By day, Isabel Brown hosts her popular podcast, “The Isabel Brown Show,” with The Daily Wire. She has a master’s degree in biomedical sciences policy and advocacy and is studying theology at Notre Dame. Her goal, which she pushes her more than 1 million followers toward as well, is “seeking truth to save the West.”
By night, she’s waking up at all hours with her most important follower: her young daughter, Isla.
It’s been a whirlwind of the last few years for Brown—from getting married, moving to Washington, D.C., and giving birth to her first child. But she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“My family is what gives my career meaning,” Brown told IW Features in an exclusive interview.
Growing up, Brown watched her own mother work full-time. From Brown’s second-grade year through her sophomore year in high school, her mother worked as a lawyer in another state.
“We would take her to the airport on Sundays and pick her back up on Thursdays,” Brown told IW Features.
Finding balance in her own life is no easy feat either, but for Brown, her career and family go hand-in-hand. She got her start in the politics and culture world working for Turning Point USA, where she met her husband, Brock Belcher. Today, she’s hosting her podcast, juggling interviews, and keeping up with the D.C. political scene—all with her young daughter by her side.
“God has given me an amazing team of my husband, our amazing show crew that helps me put on my content every day with The Daily Wire, and so many other friends and family members that always are pitching in to make it possible,” Brown said.
For Brown and other champion women like her, making a lasting impact through career and family is not an either/or decision. Allie Beth Stuckey, Brett Cooper, and Riley Gaines are just a few of the young mothers Brown knows who are balancing high-profile and high-impact careers.
“Never fall for the trap that you can’t make it work, or that it’s just impossible to have both a family and a career,” Brown said.
“Every young woman today is told to never think about kids until at least you turn 30,” Brown added. “Then you wake up in your mid- to late-20s.”
Indeed, while the majority of young adults still want to get married and start a family, they’re putting it off longer than ever. Women now spend 10 years on average dating—the “dating decade”—according to a new report from Independent Women.
The results have been disastrous, according to Brown. Most young women have become disillusioned with modern dating and frustrated with a lack of long-term commitment.
“Everything has been reduced to a transactional experience and commodification of intimacy,” she said.
In the face of this landscape of casual sex and online dating, Brown said that the most important part of modern dating is to “be really intentional about the person that you give your heart away to.”
But the messaging her generation, Generation Z, has heard has warned them against marriage and family life altogether, Brown said.
“We’ve truly brainwashed entire generations of women to believe they’re going to destroy the planet if they have kids; that they will never have a fun night with their friends or go on a vacation ever again if they have children; that their career has to be the most important, number one thing in their life so that they’re never held down by the patriarchy of a man,” Brown explained. “It’s very toxic messaging.”
Even more than these cultural pressures, young adults not starting a family cite the fear of not being a good parent as their reason. In fact, among those who do not want kids, nearly one in three echo this as their primary reason, according to new polling data from Independent Women.
But Brown’s own experience shows that this fear shouldn’t deter her generation from starting families.
“If I’ve learned anything since having my beautiful daughter, Isla, there is never a good time or a perfect time to have a baby,” Brown said. “You will never 100% feel qualified or ready for the challenge of raising another human soul.”
To her, the challenge of motherhood is also the beauty of it, and it all ties back to her Christian faith.
“The connection that I’ve grown with Christ in these last nine months since having my daughter is completely unparalleled to anything else I’ve ever experienced in my faith journey,” Brown said. “And I think all of that really has to do with the humility of submitting myself to something bigger than myself.”
Amidst the balance of motherhood, marriage, and her public life, Brown’s faith is her foundation. Raised in a traditional Catholic home, she attended Catholic school, and in college and graduate school, she started examining her faith alongside other Christian denominations. Then, the COVID-19 lockdowns happened.
“All of a sudden, everything was shut down and became YouTube church, which was incredibly disillusioning,” she said. “I found myself really deeply yearning for the intimate, tangible connection that I grew up with in the Catholic Church.”
And when her then-boyfriend, now-husband, started investigating the Catholic faith, she said she “fell in love with our faith all over again.”
“There is such a lack of beauty and a lack of intentionality, history, and tradition in our post-modern society,” she said. “[Gen Z is] looking for the ultimate source of truth, and we’re finding that [source] in the most important place—where ‘truth’ has a name with a capital T, and that is Jesus Christ.”
Her hope for Gen Z is what sets her apart as a voice for her generation. Despite the propaganda and cultural pressure young women face today, Brown is a living example of what Gen Z can stand for.
“I think you’re about to watch a true generational overhaul of womanhood to reconnect with femininity, with family, with service to society, and with faith as the cornerstone of our identity again,” she said.
“You’re watching more Godly young women take on that same role of messaging to young women that Charlie Kirk did for young men,” she added.
The hope Brown holds for the future of America and the American family isn’t just limited to the cultural realm—she’s also seeing change on the policy front.
Just this month, Brown joined the Trump administration to help launch Trump Accounts, tax-advantaged accounts that families can use to contribute to their child’s future first home, higher education, or business. Alongside Press Secretary Karoline Levitt, Cheryl Hines, and Nicki Minaj, she celebrated the start of a new era for the American family.
“[It] is really the first time in my lifetime I can remember the government ever financially investing in the future and this new generation,” Brown said.
It’s this family-first attitude that Brown believes will transform America.
“If you want to change the world, you should go home and love your family,” Brown said, paraphrasing Mother Teresa.
“I think the next several generations of America are going to look more prosperous, more joyful, and more intentional than maybe any other time in the last several generations,” she concluded.
