I was born and raised in Brazil, but I now live in Hawaii with my beautiful kids Blake and Daniel.
I am the oldest of 6 and growing up we were very exposed to different cultures specially because my parents had friends from all over the world. My dad is a retired artist/gallerist and my mom is a very busy homemaker. I developed very early on a love for arts, traveling, languages, our beautiful blue planet and how fascinating it is that everything seams to fit in together so beautifully. Portuguese is my first language, but I also study English, Spanish and Italian. I had my first job when I was just 1 year old as a baby model in a national ad for a Brazilian oil company. Against my dad's will, at 16 I started to sell cars at a BMW dealership in Salvador, my hometown. From there, I worked for Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Renault, Nissan, Peugeot, Toyota and Lexus. For 12 years I was the youngest top producer for every company that I worked for, having had sold many millions of dollars in luxury cars, including armored vehicles. I became specialized in OFF-Road precision driving and armored vehicles, I've also worked as a model for Club Med, Diet-Coke, Iguatemi Fashion Week, a few international auto shows and as an actress in the movies Deadly Honeymoon and Journey to the center of the earth II: The Mysterious Islands. Questionably I was the youngest car sales woman ever, but for sure a successful one. In 2004 I left the automobile industry and became a loan officer in California, in 2005 I opened my own mortgage company and in 2006 I became a real estate agent in the state of Hawaii. I love doing business, specially the part that we look into each others eyes and shake hands to seal a deal, it is truly exhilarating to me! For the past decade, I have been dedicating most of my time into raising my babies and into my artistic carrier. I have been painting for most of my life, but did not take it seriously until my brother Daniel died, he was brutally murdered in November of 2007. He was a very talented artist, and inspired by his loss I started to paint again. In 2017 I was honored Honolulu artist of the year and for my astonishment again in 2018 following by my induction in the Honolulu Business Hall of Fame.
But the bottom line about me is that I love God and the life that He has given me, I love my family desperately, I live a very healthy and active life style. The ocean is my happy place, I love to work and to learn new things, to visit new places, to meet new people... I believe in "doing onto others as you would like to be done onto you" and in "carpe the hell out of this diem"!
Welcome to my iworld, this blog is a virtual window to my life, from my thoughts to my art and the things and people that inspire me and to also create new business relationships. I regularly post pictures from my iPhone please look for the hash tags #danielapower and #danielapowergallery
I hope you enjoy my space!
Much Aloha,
Daniela
