NEW YORK — Hustling is a way of life for Hannah Joy Davis.

The Northampton native got her first job at 13 years old. She moved to New York City after graduating from Northampton High School in 2017 to pursue her dream as a dancer. Now she balances three jobs to pay the rent.

Even as she interviews over the phone, Davis struts from her dance class to Washington Square Park and then back to her apartment before filming TikToks with friends.

“I just don’t sit down,” Davis said. “It’s something I haven’t done in nine years.”

So when the subscription streaming service Hulu asked her to bring that hustle, humor and chutzpah to Ibiza, Spain, for a new reality television show “Million Dollar Nannies,” the 27-year-old saw the opportunity for both a new adventure and a business venture.

“I’m so happy I did it,” Davis said. “I would do it all over again.”

“Million Dollar Nannies” centers around eight nannies for high net worth families who start a travel nanny agency. Produced by Hi Mom Productions, the company behind “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the show explores the high maintenance demands of rich families, the struggles of starting a business and the personal relationships between cast members.

During the first episode of the show, former Kardashian/Jenner family nanny Leah Bear remarked that Davis has little experience with high-end clients. In actuality, Davis said she has nannied for families of all income brackets.

At her high school job with the People’s Institute at 38 Gothic St. in Northampton, Davis worked with some of the lower-income or unhoused families looking for childcare. Once she moved to New York, the millionaire clientele began to fill her Rolodex.

“I literally will nanny in a brownstone that [the family] owns the whole thing,” Davis said. “I’m working with wealthy people. They’re millionaires. They’re just not billionaires.”

Two years ago, Davis posted a 10-second video of her dancing to Green Day with one of the children she nannies. It amassed 2 million views on TikTok. Once the reality television producers noticed her viral success, they messaged Davis about auditioning for the show.

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“I always try to tell people to post on social media because look at what’s happening!” Davis said.

The “Million Dollar Nannies” series includes eight drama-filled weeks filmed in Ibiza last summer. Besides being mic’d up, lit and filmed at all times, Davis said the families were far more particular than the New Yorkers she works with. The nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), however, were the same.

“You do have to sign NDAs because you see every single thing that these families are doing,” Davis said. “You’re with them. Nothing is off the table. Nothing is private.”

It was slightly nerve-racking to meet a whole cast of personalities, but Davis had one saving grace. She met her castmate Jack McCann on a night out eight months before filming and the two became a dynamic duo both on and off screen. Davis confirms their friendship is not just for show, and the two continue to hang out regularly.

“It’s a unique situation. You kind of trauma bond over something like that,” Davis said. “No one else gets it except all of us eight.”

Nannying was never a career move for Davis. She moved to New York to pursue dance and acting, a passion that began with ballet and breakdancing at Ryan Road Elementary School in Northampton. Yet many of the nanny jobs she worked at were located right by the Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan. Davis would babysit four or five mornings a week to pay the bills, then take a dance class.

Her make-it-happen mentality met a brick wall when Davis found herself without a nannying job during the show. Concerned, she called her mother — Northampton Ward 5 City Councilor Aline LaBorwit-Davis — for support.

“It’s all exciting,” Aline said. “She’s always been a performer, dance in particular.We’ve just really tried to support her and when she asked for advice, we gave it.”

When the show aired, Aline’s friends and former coworkers called her up to chat about her daughter’s television appearance. She knew there was a chance her voice would make it into the show. A producer had called her ahead of time to get permission to record Aline’s conversation with her daughter, but reality television is notorious for cutting and editing storylines.

“My mom’s a city councilor in Northampton. I’m like, girl, you’re already famous,” Davis said. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, Mom, how fierce. Not us signing NDAs for Hulu together!'”

Davis said producers gave her no prior knowledge about her storyline during filming. She experienced the show the same way everyone else did: streaming from her couch.

With nearly double the filming time as shows like “Love Island” and “Vanderpump Rules,” many details were left on the cutting room floor. When she finally watched the show, Davis was surprised that one of her nanny families — and her best jokes — were left out of the season.

“It looks like I’m the personality hire, which I guess I’ll take,” Davis said.

But Aline said her daughter’s authentic self comes across onscreen. Davis is often the mediator in her own family, and she brought that same rationale to the group of nannies.

“She wants people to not be fussing at each other,” Aline said. “I saw a lot of what I often see of her, which is trying to bring reason to the situation.”

Overall, Davis is pretty happy with how the show edited her scenes. Fans of the show have messaged her or posted videos about their connection to Davis’ character as an ambitious self-starter. There have been some nasty messages and mean comments, but Davis just shrugs them off.

“I know who I am,” Davis said. “I know I’m a great person. I know I hustled and I know I’m funny. If anyone wants to say otherwise, they have the wrong read on me.”

“Million Dollar Nannies,” which has been picked up for a second season, is currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+.