I was good. Boy was good. Everybody. This is what's good this glove really and you're checking out the Cruise Show podcast, make sure to subscribe. Rate sure, Liz go Your Daisy Marquess is on the Cruise Show. Let's Get It Real ninety two three, LA's new home for What's going down? So? Hi, how are you guys doing? I'm doing good. I love you. Oh, I love that. You know what they actually
call me? They call me dangerous Daisy. Yeah. And then I had one of those nights and I got it tatted on my neck and my mom was so mad and I regret it. This was like years ago. I regret it behind my neck. Oh my god, it's so embarrassing. It looks dope though. Really no. But you know what's so embarrassing when I go to my princess pilates classes and I'm like in cute little picktails and all the girls are looking at me like what's dangerous about you? And I'm just
like it was a mistake. Nothing. What city did you get that tattoo? Go? Actually? Yeah? During COVID that itself was yes, I was, and I was like, I want it darker. And then I went back and I was like, oh, dear gosh, like why did I do that? But I got it because when you drink a lot, you become like a troller or no, I just become more bold. It's just kind of like they call me like, oh devious, Daisy, Danger's
Daisy crazy days, just like it was just a nickname. And they were like, bet you won't get it tatted, and I was like, bet I will, but now I will now looking back and I'm like, I regret it now, but it's okay. Something I always say I believe in is all Daisies are down. Honestly, whenever you were like you want some Tannesasey, I was like, if you're drinking, I know. She looked at me like, wait, are you playing or not? I was,
you know, Daisy Diaries is the podcast? Congratulations? Thank you so much? Right? Yes, why start a podcast? Why why broadcast for the world? Honestly, I felt like I lacked a platform where I could be
myself and be vulnerable and just be open. And I wanted to also provide that for my friends and for anyone honestly that wants to go on there and share their story or just be vulnerable and comfortable, a safe place, a comfortable place, and I feel like my friends would always tell me like you make me feel so comfortable, and everybody usually comes to me when they want advice. So I was like, you know what, I already go on
lives on my Daisy Diaries Instagram account. So I was like, I definitely want this to be bigger, more professional, like just do it the right way. And so I already love talking in front of a camera just in general, you know what, I would love to podcasts, and that's where the idea came from. So it's like a diary and each episode is like a chapter, and so my guests can go on there and great conversation.
Yes, create conversation. I wanted to feel very intimate, very comfortable, just like girl talk, just like you know, witty banter, just like do you have any guys on the show or no, it's only been females so far I've seen. I'm like, what's going on? I mean, oh my god, you know I'm being honest. So I I just feel like I wanted to first have like all my girlfriends come on there, kind
of set the tone of like what Daisy Diaries is. And then once I'm like up more episodes down I catch the momentum, then I'll like bring a guess that I'm not that I don't know, or like that I would love to interview, or like men, I don't know. I'm just like a girl's girls. I'm just like I don't I don't know if I want to have men on there yet, but for sure I don't want to. Well, would you say, is like the difference because like you know, you've
had this career as an influencer. The difference between like blogging and podcasting, Like I feel like everyone's so intimate with when you're vlogging, like they see where you are, where you go, and podcasting is almost kind of the
same thing. I think it's the same thing, but I think what what differentiates it for me is like when I'm vlogging, I'm very like funny and goofy, and like I can be like that on the podcast, but I feel like I'm wouldn't be taken as serious if I were to be opening up at a very serious or intimate topic, versus like on the podcast, It's like people go on there and they know, like we're about to enter some topics and conversations and like this is it's you're supposed to be very more open
minded. I feel like for a podcast versus a vlog, it's like ten thousand things can be happening on the blog and then it's just kind of like, you know, you can miss some things here and there. But I definitely actually feel more comfortable now filming a podcast episode than like YouTube video. Surprisingly, I've been on YouTube for I think seven eight years now, quite some time. You know. I started when I was like eighteen nineteen and I'm twenty six, so I definitely a little girl I was. I was
