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Speaker 1: I am so excited to have Brittany Kelly joining me
Speaker 1: on this episode of Get Real podcast. She is a
Speaker 1: total baller shot color. She and her hubs, who is Brian,
Speaker 1: from Florida, Georgia Line, have this incredible company called Tribe Kelly.
Speaker 1: It is all American made clothing and products. They have
Speaker 1: two storefronts, one in Nashville, one in thirty eight, which
Speaker 1: is in Florida. I've been to the one in Nashville.
Speaker 1: It is so beautiful. The clothes are so well done,
Speaker 1: so comfortable, yet make you feel so sexy. And this
Speaker 1: is all Brittany's brain child. She is so creative and
Speaker 1: she's so passionate about what she does. Her story will
Speaker 1: knock your socks off. Just her drive and everything that
Speaker 1: she's gone through to get where she is. You will
Speaker 1: never believe this incredible story. I am so excited to
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Speaker 1: What's up? I'm with be Cole, the one and Only
Speaker 1: be Cole. Yes, we're at um the party barn right now. Well,
Speaker 1: this is where the parties go down. I think it
Speaker 1: is definitely a few parties have gone down here for sure,
Speaker 1: including your wedding. Yes, our wedding well before it was
Speaker 1: um redone. We had our wedding reception here and it
Speaker 1: was actually a super crappy barn and um I had
Speaker 1: a girl, her name was Stephanie. She's like an interior designer,
Speaker 1: and she souped it up magically and it was a
Speaker 1: super whimsical, amazing experience. But it was definitely like oily
Speaker 1: concrete floors, like unfinished wood type of situation that we
Speaker 1: made really cool. And now this is truly whatever you
Speaker 1: could dream it to be. It is what your dreams
Speaker 1: are made of. I know, I feel like Ralph Lauren
Speaker 1: would like live here or something. Ralph Lauren would die
Speaker 1: to do all of his photos shooting campaigns campaigns here right,
Speaker 1: So talk to me about how you got here, How
Speaker 1: did you get to this treehouse? Tell me about where
Speaker 1: you're from. When did you become a dreamer? You have
Speaker 1: so much to talk about, huge legacy already at Like
Speaker 1: how old are you not even thirty yet? Have a
Speaker 1: clothing brand, You're a world traveler. You're so deep and
Speaker 1: profound to be so young. Where did you first realize
Speaker 1: that you were a creator and you had creativity in you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For sure. Um, you know, God has been a really
Speaker 1: big part of this. For sure. I love that you
Speaker 1: just talk about that. Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: been a big part of my life. And um, I
Speaker 1: haven't always been a super strong believer. I had a
Speaker 1: pretty tragic event happened to me when I was seventeen. Um,
Speaker 1: everything kind of flipped that next year. Is that what
Speaker 1: made you strong? It is? I definitely feel like I got, um,
Speaker 1: my resilience from from that, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: gained it early on because I think that like even
Speaker 1: having to go through a tragedy young, it gives you
Speaker 1: something that you wouldn't have had otherwise. Maybe. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely think it gives you tools to carry along. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people don't learn, um, certain
Speaker 1: lessons that I learned until later on in life. Um,
Speaker 1: so it really really sucks. Um, you definitely go through
Speaker 1: dark times, but you you gain these tools that help
Speaker 1: you navigate the world. And it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: all terrible. And that's I love that that you say that,
Speaker 1: that like it. The tragedy gave you strength. There's always
Speaker 1: a silver lining for sure, and so um, yeah, there
Speaker 1: was a point where I was in a really dark
Speaker 1: space and I just kind of I think I actually
Speaker 1: hit my knees at one point. I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, use me for what you need because I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not usable right now. And um, you know, I
Speaker 1: went to Georgia Southern. I started out there and I
Speaker 1: tried to stay a pretty narrow path. And I was
Speaker 1: an accounting major at first, you free spirit like mermaid,
Speaker 1: fairy land, dust of all the magic. Yes, I was
Speaker 1: an accounting see what you're doing that. I was a
Speaker 1: solid B plus accounting major. Yeah. And um, when I
Speaker 1: was seventeen, I lost my grandmother and that that was
Speaker 1: the tragic event. Um, she was murdered actually, and I was.
Speaker 1: I was devastated. But I moved in with this family.
Speaker 1: Um that was absolutely amazing. And um and just honestly,
Speaker 1: angels from above, the Renews, And I had known them
Speaker 1: since middle score and you were like renewing your own Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, the Renews. And so they are angels. Um,
Speaker 1: definitely from above. And I moved in with those guys
Speaker 1: and they held me accountable, and um, they made me
Speaker 1: stay a pretty straight narrow path that I made being
Speaker 1: held accountable important because like sometimes you want to fight it,
Speaker 1: not you, but like people want to fight it. Oh
Speaker 1: I thought I fought, Oh I thought it. Believe me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely came in, um, to their to
Speaker 1: their house. Uh, you know this is we're getting real here,
Speaker 1: but pretty drunk a couple of times. And uh, Susan
Speaker 1: kind of snatched me up a couple of times when
Speaker 1: my head was hanging over in the trash can and
Speaker 1: she said, this isn't your path, you know, like you've
Speaker 1: gotta You're meant for so much more and and so
Speaker 1: having people along the way, I think tell you that
Speaker 1: is so so important to surround yourself with supporters, you know.
Speaker 1: And um, and I've heard this so many different times,
Speaker 1: but you really are you know the people that you
Speaker 1: surround yourself with. So UM to answer your original question, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's who I've surrounded myself with. UM. I've surrounded myself
Speaker 1: with people who are resilient and people who have visions
Speaker 1: and people who are creative, and UM, the husband of
Speaker 1: that family, Lester Uh. He has a cool story and
Speaker 1: it just super it was super inspiring. I mean, he
Speaker 1: came from nothing and and he is, I mean an
Speaker 1: amazing entrepreneur now. And so seeing people like that in
Speaker 1: my life really gave me the strength and the courage
Speaker 1: really to like dream big because seeing someone come from
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing UM to to having pretty much, you know,
Speaker 1: everything that we in our society. I guess de finds
Speaker 1: this success UM is definitely something that I think everyone needs.
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to have somebody to look up to and
Speaker 1: and a reason for that. UM. So I feel like
Speaker 1: the people I surrounded myself with and UM. The path
Speaker 1: that I was on was accounting, and it was awesome
Speaker 1: and and I was so pumped in the beginning to
Speaker 1: be an accounting major. I was like, I'm so good
Speaker 1: at math, Like I can do this UM. And I
Speaker 1: had a breakdown when was this, Like when I was
Speaker 1: like eighteen. I remember calling Susan, the mother of this family,
Speaker 1: and and I said, I just can't do this, Like
Speaker 1: I cannot do people's taxes. It's like I can't, Like
Speaker 1: I don't I can do my own. And I feel
Speaker 1: really blessed to have had the you know, finances and
Speaker 1: ability to learn this and I'm going to take it
Speaker 1: throughout my life. Um, but yeah, I had a little
Speaker 1: breakdown and I said, I'm changing my major to psychology.
Speaker 1: So I did a complete turnaround there and yeah, I
Speaker 1: went to psychology and it put me in school and
Speaker 1: additional year longer. And I knew that, And um, why
Speaker 1: is it scary though? Because I have found myself in
Speaker 1: the middle of transitions and I my first reaction is
Speaker 1: fear of changing it up and like getting off path,
Speaker 1: even though I really was never on a path, like
Speaker 1: I had made up a path in my mind right
Speaker 1: or something, and so like you feel like you're going
Speaker 1: to be left behind or you look around and maybe
Speaker 1: someone else, especially when I make a big change or something.
