australia ok i'll tell you more about her after we do our three deep breaths are you ready inhale  joy thank you dr joy i wanted pleasure to be here you are changing the world with a piece of clothing one stitch at a time tell me about your story tell me about you thank you about me yes it's it's actually really all about the women who make the garments well who are gay yet they're these wonderful women in india i met them through a friend of mine really he found the original ten women and we emailed each other over a period of time and i went to india and i met the original ten ten grew from there ten women and how long have you been in business in business very very long time but in business with these women in india three and a half years now now did you yourself because you guys seem to see beautiful beautiful beautiful pieces of jeannie all right but did you net yourself like how did you come to knit i don't it myself ok i can't knit as well as these women can now i've taught them everything that i know but that i've gone five past my ability and i run training modules all the time to grow this skills now was this your career from the onset no what was it i was involved in music was a little girl i got into knitting ok i was at home sick from school one day when my mother was a working mother and like all working mothers when their children get sick she probably thought oh my goodness you know what am i going to do with this girl for the day right so she phoned up her aunt my great aunt right who i can always remembers being one hundred twenty years old she was always one of those very small fry a wrinkly women typical image of an old woman  image of somebody who used to knit in that era oh ok and she came over and she taught me how to knit at that point and you love there from that onset from that minute so when i was ten wow she told me hadn't it on one day and then that night when my mother came home from work right she's like what do you do today and i'm like look what i did and what was it what was your first piece oh i don't know i just started a long strip i suppose today i'd call it a scotch but i think i just called it a practiced learning piece or something like this and the turning point was i said doesn't come in any of the callous in this and my mother said i don't know i'll look now to my mother's credit because she was a working mother day she came home with thirty balls and each one was a different color a so you went to town that's like a little girl you know the big i was there was no turning back after that that was five to start with came because i never lost that love of knitting ok so when i was a high school i went to a high school that didn't have fashion or any courses for girls and i remember coming home from school one day actually crying my mother please can i change schools or want to go to a different school that has fashion ok and you know my mother in that generation was a big thing to have a mother who is university educated and legs could kill i got the message you know no the answer is no ok in those days you couldn't there was no course for fashion it wasn't at a university so i was given a clear message you have to go to university and get a real job and a real career but that urge to do fashion we always in the back of them on mine so when i was forty and my only forty's i i don't know it's like life circumstances just happen right and i woke up one day and i thought you know what i never want to be one of these people six foot and i thought i always wish i had bought also you didn't want to have any regrets when the time came for you to transition so you found your passion i found my passion it was always there i just wasn't allowed to develop it as a career right so you blossomed and you took the leap but how did you find these women though in india so what happened was i originally as you can hear from my accent are from a strata yeah and she just got off the plane yesterday on the dr joy shelter yet and a stray or produces fantastic wore the world's best merino wool ok so i had this we are really school country in that area right but it wasn't to be because the government at the time changed the legislation and it was prohibitive for many reasons so when i just changed career i came across my first and then one day it's like anything in life you know sometimes you just meet people who write help you to the next step s and i was having lunch with somebody i've known for a while and they're like how are you and i'm like i'm not really fine i was just changed career and i i'm stuck and he said i have a friend of mine in india he might know someone who can help you get this off the ground danielle isn't it always bottom line who you know or who knows you and then the opportunity arises and then you have a success story right so you started with ten y ten well that's what he found for me oh ok we communicated for a while and he said it's not going to be possible it's going to be too hot he did everything he could to discourage me and till the day came after about two months of emailing that i emailed him saying i'm more polite version of i don't care what you think i'm coming anyway oh well ok and so i ca did how did that all come about how well i can speak their language and i can speak mine and i never seen a white person before so for the first few minutes there was no instant bond they're looking at me and i'm looking at them and we don't speak the same of seeing each other like we start to smile and you know i put my hand for a new hand and then they hug me up and then i'm like try to communicate knitting right so they went home to their house and they  did our best and that was the beginning of it so you started out with ten that was sourced from someone gentlemen that you knew so it was a connection and how many artisans do you have now hundred hundred are is that same guy sourcing those hundreds or do you have a training program how do you get these women so that guy helps me in many other ways now but he doesn't help source them anymore also women will find that they really love it so they all find their friends and is it one particular village i know i have three now and where always growing and what are the three villages in india you want me to say the name absolute i'm thank you well the reason why i wanted you to say that is because some of my viewers may know people that are from those villages and there you go especially if you're looking for additional artisans to reality so you meet these people and they invite you to their house for dinner and they dress you up inside aries and these ladies now their lives have changed so much for the sas so excited to have people interested well i can't tell you enough any connection they just simply love it is there a philanthropic component to your to your business with them knitting there yes there is but this pearls foundation and in that foundation we do everything we can to help their women and their families extra so for example as part of the business i get the women's eyes tested because  whether it's the for profit or the foundation social wellness financial wellness physical wellness because if you're saying well they're busy they're doing something right and then you're making sure that they are physically well the extra money probably puts better food in their mouth ok and environmental they're probably doing we had you know machinery this is the most wholesome making of any clothing ever see so that's your environmental wellness and the spiritual wellness is the connection that they have with one another and they probably talk to one another while they are knitting right their emotional will know this is one that they have grown and also that is good very very significant right because of their self esteem i would say much more than that so now how has this experience changed you well it has given me a deaths of life and a reward in my work that i never imagined would come when i step out of this change of know just can i give a short and allergy here as do it i'll give you a food analogy ok if you were at the end of your life and you had only ever tasted cakes and biscuits cookies