About Us

Meet Dawling

Dawling is a fun, bubbly, contagiously cute roller skater. She is full of great energy and constantly speaking positively in faith, encouragement, and possibilities. She is overflowing with hope, no matter the circumstances, believing things are going to work out for the good! But it wasn’t always this way. Dawling had a really hard time in High School.

 

Her best friend convinced her she would have super powers with boys and be extra funny if she drank alcohol. She did, and shortly after, she became boy crazy and started chasing boys with no success and lots of heartbreak. She wound up on a downward spiral getting kicked out of a scholarship program when she was caught drinking. When she went to college, her drinking problem got worse, drinking more and more throughout the week.

 

She started getting really anxious and was eating lots of junk food, pizza, and sweets, and her vision soon went from 20/20 to needing glasses and she gained 20 pounds. Her anxiety snowballed until she was in a full blown depression. She was so uncomfortable in her own skin that she finally cried out to God to take her life. She didn’t want to live anymore.

 

She was on her last limb. Shortly after she cried out to God in the middle of the night, she discovered a great Secret and she started using the power of her mind to believe things would get better and think happy thoughts. She was walking by a boutique shop in Pacific Beach, CA and saw some roller skates in the window. She immediately knew she had to have them! She started roller skating that day. With the help of skating, listening to happy music, thinking that things would get better, and some healthy green drinks, Dawling kicked the depression. Little by little, skate by skate, her smile got bigger and bigger. She believes that with a lil faith and a lil skate, you too can beat anxiety and depression and find your own happy trails.

 

Roller Dawls is an advocate for an ecstatic happy, healthy life of roller skating, funshine, faith-positivity, and fun laughing with friends. Fun Fact: Dawling is the true story of Roller Dawls designer Gigi Vancio and how she overcame depression with roller skating.

 

Her mission with Roller Dawls is to inspire young girls to skate, be resilient, overcome anxiety and depression with roller skating, and find their voice. She believes that by sharing your story, you can get the support and guidance to find a pathway through to the other side. Roller Dawls is here to bring Hope and helium to live your dreams. 20% of all proceeds go to gifting free roller skates and roller skate lessons to HS girls.

 

Our purpose is to get young girls skating and teach them about the connection between diet, exercise and the power of using your mind for mental and physical health.