The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Isabela Rangel Grutman - How To Become Independent, Find Balance, Build Your Own Brand Or Side Hustle, & Motherhood
Episode Date: November 22, 2024#779: Join us as we sit down with Isabela Rangel Grutman – global philanthropist, clothing & jewelry designer, creative brand advisor, model, style influencer, & full-time mother. Isabela takes us ...on a journey through her life, from her roots in Brazil & early experiences traveling the world as a young model, to her thriving in a vibrant nightlife scene. In this episode, Isabela opens up about learning independence at a young age, navigating the modeling industry, & finding balance between motherhood & her dynamic lifestyle.  To connect with Isabela Rangel Grutman click HERE  To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE  To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE  Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE  To Watch the Show click HERE  For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM  To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697)  This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential  Head to the HIM & HER Show ShopMy page HERE to find all of Michael and Lauryn’s favorite products mentioned on their latest episodes.  Use code SKINNY for 15% off of Isabela Rangel Grutman’s luxury jewelry brand IsaGrutman.com & 30% off her clothing brand ShopRangel.com.  This episode is sponsored by Cymbiotika  Head over to Cymbiotika.com for 25% off + Free Shipping sitewide for a limited time during their Black Friday Sale!  This episode is sponsored by The Skinny Confidential  Give the gift of an upgraded routine this Holiday Season! Shop our biggest sale of the year at ShopSkinnyConfidential.com.  This episode is sponsored by Woo More Play  Get your sexy on with Woo More Play and visit Nordstrom.com to shop Coconut Love Oil this Holiday Season! Produced by Dear Media
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She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire.
Fantastic.
And he's a serial entrepreneur.
A very smart cookie.
And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride.
Get ready for some major realness.
Welcome to The Skinny Confidential, him and her.
There's so many beautiful girls out there, right? Him and her.
There's so many beautiful girls out there, right? You just have to show your personality and your charisma and how smart you are or like how you express yourself.
So then at least you stand out because there are so many beautiful girls out there.
And then I was competing with like really tall girls and skinny. And I was never like the skinniest one.
I was always like bigger butt and bigger legs and shorter.
So for me, it was more just talking to the client
and getting them to know me a little bit more.
And then from that, like I had a lot of clients in my career
that they always call me back.
So it was never like a once-off.
Global philanthropist, clothing and jewelry designer, mother, wife, creative brand advisor,
model, style influencer, and full-time entrepreneur is on the show. Welcome Isabella Grutman.
And she has the most beautiful jewelry line. I stalked her site. I could not believe how I wanted every single piece.
She gave you guys Code Skinny for 15% off. Hailey Bieber is a huge fan of her jewelry. You should
know this. A lot of pieces that Hailey wears sell out. You can go to isagrutman.com. You get 15%
off. In this episode, we talk about her roots in Brazil, her early experience with traveling the
world as a young model, being a mother, the way she thinks about motherhood, thriving in a vibrant nightlife
scene.
And we go into independence, the modeling industry, and finding balance between motherhood
and her dynamic lifestyle.
Isabella, welcome to the show.
This is The Skinny Confidential, him and her.
I am so excited to interview you.
I think I found out about you through Melissa.
What health?
And I just wanted to get your story on the podcast because you have a really cool story.
What was it like growing up in Brazil?
Oh, my God.
So I actually grew up in a farm.
So that's something that nobody knows.
So my parents got divorced and then my mom moved with us to like a very small town, like a small village.
And we used to spend all our time on the farm, like literally like milking cows and picking
fruits.
And that was my childhood until I was 13.
When I was 13, my sister's friend came to me and she's like,
I think you should be a model. I was like, oh, let me try. And then I went to her agency and
then the agent was like, when you're ready to start working. So then I had to move to a big
city. So imagine like a farm girl moving to a big city and I'm moving with my dad and my dad like he never really raised us so
he was like okay you can take a bus you go figure it out your life and I was like okay how do I do
that like I had to figure out everything myself and then I started working at 13 but in the same
time going to school but working at the same time and you had a single mother from third to 13 yeah and how
was that I mean she worked a lot and I think that's what made me like I work so much because
I used to look at my mother and be like she's working the whole day she leaves us food in the
fridge we had to warm it up ourselves and like things like that So then it's just so inspiring to see that she did it.
You know, like my dad was, he was there and not there.
You know, he was still my dad.
I used to see him once a month or something like that,
but it was all my mom.
Did you have a good relationship with your father or?
Yeah, I used to have a like,
I didn't know what to expect otherwise, you know, like.
So it was an amicable separation.
