+Body by Julia Haart - The Star Of 'My Unorthodox Life' Unifying Comfort & Empowerment In Shapewear

[Music] today I'm sitting down with fashion designer entrepreneur and bestselling author and star of the Netflix series my unorthodox life Julia Hart stay tuned as we discuss her journey from a key figure in the fashion industry to founding her very own [Music] brand hi everyone and welcome to founded Beauty a podcast dedicated the beauty entrepreneurs built some of the biggest brands today and where we learn exactly how they did it we'll cover some of the most intimate stories their path to success now they overcame the obstacles along the way I'm aash meta CEO and co-founder of fable in main a modern hair Wellness brand inspired by ancient Indian beauty secrets building Fable in Maine has been an incredible journey so far and I decided to launch this podcast as a Founder Keen to learn and connect with fellow Beauty brand Founders around the world I believe in collaboration over competition as I'm using this platform as a way to hopefully help and Inspire each other when can be quite a tough and lonely Journey so if you are an entrepreneur or simply just curious how to build a brand this podcast is perfect for you now without further Ado it's Delight to welcome our guest for today Julia Hart you might know her as a star of the Netflix show my unorthodox life but before reality TV came knocking Julia was also a fashion designer and launched a career with her namesake shoe collection she became great director of the luxury lingerie brand laa and until last year was the CEO and CCO of the modeling and talent media agency Elite World group now she has relaunched a shapewear line plus Body by Julia heart with the mission to reduce the stigma of wearing shapewear and encourage the unity of comfort and luxury when it comes to Beauty having also becoming the brand ambassador for the transformative biotech skincare brand Amon it's clear that empowerment is at the core of everything Julia does she has pushed the boundaries of the industry norms and she's frankly an icon if I may say so so it's an honor and pleasure to sit down with her today and thank you for being with us thank you Akash that was really lovely that was very kind of you to say well it's only lovely because you've done so many great things so you you you made it hard for me to narrow it down but I think I've done a hopefully a good job of it but um one thing we start all the podcast with is a kind of nutshell question so I'm going to ask you this so who in a nutshell is Julia what is that Winston Churchill said I'm a mystery wrapped in an enigma tied with a riddle yeah I love that one um you know I think I'm a woman who is an eternal student yep who the person I am today is hopefully not the person I'll be 6 months from now and I just want to continue growing and learning and changing and I hope if I guess if I was on my Tombstone Eternal student would be great okay you're already my favorite person I anyone who like triumphs learning I think it's so important because it's the biggest blessing of life is always grow and um always look forward and I think that's so important you know it's funny when um when I first left my religion uh and my son schlomo was deciding where he was you know was he going to stay religious or not yeah he said to me ima's mother in Hebrew he said but IMA you don't have the answers like in a any kind of fundamentalist religion you have all the answers yeah right and he said but if you don't follow that belief you don't have the answers and I said to him that's not a negative that's a positive because not having the answers means I'll keep asking the questions not having the answers means we'll create and learn more about life and we never assume we know everything because we don't have the answers so to me not having the answers is the most beautiful thing there is I well I used to be an engineer so for me the most Innovation comes from not knowing right you have to either create or be curious but if the answers were there how boring would life be that's it if the answers are there you're never going to invent anything you're never going to strive for anything better or move forward exactly so couldn't say it better myself that's amazing so I mean I like to always paint the picture from childhood to now so if you want to just encapsulate a little bit about your childhood memories and even those early memories of beauty would be very interesting to know so I the first time that I knew that or I wanted fashion to be my life I was actually three years old um I at the time so my parents and I were traded for graen uh through the Jackson vanic bill so basically uh my father and my mother practiced Judaism in Russia during communism where it was illegal and he was arrested for being an anti-communist and uh there was this huge thing in the United States where basically just like the mcnitzky bill now that you know utilizes economic sanctions for Russia's violations against Ukraine at the time in the 70s it was uh human rights violations against Jews and other minorities and so we were literally traded for grain and um it wasn't a direct route to America we first went from Moscow to Vienna Austria where I lived in an interment camp for 9 months and then we lived in the Vatican wow um in a I I don't know how to say it like a an interment Camp I guess is uh you know and until they finally sent us to the United States and in those six months that I lived in Italy I was 3 years old and there was this 5-year-old boy um whose mother was a concert pianist who had also come out of Russia and he would do odd jobs around the camp like you know take people's trash out and they would pay him and he brought he bought me for my birthday my first handback when I was 3 years old that is the cutest I know not only