Fireside Chat: Mom Life, Powered by Coffee and Chaos | CPAC Women Warrior Summit

Okay, so I'm so excited to have Isabel Brown. She has an incredible podcast, works for The Daily Wire, really went viral at the last CPAC. Unexpectedly. Yeah, Whoopi Goldberg went after her. Talk to us about that incident that occurred. The incident. Ah, The View. And have you been invited to The View? No, and in fact, we asked to come on and have an open conversation about motherhood, but unfortunately, free speech really isn't a value of the left today in America. You know, it's been a whirlwind of the last couple of weeks. For those that aren't familiar, I host a daily podcast with The Daily Wire, and I'm an author. I do a lot of public speaking for Gen Z, but the most important hat that I wear every day is mom. My one-year-old Ayla is crawling around backstage making all kinds of a fuss. I said, if you're going to scream in Congress, go find Ilhan Omar's office and let her know. We could go. Let her know what you think. But it has been the true joy of my lifetime, and as a content creator in my career in particular, to share my journey of motherhood with my audience of millions of Gen Zers all over the world. This is something I talk about day in, day out, because it truly is the generationally defining issue of our time. The attacks from the left, the relentless attacks to eliminate the family as the cornerstone and foundation of our country and our society and Western civilization at large. We talked about that for a few minutes on stage at CPAC with this beautiful panel of women from different walks of life. You asked me at the very end of the panel, Mercy, if I had any advice for the audience, mostly who were my parents and grandparents' age. I said, look, tell your children that it's courageous. It takes courage today, but it's so important that they fall in love and get married, have children, more children than they think they're ready for and more than they think they can afford. The View women went nuts. Ballistic. Ballistic, crazy. Pretty much they said that it was like a backwards concept. I mean, that was kind of the summary of what they were mentioning, right? Yeah, a quick overview. A few days later that Monday, I came home, I did my podcast, ready to post all of our content on social media for the day when I got a DM, a direct message on Instagram from a digital reporter at Fox asking me to comment on all of the things the women of The View had to say about Isabel Brown. And I'm thinking, The View? I haven't watched The View in I don't know how many years. I really have to log on and watch this now. And they had dedicated an eight-minute segment to our conversation at CPAC saying, Isabel, this is a direct quote from Whoopi Goldberg, if you are telling young women to have as many children as they want, we are going to send you back to the past. In other words, you are not allowed to want children if you are a woman in our generation, supposedly all about choice, right, when it comes to female empowerment. But if that choice is to have a baby, that makes you outdated for our postmodern society and that's somehow beneath women. And I think the biggest thing that I've learned in the last eight weeks or so as all of this has unfolded is pretty simple. They weren't really interested in attacking me. Sure, they made all kinds of crude jokes about my husband and my breastfeeding journey as a mom and that I shared that on social media. Breastfeeding is very difficult. I don't know why anyone thinks it's like an easy task. No, it's not easy. Especially as a full-time working mom. Yeah. But honestly, they weren't attacking me. They were attacking this timeless idea that your life is not supposed to be about you as a selfish individual. It's about laying your life down for others and giving new life to the next generation. And that is the very damaging messaging that the left has normalized across all spheres of influence. And you know what else the left has tried to normalize? Chestfeeding. And let me tell you something, there is no such thing as chestfeeding, okay, as us women know. So it is truly, you know, as a mother of five and, you know, and I always say, like, God calls us for different roles. Like, not everybody has kids. Some people, you know, don't get married or they don't find, you know, their significant other. God puts us all on different journeys. But we all play this, I say, almost motherly role. I mean, even though a person might not have kids, they might help, you know, with their sister's kids or their brother's kids. So we all play this important role of being, of trying to being selfless, you know, being caring, being loving and giving of ourselves. But truly, I think motherhood is almost facing a crisis in this country in the sense that I think there's a lot of mothers that feel very isolated. They're very concerned about the state of affairs. They're concerned about their children. We had this whole conversation yesterday about how young men, their sons, these women were saying that their sons, they're worried. Like, they are worried about this war in Iran. They are worried about how are they going to provide for their family if, in fact, they want to start a family. And so there are really concerns that I think even mothers are looking at their sons and saying, how is this all going to work out? Is that what you're hearing from your crowd? Yeah, certainly. And I also think this crisis of motherhood is important to even back up before you become a mother entirely. We have so successfully convinced this generation to be anti-natalist, not wanting to have children for a myriad of reasons that it's going to destroy the planet because of climate change and we're facing this overpopulation crisis. It was for that reason that