They just, the marriage didn't work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It didn't work. It's otherwise you know like so it was an amicable separation they
just didn't work yeah yeah it didn't work it's funny because Michael and I are having conversation
right now about how he's like we need to make sure the kids are independent and like doing their own
things they always want to be with us but one thing that's so cool about your story is it sounds
like you had to just figure it out constantly yeah but don't you think as a parent like i go back and forth with this where i'll obviously love my children and i want them to
feel secure all the time with us and i get sad if they're sad but at the same time like you need to
go i need to push them yeah because i mean i think probably all three of us had that independence
and i worry that coddling them too much is going to make them soft.
Oh, a hundred percent. Like I push my girls to do everything themselves. Like, I'm like, go shower,
go do this, go do that. And like my friend's kids are the same age and they're like, wait,
your daughter knows how to put a seatbelt. I'm like, yeah, of course. I throw her on the back
and be like, put your seatbelt. And then they have to figure it out. You know, you push them like to learn things
by themselves too, otherwise,
cause if you do everything for them,
they're not gonna have that drive.
But then in the same time, I think I'm too independent
because they push me so hard to always be independent.
Don't depend on a man, don't like go for it yourself and then now i'm like
i could just be a little more chill i just have too much energy to like work work work work and
i don't relax so when you were little your mom was like never rely on a man yeah exactly i had
the same experience never rely on man and even my dad used to say like you have to study so hard
because you don't want to depend on a man.
You don't want to. And then like the mentality always stuck to me.
And then I was like, OK.
So when you start modeling at 13, what is like the nitty gritty actually look like of that?
Because a lot of these stories that people come on the podcast, they were scouted and they started modeling.
But there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes before you sort of get a really great gig yeah so it was kind of funny because i was 13 and i was doing
wedding dresses and like it was so weird i look back now and i was doing like swimwear wedding
dresses i'm like and then i look at my little face i'm like how would someone
scout me for that like how would someone like choose me but i don't think for me it was something
but for me it was something so natural as soon as i put in my mind okay this is my job
i would be like i show up early to work. I was like on time.
I was like waiting for my paycheck. It was, it was a job. It's a business for me.
So I never picked, oh, I don't want to do wedding dresses. Cause that's not
what my age is appropriate. I was like, okay, whatever. I'll take that job.
What was the big first thing that you got that you can remember? My big first thing was actually Milan
because after so when I was 15 I started traveling the world right so I did South Korea, Milan,
London, Paris like everywhere and by myself just as a little detail and then I was in Milan
and I was really struggling there because people are very mean and like I was in Milan and I was really struggling there because people are very mean
and like I was too young and nobody was there like helping me or anything like that so I was
super upset the whole time and then I got the Guess fashion show and back then Guess was like
huge it was the biggest thing and then they made me close the show. And it was me in a wedding gown.
Me in the wedding gown, black wedding gown.
And then I had to throw like red roses around.
And it was like the biggest closure.
And I remember sending my dad like pictures and he was so proud of me. And I can never find that video.
So if anybody finds that video, please send it to me.
But for me, it was like,
wow, okay, I need to keep going.
Even though I was so depressed,
I was not happy with myself.
I got a really big thing at the moment.
Our team needs to find that video.
I'll be on that.
I don't think you could just YouTube that and find...
I try, but I mean, I'm 32 now.
So it was 17 years ago 18 years ago what are the differences
between brazil and all of these other countries that you travel to i've never been to brazil like
if you were to describe what all the differences that you saw yeah at a young age what were those
brazil is really fun people are very happy yeah so wherever you go people are so welcoming they
open the doors for you they're like like, come over, come in.
They're very welcoming.
And a lot of those countries that I've been to, for example, Italy, they're like Milan,
they're not.
Like Korea, they want to be, but they don't communicate.
They don't speak English.
They don't speak your language.
So a lot of the countries, I was just by myself.
And in Brazil, I always had like my family and my friends and I always felt like welcome and in a lot of those places you're just on your own.
I love Brazilians. They have like such a good vibe attitude and you know all the music in my house is Bossa Nova.
I love that.
That's all I listen to.
You walked down the aisle to Bossa Nova. in my house really? is bossa nova I love that that's all I listen to I think you walked
down the aisle
to bossa nova
I walked
I love
no you don't
I like love
I want to go to Brazil
so bad
you have to tell me
where to go
I love that
you have to go to Rio
so if you like bossa nova
it starts from Rio
and then you go
more in the north
like Bahia
Brazil is so beautiful
I hope you're taking
notes on this
because I'd really
like a Brazilian
I'll send you guys
a full detail come on you bring all the jewelry now she's going to be on your website.
Next time if I ever come back to Austin I'm definitely going to bring you something.
She's going to be on your site after this being like look at this one this and this one.
After you had the the guest moment where you're walking down in a black wedding gown throwing
roses what were the other things that you remember looking back that sort of shaped your career?
When I moved to Paris, I started doing a lot of beauty.