Speaker 1: Do you ever feel that like holy ship? Like what
Speaker 1: if I just ruined everything? Yes, you get your faith
Speaker 1: to do it honestly in other people. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: my big ist critic honestly, like, um, I'm the worst
Speaker 1: I can myself talk can be awful sometimes too. I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't know I did that. Like I'm pretty
Speaker 1: hard on myself in a mean way sometimes right, Like
Speaker 1: why am I being some brutal right, It's like it's
Speaker 1: like the head and the heart thing. It's like, at
Speaker 1: that moment that I changed my major from psych from
Speaker 1: m accounting to psychology, I was like, you know, my
Speaker 1: heart is like, yes, this is what you need, Like
Speaker 1: you need to learn this stuff for yourself and to
Speaker 1: help other people and to share your story and to understand,
Speaker 1: you know, the thought processes. But my head was like,
Speaker 1: you're a freaking idiot, Like you've spent so much money
Speaker 1: on school, You're now going to be in school for
Speaker 1: another year. Like what are you doing? Like what are
Speaker 1: you trying to do? Like did you know you're in
Speaker 1: goal at this point? I honestly did not, So what
Speaker 1: were you following? Honestly wasn't following anything, Uh, just your intuition,
Speaker 1: I guess. Honestly felt lead in the depths of my
Speaker 1: soul to learn psychology for myself and for the story
Speaker 1: that I had, And I knew that just by sharing
Speaker 1: my story with just a couple people in in in college,
Speaker 1: I knew that I had some purpose to share that story.
Speaker 1: And so I didn't know where to get that knowledge from.
Speaker 1: And so many times at the time, um little synchronicities
Speaker 1: were happening in psychology kept popping up and popping up,
Speaker 1: and um, I just said, I'm going for it. And
Speaker 1: it's it's odd because you know, I had this family,
Speaker 1: there were news helping me along the way, but I
Speaker 1: really didn't have a mom or a dad or um,
Speaker 1: you know, my grandmother to tell me no. So I
Speaker 1: just went for it. You know, I really I need
Speaker 1: to ask you about this because I'm struggling with this
Speaker 1: right now. I feel like I think I have always
Speaker 1: been really like self sufficient and like really confident, and
Speaker 1: like people might think that I really like I have
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence and stuff, but when it comes
Speaker 1: down to it, I often do not trust myself. And
Speaker 1: like what you said, you had no one to tell
Speaker 1: you know, from a young age, so you had to
Speaker 1: find that trust of yourself. How do you do that?
Speaker 1: Because that is the most terrifying thing, to hold yourself
Speaker 1: accountable for whatever you decide good or bad. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think when you're young, it's just you really feel like
Speaker 1: you're diving off a diving board. You don't know if
Speaker 1: there's like water down there. Honestly, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1: You're just not thinking about what's down there. I mean,
Speaker 1: at that age, honestly, like I was so torn between
Speaker 1: like what everyone else thought of me and like what
Speaker 1: I really like I wanted people to think of me.
Speaker 1: And like, as I get older, the more I really
Speaker 1: don't care what people think of me, and I just
Speaker 1: think it's I mean, I hate to say, oh, it's
Speaker 1: like an age thing, like when you get older you'll understand.
Speaker 1: But just every year that goes by is like such
Speaker 1: a learning year for me that I'm usually assuming that
Speaker 1: everyone thinks these things of me, and I'm creating this
Speaker 1: like critic that doesn't exist, or just anything like what
Speaker 1: does she thinking change in her major? Or why don't
Speaker 1: you know I started my own Etsy company that was
Speaker 1: my first creative endeavor in college amongst all of this craziness,
Speaker 1: um and I just would always like panic and be like,
Speaker 1: you know, what are what am I? The people that
Speaker 1: I used to go to school would think of me?
Speaker 1: What is the renews think of me for changing? You know?
Speaker 1: What would my nana think of me? That? You know,
Speaker 1: I know she's gone, but what is she thinking of me?
Speaker 1: Especially when you're like starting as a creator. This little
Speaker 1: Sunday's over here interrupting it. When you're starting as a creator, though,
Speaker 1: especially when you haven't had anything to show for yourself
Speaker 1: just yet besides the dreams in your heart that you
Speaker 1: believe you can do it. And that's why like having
Speaker 1: someone who is a great support system, like you said,
Speaker 1: the renews or somebody that is giving you strength somewhere.
Speaker 1: But it's just to start a creative endeavor is so
Speaker 1: scary because you have so many potentials that might fail,
Speaker 1: no for sure. So starting to maak it's Sunday Sunday
Speaker 1: has like completely taken over the interview right now. So
Speaker 1: Sunday is my white wolf dog and she just hates
Speaker 1: when the intentions on on her. So I can't blame
Speaker 1: her because she's absolutely beautiful and you know, a wolf
Speaker 1: part wolf. It's not every day you're hanging out with
Speaker 1: a wolf. Yeah. So um again, just back to the
Speaker 1: people that you surround yourself with. Um. When I first
Speaker 1: started my Etsy account that I was talking about, so
Speaker 1: let me back up a little bit, give you a
Speaker 1: little history. I changed my major to psychology, spent a
Speaker 1: semester at Georgia Southern, and then I worked my butt
Speaker 1: off to get all a's the last semester so I
Speaker 1: could transfer into the University of Georgia, which was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you would have told me in high
Speaker 1: school that I would have gone to U g A,
Speaker 1: I would have said, yeah, right, like you're you're crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're crazy. Like I'm not that smart. It
Speaker 1: was not that smart, like I have to study a lot,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, But I made all a's and um
Speaker 1: got into the U g A. And that was just
Speaker 1: like a huge moment for me and my self confidence. UM,
Speaker 1: because I just not that I knew that was smart.
Speaker 1: Don't don't get me wrong, but I just did to
Speaker 1: believe in myself. And so when that happened, Um, I
Speaker 1: gained so much more confidence, and I started my creative endeavors,
Speaker 1: UM getting into like jewelry and clothing. Because this is
Speaker 1: really funny, because I couldn't go out and party anymore.
Speaker 1: I genuinely couldn't because now I'm going to the University
Speaker 1: of Georgia, Like I can't go out to the bars
Speaker 1: because I genuinely have to make the grades to stay
Speaker 1: in here because I'm having to hold myself accountable at
Speaker 1: this point because I'm paying for this, you know, I'm working. Um,
Speaker 1: I've now started, you know, this creative endeavor. So I
Speaker 1: had a one bedroom apartment. Um, and I started this
Speaker 1: little Etsy account and so I would go find old broken,
Speaker 1: like vintage jewelry and like make it into something else
Speaker 1: and um. And at the time, I didn't have the money.
Speaker 1: So this guy would hook me up with this old
Speaker 1: broken jewelry and I would twist it around and you know,
Speaker 1: make a headband out of like an old bracelet or something.
Speaker 1: And I was making right at like three too a month,
Speaker 1: which is perfect because that was like my rent at
Speaker 1: the time. So I got to quit my wagers. Same
Speaker 1: job at Buffalo Wild Wings. Actually, okay, the Lemon Pepper
Speaker 1: that's where I'm at me. Man, No, I know all
Speaker 1: the sauzes. But that was when when I got into
Speaker 1: Georgia and when I had my one bedroom apartment, and
Speaker 1: I made up my mind, I'm not going to the bars.
Speaker 1: That's not where we're gonna find me on Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna be making jewelry and um, chilling in
Speaker 1: my one bedroom. That's when I started to get my
Speaker 1: little creative you know journey journey going on. And I
Speaker 1: just had so many people at the time, you know,
Speaker 1: hit me up over social media and just say like
Speaker 1: you're so talented, and like I started getting this influx
Speaker 1: of comments about how creative I was. And so again,
Speaker 1: the people you know that are reacting to that really
Speaker 1: gave me the confidence. And um, the Renews and their daughter, Whitney, Um,
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of confidence too, and they just
Speaker 1: were always pouring so much into me, and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just gave me the confidence to even start anything creative.
Speaker 1: You know? Why did that? Is the thing? The confidence?
