Episode 373: Building Better Dating Through Human Connection | Brittnee Barnes | CEO & Co-Founder of Vybes
What if the biggest problem with modern dating isn't finding people—it's finding genuine connection? Brittnee Barnes, CEO and Co-Founder of Vybes, joins Kara Duffy to discuss why today's dating apps leave so many people feeling exhausted and disconnected, and how she's building a platform that prioritizes chemistry, authenticity, and real human interaction over endless swiping.
They explore Brittnee's leap from a successful career in consumer brands into tech entrepreneurship, why trusting your intuition is one of the greatest leadership skills you can develop, and how building a company has transformed the way she approaches dating, success, and fulfillment.
“There should be no reason to go on a bad first date anymore.”
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Kara Duffy: Welcome to the Power Ladies Podcast. I'm Kara Duffy, and today's guest is Brittnee Barnes, CEO of the connection first, members only dating app, Vybes. They feature video messages, in-person events, and even have a show on YouTube featuring Vybes community members. Brittnee and I discuss, of course, the frustrations of dating today, leading with connection.
Even just her story of pivoting into tech and entrepreneurship, the approval process for members in Vibes, as well as how owning this company has changed how she views herself and even how she dates.
Kara Duffy: Welcome to the Powerful Ladies podcast
Brittnee Barnes: thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here
Kara Duffy: Let's begin by telling everyone your name, where you are in the world, and what it is you're up to
Brittnee Barnes: Oh my gosh. My name is Brittany Barnes, and I am here in s- [00:01:00] surprisingly today, sunny Los Angeles. And, I have recently had a career shift. I am now a co-founder and CEO of a dating platform called Vibes
Kara Duffy: You were working in, um, brands before.
Brittnee Barnes: Yes
Kara Duffy: We, we share, I was checking out on LinkedIn. We have a bunch of connections 'cause we both come from launching things, creating things, making sure they come to life.
Brittnee Barnes: Yep. 100%, yeah. I spent like the last 16, almost 17 years, uh, building consumer brands, like primarily in the apparel and lifestyle space, and I've always been very operationally driven, and I love building things from the ground up and figuring out how to make them work and kind of scale. I think my story's really about evolving from being a little bit you know, independent to more intentional and career shifts can happen at any age, and it's been really exciting.
Kara Duffy: You had a lot of safety and security [00:02:00] in your career, and then you decide to make the leap into the unknown world of tech and creating an app. And I just keep thinking like, the, you must have had like one horrible date that you were like, "That's it. I have to change the entire system now."
Brittnee Barnes: Yeah, just gave it all up and went on a mission to kind of fix things. I think it it stems from, I think, the builder in me for sure. But it came from a mix of both professional experience and personal observation. I was actively dating while building brands while in my career and like just it was just a series of extremely bad date after extremely bad date.
But I just noticed how inefficient and disconnected the dating experience had become. And from like a builder's perspective, I was like, I- I felt like it was a problem worth solving, and one that I wanted to [00:03:00] also solve for myself and for like my friends, my family, everybody else who was on these apps and dating and trying to connect and find love.
I was like, " there's gotta be something better out there." Vibes coming into fruition and it's just gave me the ability to really rethink about how people connect and I've been able to really prioritize what is important to me and what I think is important to a lot of people, which is lost, which is prioritizing that real interaction and chemistry, like earlier on in the process.
I say this time and time again, but in this day and age, with so much technology driving every moment of our lives, like there should be no reason to go on a bad first date anymore.
Kara Duffy: Well, and you mentioned in one of the articles that y- you were someone who wanted to go from the app to real life as soon as possible. I'm the same way, and it scared so many men away 'cause I was like, "I don't wanna do this chitchat thing." We're gonna meet. We'll know instantly if we wanna even be friends, let alone something more.[00:04:00]
Let's just go g- grab a drink, please, as soon as possible 'cause we're busy. I know a friend who committed three hours a day to being on the apps 'cause she was so committed to finding a husband.
Brittnee Barnes: Yeah
Kara Duffy: Now she has, so her plan worked for her, but I don't have three hours a day
Brittnee Barnes: No, most people don't. And that's, I think, where we're really seeing like a burnout in, in this kind of day and age with apps. It-- there's a level of exhaustion that is just absolutely peaked in the landscape, and people are tired. And and it's so much input for so little output. You're spending hours so just swiping and messaging, and it was...
it happened to me. I had spent on a personal level, I had spent probably three weeks all in, matched with somebody texted. You get ready, you spend all this time getting ready, you are in an Uber [00:05:00] across town, and it took you like three weeks to get there.