do I not not only do I remember it I kept it until my mid-30s and then when I moved from Atlanta back to New York somehow it got lost in the move but I literally kept it for 30 years wow 30 years and that first handbag the minute I got it I just knew yeah I started drawing Handbags and shoes when I was literally you know basically barely learning how to speak that is incredible to me fashion has always been about individuality uniqueness it's wearable art yeah it's weable and it's also the emotion attached to these pieces I mean that bag has you know even though you don't have that piece you still feel that sentiment so% I will remember that bag for as long as I live yeah that is incredible I mean yeah I mean what just paint that picture what was the bag like was that little I remember it exactly so it was this very very small like Italian leather bag it had these um leather Fringe this brown leather Fringe and it was hand painted red and blue flowers that were embossed on the bag and it had a flap and one button and I literally treasured that bag for 30 years oh wow that's amazing yeah this is the power of fashion and Beauty it's incredible so then so then most of your life has been spent in the US um and tell us a bit about sort of how you got your first break into fashion well you know I love my community in November of 2012 yeah uh and in January 2013 I started a shoe brand wow and which sounds insane and it was but I was a time traveler I didn't know how insane it was meaning I didn't know about PR I didn't know about marketing I didn't know that there's such a thing as Logistics or produ I mean I knew literally nothing so I in my mind I had just tra time traveled 300 years into the future because the Life I Lived was truly a late 1700 1800s existence and walking out of that community and into the 21st century felt like I was literally walking into Mars I I didn't know the way the world worked I'd never been on a date I'd never gone to a bar I'd never been to a club I didn't have a you know a high school dance I didn't nothing I literally lived I mean the easiest way to say it if you take Bridgerton or one of these movies about you know the 1800s and subtract all the beautiful gowns and the abous parties that was my life no education wife and mom your your your destiny is defined by your biology so from the second you're born your path is laid out for you and every woman's path is the same so when I walked out the door I literally felt like okay if I've survived time travel making a shoe brand sure why not exactly and and that's how it started yeah you know the Serendipity and the Miracles that followed me were incredible I mean you know my first uh Fashion Week in Paris um I go to my one and only fashion party that I managed to get into and a woman in her mid 50s early 60s walks over to me and says I love those shoes whose are they and I'm like they're mine that's the best feeling that is the best feeling I mean I was my own walking PR machine right that's all I had that's what we should be as I had was me and and I said they're mine and she's like no no I understand that you own them but whose are they and that's all I needed and I launch into the whole story of shoes comfort and Beauty luxury and that women shouldn't have to suffer to feel beautiful and I go into my whole Spiel yeah and she happened to be the shoe buyer for hers no so the first person in my in my quote unquote uh you know I mean I don't even know what to say it was in my hotel room IID made this little like yeah a collection she was the first person in was the buyer from herods and she ordered shoes and when she ordered shoes GA Lafayette ordered shoes and Beyond de ordered shoes and farfetched ordered shoes and you know I was just hoping I would sell five pairs and I walked out of that first Fashion Week with my eyes like okay now I have to produce all these now the problems really start now the problems really start you know production funding I had no idea what I was doing we we rightly should forget about the beginning cuz we should go in with so much emotion and love but then later you're like kind of like you know like that rug over stuff you're like okay great now I this is not the fun part but the fun part you know it's important they to produce it's have to produce and keep it up and demand planning I think that's the hardest because you know how lethal and cutro fashion is and you're one minute you're in the next minute you're out the next minute you're in again it's it's it's a cycle yes and you know when you create a brand it's so hard to demand plan or forecast that so you might say okay look I don't want to be sold out so I want to make a lot more shoes and then comes an order and you're like wait it's a much lower than I thought now I all this inventory and and also then inventory creates waste and and is not great for the planet there's no secret formula there's just um yeah we have to try our best yeah I think exactly and you know as much as we can to use data and feedback you know what I love I mean social media obviously has many negatives and many positives one of the positives of social media is that my clients and my customers can talk to me yeah and that's really wonderful I love hearing from people because we've actually made some changes to the shap based on consumer feedback you know we we I had this year where you know the the divorce and whatever and so I had some time to go back and perfect the product and what I utilized was customer feedback and it was really helpful so I love the fact that there's this interactive quality now in fashion that I get to hear what people think and you know so many businesses I used to work for the big conglomerates and we t to not utilize the data enough but it's there and it's more less it's free which is um you know the ones that I think