Digital Social Hour - Becoming a Millionaire at 15, Meeting Jack Harlow and NY Fashion Week | Isabella Barrett DSH #259

Episode Date: February 1, 2024

Isabella Barrett talks about how she became a millionaire at 15, how she struggles to make friends around her age and what goes does at Fashion Week. APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://forms.gle/qXvENTeurx7Xn8Ci9 BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] SPONSORS: Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://www.RocketMoney.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Once I was on the show, I kind of used that as like my 15 minutes of fame, like a Super Bowl commercial. A lot of people did something different than everyone else was doing. I used that as a platform to promote my company. You're doing all this at 17. You became a millionaire at 15, right? I became a millionaire at six. At six? Six years old. What? Yeah, I was named one of the self-made millionaires in the Guinness Book of World Records. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe it helps a lot with the algorithm it helps us get bigger and better guests and it helps us grow the team truly means a lot thank you guys for supporting and here's the episode ladies and gentlemen welcome back to

the show i'm your host as always sean kelly we're here on the digital social hour very special guest today it's her first podcast isabella barrett. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good. I went to Dream Racing yesterday, so I just came off of the Las Vegas racetrack. Okay. Did you win? It wasn't really a race. My fastest lap time was 1.07, one minute and seven seconds. So it's pretty good. That's fast. So you were going like over 100. Yeah, I was going 100 around almost every turn. And then I hit 170 on the straightaway.

What's it like going on a turn going 100? Because I get freaked out going 40 on a turn sometimes. Okay, so that's what I thought. Like, you know, driving on the street and doing 100 is very different than driving on a track because a track is a controlled space. I also had an instructor with me as well you know telling me when to slow down and do whatever but um it was it was crazy i was i went in there listen i'm a car enthusiast yeah my adrenaline was rushing i was so excited

to do it and then when i got there it was like it went by so fast i felt like i wasn't even doing 90 around the turns i was going like i felt like I was going like 40. Wow. Which car were you in? The 911 GT3. Oh. 2022. Man, so you love those nice cars.

I love cars. Which ones do you own? So I just turned 17 in August. So I'm getting ready to get my first car. It's a lot getting your first car. So I don't know what I want to get. Okay. I'm a big BMW fan.

So I currently really want the M4 CSL. i don't know if you know what that is i'm not too good a beautiful car it's just overall beautiful the bot everything is beautiful um i definitely would own a gt3 rs though and um yeah i just i have um a big team so i work with this company called straight up driven and they it's an exotic car company so they do like car mates and stuff so i've driven lambos i've driven iates i've driven aston martins i've driven track hawks oh a track hawk is another one i haven't even heard of that one it's a jeep with a supercharged motor it's crazy you're doing all this at 17 you became a millionaire at 15 right i became a millionaire at six at six six years old what yeah i was named one of the self-made millionaires in the guinness

book of world records how did you do that at six so i started off on the hit show toddlers and tiaras um and then i was named one of the self-made millionaires when i uh once i was on the show i kind of used that as like my 15 minutes of fame, like a Super Bowl commercial. A lot of people know the show as like a negative show and like drama. But really what I did is I kind of did something different than everyone else was doing. I used that as a platform to promote my company. So when they were like, hey, you want to be on the show? I was like, yeah, of course, you know, this was a great idea for my mom as well. It was her idea. Basically, I had a jewelry factory.