I sit in front of this person, and in 10 seconds, I know this is not it, and I don't wanna be here, and there's just nothing there. And then you have to sit through that date, and you've wasted all of that time. And I'm just like... So that's kind of the thesis of what we're trying to build is like how do we fix that?
Because most apps these days are optimized for time spent on them, and we're sitting here being like, "We wanna optimize for time saved." We want to get you, like I said, from a swipe and a match to a solid connection quickly, and, a- and then that connection to a great first date, right?
So we're trying to cut out all of the in between that really is just an absolute time suck, and I think that's where the fatigue and exhaustion really lies. So we've brought on that new feature called a Vibe Check, and it allows people... it services so many different things for so many different people in the [00:06:00] community.
Whether you're actively working and you don't have a lot of time, it serves as a vehicle to just jump on and connect with people quickly. You can you know in, like I said, 10, 15, 20 seconds whether there's a spark there, a little con- chemistry, connection. All of those things that you can figure out, you can figure out so quickly.
And it really saves you so much time. It also provides a sense of security in the dating landscape that I think is also missing. So many people, myself included, I'm sure people that have just been like catfished. And catfished not only by looks, but also by energy. Maybe they're funny on text or the banter's good, and then you get in front of them and you're like, "What
Kara Duffy: Yeah
Brittnee Barnes: You know? So you can figure all that out. There's just so many... It serves so many wonderful purposes, and people have really been loving it.
Kara Duffy: Well, you'll appreciate that the last two [00:07:00] dates I've, I went on because I'm such a direct person and I wanna get to meeting in real life as soon as possible, no joke, the last two dates I went on were with people who were severely on the spectrum. Which no shade to but it was to the point of not my conversation level.
And what you're talking about is exactly something that could have filtered that for me because on text it was like, "Yep, see you soon." They were, like, the most communicative I have ever had. They were like, "I'm leaving now. I'll see you in 20 minutes." It was like-- I was like, "This is great." And then I get there and I was like, "No."
It was ... And I laughed at myself. I'm like, " how am I approaching this dating situation where that's who's showing up as a yes to me?" Um, like my directness was meeting their directness
Brittnee Barnes: Yes, totally. And it's just wild when you like kinda zoom out for a second. Like I had this thought when I was just like on my couch swiping, being like, "How am [00:08:00] I vetting life partners through like a static image?" Like wha- make that make sense. And you're watching AI and all and it just technology optimize every aspect of our lives.
But I just feel like this is one thing where sure we can optimize, like I said, for time saved and having some efficient tools in place to help the process move along. But you can't generate chemistry and connection. I'm in the camp, in the firm camp of there's a lot of AI matchmaking happening and like avatar to avatar and it's taking the human element out even more.
And it's like at the end of the day, like I'm the one who has to sit in front of that person, talk to that person, and you could maybe take a thousand different data points on me and find somebody who is on paper or statistically a good match, but like nothing will replace that feeling.
And it's a feeling that you can't even [00:09:00] really identify, but it's just an innate gut feeling of like connection, chemistry, spark, butterflies. Like whatever it is that you're feeling, curiosity, like those kind of things that generate through face-to-face human connection are what drives us to, to truly connect, and that is just something that can't be replaced.
It's-- So we're trying to really break down a lot of the walls to bring that to the forefront so that you can make those decisions a whole lot sooner. Like how exciting is it to be like, "Oh, I've talked to this person and I'm excited to go on this first date and talk to them," you know? So it just makes so much sense, to me at least.
Kara Duffy: So, so coming back to the launch, like going into this space must have been very intimidating.
Brittnee Barnes: Oh my God, yeah
Kara Duffy: How did you actually get it off the ground? What did it look like to have partnership in there and just really start building a team who could help you bring the idea to reality?
Brittnee Barnes: It's been [00:10:00] a long road and it's not been an easy one. There's a lot that translates to building a brand and from my past experiences. And one thing we are doing with Fives is we're not just building a product. Like sure, the app is our base product that everything is centered around, but we're developing an entire ecosystem around that. We're building culture and community and change that helps drive the brand mission. So it's not just a beautiful product it's everything else. So we've got these in real life events. We have a ton of different like means of marketing. We've brought content creators onto our cap tables.
