February 1, 2021 • 57 mins
Brittney Kelley is the definition of how love, light, dreams and positivity can can turn the darkest times into inspiration, drive and a thriving life and marriage. At 17 years old, Brittney suffered great loss with the murder of her grandmother who raised her. She was forced to grow up and learn how to be resilient and self motived at a very young age. She surrounded herself with people who lifted and pushed her to never settle for less than she was worth. In college she was on the fast track to becoming an accountant (she got all A's), when she felt a calling to switch to psychology and truly dive into understanding people and sharing her story. Brittney has always had the confidence to follow where her heart guides her, even if it's scary. That led to her opening an Etsy's jewelry store from her one bedroom apartment where she would take old, broken jewelry and twist it around into something new and spectacular. Brittney met and married Brian from Florida Georgia Line when she was finishing up at the University of Georgia and went straight from college to the tour bus. On the road, she and Brian combined their creative juices and launched a clothing/lifestyle brand, Tribe Kelley. They now have two beautiful storefronts: one in Nashville and one in 30A FL. Brittney and Brian are hands on every part of their company. They take pride in the quality of their products and that they are American Made. Brittney and Brian also take pride in their marriage and showing that marriage is sexy and cool. FGL has never been shy to put their wives in the spotlight and show that you can be a rockstar and love your wife at the same time. Get ready to be beyond inspired with this episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Carol. She's a queen. She's not afraid of no one can.
I am pumped to revisit one of my favorite episodes
(00:29):
this week for Brittany Kelly. We recorded this episode in
two thousand nineteen, and Brittany is just an incredible human being.
She's the founder, owner, creator of Tribe Kelly, which is
an amazing apparel line, the most beautiful comfortable clothes you've
ever seen. Brittany creates them all. It's all her vision
with her husband Brian, who's one half of Florida Georgia Line.
(00:50):
And Brittany just walks me through her life. You look
at her life on Instagram and she's so beautiful and
she has so many amazing things happening in her life.
But she created this life for herself. When she was
seventeen years old, her grandmother was murdered and that was
who was raising her, and Brittany just had to figure
out how to navigate life on her own and figure
out how to achieve what she wanted to achieve. And
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she focused hard. She went to school, she started an
et s shop, she had nothing handed to her, and
she's created the most beautiful life. This story is one
that is so inspiring to me. And I love Brittany.
She's a close friend and I just have so so
much admiration for her life. So here's Brittany Kelly. Hey, Hey, Hey,
how are you? What's up? Be Cole, the One and
(01:34):
only be Cole? Yes, we're at the party barn right now.
When this is where the parties go down. I think
it is definitely a few parties have gone down here
for sure, including your wedding. Yes, our wedding well before
it was um redone. We had our wedding reception here
and it was actually a super crappy barn and um
(01:55):
I had a girl, her name was Stephanie. She's like
an interior designer, and she souped it up magically and
it was a super whimsical, amazing experience. But it was
definitely like oily concrete floors, like unfinished wood type of
situation that we made really cool. And now this is
truly whatever you could dream it to be. It is
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what your dreams are made of. I know, I feel
like Ralph Lauren would like live here or something. Ralph
Lauren would die to do all of his photo shooting
campaigns campaigns here right, So talk to me about how
you got here, How did you get to this treehouse?
Tell me about where you're from? When did you become
a dreamer? You have so much to talk about, huge
legacy already at Like how old are you? Not even
thirty yet have a clothing brand, You're a world traveler.
(02:41):
You're so deep and profound to be so young. Where
did you first realize that you were a creator and
you had creativity in you? Yeah? For sure. Um, you know,
God has been a really big part of this. For sure.
I love that you just talk about that. Yeah, I
mean it's it's definitely been a big part of my life.
And um, how haven't always been a super strong believer.
(03:02):
I had a pretty tragic event happened to me when
I was seventeen, and um, everything kind of flipped that
next year. Is that what made you strong? It is?
I definitely feel like I got um my resilience from
from that, and I feel like I gained it early
on because I think that like even having to go
through a tragedy young, it gives you something that you
(03:23):
wouldn't have had otherwise. Maybe. Yeah, I definitely think it
gives you tools to carry along. And I think a
lot of people don't learn, Um, certain lessons that I
learned until later on in life. Um, because sex, it
really really sucks. Um, you definitely go through dark times,
but you you gained these tools that help you navigate
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the world and it doesn't have to be all terrible.
And that's I love that that you say that, that
like it. So the tragedy gave you strength. There's always
a silver lining for sure, and so um, yeah, there
was a point where I was in a really dark
space and I just kind of I think I actually
hit my knees at one point. I was like, you know,
you know, use me for what you need because I'm
I'm not usable right now. And um, you know, I
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went to Georgia Southern. I started out there and I
tried to stay a pretty narrow path. And I was
an accounting major at first you free spirit like Mermaid,
fairy Land, dust of all the magic. Yes, I was
an accounting game. See what you're doing that. I was
a solid B plus accounting major. Yeah. And um, when
(04:29):
I was seventeen, I lost my grandmother and that that
was the tragic event. Um. She was murdered actually, and
I was I was devastated, but I moved in with
this family. Um that was absolutely amazing and um and
just honestly angels from above, the Renews. And I had
known them since middle school and you were like renewing
(04:52):
your own Yeah, that's crazy, the Renews. And so they
are angels, Um, definitely from above. And I moved in
with those guys and they held me accountable and um,
they made me stay a pretty straight narrow path that
I made. Being held accountable important because like sometimes you
want to fight it, not you, but like people want
to fight it. Oh I thought, I thought, Oh I
(05:13):
thought it. Believe me. I mean, I definitely came in,
um to their to their house. Uh, you know this
is we're getting real here, but pretty drunk a couple
of times. And uh, Susan kind of snatched me up
a couple of times when my head was hanging over
in the trash can and she said, this isn't your path,
you know, like you've gotta You're meant for so much more.
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And and so having people along the way, I think
tell you that is so so important to surround yourself
with supporters, you know. And um, and I've heard this
so many different times, but you really are you know,
the people that you surround yourself with. So, UM, to
answer your original question, Uh, it's who I've surrounded myself with. UM.
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I've surrounded myself with people who are resilient and people
who have visions and people who were creative. And um,
the husband of that family luster, Uh, he has a
cool story and it just super it was super inspiring.
I mean, he came from nothing and and he is,
I mean an amazing entrepreneur now. And so seeing people
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like that in my life really gave me the strength
and the courage really to like dream big because seeing
someone come from absolutely nothing UM to to having pretty much,
you know, everything that we in our society. I guess
de finds this success UM is definitely something that I
think everyone needs. Everyone needs to have somebody to look
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up to and and a reason for that. UM. So
I feel like the people have surrounded myself with and UM.
The path that I was on was accounting and it
was awesome and and I was so pumped in the
beginning to be an accounting major. I was like, I'm
so good at math, Like I can do this. UM.
And I had a breakdown when was this, Like when
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I was like eighteen, I remember calling Susan, the mother
of this family, and and I said, I just can't
do this, like I cannot do people's taxes, like I
can't like I don't I can do my own. And
I feel really blessed to have had the you know,
finances and ability to learn this and I'm going to
take it throughout my life. Um, but yeah, I had
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a little breakdown and I said, I'm changing my major
to psychology. So I did a complete turnaround there and yeah,
I went to psychology and it put me in school
and additional year longer. And I knew that, And um,
why is it scary though? Because I have found myself
in the middle of transitions and I and my first
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reaction is fear of changing it up and like getting
off path, even though I really was never on a path,
like I had made up a path in my mind
right or something, and so like you feel like you're
going to be left behind or you look around and
maybe someone else, especially when I make a big change
or something, do you ever feel that, like holy ship?
Like what if I just ruined every thing? Yes, get
(08:01):
your faith to do it honestly and other people, I mean,
I'm my biggest critic honestly, like, um, I'm the worst
I myself talk can be awful sometimes too. I didn't
I didn't know I did that. Like I'm pretty hard
on myself in a mean way sometimes, right, Like why
am I being so brutal? Right? It's like it's like
the head and the heart thing. It's like at that
moment that I changed my major from psych from accounting
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to psychology, I was like, you know, my heart is like, yes,
this is what you need, Like you need to learn
this stuff for yourself and to help other people and
to share your story and to understand, you know, the
thought processes. But my head was like, you're a freaking idiot,
Like you've spent so much money on school, You're now
going to be in school for another year? Like what
are you doing? Like you're what are you trying to do?
(08:44):
Like did you know your in goal at this point?
I honestly did not, So what were you following? Honestly,
wasn't following anything? Uh, just your intuition, I guess. Honestly
felt lead in the depths of my soul to learn
psychology for myself and or the the story that I had,
And I knew that just by sharing my story with
(09:05):
just a couple of people in in in college, I
knew that I had some purpose to share that story,
and so I didn't know where to get that knowledge from.
And so many times at the time, um, little synchronicities
were happening in psychology kept popping up and popping up,
and UM, I just said, I'm going for it. And
it's it's odd because you know, I had this family,
(09:27):
there were news helping me along the way, but I
really didn't have a mom or a dad or um,
you know, my grandmother to tell me no. So I
just went for it. You know, I really I need
to ask you about this because I'm struggling with this
right now. I feel like I think I have always
been really like self sufficient and like really confident, and
(09:48):
like people might think that I really like I have
a lot of confidence and stuff, but when it comes
down to it, I often do not trust myself. And
like what you said, you had no one to tell
you know, from a young age, so you had to
find that trust of yourself. How do you do that?
Because that is the most terrifying thing, to hold yourself
(10:10):
accountable for whatever you decide good or bad. Yeah, I
think when you're young, it's just you really feel like
you're diving off a diving board. You don't know if
there's like water down there. Honestly, what are you thinking?
You're just not thinking about what's down there? I mean
at that age, honestly, like I was so torn between
like what everyone else thought of me and like what
(10:32):
I really like I wanted people to think of me,
And like, as I get older, the more I really
don't care what people think of me, and I just
think it's I mean, I hate to say, oh, it's
like an age thing, like when you get older you'll understand.
But just every year that goes by is like such
a learning year for me that I'm usually assuming that
(10:53):
everyone thinks these things of me, and I'm creating this
like critic that doesn't exist or just anything like what
does she thinking changing her major? Or why don't you
know I started my own Etsy company. That was my
first creative endeavor in college amongst all of this craziness um,
and I just would always like panic and be like,
you know, what are what am I? The people that
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I used to go to school would think of me?
What is the renews think of me? For changing you know,
what would my nana think of me? That you know,
I know she's gone, but what is she thinking of me?
Especially when you're like starting as a creator. This little
Sundays here interrupting it. When you're starting as a creator though,
especially when you haven't had anything to show for yourself
just yet besides the dreams in your heart that you
believe you can do it. And that's why like having
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someone who is a great support system, like you said,
the renews or somebody that like is giving you strength somewhere.
But it's just to start a creative endeavor is so
scary because you have so many potentials that might fail, no,
for sure, So I started to make it. Sunday. Sunday
(11:58):
has like completely taken over the interview right now. So
Sunday is my white wolf dog and she just hates
when the intentions that on her. So I can't blame
her because she's absolutely beautiful and you know, a wolf,
part wolf. It's not every day you're hanging out with
a wolf. Yeah. So um, again, just back to the
people that you surround yourself with. Um, when I first
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started my Etsy account that I was talking about, so
let me back up a little bit give you a
little history. I changed my major to psychology spin a
semester at Georgia Southern, and then I worked my butt
off to get all a's the last semester so I
could transfer into the University of Georgia, which was like,
I mean, if you would have told me in high
school that I would have gone to U g A,
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I would have said, yeah, right, like you're you're crazy.
I mean, you're crazy, Like I'm not that smart. It
was not that smart, like I have to study a lot,
you know. Um, But I made all a's and UM
got into the U g A. And that was just
like a huge moment for me and my self confidence. UM,
because I just know that I I knew that I
(13:02):
was smart, don't don't get me wrong, but I just
didn't believe in myself. And so when that happened, Um,
I gained so much more confidence, and I started my
creative endeavors, UM getting into like jewelry and clothing. Because
this is really funny because I couldn't go out and
party anymore. I genuinely couldn't because now I'm going to
the University of Georgia, Like I can't go out to
(13:24):
the bars because I genuinely have to make the grades
to stay in here because I'm having to hold myself
accountable at this point because I'm paying for this, you know,
I'm working. Um, I've now started, you know, this creative endeavor.