in high school. I was a senior in high school when I first made my video and then it blew up and then kind of now I definitely want to be taken more serious and I want to get into other adventures and like projects like hosting and stuff like that. So I'm like, you know, I feel like podcasting would kind of lead me to yeh, did thousand person? Yes, for sure, Especially interviewing people. I feel like that can
betle bit nerve wracking, it can be yeah. Yeah, So it definitely it's it's like I'm getting the hang of it and I'm loving it, so far. When you're interviewing somebody, you just gotta be curious, curious, and I like to make them feel comfortable. I really like to bounce off
of like people's energy and people's conversations and stuff. So yeah, on the graund everything looks beautiful and nice anesthetically amazing, right, yeah, but because you can control that, yes, But there's another side when it comes to social media that you can't control. There's a lot of things you can't control real life. What real life. Yeah, Like there's a dark side to it as well, Yes, there is. Yeah, it's tough. It
is tough, especially like especially like now with like councel culture. I feel like every five seconds somebody's getting canceled. Cancel culture is very real now. I feel like that. I feel like that's one of the dark sides of
like social media and just the Internet in general. You know, you can't control everything, and definitely I feel like us human beings are not perfect, and I feel like social media influencers are put on this pedestal where they're like, oh, you can't fuck up, and if you fuck up, you're gonna get canceled. Oh my god, I just cursed up, So sorry, No, you're fine story, but yeah, I feel like I don't know. I take everything with a grain of salt. I try not to
take anything too personal on the internet. And at the end of the day, I feel like I'm living my life for myself and I can't satisfy everyone. So as long as my family my friends love me and I'm doing what I love, I feel like, you know, I'll be fine. But there, I feel like you can get lost in it. I definitely did get lost in it at some point, but I feel like having a true support system is what really helps you kind of get out of it. Every
Why do you think you're getting lost because I'm I didn't. I basically transition from my teens to my twenties in La. So I graduated high school, I moved to LA and I got thrown into this world, and so I didn't have any family over here, so I got to experience everything like when I wanted to, and I didn't really have anyone being like you shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that. So I got very low the sauce.
I guess you could say, I'm grown, yeah, and exactly, And I was like at the clubs at a very young age, and I'm just like, but I'm very glad that I went through that at an early stage because now I'm like over that. You know, family back in Dallas. Yes, all, my family's in Texasan and Mexico, so that's right. Yeah, yeah, are you here? I'm Mexican. Yeah. Where are you from? I'm from I'm from Los Angeles. I was born here in the valley here. I know, I look like, where's your family?
Fronts from Mexico, you know, from the capitol. Nice? Nice, I want dark like this. I was born in somebody. It's beautiful. I was able to visit for my first time in years two years ago, so that was beautiful experience. That's awesome. Yeah. Man, yeah, yo, Daisy Marquez is here the Daisy Diaries, the podcast wherever you find your podcast you feel me, the Daisy Daca Foundations. Well congratulations you came here undocumented, right, Yes, So I actually crossed the border at nine
yearsyears old? Remember that moment. Yes, And I actually went on a date last night and I was having to tell the guy about it and I got kind of tearried. I thought like I kind of healed from it, but I feel like when I have to like relive the moment, it definitely like takes me back to how traumatizing it was. Because like during the summer, my all my cousins would go to Mexico. So I begged my mom. I was like, can I please go. She's like, well,
if you go, you're gonna have to cross the border. And I didn't comprehend that at nine years old. So I was like, okay, cool, whatever the day comes. And they dropped me off at the stranger's house. Let's go yat this house and they're like, these are the guys that are going to cross you. They're like, my grandma just handed me off, and I was like, oh my god, like what am I getting myself into? Long story short, it was like six hours of walking and
you have to cross the river on a little floaty. It was a big group of us, and then unfortunately, like the immigration came like on a helicopter and like the four wheelers and stuff, and so they basically were just like everybody on their own and they threw me in a bush and I just remember that he was like, stay quiet and I'm so sorry if nobody comes for you. And at that point I was like I'm gonna die. I was like, I'm not, like I'm never gonna see my family again.