the Los Angeles Times actually ran a headline weeks before the 2024 election. It is almost shameful to want to have children. Real headline. And because of all this propaganda that we've now heard from The View, from TikTok trends like the girl with the list telling you all of the reasons that childbirth and pregnancy will literally kill you, it is now projected from most population analysts that by 2030, in just four years, 45% of 18 to 45-year-old women are expected to be single and childless. That is... You said how many? 45% of childbearing age women in our country are expected to be both single, not partnered with someone for life, and childless, which is a record high for our society. And more than two-thirds of the world's population are currently operating below replacement fertility rates. That's expected to go up to 90% of the world's population by the end of this century. So in truth, we are facing a potential extinction problem of the human race, not an overpopulation crisis. When it comes to this motherhood crisis, I think so much of it is because we've gaslit and convinced women that the most beautiful parts of womanhood, what God invites us uniquely to experience as women, that no offense, men, you could never participate in, in the creation of new life right alongside God, this divine miracle, that that is somehow beneath us and needs to be outsourced to something else, which is why you've seen the rise of surrogacy, commercial surrogacy. You're seeing birth robots be developed in China, where in just a few years, you off the assembly line can purchase a $14,000 AI humanoid robot to grow and birth your baby for you. It sounds like a movie. It does. Like a really like horror movie, quite frankly. George Orwell or Brave New World, something completely dystopian. But sadly, most people on the left have taken those books and those movies and those stories we've known for decades, not as a warning label, but as an instruction manual for our society. And that of course is manifesting now in this anxiety that I think so many young people and young families have related to how we pass our values down. I'm going to open it up to the audience. I do want to ask you one question. I think one of the other issues that we're seeing is this issue of, yeah, we want to have a bunch of kids and don't get me wrong. I have five daughters. Three of them are back there. And one of the things that I think we try to do, at least in our family, is to get them involved early in the work. And I would say the work and passion of CPAC and knowing that it is important for them to learn about these political issues and these policy issues. But this issue of affordability, which we're going to address a little bit later with some experts in the area, I mean, that's something that's also something driving, I think, the concern of mothers. How do they pay for having a big family? Absolutely. Housing being just one tiny part of that. I read this week, for the very first time in American history, there are more than 630,000 sellers on the market who are not expected to have a buyer for their home. So there are more than half a million houses just sitting on the market today in our country that young families can't afford to purchase because of this continued problem of affordability that we've been having. I know the House just passed a very, very important bill at the request of President Trump this week to ban large corporations, multinational corporations like Blackstone and BlackRock, from purchasing single-family homes. Hugely important. I wonder if it'll get a lot of traction in the Senate. But I think largely this concern about affordability and maybe frustration that you're seeing in a lot of the approval ratings for the administration, for Congress, and just conservatism in general among young people is getting skewed by the media as a sign that young people are leaving conservatism. That it was a short little blip on the radar, the Charlie Kirk effect for the last presidential election, and now they're going to sprint back to socialism and the Zoran Mamdanis of the world. In reality, what I'm hearing on social media, mostly from young men, is that they're frustrated Washington hasn't been conservative enough. They want to defund Planned Parenthood. They want mass deportations. They are not in favor of mass amnesty. They want to have a job themselves. And it's really demoralizing and frustrating, I think, when members of this body of the House of Representatives, even from the Republican side, are introducing mass amnesty bills for 10 million illegal immigrants when there also happen to be, coincidentally, 10 million unemployed Gen Zers today in our country who are desperate for a job. That being the job issue being a big issue on the Gen Z side as well. All right. I want to open this up for questions. Nadia, do you have a mic? Do you got it? Okay. You know what? You are first. God bless you. Wow. I've been in politics since I was 15 years old. That's a long time. Wow. Who was president back then? Who was president back then? FDR. Oh, wow. Okay. So. You've outlived all of them. That's great. No, actually. I think it was, I don't know. It was FDR. All I know is I met Eisenhower when I was 22 and he loved me. Anyway. Wow. You want more children, yes? I'm too old to have more children, but Isabel, I do. She wants more children. You want more children. But you want the right kind of kids. You don't want kids that are going to be left wing idiots. And I'll tell you how you get really good kids. I have three daughters. They're ultra conservative. You do it in utero. You read them the constitution at least once a week in utero. And I swear to God. I'm taking that advice for sure with my next pregnancy. But there's something to that. And a huge