{"id":382826,"date":"2026-07-22T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:10:13","slug":"balas-natalie-holloway-says-she-spends-20k-a-month-living-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382826\/","title":{"rendered":"Bala&#8217;s Natalie Holloway says she spends $20K a month living in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holloway, who co-founded the wearable weights and athletic accessories company Bala, appeared in influencer Suleyman Dolaev&#8217;s Instagram series, &#8220;How Much Do You Spend Per Month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tour begins with a stop for coffee at Merit Coffee before Holloway discusses the company&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight or nine figures,\u201d Holloway said when Dolaev asked about the size of Bala.<\/p>\n<p>She then showed\u00a0Dolaev her family&#8217;s midcentury modern home, saying it was the 22nd house she and her husband \u2014 who is also her Bala co-founder \u2014 toured before deciding to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway said she works from several locations around Austin, including her gym&#8217;s coffee shop, other local coffee shops and Soho House, the members-only social club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the product we\u2019re most known for; we went on &#8216;Shark Tank,&#8217;\u201d Holloway said while showing off a Bala Bangle, the company\u2019s signature wearable wrist weight.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what advice she would give women who want to start a business, Holloway encouraged them not to compromise on their vision or aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>She ended the interview with a joke when asked how to deal with businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHire a lot of women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holloway, who co-founded the wearable weights and athletic accessories company Bala, appeared in influencer Suleyman Dolaev&#8217;s Instagram series,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-382826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}