We've invested in a real-- like an en- entertainment arm through our reality TV series that we offer to our members. And we're doing so many kind of different things that kind of help create like an entire immersive world because dating just isn't on a product. It is, touches every single part of your life, your friendships, your [00:11:00] family, all of those types of things.
So we want something that's just all-encompassing. So from building a community and a brand identity, like those things were easy. What was challenging is that we, both me and my two co-founders, Josh and Ali, we are all non-technical founders. None of us have any technical chops, if you will. I can't code.
And so it was really trying to build a product from a place of not having understood that language or how to build that. It was such a learning curve. Building from a, like a non-technical place is good and bad, right? It's been, like I said, challenging to get the right CTO in place and the right dev teams in place and designers to help bring our ideas to life, and we've created such a wonderful team that has helped us build such a beautiful product.
The other side to it is that we're building from a place that most people don't build from. A lot of these people building these [00:12:00] products are building from a technical place, an optimization place, a place of how to scale, how to grow, like in a way. I'm building from a place of like a human, I'm using it, so how do I want it to feel?
How do I wanna connect with it? So I think that's been something that has been to our benefit. But yeah, ah, building an app. It's not for the faint or the weak for sure. It's tough.
Kara Duffy: I've seen the app described as for Gen Z. Is it Gen Z specific or is it broader than that?
Brittnee Barnes: It's so much broader than that. I'm 36, so I am not Gen Z, and I am very much on it and like I said, I've built it for myself. But also you're seeing the next generation really wanting something different. they're the ones who are gonna really drive this next generation of what apps look like, and we're hoping to be at the forefront of that.
We are definitely focused on building something that's compatible for everyone. [00:13:00] But Gen Z is really driving, is our, is a driving force in, in kind of the narrative of what we're trying to build because they're just demanding so much realness and authenticity in the space. And it's something that we wanted to bring forward. It's, so we're like, "Heck yeah," like, "Let's, let's go." So, it's not for just Gen Z, but they are a big part of the community.
Kara Duffy: there's more people than ever who are trying to date, want to date, dating at different ages, different phases. And I think that there's an impression that a lot of these different apps are very intimidating. Um, it's, you know, only for content creators. It's only for people who could be models if they chose to.
It's only for people who, I remember I showed up on one date ages ago, and the guy wasn't wearing a shirt, and I was like, "What's happening?" We did meet at a beach bar, but there should still be maybe a shirt on for the first meet [00:14:00] appointment. So I think that there's this kind of gap of the, illusion of, like, what makes it look fun, sexy, and cool, and then the reality of who needs dates. How are you guys bridging the sizzle versus the who's really in the community?
Brittnee Barnes: our app is application-based. It is a membership-based community, if you will. We are selective in who we let in, but we're not hyper-exclusive because we're vetting people on a multitude of criteria. What makes somebody attractive is so different to so many, right? So w- whether that's what you do in your free time, whether that's what you do in your career, your ideologies, All of these types of things that make somebody interesting we pull from so much because we want. This isn't an app just about being hot or rich or well-connected. And I know there are [00:15:00] apps out there that definitely service just that demographic but, I don't know. We're just building something that's can span, that bridges both ends. You have something like Hinge or Tinder that is it services the masses, and it's really exhaustive to have to field so many candidates to get to one person that you actually are remotely interested in.
And then on the other end, you have Raya, which is like a hyper-exclusive app which people love because every swipe is somebody attractive and whatever. But then at the other scale, you're getting people that are so exclusive that no one's really talking to each other and no one's really there to date. It's more of just a status
Kara Duffy: Yeah
Brittnee Barnes: thing at this point. We're trying to say, "Hey, there is a massive gap in between these two." We're trying to fill that, right? So we're trying to sit right in the center where we want you to [00:16:00] feel confident when you get on that you're swiping with verified people a great group of people. Maybe not everyone is for you. It's a broad range of people, but that it is vetted, that it is a more curated community, this isn't a numbers game anymore. I say that so often as well, but, it really is. You're seeing a shift of quality over quantity, and we wanna be able to provide that, and that also aids in time spent on the app.
We want less swipes. We want faster connections. So anyways, it's a long-winded way of saying we are really trying to benchmark that center market where we're servicing still the masses, but in a slightly more curated way.
