by When Anima Iris CEO and MBA pupil Wilglory Tanjong started making luxurious purses in February 2020, she didn’t anticipate Beyoncé to be carrying considered one of her purses a 12 months and a half later.
Anima Iris purses are made by a staff of seven artisans in Senegal. Tanjong instructed CNBC MakeIt that in her plans for the corporate’s future, “most significantly, I need us to essentially stay made in Africa.”
Tanjong isn’t the one one whose facet hustle has change into a profitable enterprise. Helena Faustin, who runs the favored meals weblog That Nurse Can Cook, makes $117,000 a 12 months cooking Jamaican meals out of her dwelling’s kitchen.
As a first-generation Jamaican American, Faustin mentioned she was “surrounded by a plethora of Caribbean affect.” She developed a ardour for cooking from a younger age and discovered the best way to cook dinner by watching her mom.
Her recommendation for aspiring entrepreneurs? “If you have got a expertise, harness that expertise, study as a lot as you possibly can from it, and monetize that factor.”
Domonique Brown, an artist and founding father of DomoINK, monetized her expertise by making a $267,000 artwork, attire and residential decor enterprise. Having grown up not seeing imagery of different Black ladies in shops, Brown intends for the model to be “a illustration of those that are all the time underrepresented.”
“You can carry your personal seat to the desk,” she mentioned, “or you possibly can make your personal desk.”
Like Brown, Paulana Lamonier turned her ardour right into a enterprise designed with Black Americans in thoughts. Lamonier mentioned her enterprise, Black People Will Swim, is a “name to motion” to make the swimming area extra inclusive. Its mission is “to smash the stereotype that Black folks do not swim.”
Black People Will Swim conducts swimming classes on Long Island and is attempting to lift sufficient funds to construct its personal swimming facility. Lamonier hopes Black People Will Swim will enable “Black and brown folks to see themselves and see that it is potential.”
Watch the video to study extra about how these Black female entrepreneurs are constructing wealth.
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