Transcript
A (0:00)
The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
B (0:07)
Hi, it's Mariana. I am the co founder of Summer Fridays and host of the Life with Mariana podcast. This week's episode is with Paige Lorenz. She's an entrepreneur and content creator. She's the founder of Dairyboy and American Charm, her new home brand. I followed her for years as a creator and I've really seen her evolve now into a brand owner and founder. And I've loved watching her journey from YouTube to content creation to what she's doing with her brands and the pop ups and, and I really think there's a lot to learn from this. If you guys didn't know she actually was a competitive skier prior to all of this, and I really think that we see that discipline carry over into how she balances it all. Today, if you guys want to learn from Paige, we talk about the power of authenticity, how she balances business, creativity and her own personal fulfillment. Don't forget to subscribe to Life with Mariana. I've got new episodes every Tuesday from your favorite brand founders, creators and wellness experts. And now let's hear from Paige. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A (1:00)
So this is a funny one. I was actually talking to my mom about this last night and because I kind of wanted to hear what she said. When I was a child, before, you know, I could remember, and it was always a professional skier, an Olympic skier.
B (1:12)
That's actually the first piece of content of yours I ever saw. You were in Aspen and you were skiing and you were going so fast down this hill and I didn't know that that was your background before. And I was just like, wow, this girl's really good at skiing. And you had this like blue scarf or something on and it like matched your eyes. So for people that don't know what is your background with skiing?
A (1:35)
Yeah, so I grew up skiing my whole life. Since I was 3, it's been probably the biggest part of my life, bigger than even my influencing brand owning career. I was a downhill ski racer and I went to a boarding academy that was an Olympic training academy. But my whole life I was known for being a ski racer and that was my whole thing. It's kind of one of those sports you have to dedicate your, you know, life to because of, you know, you need snow, you need all this equipment. It's not something that you can kind of do after school casually unless you are from the mountains. But yeah, we had a house in Vermont growing up and I was always up there. I even in fifth and sixth grade, I was taking my curriculum and bringing it up to school in Vermont. And yeah, so I was a downhill ski racer. And then when I started creating content, which is obviously further down the road for me, when I saw that brands were activating around skiing, I got really excited about it and I was just really trying to get in that space because it was my whole life before being an influencer. So that was a really cool moment for me on my first brand deal that I got with Goldberg, actually, that they've really just valued me as an athlete before being an influencer. And that was so cool for me because when my whole life I wasn't known for clothes, makeup, vanity, beauty or anything, it was really just my athleticism and my hard work at being a ski racer. So it was a very cool, full circle moment for me. So I'm glad that that's when you first saw my content.
