Carala. She's a queen of talking. He was She's on the inside. She got the scoop on No one can do with Caralam, Carala, No one can heal with Caral Carol. I am so excited to have Brittany Kelly joining me on this episode of Get Real podcast. She is a total baller shot color. She and her hubs, who is Brian, from Florida, Georgia Line, have this incredible company called Tribe Kelly.
It is all American made clothing and products. They have two storefronts, one in Nashville, one in thirty eight, which is in Florida. I've been to the one in Nashville. It is so beautiful. The clothes are so well done, so comfortable, yet make you feel so sexy. And this is all Brittany's brain child. She is so creative and she's so passionate about what she does. Her story will knock your socks off. Just her drive and everything that she's gone through to get where she is. You will
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um redone. We had our wedding reception here and it was actually a super crappy barn and um 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 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 photos 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. 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, I haven't always been a super strong believer. I had a pretty tragic event happened to me when I was seventeen. 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 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,
so it really really sucks. Um, you definitely go through dark times, but you you gain these tools that help you navigate the world. And it doesn't have to be all terrible. And that's I love that that you say that, that like it. 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 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 see what you're doing that. I was a
solid B plus accounting major. Yeah. And um, when 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 score and you were like renewing 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 fought, Oh I 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 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. I've surrounded myself with people who are resilient and people who have visions and people who are creative, and UM, the husband of that family, Lester 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 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 up to and and a reason for that. UM. So I feel like
the people I 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 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. It's 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 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 my first 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 everything? Yes, you get your faith to do it honestly in other people. I mean, I'm my big ist critic honestly, like, um, I'm the worst I can 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 some 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 m accounting 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 what are you trying to do? Like did you know you're 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 for the story that I had, And I knew that just by sharing my story with just a couple 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, 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 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
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 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 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 change in 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 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 Sunday's over 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 someone who is a great support system, like you said, the renews or somebody that 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 starting to maak it's Sunday Sunday has like completely taken over the interview right now. So Sunday is my white wolf dog and she just hates when the intentions on 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 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, spent 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, 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 not that I knew that was smart. Don't don't get me wrong, but I just did to 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 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 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 too a month, which is perfect because that was like my rent at
the time. So I got to quit my wagers. Same job at Buffalo Wild Wings. Actually, okay, 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 we'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 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 Renews 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, I just gave me the confidence to even start anything creative. You know? Why did that? Is the thing? 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 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, 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 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, 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 protection. She's 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 both love Benet Brown, right, Okay,
Burnet 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 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 failure because I put And that's another thing I have 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 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 dinnam, the way you get it all cut, Like you are so meticulous about this brand and it's 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 beast at this point. And um, we're still on the upper clom, you know. It's it's not like we're like hugely grossly successful enough like how 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, what's your 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 a lot of people. I mean I have how 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, 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, managing people
is like a whole a whole different thing. I figure out how to get people inspired 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 so the dream just came 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 you remember it all. Can you make it awful of back together? Yeah? I can make it allful together. Okay, So triv Kelly was definitely born on the tour bus. Um obviously had the creative spirit from my Etty 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 Hayley they haven't met, hadn't met at that point. But um, Tyler and like tons of other guys, and I knew I had to do something, Like what were you feeling itching to do something? I mean even just have a job. Like 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 into the world. Um so yeah, we started writing the blueprints for Trapp Kelly. Um how did you pick fashion and clothes? I mean, I guess it came from Jewelry because Jwelry 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 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 and all of all of that jazz? And um, how do you catch those creative ideas? Like you know, when
you like actually materialize a creative idea? I kind of think of it 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 an amazing ah
for 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 like he can hear a song and be like, oh that's an a monest like it's good, but like it's not gonna go number one. Like he's just very like confident in his like creative opinions. Okay, well you know what, I think that's half of the battle,
it is. And so again for 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 Brian um. And he would tell me like if I said, oh, what about this name for the clothing line, He's like, ah, you know, it's it's good, but it's not a hit. It's not
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 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 girl, your community. Yeah, and so, and then I came up with it. I will, I will take credit for it, but I said, Trump, Kelly, that's us troup Kelly, and he just automatically said, 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 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 own dreams
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pick me up 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 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 vibe, and 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 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
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 to. So when your spirit is acting up and saying like nooop knoop, now what does that feel like? Oh it feels I have to like hop on board like a sets and if you want to throw up, if you
don't do it, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean. And what I'm talking about exactly is the manufacturing and UM, I just looked into all 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 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 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 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. 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 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 don't trust anybody? Actually,
um no, she um. She was a very self 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 Brian. Actually, that is something I would like to talk about because y'all and Haley and Tyler, the Florida Georgia line uh 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 been 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. 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 and is pressure having being like goals for people, like marriage goals and life goals, Like how is all that don't make that decision to be like that or just how it always was? Yeah, Brian 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, do it? You know? And I remember 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 I had mentioned something I don't remember the exact how I 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, like the most specialty, 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, 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 like in a bathtub. I mean, how turn my
hair black? By the way, that bathtub during my a 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 g L even more as a duo and 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 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 lead? Sunday says, why can't I be the lead of Sunday Sunday, And that's a great question. So yeah, in the beginning, I mean, Haley, no, I didn't mind, like 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, 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, 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, it's not as intense 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 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 the 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 went fast, like when Crews 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
your own normal, you know what I mean. And we would just have to create our own 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 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 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 have I love that I'm majored in psychologist because it really helped me
through 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 as how do you navigate that? Do you learn just to not take it personal or something? Yes? Yes, yes, yes, Um the Four Agreements? That book is great. Yeah, 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 and 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 the past couple of years. And um, the Four Agreements.
