Welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Feature. Today's guest is Darcy Lacey. She is an incredibly

impressive young woman. She's part of the Forbes 30 under 30 category and she came up with

the idea for her business, Absolute Collagen, in her teenage years. She ended up founding it

alongside her mother and it's part of the West Midlands e-commerce revolution that we've

talked about on the show a number of times before with the likes of Gymshark being located nearby

too. We often write about these types of stories on our substacks where I write about the future of

where jobs and occasionally politics. The links are in the show notes below. On to today's show.

Darcy, welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Feature. Thank you so much for having me.

Where did the idea for using collagen come from?

Yes, it's a bit of a long story. I basically went to uni to do food development in Birmingham.

At the same time, my sister, who was 17, passed a driving test and my mum basically woke up one day

and thought, I've got, I've got no kids, what do I do? I've got no one to sort of do the school run,

haven't got to look after them. So she was like, I'm going to a fine art degree. Luckily,

it wasn't the same uni as me as I think that would have been absolutely terrible for both of us.

She's more of like a social person than me anyway. She'd probably had more fun.

But yeah, so she went to uni to do fine art and art students are a bit wacky and one of the courses,

she could basically choose her project and her project. She decided to call like,

dare to go back. So I've got quite long, like, curly hair, dark brown at my mum had the same.

And she basically turned up on my bedroom door when I was 19 and opened it. And it essentially

chopped all her hair off, stripped the color out. So it was similar to how she was like a, it was

actually more like a yellow to be honest. A big tattoo on her floor on a nose piercing and just like,

hello, do I say? I was like, oh God, she bought a motorbike two years before. So I thought that was

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