Today we’d like to introduce you to DanVy Ngo.
Hi DanVy , please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My path to HAUS OF VY makes a lot more sense looking backward than it did while I was living it.
Long before I ever thought of creative direction, branding, or content as a career, I was already doing versions of this work. Through Queenz of Hip Hop, my time at CU Denver, and different projects and opportunities throughout my life, I was always the person drawn to the creative side; bringing people together, developing ideas, thinking about how something should look and feel, promoting things, creating experiences, and figuring out how to make an idea come to life.
At the time, I never realized those were skills I could build an entire career around. They were simply things I loved doing.
I entered the corporate world right after college, where I spent about five years working across sales leadership and marketing. For a long time, I thought success meant continuing to climb that traditional ladder. But the further I went, the more I realized that the parts of my work I loved most were the same things I had naturally gravitated toward long before I ever had a corporate title. I found myself at a point where the career I had built no longer felt aligned with the life or work I wanted for myself.
At the beginning of 2026, I decided to leave corporate and bet on myself. I didn’t have any detail mapped out, and HAUS OF VY didn’t begin with some perfectly polished business plan. I just knew I wanted to build something around the intersection of creativity, strategy, storytelling, and people.
What started with social media and content quickly expanded. I found myself developing brands, directing photoshoots, creating visual identities, designing collateral, shaping launches and experiences, and connecting clients with other creatives who could help bring their ideas to life. Eventually, I realized I wasn’t building a traditional social media agency at all. I was building a creative house.
Today, HAUS OF VY works across industries including real estate, mortgage, beauty, food and beverage, nonprofit, wine, and more. My favorite projects are the ones where I get to look beyond a single deliverable and ask, “What should this brand feel like?”…and then help create the world around it.
The funny thing is, I thought I was starting something completely new when I launched HAUS OF VY.
Now I realize I’ve been building toward it for years. Every seemingly unrelated chapter gave me something I use today. I just didn’t know all of those skills could become a job, much less my own business.
But here we are.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road, but I think that’s part of why I’m so sure I’m where I’m supposed to be.
One of the biggest challenges was simply giving myself permission to start over. As a first-generation Vietnamese American and the oldest daughter, I grew up with a very traditional understanding of success: work hard, get an education, build a stable career, move up, and don’t take unnecessary risks. That was the roadmap I knew, and for a long time, I followed it. I had spent years building a corporate career and had already worked my way into leadership, so leaving meant walking away from the stability, title, and traditional definition of success I had spent years working toward. There’s something terrifying about choosing uncertainty when, on paper, you’re supposed to keep climbing.
I went to college, entered the corporate world, worked my way into leadership, and built what looked like a successful career on paper. So leaving wasn’t just a career change. It meant questioning the definition of success I had been taught my entire life and trusting myself enough to choose something that didn’t come with the same predictability or validation.
Once I started HAUS OF VY, I had a completely different learning curve. Being good at the creative work and running a creative business are two very different things. I’ve had to learn how to price my work, set boundaries, manage clients, build systems, sell my ideas, and trust my own taste enough to stand behind it. I’ve also had to learn that being capable of doing something doesn’t mean I should say yes to everything.
I think one of my biggest personal challenges has been recognizing the value in skills that have always come naturally to me. When you’ve been creating, connecting people, developing ideas, or making things beautiful for most of your life, it can be easy to think, “Doesn’t everyone know how to do this?”
Building HOV has taught me that they don’t, and that creativity, taste, strategy, and the ability to bring a vision to life have real value.
There have been growing pains, difficult clients, ideas that didn’t work, moments of imposter syndrome, and plenty of figuring things out as I go. But every challenge has made the vision for HOV clearer. I’m also realizing that choosing entrepreneurship didn’t mean rejecting everything I was taught. The work ethic, resourcefulness, responsibility, and determination that got me through the traditional path are the same qualities helping me build my own. I’m just learning that success can look different than what I originally imagined. I’m learning that building something of your own isn’t really about having everything figured out before you begin. Sometimes you build it by paying attention to what works, what doesn’t, and who you become along the way.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about HAUS OF VY ?