are again time traveling into the future would be the ones that are using data effectively and sustainably if you're doing it for people you're building a brand for people you should kind of listen to them I I mean seems pretty logical they're your consumers they're your consumers yeah they're your boss right you listen to them then you're not you're not going to have a But but so you mentioned I really want to talk about it now because I just can't wait the plus body rate tell me tell us about the Jan creating your own shape Weare brand so okay you're going to laugh because you know there are a lot of holes in my pop culture knowledge people are always so surprised I got invited to this um event by caring yeah and we um to see thelman Louise with Susan sandon and Gina Davis wow which is really cool right very cool very cool so we're there and there's probably 30 or 40 of us and um we sit down and they're sitting in the front and the idea is to watch the movie and then they're going to talk about the experience Y and you know the movie goes on and people are talking and I'm sitting there like that 90-year-old nudge that people hate sh sh I'm literally shushing everybody and someone turns to me it's like Julie you would think you'd never seen this movie before I'd never seen the movie before so you know there's just these giant holes in my pop culture knowledge so around 2017 end of 2017 beginning of 2018 I watched Bridget Jones's Diary yeah and there's this scene this cringeworthy scene where she sitting on her bed and she's holding up her shape where are these really ugly granny panties and she's trying to decide does she put them on so she'll feel more confident she'll be flatter and smoother cuz she has this huge crush on Hugh gr's character but then she can't bring him home because no one no woman wants to get undressed and have anyone who's undressing her see the shaper she decides she's going to put it on she wears it to the party it works she gets the guy but then she forgets she's wearing it she gets a little tipsy and she brings him home and there is that scene where they're on her floor and he starts undressing her and he's like teasing her about her shoes and her naughty little dress then he sees the shaper he's oh my God what is this and he's playing with it and that look on her face and I thought to myself wait a minute what do women actually do if you're wearing shapewear and someone's undressing you what do they do so I started asking women and the machinations and drama that ensue to get undressed without a person seeing the shapewear mid foreplay they'll run to the bathroom hide it in a drawer come back out come it's like it's crazy so that was the moment I decided okay I need to figure out a way to make shapewear beautiful I need to eradicate the stigma of it so that a woman should never feel embarrassed uncomfortable ashamed I don't want those words to ever be associated with women so that's the idea but then the difficulty was the reason shaper is very ugly isn't because people don't really realiz that women don't want to wear ugly shapewear because think of lingerie it's purple it's blue it's pink it's patterned it's Lac the problem is that shapewear is a compression garment exactly IM material and compression so think about you know you walk down the street and you see a person wearing a size too small in them and the clothes are stretched and they have those nasty lines and the pattern is distorted and the color is faded that's because dyed material cannot be stretched right yeah meaning it's made to fit the exact size exactly it's and think about it what compression it's a tiny garment that comes it stretches on your body and it's supposed to suck you in form of exactly the biggest form of that stretch and so what ends up happening is if it's a color other than beige white and black those colors you stretch beige it's still going to look like beige black looks like black white looks like white but you try to take a red or a blue and you stretch it you get those nasty lines so I realized that if I wanted to to make beautiful shape wear I had to actually change the way color is put into material and it took us 5 years 4 and a/2 years to create this what we call power bond which is a heat fusion process we don't just dye the clothing we actually heat fuse them and what that enables us to do is to create clothing that can be stretched I mean I've literally been on television and had a person hold on and just stretch it from like one part of the table to the other yeah the the pattern doesn't budge the color doesn't shift it's it's immutable it's amazing and so for the first time you get undressed and you have that underneath you feel you look fabulous right and then once I did that I was like okay but there are a lot of other problems in shapewear the other problems in shapewear is that number okay so number one is ugly okay so we fix that boom boom then we have shapewear is a very thick garment right compression it's a thick material so just mathematic ially speaking women had to decide whether they wanted to be smoother and flatter but wider because they're adding another layer to their body it's a thick layer if it's a quarter inch on each side a half an inch is another size up I had women telling me that they couldn't button their pants when they were a shaper cuz it just increases your girth yeah so I was like well if I canuse color into material can I take all those compression layers and Fus them into one single layer and so that's what we did so my shap wear is as thin as a piece of paper it's crazy and it it believe me it will suck you in every place you want it to go but it's so comfortable and breathable it's one thin layer so now you don't have to decide between wider and smoother or narrower and lumpier you can be smooth formed and narrow