Yes, and so I just stayed quiet, and I remember seeing the guy like running away and like from a distance, I just see like him very very tiny, and I see the four wheelers come and they beat him up and they take him, and I was just literally I just remember I was like trying to soothe myself, like rocking myself back and forth. And then finally the other coyote came. He's like, let's go, let's go, and by that time, I think it was just three of us. And
then finally I made it safely back home. But I was so mad at my mom because she made me go through that. But if I never experienced that, I would not be the strong, independent woman that I am today. So I'm thankful for the experience. It was very traumatizing, but it made me who I am today. And so because I experienced that, and I'm under DKA, I'm very thankful to be a part of the program.
Unfortunately, it did close, but I reached a point in my life where I was like, would I be happy with my life and with my platform and what I did if I were to die tomorrow, and when I said no, I was like, something has to change. I have to get back to my community, because the end of the day, my community put me on this pedestal, you know, and gave me my platform. So
that is where the Daisy Daka Foundation came about. Financial support. Yes, and so I was like, the permit, you have to renew it every two years. And let's say this month you have bills to pay, you have college, you have kids. It's five hundred dollars. So it's either you pay your permit or you feed your kids or like, you know, bills. It could be a lot. It's so expensive to live nowadays,
you know. So I would hate to be in that position where I have to choose whether I can keep my Social Security number or I get to feed my kids. So I wanted to provide that financial support for DACA recipients. And so each month, I select a handful of DEKER recipients and I'm doing this all on my own. I don't have investors, so it's just pocket, yes, out of my pocket, just for the kindness of my heart,
and thank you. I hope. So I'm going but yeah, no, I hope, like In the future it can become like a bigger thing and I have investors, but for now, I wanted to do it on
my own. And yeah, no, I simply, I genuinely just did it to give back to my community and I know that and how can people receive that financial So you go to you can find the instagram Daisy Daka Foundation and then there's a website and all you have to do is submit pictures of your work permit and you you give just a statement as to why you you
feel like you should receive the financial support. I have came across such beautiful stories and I personally call them I should probably give them a heads up because then when I'm like, hi, it's Daisy, they like freak out and I'm like, oh shit, Like sorry, yeah, I just like call him out of nowhere. But yeah, it's it's very beautiful and I love what I do. That's amazing. I can die happy out watching he is.
And I say all these and I've kept it very real on my podcast, like I have made mistakes along the way and I'm not perfect, and I've told myself accountable and i have apologized and I've grown and I feel like my audience has been able to see that. You know, I'm not the same person that has made those mistakes, and you know I can only try my best and so the only person that could judge me is God. So I'm trying to you know, sometimes people have to see a fuck up.
It's all good. Yeah, and that's that's what makes us humans. And it's okay, and not everyone's gonna like me, and I have. I have made amends with that because I feel like I used to want everyone to like me and I wanted to have the best reputation. But it's like that's inevitable. So yeah, one person doesn't like you, your world is crushed. I know you know who you are exactly right. Yeah, so I don't take it personally. You can't. You just can't. What's up?
Let you without saying too much? Right now? You bring up finances? You know, you say you find and the Daisy Docer Foundation. Yes, that's saying numbers. What brand has paid you the most for a campaign? No, I'm not saying I revealed the number, so I don't want the iris watching Just what brand? You know what brand? Oh? Wait no, yeah, actually Shean has a very big budget. I definitely made very
high numbers with Yeah brand, you got some Jackie's money. I'm like, I know you got the budget sponsor, right, No, I actually you got any active campaigns going on right now? Right now, I'm doing like sponsorships here and there. But I'm not on like a long contract. I was on a I was on a very long contract with Savage Expentee, but that ended. I feel like nowadays with like TikTok and just how everything is so fast paced and like attention span, I feel like things are moving quicker.