Kara Duffy: I've always thought that the Powerful Ladies community should maybe have their own app, because I would trust the women who have been guests to only let great people in. 'Cause that's what you want. You want great people who have their act together enough. None of us do fully, so it's who have you [00:17:00] vetted that I can trust? And who's interesting, and who would you, um, let a, a sister or a girlfriend actually go on a date with? I'm really loving the Pitch My Friend events that are happening
Brittnee Barnes: They're so fun
Kara Duffy: they're so fun, and like, what a great way to have some humor behind it, really understand a whole person. And when your friends are selling you, it's like, it's the best. We should probably do it for more things, like just have our friends pitch our businesses and everything else as well.
Brittnee Barnes: Love it. I know
Kara Duffy: How are, like how are you guys thinking about like who... Are there some questionnaires? Do you have a whole team that's the approval process? Like, how are you evaluating who gets let in?
Brittnee Barnes: Yeah. We are still pretty much manually evaluating people. And it's a really time-consuming process one that we will eventually have to scale in terms of internal modeling. But right now [00:18:00] we're in these we're in these early stages and every choice, every member matters. Our application and we wanna make things efficient, so we don't have a large questionnaire that you fill out.
The onboarding is pretty simple. And then we kinda just take a look. We do a verification, like an ID check and make sure that you are who you are and then you're required to give us your socials and just making sure that you're a good person and that you have something to offer the community in some way.
And if all that checks out then you're in. But it is right now we are like vetting people on a manual basis.
Kara Duffy: Which sounds a little bit fun
Brittnee Barnes: It is. It's great to have a bunch of co-founders and my two co-founders are obviously male, I'm female. We all are coming at things from different angles. We're all different ages. We're all looking at different in different ways. So it's nice to have that on the table.
But like I said [00:19:00] attractiveness is measured in so many different ways. Somebody can care about somebody's career. Somebody can care about how much they make. Somebody can care about how they look. Somebody can care are they close to their family? What are their religious beliefs or political beliefs? Whatever those are that there's, everyone's criteria is different, so you're really just vetting on so many different attributes.
Kara Duffy: How has having this business changed how you're dating?
Brittnee Barnes: Oh my gosh. Wow. Um, well, in all fairness, I haven't had as much time to date these days. It's, I think it's restored a little bit of my faith in dating again. I am watching people be so receptive to wanting to connect authentically. And I think as I continue to like- You know, go down my career path, I'm building from such a place of [00:20:00] authenticity now and alignment in myself. So I, I think I'm growing through this process, which in- it impacts how I build this business, how I grow, how I date. But yeah, no, it's just been really exciting. You know?
Kara Duffy: I, I mean, I think that entrepreneurship helps so many people, like, get to know ourselves at a deeper level. And you have to kind of... You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not also doing self-work. There's no way to do it otherwise. S- so it does bring up different things. I know a lot of people who I work with, their friend group and their social circle changes dramatically when they've launched a business.
What they have time for, the conversations they wanna have, what they're able to do. The quality over quantity goes up in such a crazy degree. And then also the risks and the bravery and the c- the courage and the curiosity all start shifting. People, I think, don't realize that when you're launching a business, you're like, "No, we're not [00:21:00] making money yet." Like, all this is happening out here, and I'm watching my savings just go like this, and we're waiting for that tipping point.
Brittnee Barnes: Totally. Totally. I think that's like one thing that is really beautiful for people to know, and I've done a couple of kind of segments on this. But I think a lot of people I think idealize and have a not a very accurate version of what being a founder is.
I think a lot of people glamorize founders years into them being one where they've sold or raised millions, billions of dollars, and they're just coming into success. But what really isn't talked about are the however many years of them just bootstrapping, living off of savings or working two jobs or doing whatever it took and you're not making [00:22:00] money until much later on, like the startup game and especially this, and it's a very much a long-term play.
It is not a quick cash grab. It is literally you're building for future funding, equity, long-term growth, and scalability. So it is a wildly different, ride than I think most people think it is, you know?
Kara Duffy: Yeah. And, and 97% of all businesses are self-funded. 97. So like when we're looking at the 3% who have gotten funding, who have had equity partners, it's such a small percentage of the businesses that are out there that exist. And a product-based business is so much harder than a service-based. I saw that you've had your own agency. I actually started my entire business coaching and strategy business to support another business, and now it's become the dominant one. Like it's y- I- [00:23:00] most entrepreneurs I know also don't have... You can't have one income stream because everything's working at different times.
Brittnee Barnes: Yeah. Yeah
Kara Duffy: It's this whole...
Brittnee Barnes: lot of balls in the air at once. You're wearing many hats, so yeah.
Kara Duffy: But I think it speaks to the person who's making that leap because it's so different than what we see out there, and there's so much more about your character that shows up. There's so many more long-term values being built and having to come up to the surface than you would have had to engage in otherwise.