Speaker 1: It's so many people can't do it because it's having confidence.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is something that I love talking
Speaker 1: about with people like you, who are such role models
Speaker 1: of confidence. Is having confidence takes confidence? Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: just come to you, Like you have to decide to
Speaker 1: just be confident. How did you decide that you wanted
Speaker 1: to succeed and you're gonna do this and make it
Speaker 1: a priority instead of just feel like, screw it, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna float. How did you like laser being this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For sure. Um, I honestly have to daily meditate on
Speaker 1: the fact that I am my worst critic and when
Speaker 1: I start to create all of these scenarios about you know,
Speaker 1: because confidence, you know, comes from you know, fearfulness or
Speaker 1: lack of confidence comes from fearfulness, and why are we
Speaker 1: why would we we be fearful not to have confidence
Speaker 1: because of what everyone else thinks, you know. And um,
Speaker 1: confidence also takes vulnerability, you know, Like we've we've talked
Speaker 1: on that, you know. And that's why some people who
Speaker 1: have like the hardest shell, like, okay, they're actually the
Speaker 1: most vulnerable because it is so hard to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1: It's just like walking out there with your heart with
Speaker 1: no protection. She's like, I want to Vulnerability is a
Speaker 1: skill set on itself. It has vulnerable Okay. So now
Speaker 1: that we're talking about this, I feel like I'm like
Speaker 1: figuring some stuff out. We both love Benet Brown, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: Burnet Brown, Yeah, I love you girl. So yeah, now
Speaker 1: that we're like talking about this and figuring it out,
Speaker 1: I think that confidence honestly comes from being vulnerable because
Speaker 1: when you step out whatever you do in life, whether
Speaker 1: you're a model or a nurse or a mom or whatever,
Speaker 1: it is like you have to be confident in that role,
Speaker 1: you know, and that trust yourself, right, and that's being
Speaker 1: very vulnerable to like step out and say this is
Speaker 1: who I am and this is you know what my
Speaker 1: life is and because of what happens if it fails,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, Okay, I owned it and it's
Speaker 1: not a failure because I put And that's another thing
Speaker 1: I have to tell myself. It's not a failure if
Speaker 1: you put yourself out there and you give it your heart.
Speaker 1: It's whatever happens is a great experience. It has to be.
Speaker 1: It can't be like a failure because you can't get
Speaker 1: You can't let yourself get discouraged, even though you can,
Speaker 1: you're human. It's just like I just think putting yourself
Speaker 1: out there and going for it. Like, how did you
Speaker 1: feel when you started Tribe Kelly, because this is now
Speaker 1: a huge operation. You have two storefronts, one in Nashville,
Speaker 1: like right in the epicenter of Nashville. It's freaking beautiful.
Speaker 1: And the way you have it all designed, your vibe,
Speaker 1: your your denim and your special touches that you do
Speaker 1: with your dinnam, the way you get it all cut,
Speaker 1: Like you are so meticulous about this brand and it's
Speaker 1: so uniquely you and your husband Brian, Like it's so y'all,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else like it. But how did you step
Speaker 1: into that and create that and decide like, shoot, okay,
Speaker 1: here I go. Yeah it was that's not a little
Speaker 1: beast at this point. And um, we're still on the
Speaker 1: upper clom, you know. It's it's not like we're like
Speaker 1: hugely grossly successful enough like how this team to like
Speaker 1: handle it all? I mean it really is like all
Speaker 1: of me I have. I have so many hats on
Speaker 1: right now. Um, what's your right now? Let's see founder, um, CEO, CEO,
Speaker 1: you know, operations manager. I'm also doing a lot of accounting,
Speaker 1: which thank you Lord for that. Um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: managing a lot of people. I mean I have how
Speaker 1: do you manage people? Because that is such a special thing,
Speaker 1: so many people do it differently. It's it's a thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm learning daily and I honestly draw inspiration from
Speaker 1: tons of like literature that I've read. And um, I'm
Speaker 1: like a little dork on like books. But like I
Speaker 1: love going into Barnes and Noble and going straight to
Speaker 1: like the self help or like the business improvement section,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I just try to pour into
Speaker 1: my employees like what I'll learn, you know, through these
Speaker 1: these books that I'm reading. Um, but yeah, managing people
Speaker 1: is like a whole a whole different thing. I figure
Speaker 1: out how to get people inspired right and like and
Speaker 1: so to to take it back a minute, Um, you
Speaker 1: know it went from me and Brian being on a
Speaker 1: tour bus. You know too, now we have so the
Speaker 1: dream just came from being on tour. Yeah. So basically, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I had my Etsy account in college and
Speaker 1: Brian and I got married. And where did y'all meet
Speaker 1: in Nashville? Are you in Nashville? We so, Brian and I.
Speaker 1: This is a great story. So we may need to
Speaker 1: hit that story after you remember it all. Can you
Speaker 1: make it awful of back together? Yeah? I can make
Speaker 1: it allful together. Okay, So triv Kelly was definitely born
Speaker 1: on the tour bus. Um obviously had the creative spirit
Speaker 1: from my Etty account. We got married at the end
Speaker 1: of my college semester. So literally I finished college and
Speaker 1: I went straight on the tour bus. So I was,
Speaker 1: you know, on a bus at the time. We didn't
Speaker 1: have our own bus, you know, I was on the
Speaker 1: bus with you know, Tyler and Hayley. Well actually Hayley
Speaker 1: they haven't met, hadn't met at that point. But um,
Speaker 1: Tyler and like tons of other guys, and I knew
Speaker 1: I had to do something, Like what were you feeling
Speaker 1: itching to do something? I mean even just have a job.
Speaker 1: Like I was like, I've got to do something. I
Speaker 1: can't I don't know what to do with my hands.
Speaker 1: So even though it's so fun to be traveling and stuff,
Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, I want to put my creative juice somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like I knew that I had to put something out
Speaker 1: into the world. Um so yeah, we started writing the
Speaker 1: blueprints for Trapp Kelly. Um how did you pick fashion
Speaker 1: and clothes? I mean, I guess it came from Jewelry
Speaker 1: because Jwelry was my first love, and then on my
Speaker 1: Etsy account. Um, I did do custom T shirts and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I did custom like drawings and designs on T shirts.
Speaker 1: But I was like more of like a one of
Speaker 1: the con type of thing. Um So I knew I
Speaker 1: had to figure out something like that I could like
Speaker 1: manufacture because I can't sew every single piece. Um So yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew that. Um you know, we had a platform,
Speaker 1: and um I knew that. You know, Brian was interested
Speaker 1: in clothing and we just started talking and we just talked.
Speaker 1: I feel like for like months about this, just talked
Speaker 1: like what do we want to do, Like do we
Speaker 1: want to do a small collection? Like what's the name
Speaker 1: and all of all of that jazz? And um, how
Speaker 1: do you catch those creative ideas? Like you know, when
Speaker 1: you like actually materialize a creative idea? I kind of
Speaker 1: think of it was like just like floating around in
Speaker 1: the ether. How do you actually like know when to
Speaker 1: grab one and pull it down and like harness it. Well,
Speaker 1: my husband has an amazing like ear an amazing ah
Speaker 1: for he likes to call him um smashes. So like
Speaker 1: he is like he can hear something and honestly, I
Speaker 1: just trust his opinion and he can just say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's good and that's not good, like that's ahead or
Speaker 1: not yes, Like with like he can hear a song
Speaker 1: and be like, oh that's an a monest like it's good,
Speaker 1: but like it's not gonna go number one. Like he's
Speaker 1: just very like confident in his like creative opinions. Okay,
Speaker 1: well you know what, I think that's half of the battle,
Speaker 1: it is. And so again for people that you surround
Speaker 1: yourself with, he was just so supportive of the fact
Speaker 1: that I wish everyone could see Sunday right now, she's
Speaker 1: like obsessed with Caroline. She's usually never liked this. She
Speaker 1: knows I'm a dog. She feels the vibe. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: just having that voice of Brian um. And he would
Speaker 1: tell me like if I said, oh, what about this
Speaker 1: name for the clothing line, He's like, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's good, but it's not a hit. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not a hit. And so I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I want our family name to be involved. I wanted
Speaker 1: to feel very community. I wanted to be worldwide, like
Speaker 1: I want people to feel when they buy a piece
Speaker 1: of clothing that they're a part of this family. So
Speaker 1: we kicked around things like team and squad and all
Speaker 1: these different things, and I was like, well, I'm Native American,
Speaker 1: and like we have a t P. You know what
Speaker 1: about tribe and tribe is such a universal word. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not just about the Native Americans. It can be
Speaker 1: any trip like your tribe of girl, your community. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so, and then I came up with it. I will,
Speaker 1: I will take credit for it, but I said, Trump, Kelly,
Speaker 1: that's us troup Kelly, and he just automatically said, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a hit. That's a snash right there, and
Speaker 1: so we knew it when we had the name. We
Speaker 1: just started going, do you not just feel the electricity everywhere?