We manufactured jewelry for Dance Moms, Chloe and Maddie, MTV. Basically, I had Toddlers and Tiaras follow me there and basically show what I do. It was a great promotion for my business. That took off, made over six figures. Then from there, I took the money that I was making from that company. Either you give all your money to the was making from that company. And either you give all your money to the government or you invest it. So I did angel investing, which is basically where you can go on these websites and you'll find small businesses that

are hurting in funds, but they're great businesses. So I have 10 companies that you probably wouldn't even know that I own or have a stake in because it's angel investing. You invest in companies that you think will do well. You did that at six? Okay, well, I kind of skipped the timeline. So at six, I was on Tollers and Tiaras. By seven, they were filming the show in my jewelry factory. By eight years old, my jewelry factory, my jewelry company was picked up by MTV, Bravo, Dance Moms. So then that's where it took off. And then we were doing dance conventions until I was about 10 years old. And then by 11, that's when I really started to have my boom. You know, I was famous when TV made people famous,

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A lot of people are like, oh, like you're famous. You just do that. Like, don't you get sick of it? A, no, I don't get sick of it because, you know, it's fun for me. It's not a job because I get up every day and i love you know i love designing clothes i love racing i love doing all that stuff so basically all the things you see of me on my instagram or youtube or out there is really who i am in person but i also live like the hannah montana life we were just talking about this um so i have a penthouse in new york

where i'll go and when i do business i stay there and then i also have a househouse in New York where I'll go. When I do business, I stay there. Then I also have a house in Rhode Island where I go. I'm a normal person. I have a jet ski. I ride four-wheelers. I hang out with my friends. I do everything the normal person would. A lot of people get that twisted.

It's cool to see you going down this path because a lot of people that experience fame at a young age, you know what happens. You seem like you're doing well. Yeah, I'm incredibly grateful for where I am today. And I don't think I'd trade it for anything. That's awesome. Do you still talk to anyone from Toddlers and TRs? It's been a while since I've talked to a lot of them.

I'm actually really close friends with one of them, Eden Wood. She actually modeled in my show at New York Fashion Week. Nice. Which was great, yeah. This was my, I think it's 17th season at Fashion Week. Wow. Yeah. You had your own show? Yeah, I have a clothing line and we show at Fashion Week.

We do New York Fashion Week, Miami Fashion Week, LA Fashion Week is coming up soon too. So I'll be doing that. And hopefully Paris Fashion Week one day. That's my goal, yeah. I didn't know there was all these. I've only heard of New York. Yeah, there's a lot of fashion weeks. Miami Sw swim week is probably the best that's the best one uh new york

is better for like new york gets a lot of the big the big people um miami fashion week is more for the vibe got it yeah so what goes down at these like you have your own show and people are there to maybe purchase your product basically yeah so it's like um it's like a website in person so basically all the clothes that are for sale on my website are going to walk down the runway it's basically for like you know people come and watch the shows to see different fashions so they'll come they'll watch my show they'll watch everyone else's show and then whatever products they end up liking you know my logo's on the back with my name they can go on the website you know and order what they want um but it it sounds very simple

it's not the preparation starts about six months to a year in advance because you have to plan almost. I have a lot of models that love to model for me. So I think my biggest show was 69 models. So imagine planning 69 models, all different outfits. It's hectic. That's insane. So you need to hire like a full-on event team.

Oh, yeah. We have, to be honest, I've learned that you know best about your own company, right? So you can hire a team. You can hire whatever you want. But at the end of the day, it's what you want to do, you do it, right? So I can hire a team. I have a team, yes, but I choose to do things on my own just because I know it's going to go the way I want it to go. That makes sense.

And are you yourself modeling these or are you just hiring? So, okay, this is one of my biggest things that I talk about. You don't have to be the face of your brand to have a brand, right? So, like, I make products for myself, but I also make it for everyone else. And if people just see me being the face of my brand, where's that going to get me? People are going to be like, oh, it's just her brand. Like, no, it's really important to have other people as well.

But another big thing is you don't have to have a physical product. Like, you can have more of a service, which is another big thing I talk about too. You can build a product that you don't have to be a face-up. So when you, say one day you wake up and you don't go to work the next day, your brand should still be able to go on without you, right? Because you're not the face of your brand, which is also important. So if you didn't come to work tomorrow, would your podcast still run? Yeah.