So I had a one bedroom apartment. Um, and I
started this little Etsy account and so I would go
find old, broken, like vintage jewelry and like make it
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into something else and um, and at the time, I
didn't have the money. So this guy would hook me
up with this old broken jewelry and I would twist
it around and you know, make a headband out of
like an old bracelet or something. And I was making
right at like three four dollars a month, which is
perfect because that was like my rent at the time. So, um,
I got to quit my waitressing job at Buffalo Ald Wings. Actually, okay,
(14:10):
the Lemon Pepper That's where I'm at me. Man, No,
I know all the sauzes. But that was when when
I got into Georgia and when I had my one
bedroom apartment, and I made up my mind, I'm not
going to the bars. That's not where're gonna find me
on Saturday or Sunday. I'm actually gonna be making jewelry
and um, chilling in my one bedroom. That's when I
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started to get my little creative you know journey journey
going on. And I just had so many people at
the time, you know, hit me up over social media
and just say like, you're so talented, and like I
started getting this influx of comments about how creative I was.
And so again, the people you know that are reacting
to that really gave me the confidence. And um, the
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Renews and and their daughter Whitney, Um, gave me a
lot of confidence too. And they just were always pouring
so much into me, and um, yeah, just gave me
the confidence to even start anything creative. You know why
did that? Is the thing? Like the confidence, It's so
many people can't do it because it's having confidence. I
feel like this is something that I love talking about
(15:13):
with people like you who are such role models of confidence.
Is having confidence takes confidence? Yeah, it doesn't just come
to you, Like you have to decide to just be confident.
How did you decide that you wanted to succeed and
you're gonna do this and make it a priority instead
of just feel like screw it, I'm just gonna float
how did you like laser being this? Yeah for sure. Um,
(15:34):
I honestly have to daily meditate on the fact that
I am my worst critic and when I start to
create all of these scenarios about you know, because confidence,
you know, comes from you know, fearfulness or lack of
confidence comes from fearfulness. And why are we why would
we we be fearful not to have confidence because of
(15:55):
what everyone else thinks, you know. And um, confidence also
takes vulnerability, you know, like we've we've talked on that,
you know, and that's why some people who have like
the hardest shell, I'm like, okay, they're actually the most
vulnerable because it is so hard to be vulnerable. It's
just like walking out there with your heart with no protections,
(16:17):
like I want to. Vulnerability is a skill set on itself.
It has vulnerable Okay. So now that we're talking about this,
I feel like I'm like figuring some stuff out. We
bought love Benet Brown, right, okay, Rene Brown? Yeah, I
love you girl. So yeah, now that we're like talking
about this and figuring it out, I think that confidence
honestly comes from being vulnerable because when you step out
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whatever you do in life, whether you're a model or
a nurse or a mom or whatever it is, like
you have to be confident in that role, you know,
and that trust yourself, right, and that's being very vulnerable
to like step out and say this is who I
am and this is you know, what my life is
and because of what happens if it fails, and then
it's like, Okay, I owned it and it's not a
fayre because I put And that's another thing I have
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to tell myself. It's not a failure if you put
yourself out there and you give it your heart. It's
whatever happens is a great experience. It has to be.
It can't be like a failure because you can't get
you can't let yourself get discouraged, even though you can,
you're human. It's just like I just think putting yourself
out there and going for it. Like, how did you
feel when you started Tribe, Kelly, Because this is now
(17:22):
a huge operation. You have two storefronts, one in Nashville,
like right in the epicenter of Nashville. It's freaking beautiful.
And the way you have it all designed, your vibe,
your your denim and your special touches that you do
with your dinner in the way you get it all cut,
Like you are so meticulous about this brand and it's
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so uniquely you and your husband Brian, Like it's so y'all,
there's nothing else like it. But how did you step
into that and create that and decide like, shoot, okay,
here I go. Yeah it was that's not a little
at this point, and um, we're still on the upper mom.
You know. It's it's not like we're like hugely grossly
(18:03):
successful enough like hired this team to like handle it all.
I mean, it really is like all of me I have.
I have so many hats on right now. Um you
right now, let's see founder, um, CEO, CEO, you know,
operations manager. I'm also doing a lot of accounting, which
thank you Lord for that. Um, you know, I'm managing
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a lot of people. I mean I have do you
manage people? Because that is such a special thing, so
many people do it differently. It's it's a thing. And
I'm learning daily and I honestly draw inspiration from tons
of like literature that I've read. And um, I'm like
a little dork on like books, but like I love
going into Barnes and Noble, and going straight to like
the self help or like the business improvement section, and um,
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you know, I just try to pour into my employees
like what I'll learn, you know through these these books
that I'm reading. Um, but yeah, I'm managing people is
like a whole a whole different thing. I figure out
how to get people inspire right and like and so
to to take it back a minute, Um, you know
it went from me and Brian being on a tour bus.
You know too, now we have the dream just came
(19:09):
from being on tour. Yeah. So basically, um, you know,
I had my Etsy account in college and Brian and
I got married. And where did y'all meet in Nashville?
Are you in Nashville? We so, Brian and I. This
is a great story. So we may need to hit
that story after Lly, you remember it all, Can you
make it awful of back together? Yeah? I can make
it afull together. Okay, So tribe Kelly was definitely born
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on the tour bus. Um obviously had the creative spirit
from my Etsy account. We got married at the end
of my college semester. So literally I finished college and
I went straight on the tour bus. So I was,
you know, on a bus at the time, we didn't
have our own bus. You know, I was on the
bus with you know, Tyler and Hayley. Well actually Haley
they haven't met, hadn't met at that point, but um,
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Tyler and like tons of other guys, and I knew
I had to do something, Like what were you feeling?
Itching to do some thing? I can't even just have
a job. I was like, I've got to do something
I can't. I don't know what to do with my hands.
So even though it's so fun to be traveling and stuff,
you're like, Okay, I want to put my creative juice somewhere. Yeah.
Like I knew that I had to put something out
(20:12):
into the world. Um. So yeah, we started writing the
blueprints for trap Kelly. Um, how did you pick fashion
and clothes? I mean, I guess it came from jewelry
because jewelry was my first love. And then on my
Etsy account, Um, I did do custom T shirts and stuff.
So I did custom like drawings and designs on T shirts.
But I was like more of like a one of
the con type of thing. Um So I knew I
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had to figure out something like that I could like
manufacture because I can't sew every single piece. Um, so yeah,
I knew that. Um, you know we had a platform
and um I knew that. You know, Brian was interested
in clothing and we just started talking and we just talked,
I feel like for like months about this, just talked
like what do we want to do? Like do we
want to do a small collection? Like what's the name
(20:56):
and all of all of that jazz? And um, how
do you catch the creative ideas? Like you know when
you actually materialize a creative idea? I kind of think
of him was like just like floating around in the ether,
how do you actually like know when to grab one
and pull it down and like harness it. Well, my
husband has an amazing like ear and amazing ah for
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he likes to call him um smashes, so like he
is like he can hear something and honestly I just
trust his opinion and he can just say, oh, that's
good and that's not good, like that's ahead or not yes,
like with the sometink. Like he can hear a song
and be like, oh, that's an a monest Like it's good,
but like it's not going to go number one. Like
he's just very like confident in his like creative opinions. Okay,
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well you know what, I think that's half of the battle,
it is. And so again, more people that you surround
yourself with. He was just so supportive of the fact
that I wish everyone could see Sunday right now. She's
like obsessed with Caroline. She's usually never liked this. She
knows I'm a dog. She feels the vibe um. So yeah,
just having that voice of iran um. And he would
(22:01):
tell me like if I said, oh, what about this
name for the clothing line, He's like, ah, you know,
it's good, but it's not a hit. It's not a hit.
And so I was like, you know, I want our
family name to be involved. I wanted to feel very community.
I wanted to be worldwide, Like I want people to
feel when they buy a piece of clothing that they're
a part of this family. So we kicked around things
like team and squad and all these different things, and
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I was like, well, I'm Native American, and like we
have a t P. You know what about tribe and
tribe is such a universal word, you know, it's not
just about the Native Americans. It can be any trip,
like your tribe of girls, your community. Yeah and so,
and then I came up with it. I will, I
will take credit for it, But I said, trap Kelly,
that's us trip Kelly, and he just automatically said, sash.
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That's a that's a hit. That's a snash right there.
And so we knew it when we had the name.
We just started going, do you not just feel the
electricity everywhere when she said when we had the name,
we knew it, and we just started going, Oh my gosh.
That just makes me so inspired to be around people
and to know people and to hear their stories, like
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Brittany and Brian how they came up with tripe Kelly
and how this idea and brainstorm has launched now into
this incredible company. Just hearing about all the dedication, the time,
the sweat, the blood that tears that takes to build
this company makes me want to get busy on my
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taken me of ever. Okay, here's Brittany talking about why
it is so crucial to get the name and the
title locked in and then how you can soar from
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there as she did with Tribe Kelly. Why does it
when you get that piece locked in, it's like you
need just like just like a title, you know what
I mean. It's like you gotta know where you're going
with it, right, And so we knew the we knew
we wanted to have everything manufactured in the US. We
had all these missions that okay, tell me your mission,
and why was importantly stuck with them? Because rats behind
(24:31):
me about a mission like that. Yeah for sure. I mean,
no judgment, it's each of their own, absolutely, But to
you like, this is something that's important? Why right? Um? Honestly,
because I had crafted so many things with my own hands,
and I had done so much research even before I
wanted to start the clothing line UM, and I had
heard a lot of things in the fashion industry that
(24:51):
I just just didn't settle with my spirit. UM. And
there's you're good at listening to your spirit, yeah, and
there's just some things you can't turn the other cheek too.
So when your spirit is acting up and saying like noop, noop, now, yeah,
what does that feel like? Oh? It feels like I
have to like hop on board, Like a set doesn't
make you want to throw up if you don't do it. Yeah,
yeah for sure. I mean. And what I'm talking about
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exactly is the manufacturing. And UM, I just looked into
all my options like where can I manufacture? Where can
I make this count? Um? And I had taken a
couple of trips mission trips to Guatemala and UM the
beginning of my college career, and I had seen the
women there and how they made UM their traditional clothing,
like their wee pills and all these different things, and
how they were sitting there with their hands and really
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doing it, and they were doing it because they were passionate,
and they were doing it for their families and to
clothe their families. And um, I just realized how much
of a craft it was. And I just realized that
someone that's taking their time to craft something for me
like needs to get paid fairly. You know. I don't
want to to send my brand overseas and not know
whose hands it's going to and not know if if
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it's a child's hands, or not knowing if that that
family is getting paid, because that is the dark reality
of overseas sometimes. Um. And so for me to be
able to step in my manufacturers and literally see and
meet all of like our sewers, it brings me such
like comfort and joy and to know that they're getting
paid like fair wages and they can actually feed their families.
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And when I send them thousands of items to so like,
even though I could send it overseas for way way
way way cheaper, um, it just brings such a I
don't know, I feel like I'm doing something also, you know,
that's that's right. And where does that come from? Like?
Where does that trait come from? That sense of just
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you're doing what you feel is right, even though you
don't have to and no one would judge you if
you didn't, but you still want to do that. Like
where does that come from? And how are you able
to stand so strong in that? Yeah? I honestly think
it comes from how I was raised. Um, I was
raised my grandma. What were you taught? What were the
what was your life motto? Like? Your grandmother taught you?
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Who don't trust anybody? Actually? Um? She um. She was
a very sufficient, be self sufficient. She always told me
to um funny enough. I mean she didn't she obviously
never met Brian, but she always told me to never
depend on a man. Yeah, but you and Bryan, Actually,
that is something I would like to talk about because
y'all and Haley and Tyler, the Florida Georgia line uh
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brand in general, y'all have made marriage cool and I
feel like y'all were sort of the mavericks of this.
I mean a lot. There's a lot of couples in
country music who are really awesome and embrace their marriage.
But it was like wham bam in your in your
face from the beginning that these men loved their wives
and y'all were a foursome unit in a power couple.
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How so that's like, never trust a man, but you
have a man who wants you right next to him.
How did y'all all make that kind of decision? Because
not everyone has that kind of strong marriage. It is
a pressure having being like goals for people, like marriage
goals and life goals, Like how is all that? How
did you all make that decision to be like that?