Speaker 1: When she said when we had the name, we knew it,
Speaker 1: and we just started going, Oh my gosh. That just
Speaker 1: makes me so inspired to be around people and to
Speaker 1: know people and to hear their stories, like Brittany and
Speaker 1: Brian how they came up with Tripe Kelly and how
Speaker 1: this idea and brainstorm has launched now into this incredible company.
Speaker 1: Just hearing about all the dedication, the time, the sweat,
Speaker 1: the blood that tears that takes to build this company
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Speaker 1: it is so crucial to get the name and the
Speaker 1: title locked in and then how you can soar from
Speaker 1: there as she did with Tribe Kelly. Why does it
Speaker 1: when you get that piece locked in, it's like you
Speaker 1: need just like just like a title, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's like you gotta know where you're going
Speaker 1: with it, right, And so we knew the vibe, and
Speaker 1: we knew we wanted to have everything manufactured in the US.
Speaker 1: We had all these missions that, okay, tell me your mission,
Speaker 1: and why was importantly stuck with them? Because rats behind
Speaker 1: me about a mission like that? Yeah for sure, I mean,
Speaker 1: no judgment, it's each of their own, absolutely, But to
Speaker 1: you like this is something that's important? Why right? Um? Honestly?
Speaker 1: Because I had crafted so many things with my own hands,
Speaker 1: and I had done so much research even before I
Speaker 1: wanted to start the clothing line UM. And I had
Speaker 1: heard a lot of things in the fashion industry that
Speaker 1: I just just didn't settle with my spirit. Um. And
Speaker 1: there's you're good at listening to your spirit, yeah, and
Speaker 1: there's just some things you can't turn the other cheek to.
Speaker 1: So when your spirit is acting up and saying like
Speaker 1: nooop knoop, now what does that feel like? Oh it
Speaker 1: feels I have to like hop on board like a
Speaker 1: sets and if you want to throw up, if you
Speaker 1: don't do it, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean. And
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about exactly is the manufacturing and UM,
Speaker 1: I just looked into all all my options like where
Speaker 1: can I manufacture? Where can I make this count? Um?
Speaker 1: And I had taken a couple of trips mission trips
Speaker 1: to Guatemala and UM the beginning of my college career
Speaker 1: and had seen the women there and how they made
Speaker 1: UM their traditional clothing, like their wee pills and all
Speaker 1: these different things, and how they were sitting there with
Speaker 1: their hands and really doing it and they were doing
Speaker 1: it because they were passionate, and they were doing it
Speaker 1: for their families and to clothe their families. And um,
Speaker 1: I just realized how much of a craft it was.
Speaker 1: And I just realized that someone that's taking their time
Speaker 1: to craft something for me like needs to get paid fairly.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to to send my brand
Speaker 1: overseas and not know whose hands it's going to and
Speaker 1: not know if if it's a child's hands, or not
Speaker 1: knowing if that that family is getting paid, because that
Speaker 1: is the dark reality of overseas sometimes. Um. And so
Speaker 1: for me to be able to step in my manufacturers
Speaker 1: and literally see and meet all of like our sewers,
Speaker 1: it brings me such like comfort and joy and to
Speaker 1: know that they're getting paid like fair wages and they
Speaker 1: can actually feed their families. And when I send them
Speaker 1: thousands of items to so like even though I could
Speaker 1: send it overseas for way way, way way cheaper, Um,
Speaker 1: it just brings such a I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm doing something also you know that's that's right,
Speaker 1: And where does that come from? Like, where does that
Speaker 1: trait come from? That sense of just you're doing what
Speaker 1: you feel is right, even though you don't have to,
Speaker 1: and no one would judge you if you didn't, but
Speaker 1: you still want to do that, Like, where does that
Speaker 1: come from? And how are you able to stand so
Speaker 1: strong in that? Yeah, I honestly think it comes from
Speaker 1: how I was raised. Um, I was raised my grandma.
Speaker 1: What were you taught? What were the what was your
Speaker 1: life motto? Like? Your grandmother taught you don't trust anybody? Actually,
Speaker 1: um no, she um. She was a very self sufficient
Speaker 1: be self sufficient. She always told me to um funny enough,
Speaker 1: I mean she didn't she obviously never met Brian, but
Speaker 1: she always told me to never depend on a man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you and Brian. Actually, that is something I would
Speaker 1: like to talk about because y'all and Haley and Tyler,
Speaker 1: the Florida Georgia line uh brand in general, y'all have
Speaker 1: made marriage cool and I feel like y'all were sort
Speaker 1: of the mavericks of this. I mean a lot. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of couples in country music who are
Speaker 1: really awesome and embrace their marriage. But it was like,
Speaker 1: wham bam in your in your face from the beginning
Speaker 1: that these men loved their wives and y'all were a
Speaker 1: foursome unit in a power couple. How So that's like
Speaker 1: never trust a man, but you have a man who
Speaker 1: wants you right next to him? How did y'all all
Speaker 1: make that kind of decision because not everyone has that
Speaker 1: kind of strong marriage and is pressure having being like
Speaker 1: goals for people, like marriage goals and life goals, Like
Speaker 1: how is all that don't make that decision to be
Speaker 1: like that or just how it always was? Yeah, Brian
Speaker 1: is is a work of art. He is like such
Speaker 1: an amazing man, and um, I think his dad and
Speaker 1: his parents have a lot to do with it, and
Speaker 1: and the way he was taught. And I just remember
Speaker 1: in the beginning, Um, I remember when we first started
Speaker 1: dating and we weren't married, and someone on the team
Speaker 1: had said, you know, you know, Brittany can't walk the
Speaker 1: carpet with you, and you know, y'all gotta look like
Speaker 1: this this single like hot, do it? You know? And
Speaker 1: I remember not taking like offense to it at all.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, cool, Like I'll just be
Speaker 1: in the back room or whatever y'all want, wherever y'all
Speaker 1: want to stick me, like I don't really care about
Speaker 1: all the glam in the band. But um I remember
Speaker 1: asking him later like just so innocently and just factual,
Speaker 1: like well, wow, why can I be on the carpet
Speaker 1: with you, like, what's why does it make you look bad? Like?
Speaker 1: And I had mentioned something I don't remember the exact
Speaker 1: how I exactly said it, but I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: women seeing like men like if if they are, you know,
Speaker 1: looking up to you, as like men that they would
Speaker 1: want to be with, Like when they can see a
Speaker 1: man like you, guys love on a woman that's just
Speaker 1: from middle Georgia that you know, isn't any crazy thing special,
Speaker 1: like the most specialty, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like the middle of nowhere. I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm I was in Nashville and like in the industry
Speaker 1: or like anything like that. I mean, I came from nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, And for him to like love on someone
Speaker 1: like that, I think it's really like inspiring to young
Speaker 1: women because it's like, not only can like you know,
Speaker 1: you know, a man that's the CEO of you know,
Speaker 1: a business in your town love his wife, but a
Speaker 1: rock star can love his wife too, you know. And
Speaker 1: it's especially when rock stars like before this time for
Speaker 1: period kind of have bad reputations of doing whatever they want,
Speaker 1: you know, and that has just never been y'all's vibe.