Right. I got a team still run? Yeah. Right. I got a team, yeah. Yeah. That's the biggest. Yeah, that's how you are able to sell your company. That's really what you can call a business. It's not a business if it can't run without you. Absolutely.

And most people, they have to be there for their business to run. So they never get to that point where they could take a week off. Right. Yeah. So you're 18, you said? 17. 17. Yeah. so you're still in school yeah i um i actually just became homeschooled i was in public school up until my uh my junior year what was that like i loved it i'd go back to it yeah it's just i'm getting so busy now that i really don't have time to go to school i'm always traveling um but i loved public school it was

great it was a great experience you know to keep me grounded and normal and i think you know if if you have not gone to if anyone hasn't gone to public school you need to go to public school because it's just an experience that i think everyone needs to have in order to be grounded and not be so like it taught me that i'm not like it taught me how to not be selfish like in a way like I don't walk around bragging about what I have because I'm not saying because I went to public school but because I was around people who you know didn't have as much as I did I was friends with people who are not on the same level at me at all but you know that doesn't affect me right yeah so was it hard making friends because you're probably having different conversations, I'd say. Yeah. So I get this question a lot more than you would think.

Making friends for me is pretty easy because I know how to keep my life separate. Like when I go to New York and you know, I go to all these places, that's a separate life from when I'm at home. Right. So when I'm at home, I have, I have a ton of friends at home as well. But making friends with me for me me isn't really hard because I've always been taught to be myself and you know be who I am and people will love me for me so obviously I'm not in school like oh yeah just strictly business you know like a nerd definitely not that but um no I wouldn't say it's hard for me to make friends I'm pretty I'm pretty friendly and nice to get to know a lot of people persuade me as like a stuck up, self-centered, you know, 17-year-old rich

girl, which is not the case at all. Like I'm so humble and so nice. Like my mom tells me all the time. My mom's definitely the mean one. I'm really like the nice one. So I don't speak up. Like if something's wrong and like I don't like something, I won't say it. So you're shy.

I wouldn't say I'm shy. I'm definitely not shy. I just don't speak up because I just don't want to come across mean, I guess. I feel that. So what was your clique in high school? What group were you in? I was definitely with more of the, I was cheer captain. You were in the popular group. I didn't want to say it, but you said it for me. Yeah, I was cheer captain all through middle school and high school but high school I was not cheer captain because when you go from middle school to high school

it's two different cheer teams so I was cheer captain in middle school I was on the cheer team in high school um I was definitely among the popular people yeah people definitely wanted to be friends with me but don't get me wrong I still had a lot of like you know friends that were in the other groups okay that's sort of where i was too yeah i was in a in a few groups yeah it was interesting man but see i don't i don't like like groupings i don't like that i honestly like i know the world we live in not everyone's gonna agree with me but like everyone should just be civil you know like you don't have to be like oh my god let's hang out.

But, like, you can be friends. Like, why can't? Yeah, that's how I was. But then people would give me, you know, slack, I guess, for hopping. Why are you hanging out with those kids? I got that one time, and I said, you're not going to tell me who I can and can't be friends with because you don't like them. Like, that's just not how it's going to be, you know? Yeah.

So is college in the cards for you, or are you going to skip it you gonna skip it yeah so okay i'm in that predicament right now i'm like at the stage where like okay i gotta get ready for college i gotta finish high school you know i'm transitioning so i definitely want to continue what i'm doing um fashion is definitely my biggest thing racing is my biggest thing right now so i'm still on the way to figure out what i want to do for college but definitely want to stay on the path i'm in right now so i'm still on the way to figure out what i want to do for college but definitely want to stay on the path i'm in right now because this is probably um you know i've built a successful name for myself so why would i go on and do something else like be a teacher or something you know it's cool to see you in such two different industries like fashion and racing i've never seen