Or is it just how it always was? Yeah, Brian
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is is a work of art. He is like such
an amazing man. And um, I think his dad and
his parents have a lot to do with it, and
and the way he was taught. And I just remember
in the beginning, Um, I remember when we first started
dating and we weren't married, and someone on the team
had said, you know, you know, Brittany can't walk the
carpet with you, and you know, y'all gotta look like
this this single like hot, you know, And I remember
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not taking like offense to it at all, and I
was like, okay, cool, Like I'll just be in the
back room or whatever y'all want, wherever y'all want to
stick me, Like I don't really care about all the
glam in the band, but um I remember asking him later,
like just so innocently and just factual, like, well, wow,
why can I be on the carpet with you? Like
what's why does it make you look bad? Like? And
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I had mentioned something I don't remember the exact how
exactly said it, but I was like, you know, women
seeing like men, like if if they are you know,
looking up to you, as like men that they would
want to be with, Like when they can see a
man like you guys love on a woman that's just
from middle Georgia that you know, isn't any crazy thing special,
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like but you know what I mean, like the middle
of nowhere. I mean it's not like I'm I was
in Nashville and like in the industry or like anything
like that. I mean, I came from nothing, you know,
and for him to like love on someone like that,
I think it's really like inspiring to young women because
it's like not only can like you know, you know,
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a man that's the CEO of you know, a business
in your town love his wife, but a rock star
can love his wife too, you know. And it's especially
when rock stars like before this time for period kind
of have bad reputations of doing whatever they want, you know,
and that has just never been y'all's vibe. And if
y'all have made marriage sexy, like your last video you're
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in a bathtub, I mean, how which my hair black?
By the way, that bathtub durned my hair all the
way black. But it was like black water, and I
had like black Diana and I just went straight in
with the blonde hair and I had to get some
color correction. But no, but I love that and I
admire that, and I totally agree with you. It's like
I love f GL even more as a duo and
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as an act because of the people that all of
you guys are, because it's like you want the full package.
I just don't want someone who's got a flashy career
but they suck as a human who wants to be that? Yeah,
I mean in the beginning, Haley and I definitely were
on some music video shoots where other girls were like
or what do they call it, like the star or
whatever they call the girl parts or whatever. He had
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the lead woman or whatever, and um, I just remember,
you know, Haley and I were just very innocently just like, well,
why can't it be us? Like we're the leads? Sunday says,
why can't I be the lead of Sunday? Come here,
Nic Sunday. And that's a great question. So yeah, in
the beginning, I mean, Haley and I didn't mind, like
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we're definitely like rot or die, like we'll sit here
and and watch the whole you know, thing go down.
But I guess we were just so innocently like, well,
I mean, y'all love us, and like in reality like
we're doing we're we're like living this song out, you
know what I mean. And so it's like, well, if
we're in reality living this song out, and all of
your fans, you know, now that we have social media,
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are actually seeing like we're together, I mean, it's kind
of confusing, I feel like, to this fan, yeah, to
the fan base, if like they can now that we
have social media, you know, the rock stars back that
they didn't have social media and now that reality TV
and real life is so much more interesting than like
the fake life, right, Yeah, And then like as a
fan I would assume, like, you know, you see this
rock star that you're you know, you love their music,
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you see him with his wife or his girlfriend even online,
but then you just see another random just girl that
they've picked. It's just like huh. You know, you don't
feel like it's tense and like electrifying, like when you
know they're really doing that stuff in real life, you're like,
oh my god, I can feel that. So I just
feel like it's real, you know. So I feel like
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you guys are on the forefront of this big movement though.
So how has it been for you to ride this
wave and what have you learned about like the entertainment machine,
the same machine. What are what are the highs of it?
What are the lows that you've experienced, because it's all
a spectrum. Yeah for sure. Um, let's see, yeah, it's
it's been a it's been a rod for sure. It's
definitely something too, you know, went fast like when Crews
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came out, it was a rocket ship. Yeah. I mean
when Brian and I got married, which was two thousand thirteen. Um, yeah,
it was in the middle of it all, and it
was it was intense. And when I say intense, it's
just time intensive. Um, all the time we weren't ever
at home, you know what I mean. And the most
important thing in this industry is you have to create
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your own normal you know what I mean. And we
would just have to create our all normal weather that
be hey babe, like let's kick everybody off the bus
and have a little date night, you know what I mean,
Or like we have to go to dinner in a
movie in this city, Like we can't hang out with
everybody afterwards, you know, because that's another thing. There's always
people around, There's always tons, and they're amazing people. There's
always stuff to do, hang out with you could forget
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to be like have an intimate night with your spouse,
not like intimate, but let's like have a me time, No,
for sure. I mean even like there were so many
nights that um, the four of us like snuck off
and went to a movie, you know what I mean.
And that's just so important important in this fast paced machine.
I love that's how you put it. It is a
machine because these two you know, amazingly talented young men
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just got put into a machine. And with all their
talents and all of the management's talents and all of
the team's talents, it just came out on the other
side as like I mean surreal and like rock star,
you know, and it's just it's it's definitely a wave
you have to ride and you definitely had. I love that.
I'm majored in psychologist because it really helped me through
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navigating all these feelings as I'm feeling so many right
and there's a lot of people that that come through
your path and and they simply only want to talk
to your husband and they disregard you, and so you
have to how do you navigate that? Do you learn
just to not to get personal or something? Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Um the Four Agreements? That book is great kitchen. Yeah,
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before I read that, I really struggled. Um, you know,
there's been definitely instances where, um, you know, women have
treated me really ugly or pushed me out of the
way to to get to my husband in different things
like that. And in the beginning, it really hurt my feelings. Um,
but what happened then? How did you how did you
make a I just really feel like I transformed in
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the past couple of years, and um, the Four Agreements.
I hate to just blame it all on that, but
that really blame on the board. But honestly, I mean
there's an agreement in there. It says don't take anything personal.
And and I would just think when that happened, you know,
like this may be the highlight of that lady's life,
you know, getting to go there and talk. You know
she you know, she literally I cannot take that personal.
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Has nothing to do with me, you know, She's just her. Yeah,
And so how did you decide to make that switch?
Because I remember when I kind of switched to a
new way of thinking, It's like, Okay, nobody's really ought
to get me, right. I don't think the people that
I'm like love the most aren't. So like I just
gotta retrain my brain or something. It's like in it's
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like it's it's training. It's training your brain in the
moment when you start to feel that anxiety creep up,
you really have to ride this on reacting and anger
always the first to come right, you know, because it's
like we need to insecure or fear or whatnot. You've
put you put your defenses up. And I've really learned
to like rid the wave. And I've actually like loved
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laughing at myself about it because I'm like you are
making something out of thing, and then you realize if
you just kind of skip over it and let the
wave pass, I'm like man and my past I would
have ridden that wave and I would have just like
gotten stuck on it and maybe been there for like
a day, maybe even a week, maybe like just redirected
the whole like conversation and vibe of like me and
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Michael because I just decided to go down this rabbit conversation. Yes,
I've had plenty of those days, and those were like
my younger years and and yeah, just really and I
think it comes back to confidence. And it's like my
husband has given me so much confidence in our marriage,
like I don't think twice, Like if the most beautiful
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girl in the world is talking to him, I legit.
At this point in my life, I'm like, so sweet.
I've actually just a big fan, Like I don't I
don't care. It's like I'm so confident in him and
heat the way he looks at me, even when he's
in conversations like that, It's like I know he's going
home with me, Like why would I create something out
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of nothing? And so it has a lot to do
with the mature rety to you know, and trust of marriage. Yeah.
I think that's the bottom line, Like you both don't
give each other reason not to trust each other. Yeah.
And when you've made this this really deep emotional like
agreement and you really know you're on the same like page, connection, wavelength,
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whatever you want to call it, it's really electric and
it's like we can read each other's minds, you know
what I mean in situations like that. And and don't
get me wrong, like there's the flip, the script has
been flipped. When when men come and talk to me
like heck, yeah, look at you. I can give Braun
the look like this guy's hilarious, you know, and he
just he's confident in me that you know, I'm not
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anything other than his wife. You know, what have you
learned about marriage? Because I feel like I've been married
now four and a half years, and I just to me,
marriage is not what I thought it was going into it.
Because now that I'm married, I'm like, this is so
much more than Oh, I think you're hot. I like
your personality, we get along. When you make a life
with someone, you really do morph into that person. And
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I feel like I have just been molded in a
way that I didn't know it's possible. Just makes you
chip off certain pieces of you that you didn't need
or something. Absolutely, it's like holding a mirror up in
front of each other and you have to decide, do
I want to make this a thing? Do I want
to fight with you? Do I want to rise up
and be a little bit more mature here, or like
I find myself having those conversations. I mean, mom, I
love I love saying this to my friends and and
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my family too. If if someone is is looking for
a companion, is you've got to find somebody you want
to figure things out with. Great point, because you're not
going to find somebody that you're never going to fight with,
never gonna disagree with, never going to have different opinions.
You have to find somebody who's worth figuring out this
earth that we're on with. You know what, I'm not
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taking it personal if you see it differently, right, I mean,
Brian has been such a mirror to me. I mean,
you know, like I've I've had trauma issues in my life,
so that's come out in my personality at different times,
and sometimes he'll just hold that mirror up and say, hey, baby,
you need to change. You need to change your ways.
Like that came off a little bitchier. That came off
a little you know whatever, and sometimes on a little
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defense and like through you in a second, like let
me tell you all the things that you can improve it. Right,
We're gonna sit down and we can like tell are
we gonna do this? Because I'll do this. But I
mean when he comes back down to it, honestly, like
he's right most of the time, and it's like and
he wants the best for you, right, and he right,
he's not trying to pick a fight. That's another thing.
I know. He knows my heart too, so he's like,
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you're what's coming out of you isn't reflecting who you
really are. And I'm so appreciative for that, Like, please
tell me what I'm doing wrong, because I would love
to adjust it for you. And that's another thing. You
have to be with somebody who you want to adjust
yourself for. You know, that's really really important because if
you don't have a connection with that human, you're not
gonna want to change your little tendencies and habits and ways.
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And Lord knows, I have changed so many tendencies and
habits and way you know, I mean from what I
put on the sink or where I'll leave my extensions
are like whatever, And same with him. I mean it's
it's you have to find somebody you want to figure
things out with, yeah, and that you just get along
with their personality and their little quirks don't bother you,
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because at the end of the day, when it all
stripped down, there's still a person. They're gonna have things.
And I have dated plenty of people I just could
not get on board with little bits about them. It
just drove me crazy. And there's something about the personality.
But like Michael, I'm like, okay, exactly, yes, you drive
me crazy sometimes, but I want to figure this out
with you, right, And that's what I tell a lot
of my girlfriends to him. Like usually in the first
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like even months, in like months to three months, you
can figure out if it's not yeah, if that's why
you want to start figuring out, because you're not just
gonna meet somebody and then you know, months down the
road just be like, oh, everything's perfect. I've never argued,
we've never disagreed. It's like it's kind of good to
get in your first little fight so that you can
see if you guys can navigate and figure that out
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and that. So I mean, yeah, you're just when you
have that really big red flag in the first three months,
just get out of Just get out of there and
don't get invested. I tell that to my single friends
because I have a couple of single friends who are
the total package, literally total package, but they'll just date
someone for like a year. Yeah, because you think things
are going to change, yes, but again you've got if
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you are annoyed with figuring out it immediately, you have
to cut it even though you don't want to, and
even though they're still juice left to squeeze. That's how
I said, I like, you don't have to squeeze all
the juice out just because there's a lot of juice
left in there. You know you're gonna hit the rind
eventually and it's gonna be dried up, right, So just
just move on. Yeah, n Brian, Like in the beginning,
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I mean, especially with the wild rout of like being
on tour, you know, I mean obviously there's late schedules
and we're not sleeping and there's people are irritated, like
you know, I could tell that we would we just
been like would bend and flow with each other. It
was just very flexible. Like when he was irritated, I
would kind of step up to the plate and like
build him up, and then you know, vice versa with me.