How old were you when this happened?
So Italy, I was 15. And then I actually went to South Africa. So I went to South Africa at 17
years old. And then I stayed there for four years.
What if your daughters come to you at 15 and say, Hey,
I'm just going to tell them, let's go. I'll go with you.
I'm not letting them go by themselves. I'm going with them. There's no way.
But what my parents say is like, I was always so serious and I still am.
I never done drugs.
Like I'm super like straight up to like business and work and
this and that. And that they never even thought to say no to me. They were like, okay.
Were there moments that you were scared in all these places or no?
I'm more scared now when you're like a teenager and not scared of anything, you just go with it.
Like I went through situations and I'm like, if it was now, I'll be so scared.
And then back then I was like, OK, whatever.
I went through nothing happened.
Like, it's OK.
So what were more things that happened to you along the way that are like moments in
your career that were big?
So when I moved to Paris, I was going to say so I was 20.
I started doing a lot of beauty campaigns and then I did a hair campaign for Pantene and that
was so big for me it was the biggest paycheck I ever got and it was like it was a commercial so
like every time it plays like they were paying me I was like wow this is amazing and then the
same commercial was shot with Giselle so my piece was small compared to hers, obviously. But when I heard I was in the same
commercial as Giselle, I was like, wow, this is insane. And then that for me was like the biggest
thing. And she wasn't in the same studio. Like we shot in Portugal and she shot somewhere else,
but they put it, they linked it together. And how do you get to Miami?
Miami was after New York. So then from Paris, I went to New York.
So South Africa, Paris, Paris, New York.
And then I met David, my husband there.
And he's a Miami guy.
So I started going every weekend.
And then he proposed after eight months.
And then we got married.
And then I moved to Miami
and I'm so happy there.
I've heard from multiple people that you are so creative and you sort of help with everything
that he does in Miami.
He's obviously very well known in Miami.
When he started courting you, did you like him right away or did it take a minute?
So when I met him, he has a lot of personality and he's very intense and then from day one he's like
okay you're my girl like I want to be with you and I was like slow down tiger like this is too
probably much more yeah and I was like no I have a happy life in New York I'm working well like I
have an apartment like I don't need to be going to Miami, like unless I really want
to. And then he, he just got so intense. And then I was like, I don't know about this. I don't know
about this. And then I said to him, like, if you want that like intensity, we have to be boyfriend
and girlfriend. And then we have to make things official. And I like traditions. So I'm not going to move in before a ring.
I'm not doing.
So then he proposed after eight months because he's like, I want to marry this girl.
And then we've been together for nine years now.
And at this point, are you still modeling?
Yes, I am.
But it's different now.
It's more like involving social media or it's a reel that they want me to post or it's a
campaign.
But then at the same time, it's for me to post and their company to post.
So it's more like around social media.
It's not like catalogs or things like it used to be before.
Where do you think your confidence comes from?
Because it sounds like from a young age, you were very independent.
You had the confidence to obviously go out on your own, be in front cameras then move to all of these places find your husband be super up front with
him get him to propose like what do you think all that confidence that from your mom from your dad
what do you think that i think it's a mix of both like my dad is a he's very he's a civil engineer
so he's very smart like very well articulated like he always has a
good point on things and then the same time he always told me like even if you're a model you
have to read the newspaper you have to always be reading a book you always so that gave me the
confidence that I can talk and I can express my feelings but then in the same time, my mom always pushed me like to be like, okay, you know who you are and you like, there's so many beautiful girls out there. And then I was competing with like really tall girls and skinny.
And I was never like the skinniest one.
I was always like bigger butt and bigger legs and shorter.
So for me, it was more just talking to the client and getting them to know me a little
bit more.
And then from that, like I had a lot of clients in my career that
they always call me back. So it was never like a once off, like even for big companies,
I did like four campaigns and not just one thing. And that's it, you know, because I think that they
like the way I showed up to work and I was always professional. My nails always done
and like hair is always clean little things i think this shows uh how professional
i was no it goes a long way because in the world that we're in in media you'd be surprised how
often people that start to get a platform show up and i guess this is maybe not nice for me to say
like in a very unprofessional way i'm sure you've met some of these people where it's like they're
there and they think the job is just always going to be there for them no they don't realize you
have to treat people well you have to hold yourself in a certain way and like even the way you show up to work you know like you have to
be like with clean face like i i see a lot of new girls and back in the day i had like a course that
i had to do to become a model so you do like a six week intense thing that they tell you how you have to show up.
Like your hair has to be clean.
Your nails has to be done like no makeup.
You can do fake lashes.
You can do any of that because then you just giving that blank form for them to use it.
Right.