that before it's it's different you know it's definitely different um but you know what i say it's like i love what i do so it doesn't feel like work to me you know i'm a car enthusiast so i definitely want to get more into the car stuff um but fashion is definitely my number one it's cool to see you found this passion at such a young age some people go their whole lives and they don't find like that purpose yeah but you're 17 already i definitely have to give credit to my mom you know i have to give you credit um but shout out to moms out there yeah shout out to all the moms out there they do a lot trust me shout out to my mom she watches every episode and comments hi mom i love my mom oh me too i was shopping yesterday and you know my mom is my i can't i'm gonna give you the title mom are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a guest we'll click the

application link below in the description of this video we are always looking for cool stories cool entrepreneurs to talk to about business and life click the application link below and here's the episode guys my mom is my stylist okay she does have very good taste and style i hate to admit it why do you hate to admit that it's just a thing we have like she's always like okay you gotta give it to me like my style is good and like you know it's like we're like best friends so it's not like a mom and daughter relationship it's more like we're like besties so i was in a store yesterday by myself and i was like oh my god i wish i had my mom like i need like her opinion like i think my mom is definitely my best friend.

Nice. Yeah. So she really influenced your fashion sense. Yeah, she definitely influences me the most. Did she do all this Fashion Week stuff when she was your age too? So my mom was, she competed in pageants. I come from a long line of successful entrepreneurs.

I live in an Italian family. It's pretty big. Nice. So she used to work on federal hill which is in rhode island um and then she competed in miss rhode island usa so she was miss rhode island so and then she was on a bravo tv show and now she is a boss woman like now she she's a pr manager so she manages a lot of amazing companies. She manages Fashion Week.

Wow. Yeah. She manages Straight Up Driven, that company I was talking to you about, the exotic car company. So she's also in the car scene as well, which is fun. But she does still freak out

when I go like 80 miles an hour on the highway. But it's okay. Love my mom. Did you ever enter any of those pageants, those beauty pageants? I was on Toddlers and Sier tiaras which is a beauty pageant show oh okay yeah so i started in pageants when i was younger and then once i kind of saw like the see the one thing that my mom taught me was always make everything a positive experience if i get a negative question make it positive you know so once i I promoted my brand on the television tiaras

and I kind of kick-started that for myself on reality TV, I kind of took a step away from that because I feel like reality TV doesn't get you very far. So once I built my product, I became very successful with that. And then after I became successful with that, I kind of just continued investing, making my own companies and keep kept on building a name for myself interesting so reality tv only lasted me a little while but you know i still do shows here and there i have a show on amazon prime reality show okay um but yeah i would say that reality tv is nothing

you can depend on for income i agree just based Just based off the ones I've seen, it seems like very few people actually make a lot of money off it. Yeah. Like other than the Kardashians and maybe a few other big ones. Yeah, the Kardashians have made it very hard to be a millionaire. Yeah.

So. I mean, they really set the tone with their show. Even my girl watches it and I'll even watch it. I'm like, why am I watching this? Why am I watching? No, it's good though. It's like addicting.

Right. But see, that's what reality TV is. Addicting. But do you think it's, I mean, I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, but is it scripted? So a lot of it is not, but some scenarios are. I would say the Kardashians are pretty much, like, I wish I knew Kim on a personal basis. You'll get there. Hopefully.

I really hope so A lot of people tell me I'm a mini Kylie Jenner Which is a really big compliment I feel like It depends, a lot of reality TV is scripted I feel like the Kardashians Was not scripted very much I think that was definitely real

You could see the clips too The film crew is just there That's kind of what TV is I feel like nowadays nobody wants a scripted bs like yeah you could kind of tell yeah yeah do you feel like it's invasive when you're filming your show like they're just following you everywhere i mean yes i do i do feel like it's a little bit invasive but i love it at the end it's all worth it when the videos come out you know and it really that's really the only way to showcase who you truly are without being scripted right is to just have a camera on you 24 7 yeah so so how do you divide all your time because you're getting homeschooled you got like

three different businesses yeah so like i said when i um this doesn't feel like work to me because i love it it's like i wake up and i have fun every day so i do have like a set regimen you know i have to do school every day um and then there's time for my clothing and I have fun every day. So I do have like a set regimen. You know, I have to do school every day. And then there's time for my clothing line. I have to ship out all my orders. Again, like I said, I have a team, but I still like to do everything myself. Because it's always good to be hands-on in your own company, right? So, yeah, so I have a set regimen.

