Never Give Up on your Dreams
hello everyone
i am isabelly laity i am from brazil and
it’s a pleasure to be here with you
today
today i will be sharing a little bit
about my journey about my life with you
and i hope i can inspire you somehow
because
i believe when we hear what people they
have gone through to reach
their dreams and to achieve the dreams
it can really inspire
us to keep fighting for our dreams and
for
what we are wishing for so
everything started in brazil when i was
14 years old
and i was spotted to be a model but
it was never my dream to be a model i
never thought about it
and first i was thinking
should i go should i not go and after
two weeks i got spotted by the same
person again inviting me to meet
and to go to this agency so
we went me and my mom to see she
encouraged me to go
and it was expensive to pay them
and we didn’t really have this money to
to invest only to be a model
but i already had after i got
invited twice i already had this idea on
my mind that i
want to try so my mom
we didn’t have money she she found a way
and
she paid for me and
i started my modelling career with 14
years old
i used to work i did the course i did
how to walk run away how to
act like they had like class for
beginners and i used to work like 10 or
12 hours
for 53 eyes that is 10
i don’t really know how much is it in
in rupees now but for 10 dollars 10 to
12 hours when
i begin my career and after one year
when i was about to turn 15
i got invited to travel outside brazil
because they thought i had a lot of
potential
and they wanted to try
but for me first i was so excited
because i
never thought about going abroad and i
was very happy i was telling my mom my
family i got invited maybe i can go
outside brazil and
they i had to do a photo shoot
i had to do two photo shoots i remember
to for them to send to another countries
and we didn’t have this money for the
photo shoot
and i was so sad i was thinking okay now
my dream is over because we don’t have
the money for the photo shoot so i
it will not be possible for me to try to
go abroad
anyway we were thinking where to get
money where to get this money and my
grandmother
she has a farm and she told us i think i
i know how we can we can pay this photo
shoot
and she saw the cow and she paid the
photoshoot for me
so that’s how my first photo shoot was
paid
and with 15 i got a contract in china
i didn’t have money to bring with me
that i didn’t have clothes
i didn’t have anything like winter
clothes
and stuff so i had to border some
clothes
my family each of them they helped me
with a little bit of money 15
years 20 dollars there and i went to
china
for the first time in my life traveling
outside brazil
i was 15 years old i went alone
i didn’t know how to speak english i
didn’t know what was
waiting for me there how it would be i
had no idea
i just had in mind that i was open to
live this new experience
and i wanted to work and to make my own
money
i went to china it was not easy i was a
kid
because for me 15 years old it’s a kid
and i learned a lot i experienced
different kind of things that i never
thought i
would i met people from everywhere
from all over the world and after three
months
i gained weight and they didn’t
they wanted to send me back to brazil i
came back to brazil
and i was told that i will never be able
to travel
as a model again because i had my chance
i went to china and i did
the worst thing i could have done that
it’s to
gain weight because in this industry
i don’t know if you know but gain weight
it’s something
you must not do it it’s something that
it’s sad but you cannot get
get a gain weight being a model and i
i that’s what that’s what happened to me
when i was in china
i gained weight so they told me i will
not be able to travel again
i lost my chance i lost my opportunity
and i was actually feeling sad i was
crying crying for days thinking that i
wasted because
that’s what i was being told that i
wasted my opportunity so i was
completely sad because all my family
somehow they helped me a lot to go there
they didn’t even have this money to
afford
for me to go there but they did it they
tried
their best for me to to leave the
country to go
to fight for my dreams and i wasted
because i i gained weight
and i couldn’t deal with that but inside
me
i had something telling me you you got
it
one day you have to get it isa
and i was always telling to myself you
can i don’t know how but
i will i can and i want to travel again
years past i finish my high school i
i message my my agent i message my agent
and i
ask him i really want to travel
abroad again and he said
but either we spoke about it it’s
not possible you had your chance you
lost your chance you went there
you gain weight you came back to brazil
you had everything on your hands and you
throw it away
but that time my father he has lost his
job
it was we were going through a really
difficult time
in my house we had to sell our car i had
to change my school
we could not afford clothes anymore like
you know like i like these clothes i
need this we couldn’t afford we were
going
through a really difficult time and i
asked him please
give me a second chance i really need
and i want
to travel again he said okay
send me your pictures and we will see
what you do
i was desperate because i didn’t even
have camera
to send the pictures to him so i went
again to ask my neighbors
who has a camera because i need to send
pictures to my
agent and i got a camera from a friend
i sent my pictures and
i got approved to go to india
i got approved to go to india and
again alone without anyone i
i remember telling my mom mom
i will go and i will just come back here
when i have money to help you
and when i can help our family
till then i will not come back and
i left to india i remember i didn’t have
enough clothes maybe six pairs of
clothes
i didn’t have fun to talk to my family i
didn’t have a computer
i had ninety dollars with me to spend
three months in india
and it was hard because i didn’t know
what was there
what i was expecting for me
that i didn’t know what to expect
i was so lost
not lost but
i i didn’t know
what was india with how was the country
i didn’t know anything even bollywood i
didn’t know about volley
i just knew that the agency liked me and
i wanted to
give my best what i could so i reached
in
india and in three months no in two days
the agency they call me and they said
isa
you need to wear this kind of clothes to
go to for the auditions because the ones
you have
it’s you need to be like this like that
and i was thinking
but i don’t have this kind of clothes
anyway i started to do the auditions
with what i had
with the clothes i had with the english
i could speak that it was
a little bit and it worked
and i believed in myself so much that i
don’t know how
i think the doors were opening for me
in three months i did more than six tv
commercials
i did more than 10 campaigns i did more
than 30
photo shoots in six months i got a
contract with the biggest
skim care brand in india i was the first
ambassador
from outside india to represent the
brand
in one year i got selected to do a
hindi film as a leader as one of the
leaders
and i even asked the
director that time why are you choosing
me
because i barely can speak english how
do you expect me to speak hindi
and he said i know you can isa i believe
i believe in in you and i did it
i memorized 30 pages of hindi
in two weeks i shot the movie
and i got nominated for best female
actress of that year
people they didn’t know i was foreigner
they actually thought i was
thought i was indian and
when i watched the movie i remember i i
was in tears because i couldn’t believe
i have done that it was not a big movie
with big actors but
what i have gone through to reach at
this point and to do a movie in
india we and talk another language and
it was like a movie in my own head when
i watched the
movie and since then i have been doing
campaigns
and photo shoots and commercials and
movies and
what i want to tell you is that never
give up on your dreams
never tell never let anyone tell you
that you cannot do it
always follow your heart you can do it
you can do it and never let the fear
take over you just do what you can even
when you think
ah but i how i will get there how i will
do this how it will be
just do what you can anyway we’ll get
there
always always follow your dreams thank
you so
much for having me here