From Government Assistance to Millionaire
Tiffany Harris is a mother of three: two girls, one boy, plus one fur baby. She’s a wife and a profound businesswoman. She started Kustom Kreationz Wholesale (KKW) because she was getting married and was having issues with people making the customized items she wanted. So, she decided to learn how to create them herself. Once she figured out how to make those items, Tiffany learned about sublimation and fell in love. She calls herself the Sublimation Diva.
Tiffany grew up in a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia and has overcome extreme odds to become a huge success in her field. She teaches other entrepreneurs how to start their own businesses, how to navigate credit for business, and how to be unstoppable in the pursuit of creating a career.
- Sublimation is a printing process to make decorative apparel
- Growing up without entrepreneurial role models
- Working as a teacher until she had a stroke in the teachers’ lounge
- Starting work at 14 years of age
- Having the confidence to get past any obstacle
- Earning five college degrees
- Planning to run her own hotel and restaurant
- Earning a nursing degree and realizing she didn’t enjoy the profession
- Getting an MBA and a Master’s in Human Resources before getting a teaching degree
- Continuing to work a side business even after the stroke, using just one hand for all her typing
- Identifying what she wanted to do and how much it would cost and then figuring out how to earn the money
- The difference between her first visit to Disney and her more recent visits
- Messing up her credit at age 17 when getting credit cards at college
- Learning about credit and credit worthiness
- Focusing her debt repayment efforts on the most recent accounts
- Needing focus and patience to rebuild credit
- Starting her business when she was getting married because she couldn’t find a business that offered what she wanted for the right price
- Rather than reinventing the wheel, she learned to fix the shaky wheel
- Writing a book so others can understand you can rise above trials and tribulations (depression, suicidal thoughts, poverty, public assistance, violence, etc.)
- Building an academy to help business owners build their business credit
- “If at first, you don’t succeed, let’s just go off and try again”
Links referred to in the episode, and how to connect with the guest, Tiffany Harris:
The Makings of Me: My Journey to 7 Figures from My Living Room
