little bit now from the back of the book. And
Speaker 1: it's a letter to my younger self. And by the way,
Speaker 1: just if you want to do something that feels really therapeutic,
Speaker 1: write your younger self a letter. Because I found this
Speaker 1: really like enjoyable to write thinking that my younger self
Speaker 1: is going to read it.
Speaker 2: So let's let's do it. I'm going to read it.
Speaker 3: I am waiting on bettered breath. Is that how you
Speaker 3: say that? Is that the right? See you?
Speaker 1: I think so I'll google that while you read yeap,
Speaker 1: Dear younger Brittany. Oh, I've got to get on my
Speaker 1: book reader voice. Okay, not my like Bogan podcast voice.
Speaker 1: Dear younger Brittany. Right now, you're probably sitting in your
Speaker 1: tiny bedroom with your silver metal swirly love heart bed frame.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck, see how hard this is if I'm actually
Speaker 1: going to record, like imagine stuffing up and trying to
Speaker 1: read the whole book anyway. Look, this is just the
Speaker 1: uncut version and zebra print covers. Daydreaming about what the
Speaker 1: future might hold, you're living out of home for the
Speaker 1: first time because you had a huge falling out with
Speaker 1: your mum, which unfortunately isn't the first one, and to
Speaker 1: give you a heads up, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: the last one.
Speaker 2: Either, Tear.
Speaker 1: You've got a casual job working in the restaurant of
Speaker 1: a hotel in Newcastle, and you're working almost every night
Speaker 1: of the week, sometimes even eleven shifts in a row,
Speaker 1: and you absolutely hate it, but you love the people
Speaker 1: you work with and you really love the Sunday rates.
Speaker 1: You've not long started your YouTube channel and have discovered
Speaker 1: that you love makeup. Your makeup collection consists of Bys
Speaker 1: products you picked up from Kmart and you've made a
Speaker 1: few really bad makeup tutorials using them. You've dropped out
Speaker 1: of school and experience being bullied for your little videos
Speaker 1: you've been making, but you've persisted and kept making them anyway,
Speaker 1: which is actually going to be the thing that changes.
Speaker 2: Your entire life. You just don't know it yet.
Speaker 1: You've been through a lot emotionally by this point in
Speaker 1: your life and have been neglected by both of your parents.
Speaker 1: It's been a few years since your dad walked out
Speaker 1: and right now you're still in the phase of being
Speaker 1: super angry at not only him but the world. You're
Speaker 1: mainly upset by all of the milestones he missed. Teaching
Speaker 1: you how to drive, your school formal, getting your first boyfriend,
Speaker 1: and leaving school to head into the workforce. Those are
Speaker 1: the things that upset you the most. And you stood
Speaker 1: there in the park at your year ten formal getting
Speaker 1: photos and you kept looking around one if he would
Speaker 1: surprise you and show up.
Speaker 2: He never did, and it broke your heart.
Speaker 1: And I know how angry you are now and how
Speaker 1: angry you've been for years, but trust me, you'll get
Speaker 1: over it very soon.
Speaker 2: Your relationship with your mum has been on.
Speaker 1: And off for the last few years too, with lots
Speaker 1: of periods of no contact, and you'll eventually learn later
Speaker 1: in life that sometimes you just have to let them.
Speaker 1: Because of the way your parents have been throughout your
Speaker 1: whole life and especially in your teens, you've learned to
Speaker 1: become extremely independent at such a young age, and little
Speaker 1: do you know that the neglect you've dealt with is
Speaker 1: going to one day end up being your superpower. You're
Speaker 1: staring at the walls of your tiny world, wondering if
Speaker 1: you'll ever feel like you're someone. I know you think
Speaker 1: success is something reserved for other people, the people who
Speaker 1: come from money, who go to UNI, who have supportive parents,
Speaker 1: who are there to cheer you on, who seem like
Speaker 1: they have it all together.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: That dream you have in your chest, the one you're
Speaker 1: almost too scared to say out loud, it's not silly.
