Priscilla Ricart: How Daily Manifestation and Strategic Hydration Fuel a Global Modeling Career

At times it feels like wellness or elevating one’s well being, is diametrically opposed to high achievement and high performance in one’s career. The stress, mental energy, long hours, lack of restful sleep and preoccupation that result from a high-achievement life seem to directly inhibit wellness. And yet, in order to sustain the creativity, flexibility, mental acuity and resilience that are necessary for high performance, wellness and wellbeing of the mind, body and soul are also mandatory. So how do we achieve both? This is the question I’m hoping to answer through conversations with high-achieving leaders and influencers who are practicing their own philosophies about how to maintain their wellbeing.
As a part of our series about “Social Media Influencers Share Their Top Self Care, Wellness, and Beauty Tips, I had the pleasure of interviewing Priscilla Ricart.

Priscilla Ricart is a fashion model and influencer from Rio de Janeiro- Brazil. Ricart’s career began at thirteen years old and has modelled around the world in countries including China, Italy and The United States. For the past eight years, Ricart has lived and worked in the United States. She is currently signed to Select Model Management and has modeled for brands including Nivea, Luli Fama Swimwear, Oh Polly, House of CB, Windsor, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, White House Black Market, Boston Proper, Sport Illustrated, Saks, Kate Spade and more.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Our readers would love to get to know you a bit better. Can you share with us the backstory of how you came upon this career path and to where you are today?

I always dreamed about becoming a model since I was little.

I started doing small photoshoots, runway for kids and model classes.

When I was 11 years old I did a workshop with one of the most famous agency in Brazil and it was a dream come true, they loved me but I was still too young to join so I came back when I was 13 years old and I signed in my first agency.

And that was when everything started…

I worked with incredible brands in Brazil and I always wanted to achieve more and more in my career so I had an opportunity to travel to China for work and when I finished high school and with my family approval I went on my first international trip and my dad went with me.

I loved the experience I had while working there and from there I travelled for work around Asia and Europe for a while until I decided I wanted to make a bigger step and come to work in the United States, it was always a dream to build a career here and I can say I am really proud of myself for everything I have been accomplishing.

None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story about that?

My family.

They always gave me all the support to achieve my dreams.

They were always with me, taking me to castings, to jobs…

Since I was a kid my dad used to say that he would go across the world for me and he did it.

He went on my first international trip to make sure everything was okay.

They are my everything and their support means the world to me.

Because of their support and love I got to where I am today and I am so grateful to have them in my life.

Can you share a story with us about the most humorous mistake you made when you were first starting? What lesson or take-away did you learn from that?

I actually don’t have a humorous mistake but I have many many lessons that I learned along the way.

One that I actually laugh about it today was when I had a shoot at the beach during summertime in Brazil (really really hot), we started to shoot early morning and around 12pm the sun was really strong and I couldn’t keep my eyes open, so the photographer said to have my eyes closed and she would tell me to open for the pictures…

We started to do that and it was all fine until one of the times I had my eyes closed and next thing I know everybody was around me and giving me water, I had just fainted because of the heat…

The biggest lesson I learned from that is to always make sure I am hydrated and have water with me whenever I am at the job and that is okay to take a break if your body feels that is too much.

As an influencer, you have been blessed with great success in a career path that many have attempted, but eventually gave up on. In fact, perhaps most people who tried to follow a career path like yours did not succeed. Do you have any words of advice for others who may want to embark on this career path but know that their dreams might be dashed?

Never give up.

Believe in yourself even if everybody around you says otherwise.

You are unique, there is nobody like you so go after what you want and make things happen.

Can you share with our readers some of the strategies you’ve used to build an engaged, loyal, and large online community?

Social media is a huge thing nowadays so being able to share a little bit about me and my career Is a great honor.

I share a lot of behind the scenes of photoshoots, of the runway and I feel people are really curious about how everything works and I love sharing that.

Posting a lot about my career was when I started on social media. The fashion industry and social media walks together now so being a influencer is part of it.

I share about my work, I share about my lifestyle and I never pretend to be something I am not in social media and I think that is so important.

Always be yourself and put your face out there!

There are so many ways you can grow on social media so find what work best for you.

But always remember… post! Haha

Ok thank you for all that. Now let’s shift to the main focus of our interview. In my work, I focus on how one can thrive and care for oneself in three areas: body, mind, and heart. You are a busy person with a demanding schedule, can you share with our readers two self-care routines, practices or treatments that help your body thrive? (Kindly share a story or an example for each.)

Body, mind and heart walks together! I totally agree with that!

Both of my parents are trainers so I grew up with a healthy lifestyle.

I love working out and I feel that is not only good for the body but also the mind!

I also start my day drinking two glasses of water and making sure I am hydrated throughout the day,

Moving my body and drinking a lot of water is a priority in my daily life.

Your body is your temple so take care of it.

Can you share with us two routines that you use to help your mind or heart to thrive? (Kindly share a story or example for each.)

I love to manifest everyday.

I start the day drinking my water and reading my intentions that I have written in a board in front of my bed.

I write things I want to accomplish as I already have it and make sure to always include health, love and happiness.

I wake up and go to sleep doing that and is crazy how powerful that is!

I also practice a lot of gratitude during the day.

Its life changing.

Can you share five ideas that anyone can use “to feel beautiful”? (Please share a story or example for each.)

1- Self love is the first and most important step. Learn how to love yourself the way you are! This will always make you feel beautiful.

2- Tell yourself that, tell yourself how incredible you are, how powerful you are!

3- Dress UP, do your make up, put that dress you love on even if is just to stay home.

4- Go in the mirror and see how beautiful you are. Really look and appreciate yourself.

5- Dance! Put a music you like on and feel it… feel the energy, raise your energy!

Is there a particular resource, a practitioner, expert, book, or podcast that made a significant impact on you and helped you to thrive? Can you share a story about that with us?

My parents!

This question everybody that knows me, knows the answer!

They are my biggest inspiration in everything in life!

They are super active, my mom used to teach workout classes with me in her belly until the day I was born.

They are always doing some activities, riding a bike, dancing at home, working out, at the beach…

Always seeing the positive side of life.

Everyone that knows them, knows how incredible their energy is!

They inspire everyone that cross their path.

They are so strong and raised me and my sister to be like that, always humble and always helping people.

They are my everything!

Do you have a story about the strangest, most bizarre or funniest wellness treatment that you’ve ever experienced?

So many but the first one that is coming to mind was when one time that I went to a massage treatment that used a lymphatic drainage suction machine and while she was working on my belly some malfunction in the machine happened and the suction cup got stuck in my belly. I end up leaving there with a huge bruise on my belly that took a while to disappear.

As an influencer, you are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger.

Like I said in one of the previous questions.

The inspiration /manifestation board is life changing!

It brings so much motivation and inspiration to me.

Makes me want to make the best out of my day!

We are very blessed that some of the biggest names in Business, VC funding, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world with whom you’d like to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this. :-)

There are so many incredible people that I would like to have a conversation with that is hard to choose.

Gisele Bündchen was always an inspiration to me and would be someone I would love to have breakfast with and have a long conversation about life.

She is such a beautiful person inside and out.

What is the best way our readers can follow you on social media?

You can find me in Instagram or Tiktok as @priricart

Thank you for these fantastic insights. We wish you only continued success in your great work!