It’s a quiet morning on set and she’s tucked away at the wooden table. She’s got a pen in hand and you can see her deliberately pausing in between sentences to gather her thoughts. It only takes a split second upon meeting her to know she’s a force to be reckoned with. While you may recognize her from our recent adventures in Zion, Bridget Hollitt is so much more than meets the eye: she can write, sing and is devoted to living her most authentic life. Get to know one of our forever muses. 

I grew up predominantly in Melbourne, Australia. I lived on a tree lined street in a suburb called Kew with my parents and two older sisters. I started traveling to LA for work early 2016 (which is when I first met the Spiritual Gangster team!) and then was between Sydney, LA, NY and Melbourne for 18 months before finally making the move to NYC last August. I came over to model as well as do part time acting studies, and it was the best decision I've ever made.

Passionate. Energetic. Vacillating.

Ideas, questions, people, stories. I am motivated to pursue when I really believe in something. When it creates that feeling inside of me that parts of me are aligning, are in harmony. That's when I know it's something I have to chase. This has changed a lot in the last year. In the past I would have said I am motivated by inspirational people, people I see doing amazing things. But it's much more of an internal thing now. I think that's important.

Moving to New York City has been the biggest challenge I have ever faced. This city will surface every demon, every challenge you have to face, and you can either choose to take those challenges head on, or ignore them. Ignoring them makes life here very, very hard. But if you just roll with the punches it can feel like you're a sprinter running hurdles (forgive my lack of sports terminology knowledge lol), and every day is a hurdle, and every hurdle you leap is a burst of new knowledge. It's incredible. And addictive. The weather in LA is far less temperamental and my emotions are super responsive to the weather! Every time I come to LA and see you guys I feel so upbeat because of the sun. And you. You guys are the best. 

I'm inspired by people who ask questions and think of really thoughtful and personal answers. Modern philosophers. People who do more than live and exist, but want to soak up all the knowledge and curiosity they can on their walk through life. Also anyone who is brave enough to love unconditionally, to have pure faith in someone or something.  Intelligent optimism. It's admirable. 

Thank you!! This is something I need to work on every day. The feeling of 'groundedness' is not often one I feel from my internal point of view. So when I do, it's a big relief. Confident is such an interesting word - I've learned a lot about it recently; How confidence is not about not feeling insecure, but owning your insecurities. Being able to face them and understand how they affect you. Then you can accept them and work with them. And practice kindness toward yourself. 

These are the things I would do in an ideal day (the bolded ones are the only ones I do every day, without fail). Coffee. Shower. Singing. Dancing in my apartment (shoutout to @ameliazadro for bringing this into my life). Stretching. Walking. Writing. Dialogue. Reading. Watching TV shows/films that ignite curiosity. There are more but I can't remember them now! Rituals are so important to me, basically everything I do apart from work is a ritual.

I think the biggest game changer for me has been finally accepting that existence truly is subjective. I spent a lot of time trying to reconcile my experience with the 'facts', the 'knowledge' that people more experienced than I had accumulated and handed to me. The truth is the only thing we can know is our own experience, and while that is a scary thought in some ways, for me it was liberating. My universe exists within the confines of my own mind. There are things we can all agree on about our world, but I believe that those things are each tinted by the color of the walls of our own mind. And that's ok, and it freed me from a lot of the structures I was trying to fit within.

It changes in different chapters of my life. Currently, it's "pleasure over success".

I have size 7 feet. I fall over a lot.

I think I pretty much came out singing. My mum recently told me the only reason I didn't quit piano was because I wanted to be able to play and sing at the same time (I still can't do it very well). Music was my first language, and it will always be vital to me.