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

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, A World Record.

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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 107, one minute and seven seconds.

So, whoa, it's pretty good.

That's fast.

Yeah, 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.

Um, I also had an instructor with me as well, you know, telling me when to slow down and do whatever.

But

it was, it was 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.

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 at 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 Trackhawks.

Oh, a Trackhawk 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 linga 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.

And then I was named one of the linguists 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 from my mom as well.

She, she was, it was her idea.

Basically, I had a jewelry factory.

We manufactured jewelry for dance moms, chloe and maddie mtv and basically i had toddlers and tiaras follow me there and basically show what i do it was a great promotion for my business so that took off made over six figures and then from there i took the money that i was making from that company and either you know 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 Toddlers 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 Mom.

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 not Instagram not YouTube not any of that so basically when people are like oh like you're just famous on it no I was famous way before that I

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I work hard for what I do.

Yeah.

You know, like I have a real business.

I have actual bank accounts that can prove that I'm real and not just from YouTube and stuff.

But

yeah, and honestly, it was probably one of the best things I ever did.

And I'm glad that I did it because I wouldn't be where I am now.

But also, I think it's important.

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.

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 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.

You know, I do everything the normal person would.

So 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, I mean, you know what happens.

Yeah.

But you seem like you're doing well.

Yeah.

incredibly grateful for where I am today.

And I don't think I'd trade it for anything.

It'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'm going to be doing that.

And then hopefully Paris Fashion Week Wednesday.

That's my goal.

Yeah.

I didn't know there was all of these.

I've only heard of New York.

Yeah, there's

a lot of fashion weeks.

Miami Sim Week is probably the best.

That's the best one.

New York is better for like, New York gets a lot of the big people.

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 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.

But 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.

Yeah.

So you need to hire like a full-on event team.

Oh, yeah.

We have, to be honest, I've learned that you're, you, 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 know, it's what you want to do.

You do it, right?

So I can hire a team.

I, 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 you just are?

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?

You know, 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 of.

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 like if you didn't, if you didn't

come to work tomorrow, would your podcast still run?

Yeah.

Right.

I got a team, yeah.

Yeah.

That's the biggest thing.

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, if it can't run without you.

Absolutely.

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

actually just became homeschooled.

I was in public school up until 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.

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 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 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 of 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.

Yeah.

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 um but making friends with me for 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 portray 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 speak up.

You're shy.

I wouldn't say I'm shy.

I'm definitely not shy.

I just don't speak up because I'm, I just don't want to come across mean.

I feel that.

I feel that.

Yeah.

So what was like your click in high school?

Like what what group were you in?

I was definitely with more of the I was cheer captain.

You were in the popular group.

I don't want to say it, but you said it for me.

Yeah, I was cheer captain all through middle school and high school.

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.

I was definitely among the popular people.

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 few groups.

Yeah.

It was interesting, man.

But see, I don't like

groupings.

I don't like that.

I honestly, like, I know the world we live in, not everyone's going to agree with me, but like, everyone should just be civil.

I like that.

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.

You know, 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 don't like them.

Like, that's just not, 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?

Yeah.

So,

okay, I'm in that predicament right now.

I'm like at the stage where like, okay, I got to get ready for college.

I got to finish high school.

You know, I'm transitioning.

So I definitely want to continue what I'm doing.

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 because this is probably, 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 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

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.

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 going to give you the title, mom.

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My mom is my stylist.

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 got to 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 like my best friend.

Nice, yeah.

So, she really influenced your fashion.

Yeah, she definitely influences me the most.

Um, did she do all this fashion week stuff when she was your age, too?

So, my mom was

she competed in pageants.

She, I come from a long line of successful entrepreneurs.

I live in an Italian family, it's pretty big.

Nice.

Um, 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's a PR manager.

So she manages a lot of amazing companies.

She manages Fashion Week.

Wow.

Yeah.

She manages Straight Observant, 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 an hour on the highway.

But, you know, it's okay.

Love my mom.

Did you ever enter any of those pageants, those beauty pageants?

I was on Toddlers and 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 promoted my brands on the Toddlers and Tiaras and I kind of kick-started that for myself on reality TV.

I kind of took a step away from that because, you know,

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.

It's a reality show.

Okay.

But yeah, I would say that reality TV TV is nothing you can depend on for income.

I agree.

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?

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 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, you know, 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.