HAUS OF VY is a Denver-based creative house specializing in brand strategy, social media, content creation, branding, creative direction, experiential marketing, and event marketing. At the simplest level, I help businesses figure out how they want to be seen, felt, and remembered, and then help bring that vision to life.
I started HOV thinking it would primarily be a social media business, but it quickly became much more than that. A client might initially come to me because they need help with Instagram, but once we start working together, we’re often talking about their brand identity, website, photography, customer experience, launch strategy, events, printed materials, or how their business should show up in the real world. I love looking at the entire ecosystem of a brand rather than treating each piece separately.
That’s also what led me naturally into experiential and event marketing. I’m fascinated by the way a brand can exist beyond a screen. Whether it’s a grand opening, launch, pop-up, client event, community experience, or branded activation, I think about how the environment, messaging, visuals, content, and guest experience can all work together. An event shouldn’t just look beautiful, it should feel connected to the larger brand and give people something worth remembering and talking about afterward.
That holistic approach is really what sets HOV apart. I don’t believe every business needs the same formula, aesthetic, posting schedule, or marketing strategy. My job isn’t to make a client’s brand look like HAUS OF VY; it’s to understand them well enough to create a world that feels unmistakably like theirs. Strategy matters, but so do taste, intuition, storytelling, and the tiny details people may not consciously notice but absolutely feel.
HOV works across industries including real estate, mortgage, beauty, food and beverage, nonprofit, wine, and other service-based businesses. Depending on the project, my role can include brand strategy and identity, social media management, content creation, campaign development, creative and photoshoot direction, design, experiential marketing, event marketing, launch support, and curated brand experiences.
I’m also building a network of trusted creative partners so that when a project calls for photography, videography, web development, event production, or another specialty, I can bring the right people into the room rather than trying to be everything myself.
What I’m most proud of is that HOV has developed an identity without forcing every client into the same one. I want my work to feel thoughtful, elevated, culturally aware, and intentional, but I never want someone to look at two completely different clients and feel like they were given the same template.
The goal is always to uncover what makes a business interesting and amplify that.
I’m equally proud of the relationships behind the work. HOV is still young, but so much of its growth has happened through referrals, introductions, collaborations, and clients trusting me enough to bring me deeper into their businesses. That means more to me than simply building a large roster.
Ultimately, I’m building HAUS OF VY to be the kind of creative partner I wish more businesses had access to: someone who can zoom out and see the bigger picture, zoom in enough to obsess over the details, and help turn a collection of ideas into a brand people can see, experience, and remember.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
There are so many ways to be part of what I’m building with HAUS OF VY.
For businesses, I work with clients through ongoing creative and social media partnerships as well as select branding, creative direction, content, experiential marketing, event marketing, and launch projects.
I especially love working with founders who have a strong vision (or even a million scattered ideas) and need someone who can help connect the dots and turn them into something cohesive.
I’m also always interested in meeting other creatives and professionals. One of my goals with HOV is to build a trusted network of photographers, videographers, web designers, event professionals, stylists, venues, makers, and other talented people I can collaborate with and confidently bring into client projects. I don’t believe everything needs to happen under one roof to feel cohesive; sometimes the best work happens when you put the right people in the room together.
And support can be incredibly simple. Follow along, share our work, refer a small business that could use what we do, invite me into an interesting project, or just introduce yourself. So much of HOV has grown through genuine relationships and word of mouth, and I want that sense of community to remain part of the business as it grows.
You can find HAUS OF VY at hausofvy.com, follow along on Instagram at @hausof.vy, or reach me directly at vy@hausofvy.com. And if you have an idea that doesn’t fit neatly into one of the services listed on my website, those are often my favorite conversations to have.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://hausofvy.com
- Instagram: @hausof.vy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590665574182