Brittnee Barnes: Yeah. It was a massive shift to move from building for other people to building something of my own. I had a very comfortable career, so stepping away from that to start something from absolute scratch, it felt like such a natural next step, but it was also just, you know, crazy.
You can't really be prepared for it. You have that moment where you're like, "Oh my [00:24:00] gosh," you have to trust your instincts and be decisive more than ever. I've always built even in my consulting career as well as when I was in-house for multiple brands, you're always building somebody else's idea and building alongside them. You really have to tap into your gut and intuition, and I think that's really taught me very quickly having perspective and having taste is so important. And you have to trust it very early on. And not every decision is gonna be right, not every decision is going to like I said be correct, but you gotta make 'em and you gotta keep moving forward. So it's just been a total shift from operator to founder, and it requires such a different level of confidence and ownership, but it's been exciting.
Kara Duffy: I love so many things about being my own boss and being an entrepreneur, but I do miss getting to play with other people's money and getting [00:25:00] to travel on their dime too.
Brittnee Barnes: Oh, yeah. Oh man, do I miss it. I, it's just like, ugh. You know, you're watching your savings dwindle and It's one of those things where it's so funny. I've never felt more fulfilled. Do you know what I'm saying? And like my priorities have shifted. For a long time in my career, I benchmarked success on not so much on alignment and fulfillment, but on financial progress. I was doing really well at that. And you start to hit a level in your career where you're like, "This is not doing it for me anymore, and I'm comfortable and but I'm not feeling fulfilled." So, I didn't just leave. This was like a very slow progression to where I was able to finally leave my apparel career behind and consulting career behind and bring this on full time. But oh my God, I've like never been so financially stressed at times, but also so fulfilled. It's wildly different. It's like my whole [00:26:00] life and everything I knew is done a 180, but in like the best way.
Kara Duffy: I agree. I, I often tell people when they're debating making the leap and doing it, I go, "All the things you're worried about now evaporate in a second, and then the only thing you're worried about is money." It sounds crazy, but, like, all the political stuff goes away, all the having to corral other people it all disappears, and then you have one focus. We need to make money. That's it.
Brittnee Barnes: Totally. And it's not even money for myself either. There's so many features I wanna integrate and so much marketing I wanna do. And you just feel so energized by like the concept and idea, and I just wanna make it massive, and I want to share it with everyone. That's where it goes. And it's just, yep, that all requires money, you know? so
So at the end of the day, you're trying to figure out how to fund this really wonderful idea, uh, that you believe in? and then part of it has been just really fun to also connect with other [00:27:00] people and entrepreneurs and women in the space that are doing things like what you're doing. And it's just been really rewarding to connect as I've gotten the opportunity to connect on that level with so many people that I probably otherwise wouldn't have. So that's also a plus.
Kara Duffy: If you go back to eight-year-old you, would she have imagined that this is your life today?
Brittnee Barnes: Oh, God no. Eight-year-old me wanted to be an astronaut. This is wildly different. I just feel like if I was looking back though, I feel like if I was to like give myself some advice I would want to tell eight-year-old me to trust your instincts earlier.
I think that's something that I didn't learn until much later on in life, and I think that I spent a lot of time, looking for validation and confirmation before making decisions. And then over time I realized that, like my intuition, your... And anyone's intuition is like one of their most valuable tools?
So yeah. And success doesn't have to follow a traditional path. So I stopped [00:28:00] living on a timeline long ago when I realized life is gonna take so many crazy turns. Never at 36 did I think I'd be making an insane pivot career into tech and dating. But here I am? So you kinda gotta just like lean into it.
Kara Duffy: There's so much more fun to be had when we throw the plan out the window and start to really decide what we actually want and how are we gonna make it happen as best we can. And I do think that being someone, if I speak for myself, someone who is so good at creating and causing what I want to happen, the dating part has been really frustrating because I can't just make it happen. I can't just draw up a plan and be like, "Okay, and this is what it's gonna look like." And it's interesting to have to let things go. It's like really the shift I've been making in my life is going from causing to being a magnet. What do I need to do to be the magnet? And so much of that [00:29:00] comes to the alignment you were talking about, the softer things, the just being. Like, how do I focus over here as much as possible?
Brittnee Barnes: Yeah. Feeling confident and being powerful, really I've learned, and being a founder has taught me it really comes from self-awareness and alignment. And it's not about doing everything or having everything figured out, 'cause you're not going to.