Speaker 2: It's the start of everything.
Speaker 1: I know right now that your goal is to score
Speaker 1: yourself a job where you can earn one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 2: How good would it be to earn fifty k a year.
Speaker 1: You think about this often and it seems so out
Speaker 1: of reach, and you feel like you'll never get there.
Speaker 2: But trust me, you will.
Speaker 1: I wish I could sit across from you, take your
Speaker 1: hand and tell you to trust yourself, because the version
Speaker 1: of you writing this letter, she has lived the life
Speaker 1: you're too scared to even imagine right now. And let
Speaker 1: me just say, Britt, You're going to surprise yourself. I
Speaker 1: know you feel a little lost right now. You're seventeen,
Speaker 1: maybe eighteen, You're just trying to get through each day,
Speaker 1: job to job, paycheck to paycheck. You are going to
Speaker 1: have zero dollars in your bank account every week, and
Speaker 1: you're learning how to pay for your life expenses such
Speaker 1: as rent and bills, all on your own. You have
Speaker 1: no one to guide you. But doing this all on
Speaker 1: your own is going to pay off in the future.
Speaker 1: You've had so many different bosses already and you're not
Speaker 1: even twenty. So many uniforms and annoyingly, so many different
Speaker 1: super accounts, which, by the way, you still haven't sought
Speaker 1: it out at the.
Speaker 2: Age of thirty one. Fuck now I need to do that.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things.
Speaker 3: I think all the money's depleted, babes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's gone.
Speaker 1: You think that maybe this is just what life is,
Speaker 1: clock in, clock out, wait for the next day off.
Speaker 1: But I promise you this isn't where your story ends.
Speaker 1: There's something in you that doesn't sit still, that little
Speaker 1: spark that each to do something more. You don't know
Speaker 1: it yet, but that's your fire. Hold on to it
Speaker 1: even when you feel silly, even when other people don't
Speaker 1: understand you. Keep dreaming big. You're not meant for small things,
Speaker 1: britt You're going to build something so beautiful, and it's
Speaker 1: all because you didn't let go of that spark.
Speaker 2: Do you want me to keep going like this is
Speaker 2: longer than I thought.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're going to take a huge leap of faith
Speaker 1: and it will pay off one day soon. You're going
Speaker 1: to quit your full time job at twenty one. Yes, really,
Speaker 1: you're going to have around eighty thousand YouTube subscribers and
Speaker 1: without knowing it, you're slowly going to become one of
Speaker 1: the first influencers in Australia right now, that word doesn't
Speaker 1: even exist. As your YouTube channel grows, you're going to
Speaker 1: be contacted by some brands because they have worked out
Speaker 1: they can advertise their.
Speaker 2: Products through your videos.
Speaker 1: So you'll be working full time and making videos in
Speaker 1: the evenings and on the weekends, making a bit of
Speaker 1: extra pocket money. You'll even get your savings account to
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars and you'll feel totally rich. You'll actually
Speaker 1: become obsessed with never having below that amount in your account,
Speaker 1: and you'll feel super annoyed when your car regro has
Speaker 1: to be paid and you see it dip under. But
Speaker 1: don't stress, you'll always make sure to save it back up.
Speaker 1: The day that you decide to throw in your full
Speaker 1: time job is just a random week day. It was
Speaker 1: no one in particular who encourage you to do this.
Speaker 1: You've always been a bit spontaneous, and you're earning just
Speaker 1: enough money from your YouTube channel to scrape by. So
Speaker 1: one day you text your boss and say I quit
Speaker 1: without a care in the world, which, looking back, you
Speaker 1: probably could have gone about that in a better way.
Speaker 1: After you quit your job, people will think you're crazy.
Speaker 1: They'll raise their eyes eyebrows and ask what's your backup plan?
Speaker 2: And here's the truth. You won't have.
Speaker 1: One, but you'll decide that working on something you love,
Speaker 1: making videos sharing your life is worth the risk. You'll
Speaker 1: fil you'll feel scared out of your mind, but you'll
Speaker 1: take that leap anyway.
