Episode 14: Real Talk On Risk Taking, Growing Your Brand + Motherhood with Dana Gordon of Dana Rebecca Designs

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dana Gordon of Dana Rebecca Designs (DRD) is my guest this week. One of the reasons I love Dana is that she never disappoints in the “real talk” department. She cuts through the bullshit and is always genuine, honest, and practical when comes to conversations on business and tricky life things. And she knows what she’s talking about. She’s built one of the most successful and popular jewelry brands out there today. Over the years, we’ve had a few of these talks, but this is for sure my favorite one (and YOU get to hear it!).

Dana and I discuss the giant risk she took that decided the fate of her career, the importance of creatives being business-minded, her advice on growing your brand to the next level, and the clash between working and stay-at-home moms (and what to do about it). There are some real game changer nuggets of wisdom in this episode, and I can’t wait for you hear them.

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Show Notes:
Dana Rebecca Designs
DR-Did She?
First Oprah Cover
Letter From A Working Mom To A Stay-At-Home Mom
Fruit Cobbler Recipe
Tedi Sarah
DRD Cobbler Instagram
Spring

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's the one part podcast, episode 14.
0:19.6	Hey, it's Jessica Mernan. It's the One Par podcast and I am bringing you lessons in next level
0:25.7	inspiration. So this, this is an inspiring episode. I am talking to Dana Gordon from
0:33.8	Dana Rebecca Design's, DRD.
0:39.2	Dana would never say it like that.
0:41.4	That's just how I say it.
0:42.6	DRD, Dana Rebecca Designs is one of the most popular jewelry lines out there.
0:49.1	It's funny sometimes I'll mention to people, yeah, my friend Dana has a jewelry line and
0:53.0	Dana Rebecca designs and they'll say, I don't ever heard of that. I'm like, yeah, my friend Dana has a jewelry line and Dana Rebecca designs and they'll say,
0:55.4	I don't ever heard of that. I'm like, yeah, you have. You've seen it before. Everybody wears it. And I'll
1:00.0	explain it's like those cute little balls or the bar and they're like, oh yeah, I have seen that.
1:06.1	Because everybody wears them. It's a really beautiful line. And I'm just so inspired how Dana has grown it from a half intern, getting called by Oprah to be on Oprah's favorite thing. And then having 13 employees now. She's just, she's, it's, it's amazing to me.
1:30.1	And just the time that I've known her, it has grown so much.
1:34.5	And I just feel so excited for you to get to hear her tips and just her insight on growing
1:42.3	that business in the way that she did. And you know what? Being on Oprah's
1:45.9	favorite things, it's not always, it's not always an easy decision. She actually had a very
1:52.0	hard time deciding to move forward with that opportunity. Lots of tears. And Dana's not a
1:58.4	crier. Not to me at least.
2:00.9	She actually told me to stop crying during the episode.
2:04.1	So I talked to Dane about that.
2:06.3	And then also, man, so I'm adopting a baby.
2:10.9	And if you've ever listened to this podcast, you know that about me.
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