Hey there, my name is Matt Diavella and you're listening to The Ground Up Show, the podcast where I talk with

creatives about how to make shit happen. This week I talk with Danny Nagel, a fashion designer and

owner of the brand, Daisy. We discussed making the leap from full-time employee to full-time business

owner, the slow fashion movement to create ethical and sustainable clothing, and the crisis

of authenticity on social media.

Like on the outside, people thought, oh, this girl has it all together.

She has everything you could want, and yet I was feeling miserable.

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Should we start? Yeah, let's do it.

Great.

Just to get started out, can you give a little bit of an introduction?

Because I know you wear many hats.

So what is it that you do?

How do you fill your days?

Many hats.

So I am a t-shirt designer, and that's what most of my career has been in.

But the past almost three years now, I've been working on my own brand called Daisy L.A.

It is a art apparel line with a mission to empower women and create conversation.

And initially when I started the brand, I did all the designs, all the photography,

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