Speaker 2: And do you want to know what happens?
Speaker 1: It works, your little YouTube channel becomes something huge. A
Speaker 1: million people will click subscribe to hear what you have
Speaker 1: to say. Can you imagine that a million people? You'll
Speaker 1: be living your dream, traveling, creating, connecting with people all
Speaker 1: over the world. You'll grow a huge following on that
Speaker 1: new Instagram app too, and it'll all feel completely surreal.
Speaker 2: I wish you could see.
Speaker 1: The version of you standing on that first stage at
Speaker 1: a meet and greet, looking out at hundreds of faces
Speaker 1: who showed up just to meet you. It's surreal and
Speaker 1: it's just the beginning. But the road isn't always easy.
Speaker 1: I need to be honest with you, Britt. There will
Speaker 1: be hard days, days when you doubt everything. People on
Speaker 1: the internet will say mean things about you, and you'll
Speaker 1: pretend it doesn't hurt, but it will. You'll lose friends,
Speaker 1: and your life will be heading in a different direction
Speaker 1: compared to everyone you went to school with. You'll see
Speaker 1: everyone heading on their gap year trips, all still hanging
Speaker 1: out together, going to uni parties, and even though you're
Speaker 1: building this amazing and weird YouTube life for yourself, you'll
Speaker 1: feel lonely. You're also going to date a couple of
Speaker 1: really terrible boys over the next couple of years. And
Speaker 1: just to give you a heads up, you were never
Speaker 1: in love with any of them. You just thought you were,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. My advice would be, honestly, don't waste
Speaker 1: your time until you're at least in your mid twenties.
Speaker 1: But at least you can take away some lessons from them,
Speaker 1: all being don't date losers. Oh and speaking of mid twenties,
Speaker 1: when you're twenty four, you're going to launch a business.
Speaker 2: A business.
Speaker 1: Oh and Before that, you'll attempt a bunch of other
Speaker 1: little businesses too, that you didn't even realize were businesses.
Speaker 1: You just thought they were hobbies. They'll all fail, but
Speaker 1: you won't even see them as failures because you were
Speaker 1: just having fun and enjoyed trying something new. You'll have
Speaker 1: no idea what you're doing, no degree, no investors, no
Speaker 1: business partners, just google and gut instinct. You'll make mistakes,
Speaker 1: some big, some small. You'll hire the wrong people, you'll
Speaker 1: lose money. You'll lie awake at night and think what
Speaker 1: if I fail? What if this all goes away? But
Speaker 1: you won't fail because when things get tough, you'll do
Speaker 1: what you've always done. You'll figure it out. That's your superpower.
Speaker 1: You don't quit even when it's hard.
Speaker 2: You'll learn to trust.
Speaker 1: Yourself, to quiet all the outside noise and believe in
Speaker 1: your own decisions and that brit that's what will make
Speaker 1: you unstoppable.
Speaker 2: The people you meet will change your life.
Speaker 1: When you're in the middle of the grind building your dream,
Speaker 1: one late night at a time, you'll meet someone expected.
Speaker 2: His name is Aj.
Speaker 1: When you first meet he'll be working as an electrician
Speaker 1: and you're not looking for anything serious because you've just
Speaker 1: come out of a very public relationship and break up.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something, AJ will become so
Speaker 1: much more than your partner. He'll be the calm to
Speaker 1: your chaos, the one who sees your vision and says,
Speaker 1: let's do it together. He'll quit his job, take a
Speaker 1: risk and work alongside you, and the two of you
Speaker 1: you'll become a team in every sense of the word.
Speaker 1: When you two first meet, the idea of this ever
Speaker 1: happening will never even cross your mind. You could simply
Speaker 1: never imagine working alongside AJ, but it will actually turn
Speaker 1: out to be one of the best things you've ever done.
