On today’s episode of The SHAIR Podcast is the my very first episode of the O Zone, a new featured show on InRecovery Radio brought to you by the Star Worldwide Network studios in Scottsdale, Arizona and produced by Bill Gates. Today were going to be interviewing Daniella Park. Daniella is the founder of Doing It Sober clothing company. Join us now as she takes us through her battle with Drug Addiction and her Journey into recovery.
Clean Date: September 11th, 2006
Omar: So tell us, Daniella, about this beautiful clothing line you have here. I'm looking at your website. I see a lot of beautiful women wearing beautiful clothing. Tell us about your clothing line, I'm so curious and I'm sure our listeners are too.
Daniella: When I got sober back in 06 ... I've always been very creative. I'm a painter, just creator. I like to make all sorts of things, lots of folk art, different unique things, but I also have enjoyed coming up with ways that I can motivate people and carry a message of just hope. Even when I didn't know what hope was, I still had the ... I always had it in me. I always wanted to see the good in people. I wanted people to be happy. I wanted them to smile, basically. Having the two combination and then getting sober, I thought, "Wow, what a cool thing. Maybe I should do my own clothing line." I wanted to do all sorts of things when I got sober, a little bit of everything. I was just very excited to actually be able to start living again. I had an idea, and I started making clothes. This was about maybe 2008.
It wasn't good timing. I was renting a room, and I had a job at a corporate company, and there was a lot of pressure. It was a sales job, and I really hated it, because I had to knock on doors and drive my car all over Los Angeles. It was just hard, and so it just kind of went away. I lost my passion, and then God kind of revealed more to me, and I made a goal list. I said, "Oh my goodness, I need to make a goal list." Every six months I make my goals. I write them in affirmation form, and I look at them almost every day if possible. They're right where I sit at my desk. One of the goals was, I'm going to prove create two designs for a T-shirt and have them printed and ready to ship by this date.