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And when we were both irritated, it was almost like
we would laugh because but you need to like help
me get out of this funk. And like we just
we are champions of each other and to help each
other get out of that funk. And how important is
laughing and not taking it too seriously? Gosh? We uh,
we get to that point a lot, especially when we're
super irritated. Like I mean, it could be like a
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lot of the times, you know it's travel issues. You know,
something goes wrong or or we were late or whatever,
and like we just have to laugh. I mean, we
just had this thing where we get to a point
and we just have to laugh it off because it
just you work things up again that I just don't
have to be you know. So you said in the beginning,
you felt like you had a story to share. What
is your message that you want to put out there
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and what does having a platform mean to you? Yeah,
for sure, a great question all the way down to
the bottom of your soul. No, I love that. Um, Honestly,
I just feel like I was in such a dark
place at seventeen. I could have gone two different paths
and you knew it. I knew it, And I actually
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really wanted to go like the bad path because because
it was a good excuse. It was like, well, this
has happened to me, So I'm gonna go party and
I'm gonna go be the party girl, and I'm gonna
be the one that makes everybody laugh and like get
in trouble and because you had validation to do it. Yeah,
And I just I don't know I could if if
I could say anything to anybody, is when you're in
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a dark place, especially young, just like be resilient and
just do the right thing, because why does that pay off?
It just pays off in every way. I mean, it's
like what would the roads pan out to look like? Say, like,
how do we don't have to go all the way down?
But like why is it worth being resilient? What do
you gain? Honestly, if I'm being really honest with you,
I think that the road that I could have chose
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could have honestly like it or made me end up
like on the streets. Honestly, Yeah, I mean I could
easily be homeless or have a drug addiction or um,
there's just wide open. Just yeah, can continue to be
wide open. But I really accepted the help that I
was offered, and that's really hard when you're really young.
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So that would definitely be advised to me is when
people are reaching out to help you and they're older,
don't just look at them like you're you're too old,
you don't get you don't get my life right now,
and sink back into your your your little emo high school.
So if you really have to like be appreciative, appreciative
of anyone that is in your support system that's helping you,
because there's so many people who don't have a support system.
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And if you don't have a support system, go find one.
There's so many, I mean, there's so many outlets. Especially
if you're at a high school, you can seek a
counselor if you're in college, they have counselors there. Um,
there's groups in college, you know that you can seek
out self help groups. They're everywhere. There's a group to
find you. Absolutely, that's definitely a big thing for me
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is that would be my advice is I just I
felt God working in my life at at the point
when I didn't know if there was a God, so
I knew that I had to just be. I was
just so strongly pulled to be on this path, and God,
he only knows where I would be if I didn't,
you know, So that would be my one piece of
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advice is to be resilient and to reach out for help,
and to to really listen to those that have already
done this life before you and don't just disregard what
they have to say. That is so true, and especially
when you're young, it's like super easy to feel like
you have all the answers or they're kind of dumb
like you said, but really, yeah, so that would definitely
be like a life changing experience for me that led
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you know, me to where I'm at. And so that's
part of your story that you want to share. That's
definitely part of my story. Um is just yeah, I
just look up to those that have have gone before you,
let people help you, and let people help you, and
um yeah, just be really fearless as hard as it is.
You know, it is hard to be fearless and just
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go with your heart. You know, yes, especially in the beginning,
like when I think back to my younger self, like
the first time I took a big leap and then
it actually had a crash following it because it it
went great, but then it all fell apart. It's like
you think you're going to kind of die the first
time it all happens, and then you sort of get
through it, and then you sort of understand that everybody
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who's sort of trying to create their own way is
going through this. And like you said, be resilient. And
that comes back to just like reaching out for help
and you know your neighbor, you have no idea what
they've been through. When you're sitting there in your dark moments,
they can know woe is me, and I'm the victim
and all of this has happened to me. When you
actually reach out to other people, you you'd be really
surprised what other what battles other people are fighting. And
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when you can connect even on a level you know,
like the things going wrong in your life, it's just
it helps you build your courage and build your resilience.
Why are we sometimes scared to talk about the things
that are going wrong in our life, because that is
when I have the most. When I get to that point,
I can share and I can hear other people those journeys.
I feel so much more inspired to be brave. But
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it's so hard to share it sometimes. Yeah, I think honestly,
everyone thinks like the thought like no one's gonna understand,
which is so wrong because we're understand. Yeah, everyone is
going through a battle that you have no idea of
and it may not be your exact same battle. But
when you connect, I mean, that's what we're made for.
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That's what we're wired for. Human connection. And when you
connect with another human on that level, all of that
like dark email stuff just kind of goes out the
window and you can bring you know, light to the situation.
You know, Um, is that kind of why you wanted
the tribe mentality because you wanted that community and you
wanted people to feel like this is how belonging. Yeah.
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I wanted people to feel a part of something. I
want to feel like that's part of your mission. Yeah,
I mean I didn't just start this, you know, because
I wanted to work and you know, just do something.
I mean, when you buy a piece of clothing. You
can like it, right, you can add percent know that
I looked at every single detail and that I worked
on every single detail, and like when you received that
piece of clothing, I truly want them to feel a
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part of this tribe. And so many oh my gosh,
you get so many messages um with that message of
like I feel like a part of something bigger and
you know what you're doing is just makes me feel
confident in like I mean, even this girl she just
deemed me like two days ago and she's like, your
sweats make me feel so sexy, and it's like I
love that. Yes, it is sexy, and I want is sexy. Yeah,
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I just I don't know. I just love that. And
I love getting feedback from everybody. And that's honestly, like
what's kept me going is the feedback from everybody. You know. Yeah,
And I feel like you are just so awesome about
embracing exactly who you are who you are and everyone
else You're just all about like being yourself, trusting your journey,
staying true to you. Like I love your Instagram, especially
when you start doing quotes and like giving inspiration because
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I was like, dang, that is so spot on and
like be you and have the calm fens to be Yeah. Mom,
So I have two therapists actually I love some and
I'll hop on the phone um with one of them Wednesday. Actually,
that's a really great two advice to like reach out
and get a therapist. I mean, if I didn't have one,
who knows where I'd be. But but yeah, she just
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told me the other day and she said, Brittany, you
embrace your story so much, and that's so important. So
many people run from their story and they hustle for
their worthiness. And even though I think I have been
trying to hustle for my worthiness and I didn't, you're
good hybrid. Yeah, I felt that when she said that.
And she said, you have to own your story because
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if you keep running from it, like you're never settled,
how do you own it? Just look at it in
a minute, talk about it, claim it, you know, you
just talk talk about it, you know, like so many
people just don't want to talk about it. And um,
I've connected with so many people. Um, you know, my
my mom has had addiction problems. And when anyone brings
that up around me or when everyone I could tell
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that people feel shameful when they say, oh, well, my
family's you know, not that great or whatever, and I'll
just come out and say and say, you know, I
get it. You know my mom face faces addiction issues,
Like she's in rehab right now. You know, I visit
her every month or every other month. Then, um, you
can just see that the on people's faces, like the
appreciation and like the connections is what it is. They
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just feel like, oh, wow, she's human, you know, and
you're not trying to hide anything or like you're just
being real about your life and your journey. And again,
like that's all about connecting. Like you don't even necessarily
have to join a group to just tell your neighbor like, hey,
this is what's going on in my life, like and
it's just that's that's just the joy about, yeah, connecting
and and just being open and real and like owning
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your story and not being embarrassed because no matter where
you come from, like you could end up anywhere, and
we're all supposed to be here. Getting to this earth
is a freaking miracle. And I just feel like whatever
experience you're born into, the sooner you can gather some lessons.
The sooner you can get to your purpose. I like,
because if you don't have anything to compare it to,
or anything to catapult you or inspire you, how do
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you even know where to go? You know, But you
had like hard decisions and hard roads in beginning. You're like,
you made choices early on, and you're like, this is
how my life is going to be. And I feel
like that can be a blessing in the long run.
Yeah for sure. And and like I just spoke of
my mom. You know, she's had addiction issues, and that
was kind of something that kept coming back to my
mind whenever. You know, I was seventeen and I had
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those two roads to to choose, and I was like,
I'm not going to be like my mom, you know,
whereas I could have easily said, well, you know, it
runs in my family and I'm just like everybody else.
You know, you have to use the people that came
before you and and take little tools and lessons from them.
You know, have your little playbook and use all those
negative things and turn them into a little positive tools
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that that help you navigate through life. You know, I
totally get it. Where do you see your five year plan?
Oh gosh, this is what our our accountant just asked
the other day. Honestly, me and Braun were just talking
about maybe moving to the Islands in like five years. Honestly, Like,
I have no idea. Why would you not? Not joking
at all, you should definitely do that. Yeah, we were
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thinking about maybe like at some point kind of going
off the grid off. Yeah, like working really hard the
next couple of years, and um, maybe just like going
incognito for a couple of years. Why not, I know,
I mean, there's no reason, nothing holding us back. I
mean just that jump, which you guys aren't scared to jump, yea.
If anyone's gonna jump, it's gonna be y'all. We're really not. Yeah,
we've talked heavily on it, and we have some friends
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down there, um that have started their families in the Islands,
and their kids have like grown up there and like
went to school there and and all the all those
awesome things, and they kind of gave us the courage
to actually like put it on our mood board and like, hell, yeah,
say it could be real. It could? It totally could. Okay,
I'm asking you a few questions. You can answer whatever
comes to your mind, Okay, what is love to you?
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Love is compromise. Yeah, dang, I think that that's some
some profound wisdom right there. That just came to my
head instantly. That's some womanly wisdom. You've been, you've you've
loved a long time to know that love is compromised
with family and with spouse. I love that. What is
the point of us being here? Oh? I think human connection? Honestly,
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I've been doing some relief work and that has come
to my mind so many times. It's connection. Yeah, we're
all just here just to just to like love each
other and into Yeah, it has to be. And even
with animals. If money and all of that went out
the window, we didn't have a banking system, Like, what
would it be about? It be about people doing with
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your with your network of people and trading out different
goods that you need, you'd have to connect. It's connection,
you know it is. I love that, Okay, I freaking
love I always in every interview would leave your light.
This whole thing has been so inspiring. But I just like,
out of everything you've gone through your crazy journey, I mean,
you should write a book, really know. I have so many,
(54:02):
so many more crazy things that have happened. But just
like stories from your life and what you've learned. It's
like what, oprah, what I know for sure? Just from
like living you just know these things for what do
you know for sure? So you can't oprah? Oh what
do I know for sure? Damn? My first word came
my O one was a little morbid. But that we
all die. We all died. Yeah, I mean, so what
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does that mean in between? I mean it honestly means
that whatever matters to you, like you're close knit friends
and those connections like that's what you have to like
hone in on and like love on and like the
the ship that really matters, you know what I mean?
Because we all end up in the same place, you know. Yeah,
so just get to it. Yeah okay? And I like
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to and leave your light. So out of all your journeys,
all your life, all your experiences, all of your knowledge
you've accumulated, you're awesome vibes, your connection, the whole thing.
You're just like magical existence. What do you want to
here with people? What do you want people when they
like think about you, think about tribe Kelly, think about
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your mission statement? What do you want them to leave with,
you know, I definitely want them to leave with the
thought of like, no matter how you're brought up or
how wounded you are, that that you can shine your
own little light. You know. Um. I love that quote.
It talks about um, there has to be like a wound,
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a crack, you know, for a light to to be
allowed to let in. And I don't know, just no
matter what your story is or where you come from,
you have no idea what God has in store for you.
You know, how do you find faith when you feel
like you've lost it? Like do you just how do
you find it? Oh? I definitely have to meditate it
and and ask him to re remind me because it's
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definitely not something I can breathe through. It definitely is
is work and you have to really like meditate on
it and manifest it and and I mean I pray
all throughout the day. I mean I'll be and I'm like,
oh Lord, please don't give me anxiety when I go
into you know, this employee staff meeting. And you know,
I might look to appear to have all the confidence
in the world, but that really does come through like
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constant like prayer and manifestation, you know, positive self talk,
believing all of this, and then I end up at
the Barnes and Noble self help sections. So maybe that
go to the Barnes and Noble self help help section
and um, you'll find We'll find you there. Man, That's
how I am. You go to our house. I have
a bookshelf and every single one of those books. It's
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like connecting with your soul how to like manifest your
dreams of four agreements I have like eckhart Toll everybody
on their deepoc Chopra like all the things. I've just
have the five agreements. I'm just like, I need all
the help with getting because honestly reminding myself to be positive,
especially when I want to sink into a rabbit hole
of just like sadness. It's just I need I need
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help to get there. Sometimes I can't do it by
myself asking for help like so vulnerable to do. But
I can't do it by myself. I some people can,
but I can't. I have to lean on somebody and
just be like, Okay, I'm not alone, help me through this,
and I love That's awesome. See, you're just like us,
be Cole, you know, like in the US magazines are
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like these people are just like us. They eat ice cream,
They myself help books, a lot of them. Yeah, freaking
love it. You're amazing. Thank you so much for joining
me on this and Sunday. Thank you for joining us.