simultaneously and then the other problem that I saw was that shape wear and don't laugh I know I always try to make my CFO say this because he's like this very proper man and hearing the word pancake boobs out of his mind mouth is just so entertaining but but I'm here and he's not so I'm say it but you know again shaper is a compression garment it's going to compress all of you I don't know any woman who wants her breasts compressed that's just not okay so what brands NE generally do is either you have to stick with that or they bring up they just make a hole here and you have to put a bra so now you're wearing four straps two straps in the back shapewear and a bra all underneath your clothing torturously uncomfortable so ours is the only shapeware in the world that is not only sold by body size but by cup size so for example you can be an extra extra large Double D you could be a medium a you could be a medium F and so the bra is literally built into the shapewear so not only is it not giving you pancake boob and ensuring that you don't have to wear another bra on top of it it actually enhances your everything in your body because it's keeping everything in place that's amazing and actually when you look at all those problems that you're solving in traditional shape where today you're actually saving a lot of costs from you know having to yeah change your size of your trousers or this and that and I think that is something that from a education perspective it's probably been very interesting to see how people are you know maybe they've been used to specific type of shapewear have you found it interesting to educate them on why cuz once they try it they know let's be honest once you got your your shapewear they're going to be hooked but how do you get them to try a new one you know that's the hot part it's you know what it's interesting because I didn't think that would be an issue I just thought people would be like oh my gosh gorgeous shape where that but it's so new yeah that most people didn't believe it was shapewear and they're also used to maybe the they kind of now they've got that bad kind of um taste in yeah they're used to that you know they condition El but actually you want to now say okay I know this is what you've been given hey look what's now you deserve exactly yeah you know so it is actually interesting because in the very beginning um we had questions like can I wear it under clothing I'm like yes it's shapewear you're supposed to wear it under clothing it just doesn't look like shaper so it's really you know but the beautiful thing is I had um an upand cominging Tik Tock um western music singer as she sends me this really beautiful email and she asked if she could wear it on stage and I'm thinking to myself that's what's WR with fashion that she has to even ask the question do you it's your body your way anything you want you want to wear it out kudos to you you wear under great I the whole beauty of the brand is plus body meaning I don't want to change your body yeah I just want you to feel great in it I want you to feel like your body is fabulous I I was going to ask about the name I think youan said that that's like ex that's it your body your way your size your beauty and wear it however you like so I think people have to get used to wearing it underneath they just don't realize that it's actually thinner yeah smoother you'll never see it underneath clothing but when you get undressed you're not embarrassed yeah no I looked online and the patterns and the colors were so beautiful thank how do you have like a design team like how do you guys come up with such great design well honestly designing is a thing that you know it's my it's the easiest part of my job for me like I can I literally actually design in my sleep which is why I'm an insomniac so like it's I mean literally I have my entire I have a whole set of pencils and colors right next to my bed you know I would say five nights out of seven I'm up doing something but you know what I found is that what's beautiful about fashion is that it's interactive and what I mean by that is you go into a museum and you see a painting and you are moved by it and you feel like this deep connection or it speaks to you in some way but it's a one directional relationship right the painting is not going to change in any way based on your feelings yeah a woman putting on my designs makes it her own five women wearing the same thing make it look completely different because it's their uniqueness and their individuality melding with my Creations that's it's interactive art that I really love and so you know to me the I get inspiration from literally everywhere I once stopped at a building and because I'm I'm looking at your you see that blue on the staircase I'm thinking oh my God that would be fabulous blue for the next collection that's literally how it works everything I see looks like a shoe or a or a dress or a piece of shape or I mean everywhere I go I'm always like catching the strangest things like I literally once followed this butterfly like literally chasing it cuz the wing had this perfect pink I was like oh my God I got to capture the pink you're just like my sister but I can imagine why you must be so tiring when you see Beauty in everything you're looking you're you're probably giving yourself Whiplash every day like oh that's nice that nice yeah but you know what I need more people like in this world I started wearing this thing this oh my God the I love the I love because I'm trying to get better at sleeping I'm it's very hard for me no I know what you mean it's like an hour and a half an hour and a half an hour and a half gently vibrates when he wakes up that's my favorite part I actually switched it to the aura ring for now but that doesn't actually wake you up that just measures to sleep but