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Our interview with Emily Dawn Long is market research. Emily—founder and designer of the eponymous brand Emily Dawn Long—blessed us with her first ever podcast, opening up for the first time on being a product designer in the truest sense, Kendrick Lamar loving her Wanda hats so much he now gifts them to his friends, my shirt name Jeff, the gift and the curse of having a viral jawn, guys who wore suits to high school, imposter syndrome, breaking out of the New York bubble to show in Paris for the first time, production hell, that one time she tried coffee, product lifespans, her obsession with real guy market research, the pains of hiring in 2025, having a great ass while still working 97% of the time, managing stress and her battle with Bell’s palsy, getting a thong on Tyla, fixing F1’s style problem, what’s up with skinny pants, form vs. function, when guys do too much, her boys are her muses, cufflinks are hot, not giving away all your ideas just the ones that make sense for others, how sourcing and styling can lead to design, thirst traps are actually for the girlies, cologne and smell memory, height fishing, Etsy falling off and much more on Emily Dawn Long’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.