Speaker 1: And if y'all have made marriage sexy. Like your last video,
Speaker 1: you're like in a bathtub. I mean, how turn my
Speaker 1: hair black? By the way, that bathtub during my a
Speaker 1: all the way black, but it was like black water,
Speaker 1: and I had like black Diana and I just went
Speaker 1: straight in with the blonde hair and I had to
Speaker 1: get some color correction. But no, but I love that
Speaker 1: and I admire that, and I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: It's like I love F g L even more as
Speaker 1: a duo and as an act because of the people
Speaker 1: that all of you guys are, because it's like you
Speaker 1: want the full package. I just don't want someone who's
Speaker 1: got a flashy career but they suck as a human.
Speaker 1: Who wants to be that? Yeah, I mean in the beginning,
Speaker 1: Haley and I definitely were on some music video shoots
Speaker 1: where other girls were like or what do they call it,
Speaker 1: like the star or whatever they call the girl parts
Speaker 1: or whatever. He had the lead woman or whatever, and um,
Speaker 1: I just remember, you know, Haley and I were just
Speaker 1: very innocently just like, well, why can't it be us?
Speaker 1: Like we're the lead? Sunday says, why can't I be
Speaker 1: the lead of Sunday Sunday, And that's a great question.
Speaker 1: So yeah, in the beginning, I mean, Haley, no, I
Speaker 1: didn't mind, like we're definitely like rot or die, like
Speaker 1: we'll sit here and and watch the whole you know,
Speaker 1: thing go down. But I guess we were just so
Speaker 1: innocently like, well, I mean, y'all love us, and like
Speaker 1: in reality, like we're doing We're we're like living this
Speaker 1: song out, you know what I mean. And so it's like, well,
Speaker 1: if we're in reality living this song out, and all
Speaker 1: of your fans, you know, now that we have social media,
Speaker 1: are actually seeing like we're together. I mean, it's kind
Speaker 1: of confusing, I feel like to this fan. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: the fan base, if like they can now that we
Speaker 1: have social media, you know, the rock stars back that
Speaker 1: they didn't have social media and now that reality TV
Speaker 1: and real life is so much more interesting than like
Speaker 1: the fake life, right Yeah. And then like as a fan,
Speaker 1: I would assume, like, you know, you see this rock
Speaker 1: star that you're you know, you love their music, you
Speaker 1: see him with his wife or his girlfriend even online,
Speaker 1: but then you just see another random just girl that
Speaker 1: they've picked. It's just like huh, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: as intense and like electrifying, Like when you know they're
Speaker 1: really doing that stuff in real life, You're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can feel that. So I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's real, you know. So I feel like you
Speaker 1: guys are on the forefront of this big movement though.
Speaker 1: So how has it been for you to ride this
Speaker 1: wave and what have you learned about like the entertainment machine,
Speaker 1: the same machine? What are what are the highs of it?
Speaker 1: What are the lows that you've experienced, because it's all
Speaker 1: the spectrum. Yeah for sure, Um, let's see, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's been a it's been a rod for sure. It's
Speaker 1: definitely something too. You went fast, like when Crews came out,
Speaker 1: it was a rocket ship. Yeah. I mean when Brian
Speaker 1: and I got married, which was two thousand thirteen, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was in the middle of it all, and it
Speaker 1: was it was intense. And when I say intense, it's
Speaker 1: just time intensive. Um all the time. We weren't ever
Speaker 1: at home, you know what I mean. And the most
Speaker 1: important thing in this industry is you have to create
Speaker 1: your own normal, you know what I mean. And we
Speaker 1: would just have to create our own normal weather that
Speaker 1: be hey, babe, Like let's kick everybody off the bus
Speaker 1: and have a little date night, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Or like we have to go to dinner in a
Speaker 1: movie in this city, Like we can't hang out with
Speaker 1: everybody afterwards, you know, because that's another thing. There's always
Speaker 1: people around. There's always tons, and they're amazing people. There's
Speaker 1: always stuff to do, hang out with. You could forget
Speaker 1: to be like have an intimate night with your spouse,
Speaker 1: not like intimate, but let's like have a me time, No,
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean even like there were so many
Speaker 1: nights that, um, the four of us like snuck off
Speaker 1: and went to a movie, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And that's just so important important in this fast paced machine.
Speaker 1: I love that's how you put it. It is a
Speaker 1: machine because these two you know, amazingly talented young men
Speaker 1: just got put into a machine and with all their
Speaker 1: talents and all of the management's talents and all of
Speaker 1: the team's talents, it just came out on the other
Speaker 1: side as like I mean, surreal and like rock star,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's just it's it's definitely a wave
Speaker 1: you have to ride and you definitely have I love
Speaker 1: that I'm majored in psychologist because it really helped me
Speaker 1: through all these feelings as I'm feeling so many right
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people that that come through
Speaker 1: your path and and they simply only want to talk
Speaker 1: to your husband and they disregard you, and so you
Speaker 1: have to as how do you navigate that? Do you
Speaker 1: learn just to not take it personal or something? Yes? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Um the Four Agreements? That book is great. Yeah, before
Speaker 1: I read that, I really struggled. Um, you know, there's
Speaker 1: been definitely instances where, um, you know, women have treated
Speaker 1: me really ugly or pushed me out of the way
Speaker 1: to to get to my husband and different things like that.
Speaker 1: And in the beginning, it really hurt my feelings. Um,
Speaker 1: but what happened then? How did you how did you
Speaker 1: make a I just really feel like I transformed in
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. And um, the Four Agreements.
Speaker 1: I hate to just blame it all on that, but
Speaker 1: that really but honestly, I mean there's an agreement in there.
Speaker 1: It says don't take anything personal, and and I would
Speaker 1: just think when that happened, you know, like this may
Speaker 1: be the highlight of that lady's life, you know, getting
Speaker 1: to go there and talk you know, she you know,
Speaker 1: she literally I cannot take that personal has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with me, you know, she's just having her Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so how did you decide to make that switch?
Speaker 1: Because I remember when I kind of switched to a
Speaker 1: new way of thinking, It's like, Okay, nobody's really ought
Speaker 1: to get me, right. I don't think the people that
Speaker 1: I'm like love the most aren't so like I just
Speaker 1: gotta retrain my brain or something. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: it's it's training. It's training your brain in the moment
Speaker 1: when you start to feel that anxiety creep up, you
Speaker 1: really have to rid this reacting and anger always the
Speaker 1: first to come right, you know, because it's like when
Speaker 1: you do insecure or fear or whatnot, you've put you
Speaker 1: put your defenses up. And I've really learned to like
Speaker 1: rod the wave and I've actually like loved laughing at
Speaker 1: myself about it because I'm like, you are making something
Speaker 1: out of nothing, and then you realize if you just
Speaker 1: kind of skip over it and let the wave pass,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man and my past I would have ridden
Speaker 1: that wave and I would have just like gotten suck
Speaker 1: on it and maybe been there for like a day,
Speaker 1: maybe even a week, maybe like just redirected the whole
Speaker 1: like conversation and vibe of like me and Michael because
Speaker 1: I just decided to go down this rabbit conversation. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've had plenty of those days and those were like
Speaker 1: my younger years and and yeah, just really And I
Speaker 1: think it comes back to confidence. And it's like my
Speaker 1: husband has given me so much confidence in our marriage,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think twice, Like if the most beautiful
Speaker 1: girl in the world is talking to him, I legit
Speaker 1: at this point in my life, I'm like, that's so sweet.
Speaker 1: She's just a big fan. Like I don't I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm so confident in him, and heat the
Speaker 1: way he looks at me, even when he's in conversations
Speaker 1: like that, it's like I know he's going home with me,
Speaker 1: Like come on, why would I create something out of nothing?
