Danielle learned to swim before she was a year old. She was born in San Diego and grew up in Colorado. She has been a swim instructor since she was 14 years old at the neighborhood summer pool with her youngest sibling. During college she joined her youth swim club as a coach of the youngest swimmers who were just learning the sport. After college, she moved to Denver and continued teaching at a swim school while also working as a special education classroom para. While at the Denver swim school, she became a specialist in teaching swimmers with special needs and a preferred instructor for the Colorado Down Syndrome Association. From there, she decided to become a special education teacher and earned her Master's degree in special education in 2015. After moving to Washington state with her husband and 2 dogs in 2017 she became a behavior intervention specialist with elementary aged kids and spent 4 more years in the school system there.

In 2021, after her husband made a joke about leaving the classroom to teach swim lessons in the garage she decided to give it a go. After finishing the garage space and adding a half bathroom she opened for her first lessons July 9, 2021. After accomplishing her goal of 25 kids per week in the first 3 weeks, she continued to grow through summer to 60 lessons a week. Within 3 months, she had 100 people on her waitlist before finally closing the waitlist at 500 families and switching to constant live registration. 4 years on she has over 200 graduates and an active client list of 600 families.