Exploring Life & Business with Cara AnnMarie of Doggy Do Good

Today we’d like to introduce you to Cara AnnMarie.

Hi Cara, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I’ve pretty much always been performing. I fell in love with musical theater early on, studied opera at the University of Michigan, and spent about a decade traveling the country doing shows. Like most actors, I picked up side hustles to make it work—except one of mine stuck. In 2015 my husband and I started Doggy Do Good, our eco-friendly pet brand, after we rescued a senior dog and wanted a way to give back on a bigger scale.

Since then, I’ve shifted my performing passion into TV and film—recurring on Cobra Kai, Detroiters, and Florida Man—and somewhere in the middle of all that, we decided to take our life on the road. Now I’m acting, running a business, and raising our son while traveling the country in our RV. It’s not the path I pictured, but it’s way crazier—and way more fun—than anything I could’ve dreamed up at the start.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
This makes me LAUGH – It definitely has NOT been a smooth road. Becoming new parents during a pandemic, while also trying to run a business and keep an acting career moving forward – taught me very quickly how to juggle (as best as possible), how to schedule —and honestly how important it is to make time not just for work, but for myself and for each other.

And then there’s RV life – don’t even get me started. Five years on the road has meant constant unknowns and more roadside breakdowns than I can count. We’ve had our wall slides stuck both in and out (which means you cannot drive or you can not make the RV expand to live in), things breaking in the middle of nowhere, it simply not starting – so we were stuck at a gas station in rural FL in a thunderstorm . . . . at night (with a toddler and a dog) —you name it. Some days, I swear we need our own reality show, like “Where’s the film crew when the RV won’t budge again?”

But honestly, those challenges – which at the time seemed like a nightmare – have made us so much stronger and resilient. We’ve learned that you have to laugh (or at least try to) through the chaos, and that flexibility has carried over into everything else. Life comes at you fast and you have to roll with it.

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Doggy Do Good ?
Doggy Do Good came out of a mix of love and necessity. As an actress, I knew the seasons could be unpredictable—busy one month, quiet the next. I wanted another stream of income that could grow alongside my career, and I wanted to build something with my husband that gave us flexibility and mobility.

Around that time, we rescued our second dog, and it was the two of them—Olive and Annie—who inspired us to think bigger: what if we could create products that cared for pets, the planet, and gave back at the same time? In 2015 we launched Doggy Do Good, with eco-friendly bags and pet products designed to do exactly that.

We’ve stayed true to that mission ever since—and even caught the attention of The New York Times’ Wirecutter, who featured our bags as one of their top eco-friendly picks. That moment meant a lot for a small, family-run business like ours.

Right now, we’re extremly proud of our Landfill-Friendly Pet Waste Bags, made with innovative Plasgreen® technology. It’s a material additive that helps our bags break down much faster—even in oxygen-poor landfill conditions—by attracting microbes that actually consume the plastic. The result is a durable, leakproof bag that starts decomposing in years instead of centuries, without leaving behind microplastics. It’s sustainability that fits real life—because let’s be honest, most people don’t have access to composting.

For us, that balance between practicality and purpose is everything. I get to keep acting, traveling, and running a business with my family that genuinely makes a difference—creating products that make it easier for people to do good every day.

Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
People are always surprised to see me driving our 40-foot rig, but I love it! I used to joke years ago that I’d make a great truck driver—because I love road trips, podcasts, belting along with the radio, and loading up on junky gas-station snacks.. And then, auditioning and taking jobs all over the country, I’d happily drive for a role. During my years working in musical theater, living out of a suitcase and seeing new places became an adventure. So the dream job I joked about kind of came true—only now I’ve got my family, my self-tape studio, and lots of snacks on board.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.cannmarie.com & www.doggydogood.com
• Instagram: @cara.annmarie & @doggydogooder
• Facebook: Actress Cara AnnMarie & DoggyDoGooder
• Twitter: Cara AnnMarie
• Youtube: Cara AnnMarie @ Rv Actress

Image Credits
Jackson Davis