They're like the film crew is just there.

Yeah.

Like that's kind of what TV is.

You know, I feel like nowadays nobody wants a scripted BS.

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 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 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?

Yeah.

So,

um, yeah, so I have a set regimen, you know, a schedule is very important.

I talk about this.

Um, I also actually have a book.

I had a book coming out called The Teens Guide to Business, but then everyone was like, Hey,

no teens read books.

So, now I'm kind of going

down the mentorship program route.

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.

A lot of 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 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.

No, I used to do it.

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.

Nah, you realize it's just hurting you.

Yeah, you realize that.

For real.

Like, I would miss meetings and look like a complete.

Yeah.

It's not worth it.

But I saw you just met Jack Harlow.

Oh my God.

I'm jealous.

How is that?

So my mom, sorry, mom, my mom has a really big crush on Jack Harlow.

So 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,

I was like, hi.

Is that tall?

Yeah, he's pretty tall.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah.

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

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.

It was just kind of like we were just like talking and just talking about our friends and stuff.

And then that's, 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.

Yeah.

I prefer to keep my private life private.

That makes sense.

I just 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,

yeah, my second time doing Miami Swim Week.

So it was new to me, something new.

I love new things.

It was fun.

I love the atmosphere.

It's Miami, right?

You go to Miami, it's like party city, right?

New York Fashion Week probably tops, I take back what I said, New York Fashion Week tops Miami Fashion, Miami Swim Week, for me personally, just because that's where I originated and that's where a lot of my crowd is from.

So

Miami Swim Week is just, it's just more for the vibe.

I just love like that.

You're a party girl.

No,

I'm not a party girl.

You know, I'm all business.

Yeah.

Strictly business.

I can have some onset times though.

You know, that's always fun.

But I love Miami Swim Week is 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, you know, all the girls with their spray tan, sweating, it's just, it never goes down very well.

I'm like taking like six showers a day in Miami.

Yeah.

Because like you don't like to feel like sticky.

It's grumpy.

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 suburbans.

Rhode Island.

Yeah, Rhode Island.

I grew up there.

So I kind of just like, I probably would never leave there.

I'd always have 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.

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, it attracts me to them because I grew up in Jersey.

Yeah.

And I tried moving to LA for five months.

I hated 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.

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,

you can, like, I can be talking to you as 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.

That's how it is in LA.

Yeah, there's 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 going to 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 like see how you move first right so I go there and you know I'm thinking these people are my friends like we're going to all these events together we're going to do this and that and then

um as soon as I hung out with this person they were like like you're not our friend anymore well whoa yeah I was like I didn't do it.

I didn't even do anything wrong.

Like, they're just so sensitive and they think like everyone's for them 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.

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.

I also have 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 like, I'm a teenager.

I'm like, mom, just leave it.

Like, that's my, like, 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

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.

Damn.

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, Macy and Macy 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 are all 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 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 Because you probably have people trying to get in your circle all the time.

All the time.

All the time.

With your success.

All the time.

And like,

that's great like we can be friends but like my circle's small here guards 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 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 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 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 remote can we mow your lawn hey can we rank your leaves every day my mom's persistent she said no no no like we don't need it we don't need it then here comes the winter time we get a lot of snow there it's the snow my mom's like hey we should hit up those kids you know to um

shovel the driveway they're booked and busy now Wow.

They're booked and busy.

They've got other clients now.

So really, like, if you want to start a business, you don't have to have a physical product.

If you're good at, you know, Instagram,

do that, you you know hire work for somebody as their manager like this is my biggest thing would you if we went out there right now and we asked you know 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 right because you know they're good at it they sit there almost every day and uh you know on instagram doing that's what they're good at so that's what i always say like you don't have to have a product to have a business um 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 fiveers.

But like

back then, it was like weird to do entrepreneurship.

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, like she wears makeup and hair extensions and all that kind of stuff.

And, you know,

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.

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 a, 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 businesses that failed as well.

I had a zipper couture, it was called Zipper Couture.

It was like you hooked it like 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.

Like you can't just drop it all.

All right, I failed.

Like I'm done.

Like I quit, you know?

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 and 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 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.

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 Baretti, www.houseofboretti.com, and also my website, bellabaretti.com.

Awesome.

Thanks so much for coming on, Isabella.

Great episode.

Thanks for watching, guys, and I'll see you next time.