Little girl, You're awesome. You're awesome. Script love you, peace out,
Carol. She's a queen. She's not afraid of no one can.
I am pumped to revisit one of my favorite episodes
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this week for Brittany Kelly. We recorded this episode in
two thousand nineteen, and Brittany is just an incredible human being.
She's the founder, owner, creator of Tribe Kelly, which is
an amazing apparel line, the most beautiful comfortable clothes you've
ever seen. Brittany creates them all. It's all her vision
with her husband Brian, who's one half of Florida Georgia Line.
(00:50):
And Brittany just walks me through her life. You look
at her life on Instagram and she's so beautiful and
she has so many amazing things happening in her life.
But she created this life for herself. When she was
seventeen years old, her grandmother was murdered and that was
who was raising her, and Brittany just had to figure
out how to navigate life on her own and figure
out how to achieve what she wanted to achieve. And
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she focused hard. She went to school, she started an
et s shop, she had nothing handed to her, and
she's created the most beautiful life. This story is one
that is so inspiring to me. And I love Brittany.
She's a close friend and I just have so so
much admiration for her life. So here's Brittany Kelly. Hey, Hey, Hey,
how are you? What's up? Be Cole, the One and
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only be Cole? Yes, we're at the party barn right now.
When this is where the parties go down. I think
it is definitely a few parties have gone down here
for sure, including your wedding. Yes, our wedding well before
it was um redone. We had our wedding reception here
and it was actually a super crappy barn and um
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I had a girl, her name was Stephanie. She's like
an interior designer, and she souped it up magically and
it was a super whimsical, amazing experience. But it was
definitely like oily concrete floors, like unfinished wood type of
situation that we made really cool. And now this is
truly whatever you could dream it to be. It is
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what your dreams are made of. I know, I feel
like Ralph Lauren would like live here or something. Ralph
Lauren would die to do all of his photo shooting
campaigns campaigns here right, So talk to me about how
you got here, How did you get to this treehouse?
Tell me about where you're from? When did you become
a dreamer? You have so much to talk about, huge
legacy already at Like how old are you? Not even
thirty yet have a clothing brand, You're a world traveler.
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You're so deep and profound to be so young. Where
did you first realize that you were a creator and
you had creativity in you? Yeah? For sure. Um, you know,
God has been a really big part of this. For sure.
I love that you just talk about that. Yeah, I
mean it's it's definitely been a big part of my life.
And um, how haven't always been a super strong believer.
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I had a pretty tragic event happened to me when
I was seventeen, and um, everything kind of flipped that
next year. Is that what made you strong? It is?
I definitely feel like I got um my resilience from
from that, and I feel like I gained it early
on because I think that like even having to go
through a tragedy young, it gives you something that you
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wouldn't have had otherwise. Maybe. Yeah, I definitely think it
gives you tools to carry along. And I think a
lot of people don't learn, Um, certain lessons that I
learned until later on in life. Um, because sex, it
really really sucks. Um, you definitely go through dark times,
but you you gained these tools that help you navigate
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the world and it doesn't have to be all terrible.
And that's I love that that you say that, that
like it. So the tragedy gave you strength. There's always
a silver lining for sure, and so um, yeah, there
was a point where I was in a really dark
space and I just kind of I think I actually
hit my knees at one point. I was like, you know,
you know, use me for what you need because I'm
I'm not usable right now. And um, you know, I
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went to Georgia Southern. I started out there and I
tried to stay a pretty narrow path. And I was
an accounting major at first you free spirit like Mermaid,
fairy Land, dust of all the magic. Yes, I was
an accounting game. See what you're doing that. I was
a solid B plus accounting major. Yeah. And um, when
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I was seventeen, I lost my grandmother and that that
was the tragic event. Um. She was murdered actually, and
I was I was devastated, but I moved in with
this family. Um that was absolutely amazing and um and
just honestly angels from above, the Renews. And I had
known them since middle school and you were like renewing
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your own Yeah, that's crazy, the Renews. And so they
are angels, Um, definitely from above. And I moved in
with those guys and they held me accountable and um,
they made me stay a pretty straight narrow path that
I made. Being held accountable important because like sometimes you
want to fight it, not you, but like people want
to fight it. Oh I thought, I thought, Oh I
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thought it. Believe me. I mean, I definitely came in,
um to their to their house. Uh, you know this
is we're getting real here, but pretty drunk a couple
of times. And uh, Susan kind of snatched me up
a couple of times when my head was hanging over
in the trash can and she said, this isn't your path,
you know, like you've gotta You're meant for so much more.
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And and so having people along the way, I think
tell you that is so so important to surround yourself
with supporters, you know. And um, and I've heard this
so many different times, but you really are you know,
the people that you surround yourself with. So, UM, to
answer your original question, Uh, it's who I've surrounded myself with. UM.
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I've surrounded myself with people who are resilient and people
who have visions and people who were creative. And um,
the husband of that family luster, Uh, he has a
cool story and it just super it was super inspiring.
I mean, he came from nothing and and he is,
I mean an amazing entrepreneur now. And so seeing people
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like that in my life really gave me the strength
and the courage really to like dream big because seeing
someone come from absolutely nothing UM to to having pretty much,
you know, everything that we in our society. I guess
de finds this success UM is definitely something that I
think everyone needs. Everyone needs to have somebody to look
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up to and and a reason for that. UM. So
I feel like the people have surrounded myself with and UM.
The path that I was on was accounting and it
was awesome and and I was so pumped in the
beginning to be an accounting major. I was like, I'm
so good at math, Like I can do this. UM.
And I had a breakdown when was this, Like when
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I was like eighteen, I remember calling Susan, the mother
of this family, and and I said, I just can't
do this, like I cannot do people's taxes, like I
can't like I don't I can do my own. And
I feel really blessed to have had the you know,
finances and ability to learn this and I'm going to
take it throughout my life. Um, but yeah, I had
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a little breakdown and I said, I'm changing my major
to psychology. So I did a complete turnaround there and yeah,
I went to psychology and it put me in school
and additional year longer. And I knew that, And um,
why is it scary though? Because I have found myself
in the middle of transitions and I and my first
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reaction is fear of changing it up and like getting
off path, even though I really was never on a path,
like I had made up a path in my mind
right or something, and so like you feel like you're
going to be left behind or you look around and
maybe someone else, especially when I make a big change
or something, do you ever feel that, like holy ship?
Like what if I just ruined every thing? Yes, get
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your faith to do it honestly and other people, I mean,
I'm my biggest critic honestly, like, um, I'm the worst
I myself talk can be awful sometimes too. I didn't
I didn't know I did that. Like I'm pretty hard
on myself in a mean way sometimes, right, Like why
am I being so brutal? Right? It's like it's like
the head and the heart thing. It's like at that
moment that I changed my major from psych from accounting
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to psychology, I was like, you know, my heart is like, yes,
this is what you need, Like you need to learn
this stuff for yourself and to help other people and
to share your story and to understand, you know, the
thought processes. But my head was like, you're a freaking idiot,
Like you've spent so much money on school, You're now
going to be in school for another year? Like what
are you doing? Like you're what are you trying to do?
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Like did you know your in goal at this point?
I honestly did not, So what were you following? Honestly,
wasn't following anything? Uh, just your intuition, I guess. Honestly
felt lead in the depths of my soul to learn
psychology for myself and or the the story that I had,
And I knew that just by sharing my story with
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just a couple of people in in in college, I
knew that I had some purpose to share that story,
and so I didn't know where to get that knowledge from.
And so many times at the time, um, little synchronicities
were happening in psychology kept popping up and popping up,
and UM, I just said, I'm going for it. And
it's it's odd because you know, I had this family,
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there were news helping me along the way, but I
really didn't have a mom or a dad or um,
you know, my grandmother to tell me no. So I
just went for it. You know, I really I need
to ask you about this because I'm struggling with this
right now. I feel like I think I have always
been really like self sufficient and like really confident, and
(09:48):
like people might think that I really like I have
a lot of confidence and stuff, but when it comes
down to it, I often do not trust myself. And
like what you said, you had no one to tell
you know, from a young age, so you had to
find that trust of yourself. How do you do that?
Because that is the most terrifying thing, to hold yourself
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accountable for whatever you decide good or bad. Yeah, I
think when you're young, it's just you really feel like
you're diving off a diving board. You don't know if
there's like water down there. Honestly, what are you thinking?
You're just not thinking about what's down there? I mean
at that age, honestly, like I was so torn between
like what everyone else thought of me and like what
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I really like I wanted people to think of me,
And like, as I get older, the more I really
don't care what people think of me, and I just
think it's I mean, I hate to say, oh, it's
like an age thing, like when you get older you'll understand.
But just every year that goes by is like such
a learning year for me that I'm usually assuming that
(10:53):
everyone thinks these things of me, and I'm creating this
like critic that doesn't exist or just anything like what
does she thinking changing her major? Or why don't you
know I started my own Etsy company. That was my
first creative endeavor in college amongst all of this craziness um,
and I just would always like panic and be like,
you know, what are what am I? The people that
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I used to go to school would think of me?
What is the renews think of me? For changing you know,
what would my nana think of me? That you know,
I know she's gone, but what is she thinking of me?
Especially when you're like starting as a creator. This little
Sundays here interrupting it. When you're starting as a creator though,
especially when you haven't had anything to show for yourself
just yet besides the dreams in your heart that you
believe you can do it. And that's why like having
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someone who is a great support system, like you said,
the renews or somebody that like is giving you strength somewhere.
But it's just to start a creative endeavor is so
scary because you have so many potentials that might fail, no,
for sure, So I started to make it. Sunday. Sunday
(11:58):
has like completely taken over the interview right now. So
Sunday is my white wolf dog and she just hates
when the intentions that on her. So I can't blame
her because she's absolutely beautiful and you know, a wolf,
part wolf. It's not every day you're hanging out with
a wolf. Yeah. So um, again, just back to the
people that you surround yourself with. Um, when I first
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started my Etsy account that I was talking about, so
let me back up a little bit give you a
little history. I changed my major to psychology spin a
semester at Georgia Southern, and then I worked my butt
off to get all a's the last semester so I
could transfer into the University of Georgia, which was like,
I mean, if you would have told me in high
school that I would have gone to U g A,
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I would have said, yeah, right, like you're you're crazy.
I mean, you're crazy, Like I'm not that smart. It
was not that smart, like I have to study a lot,
you know. Um, But I made all a's and UM
got into the U g A. And that was just
like a huge moment for me and my self confidence. UM,
because I just know that I I knew that I
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was smart, don't don't get me wrong, but I just
didn't believe in myself. And so when that happened, Um,
I gained so much more confidence, and I started my
creative endeavors, UM getting into like jewelry and clothing. Because
this is really funny because I couldn't go out and
party anymore. I genuinely couldn't because now I'm going to
the University of Georgia, Like I can't go out to
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the bars because I genuinely have to make the grades
to stay in here because I'm having to hold myself
accountable at this point because I'm paying for this, you know,
I'm working. Um, I've now started, you know, this creative endeavor.
So I had a one bedroom apartment. Um, and I
started this little Etsy account and so I would go
find old, broken, like vintage jewelry and like make it
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into something else and um, and at the time, I
didn't have the money. So this guy would hook me
up with this old broken jewelry and I would twist
it around and you know, make a headband out of
like an old bracelet or something. And I was making
right at like three four dollars a month, which is
perfect because that was like my rent at the time. So, um,
I got to quit my waitressing job at Buffalo Ald Wings. Actually, okay,
(14:10):
the Lemon Pepper That's where I'm at me. Man, No,
I know all the sauzes. But that was when when
I got into Georgia and when I had my one
bedroom apartment, and I made up my mind, I'm not
going to the bars. That's not where're gonna find me
on Saturday or Sunday. I'm actually gonna be making jewelry
and um, chilling in my one bedroom. That's when I
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started to get my little creative you know journey journey
going on. And I just had so many people at
the time, you know, hit me up over social media
and just say like, you're so talented, and like I
started getting this influx of comments about how creative I was.