You know, a schedule is very important. I talk about this. I also, actually, I have a book. I had a book coming out called the teen's guide to business, but then everyone was like, Hey, no teens read books. So now I'm kind of going, um, down the mentorship program route. Um, I have this thing on my Instagram. It's called business with Bella, where I talk about a lot of business tips. And one of the things I talk about is having a schedule. Um, people are like oh yeah like I try I have a schedule and I just don't fall it's important to get in that habit because at the end of the day you forget something like if I forgot the biggest part of my day

you know that falls on me right so I think a schedule is very important for you super important I used to try to be cool and not use a calendar or anything same no when I was in high school beginning of high school sophomore year and freshman year i used to try to be so cool never never wrote down what i had to do for homework never nothing and then no you realize it's just hurting you like yeah you realize for real like i would miss meetings and look like a complete yeah it's not worth it but uh i saw you just met jack harlow oh my gosh how's that so my mom sorry mom my mom has a really big crush on jack harlow so she's we were on the red carpet at the kids choice awards and my mom's like bella guess who's behind you i'm like who you know i was thinking like maybe like charlie d'amelio or

something yeah she goes jack harlow i said what and actually it was super cool he's such a super cool guy he's huge like like i was like hi like that's all yeah he's pretty tall i didn't know that yeah um but so he was walking by with his manager and i was like hey jack like do you mind if i get a picture with you and his manager was like no sorry he has to go and he was like no like i'm gonna take a picture with her so he was he was super sweet i didn't get to conversate with him at all because he was in a rush. But Jack, if you're watching, I would love to have a conversation.

Yeah, that'd be big. Do you have plans on getting in the music space? So I got in the music space a little bit. It's not my favorite. Again, if you're going to do something, love it. Love it or leave it, right? So the music isn't something that I love. I did just come out with a song

with one of my friends alex freeman um it's called best friends we actually funny story we made it i went to her house she lives in florida so i went to her house for a week and it was like 2 a.m we were sitting there all night trying to brainstorm from like 9 p.m and we were like we can't do it so here comes 2 a.m it's like the goofy hour we're overtired and then we just started just saying things saying things and then we ended up making a song about um a girl liking her boyfriend her boyfriend's best friend so boyfriend's best friend yeah it's a little harsh sounds like it's based off not a true story not a true story trust me it is not a true story um it was just kind of

like we were just like talking and just talking about our friends and stuff. And then we really came up with it like that. Man, dating must be hard for you because you're so mature for your age. So, yeah. I don't really talk about my dating life much. I prefer to keep my private life private. That makes sense.

But you know who you are. Oh, God. Shots fired if you're watching this so you mentioned miami swim week was your favorite why do you like that one so much so this was only my second time no yeah my second time doing miami some week so it was new to me something new i love new things um it was fun i love the atmosphere it's it's miami right you go to miami it's like party city right um new york fashion week probably tops i take back what i said new york fashion week tops miami fashion miami some week um for

me personally just because that's where i originated and that's where a lot of my crowd is from so um miami some week is just it's just more for the vibe. I just love that. You're a party girl? No. I'm not a party girl. I'm all business. Strictly business. I can have fun sometimes, though. That's always fun. But I love Miami Swim Week.

It's just a vibe for me. I just love Miami. Except the weather. It's just so hot. The humidity. With your hair, it must be tough to maintain there. My hair. All the girls with their spray tans, sweating.