it's very I think it's important but the whoop is great no it's important I'm trying I'm trying to get better at sleeping what I say what my grandma used to tell me is intentions is all that matters just be intentional I'm trying you do it it's okay if you don't it's okay but in I'm working on it yeah but um in terms of distribution we know how it's so important I mean you can create great product but people need to be able to buy it and sell it uh so where are you currently distributed so right now we're only online yep um but you can purchase Us in the UK nice amazing and uh you know the plan is you know to be you know predominantly a b2c yeah um brand we'll do some we have some stores that we'll be going into amazing um but again I like communicating directly with my consumer owning that data you know knowing you know have that feedback luk less because then you can basically create better products yeah and I love hearing from people about it like you know people have started sending me photos of themselves in it or what they've done with it and I mean it gives me genuine Joy I want women to make it their own I want them to feel comfortable to do things their way yeah you know so yeah so the predominant amount will be online yeah um we will be in some multi-brand stores and some multibrand um websites uh and then of course we're going to go into a few other let's say Industries is because what's coming after this in our next season will be the first ever shapewear swimwear no way that is going to be never been done before no that's amazing I mean and that's something I would wear because honestly I mean I I I wear a cover up when I go to the pool I'm I'm shy to like be all out there like you know and it'll it looks like swimwear it feels like swimwear it's not an Iota thicker than swimwear it dries like swimwear except it's a compression garment because we have this incredible technology where we heat fuse color in so you it never you know Fades or you know gets uh in any way diluted yeah you can make these beautiful bathing suits you know imagine these little booty shorts think like hi Berry from James Bond and tankinis where everything is sucked in and put into place and it looks you know gorgeous and yet it's actual compression wear shape this is the interesting because a I think what you're on is is a huge area it's much needed I think I haven't seen anything like this um but what's going to be interesting for you the challenge will be now like thinking about new distribution points because when you expand your portfolio into new categories or verticals then you're going to start have to think okay for swimwear is it better to be now with hotels or with this but it's exciting cuz you love to learn and try new things but I I was saying I would really love to be in India I India is incredible Market 100% women are so beautiful and they're you know I I love what's happening in India so I think that's definitely we're going to talk talk about of course I'd love to be in the Middle East and in Asia so you know but we're new brands so we're going to start slow but that's definitely the goal if there's no rush take your time and do it right but then I think it's important to it's hard in this globalized economy to like not want to go quicker oh I want to go you probably have people dming you saying hey I'm in so bad I feel so bad I'm so sorry we're getting there we're getting there it's not in your area it's coming it's coming it's coming and you just have to tell more people your friends to keep on dming but then the more demand comes the more warrant it is to open up a market very true um and then in terms of now you mentioned the future of sort of some verticals but uh what is something that you want to see um in terms of like the mission because what you're doing is creating beautiful product but you also do a lot of impact work and uh maybe you can First share some of the stuff been doing recently so amazing thank you so I've been to Ukraine twice this year um the first time I went was uh at very end of December of 2022 through I think the 10th of January and I drove ambulance from Slovakia all the way to the front lines in bahmut um where it was like the bombing and the shelling and the missiles and I mean it was it was crazy uh and I brought um ifax kits and medical supplies and antibacterials and anything I could stick into the ambulance coats um gloves hats and we brought these amazing little boxes that uh were lights that got solar powered and that you could charge your phone in which was a big deal because I mean they really knocked out the infrastructure and you know people always say like why did you go why couldn't you just donate money because I don't take freedom for granted I lived in a world where my body was not my own where I had no autonomy over my life where every decision was made for me literally from the minute I was born and I have fought very hard for my freedom and I'm still fighting for my freedom and to see a country of people who aren't just giving up I gave up my family I gave up everyone I knew I gave up all my friends for Freedom yeah ukrainians are giving up their lives they're dying for freedom and I felt like how can I not go and help they're the Freedom Fighters of our time yeah you know just like the women in Iran I mean what an example they are to the world these are women and it's interesting because the laws that they have are almost identical to the laws I had in Upstate New York right wasn't allowed to live alone married off as a teenager wasn't allowed to be educated every woman's task is the same be a wife be a mother hide your body hide yourself because your responsibility is to make sure that men don't sin my entire being was only through the reaction of a man meaning to be a good woman I had to be not noticeable subservient