Speaker 1: And so it has a lot to do with maturity
Speaker 1: to you know, and trust of marriage. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's the bottom line, Like you both don't give each
Speaker 1: other reason not to trust each other. Yeah, and when
Speaker 1: you've made this this really deep emotional like agreement and
Speaker 1: you really know you're on the same like a page
Speaker 1: connection wavelength, whatever you want to call it, it's really
Speaker 1: electric and it's like we can read each other's minds,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean in situations like that. And
Speaker 1: and don't get me wrong, like there's the flip, the
Speaker 1: script has been flipped when when men come and talk
Speaker 1: to me like heck, yeah, look at you, I can
Speaker 1: give Braun the look like this guy's hilarious, you know,
Speaker 1: and he just he's confident in me that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not anything other than his wife. You know, what
Speaker 1: have you learned about marriage? Because I feel like I've
Speaker 1: been married now four and a half years and I
Speaker 1: just to me, marriage is not what I thought it
Speaker 1: was going into it. Because now that I'm married, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is so much more than Oh, I think you're hot.
Speaker 1: I like your personality, we get along. When you make
Speaker 1: a life with someone, you really do morph into that person.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I have just been molded in
Speaker 1: a way that I didn't know it was possible. Just
Speaker 1: make makes you chip off certain pieces of you that
Speaker 1: you didn't need or something. Absolutely it's like holding a
Speaker 1: mirror up in front of each other and you have
Speaker 1: to decide do I want to make this a thing?
Speaker 1: Do I want to fight with you do. I want
Speaker 1: to rise up and be a little bit more mature here,
Speaker 1: or like I find myself having those conversations. I mean, mom,
Speaker 1: I love I love saying this to my friends and
Speaker 1: and my family too. If if someone is is looking
Speaker 1: for a companion, is you've got to find somebody you
Speaker 1: want to figure things out with. Great point, because you're
Speaker 1: not going to find somebody that you're never going to
Speaker 1: fight with, never gonna disagree with, never gonna have different opinions.
Speaker 1: You have to find somebody who's worth figuring out this
Speaker 1: earth that we're on with. You know what, I'm not
Speaker 1: taking it personal if you see it differently, right, I
Speaker 1: mean Brian has been such a mirror to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, like I've I've had trauma issues in my life,
Speaker 1: so that's come out, you know, in my personality at
Speaker 1: different times. And sometimes he'll just hold that mirror up
Speaker 1: and say, hey, baby, you need to change you need
Speaker 1: to change your ways. Like that came off a little bitchier,
Speaker 1: that came off a little know whatever, And are sometimes
Speaker 1: some little defense and like who you in a second,
Speaker 1: like let me tell you all the things that you
Speaker 1: can improve it. Right, We're gonna sit down and we
Speaker 1: can like, tell are we gonna do this? Because I'll
Speaker 1: do this. But I mean when he comes back down
Speaker 1: to it, honestly, like he's right most of the time,
Speaker 1: and it's like and he wants the best for you, right,
Speaker 1: and he right, he's not trying to pick a fight.
Speaker 1: That's another thing. I know. He knows my heart too,
Speaker 1: so he's like, you're what's coming out of you isn't
Speaker 1: reflecting who you really are. And I'm so appreciative for that, Like,
Speaker 1: please tell me what I'm doing wrong because I would
Speaker 1: love to adjust it for you. And that's another thing.
Speaker 1: You have to be with somebody who you want to
Speaker 1: adjust yourself for. You know, that's really really important because
Speaker 1: if you don't have a connection with that human, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to change your little tendencies and habits
Speaker 1: and ways. And Lord knows I have changed so many
Speaker 1: tendencies and habits and ways, you know. I mean from
Speaker 1: what I put on the sink or where I'll leave.
Speaker 1: My extensions are like whatever, And same with him. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's you have to find somebody you want to
Speaker 1: figure things out with, yeah, and that you just get
Speaker 1: along with their personality and their little quirks don't bother you,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, when it all
Speaker 1: stripped down, there's still a person. They're gonna have things.
Speaker 1: And I have dated plenty of people I just could
Speaker 1: not get on board with little bits about them. It
Speaker 1: just drove me crazy. And there's something about the personality.
Speaker 1: But like Michael, I'm like, okay, exactly, yes, you'red div
Speaker 1: me crazy sometimes, but I want to figure this out
Speaker 1: with you, right, And that's what I tell a lot
Speaker 1: of my girlfriends to him. Like usually in the first
Speaker 1: like even months, in like months to three months, you
Speaker 1: can figure out if it's not Yeah, if that's why
Speaker 1: you want to start figuring out, because you're not just
Speaker 1: gonna meet somebody and then you know, months down the
Speaker 1: road just be like, oh, everything's perfect. I've never argued,
Speaker 1: we've never disagreed. It's like it's kind of good to
Speaker 1: get in your first little fight so that you can
Speaker 1: see if you guys can navigate and figure that out
Speaker 1: and that so I mean, yeah, you're just when you
Speaker 1: have that really big red flag in the first three months,
Speaker 1: just get out of get out of there, and don't
Speaker 1: get invested. I tell that to my single friends, because
Speaker 1: I have a kind single friends who are the total package,
Speaker 1: literally total package, but they'll just date someone for like
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, because you think things are going to change.
Speaker 1: But again, you've got if you are annoyed with figuring
Speaker 1: out it immediately, you got to cut it, even though
Speaker 1: you don't want to, and even though there's still juice
Speaker 1: left to squeeze. That's how I said. I was like,
Speaker 1: you don't have to squeeze all the juice out just
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of juice left in there. You
Speaker 1: know you're gonna hit the rind eventually and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be dried up, right, So just just move on. Yeah, Brian,
Speaker 1: like in the beginning, I mean, especially with the wild
Speaker 1: Rod of like being on tour, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: obviously there's late schedules and we're not sleeping, and there's
Speaker 1: people are irritated. Like you know, I could tell that
Speaker 1: we would we just been like would bend and flow
Speaker 1: with each other. It was just very flexible. Like when
Speaker 1: he was irritated, I would kind of step up to
Speaker 1: the plate and like build him up, and then you know,
Speaker 1: vice versa with me, and when we were both irritated,
Speaker 1: it was almost like we would laugh, right, you need
Speaker 1: to like help me get out of this funk, and
Speaker 1: like we just we are champions of each other and
Speaker 1: to help each other get out of that funk. And
Speaker 1: how important is laughing and not taking it too So
Speaker 1: my gosh, we we get to that point a lot,
Speaker 1: especially when we're super irritated. Like I mean, it could
Speaker 1: be like a lot of the times, you know, it's
Speaker 1: travel issues. You know, something goes wrong or we were
Speaker 1: late or whatever, and like we just have to laugh.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just had this thing where we get
Speaker 1: to a point and we just have to laugh it
Speaker 1: off because it just you work things up again that
Speaker 1: I just don't have to be you know. So you
Speaker 1: said in the beginning you felt like you had a
Speaker 1: story to share. What is your message that you want
Speaker 1: to put out there? And what does having a platform
Speaker 1: mean to you? Yeah, for sure, a great question, all
Speaker 1: the way down to the bottom of your soul. No,
Speaker 1: I love that. Um, Honestly, I just feel like I
Speaker 1: was in such a dark place at seventeen. I could
Speaker 1: have gone two different paths, and you knew it. I
Speaker 1: knew it, and I actually really wanted to go like
Speaker 1: the bad path because why because because it was a
Speaker 1: good excuse. It was like, well, this has happened to me,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go party and I'm gonna go be
Speaker 1: the party girl, and I'm gonna be the one that
Speaker 1: makes everybody laugh and like get in trouble and because
Speaker 1: you had validation to do it. Yeah, And I just
Speaker 1: I don't know I could if if I could say
Speaker 1: anything to anybody, is when you're in a dark place,
Speaker 1: especially young, just like be resilient and just do the
Speaker 1: right thing, because why does that pay off? It just
Speaker 1: pays off in every way. I mean it's like what
Speaker 1: would the roads pan out to look like? Say, like
Speaker 1: how do we don't have to go all the way down?
Speaker 1: But like why is it worth being resilient? What do
Speaker 1: you gain for? Honestly, if I'm being really honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think that the road that I could have chose
Speaker 1: could have honestly like it or made me end up
Speaker 1: like on the streets. Honestly, Yeah, I mean I could
Speaker 1: easily be homeless or have a drug addiction or um,
Speaker 1: it's just wide open. Just yeah, continue to be wide open.
