Meet Kristel & Priscilla Brinshot

We were lucky to catch up with Kristel & Priscilla Brinshot recently and have shared our conversation below.

Kristel & Priscilla, so great to have you with us and thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with the community. So, let’s jump into something that stops so many people from going after their dreams – haters, nay-sayers, etc. We’d love to hear about how you dealt with that and persisted on your path.

Kristel: Being an artist is not easy. It calls for vulnerability in the biggest of arenas, it calls for making mistakes in front of people that might laugh at you, it calls for taking risks even when people tell you you will never make it. But you keep on going because your job as an artist is not to please everyone, it’s to be a mirror for them, and sometimes that means being a trigger too. The more haters you have, the closer you are to showing people their own truth. How they handle it is not up to you. You can only inspire them to get curious about themselves and the part they play in this world.

Priscilla: You need to have such a profound trust in yourself that what you pursue or act on is coming from your heart, anything that doesn’t come from the heart will catch up with you and will lead to an inauthentic path. As someone who led a life for others in my earlier 20s, I always felt isolated and unfulfilled. It was only when I started making decisions for myself and in that – “pissing people off”, that I felt in alignment with myself. Of course it hurts when people don’t want to understand the real you, but trust you will be glad you stayed true to yourself and found your people later down the line.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

Kristel: I always knew we would come back to where it all started- 2024 was the year for Hey Sis World to return. HSW was a platform created in 2017 as a response to the stark lack of diversity and seats at the table for women and people of color. 4 years later during the pandemic, I took every little thing I learned from HSW and built and launched Big World NRG, a creative coaching program designed to help the BIPOC creativepreneurs and artists in our community (and beyond) heal their imposter syndrome and burnout. It was an incredible & strange time to start a purpose-driven business. Big World NRG ignited a fire in me. I wanted to be a part of a movement that would shift the creative industry landscape, because what was there clearly wasn’t working. But the excitement was short-lived. Many brands and companies that were “putting their money where their mouth was” turned out to be performative activism that left many BIPOC owned small businesses and creatives’ pockets empty with little to no backup plan. And while I am beyond proud of all the work I did to help my community during that time, I could not help but wonder- what DOES the future hold for us all in an increasingly scary time in the world? What does it mean to do all the internal work to show up, advocate yourself, and still walk into spaces that refuse DEI? HSW is now us having the audacity to talk about it. LOUDLY.

Priscilla: My sister Kristel and I have always believed in the power of storytelling, but in a time where freedom of speech is under attack, we knew we had to rebuild and rebrand our platform to be more than just a space for business focused conversations—it had to evolve, it needed to become more human.
A major part of that shift was hopping on some mics, and launching GITN2IT, our no-BS podcast where we talk about life, art, culture, and everything in between—the stuff that’s too real (or too “taboo”) for social media right now. We needed a safe digital space where we could engage in real, unfiltered dialogue without the fear of censorship. We’ve leaned into Substack, building a space where listeners and readers alike can learn, laugh, and tap into deeper creative thought – all through the lens of joy and embracing personality (remember her?). Because remember, joy IS the resistance.
The world doesn’t need more noise; it needs visionaries, storytellers, and truth-seekers who aren’t afraid. It’s getting back into long-form dialogue, connecting with nature, connecting with your local to global community and realizing that having humanity is the answer.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Priscilla: Remembering that no matter where you are in your timeline, you’re never too old to start over

Kristel: But you might just be too old to make excuses!

Kristel: Never stop learning, the moment you think you “know it all “ is the moment you need to take a beat, pick up that library card, and check yourself. Your world is not gonna heal/change/get better while you’re sitting in willful ignorance.

Priscilla: Be a good sister to others, true leadership is in having the emotional intelligence to see past peoples faults and take them for face value- as humans

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

Absolutely! HSW core pillars are connection and dialogue. That said, we’re manifesting connections with folks in podcasting, editorial, women sports, fashion, and the publishing world who want to use our voice to say big things. Speaking of using our voice, go listen to our podcast and tell us what you think! If you’d like to be part of helping us grow GITN2IT into something special and real, become a paid subscriber on Heysisworld.substack.com

For all business inquiries contact [email protected]

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Image Credits

Photographer: Daniel Hermosillo
Makeup: Destiny Hash
Hair: Nevada Raffaele

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