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Living Your Legacy

From Broken Home to Beauty Empire

25 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: How did Brandi Pope's childhood influence her journey?

0.031 - 12.825 Brandi Pope

I competed for the 2012 title. Never in a million years thought that I would ever grace a pageant stage. It was not on my radar, but it was on God's radar, and that's how I ended up on that stage.

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12.965 - 29.143 Lucy Staffieri

Brandi Pope is a resilient, empowering, and purpose-driven beauty influencer, former Mrs. Virginia, and the creator of the Glam Bell. Through her work, she empowers women to embrace their authentic beauty, strengthen their confidence, and live with greater self-love, resilience, and authenticity.

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29.123 - 52.178 Brandi Pope

so my faith is who i am it is infused in everything that i do i always say if if you don't want to hear about jesus then don't have a conversation with me because it's just it's in me so it has to come out of me in some way i have brought that to every space every video everything that i do even if i'm not

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52.158 - 66.157 Brandi Pope

putting that as the forefront of that particular video, that light still shines through me. And God has used that to draw an audience that I can really reach so much further than just for beauty.

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66.397 - 74.488 Jason Hamilton

If there's one key takeaway, one key message that you would have for the audience based on everything that you've shared in your episode, what would that key takeaway be?

74.788 - 78.553 Brandi Pope

I think through my interview, I would just say...

81.166 - 106.33 Rudy Mawer

It spans the globe like a super high school internet. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. It's not over until I win. The Living Your Legacy podcast for those who live to leave a legacy. That's extraordinary. The impossible. Oh, that is sensational.

108.031 - 131.98 Jason Hamilton

welcome back guys to another episode of the inside success podcast where we go inside the success of all of our clients and today i have with me brandy brandy you just finished filming your episode tell me a little bit about what our viewers are going to be able to learn from your story

132.517 - 152.5 Brandi Pope

I think they're going to be able to learn a little bit about my entire life from my upbringing to how I got into pageantry and how that led me into the online space and how I've been able to grow and become successful in the beauty and faith space online.

Chapter 2: What role did faith play in Brandi's transformation?

179.603 - 206.004 Brandi Pope

I always say, short story long. But essentially, my husband is the one that encouraged me to compete for the title of Mrs. Virginia America. Back in 2011, I competed for the 2012 title. Never in a million years thought that I would ever grace a pageant stage. It was not on my radar, but it was on God's radar. And that's how I ended up on that stage.

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206.485 - 207.207 Jason Hamilton

Won't he do it?

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207.227 - 226.919 Brandi Pope

Won't he do it? And man, not only did I win that first pageant, but that led me on an entire journey. pageant journey of directing. And then 10 years later, I ended up on another pageant stage, Mrs. United States. And that eventually led me to this chair right here with you.

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226.959 - 247.584 Jason Hamilton

Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, we have royalty in the studio with us, pageant royalty. Now, I want to talk, you mentioned that you were a director for a second. And my director brain perked up. I was like, ooh, one director to another. Yeah. Talk to me a little bit about direction. What does that mean in the space of pageants?

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248.946 - 281.57 Brandi Pope

You know what? I never saw myself on a pageant stage, let alone becoming a director of a state pageant for one of the biggest pageant systems out there for married women. But I stepped into the role as Mrs. Virginia America's pageant director. And I did that for five years. And I... learned so much about production, about really putting on a show, connecting with women, hearing their stories.

281.63 - 283.413 Brandi Pope

It's crazy. You probably do literally.

283.453 - 306.104 Jason Hamilton

That's literally what you're doing. As you're saying it, I'm like, you know the struggle. Yes. You know how it can be. For me personally, I've been working in production for the last better part of a decade, and And there's so much behind the scenes that people don't see. There's so much that goes into it. The planning, the pre-production, scouting location.

306.144 - 325.527 Jason Hamilton

I mean, in pageants, you got to look for these huge stadiums or auditoriums that you have to fill. How's the lighting going to look? How's my audio going to sound? Where am I getting my audio from? Do I have an AV team? Do I have a video team? what is everything going to look like at the end of it? What's my post-production process look like?

325.847 - 333.998 Jason Hamilton

Talk to me a little bit about like, or it's organized chaos is what I love to call it. Talk to me about your, your experience with organized chaos.

Chapter 3: How did pageantry shape Brandi's career path?

529.533 - 546.173 Brandi Pope

And it feels so good to me that people even want to watch me, first of all. Mm-hmm. but that I have the opportunity to pour into so many people's lives, people that I'll never meet, but I get to make an impact.

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546.393 - 560.368 Jason Hamilton

It's so funny how God works because you think to yourself, these are people that I can never meet. And then you go to the grocery store one day and it's somebody, hey, I follow you on social media. I love your videos. Do you have any experience with that happening?

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560.348 - 582.595 Brandi Pope

Yes, it's happening more frequently now, which kind of bugs me out still. I'm like, whoa, this is really weird. One of the most, well, I say the most recent, it was about a year ago, but one of the weirdest, I would say, is my husband and I were flying from Greece to Turkey. We had done like a whole two-week tour of different countries.

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583.456 - 595.291 Brandi Pope

I sit down in my seat on the plane, and a girl sits down beside me, and she said, oh, you're the glam bell. And I was like, hold on, I'm literally in Greece and on a plane in Greece.

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595.712 - 597.233 Jason Hamilton

Different country entirely.

597.253 - 620.982 Brandi Pope

Yeah. She was like, I have followed you. Not just, I've just started following you. I have followed you from the beginning of your social media journey. This is so crazy. She had curly hair, of course. She's like, you've been my curly hair go-to. Like, what do I do with my hair? So that was really wild. And of course, my husband was with me. So he was like, What? This is wild.

621.082 - 623.225 Jason Hamilton

We love the curls in this house, Crockett.

623.245 - 626.449 Brandi Pope

That's right. Come on. Ain't nothing like a curly hair girl.

626.469 - 649.992 Jason Hamilton

I know it. I know it. And so throughout this entire process, one of the key narrative through lines that I've noticed is your emphasis on faith. So I want you to talk to me a little bit about that. How does your faith inform the brandy of today? How does your faith inform your actions, your decisions? Where does that faith piece come in?

Chapter 4: What challenges did Brandi face in the beauty industry?

904.233 - 910.002 Jason Hamilton

That's the goal. If this podcast accomplishes one thing, it should be that. So where can people find you?

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910.15 - 924.366 Brandi Pope

They can find me anywhere online at The Glam Bell. So I have a website. It's theglambell.com. I've got my TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, all the platforms.

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924.686 - 925.047 Jason Hamilton

Everywhere.

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925.647 - 940.567 Brandi Pope

Everywhere under The Glam Bell. You can find me at Brandy Pope too, but The Glam Bell is what people know me as. And yeah. Yeah, there's so much more in store. So people do not want to miss. Like I'm telling you, God is scratching the surface.

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940.587 - 942.851 Jason Hamilton

We got to keep it rolling. That's right. We got to keep it rolling.

942.871 - 943.452 Brandi Pope

That's right.

943.912 - 953.708 Jason Hamilton

All right, guys. Well, that's another episode here of the Inside Success Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Hamilton, here with Brandi Pope. We will see you guys in the next one.

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