Back then, it was like you're on a contract for four months, six months, but now everything is very like short term of yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you worried about the TikTok band? Honestly, no, I'm honestly not as active on TikTok as I should be. I just feel like I I like longer content versus short content. I'm just such a like youtubeer. I don't even YouTube as much anymore. But no, yeah,
I'm actually not that worried. Do you think there's a difference now between influencers, cause, like you said, along with like TikTok, everything's so like fast now. Do you think there's a difference between influencers now and influencers when you started, Yes, for sure, because I feel like back then, especially like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, like it's I think even up to
this day, it's still so hard to grow on YouTube. But if you're able to grow an audience on YouTube, you like have created a stamp for yourself in the social media world because TikTok, anybody can become an influencer. Anybody can get a bunch of followers. So I think it's I think once you make it on YouTube, it like you have just like really created something for you. You've created a solid like fad, a solid foundation. Then you can kind of build up versus TikTok. Like if it gets banned,
it's like crap, Like what is everybody gonna go on YouTube? It's like so hard to stand out there and create. So I'm very thankful that I started YouTube better a young age. I still love it. I'm just not as passionate as I was because I'm a little bit older now and I wanted to do philanthropy or I wanted to invest or, do real estate or stuff like that. So I'm definitely just trying not to limit myself to just one thing. For sure. I edit all my content. I even edit my
podcast. My podcast episodes, I still edit them. I get some help, but I'm just such a perfectionist when it comes to my editing. Because yes, that's why I'm like, I see the camera here and I'm like, Okay, this is it tough for you to pay people because it's like you work so hard for your money. No, because you know what I've learned is not even that. No, I've learned that as as money comes
in, it has to come I'm actually I'm the most I am. No. My friend the other day she's like, you're such a make a wish and I was like, what do you mean And she's like, because you just give so much to everybody, And I was like, well, I love that. I love that. I don't think that's a bad I think it's a bad exactly. I was like, okay, I was like, don't tell anyone, no, but yeah, no, I I I've learned that as money comes in, it it has to go out, and you
can't really just hold on to that. Especially during COVID, I was like, my mom's like, so what are you going to do? And I was like, what do you mean, And she's like, well, she's like, what if the world never goes back to normal. She's like, what are you going to do with the money that you've made on social media? And I was like nothing, And she's like, you need to invest that money. She's like, because what if the Internet's gone tomorrow? And
I was like, crap, You're right. So my parents are definitely my mentors, and they they taught me to invest my money into properties in Texas. So that's why I'm based in Texas. Now, that's right, that's right. Yeah, it's cheaper out there too, It's so much cheaper. Yeah, no, I say, everybody's moving there. No, Honestly, you guys like, yeah, wait wait Walker, you got to live around some wild people out there. Oh no, yeah, no over there. No. Oh that is so true. It's so sad, but it's so
true. No. But yeah, my life in Texas is so different than here because I drive to Target and I see cows and horses on my way over there. You know, I drive to Target over here and icy a bunch of yeah man naked on the way. I know, the same drive. Yeah, I know about my city. I love La though, I love the balance of like going to Texas and being with my family and it's so simple and then coming here and it's like hectic and work. But I love it. I love the life and I'm very very very thankful. It's
like text mex food. Honestly me either, I feel like, but I feel there's a lot of text mex food here. No, I mean not really out here. It's different, different, Bro, We're close to Mexico. Bro, you feel me your right, very like I did. True, I'm like, well, I didn't go to college. I couldn't go to college, but beat Yeah. They basically were just like, we're going to charge as an international student, and I was like wow, like I
was so broke that I was so depressed. And then that's how I got into YouTube and stuff, yeah, or YouTuber literally nobody, you know, watch nobody's videos and seid no oh no. I honestly never like I would watch like Bethanimota and stuff like growing up, but I never was like I want to be a social media influencer. I think how I got into it was I was depressed because I worked my ass off to go to college, and when I found out that I couldn't because I was so broke. I
was like, what am I going to do now? And so I was just doing makeup for fun on Snapchat and so people were like, we want longer videos. So then that's why I got into YouTube, and I was like, I was like, Okay, what's the worst that can happen? So then that's whenever I started. And then I just I was like, oh crap, Like now I'm in the space like yeah, I'm like, should I keep doing it? And so I literally grudge it and everything.