Speaker 1: But I really accepted the help that I was offered,
Speaker 1: and that's really hard when you're really young. So that
Speaker 1: would definitely be advised to me, is when people are
Speaker 1: reaching out to help you and they're older, don't just
Speaker 1: look at them like you're you're too old, you don't
Speaker 1: get you don't get my life right now, and sink
Speaker 1: back into your your your little emo high school. So
Speaker 1: if you really have to like be appreciative, appreciative of
Speaker 1: anyone that is in your support system that's helping you,
Speaker 1: because there's so many people who don't have a support system.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have a support system, go find one.
Speaker 1: There's so many, I mean, there's so many outlets. Especially
Speaker 1: if you're at a high school, you can seek a
Speaker 1: counselor if you're in college, they have counselors there. Um
Speaker 1: there's groups in college, you know that you can seek
Speaker 1: out self help groups. They're everywhere. There's a group to
Speaker 1: find you. Absolutely, that's definitely a big thing for me.
Speaker 1: Is that would be my advice. Is I just I
Speaker 1: felt God working in my life at at the point
Speaker 1: when I didn't know if there was a God, so
Speaker 1: I knew that I had to just be I was
Speaker 1: just so strongly pulled to be on this path and
Speaker 1: and God he only knows where I would be if
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, so that would be my one
Speaker 1: piece of advice is to be resilient and to reach
Speaker 1: out for help and to to really listen to those
Speaker 1: that have already done this life before you and don't
Speaker 1: just disregard what they have to say. That is so true,
Speaker 1: And especially when you're young, it's like super easy to
Speaker 1: feel like you have all the answers or they're kind
Speaker 1: of dumb like you said, but really, yeah, so that
Speaker 1: would definitely be like a life changing experience for me
Speaker 1: that led you know, me to where I'm at. And
Speaker 1: so that's part of your story that you want to share.
Speaker 1: That's definitely part of my story. Um is just yeah,
Speaker 1: I just look up to those that have have gone
Speaker 1: before you, let people help you, and let people help you,
Speaker 1: and um yeah, just be really fearless as hard as
Speaker 1: it is. You know, it is hard to be fearless
Speaker 1: and just go with your heart, you know, yes, especially
Speaker 1: in the beginning, Like when I think back to my
Speaker 1: younger self, like the first time I took a big
Speaker 1: leap and then it actually had a crash following it
Speaker 1: because it went great, but then it all fell apart.
Speaker 1: It's like you think you're going to kind of die
Speaker 1: the first time it all happens, and then you sort
Speaker 1: of get through it, and then you sort of understand
Speaker 1: that everybody who's sort of trying to create their own
Speaker 1: way is going through this, and like you said, be resilient.
Speaker 1: And that comes back to just like reaching out for help.
Speaker 1: And you know your neighbor, you have no idea what
Speaker 1: they've been through. When you're sitting there in your dark moments,
Speaker 1: they can know woe is me, and I'm the victim
Speaker 1: and all of this has happened to me. When you
Speaker 1: actually reach out to other people, you you'd be really
Speaker 1: surprised what other what battles other people are fighting. And
Speaker 1: when you can connect even on a level, you know,
Speaker 1: like the things going wrong in your life, it's just
Speaker 1: it helps you build your courage and build your resilience.
Speaker 1: Why are we sometimes scared to talk about the things
Speaker 1: that are going wrong in our life? Because that is
Speaker 1: when I have the most. When I get to that point,
Speaker 1: I can share and I can hear other people's journeys,
Speaker 1: I feel so much more inspired to be brave, but
Speaker 1: it's so hard to share it sometimes. Yeah, I think honestly,
Speaker 1: everyone thinks like the thought like no one's gonna understand,
Speaker 1: which is so wrong because we're understand. Yeah, everyone is
Speaker 1: going through a battle that you have no idea of
Speaker 1: and it may not be your exact same battle. But
Speaker 1: when you connect, I mean, that's what we're made for.
Speaker 1: That's what we're wired for. Human connection. And when you
Speaker 1: connect with another human on that level, all of that
Speaker 1: like dark email stuff just kind of goes out the
Speaker 1: window and you can bring you know, light to the situation.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, is that kind of why you wanted
Speaker 1: the tribe mentality because you wanted that community and you
Speaker 1: wanted people to feel like this is how belonging. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted people to feel a part of something. I
Speaker 1: want to feel like that's part of your mission. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't just start this, you know, because
Speaker 1: I wanted to work and you know, just do something.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you buy a piece of clothing, you
Speaker 1: can like it, right, you can a hundred percent know
Speaker 1: that I looked at every single detail and that I
Speaker 1: worked on every single detail, and like when you receive
Speaker 1: that piece of clothing, I truly want them to feel
Speaker 1: a part of this tribe. And so many Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you get so many messages UM with that message of
Speaker 1: like I feel like a part of something bigger and
Speaker 1: you know, what you're doing is just makes me feel
Speaker 1: confident in Like I mean, even this girl she just
Speaker 1: deemed me like two days ago, and she's like, your
Speaker 1: sweats make me feel so sexy, and it's like I
Speaker 1: love that, Yes, is sexy, and I want it is sexy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I just love that. And
Speaker 1: I love getting feedback from everybody. And that's honestly, like
Speaker 1: what's kept me going is the feedback from everybody. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I feel like you are just so awesome about
Speaker 1: embracing exactly who you are, who you are and everyone else.
Speaker 1: You're just all about like being yourself, trusting your journey,
Speaker 1: staying true to you. Like I love your Instagram, especially
Speaker 1: when you start doing quotes and like giving inspiration because
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, that is so spot on and
Speaker 1: like be you and have the confidence to be Yeah. Mom.
Speaker 1: So I have two therapists. Actually, well I love some
Speaker 1: therapace and I'll hop on the phone UM on Wednesday. Actually,
Speaker 1: that's a really great tune advice to like reach out
Speaker 1: and get a therapist. I mean, if I didn't have one,
Speaker 1: who knows where i'd be. But but yeah, she just
Speaker 1: told me the other day and she said, Brittany, you
Speaker 1: embrace your story so much, and that's so important. So
Speaker 1: many people run from their story and they hustle for
Speaker 1: their worthiness. And you know, even though I think I
Speaker 1: have been trying to hustle for my worthiness and I
Speaker 1: didn't good hybrid. Yeah, I felt that when she said that,
Speaker 1: And she said, you have to own your story because
Speaker 1: if you keep running from it, like you're never settled,
Speaker 1: how do you own it? Just look at it in
Speaker 1: a minute, talk about it, claim it, you know, you
Speaker 1: just talk talk about it, you know, like so many
Speaker 1: people just don't want to talk about it. And um,
Speaker 1: I've connected with so many people. Um, you know, my
Speaker 1: my mom has had addiction problems. And when anyone brings
Speaker 1: that up around me or when everyone I could tell that,
Speaker 1: people feel shameful when they say, oh, well, my family's
Speaker 1: you know, not that great or whatever, and I'll just
Speaker 1: come out and say and say, you know, I get it.