Speaker 1: Your story isn't just about what you build, it's about
Speaker 1: who you build it with. You'll surround yourself with people
Speaker 1: who believe in you, people who share your vision and
Speaker 1: lift you higher. And one day you'll look around at
Speaker 1: your team and the brand you've built and think, I
Speaker 1: can't believe this is my life. You're going to inspire people.
Speaker 1: Here's the part you might not believe yet. You're going
Speaker 1: to change people's lives. The clothes you create will make
Speaker 1: women feel confident in their bodies. And yes, it's just clothes,
Speaker 1: but trust me when I say there's so much more
Speaker 1: to it than just that. The words you share will
Speaker 1: make people feel less alone. Your journey, the risks, the failures,
Speaker 1: the winds, will inspire others to dream bigger for themselves.
Speaker 1: You'll be reminded of how much you inspire people when
Speaker 1: you're standing in one of your retail boutiques and you
Speaker 1: have customers in your chaine room stepping out with tears
Speaker 1: rolling down their cheeks because they've just found clothes that
Speaker 1: fit them perfectly and make them feel beautiful. You'll watch
Speaker 1: them walk out of your store with their hands full
Speaker 1: of shopping bags that contain pieces that you created. Oh
Speaker 1: and yeah, you're going to open retail stores. You're going
Speaker 1: to literally figure out how to do all of this.
Speaker 2: On your own.
Speaker 1: That neglect you felt from your parents growing up, and
Speaker 1: how you felt like you always had to figure things
Speaker 1: out on your own. It's the best thing that ever
Speaker 1: happened to you, because you're just going to become so fearless.
Speaker 1: You're also going to launch a podcast called Big Business
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, by which, by the way, I
Speaker 1: think one year of Big Business is in like a
Speaker 1: couple of days.
Speaker 3: I think, oh my god, I think you're right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let me check that.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's like tomorrow or the next day.
Speaker 3: Now, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: If you is it today?
Speaker 3: It's tomorrow, Yes, today, it's exactly a year since.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm reading this now, that's so crazy.
Speaker 3: It is Crazyow, what the hell?
Speaker 2: Happy one year? Happy one year literally tomorrow as we're
Speaker 2: reading this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm shook by that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the time everyone's listening to this, it'll have
Speaker 1: been yesterday.
Speaker 4: It'll be yeah, yeah, it'll been yesterday. Wow, that's crazy. Continue,
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm any goosebumps.
Speaker 1: So you're going to also launch a podcast called Big
Speaker 1: Business in twenty twenty three when you're thirty, and it's
Speaker 1: going to become the number two business podcast in the country.
Speaker 1: You absolutely love recording episodes where you can openly and
Speaker 1: honestly share all of your stories, all of your mistakes,
Speaker 1: and everything you've learned over the years with your listeners.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of an outlet too, where you can
Speaker 1: share personal stories about your life and you'll do a
Speaker 1: whole lot of self reflection in the process. And the
Speaker 1: best part, you'll do it all while staying you you
Speaker 1: won't compromise who you are, not for fame, not for money,
Speaker 1: not for anyone. You'll be real, raw and honest, and
Speaker 1: that's what people will love the most about you. Celebrate
Speaker 1: how far you've come. There will be moments when you'll
Speaker 1: feel like you're not doing enough. You will compare yourself
Speaker 1: to other people, to businesses bigger than yours, and wonder
Speaker 1: if you're falling behind. But here's the truth, brit You're
Speaker 1: exactly where you're meant to be. Every small win, every milestone,
Speaker 1: every time you kept going when you could have given up.
Speaker 1: Those moments matter. I need you to stop sometimes and
Speaker 1: see it, really see it. The hard work, the sacrifices,
Speaker 1: the victories, and the lives you've touched. Success doesn't always
Speaker 1: feel like fireworks. Sometimes it feels like standing still for
Speaker 1: a second and saying, I did that, and you deserve
Speaker 1: to celebrate it every step of the way. The hard
Speaker 1: moments will shape you, but they won't define you. There
Speaker 1: will be setbacks, heartbreaks, times when you don't know if
Speaker 1: you can keep going, but you will because that's who
Speaker 1: you are. A fighter, a dreamer, a doer. You'll learn
Speaker 1: that every hard moment teaches you something, And even when
Speaker 1: you stumble, you'll always get back up. Weirdly enough, by
Speaker 1: the time you're thirty one, you will have learned to
Speaker 1: love the hard moments because you know how much you'll
Speaker 1: grow from them. One day, you'll look back at the
Speaker 1: girl sitting in that tiny room in your sharehouse rental,
Speaker 1: scared for the future, and you'll be so proud of
Speaker 1: her because she didn't give up.