It never goes down very well. I'm like taking like six showers a day in Miami. Yeah. Because you don't like to feel like sticky. It's gross. Yeah, I feel that. Are you going to stick with New York or do you want to move anywhere? You travel a lot.

I travel a lot. Personally, I would never live in LA. Yeah? No. I couldn't. I just, I've been there enough to where I'm like, I feel like it's very Hollywood. Everyone's very fake.

I just wouldn't live there. I'm used to like, I grew up in the, not country, but like the suburbs. Rhode Island. Yeah, Rhode Island. I grew up there. So I kind of just like, I probably would never leave there. I'd always had that as like my home base.

But, you know, I definitely, you know, would get places in miami i really want a place in miami yeah um yeah and i have a place in new york already but that's probably the only three places something about east coast people i just it attracts me to them because i grew up in jersey yeah and i tried moving to la for five months i hated it i we went there for my longest trip there was about for almost a month and i just wanted to go home a month in la yeah yeah a month in la was like it was it was like it wasn't torture like i had a great time i was surrounded by really great people but it's just like man it's just la it's so different it's coming from the east coast like yeah just people are different they're fake like you mentioned it's like a weekend trip for me max and it's like everyone has like secret

animosity like yeah like you can like i can be talking to you as like my best friend one day and the next day i'm hearing that you're like oh my god like she's so like fake and ugly yeah that's how it is in la yeah there's and really like i went there and i am not like the party type like i said like you know i'll hang out like we can go to dinner we can go to the club like we can go party but like i'm not gonna get like blackout drunk right so i was friends with this group of people and you know i thought i was good friends with them and you know going there i always keep myself farther back like we can be friends but like I need to see how you move first. So I go there, and I'm thinking these people are my friends.

We're going to all these events together. We're going to do this and that. And then as soon as I hung out with this person, they were like, you're not our friend anymore. Whoa. You must have did something. I didn't even do anything wrong like huh they're just so sensitive and they think like everyone's for them yeah out

there yeah but i don't want to talk too much about them i do have some great people in la shout out to you guys um but how do you stay so locked in so disciplined where do you get this work ethic from it's impressive my mom yeah yeah she's taught me a lot um i also have teaching taught myself a lot. I've learned the hard way. I asked my mom to let me learn the hard way about my friends. I learned real quick. Oh, so she knew, but she didn't tell you.

Well, she knew she would tell me, but I'm a teenager. I'm like, Mom, just leave it. That's my friend. She wouldn't do that to me. Yeah, she would. Right. Like 100%, yeah, she would. So I think I learned myself, which is the best thing i ever did

was being able to learn everything myself and um there's still a lot more to learn i'm only 17 years old and i've probably only learned half of the dictionary yeah i mean not the actual dictionary but like you get the life dictionary yeah yeah so it must be tough to maintain do you have like that one friend that's been with you from the start oh yeah i have i have two key friends who i model with macyacy Brooks and Sabrina. Shout out to you guys. I love you so much. They're like my soul sisters.

I wouldn't trade them for the world. We all live in different states. Sabrina lives near me on the East Coast and Macy lives in Tennessee. But they are my soul sisters. And then I have about two key friends at home. I like to keep my circle small. Small circle is better. Less people to keep my circle small, small circles, better,

less people to talk about you. Absolutely. Sorry. I didn't mean to swear on here, but sorry. No, I'm the same way for sure. Yeah,

definitely. I keep my circle small. Yeah. Cause you probably have people trying to get in your circle all the time. all the time with your success. All the time. And like, like that's great.