Like if you show up and you have a lash done and then they don't want that aesthetic, like
it's going to mess up their work. So it's a lot of the little things that I wish there was still training models,
and even like how to respect the clients, how to talk to them and everything else, but they
don't do that anymore. They just put them straight through. You should do your own school.
Add it to your list. At what point did you know that you were entrepreneurial? Because you've got
a lot going on. At what point did you start to realize, wait, I also want to open my own
businesses? Yeah, I think if it comes from my husband, like he opens so many businesses. He
does so much at the same time. And like just watching him, he's not scared of anything. He's
like, oh, there is a new place that i can open in dallas let me just do it
like let's do komodo there i'm like but wait it's a new city you don't know anybody like i overthink
things but he goes straight through like he's like like i have nothing to lose let's just drive it
doesn't work it doesn't work so it comes from him first and then also during COVID, I always like to work and be busy. And COVID for
me was like, wait, I don't have to do anything. It was weird. And then I started sewing again
because during my South Africa time, I did fashion design as well as modeling. And then I went back
to sewing. So I was sewing a lot of my girls dresses my girls was so tiny and I was just
making dresses and then everybody that was coming over to and then they were like oh this is so cute
why don't you sell them it's like okay but if I sell I have to do a proper company like and then
I work with a branding agency everything else and then I think that after I did my first brand, Rangel, and I was like, I want it sustainable.
I want this.
And I went like very Brazilian inspired.
I was like, okay, I did that.
But in the same time, I love jewelry.
So I was like, I need to also accomplish the jewelry brand.
And I started with a friend of mine and she pushed me through.
And then now I have an investor that bought her out and I'm very happy with it.
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How do you balance all of your nightlife that you have? And maybe you don't, maybe you're in bed at
eight. Yeah. How do you balance all that? This is part of the reason that I'm scared. She's like,
oh, maybe we'll move to Miami. And I was was like i don't know if we can do all what you're doing
during the day and also do what you guys are doing at the night because it seems like you also like
have your hand creatively at in the nightlife too it's just like it's the life i chose right you
have to think of like you choose your husband and my husband is in a nightlife so this is the life
I chose so a lot of the times I'm like I'm so exhausted I don't want to go and then in my mind
I'm like suck it up and go like like you gotta I have to like be with him yeah you know because
I'm working the whole day what's your as a couple what's your typical weekly routine because i imagine yours is
maybe different than dave's yeah typical or both of you because you're going to these places and
there is a night like what time do you guys wake up how do you guys manage your schedules during
the week now because we both aging right so we used to go out much more and then now we go for dinners but we i started telling him like monday and tuesdays is date night
like don't even ask me for like anything else unless it's like a chill dinner at seven o'clock
we can do that or like a double date or something it's fine but we're not going out out monday
tuesday okay so she's like okay will you go to your places on monday tuesday or it's a different place so it could be a different place but then from like wednesday to saturday sunday it's our
places and most of the time dinner is at nine o'clock ten and then what time do you stay up till
so during the week i'll say until midnight 1 a.m then the weekend, if it, let's say it's a Basel week, I'm out like until 3 a.m.
How are you out until 3 a.m. and your skin looks like that?
What's the secret?
3 a.m.?
I would look like a fucking pig.
I would look like a pig.
No, Laura.
It's like a real pig.
I don't do drugs.
Maybe that's why.
Maybe, yeah.
And I don't smoke.
Hearing you talk about this talk but i do drink
there was a time when that that used to be my life but then i've now i've calmed down maybe
i should maybe we should kind of delve back it's not like that guys like we have a very chill
like life even though i'm saying this to you like people like my friends are not coming out every
single night we do that because it's the business.
And then, but then during the day, we wake up at 7 a.m.
After being out till three?
No, she said usually she's out till one.
Like midnight one.
And then we up at seven because of the kids.
So they go to school.
They don't care what you did the night before.
Yeah, they don't care.
They are mommy, mommy.
Exactly.
So then 7am, they're up.
We take them to school.
Dave has been taking them because he plays tennis straight away.
So he takes them to school and then go play tennis.
I work out straight away.
And then by like nine o'clock, I start meetings and go to the store and just start my day.
And then it ends by 5, 6.
One thing I like about Miami is it is a great place to kind of recover. start meetings and go to the store and just start my day. And then it ends by 5, 6.
One thing I like about Miami is it is a great place to kind of recover and it
feel whenever I'm there, I feel very relaxed and healthy and you see people
and they're all like people over there look like they're in shape, active.
And people always working out, eat healthy.
Like it's a very good lifestyle.
And I love the fresh air.
Yeah.
