Famed Motorsports Family Reveals the Unexpected Ways Growing Up in Front of Camera Changed Their Life (Exclusive)

• Brian Deegan gave his name to the legend of X Games. Now Daddy’s son Haiden (19) and daughter Hailie, 23 years old, raised them to love the races as much as he did.
• Brian and his wife Marissa also put their children on the camera starting at an early age, when they would post YouTube videos as a family. Now Deegan are children on the social media stars in their rights.
• Hailie, Haiden and Brian talked to people about how they were able to stay grounded while their racetracks were winning, glory and followers’ numbers over the years reached new heights.

Competition naturally comes to the Deegan family. It is the spirit that made them champions in the world of motorcycle sports, and also drove their glory with high speeds from the track.

Brian Deegan, 50, opened his own path to freestyle motocross and rallycross racing. He was only 17 years old when he became a professional rider of SuperCross, and Talent brought him to be one of the most disgusting winners of the X game in history.

About two decades ago, Brian added another wounded title to his recognition list: Dad. He and his wife Marissa are proud parents of daughters Hailie, 23 years, and son Haiden, 19. Brian did not completely brake to establish a family; He raised his two children to achieve the same high speeds.

Today, Deegan children gave their names in races. At the age of 15, Hailie became the only youth driver to win the Lucas Oil off Road Pro driver of the year, and she continues to make waves in cars and car races. Haiden made history when he landed on a motorcycle at the age of 10, and he similarly went to Multi-Sarpionship Slary.

While Deegans shines individually, they collectively influenced the world of runners, leaning the strength of social media. In an interview with people solely, the trio looks back at where it all started, starting with Brian’s presence online, and later developed into his YouTube Deegan Family YouTube page around 2009.

Brian says he initially used YouTube and Facebook platform to talk about his peak at Action Sports. He would look back at his greatest victories, recalled his worst injuries or narrated the stories of his “rebel racing group”, Metal Militia.

“Once I got married, I had children, things change in life. Your steps change, and I feel like you just grow up and have a different look in life and I feel like it has to change with it so socially,” he says. “The family story was just such a cool story, as far as trying to raise children and races.”

Haiden Deegan and Hailie Deegan.

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The father of three continues: “There are not many other families who have more children who are successful in the races along with an adult who is tiled in this way … I can remember some families who have done a good job. There is simply no tone that has the whole family movement.”

As the social media grew, so is Deegans’s presence. All three runners have their own pages, and all three have over one million followers individually on Instagram. Hailie – which is currently racing in the Indy Nxt series – tells people to appreciate her parents set her up for a viral success at an early age.

“My parents started our accounts when we were young, so we could have these names in accounts and everything, and they would only progressively grow together,” she explains. Then once she and Haiden became old enough to manage their own profiles, they entered this inherent will-woven into their DNA.

“When I was a younger my sister and I always competed on who could get the most followers, examinations and likes,” Haiden says. “Hailie started with that, but it was very competitively the two of us.”

The SMX World Cup Racer adds: “We are just a competitive family in everything we do.”

“I can’t tell you how many times it has always been:” Oh, I have more followers than you, “shares a leading female driver.” We kept competing with each other who could have more followers, and I think that kind made a fun aspect. ”

Still, the family “always grew,” Hailie says. “We always did a bunch of things together. We always recorded with each other and recorded things together, and I think we were because we were so much about it.”

Haiden Deegan.

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Behind all playful competition and the resulting internet engagement, Brian instilled in his children a valuable marketing and branding lesson because it refers to the creation of content.

“The best way to describe this is just your name is your value of shares and you are always trying to build that section. And I try to always teach that social media are a job … and you are trying to build an awareness of a brand for your sponsors. The more look and more attention, the greater the value,” he tells people.

Racing veteran is not blind to the negative sides of the social media. She admits that his wife was especially “protective” when it comes to her children’s internet activity. With the help of their children, they mostly supervised Hailie and Haiden’s channels until they were well in their teenage years.

“Just because as a parent you still want to protect your children from things that the internet can submit to them,” Brian explains. “You have to help them and learn them, build thick skin … It’s just part of the network construction process and you can’t take it [negative] things to the heart. I always say it’s just inside and out. It just comes and leaves and you just can’t take too much meaning. ”

He continues: “Meaning should come from those you love and your families. It will listen. And besides, these are just comments.”

Brian claims that “well outweighs the bad” if it is properly used, as does his offspring do. “I feel like the kids worked great to build their brands through social and maintaining them clean and maintaining them professional,” he says.

Brian Deegan.

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Through all this, Marissa and Brian continuously evaluated how to keep their children and protect their family’s privacy. There were times, he admits, when they asked if they wanted or not in the media. At the end of the day, however, the whole family possesses the fact that they decided to be in the spotlight.

Plus, parents gave Hailie and Haiden the right to give up if they wanted.

“I wasn’t like,” Hey, you have to do it. “It was their passion and they enjoyed it,” he thought. “Let’s do it and build it the farthest we can go, and I feel like we’re just telling a story now.”

Considering the high platform they are standing, all five Deeganas are dedicated to the presentation of their family in the most authentic way. Sometimes it means admitting that they – like any other family – make mistakes. (Brothers and sisters also have a 13-year-old brother, Hudson.)

“I almost feel the obligation to tell the story of this family that we have our basic beliefs. We try to put the family first. And as I said, we are a family that has faith and keep together,” says Brian. “And yes, we will joke … Yes, it will catch the camera, but we also deal with it, we have to own it. We mess it up and we are human.”

Haiden agrees that being in the spotlight is always “just my normal,” he says, adding, “Growing up like that he taught me the importance of remaining grounded and locked in his goals.”

Hailie Deegan.

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Now a talented teenager says he considers recording some of his workout routine, career and responsibility for work. In the meantime, Hailie says that so much experience in front of the audience has made it easier for me to be alone and remain grounded when it comes to creating content.

“[I think] There are a lot of people influences who dressed a person when they record them because they grew up with a normal childhood. And so they feel about social media, they almost have to try to be either over the top or a different person, “says that people.” But with all of us, that was normal. Everyone always recorded. It was completely fine. You would just be the way you otherwise. ”

But although the content of social media has become the second nature of Deegan, they have bypassed the possibility of a reality show, despite launching some offers over the years. First of all, all three racing relationships have their hands in the separate fields of the industry: Hailie is included in Indy’s sect, Haiden drives Supercross, and Brian is still driving for off-road series.

The second factor, Brian says, is a question of creative control. He says many reality shows have applied for final editing. It’s a break for Deegan.

Hailie doesn’t even think she would have time for such an involvement because she’s pretty busy with her career in general.

“The moment we said we would do a pilot and test something, I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t have so much time to take away from what we were trying to achieve. And that changes all day. That changes everything that happens,” he says.

Hailie Deegan, Brian Deegan and Haiden Deegan.

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Not to mention the fact that she is not sure that Deegans have the level of internal conflict needed to drive and feed viewership. “A lot of reality show is a drama in the family, and I think most of our drama is on the outside of the family, so the racing side of things,” she adds.

Everything that is said, Brian does not exclude the possibility of TV-A-all in the future, until their increasing career and brand is risky.

“If there was ever a show that came, it was a perfect environment and we were all elaborated and we had a final control over his appearance and everything, then who knows? Maybe, he admits that despite his glory, the deegans are relativized in many ways:” We share a lot of similarities with only normal other families. ”

But this is what makes them such a true group that will ultimately determine whether they are right to appear outside the social media. “That should be the right time because the races are currently coming to first for children,” Brian says. “Their goal is to be the best on their races.”

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