component of what young people and young parents are deeply concerned about is also the education of our children. It is deeply concerning what most young children are learning in our public school system. And I think most people my grandparents' age and parents' age just aren't familiar with how far off the rails things have gone in education. So I'm hopeful we can continue advancing that. And I love seeing the homeschool revival of so many families wanting to educate on civics in particular. I will say that for in our family, and goodness, we are very imperfect. It's about going to church every Sunday together as a family. It's our tradition. We pray together. Probably don't pray together enough. We need to do more of that. But I do think that the faith component is critical in letting these women, these girls, there's Connie Wilson who I love, letting these girls be prepared for battle. Because the battles that they have to face as women of faith, I think it's not even conservatism. It is women of faith that they have to say, I have to stand up for my faith. I have to stand up for my family. I mean, we're the mama bears. We're the ones that protect our cubs. And we have to prepare that next generation of women to say, listen, life is hard. This idea that you guys have to be happy all the time and then you post on Facebook and Instagram. It's like, I'm so happy. It's all BS. It's not real. And it's about teaching them those values of saying what matters is God and family and yes, country. Because we have to make sure that we're able to have safe communities. We have to make sure we have thriving churches. And I think that's a critical piece of it as well as we're raising our children. And I hope I get to be 91 so I have lots of great grandchildren. Amen to that. Next question. Comment and a question for CDs for the Cubans. Thank God for that indictment. Amen. Thank God. Thank God. It's about time. Yes, it's about time. Okay, so in your stats, is it women of all races? It is. Yes. And when you do zoom in on certain racial demographics in our country, it is pretty alarming the levels of propaganda that minority populations in particular have been facing from largely the abortion industry and convincing young women not to have children. Did you know today in New York City, if you are a black baby in the womb, you are more likely to be aborted than to be born. Wow, that is amazing. It's interesting because, you know, I've been interviewing women from El Salvador in the DC. I went to the stadium and I asked them questions. You know, what's the difference between a West Coast Salvadorian and an East Coast Salvadorian? And they all have businesses. These women and men that I interviewed, every single one of them has businesses and they had kids all around them. So I, you know, I kind of wanted to still believe that the Mexicans, Hispanics, Latinas are still having babies. I mean, a lot are, don't get me wrong. There is a beautiful familial conversation happening with our generation right now. And though the statistics are pretty bleak, I'm fighting as hard as I possibly can. And many others are on social media to encourage more young people to have families. But I don't want to sugar coat the reality that we are in a population crisis for our generation. We have been since my generation was conceived and born. In fact, one third of Gen Z is not here today because of abortion alone. One out of every three of us were aborted before we were ever born. And despite the fact that Roe v. Wade was overturned a few years ago, thanks be to God, something we never thought would be possible in American politics. Last year, because of this ramping up of mail-in abortions, because of a Biden administration policy change, we had a record number of abortions in America, nearly 1.3 million, 70% of which happened at home, alone in a woman's bathroom. So we have unique fights and unique challenges that we're facing today, even beyond just the blatant propaganda that is so anti-family for young women. But it is telling how much the left is willing to go in specifically targeting minority populations in the process. I want to just say thank you for your bravery. I've been following you for years. And the things that you face, and you still have such a smile, and you still bring the facts and are good to people that are not good to you. Olivia, it's because she's young, OK? Incredible. But with your generation right now with young women, what you guys have faced in the last few years with the attacks, how do you see the next couple of years looking with more young women speaking and being brave and having platforms in the face of this? Yeah, I love this question. And I think I hear with more and more every passing day, this sense of pessimism with young women, especially here in Washington and in the media, based on this warped understanding that every young woman is automatically progressive. There was a graph, a statistical graph that went very viral on social media this week. A lot of cable news stations ended up picking it up, where you saw the differentiation between men and women who were more liberal and who were more conservative. And it was a shocking gap. But I like to remind people that the attack on men and masculinity started far before the attack on womanhood. Everything remotely associated with masculinity was toxic and needed to be rid of from society. Men are built a little differently than us, and they naturally, I think, have this sense of individual skepticism and desire to fight back. Men tend to be more combative. It's a masculine trait. The left saw how effective they could be in fighting against young men, not universally. They didn't eradicate masculinity, largely because there were voices like Jordan Peterson and Matt Walsh and Charlie