I hate to just blame it all on that, but that really 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 has nothing to do with me, you know, she's just having 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 it's 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 rid this reacting and anger always the first to come right, you know, because it's like when you do insecure or fear or whatnot, you've put you
put your defenses up. And I've really learned to like rod the wave and I've actually like loved laughing at myself about it because I'm like, you are making something out of nothing, 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 suck 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 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 girl in the world is talking to him, I legit at this point in my life, I'm like, that's so sweet.
She's 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 come on, why would I create something out of nothing? And so it has a lot to do with maturity 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 a page connection wavelength, 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 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 I feel like I have just been molded in
a way that I didn't know it was possible. Just make 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 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 gonna 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 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, you know, 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 know whatever, And are sometimes some little defense and like who 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, 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. And Lord knows I have changed so many
tendencies and habits and ways, 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, 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'red div 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 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 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 get out of there, and don't get invested. I tell that to my single friends, because I have a kind 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. But again, you've got if you are annoyed with figuring out it immediately, you got to cut it, even though you don't want to, and even though there's still juice left to squeeze. That's how I said. I was 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, Brian, like in the beginning, I mean, especially with the wild Rod 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, and when we were both irritated, it was almost like we would laugh, right, 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 So my gosh, we we get to that point a lot,
especially when we're super irritated. Like I mean, it could be like a lot of the times, you know, it's travel issues. You know, something goes wrong 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? 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 really wanted to go like the bad path because why 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 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 for? Honestly, if I'm being really honest with you, I think that the road that I could have chose 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, it's just wide open. Just yeah, 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. 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. 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.
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 and God he only knows where I would be if I didn't, you know, so that would be my one piece of 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 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 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 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 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 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's journeys, I feel so much more inspired to be brave, but 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.
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, 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 a hundred percent know that I looked at every single detail and that I worked on every single detail, and like when you receive that piece of clothing, I truly want them to feel
a 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, is sexy, and I want it is sexy. Yeah, 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 I was like, dang, that is so spot on and like be you and have the confidence to be Yeah. Mom.
So I have two therapists. Actually, well I love some therapace and I'll hop on the phone UM on Wednesday. Actually, that's a really great tune 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 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 you know, even though I think I have been trying to hustle for my worthiness and I didn't good hybrid. Yeah, I felt that when she said that, And she said, you have to own your story because 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 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 a action 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 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 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 feel like, because if you don't have anything to compare it to, or anything to catapult you or inspire you, how do 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 with 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 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 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 accountant just asked the other day. Honestly, me and Brown were just talking about
maybe moving to the Islands in like five years. Honestly, like, why would you not not joking at all, you should definitely do that. Yeah, we were thinking about maybe like at some point kind of going off the grid go 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 not to. 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 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, oh 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? 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 conference mine with family and with spouse. I love that. What is the point of us being here? Oh?
I think human connection. Honestly, 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 your with your network of people and trading out different goods that you need. You'd have
to connect its 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. I know I have so many, so many more crazy things that have happened. But just like stories from your life and what you've learned. It's like, what, Opra, what I know for sure? Just from living? You just know
these things? For what do you know for sure? Speaking of Oprah? Oh, what do I know for sure? Damn? My first word came my mind was a little morbid, but that we all die. We all die. Yeah, So what does that mean in between? I mean it honestly means that whatever matters? Do 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 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 to 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 share with people? What do you want people when they like think about you, think about tribe Kelly, think about
your mission statement? What do you want them to leave with? You know, I definitely want them to live 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, 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? I definitely have to meditate it and and ask him to re remind me because it's 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 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 like connecting with your soul, how to like manifest your dreams. Of four agreements I'll have like Eckhart Toll everybody on their deepoc Chapra like all the things. I'm just I 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
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 like 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 U S magazines and like these people are just like us. They eat ice cream, they by self help books. 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, Love you peace out. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode with Brittany. She is such a dream, so inspiring. I know you got inspired from an episode I did. I freaking love her. Next week, I have Caitlin Brown. She is the beautiful bride of Kine Brown and we talk all about her story.
She is an incredible singer herself, and she walks me through this entire journey of how she met Kine and involves music. It's so great you will not want to miss it. Next week we have Caitlin Brown. See you so soon.