Thirteen years. One passport.

I started in sales at a mobile accessories business and worked my way up to running a £14M global team. Then I fell in love with social, built my own agency and my own brand, and took the whole thing on the road. Here’s how it happened.

PASSPORT · OPERATOR CLASS
Mary-Anne Da’Marzo smiling on a hilltop bench in Los Angeles at golden hour
Every chapter got a stamp. There’s room for more.

The stamps, in full

From day one
2013 to 2017Learning to sellJuice, UK
  1. 2013Joined Juice, a new mobile accessories business, as one of its first employees.
  2. 2014Built Juice’s Amazon and eBay store from nothing to £100K a month.
  3. 2014Promoted to Retail Account Manager, selling into Tesco, Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, O2, Three, EE, WHSmith, Oliver Bonas and more.
  4. 2015Senior Retail Account Manager.
  5. 2016Head of Sales: a team, and every UK retail account.
  6. 2017Sales Director: Juice’s global sales team, £14 million of business.
2017 to 2021Falling for socialLondon
  1. 2017Started building a personal brand as a fashion creator, alongside the full-time job.
  2. 2019Set up a marketing agency to help e-commerce brands scale. First clients, first hire.
  3. 2020Built a site selling my own inspirational artwork during Covid: 200 paintings sold. Dropped Hearty Notes all over London to promote it, and thousands of people shared them.
  4. 4 July 2020Posted my first TikTok, then started teaching on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.
  5. 2021The content went viral, the leads came in, and the work got serious, for some big brands.
2021 to 2024Proving it with my own brandSoho, London
  1. 27 July 2021Launched The Last Bunch to show what the agency could do. 900 units in 8 hours, and over 10,000 customers in total.
  2. November 2021Opened a shop in Soho for a proper launch, and documented the whole journey online.
  3. November 2022ChatGPT launched. I went all in with the team. I knew it would change the industry.
  4. 2022 to 2024Scaled e-commerce brands’ revenue and profit, taught it all for free online, and ran The Last Bunch.
2024 to todayTaking the business on the roadWherever the sun is
  1. March 2024Closed the office, paused The Last Bunch, and took the business remote to travel the world.
  2. 2025Travelling and doing the work I love: building e-commerce brands. Named the B.R.A.I.N.™.
  3. 2026My 7th Burning Man, my first time solo.
  4. TodayBuilding the AI brand infrastructure major e-commerce companies need to use AI properly and scale.
35brand collaborations
65.5M+views on brand work
250K+followers
13years building brands

Where to next?

Both routes run on the B.R.A.I.N.™ I built. Pick the one that fits how you like to work.

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