obedient and Silent a bad woman is someone who attracted male attention so it was all through man you didn't exist as a person you were just a body that was supposed to have babies and be subservient and that was it and so to see these women in Iran who are literally they're being gassed and poisoned and murdered and beaten and they won't stay silent and um I recently led the a March in Washington for Iranian women and I'm standing there speaking to thousands of Iranian women and thinking to myself a Jewish girlf from M New York speaking to thousands of Iranian women it's all the same we're in the same boat um and then I went from there to Rwanda with this group um called the body agency Collective okay and our purpose there we went to remote Villages uh and we did three things one was we provided menstrual cups for women and this is something I didn't know until I got involved with the company there are countries all over the world where women don't leave their homes when they menstruate because they have no Maxi Pats they have no tampons and so they're literally forced to stay home from school to stay home from work when they menstruate so they fall behind in their schoolwork they don't have the same opportunities that men do and so I went from Village to Village showing people menstrual cups because of course you could use them for 5 years they come in they go out wash them it's all good and also talking to women about sexual Wellness um and safe sex and you know many of these women in their uh religions or their societies sexual pleasure of women is completely taboo like it was in my world and you know they don't women are supposed to there as in my life have children right and of course you can't compare the two I mean these women I they're they're Heroes you know there's no there's no comparison between my life and theirs in the sense that I mean I lived in a you know in the United States of America where I have running water and a bathroom and you know I have food to eat and I don't worry about starvation here those are real concerns I met a woman who had breast cancer and half her body was being eaten alive because there was no medical treatment at all and you just you get so angry yeah it's like how is this possible that in this world where there's so much that we can't find a way to share to make capitalism compassionate yeah to help one another and the one thing that I loved that I saw in Rwanda was there are all these collectives of women who invest in one another and create community and financial stability amongst themselves it's incredible so basically one woman gets 10 cents and buys a chicken and this chicken lays a bunch of eggs with those she sells them and buys more chickens with those chickens more eggs and then she starts to buy land and property and then as the chickens grow she starts handing out these chickens to her friends start selling so with with 10 cents all of a sudden you have entire community of women and statistically women number one first of all 70% of Africa are um they're called small shareholder Farmers it's a predominantly an agricultural industry and 80% of the world's untouched arable land is currently in Africa Y and of those 70% of those working that land are women even though only 20% of them own the land that they work on That's So yeah you know and it's what statistically when the women own the land they take the money and reinvest it into their communities they built schools they lend it out they help their friends and their families and so to see the unity the empowerment these women are the bravest strongest most incredible women I've ever met in my life I mean I thought I had impediments I can compare my impediments to theirs really incomparable and they never give up no they're determined and they're going to make it and I feel so honored that I got to meet them and you know so I did that um and I really hope that the global Community can start helping one another and realize that just imagine if all women got together yeah that no think about that we would change the world in a heartbeat yep and that's and I do believe that's possible I do believe and my Army of financially independent women I'm starting to create it yeah I I I honestly think that the biggest way is also human interaction and for to see it to know it cuz I think a lot of people you know I I can you know I can hear what you're saying but I the emotion won't come until I visit yeah you have to go and I think what I really admire what you've done is you have not only just used your voice but you've actually listen to their voices in person I'm true and that is the big difference here you know I can tell you like you know anything why do my impact work it's because I when I've gone there I go home and all I want to do is just work on that yeah because you feel the energy so true and you have to be careful and safe and it's not like you can just jump on a plane and go to these places well I I kind of figure you know what if it's my time to go it's my time to go I was about to say you have to have this mentality it's you have to have this mentality of like I would rather leave this planet doing that than exactly I would say I much rather die or a Viking death you know fighting for something I believe you know met you know metaphorical sword in hand even though doesn't necessarily you know what I mean mean I want I want if I you know when it's my time to go I hope it matters matters something gets Chang well already just for you to know that what you've already left on this planet is already a huge positive change no matter what so now we you're just add adding to that that's what it is you know yesterday I got this award at The Icon thing and it was very lovely and I was incredibly moved and but as I was walking out I'm G to start to cry again it's so annoying