And so again, the people you know that are reacting
to that really gave me the confidence. And um, the
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Renews and and their daughter Whitney, Um, gave me a
lot of confidence too. And they just were always pouring
so much into me, and um, yeah, just gave me
the confidence to even start anything creative. You know why
did that? Is the thing? Like the confidence, It's so
many people can't do it because it's having confidence. I
feel like this is something that I love talking about
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with people like you who are such role models of confidence.
Is having confidence takes confidence? Yeah, it doesn't just come
to you, Like you have to decide to just be confident.
How did you decide that you wanted to succeed and
you're gonna do this and make it a priority instead
of just feel like screw it, I'm just gonna float
how did you like laser being this? Yeah for sure. Um,
(15:34):
I honestly have to daily meditate on the fact that
I am my worst critic and when I start to
create all of these scenarios about you know, because confidence,
you know, comes from you know, fearfulness or lack of
confidence comes from fearfulness. And why are we why would
we we be fearful not to have confidence because of
(15:55):
what everyone else thinks, you know. And um, confidence also
takes vulnerability, you know, like we've we've talked on that,
you know, and that's why some people who have like
the hardest shell, I'm like, okay, they're actually the most
vulnerable because it is so hard to be vulnerable. It's
just like walking out there with your heart with no protections,
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like I want to. Vulnerability is a skill set on itself.
It has vulnerable Okay. So now that we're talking about this,
I feel like I'm like figuring some stuff out. We
bought love Benet Brown, right, okay, Rene Brown? Yeah, I
love you girl. So yeah, now that we're like talking
about this and figuring it out, I think that confidence
honestly comes from being vulnerable because when you step out
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whatever you do in life, whether you're a model or
a nurse or a mom or whatever it is, like
you have to be confident in that role, you know,
and that trust yourself, right, and that's being very vulnerable
to like step out and say this is who I
am and this is you know, what my life is
and because of what happens if it fails, and then
it's like, Okay, I owned it and it's not a
fayre because I put And that's another thing I have
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to tell myself. It's not a failure if you put
yourself out there and you give it your heart. It's
whatever happens is a great experience. It has to be.
It can't be like a failure because you can't get
you can't let yourself get discouraged, even though you can,
you're human. It's just like I just think putting yourself
out there and going for it. Like, how did you
feel when you started Tribe, Kelly, Because this is now
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a huge operation. You have two storefronts, one in Nashville,
like right in the epicenter of Nashville. It's freaking beautiful.
And the way you have it all designed, your vibe,
your your denim and your special touches that you do
with your dinner in the way you get it all cut,
Like you are so meticulous about this brand and it's
(17:42):
so uniquely you and your husband Brian, Like it's so y'all,
there's nothing else like it. But how did you step
into that and create that and decide like, shoot, okay,
here I go. Yeah it was that's not a little
at this point, and um, we're still on the upper mom.
You know. It's it's not like we're like hugely grossly
(18:03):
successful enough like hired this team to like handle it all.
I mean, it really is like all of me I have.
I have so many hats on right now. Um you
right now, let's see founder, um, CEO, CEO, you know,
operations manager. I'm also doing a lot of accounting, which
thank you Lord for that. Um, you know, I'm managing
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a lot of people. I mean I have do you
manage people? Because that is such a special thing, so
many people do it differently. It's it's a thing. And
I'm learning daily and I honestly draw inspiration from tons
of like literature that I've read. And um, I'm like
a little dork on like books, but like I love
going into Barnes and Noble, and going straight to like
the self help or like the business improvement section, and um,
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you know, I just try to pour into my employees
like what I'll learn, you know through these these books
that I'm reading. Um, but yeah, I'm managing people is
like a whole a whole different thing. I figure out
how to get people inspire right and like and so
to to take it back a minute, Um, you know
it went from me and Brian being on a tour bus.
You know too, now we have the dream just came
(19:09):
from being on tour. Yeah. So basically, um, you know,
I had my Etsy account in college and Brian and
I got married. And where did y'all meet in Nashville?
Are you in Nashville? We so, Brian and I. This
is a great story. So we may need to hit
that story after Lly, you remember it all, Can you
make it awful of back together? Yeah? I can make
it afull together. Okay, So tribe Kelly was definitely born
(19:30):
on the tour bus. Um obviously had the creative spirit
from my Etsy account. We got married at the end
of my college semester. So literally I finished college and
I went straight on the tour bus. So I was,
you know, on a bus at the time, we didn't
have our own bus. You know, I was on the
bus with you know, Tyler and Hayley. Well actually Haley
they haven't met, hadn't met at that point, but um,
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Tyler and like tons of other guys, and I knew
I had to do something, Like what were you feeling?
Itching to do some thing? I can't even just have
a job. I was like, I've got to do something
I can't. I don't know what to do with my hands.
So even though it's so fun to be traveling and stuff,
you're like, Okay, I want to put my creative juice somewhere. Yeah.
Like I knew that I had to put something out
(20:12):
into the world. Um. So yeah, we started writing the
blueprints for trap Kelly. Um, how did you pick fashion
and clothes? I mean, I guess it came from jewelry
because jewelry was my first love. And then on my
Etsy account, Um, I did do custom T shirts and stuff.
So I did custom like drawings and designs on T shirts.
But I was like more of like a one of
the con type of thing. Um So I knew I
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had to figure out something like that I could like
manufacture because I can't sew every single piece. Um, so yeah,
I knew that. Um, you know we had a platform
and um I knew that. You know, Brian was interested
in clothing and we just started talking and we just talked,
I feel like for like months about this, just talked
like what do we want to do? Like do we
want to do a small collection? Like what's the name
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and all of all of that jazz? And um, how
do you catch the creative ideas? Like you know when
you actually materialize a creative idea? I kind of think
of him was like just like floating around in the ether,
how do you actually like know when to grab one
and pull it down and like harness it. Well, my
husband has an amazing like ear and amazing ah for
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he likes to call him um smashes, so like he
is like he can hear something and honestly I just
trust his opinion and he can just say, oh, that's
good and that's not good, like that's ahead or not yes,
like with the sometink. Like he can hear a song
and be like, oh, that's an a monest Like it's good,
but like it's not going to go number one. Like
he's just very like confident in his like creative opinions. Okay,
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well you know what, I think that's half of the battle,
it is. And so again, more people that you surround
yourself with. He was just so supportive of the fact
that I wish everyone could see Sunday right now. She's
like obsessed with Caroline. She's usually never liked this. She
knows I'm a dog. She feels the vibe um. So yeah,
just having that voice of iran um. And he would
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tell me like if I said, oh, what about this
name for the clothing line, He's like, ah, you know,
it's good, but it's not a hit. It's not a hit.
And so I was like, you know, I want our
family name to be involved. I wanted to feel very community.
I wanted to be worldwide, Like I want people to
feel when they buy a piece of clothing that they're
a part of this family. So we kicked around things
like team and squad and all these different things, and
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I was like, well, I'm Native American, and like we
have a t P. You know what about tribe and
tribe is such a universal word, you know, it's not
just about the Native Americans. It can be any trip,
like your tribe of girls, your community. Yeah and so,
and then I came up with it. I will, I
will take credit for it, But I said, trap Kelly,
that's us trip Kelly, and he just automatically said, sash.
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That's a that's a hit. That's a snash right there.
And so we knew it when we had the name.
We just started going, do you not just feel the
electricity everywhere when she said when we had the name,
we knew it, and we just started going, Oh my gosh.
That just makes me so inspired to be around people
and to know people and to hear their stories, like
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Brittany and Brian how they came up with tripe Kelly
and how this idea and brainstorm has launched now into
this incredible company. Just hearing about all the dedication, the time,
the sweat, the blood that tears that takes to build
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it is so crucial to get the name and the
title locked in and then how you can soar from
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there as she did with Tribe Kelly. Why does it
when you get that piece locked in, it's like you
need just like just like a title, you know what
I mean. It's like you gotta know where you're going
with it, right, And so we knew the we knew
we wanted to have everything manufactured in the US. We
had all these missions that okay, tell me your mission,
and why was importantly stuck with them? Because rats behind
(24:31):
me about a mission like that. Yeah for sure. I mean,
no judgment, it's each of their own, absolutely, But to
you like, this is something that's important? Why right? Um? Honestly,
because I had crafted so many things with my own hands,
and I had done so much research even before I
wanted to start the clothing line UM, and I had
heard a lot of things in the fashion industry that
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I just just didn't settle with my spirit. UM. And
there's you're good at listening to your spirit, yeah, and
there's just some things you can't turn the other cheek too.
So when your spirit is acting up and saying like noop, noop, now, yeah,
what does that feel like? Oh? It feels like I
have to like hop on board, Like a set doesn't
make you want to throw up if you don't do it. Yeah,
yeah for sure. I mean. And what I'm talking about
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exactly is the manufacturing. And UM, I just looked into
all my options like where can I manufacture? Where can
I make this count? Um? And I had taken a
couple of trips mission trips to Guatemala and UM the
beginning of my college career, and I had seen the
women there and how they made UM their traditional clothing,
like their wee pills and all these different things, and
how they were sitting there with their hands and really
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doing it, and they were doing it because they were passionate,
and they were doing it for their families and to
clothe their families. And um, I just realized how much
of a craft it was. And I just realized that
someone that's taking their time to craft something for me
like needs to get paid fairly. You know. I don't
want to to send my brand overseas and not know
whose hands it's going to and not know if if
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it's a child's hands, or not knowing if that that
family is getting paid, because that is the dark reality
of overseas sometimes. Um. And so for me to be
able to step in my manufacturers and literally see and
meet all of like our sewers, it brings me such
like comfort and joy and to know that they're getting
paid like fair wages and they can actually feed their families.
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And when I send them thousands of items to so like,
even though I could send it overseas for way way
way way cheaper, um, it just brings such a I
don't know, I feel like I'm doing something also, you know,
that's that's right. And where does that come from? Like?
Where does that trait come from? That sense of just
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you're doing what you feel is right, even though you
don't have to and no one would judge you if
you didn't, but you still want to do that. Like
where does that come from? And how are you able
to stand so strong in that? Yeah? I honestly think
it comes from how I was raised. Um, I was
raised my grandma. What were you taught? What were the
what was your life motto? Like? Your grandmother taught you?
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Who don't trust anybody? Actually? Um? She um. She was
a very sufficient, be self sufficient. She always told me
to um funny enough. I mean she didn't she obviously
never met Brian, but she always told me to never
depend on a man. Yeah, but you and Bryan, Actually,
that is something I would like to talk about because
y'all and Haley and Tyler, the Florida Georgia line uh
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brand in general, y'all have made marriage cool and I
feel like y'all were sort of the mavericks of this.
I mean a lot. There's a lot of couples in
country music who are really awesome and embrace their marriage.
But it was like wham bam in your in your
face from the beginning that these men loved their wives
and y'all were a foursome unit in a power couple.
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How so that's like, never trust a man, but you
have a man who wants you right next to him.
How did y'all all make that kind of decision? Because
not everyone has that kind of strong marriage. It is
a pressure having being like goals for people, like marriage
goals and life goals, Like how is all that? How
did you all make that decision to be like that?
Or is it just how it always was? Yeah, Brian
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is is a work of art. He is like such
an amazing man. And um, I think his dad and
his parents have a lot to do with it, and
and the way he was taught. And I just remember
in the beginning, Um, I remember when we first started
dating and we weren't married, and someone on the team
had said, you know, you know, Brittany can't walk the
carpet with you, and you know, y'all gotta look like
this this single like hot, you know, And I remember
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not taking like offense to it at all, and I
was like, okay, cool, Like I'll just be in the
back room or whatever y'all want, wherever y'all want to
stick me, Like I don't really care about all the
glam in the band, but um I remember asking him later,
like just so innocently and just factual, like, well, wow,
why can I be on the carpet with you? Like
what's why does it make you look bad? Like? And
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I had mentioned something I don't remember the exact how
exactly said it, but I was like, you know, women
seeing like men, like if if they are you know,
looking up to you, as like men that they would
want to be with, Like when they can see a
man like you guys love on a woman that's just
from middle Georgia that you know, isn't any crazy thing special,
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like but you know what I mean, like the middle
of nowhere. I mean it's not like I'm I was
in Nashville and like in the industry or like anything
like that. I mean, I came from nothing, you know,
and for him to like love on someone like that,
I think it's really like inspiring to young women because
it's like not only can like you know, you know,
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a man that's the CEO of you know, a business
in your town love his wife, but a rock star
can love his wife too, you know. And it's especially
when rock stars like before this time for period kind
of have bad reputations of doing whatever they want, you know,
and that has just never been y'all's vibe. And if
y'all have made marriage sexy, like your last video you're
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in a bathtub, I mean, how which my hair black?