Like when I'm in Miami
I was just in New York and then it gives me a headache because you can breathe properly in
Miami it's like the breeze is so nice this is so weird too New York gives me like under eye bags
because the pollution is like clogging your lymphatic and then when you're in a place like
Miami or Austin you don't have
those under eye bags it's so weird i'm not joking check your under eye bags when you're in new york
it literally has like my whole yelling at us out of all that self i hate myself in new york now like
oh even the energy i got in miami and i was like you know when you feel so drained i was drained
yeah it drains you it drains you i listen i love
it i tell michael i use it like a mistress you fuck it let it suck you and then you get the
fuck out exactly and then you out really fast really fast yeah yeah i think if you stay in a
city for a long time you start to forget the effect it has until you don't realize because
we were in la before this until we left and came here like oh wow like i'm much more relaxed out here yeah
just like being in those cities out of all the restaurants and everything that you guys are a
part of which is your favorite one it's like choosing a baby you can't do that it's too hard
it's too hard and every restaurant has its own personality so like gecko is a Japanese steakhouse, really fun and young and fresh.
And the food is so good.
Then Komodo, it's in a bigger scale, more like Chinese and duck, that kind of stuff.
And that was the first baby.
This was the first restaurant.
And then we have Casa Dona now.
That's an Italian place.
Beautiful view, like right by the water.
And we have Swan and then the club live that's crazy
is the club nuts it's crazy so fun i don't think i've been to live you've never been no she's been
but it's been a long time long time long time you know actually i've when did we go to live it's
been years it's been a bachelor party you went to no no it's been years. It's been years. Was it a bachelor party you went to? No, no. It's been years. You've been there.
We were with our friend Steve.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did go there. You walked in a long time ago.
He's right.
He's not wrong.
I also really like swan.
Your husband actually set us up one time in a restaurant.
We got put on text and he put us in one of the steakhouses.
It was delicious.
Did they treat you well?
Yeah.
It was absolutely delicious.
10 out of 10.
You mentioned that you work out in the morning.
What's your workout that you're doing every... us the whole schedule of the week yeah so if i'm in miami let's
say monday to friday i do i have a trainer every day monday to friday and that's weights and i do
30 minutes i don't talk to him like it's perfect i. I show up and he tells me what to do
and then I'm out of there.
Like I don't want to talk.
I don't want to like linger.
It's 30 minutes and that's it.
And then twice a week actually.
So besides this trainer,
Tuesday and Thursday,
I do a Brazilian butt workout.
You will love that.
It's like literally this girl that comes and does weights for just
the butt not legs no like calves nothing it's straight up weight get the information later
and it's like i feel like it's working and that's an amazing like brand that she does but weights
it's like but wait but i'll send you her instagram she's so
good and she only do it 30 minutes twice a week with her she likes me to do one hour okay so i
do 30 minutes with him then i do one hour with her do you do brazilian lymphatic drainage i do that
i'm obsessed once a week who is your girl in miami do you have like a person yeah yeah her name is angelica and uh her instagram is
oya beauty what's brazilian lymphatic drainage what's what's the difference oh my god it's
amazing how so it just helps the circulation in your body like the whole body yeah they do the
whole body but us women we retain so much water and then that helps to just like take the excess
water out do you really do it
once a week yeah i know that's very it's like a thing in brazil that you guys do once a week
which is a big commitment but that's what the girl who was working on me i i go to josie
her brazilian lymphatic salon and she said the girls in brazil do like once or twice a week yeah
i mean i wish i could do twice. No, it's not painful.
It's nice. I mean, it's nice when they do it harder, but it's just for like the cellulite
and the excess water. It's just, it makes you feel so much better. I think I need to get another one.
And the problem is if you don't do it for three weeks, like at least me, like if I don't do it
for three weeks, I go back to like zero again, like full on, so like back.
And so it's something that I have to do every week.
What are other wellness things that you do?
Do you play tennis?
Are you cold?
I play tennis on Saturdays with Dave sometimes.
Just as a cute like couple thing and a little extra workout.
But he doesn't like to play tennis with me.
So I just force myself in.
Why does he like to play tennis with me so I just force myself in why does he like to play
because he's so competitive and I just like the look of things and I just like to rally like
in the skirt showing off your Brazilian butt workout exactly and then he just wants to like
get the shot straight away I'm like stop it's so annoying any other wellness things that you swear by um wellness things
oh it could be beauty too your eyebrows what do you do for eyebrows I don't touch them
ah eyebrows I don't touch at all like no I just noticed that they were getting thinner and thinner
and thinner and I was looking older so it's been maybe 10 years that i haven't touched them i clean
the middle she's always sending me to get people to mess with my eyebrows leave me alone i just
clean the middle part a boy this is difficult you just need a little a little you just need a
little trim sometimes i will say since i became a dad sometimes i catch an eyebrow hair that is
like as long as the hair on my head and i I don't know what's going on. It's like literally. Sometimes I trim Dave's one too
because it gets so long. I looked at one the other day and I was like, oh my God, I was ashamed of
myself. It's not the vibe. How do you organize your time every day with everything you have
going on during the day? Like, are you doing conference calls on a certain day? Are you doing your shoot? Like, how do you think about organizing? Yeah, I need to start organizing
better because now my brain, it just works in every single direction. It's like, I go from
emeralds to this fabric that this and that, because like I, my office now is behind the store. So then I do my design meetings for
Rangel, my clothing brand in the back of the office, which is the store. So then if a client
shows up, I have to come out, like if it's important to client and things like that.