Speaker 1: You know, my mom face faces a action issues, like
Speaker 1: she's in rehab right now. You know, I visit her
Speaker 1: every month or every other month. Then um, you can
Speaker 1: just see that the on people's faces, like the appreciation
Speaker 1: and like the connections is what it is. They just
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, wow, she's human, you know, and you're
Speaker 1: not trying to hide anything or like you're just being
Speaker 1: real about your life and your journey. And again, like
Speaker 1: that's all about connecting. Like you don't even necessarily have
Speaker 1: to join a group to just tell your neighbor like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is what's going on in my life, like and
Speaker 1: it's just that's that's just the joy about, yeah, connecting
Speaker 1: and and just being open and real and like owning
Speaker 1: your story and not being embarrassed because no matter where
Speaker 1: you come from, like you could end up anywhere, and
Speaker 1: we're all supposed to be here. Getting to this earth
Speaker 1: is a freaking miracle. And I just feel like whatever
Speaker 1: experience you're born into, the sooner you can gather some lessons,
Speaker 1: the sooner you can get to your purpose. I feel like,
Speaker 1: because if you don't have anything to compare it to,
Speaker 1: or anything to catapult you or inspire you, how do
Speaker 1: you even know where to go? You know? But you
Speaker 1: had like hard decisions and hard roads in beginning. You're
Speaker 1: like you made choices early on and you're like, this
Speaker 1: is how my life is going to be. And I
Speaker 1: feel like that can be a blessing in the long run.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. And and like I just spoke with
Speaker 1: my mom. You know, she's had addiction issues, and that
Speaker 1: was kind of something that kept coming back to my
Speaker 1: mind whenever. You know, I was seventeen and I had
Speaker 1: those two roads to to choose, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be like my mom, you know,
Speaker 1: whereas I could have easily said, well, you know, it
Speaker 1: runs in my family, and I'm just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to use the people that came
Speaker 1: before you and and take little tools and lessons from them.
Speaker 1: You know, have your little playbook and use all those
Speaker 1: negative things and turn them into a little positive tools
Speaker 1: that that help you navigate through life. You know, I
Speaker 1: totally get it. Where do you see your five year plan?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, this is what our accountant just asked the
Speaker 1: other day. Honestly, me and Brown were just talking about
Speaker 1: maybe moving to the Islands in like five years. Honestly, like,
Speaker 1: why would you not not joking at all, you should
Speaker 1: definitely do that. Yeah, we were thinking about maybe like
Speaker 1: at some point kind of going off the grid go off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like working really hard the next couple of years and um,
Speaker 1: maybe just like going incognito for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Why not, I know. I mean there's no reason not to.
Speaker 1: Nothing holding us back. I mean just that jump, which
Speaker 1: you guys aren't scared to jump, yea. If anyone's gonna jump,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be y'all. We're really not. Yeah. We've talked
Speaker 1: heavily on it. And we have some friends down there,
Speaker 1: um that have started their families in the Islands and
Speaker 1: their kids have like grown up there and like went
Speaker 1: to school there and and all the all those awesome things,
Speaker 1: and they kind of gave us the courage to actually
Speaker 1: like put it on our mood board and like, oh
Speaker 1: hell yeah, say it could be real. It could? It
Speaker 1: totally could. Okay, I'm asking you a few questions. You
Speaker 1: can answer whatever comes to your mind. Okay, what is
Speaker 1: love to you? Love is compromise. Yeah, dang, I think
Speaker 1: that that's some some profound wisdom right there. That just
Speaker 1: came to my head instantly. That's some womanly wisdom. You've
Speaker 1: been you've you've loved a long time to know that
Speaker 1: love is conference mine with family and with spouse. I
Speaker 1: love that. What is the point of us being here? Oh?
Speaker 1: I think human connection. Honestly, I've been doing some relief
Speaker 1: work and that has come to my mind so many times.
Speaker 1: It's connection. Yeah, we're all just here just to just
Speaker 1: to like love each other and into Yeah, it has
Speaker 1: to be. And even with animals. If money and all
Speaker 1: of that went out the window, we didn't have a
Speaker 1: banking system, Like, what would it be about? It be
Speaker 1: about people doing with your with your network of people
Speaker 1: and trading out different goods that you need. You'd have
Speaker 1: to connect its connection, you know it is. I love that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I freaking love I always in every interview would leave
Speaker 1: your light. This whole thing has been so inspiring. But
Speaker 1: I just like, out of everything you've gone through your
Speaker 1: crazy journey, I mean, you should write a book. Really.
Speaker 1: I know I have so many, so many more crazy
Speaker 1: things that have happened. But just like stories from your
Speaker 1: life and what you've learned. It's like, what, Opra, what
Speaker 1: I know for sure? Just from living? You just know
Speaker 1: these things? For what do you know for sure? Speaking
Speaker 1: of Oprah? Oh, what do I know for sure? Damn?
Speaker 1: My first word came my mind was a little morbid,
Speaker 1: but that we all die. We all die. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: what does that mean in between? I mean it honestly
Speaker 1: means that whatever matters? Do you? Like you're close knit
Speaker 1: friends and those connections like that's what you have to
Speaker 1: like hone in on and like love on and like
Speaker 1: the ship. That really matters, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because we all end up in the same place, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so just get to it. Yeah, okay, And I like
Speaker 1: to leave your light. So out of all your journeys,
Speaker 1: all your life, all your experiences, all of your knowledge
Speaker 1: you've accumulated, you're awesome vibes, your connection, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: You're just like magical existence. What do you want to
Speaker 1: share with people? What do you want people when they
Speaker 1: like think about you, think about tribe Kelly, think about
Speaker 1: your mission statement? What do you want them to leave with?
Speaker 1: You know, I definitely want them to live with the
Speaker 1: thought of like, no matter how you're brought up or
Speaker 1: how wounded you are, that that you can shine your
Speaker 1: own little light. You know. Um. I love that quote.
Speaker 1: It talks about um there has to be like a wound,
Speaker 1: a crack, you know, for a light to to be
Speaker 1: allowed to let in. And I don't know. Just no
Speaker 1: matter what your story is or where you come from,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what God has in store for you.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you find faith when you feel
Speaker 1: like you've lost it? Like do you just how do
Speaker 1: you find it? I definitely have to meditate it and
Speaker 1: and ask him to re remind me because it's definitely
Speaker 1: not something I can breathe through. It definitely is is
Speaker 1: work and you have to really like meditate on it
Speaker 1: and manifest it. And and I mean I pray all
Speaker 1: throughout the day. I mean I'll be and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh Lord, please don't give me anxiety when I go
Speaker 1: into you know, this employee staff meeting. And you know,
Speaker 1: I might look to appear to have all the confidence
Speaker 1: in the world, but that really does come through like
Speaker 1: constant like prayer and manifestation, you know, positive self talk,
Speaker 1: believing all of this, and then I end up at
Speaker 1: the Barnes and Noble self help sections. So maybe that
Speaker 1: go to the Barnes and Noble self help help section
Speaker 1: and um, you'll find We'll find you there, man, That's
Speaker 1: how I am. You go to our house, I have
Speaker 1: a bookshelf, and every single one of those books it's
Speaker 1: like connecting with your soul, how to like manifest your dreams.
Speaker 1: Of four agreements I'll have like Eckhart Toll everybody on
Speaker 1: their deepoc Chapra like all the things. I'm just I
Speaker 1: have the five agreements. I'm just like I need all
Speaker 1: the help with getting because honestly reminding myself to be positive,
Speaker 1: especially when I want to sink into a rabbit hole
Speaker 1: of just like sadness. It's just I need I need
Speaker 1: help to get there. Sometimes I can't do it by
Speaker 1: myself asking for help like so vulnerable to do. But
Speaker 1: I can't do it by myself like some people can,
Speaker 1: but I can't. I have to lean on somebody and
Speaker 1: just be like, Okay, I'm not alone, help me through this,
Speaker 1: And I love That's awesome. See you're just like us,
Speaker 1: be Cole, you know, like in the U S magazines
Speaker 1: and like these people are just like us. They eat
Speaker 1: ice cream, they by self help books. Yeah, freaking love it.
Speaker 1: You're amazing. Thank you so much for joining me on
Speaker 1: this and Sunday. Thank you for joining us, little girl,
Speaker 1: You're awesome. You're awesome, Love you peace out. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for tuning into this episode with Brittany. She
Speaker 1: is such a dream, so inspiring. I know you got
Speaker 1: inspired from an episode I did. I freaking love her.
Speaker 1: Next week, I have Caitlin Brown. She is the beautiful
Speaker 1: bride of Kine Brown and we talk all about her story.
Speaker 1: She is an incredible singer herself, and she walks me
Speaker 1: through this entire journey of how she met Kine and
Speaker 1: involves music. It's so great you will not want to
Speaker 1: miss it. Next week we have Caitlin Brown. See you
Speaker 1: so soon.