Erika Preuss

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150 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 May

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Living Your Legacy · From Accountant to Island Designer Brand · 7 May 2026 podcast

So this is supposed to represent kind of a wave, obviously.

Yeah.

But yeah, so this is one of my first collection.

This is just a new color that's come out.

But when I moved to the Virgin Islands, I had no idea what I was going to do.

I was ending my my career with the family business.

And one day I was walking around and.

looking for handbags because i've always loved handbags but there was no handbag stores wow and i guess prior to the hurricane um in 2017 they had you know louis vuitton and all these high-end shops and now there there are no high-end handbag stores and so you know my boyfriend was like well why don't you start designing them and i thought

What the hell, why not?

I'm like, yeah, maybe I should.

So he kind of gave me the idea, and then I started designing him in Excel.

Yeah.

You know, you just move the cells around.

You're moving these pixels and creating like coloring in the lines.

So then I had to figure out how to put pencil and paper and color outside the lines.

Yeah, that was like beating your head against the wall for a long time.

And then one of my friends from grad school actually had a neighbor who works at a fashion school here in Miami.

Oh, right on.

And I knew somebody that I worked with her in kind of launching my brand.

And she really helped me tremendously on finding a factory

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