By the way, that bathtub durned my hair all the
way black. But it was like black water, and I
had like black Diana and I just went straight in
with the blonde hair and I had to get some
color correction. But no, but I love that and I
admire that, and I totally agree with you. It's like
I love f GL even more as a duo and
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as an act because of the people that all of
you guys are, because it's like you want the full package.
I just don't want someone who's got a flashy career
but they suck as a human who wants to be that? Yeah,
I mean in the beginning, Haley and I definitely were
on some music video shoots where other girls were like
or what do they call it, like the star or
whatever they call the girl parts or whatever. He had
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the lead woman or whatever, and um, I just remember,
you know, Haley and I were just very innocently just like, well,
why can't it be us? Like we're the leads? Sunday says,
why can't I be the lead of Sunday? Come here,
Nic Sunday. And that's a great question. So yeah, in
the beginning, I mean, Haley and I didn't mind, like
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we're definitely like rot or die, like we'll sit here
and and watch the whole you know, thing go down.
But I guess we were just so innocently like, well,
I mean, y'all love us, and like in reality like
we're doing we're we're like living this song out, you
know what I mean. And so it's like, well, if
we're in reality living this song out, and all of
your fans, you know, now that we have social media,
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are actually seeing like we're together, I mean, it's kind
of confusing, I feel like, to this fan, yeah, to
the fan base, if like they can now that we
have social media, you know, the rock stars back that
they didn't have social media and now that reality TV
and real life is so much more interesting than like
the fake life, right, Yeah, And then like as a
fan I would assume, like, you know, you see this
rock star that you're you know, you love their music,
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you see him with his wife or his girlfriend even online,
but then you just see another random just girl that
they've picked. It's just like huh. You know, you don't
feel like it's tense and like electrifying, like when you
know they're really doing that stuff in real life, you're like,
oh my god, I can feel that. So I just
feel like it's real, you know. So I feel like
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you guys are on the forefront of this big movement though.
So how has it been for you to ride this
wave and what have you learned about like the entertainment machine,
the same machine. What are what are the highs of it?
What are the lows that you've experienced, because it's all
a spectrum. Yeah for sure. Um, let's see, yeah, it's
it's been a it's been a rod for sure. It's
definitely something too, you know, went fast like when Crews
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came out, it was a rocket ship. Yeah. I mean
when Brian and I got married, which was two thousand thirteen. Um, yeah,
it was in the middle of it all, and it
was it was intense. And when I say intense, it's
just time intensive. Um, all the time we weren't ever
at home, you know what I mean. And the most
important thing in this industry is you have to create
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your own normal you know what I mean. And we
would just have to create our all normal weather that
be hey babe, like let's kick everybody off the bus
and have a little date night, you know what I mean,
Or like we have to go to dinner in a
movie in this city, Like we can't hang out with
everybody afterwards, you know, because that's another thing. There's always
people around, There's always tons, and they're amazing people. There's
always stuff to do, hang out with you could forget
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to be like have an intimate night with your spouse,
not like intimate, but let's like have a me time, No,
for sure. I mean even like there were so many
nights that um, the four of us like snuck off
and went to a movie, you know what I mean.
And that's just so important important in this fast paced machine.
I love that's how you put it. It is a
machine because these two you know, amazingly talented young men
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just got put into a machine. And with all their
talents and all of the management's talents and all of
the team's talents, it just came out on the other
side as like I mean surreal and like rock star,
you know, and it's just it's it's definitely a wave
you have to ride and you definitely had. I love that.
I'm majored in psychologist because it really helped me through
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navigating all these feelings as I'm feeling so many right
and there's a lot of people that that come through
your path and and they simply only want to talk
to your husband and they disregard you, and so you
have to how do you navigate that? Do you learn
just to not to get personal or something? Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Um the Four Agreements? That book is great kitchen. Yeah,
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before I read that, I really struggled. Um, you know,
there's been definitely instances where, um, you know, women have
treated me really ugly or pushed me out of the
way to to get to my husband in different things
like that. And in the beginning, it really hurt my feelings. Um,
but what happened then? How did you how did you
make a I just really feel like I transformed in
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the past couple of years, and um, the Four Agreements.
I hate to just blame it all on that, but
that really blame on the board. But honestly, I mean
there's an agreement in there. It says don't take anything personal.
And and I would just think when that happened, you know,
like this may be the highlight of that lady's life,
you know, getting to go there and talk. You know
she you know, she literally I cannot take that personal.
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Has nothing to do with me, you know, She's just her. Yeah,
And so how did you decide to make that switch?
Because I remember when I kind of switched to a
new way of thinking, It's like, Okay, nobody's really ought
to get me, right. I don't think the people that
I'm like love the most aren't. So like I just
gotta retrain my brain or something. It's like in it's
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like it's it's training. It's training your brain in the
moment when you start to feel that anxiety creep up,
you really have to ride this on reacting and anger
always the first to come right, you know, because it's
like we need to insecure or fear or whatnot. You've
put you put your defenses up. And I've really learned
to like rid the wave. And I've actually like loved
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laughing at myself about it because I'm like you are
making something out of thing, and then you realize if
you just kind of skip over it and let the
wave pass, I'm like man and my past I would
have ridden that wave and I would have just like
gotten stuck on it and maybe been there for like
a day, maybe even a week, maybe like just redirected
the whole like conversation and vibe of like me and
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Michael because I just decided to go down this rabbit conversation. Yes,
I've had plenty of those days, and those were like
my younger years and and yeah, just really and I
think it comes back to confidence. And it's like my
husband has given me so much confidence in our marriage,
like I don't think twice, Like if the most beautiful
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girl in the world is talking to him, I legit.
At this point in my life, I'm like, so sweet.
I've actually just a big fan, Like I don't I
don't care. It's like I'm so confident in him and
heat the way he looks at me, even when he's
in conversations like that, It's like I know he's going
home with me, Like why would I create something out
(36:57):
of nothing? And so it has a lot to do
with the mature rety to you know, and trust of marriage. Yeah.
I think that's the bottom line, Like you both don't
give each other reason not to trust each other. Yeah.
And when you've made this this really deep emotional like
agreement and you really know you're on the same like page, connection, wavelength,
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whatever you want to call it, it's really electric and
it's like we can read each other's minds, you know
what I mean in situations like that. And and don't
get me wrong, like there's the flip, the script has
been flipped. When when men come and talk to me
like heck, yeah, look at you. I can give Braun
the look like this guy's hilarious, you know, and he
just he's confident in me that you know, I'm not
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anything other than his wife. You know, what have you
learned about marriage? Because I feel like I've been married
now four and a half years, and I just to me,
marriage is not what I thought it was going into it.
Because now that I'm married, I'm like, this is so
much more than Oh, I think you're hot. I like
your personality, we get along. When you make a life
with someone, you really do morph into that person. And
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I feel like I have just been molded in a
way that I didn't know it's possible. Just makes you
chip off certain pieces of you that you didn't need
or something. Absolutely, it's like holding a mirror up in
front of each other and you have to decide, do
I want to make this a thing? Do I want
to fight with you? Do I want to rise up
and be a little bit more mature here, or like
I find myself having those conversations. I mean, mom, I
love I love saying this to my friends and and
(38:28):
my family too. If if someone is is looking for
a companion, is you've got to find somebody you want
to figure things out with. Great point, because you're not
going to find somebody that you're never going to fight with,
never gonna disagree with, never going to have different opinions.
You have to find somebody who's worth figuring out this
earth that we're on with. You know what, I'm not
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taking it personal if you see it differently, right, I mean,
Brian has been such a mirror to me. I mean,
you know, like I've I've had trauma issues in my life,
so that's come out in my personality at different times,
and sometimes he'll just hold that mirror up and say, hey, baby,
you need to change. You need to change your ways.
Like that came off a little bitchier. That came off
a little you know whatever, and sometimes on a little
(39:12):
defense and like through you in a second, like let
me tell you all the things that you can improve it. Right,
We're gonna sit down and we can like tell are
we gonna do this? Because I'll do this. But I
mean when he comes back down to it, honestly, like
he's right most of the time, and it's like and
he wants the best for you, right, and he right,
he's not trying to pick a fight. That's another thing.
I know. He knows my heart too, so he's like,
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you're what's coming out of you isn't reflecting who you
really are. And I'm so appreciative for that, Like, please
tell me what I'm doing wrong, because I would love
to adjust it for you. And that's another thing. You
have to be with somebody who you want to adjust
yourself for. You know, that's really really important because if
you don't have a connection with that human, you're not
gonna want to change your little tendencies and habits and ways.
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And Lord knows, I have changed so many tendencies and
habits and way you know, I mean from what I
put on the sink or where I'll leave my extensions
are like whatever, And same with him. I mean it's
it's you have to find somebody you want to figure
things out with, yeah, and that you just get along
with their personality and their little quirks don't bother you,
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because at the end of the day, when it all
stripped down, there's still a person. They're gonna have things.
And I have dated plenty of people I just could
not get on board with little bits about them. It
just drove me crazy. And there's something about the personality.
But like Michael, I'm like, okay, exactly, yes, you drive
me crazy sometimes, but I want to figure this out
with you, right, And that's what I tell a lot
of my girlfriends to him. Like usually in the first
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like even months, in like months to three months, you
can figure out if it's not yeah, if that's why
you want to start figuring out, because you're not just
gonna meet somebody and then you know, months down the
road just be like, oh, everything's perfect. I've never argued,
we've never disagreed. It's like it's kind of good to
get in your first little fight so that you can
see if you guys can navigate and figure that out
(40:59):
and that. So I mean, yeah, you're just when you
have that really big red flag in the first three months,
just get out of Just get out of there and
don't get invested. I tell that to my single friends
because I have a couple of single friends who are
the total package, literally total package, but they'll just date
someone for like a year. Yeah, because you think things
are going to change, yes, but again you've got if
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you are annoyed with figuring out it immediately, you have
to cut it even though you don't want to, and
even though they're still juice left to squeeze. That's how
I said, I like, you don't have to squeeze all
the juice out just because there's a lot of juice
left in there. You know you're gonna hit the rind
eventually and it's gonna be dried up, right, So just
just move on. Yeah, n Brian, Like in the beginning,
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I mean, especially with the wild rout of like being
on tour, you know, I mean obviously there's late schedules
and we're not sleeping and there's people are irritated, like
you know, I could tell that we would we just
been like would bend and flow with each other. It
was just very flexible. Like when he was irritated, I
would kind of step up to the plate and like
build him up, and then you know, vice versa with me.
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And when we were both irritated, it was almost like
we would laugh because but you need to like help
me get out of this funk. And like we just
we are champions of each other and to help each
other get out of that funk. And how important is
laughing and not taking it too seriously? Gosh? We uh,
we get to that point a lot, especially when we're
super irritated. Like I mean, it could be like a
(42:25):
lot of the times, you know it's travel issues. You know,
something goes wrong or or we were late or whatever,
and like we just have to laugh. I mean, we
just had this thing where we get to a point
and we just have to laugh it off because it
just you work things up again that I just don't
have to be you know. So you said in the beginning,
you felt like you had a story to share. What
is your message that you want to put out there
(42:46):
and what does having a platform mean to you? Yeah,
for sure, a great question all the way down to
the bottom of your soul. No, I love that. Um, Honestly,
I just feel like I was in such a dark
place at seventeen. I could have gone two different paths
and you knew it. I knew it, And I actually
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really wanted to go like the bad path because because
it was a good excuse. It was like, well, this
has happened to me, So I'm gonna go party and
I'm gonna go be the party girl, and I'm gonna
be the one that makes everybody laugh and like get
in trouble and because you had validation to do it. Yeah,
And I just I don't know I could if if
I could say anything to anybody, is when you're in
(43:28):
a dark place, especially young, just like be resilient and
just do the right thing, because why does that pay off?