Kirk who were able to speak up and encourage men to reconnect with their masculinity. However, that attack, that playbook was deepened and strengthened and rewritten over and over again to be much more intentional and sinister with women. They don't want to call everything feminine, toxic. They want to erase womanhood from society entirely. It's why you are a birthing person or a menstruator or a chest feeder. It's why the best women are men in our athletic competitions, in our sorority houses, in our beauty pageants, in our woman of the year awards. Isabelle, how did that start? Where did that start, the craziness? Well, it's a whole, long deep dive to get back there. Shockingly, Mercy, I didn't know this until just a few years ago. This has been a playbook of the left for generations in order to get us to a point where the muddled reality between truth and fiction is no longer recognizable to the average person. So much of that has to do with attacking truth, biology, and the family itself. It was here in the House of Representatives in the 1960s that the American Communist Party laid out this playbook 60 years ago out loud into the congressional record by letting people know that they wanted to take over the education system. They wanted to remove God and religion from society. They wanted to destroy art and beautiful sculptures and buildings so that beauty was unrecognizable, and of course, attack the family unit and go after gender in particular and who we are uniquely created to be as men and women. So all of that to be said, we could spend a PhD level dissertation course on this, the truth is young women are now facing that pendulum swing back to fighting for womanhood that we've already seen from men. And you're going to see that continue to manifest in the next several election cycles, but from 2020 to 2024 alone, young women shifted 11 points away from the Democrat Party and toward the Republican Party, even in an election with a woman candidate. Two final just questions here. One is, who has been inspirational in your life that has led you to be, and you're right, Olivia, it's not that she's just a woman warrior, she's like a happy woman warrior. I think I'm getting really grumpy, but I think it's because it's my age and I'm menopausal. But yeah, I want to see Isabel Brown in 20 years and then we'll talk. But seriously, who has inspired you to be this happy woman warrior, and what's your message to these women that are going to go back to their states, back to their communities as we prepare, as we're getting ready, and part of this is very much a working group to get the call to action as we get into the midterms? I owe my career and my spirit to so many different people, primarily my parents, and they raised three beautiful daughters who are all doing our own spheres of influence right now. One's in medical school, one is working for HALO, the prayer app, which is very exciting, and then there's me with a podcast every day. But my parents had a fantastic rule growing up as Catholic lawyers, we spent a lot of time talking about politics and religion at our house, that there is no such thing as a kid's table. And they expected us as children to watch the State of the Union every year, to read the newspaper with them in the morning, to talk with our aunts and uncles and extended family friends around the dinner table, and be able to carry ourselves with adult conversations very early in life, whether that's through a speech and debate tournament or just a cup of coffee with a friend. But truthfully, my career I owe entirely to one person, and that is Charlie Kirk, who I met as an activist on college campuses. I went to one of the very first ever young women's conferences, which is now happening in a few weeks again in Texas, I'll be there, when there was just a few hundred people in a room just like this one, the teeny hotel ballroom. And Charlie decided a few months later he wanted to give one of his first ever campus speeches to my university at Colorado State. So we became friends in 2017, 2018, and it was Charlie who said, I don't think you're meant to be a surgeon the way that you think you are. Don't work in a fluorescently lit hospital for the rest of your life, come work for Turning Point USA. And he is the definition of a happy warrior. Never had any time for blackfilling, was always excited about fighting for this next generation, and we owe so much to him, especially in his absence. And your message to our crowd as we're getting ready to gear up for midterms. Yes, hugely important. Midterm elections are right around the corner, although it may not feel that way, and so is the 2028 election. People are dramatically underestimating the impact of the young female vote in America today. Young women are completely disillusioned with our institutions. We are deleting our dating apps, we're quitting our birth control pills, we're doing speed dating, in-person speed dating events in places like New York City. The New York Times had to admit the other day the hottest club in New York City is the Catholic Church because Gen Zers are running back to church on Sunday. And we have this unique opportunity to seize young women in a place of brokenness right now, where they are constantly being screamed evil propaganda from every pillar of society from the left. If we can meet young women where they are at, not from a place of condemnation or anger and saying, I can't believe you have 37 pronouns and purple hair, but to say we see you, we hear the lies that you have been told, we're here to walk with you into the truth, I think our country stands to survive another 250 years. I just love Isabel Brown. Don't we just love her? We're so blessed to have you as part of this incredible movement. Thank you. Thank you all so much.