okay if I cry don't you can yeah um so as I'm walking out this woman comes over to me and she's literally crying and she said I want you to know that you changed me and my daughter's life and I said oh you know how and she said that um for 17 years she had lived in a marriage and been beaten and abused and that the day day that she turned on my show she said I binged your show Julia and I packed my bags and I took myself and my daughter sorry guys no no no no okay sorry take your time okay um and I packed my bags and I left and I remember thinking to myself that is the biggest award I could possibly get that this woman and her daughter and their future Generations will have a better life because my story inspired their story and in the end that's that's what it's all about that's what you should be these are tears of happiness yeah sorry I get very emal you're right this is um uh thank you for sharing that and I think it's um it's just a testament of every voice counts and uh don't be a ashamed or scared to say your story because there's someone out there who really needs to hear it exactly you know and I think that's really powerful it was just it was just it just reminded me that with all the craziness in my life and all the attacks and all the negativ that's the reason I did it and it worked and so just got to chin up for the rest in the end if my story can change other people's story that's then it's a life well lived and I'm happy and I'm good I'm so happy she told you that cuz it's sometimes people don't tell you you know and I literally said to her I said you don't understand you just made my night yeah you just you gave me so much strength and courage and she was and we just both like literally standing there in this more ceremony crying it was very embarrassing because it's important to know as well we're all human and you need to hear that CU we sometimes we weact as you know we might inspire people but we also need inspiring and sometimes reminding 100% cuz it's not easy so I think that's really really powerful so thank you for Shar that that's I mean I mean before we start wrapping up I do want to talk a little bit because you mentioned you know one of the biggest ways people have got to see your stories the Netflix show and I'm going to be binge watching it this weekend now and I'm kind of I haven't seen it before seeing you because now I can like uh you know like when you now you'll know you know me now I know you I'm going to be like and I'll be like that's my friend but um I just want to tell you like what was this uh experience like uh creating a Netflix show you know it's so funny it's just the great thing about not knowing how much you don't know is that you're not afraid to try something yeah so I'd never written a book but I wrote a book I'd never made a show but I made a show I'd never run a company but I ran a company it's we don't know what we're capable of until we try and and and and the beauty the growth everything is in the unknown if you're doing something that is familiar to you that you're comfortable with that you could do in your sleep you're doing the wrong thing yeah so true I literally try to scare myself shitless once a week at least do something that I'd never done before yeah that I have to test my limits and test my capabilities because I want to constantly grow and Achieve and the only way to do that is to try things you've never tried now was it scary yes do I have nightmares all the time yes I mean the F the two weeks before the show came out I don't think I slept at all I mean I don't think I slept 30 minutes I was in a complete state of panic yeah because I mean what do they call the book what someone wrote about my book um Brazen radical honesty right I am myself 24/7 and I say it all all and it's very scary in a world where you strangers will hate you and attack you and accuse you and you know sometimes I read they know yeah and sometimes I read some of these things and I think wow what I mean it's just in my wildest dreams I would never write that to anyone certainly not a stranger and I know that that's what's coming opening yourself to the world is opening yourself to the world um but then I would just remind myself why are you doing this you're doing this because a story can change the world and if I'm going to be too afraid to tell my story then how can I ever expect anyone else to tell theirs that's yeah such a beautiful way to say it I think it's a it's it's obviously important to realize it's never easy to do something like that but it does get um easier with time I think the more and more you do share your story and of course you're going to have people commenting or I but yesterday I was reading I was watching a Tik Tok I was like Tom Holland who said it on a podcast I think with my friend Jetty but I think I can't exactly say the quote perfectly but it was something like if someone has something to say about you um ask them to text them text you and if they don't have your number then they really don't know you exactly you know what I mean beautiful it's such a great way to be like if they have something to say negative and they can't even text you that then why do you care they don't know you how can you take their opinion I just think it's so sad that's what I realized like in the beginning I was like what what how do I feel about people like that and then I realized I kind of want to hug them and say like whatever in your life is hurting you that you the only way you can have joy or feel better about yourself is to demean and hurt others that means something in your life is really making you unhappy and I I know it sounds really goofy but like I literally try to bless my haters and just say that whatever is hurting them in their lives I hope it dissipates and that they find Joy yeah in lifting others up instead