It just pays off in every way. I mean, it's
like what would the roads pan out to look like? Say, like,
how do we don't have to go all the way down?
But like why is it worth being resilient? What do
you gain? Honestly, if I'm being really honest with you,
I think that the road that I could have chose
(43:49):
could have honestly like it or made me end up
like on the streets. Honestly, Yeah, I mean I could
easily be homeless or have a drug addiction or um,
there's just wide open. Just yeah, can continue to be
wide open. But I really accepted the help that I
was offered, and that's really hard when you're really young.
(44:10):
So that would definitely be advised to me is when
people are reaching out to help you and they're older,
don't just look at them like you're you're too old,
you don't get you don't get my life right now,
and sink back into your your your little emo high school.
So if you really have to like be appreciative, appreciative
of anyone that is in your support system that's helping you,
because there's so many people who don't have a support system.
(44:33):
And if you don't have a support system, go find one.
There's so many, I mean, there's so many outlets. Especially
if you're at a high school, you can seek a
counselor if you're in college, they have counselors there. Um,
there's groups in college, you know that you can seek
out self help groups. They're everywhere. There's a group to
find you. Absolutely, that's definitely a big thing for me
(44:55):
is that would be my advice is I just I
felt God working in my life at at the point
when I didn't know if there was a God, so
I knew that I had to just be. I was
just so strongly pulled to be on this path, and God,
he only knows where I would be if I didn't,
you know, So that would be my one piece of
(45:16):
advice is to be resilient and to reach out for help,
and to to really listen to those that have already
done this life before you and don't just disregard what
they have to say. That is so true, and especially
when you're young, it's like super easy to feel like
you have all the answers or they're kind of dumb
like you said, but really, yeah, so that would definitely
be like a life changing experience for me that led
(45:37):
you know, me to where I'm at. And so that's
part of your story that you want to share. That's
definitely part of my story. Um is just yeah, I
just look up to those that have have gone before you,
let people help you, and let people help you, and
um yeah, just be really fearless as hard as it is.
You know, it is hard to be fearless and just
(45:58):
go with your heart. You know, yes, especially in the beginning,
like when I think back to my younger self, like
the first time I took a big leap and then
it actually had a crash following it because it it
went great, but then it all fell apart. It's like
you think you're going to kind of die the first
time it all happens, and then you sort of get
through it, and then you sort of understand that everybody
(46:18):
who's sort of trying to create their own way is
going through this. And like you said, be resilient. And
that comes back to just like reaching out for help
and you know your neighbor, you have no idea what
they've been through. When you're sitting there in your dark moments,
they can know woe is me, and I'm the victim
and all of this has happened to me. When you
actually reach out to other people, you you'd be really
surprised what other what battles other people are fighting. And
(46:40):
when you can connect even on a level you know,
like the things going wrong in your life, it's just
it helps you build your courage and build your resilience.
Why are we sometimes scared to talk about the things
that are going wrong in our life, because that is
when I have the most. When I get to that point,
I can share and I can hear other people those journeys.
I feel so much more inspired to be brave. But
(47:05):
it's so hard to share it sometimes. Yeah, I think honestly,
everyone thinks like the thought like no one's gonna understand,
which is so wrong because we're understand. Yeah, everyone is
going through a battle that you have no idea of
and it may not be your exact same battle. But
when you connect, I mean, that's what we're made for.
(47:25):
That's what we're wired for. Human connection. And when you
connect with another human on that level, all of that
like dark email stuff just kind of goes out the
window and you can bring you know, light to the situation.
You know, Um, is that kind of why you wanted
the tribe mentality because you wanted that community and you
wanted people to feel like this is how belonging. Yeah.
(47:48):
I wanted people to feel a part of something. I
want to feel like that's part of your mission. Yeah,
I mean I didn't just start this, you know, because
I wanted to work and you know, just do something.
I mean, when you buy a piece of clothing. You
can like it, right, you can add percent know that
I looked at every single detail and that I worked
on every single detail, and like when you received that
piece of clothing, I truly want them to feel a
(48:10):
part of this tribe. And so many oh my gosh,
you get so many messages um with that message of
like I feel like a part of something bigger and
you know what you're doing is just makes me feel
confident in like I mean, even this girl she just
deemed me like two days ago and she's like, your
sweats make me feel so sexy, and it's like I
love that. Yes, it is sexy, and I want is sexy. Yeah,
(48:34):
I just I don't know. I just love that. And
I love getting feedback from everybody. And that's honestly, like
what's kept me going is the feedback from everybody. You know. Yeah,
And I feel like you are just so awesome about
embracing exactly who you are who you are and everyone
else You're just all about like being yourself, trusting your journey,
staying true to you. Like I love your Instagram, especially
when you start doing quotes and like giving inspiration because
(48:56):
I was like, dang, that is so spot on and
like be you and have the calm fens to be Yeah. Mom,
So I have two therapists actually I love some and
I'll hop on the phone um with one of them Wednesday. Actually,
that's a really great two advice to like reach out
and get a therapist. I mean, if I didn't have one,
who knows where I'd be. But but yeah, she just
(49:18):
told me the other day and she said, Brittany, you
embrace your story so much, and that's so important. So
many people run from their story and they hustle for
their worthiness. And even though I think I have been
trying to hustle for my worthiness and I didn't, you're
good hybrid. Yeah, I felt that when she said that.
And she said, you have to own your story because
(49:40):
if you keep running from it, like you're never settled,
how do you own it? Just look at it in
a minute, talk about it, claim it, you know, you
just talk talk about it, you know, like so many
people just don't want to talk about it. And um,
I've connected with so many people. Um, you know, my
my mom has had addiction problems. And when anyone brings
that up around me or when everyone I could tell
(50:01):
that people feel shameful when they say, oh, well, my
family's you know, not that great or whatever, and I'll
just come out and say and say, you know, I
get it. You know my mom face faces addiction issues,
Like she's in rehab right now. You know, I visit
her every month or every other month. Then, um, you
can just see that the on people's faces, like the
appreciation and like the connections is what it is. They
(50:22):
just feel like, oh, wow, she's human, you know, and
you're not trying to hide anything or like you're just
being real about your life and your journey. And again,
like that's all about connecting. Like you don't even necessarily
have to join a group to just tell your neighbor like, hey,
this is what's going on in my life, like and
it's just that's that's just the joy about, yeah, connecting
and and just being open and real and like owning
(50:44):
your story and not being embarrassed because no matter where
you come from, like you could end up anywhere, and
we're all supposed to be here. Getting to this earth
is a freaking miracle. And I just feel like whatever
experience you're born into, the sooner you can gather some lessons.
The sooner you can get to your purpose. I like,
because if you don't have anything to compare it to,
or anything to catapult you or inspire you, how do
(51:04):
you even know where to go? You know, But you
had like hard decisions and hard roads in beginning. You're like,
you made choices early on, and you're like, this is
how my life is going to be. And I feel
like that can be a blessing in the long run.
Yeah for sure. And and like I just spoke of
my mom. You know, she's had addiction issues, and that
was kind of something that kept coming back to my
mind whenever. You know, I was seventeen and I had
(51:26):
those two roads to to choose, and I was like,
I'm not going to be like my mom, you know,
whereas I could have easily said, well, you know, it
runs in my family and I'm just like everybody else.
You know, you have to use the people that came
before you and and take little tools and lessons from them.
You know, have your little playbook and use all those
negative things and turn them into a little positive tools
(51:48):
that that help you navigate through life. You know, I
totally get it. Where do you see your five year plan?
Oh gosh, this is what our our accountant just asked
the other day. Honestly, me and Braun were just talking
about maybe moving to the Islands in like five years. Honestly, Like,
I have no idea. Why would you not? Not joking
at all, you should definitely do that. Yeah, we were
(52:09):
thinking about maybe like at some point kind of going
off the grid off. Yeah, like working really hard the
next couple of years, and um, maybe just like going
incognito for a couple of years. Why not, I know,
I mean, there's no reason, nothing holding us back. I
mean just that jump, which you guys aren't scared to jump, yea.
If anyone's gonna jump, it's gonna be y'all. We're really not. Yeah,
we've talked heavily on it, and we have some friends
(52:32):
down there, um that have started their families in the Islands,
and their kids have like grown up there and like
went to school there and and all the all those
awesome things, and they kind of gave us the courage
to actually like put it on our mood board and like, hell, yeah,
say it could be real. It could? It totally could. Okay,
I'm asking you a few questions. You can answer whatever
comes to your mind, Okay, what is love to you?
(52:55):
Love is compromise. Yeah, dang, I think that that's some
some profound wisdom right there. That just came to my
head instantly. That's some womanly wisdom. You've been, you've you've
loved a long time to know that love is compromised
with family and with spouse. I love that. What is
the point of us being here? Oh? I think human connection? Honestly,
(53:20):
I've been doing some relief work and that has come
to my mind so many times. It's connection. Yeah, we're
all just here just to just to like love each
other and into Yeah, it has to be. And even
with animals. If money and all of that went out
the window, we didn't have a banking system, Like, what
would it be about? It be about people doing with
(53:40):
your with your network of people and trading out different
goods that you need, you'd have to connect. It's connection,
you know it is. I love that, Okay, I freaking
love I always in every interview would leave your light.
This whole thing has been so inspiring. But I just like,
out of everything you've gone through your crazy journey, I mean,
you should write a book, really know. I have so many,
(54:02):
so many more crazy things that have happened. But just
like stories from your life and what you've learned. It's
like what, oprah, what I know for sure? Just from
like living you just know these things for what do
you know for sure? So you can't oprah? Oh what
do I know for sure? Damn? My first word came
my O one was a little morbid. But that we
all die. We all died. Yeah, I mean, so what
(54:23):
does that mean in between? I mean it honestly means
that whatever matters to you, like you're close knit friends
and those connections like that's what you have to like
hone in on and like love on and like the
the ship that really matters, you know what I mean?
Because we all end up in the same place, you know. Yeah,
so just get to it. Yeah okay? And I like
(54:45):
to and leave your light. So out of all your journeys,
all your life, all your experiences, all of your knowledge
you've accumulated, you're awesome vibes, your connection, the whole thing.
You're just like magical existence. What do you want to
here with people? What do you want people when they
like think about you, think about tribe Kelly, think about
(55:05):
your mission statement? What do you want them to leave with,
you know, I definitely want them to leave with the
thought of like, no matter how you're brought up or
how wounded you are, that that you can shine your
own little light. You know. Um. I love that quote.
It talks about um, there has to be like a wound,
(55:25):
a crack, you know, for a light to to be
allowed to let in. And I don't know, just no
matter what your story is or where you come from,
you have no idea what God has in store for you.
You know, how do you find faith when you feel
like you've lost it? Like do you just how do
you find it? Oh? I definitely have to meditate it
and and ask him to re remind me because it's
(55:48):
definitely not something I can breathe through. It definitely is
is work and you have to really like meditate on
it and manifest it and and I mean I pray
all throughout the day. I mean I'll be and I'm like,
oh Lord, please don't give me anxiety when I go
into you know, this employee staff meeting. And you know,
I might look to appear to have all the confidence
in the world, but that really does come through like
(56:10):
constant like prayer and manifestation, you know, positive self talk,
believing all of this, and then I end up at
the Barnes and Noble self help sections. So maybe that
go to the Barnes and Noble self help help section
and um, you'll find We'll find you there. Man, That's
how I am. You go to our house. I have
a bookshelf and every single one of those books. It's
(56:31):
like connecting with your soul how to like manifest your
dreams of four agreements I have like eckhart Toll everybody
on their deepoc Chopra like all the things. I've just
have the five agreements. I'm just like, I need all
the help with getting because honestly reminding myself to be positive,
especially when I want to sink into a rabbit hole
of just like sadness. It's just I need I need
(56:52):
help to get there. Sometimes I can't do it by
myself asking for help like so vulnerable to do. But
I can't do it by myself. I some people can,
but I can't. I have to lean on somebody and
just be like, Okay, I'm not alone, help me through this,
and I love That's awesome. See, you're just like us,
be Cole, you know, like in the US magazines are
(57:13):
like these people are just like us. They eat ice cream,
They myself help books, a lot of them. Yeah, freaking
love it. You're amazing. Thank you so much for joining
me on this and Sunday. Thank you for joining us.
Little girl, You're awesome. You're awesome. Script love you, peace out,
Host
Caroline Hobby
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