from the supermarket and you had never tasted a homemade cake or a homemade cookie right could you describe for me the experience that you felt that you would be missing when oh i don't know about that i love dessert so but i would think that the ingredients the different ingredients or not so many of those ingredients that it would be process for it to be in the store also what i would feel probably if it's homemade a connection to the person that actually made it that's right and when you eat it it has a special i don't know ye it doesn't taste even as mechanical now is that i go out of character a lot of it that adds a little bit a depth to your taste buds in the end right of food so it's the same with clothing so it's a connection to t but to be proud to wear it out in the public so these women have experience increased self esteem they have camaraderie financial impair and how long does it take for one of these sweaters you guys i wish you could touch these soft skills soft how long does it take for one sweater to be made well as i'm sure you're aware every sweater has a different number of balls in it really depends on the size of the family be there for their children when they come home from school and have a wholesome income and work that they enjoy so did you ever meet the husbands someone has but i'm not really involved with them at all ok pran focus is on the women but you know what is very very fascinating i mean your designs are fascinating and we're talk about the world but i'm stuck and i'm fascinated and will be fascinated for forever because you're taking care of the people that are actually making the garments so many you know multifaceted ways and that to me is impressive so congratulations with that thank you congratulations let's talk about  the different designs because you have a lot of them here and it seems this is a different fabric than this one and i picked this up yes so this is different than say the fabric that you're wearing or the pink what tell me of japan and it has that's ok silk wound and that's why it feels so soft and this is the spring summer collection so sling summer is what you wear in line and it's very lie and then the cable is heavier so the designs though because i looked on your website you have some fascinating designs saw those if someone wanted to order a sweater what is the process you can just buy it directly online or e mail me there's a contact form on the website so what a bell some of them the myth about wearing hand it's sweaters like it's pill it's too hot well i think you just kind of banished that myth because you have to type c or you can wear this in the spring and summer and that too hot and that one's the winter but what i want to really get into what is the difference now between a hand that is lighter and a machine made sweater shaw and then i'll talk a little bit about what you reference to just before about the care of them yes please so i had knitted sweater is has no machinery you know it's set than you need it with two needles ok and a every stitch is created by hand so for example this sweaty here yeah i've actually counted them has fifty three thousand something stitches in it can you yes s seems they sew in the label so when you wear something that's like a personalized production yes yes yes you feel that connection so you feel a love you can put it on and not feel well when i where i'm buying because i'm hoping  it once when i will have well i will i'll be connected to these ladies in this village through the sweater and through you that's right i can tell you exactly so i can say to you ruth who made this what up and i  you ever want to come and visit our economic introduce you to her really and she i would show you and it means so much to these ladies like i remember the first time i showed it and i'll give you the same example ruth who she put we'll make sure that i have lots of handkerchiefs because i probably will be very emotional around doing that lead them into school so it's such a big deal to have we take sammy things for granted of yams not intellectual we learn from school like having somebody like a teacher have an interest in you right or having friends other than the kids who live in your street all these other things they've never had before so that you take everyone that comes and wants to be in danielle today go and find them and sometimes they come back to me and say i can only find you know ten or eleven and i say why and i say because we don't like so and so and so and so and we don't think she suitable for our group we don't want to ask her so they they decide who's going to come and not because they have their own process you you kind of you let their autonomous with that that's right they're there they're there and they're riginal ten are they still with you all except for one k or eight what do you what is your accomplishment that you're most proud oh wow what is definitely regarding those women in india  can't begin to tell you how much they motivate me they motivate you i just love them and it serves a warding seeing what it contributes to their lives right you know i have this goal that if we sell a million sweaters a yea in rural villages women who normally never would have i don't know socialised got employed right and had opportunities in la they are so far out of their box yes oh oh wow can change this measles or chicken pox chicken pox right through your aunts and you have found it now what ever ice t you have for the viewers with regards to pass in regards to knitting with regards to india anything well of course i have to say the obvious follow your heart follow your passion but that seems such a dream almost unrealistic yet i watch you i want people don't know what it is they don't even  that i'm more experienced than you and be and with you add to that if i may add to that be open to receiving the help and be open to receiving the advice because sometimes you know people are closed  it's crucial year that is crucial so now you are going to have one more question and then i want to talk about the contact information those minutes you're going to tell me about how to how do we care for the sweaters well lots of  people generally think that if you have a hand you could garment they're like oh i don't want to go there it's so hard to maintain it yeah but i would like to tell you it's one of the easiest gammons that you will ever have in your wardrobe to maintain really first of all it never clean it never ever never ever never how will that help ok bacteria germs let's talk about this how well what do we do so will get rid of any bacteria that scold the air and in addition to that if you have accidently spill food on it or if there's a food residue right when the gamut is kept in the freezer the most can't get it over the summer so how long would i keep it in the freezer well i keep mine in the freezer all summer all some of the time that way it's guaranteed that no moss is ever going to so now people with freezers because i have one that that's in my  time that i bring it in so if you tell me to get a ziploc bag and i have a freezer and rolling up my sweaters and putting them there for the summer and then you don't have to go to the dry cleaner anyway it's your time going to come in yet you know you have to write any of that right we're not polluting the environment with their ass the whole nine yards yet that wow what a huge chip i didn't know that and i bet you my view is that no either so now i e l doc global and they can go through the process they're absolutely now you told me before this isn't your rebranding right that's right so and so you're doing an expansion so what are you expanding to these everything on this table here is women's wear but we now have men's wear and soon to come home as well and will those artisans in india be connected to the expansion oh yes that's why i want to expand because we have to sell more and more and more clothes congratulations we had designer danielle she'll from more still year she's impacting a whole bunch of women on the other side of the world what can you do to impact someone else's lives until next time be blessed stay healthy