of pushing others down it's and you know I I always say this is something I've always said to myself just to protect my my tell yourself this all the time but I actually say I don't ever have haters I have people who don't know me that's it that's beautiful so if they say something negative they just don't know me and maybe I can find a way to get them to know me if not they just didn't take the time that's on them it's not on me that's really beautiful I really like that cuz if you don't hate yourself you're right that's beautiful haters that's a really nice thing too gosh I that thank you for sharing that I'm going to keep that in my mind yeah I like that so now we're going to go to fire questions and this is the first thing that comes to your mind um the first question is what's another Beauty brand that you're currently loving right now Aman Amon and tell tell us why okay so this is so genius um for first of all the woman who founded it is this extraordinary woman her name is Alina Merl um she's a cancer survivor she had cancer in her 20s and she's just such an extraordinarily strong person and she took that horrible difficult experience and created something out of it yeah H and you know when she had finished chemotherapy her skin she was really unhappy with the way her skin looked and her doctor introduced her to cryotherapy and she thought to herself well how can I bring cryotherapy to people's homes so you know that when you use an ice cube okay if you've I'm sure I mean you're probably 22 years old so your face is like perfect all the time even if you haven't slept for 2 hours but me I'm 52 years old when I only sleep 2 hours my face looks very scary and so you know you put a little ice on your face to depuff okay so imagine if instead of just putting regular ice on your face this ice cube is chalk full of literally every possible skin nourishing delectable ingredient you've ever put in your face the delivery system is what makes it so unique because think about what ice does right when you first put ice on it opens your pores yeah so as it melts all all of that product is melting into deep layers in your skin and then what does ice do right ice shrinks pores so the minute it dries all your pores Get shrunk so it's basically like a Ziploc bag inside your skin for all those ingredients while simultaneously giving you that fresh glow just putting ice on your face and the deeping and it's a gen it's a genius product genius I'm obsessed with it it's really supposed to be done like two three times a week I literally use it every day and when I don't use it like my face feels funky no everything about am looks just so Innovative and again you're like you know you know when there's a good brand when you look at it and you're like why has no one done that exactly yeah so genius and think about how many brands have I ever advertised for I think two I do it so infrequently only I believe in and use it and that's it so am on is something that I believe in very deeply and I'm really excited about to have on the podcast too that' be amaz to hear us oh yeah yeah um my next question is do you have a hidden Talent or not oh dear lord I was about to say do I have anything hidden left anymore in my life or not so um I can speak Aramaic does that count completely dead language nobody speaks it that's so cool there we go aming I can read Aramaic I should say you know the gamar the talud in my community is written in Aramaic men are taught it women are not so of course I went and learned Aramaic because I wanted to read the T So yeah so apparently when I get tipsy I speak to people in Aramaic this is what I've been doing okay that's I'm going to wait till one moment when we get to experience that um my next question is what or where is your happy place wherever my children are I love that that's that's it I don't care where y they're there I'm there love and my last question but this is going to be really hard cuz you're someone who's done pretty much like everything um if you want an entrepreneur plus all your other hats what would Julia heart be doing right now oh boy I it's hard because you're doing everything sleeping relaxing I don't know what does that feel like vacation vacation what's vacation what's vacation no I mean you know um I've already invented another two products that I'm going to be releasing soon so once I've got this the shape where brand off the ground I've got a few more Brands coming your way amazing um so I hope to never retire I don't want to ever stop working I hope that you know every day that I'm on this Earth I'm able to create something that is beautiful oh well Julia it's been an absolute honor and pleasure hearing you speak I've learned so much and I'm sure everyone listening has and I've learned from you thank you so much I'm going to keep that I really loved what you said I thought that was really beautiful everything everyone's told me is probably for my mom and my grandma so probably love your mom and your grandma thank you so much well and and where can everyone continue to follow yourself so um on Instagram I'm Julia heart uh please read my book Brazen yes Netflix show my and Orthodox life I'll be watching and you know you'll see what comes next I will put all the links in the summary of wherever you're listening or watching so do click and be sure to follow Julia and stay tuned for the journey ahead and body byjulia heart.com please go and look at the shapewear take a look I promise you you will never ever go back to regular shaper again great

Channel: Founded Beauty

Views: 256

Keywords: Founded Beauty, Podcast, Interview, Brand Founder, Entrepreneur, Akash Mehta, Brand Building, Julia Haart, My Unorthodox Life, shapewear, netflix series

Id: klmX2ySPq08

Length: 47min 23sec (2843 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 30 2023