Kara Duffy: No.
Brittnee Barnes: it's just about understanding yourself well enough to make s- decisions that reflect who you are and what you actually want. And having the confidence, to build a life around that. So that's just been really something that I've learned that has been really pivotal for me and helped been a guiding light in how I navigate this insane thing we call life, you know?
Kara Duffy: Yes. When you think of the words powerful and ladies, what do they mean to you, and do their definitions change when they're next to each other?
Brittnee Barnes: No. I think being powerful, [00:30:00] it's a quiet confidence. I used to think confidence needed to be loud. I think it was demanding a room, And I really realized through so many things, like, clarity is calm. It's more important than intensity and in business and in relationships, it's like it all kind of intertwines, you know? So I think being powerful really goes hand in hand with having self-awareness and confidence. I think that's where your power is, and I think being a lady in that is just equally beautiful.
I think it just amplifies our power. And it comes from ultimately just having enough self-assurance to feel like any decision you make is just in alignment with the life you wanna build and what you wanna surround yourself with, you know?
Kara Duffy: we've talked about how there's so much demands when you're starting something new. What are you doing to [00:31:00] take care of yourself? Are there any rituals that you must have every day? Like, how are you balancing the self in the midst of creating other things?
Brittnee Barnes: Work-life balance is a full-time job in and of itself at the present moment. I'm lucky to try to get seven, eight hours of sleep, but I do try to take care of myself. I work out every morning. I take my supplements. I do try to get outside at some point in the day, whether it's a walk around the block. If you don't make that time for yourself, I found, especially in the morning for me, the day is gonna decide how it's gonna go for you if you don't do it yourself.
And then I'm not the best version of me. I have to be in a good head space and in a good place health-wise. I spent many a years in my early career just working from a place of absolute exhaustion and I don't like, it- burnout is not something I'm trying to get to these days. I do what I can, but [00:32:00] it is so hard, you know? So, so hard
Kara Duffy: We've been asking everyone on the podcast, what do you need? How can we help? Whether it's on your to-do list, your manifest list, personal, business, big, small, what is something we can help you with?
Brittnee Barnes: My God, I love that. I think just spreading the word about this app to people you love, friends, family, anybody in the space. I think that is like my single life's mission at this present moment is just to make this big and from a place of I have so much faith that it could really change things for people. I think, a lot of what's been missing for so long in the dating landscape. I think a lot of humanity and connection has been lost. It's been traded out for gamification and quick wins and instant gratification and this lack of [00:33:00] commitment and effort, and I wanna bring it back, you know?
Like, I want to get it back, and I think a lot of people feel that. I want that so bad for everyone.
Kara Duffy: Well, for everybody who is craving that as well, where can they find the app, join, apply, and also support, follow you if they're potentially an investor or somebody else who'd love to contribute?
Brittnee Barnes: Amazing. Yes, so both myself and the app are across all social media platforms. Personally, you can find me on Instagram, brittany.barnes. I'm on LinkedIn, TikTok, all of the fun things. And then to download the app, to know more about the brand and Vybes you could find us on the App Store and Google Play, Vybes Inc. Our website will take you to any of those download links, vybes.co, and then we're on all social media platforms as well. Vybes Inc on social media or on Instagram and [00:34:00] Vybes on TikTok. And if you're needing some juicy TV, you can watch season one of our reality show hosted by Zach Justice. It's called Vybes Villa, and it's on his YouTube channel, so
Kara Duffy: And what's cool about that show is it's actual members of the app
Brittnee Barnes: Yes. It, that was really fun for us. That was a really fun creative venture. We want to let people connect in every modality possible. Whether that's through our events, whether that's through the show, whether that's through the app we're really kinda trying to service connection in so many ways. But yeah, that was a really, really fun one. We took 10 of our members to start, but there was, I think almost 15 in total on the show. But took them off the app, put them in a villa to kinda connect and find a chance at love and money. But it's fun. It was, it's really, really fun to create
Kara Duffy: I am very excited that there is another possibility for finding actual connections out in this world, so [00:35:00] thank you for making it.
Brittnee Barnes: Of course.
Kara Duffy: thank you for being a yes to myself and Powerful Ladies, and really however we can help, whatever you need, I can't wait to see how this goes for you and just to keep following your own journey as well, too
Brittnee Barnes: Thank you. This has been a wonderful conversation. Thank you so much for having me on
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[00:36:00] Go be awesome and up to something you love
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