Like we can be friends, but like my circle is small. Your guard's up. Yeah. My guard's always up yeah i keep mine on one hand that's the rule i give people yep because once it gets more than that it's like this one's mad that you didn't talk to them today and then the other one's mad that you didn't hang out and you hung out with this one and not that one and then it's just like

it's a whole whole shebang absolutely anything else you want to promote or talk about yeah so basically my biggest thing is to try to teach kids how to start their own business. That's a lot of the questions I get because I'm young and I'm an entrepreneur and I have my own business. And I just want to talk about a few key things. So I, again, I said, build a product that you don't have to be the face of and a business that can run without you. Another thing is be consistent and persistent. That's my biggest thing. And you don't have to have a physical product to have a business, right? So I'll tell you a little story. So a couple of weeks ago in my neighborhood, I live in the suburbs. This is

in Rhode Island. There's these two boys that came knocking on our door every day. Hey, can we mow your lawn? Hey, can we rake your leaves every day? My mom's persistent. She said, no, no, no. We don't need it. We don't need it. Then here comes the wintertime. We get a lot of snow there. It's the snow. My mom's like, hey, we should hit up those kids to shovel the driveway. They're booked and busy now. They're booked and busy. They've got other clients now. So really, if you want to start a business, you don't have to have a physical product. If you're good at Instagram, do that. Work for somebody as their manager. This is my biggest thing.

If we went out there right now and we asked five random people, would you rather have a 17-year-old manage your Instagram or a 45-year-old? What's your answer? 17-year-old manage your Instagram or a 45-year-old. What's your answer? 17-year-old. Right, because they're good at it. They sit there almost every day on Instagram doing that's what they're good at. So that's what I always say.

You don't have to have a product to have a business. A service is great. You're good at dog walking, be a dog walker. You have to start somewhere. I'm really glad you're promoting this mindset at such a young age to teenagers because I got made fun of in high school for doing business. Really? For doing entrepreneurship.

Well, whoever did that, I'm sure they're not much farther in life. Well, yeah, they're nine-to-fivers. But back then, it was weird to do entrepreneurship, I guess, in high school. I feel like when I was in elementary school and I was just starting to be on the reality TV boom, a lot of people looked at me weird because they were like, oh, she wears makeup and hair extensions

and all that kind of stuff. And I was always looked at weird. And then I never, I feel like I learned at a young age to brush things off. Don't let things get to you because the more they get to you, that's what people want. They't let things get to you because the more they get to you, that's what people want. Like they say things,

they say things to get to you, you know? So yeah, like sometimes I'd go home and cry. Like that's, that's a normal life, right? But I think keeping your guard up and being a strong human being is the most

important, especially in business because a hundred times I've had things that have failed. I had this company called bear in a box and the National Florist picked it up. It was basically where there's a company like it now, but it was a bear in a box. So you could send like a breakup bear with flowers or like, you know, I want to be your boyfriend, bear with flowers. And it got picked up and then it absolutely failed, but I didn't give up. I had other business that failed as well. I had a zipper couture. It had a zipper couture.

It was called zipper couture. It was like you hooked it on your zipper, and it was like a cute little charm. Failed. But you know what? I learned that you can't just give up. You can't just drop it off. All right, I failed.

I'm done. I quit. It's part of the game. If you're not failing, you're not learning. That's how you become a better person. Yeah, every successful person fails. It fails a lot. But yeah, the hate thing used to get to me too.

But now I realize if you're getting some hate, usually it's good. Yeah. Usually you're onto something. My mom always says, any press is good press. I agree, but I disagree. That goes along with like the whole getting canceled thing. But any press is good press in a way. Yeah.

There's levels. Yeah. I think there's certain lines you don't want to cross. Right. Overall, it's a good statement. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's been super fun. Where can people find you and learn more about you?

Yeah, you can find me on my Instagram at Isabella Barrett123. I'm all over social media. My Instagram is my biggest platform. I post on there every single day. So stay tuned for the car content. Let's go. Yeah, I'm excited. You can find me on youtube isabella

barrett and then my company house of beredy uh www.houseofberetti.com and also my website bellaberedi.com awesome thanks so much for coming on isabella great episode thanks for watching guys and i'll see you next time