Yeah, I feel like that era of when you started and like the social media influencers and beauty bloggers and everything like that, I feel like there was no blueprint other than like Michelle, which kind of just happened. Like organically, what's the worst twenty sixteen makeup trend? Would you say? Oh my god, my eyebrows, the block eyebrows? My god, I had upside down Nike checks I'm talking about. No, it was so bad, and I literally look back at it, I'm like, why would y'all tell me
that I look good when I had blocks my eyes? I know, I was like, oh my god, y'all had me out here thinking I was at ten and I was over here like a five with those eyebrows. We were concealing our eyebrows like like crazy, No, y'all were figuring out the eyebrown situation. The eyebrow situation. Yeah no, no, for sure, would you take block brows or fluffy brows? I definitely like the fluffy brother. I just I can't, man, you bring up Snapchat. It seems
like Snapchat is like re launching right there. Have they reached out to get back on it. Snapchat is where it's at right now, right literally, Like for example, like David Dobrick, you know, he was creating blogs on YouTube, but now he completely moved over Snapchat because it's so yeah, I think, I think, and like the finances Snapchat is on top and then it's like honestly though, but like on YouTube, you will only make
real money on YouTube if you're making over a million views. But on Snapchat, they the way you have to be posting at least like fifty to one hundred stories to be making Like there's this influencer that recently talked about that he makes fifty k a month just from posting Snapchat stories, but he posts like
fifty to one hundred like constantly. Yeah, a day, I think we need it's a day, like a day because it's like every I think it's like every six or twelve stories, there's an ad, so imagine, yeah, post one hundred. But it's like it's kind of like they literally take pictures of like your yeah, and it's just like people just like tapping. But they just tapped through like thirty ads and that's a bunch of money. So Snapchat, let's go. That's interesting. I'm like, you guy,
shouldet back up. I will tap through all of you. I think the reason why people still held on to Snapchat for a long time was the filters. They filters, the filters also because messages are just gone. You know, there's an event that you're hosting on the twenty third, right, making stuff up? Wait when when don't you have an event coming up? What's today? What March thirty? Does that ring a bell? Don't cut this out, don't worry about it. Okay, wait, oh we changed the
date. Sorry, that's no worries. Yeah. So I'm seen in a dinner for Women's History Month, and I'm going to have a lot of my friends and just have it really be about women. Empowerment. Like I said, I'm just I'm a girls girls and I wanted to. I haven't been able to celebrate the launch of the Daisy Zaca Foundation. It just kind of like happened, and I'm like the ball has been rolling and I'm like wait, I'm like, let's actually celebrate this beautiful thing that has been created.
Bring a lot of my you know, girlfriends, and just celebrate women and Women's History Month, and yeah, just bring out I wish I love her, come on over your down So I would love to bring bringing Jenny six nine is that's fine her thing. She invited me to think that, ye are you? I got the ins just go in for sure. I'm like a f class influencer. No, I got the petty invite, but I got them. I might, I might peoples, yea, I will pull
up a cameras though. It's like sometimes you go to the influencer parties and everybody's blogging. I just started and everybody's working. No, you know what, I think back then it was so different because now it's like you see influencers like on live at the party. So I was like so and I'm just like, oh my god, times really have changed because I never that's all that scary too, though, it is like I'm not trying to be
at one point. Listen at one point, dude, Like, I don't know if you were that type of influencier where you go to a party and you're blogging everything, right, because obviously it's like a job, But at what point you were like, like, man, I got to start living life a little bit more and being present. I think like two three years ago, I would take my camera everywhere, and I mean I had to
YouTube channels. Back then. I actually had a couple's channel and then that didn't work out, so then I turned it into did you sell the channel? No, that's actually my podcast channel, so I was like, you know what for one so I still had a following on there, and I was like, perfect, I'm going to delete all these old blogs, let go of that, and yeah, I I'm very glad that I kept it still because I was going to delete the whole channel. But yeah, no,
I used to always bring on my camera for everything. But I think moving back to Texas and made me really appreciate the little things and living in the moment and my family and so even when I go to concerts now, I always try to stay as present I think I think being present really has helped me stay grounded. Yeah, that's what always threw me off, like lean in attendance to those kind of events like did you people just recording everything
is about recording, and it's it's it's very competitive. I would say, I definitely am so glad that I'm not as in it as I was. I still like to, you know, come in and whenever, yeah, pop up, but yeah, I definitely just try to to focus on myself and be myself. That's great, that's great. Yeah, absolutely, thank you very much for stopping by. Thank you so much for having me. This was my highlight of my days. Not thank you, appreciate it. Come through any time for real, yay, but on time, on time.
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