Dani Austin on Losing Her Hair, Getting Pregnant by Surprise & Starting a $40M/yr Company with Her Husband

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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In this episode, we were joined by Dani Austin and her husband Jordan Ramirez. Dani opened up about her surprise pregnancy, her struggle with hair loss, and her journey of wearing wigs, which ultimately inspired the creation of their company, Divi. Their business achieved remarkable success, earning over $40 million in revenue in its first year. This episode was sponsored by Daily Harvest, Athena Club & Curology. Daily Harvest: For a limited time only go to https://dailyharvest.com/unplanned to get $30 off your first box plus free shipping. Athena Club: Head over to https://AthenaClub.com to try their award-winning razor and body products and get 20% off your purchase with code UNPLANNED at checkout. Curology: For a limited time get your first Curology skincare box for $5 when you go to https://Curology.com/UNPLANNED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I can't leave the house. I'm so embarrassed like I didn't even feel like feminine with him.
0:03.5	Jordan was like I don't understand why this is a big deal. The Kardashians wear wigs, why can't you wear a wigs?
0:08.7	You're on Forbes 30 under 30. Outside looking at this couple has this extremely successful business their marriage
0:14.0	looks good this is perfection right were you the happiest you ever were in that moment the
0:17.9	guy that was leaning our room he opened up our closet all the wig hanging there.
0:23.0	Rinted out of a room, like he thought it was a dead body.
0:25.8	After how much pain you went there, I was like, I can't ask you to do that.
0:28.4	I was like, it's on me. I have to be mentally strong.
0:30.8	I have to just focus and make sure that I don't.
0:32.7	Oh, that's really sweet of you.
0:34.0	Except for we did accidentally get pregnant the second time.
0:36.7	So I don't know how sweet it is.
0:37.8	Are you in the aluminati?
0:38.8	I can't tell you.
0:40.6	We sat down with Danny Austin, who started wearing wigs in her 20s after experiencing rapid hair loss.
0:46.0	She documented her journey on Instagram and in 2021 started Vivi, a hair care brand that made over 4040 million in just the first year.
0:54.0	That same year, her and her husband Jordan got pregnant by surprise and just like us became
0:58.9	parents to 2 under 2.
1:00.5	We flew all the way to Dallas Texas for this interview so if you could please consider
1:04.0	subscribing that would really mean a lot.
1:06.0	I kind of wanted to open up with the juicy question is that okay?
1:10.3	Yes.
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