Speaker 2: Here's what I want you to remember.
Speaker 1: You're going to build a life you're proud of. It
Speaker 1: won't always be easy, but it will be yours. You'll
Speaker 1: work hard, love hard, and live a life that's so
Speaker 1: much bigger than you can imagine right now.
Speaker 2: So keep going, keep dreaming.
Speaker 1: And don't let anyone, not even that little voice in
Speaker 1: your head, tell you that you can't do it, because
Speaker 1: you can and you will with love and so much pride.
Speaker 1: Future you ps all those jobs you hate right now,
Speaker 1: they're teaching you things you will need one day, even
Speaker 1: if it doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 3: I love it. I can't wait to read it.
Speaker 4: She handed me the book today, She's like, you can
Speaker 4: look at it now, but I literally can't give it
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Well, I only have six I've got to give two
Speaker 1: to Matt today because you know he needs his well
Speaker 1: one for dedicated lifestyle and one for Matt all right, hey,
Speaker 1: because they're both book people.
Speaker 2: And then I'll get you your Xander. At least you
Speaker 2: can hold this to today.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do my own ASMR now.
Speaker 1: So that's a little spoiler chapter from the end of
Speaker 1: the book. And you know what, everyone needs to write
Speaker 1: their younger self a letter because it's very cool to
Speaker 1: reflect on where you are now.
Speaker 3: You've actually really I actually really want to do it now. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hearing that, I was getting like emotional number one because
Speaker 4: I know how it feels for you. But then I
Speaker 4: was thinking if I was to do that with myself, like,
Speaker 4: I think it would actually be quite cathartic.
Speaker 3: Cathartic, Yeah, I think it'd be quite cathartic.
Speaker 1: That's my task to all of you this week. Sit down,
Speaker 1: set aside half an hour and just write a letter
Speaker 1: to your younger self and it makes you really reflect
Speaker 1: on how much you've achieved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it really gives yourself perspective.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And imagine if younger us knew what we were
Speaker 1: doing now and all the things that we've done in
Speaker 1: our life. If you told that to your younger self,
Speaker 1: they probably never believe you, ye, which is crazy, I know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, thank you for tuning in to a very
Speaker 1: special bonus episode.
Speaker 2: I was going to say of High Scroller, is there
Speaker 2: a Big Business?
Speaker 1: And you can find my book linked in my bio
Speaker 1: but also in the show notes, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: be posting about it over the next few weeks. With
Speaker 1: the pre order being live, I'm going to be signing
Speaker 1: as many copies as I can. I'm going to book
Speaker 1: Topia HQ soon ish and I'm going to spend an
Speaker 1: entire full day there signing as many as I can.
Speaker 1: And I'm also going to do some like of my
Speaker 1: fun warehouse style videos but in their warehouse, like packing
Speaker 1: orders and stuff like that. So be sure to get
Speaker 1: yourself a copy. It's available to order now, and thank
Speaker 1: you so much. And this is so cool that this
Speaker 1: is coming out at the one year of Big Business.
Speaker 3: Crazy. Also, how many priors have you got already?
Speaker 2: I don't know yet. It only went up last night
Speaker 2: and I spoke to the team.
Speaker 1: They haven't said, but I'm keen to no because I'm
Speaker 1: so used to like launching stuff on our website. And
Speaker 1: being able to see whereas now I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how it's.
Speaker 3: Going at is not in your control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway, that's all from me today and thank
Speaker 1: you so much