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Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan has new podcasting network

Tony winner Daisy Eagan finds voice in podcasting
Tony winner Daisy Eagan finds voice in podcasting 03:34

BOSTON - At 11-years-old, Daisy Eagan took home a Tony Award for her role in the play, "The Secret Garden," becoming the youngest female ever to receive Broadway's biggest honor. But now, the Rhode Island woman is on a new path, taking the mic instead of the stage.

Host of 3 podcasts

"People ask me what I do, " says Eagan, "and I tell them I'm a writer and a podcaster."

As the host of three different podcasts, and the co-founder of a new podcasting network called Grab Bag Collab, Daisy has found a new way to express herself, telling us, "I didn't know it was something that I could do until I just sort of started doing it, which I think is a great lesson in like, just go."

Right now, her podcasting network is looking for new talent.

"Our idea was to make it more accessible to people who have great ideas, but can't get on a bigger network," she said. "We know that there are people out there with really fascinating stories."

Daisy's own story as an actor goes back decades.

She has made appearances on more than a dozen TV shows, including "The Mentalist," "Good Trouble," and "Girls," and recently made a special return to the stage, playing Martha in a production of "The Secret Garden."

"The opportunity to come back as the mentor character to this broken little girl, who just needs love, was a full circle moment and a way to close the chapter and in a way, sort of hug my child's self, my inner child and say, 'It's going to be okay.'"

Moving to Rhode Island

Not wanting stay in New York or Los Angeles long term, Daisy settled her family in Rhode Island.

She says, "We chose to live somewhere that was less amenable to a bustling acting career. Though I am an hour drive away from Boston. So if anybody wants me to be in a play here, I'll be happy to."

Right now, her focus is on her podcasts, an advice show called Dear Daisy, a Love is Blind recap show, and Strange and Unexplained.

"It's hard, writing is hard. But that's something that I want to achieve," she said. "I want to excel at. And so I am disciplined at it. I think that's important, to figure out what it is that you do want to do. And then the discipline, I think, follows."

Daisy says one of the best parts of podcasting is working from home and raising her 11-year-old son. He's the same age now as she was when she won her Tony.

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