So my brain is just going in like a lot of directions at the moment and I don't have an assistant. So I just have to
focus on putting things on the calendar. So let's say we have a Zoom. I put it straight
away in the calendar. If I have a kid staying that I have to show up to, I put in my calendar.
So then I at least I organize my calendar so I can show up to things because otherwise I forget
like my brain. I don't know if it happens to you,
but my brain,
it's really bad.
Since the first baby,
it never came back.
Like my memory is so bad.
Yeah, he like,
he asked me things
and I'm like, huh?
And he's like,
you need to get it together.
And I'm like,
I have scattered brain.
That's what I call it.
It's ADHD a little.
No, you can't self-diagnose.
She diagnoses herself with things.
I think it's a mom thing. I think since like my first pregnancy, it started happening to
me and then it never went back. What are your sort of important things that you think about when it
comes to children? Meaning like, is there certain things that you really want to instill in your
girls? I think that it seems like you guys are both very entrepreneurial independent what are the things that you think about when it comes to
raising kids the number one for me is manners for my kids i'm like the annoying mom they're like
say thank you welcome like like everything and even like if you guys ever meet my kids
they have to say may i please be excused from the table why are you going like this like
i'm trying because i have a two-year-old to be so proper okay what am i supposed to do
at what age did you start to know like maybe the four yeah five six like because when i was growing
up i i remember i'd have to sit at the table you cannot put your elbows on the table you'd have to
say may i be excused i haven't got to that. Well, I mean, my mom was a little crazy, but she was always like, there's a woman,
you stand up, you open the door, all those things you had to do.
I think it's very important.
And I think that kids don't have any manners anymore.
Like my kids can sit in a fancy restaurant and talk in like low voice and not be
throwing things up in the air.
Like they know because that's how our life too, right?
We constantly like hosting people, people coming over.
So my daughters have to go up to them and be, hi, my name is Kaya.
Nice to meet you.
Like they have to, because that's what's the consequence.
I make them do it.
So I bring them to the person and I'm like, and then look in the eyes always.
They always have to look in the eyes's because kids nowadays they always look down or because they're so used to like
the ipad or this and that i'm like no no look in the eyes you talk to people if someone asks
you a question you have to answer it's not like you walk away no no i i bring them back and my
second one she struggles a little bit more my My first one, she's got it now,
but the second one,
she's a little more shy.
So I say to her,
at least be polite.
Like you don't have to make
a full conversation
with a random person
that walks in apartment,
but like at least be polite.
When you guys went to Italy
and you brought your kids,
did you do screen time?
So we did very minimal. we we already don't so
this is a topic i hope my kids will never listen to this but i gave them ipads that don't work
and i never charge them so like they never really work so if they play with something sometimes for
five minutes then they get frustrated, it doesn't work.
It's like the Amazon little tablets.
It's not even an iPad.
So it's an Amazon tablet.
And they can watch a little YouTube,
but only if it's Ninja Kids,
because they love Ninja Kids.
Or if it's something that's like
from the YouTube kids section,
not like normal YouTube.
This is a huge debate on the podcast.
It's been a topic
because the way I think about it is this.
Think about how hard it is
to get a full grown adult
off their phones and smart devices
to get them to stop picking up every second.
Now think about a child
who's got no context
and doesn't have the discipline of an adult
and you give them this thing
and then you got to think about
like what that's going to do them for the rest of their life and so i'm really against the idea of giving
i understand parents need it as a tool once in a while yeah but i think this like jerk reaction
just give it to them all the time it's really not doing i i don't like it at all and like even at
home they watched tv for 10 minutes before bed. They can't watch during the day.
They can't watch on a Saturday afternoon.
They got to play.
Kids got to play.
Like we were playing the whole time.
We were like using our brains to like make up different games.
Like those kids, they don't use their brains right now.
And talking about the trip, we didn't really use it because they were playing the whole day.
The whole day, they wouldn't touch it. There was no iPad because I didn't really use it because they were playing the whole day the whole day they
wouldn't touch it there was no ipad because i didn't charge and then at night time they were
so tired so they would go straight to sleep i look at it like this i'm kind of in the middle
of all of it i i use it as an absolute tool like when i need a tool meaning like say i'm on a
conference call and my kids are like
screaming and yelling i'm like okay i like i have to i have to let me pose this question
30 minutes let me ask you this do you think that you're then teaching them that when you get on a
call that they can scream and then they can get the ipad for sure because kids are smart yeah i
just am curious about how people think about it because i i mean i'm a kind of a new mother a four-year-old and a two-year-old and I just think I like to know how other people think
about it I think once in a while it's okay don't make it a routine yeah also don't make them
expect it always like I I have some friends actually that will sit down at a dinner table
with the kids and then they put the iPad straight away I'm like that kid didn't even ask for it and
they're about to eat.
Why do they have to watch TV while they eat?
They can talk to us.
Like even a two-year-old, like have conversations,
cute, like talk about the food, whatever it is.
They also really appreciate that moment.
My kids really like when we sit down with them,
they eating and we're talking.
There's no screen time during food.
I think that means a lot coming
from you because of what you guys do. You're probably eating out all the time. So that's
why I wanted to ask you that question. I don't know why you're looking at me like that. It's
the right answer. So tell us about the organization that you're working with. I saw on here that
you're doing some amazing things. Tell us your vice president. Tell us about that. So I, when I moved to Miami nine years ago, I asked David, I was like,
what nonprofits do you work with? And he's like, I don't. I was like, we should look for one. And
I, we started interviewing people from different organizations. And I found this girl, Rachel Russell. She started Style Saves by herself.
She was helping around like 200 kids with just backpacks and school supplies.
And then from that, we were having a conversation with her and we asked how many kids are homeless
in Miami.
And she said, according to the proper numbers, whatever, it's 10,000 kids.
So me and Dave, we look at each other and we're like, this is what we have to do. We have to get
to 10,000 kids. And actually this year we helped 25,000 kids. So we went from 200 kids to 1,000 kids, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 15,000.
And now we're up to 25,000.
And every year we put it on our website, the registration.
Kids, the parents go, they register the kids.
We need all the information about them.
And then after two days, we have to close down the registration
because we have so many of them now.
And then they come to an amazing event.
So we throw like a party.
So we have bounce houses.
We have haircuts.
We have nails, face paints, like everything that you can imagine on a proper like party.
And then they come and they collect backpacks school supplies uniforms sneakers socks everything
that they need and extra so like belts and like we have extra clothes for the parents we have a
whole bunch of activities so we just like to make it in a fun event and we don't want them to feel
like it's a charity event that they just getting things donated so we manufacture everything as
well that's so cool i love that it's really a lot so it's been nine years wow I've been with them that's really really
cool I saw that on here I was like that's so awesome tell us about the piece of jewelry that
we need to get if we're going to get one piece from your collection tell us about what you're
working on with your clothing line you just gifted me the cutest pair of like baby teal pants.
Yeah.
So that's my can pants.
It's called the can pants.
And that's like one of the first pants that I made.
But I just first one I made in black and then it sold out.
So then I made it in blue now.
And I just love that pen because it's easy to wear.
It's like you just put it on and with a t-shirt like
you said it's easy and then you still look very chic I'm working on two collections right now
for Rangel so like clothing is is harder because you have to put in together a whole collection
36 items at least like minimum and then you I've been growing my wholesale a lot. So then I have to present it to wholesale, put in production.
And that's for like next year.
So everything has to be like very far behind.
And then it's like, takes a long time.
And then that's rainbow.
And then for the jewelry is a little bit easier because I can just go with my flow and be like,
hey, I want to make an owl necklace
and then I make one piece and then I put it out sell and then I can make another one if I want or
if not like I make a parrot or something else so one item that I really love for my brand is the
mom ring I don't know if you saw that but so I have a ring that says mom and I was gonna bring it to you but it got
sold out I did see that ring actually yeah I didn't know that that's what that was called
so cute yeah it's called the mom ring so it got sold out last week because uh Hayley posted it and
it went crazy so that's a great person to post it and And she just became a mom. And like a new mom. Yeah, so cute. And I was like, that's so cute.
So like everybody that buys the mom ring,
I say, welcome to the mom club.
It's really cute.
It's diamonds, right?
On gold?
It's diamonds and it's all solid gold.
So all my jewelry is solid gold
because I want like people to put it on
and never take it off.
Like you said, like put it on,
becomes part of yourself.
And that's a very special piece to me because i think my main job is i'm a mom what is the one
that you gave me called that's the marquee the marquee that's yeah that's the marquee diamond
um layer bow ring i'm obsessed with this because i love how you can layer it or you don't have to
i like yeah it's versatile it's such a little like delicate touch.
I love that ring.
Okay.
Isabella gave us a code.
You guys can use code skinny for 15% off the jewelry line.
And it's izagroupman.com.
And then 30% off.
That is so nice.
You guys, shop r-a-n-g-e-l.com.
Yes.
You have to check out the pants. she just gifted me and she said she's
gonna do a giveaway so are they baby teal yeah it's like a blue i call it blue i think on the
website okay she's gonna give away the blue pants in one of your sizes all you have to do is follow
her on instagram tell us your instagram isabella gruttman okay you have to tell us what's what's in that bag
by the way i i hope you're taking notes on that because i like that size you came in here by the
way 35 is the best you came in here and i said this is going to be an expensive show for me
normally normally these shows make me money i feel like this one's gonna cost me some
listen it's like i give it out it's like i gave
her everything um okay so what's in my bag she's gonna see and she's like i need this and i need
that i got in japan's a vintage one beautiful but i i need a black one i realized because i was like
on the airport you need every color that's cool every color but also i was walking around on the
plane and i i flew a car economy like all the way on the back so i'm like i'm that girl on
the birkin bag going all the way back on the plane i mean but the flight from miami to here is easy
sometimes i get on the 6 30 flight on american and then i get to the beach in miami at like 9
or 10 a.m yeah it's so easy no it was perfect i woke up in a normal time and I show up. Okay, so what's in my bag?
I have the Beats by Jure Kim Kardashian earphones.
She actually gave it to my husband, but I stole it.
So thanks, Kim, for giving out today.
I have a notebook because my brain doesn't work so well. So I have to write everything down.
I have an iPadad because i wanted
to start watching a show the perfect couple i just started pretty good that's pretty good
and then i i need to start this book i just finished one yesterday that's a very good book
is it yeah okay great no i thought that said the handmade never mind sorry no housemate is watching
the handmade is it like a thriller i haven't started because i was watching the series but i'm i need to start today then i have a bag with makeup because i did my makeup
myself today in the airport wow quick quick i have an igk good behavior have you tried this
it's so good igk good behavior smoothing spray because i knew the frizz would be crazy
i also did a little CBD Highline
because I was like,
I don't know how I'm going to feel when I get here.
And then just some makeup.
Okay, this is like Victoria Beckham lip gloss, obviously.
And then I have something interesting here,
actually, that I just bought.
I bought this little brush that is electric brush. Have you
seen this before? So it warms up and you just like. Oh, it's probably good for hair growth, huh?
I don't know if it's good. It's like kind of warm. It's probably not good for your hair, but.
It's kind of nice, Lauren. It's nice because I arrived and I was just like brushing. It looks
like I did a blowout. So it works. And then it's the bag that Michael has to buy you.
I would like a 35.
The 35 is nice.
You can carry all your stuff.
Yeah.
I like how she like uses it too, like on a flight.
You know what I mean?
It's just like casual.
And you throw it.
Like you just.
Yeah, you can throw it around.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Exactly.
Okay.
Well, our anniversary is coming up, bitch.
So you better take notes.
Okay.
Thank you for coming on, Isabella.
Thank you, guys. You're so cute. That was so much fun. I've wanted to have you on for a very long time. our anniversary is coming up bitch so you better okay thank you for coming on is thank you guys
you're so cute that was so much fun i've wanted to have you on for a very long time
and thank you for making the trip economy with the birkin in the back
next time when we come out to my we would do it in miami we just gotta get a studio
hey listen listen i made it and i'm here she's here like that flight is easy it was easy
it was easy i i watched like three episodes and was like oh this is great and also i like the
quiet time like without nobody bothering me the way i think about flights now i mean i don't like
the airports the airport's the worst part but when you're on the flight, it's nice especially with kids, you just get to
give it a moment to yourself.
So relaxing. It was great.
It's like you get one second to just relax.
Breathe. And then I have like three more
hours on the way back. I can't wait.
It's kind of relaxing. The flights wouldn't be bad
if it wasn't for the airports. I got a little bone
to pick with the way they operate these airports.
Which skinny confidential
products should I give you? I think you need the lymphatic brush i need that and then can you also give me the one
that the ice thing that's cold yeah do you have that yeah i need that and i'm gonna have you ever
tried mouth taping no i never tried it should i i love it because i see you always talk about it
so i need to try it's my favorite beauty tip okay i'll try it yeah i'm gonna give you a couple
different goodies thank you so much for coming on thank you for my ring and my bathing
suit next time we'll do miami dinner miami dinner okay for sure it doesn't take much to convince us
to go over there yeah we like it over there we do i could live there but that's a different story
with my 35 you can use code skinny for 15 off is a grutman.com. And she also gave you a 30% off at
shop wrangle.com. The pants I got are so cute. They're the blue ones. They're kind of baggy,
but they're super flattering and definitely go check out the ring that I got. There's so many
pretty jewels on her site. That's is a grutman.com and shop wrangle.com code skinny.