A WOMAN has revealed that she makes £270,000 a year from a side hustle that she began working on in her lunch break. Maya Portorreal, 27, dreamed of being a fashion designer when she left university, but soon realised that it is expensive to get patterns and samples made. 2 Maya started her side hustle after leaving university Credit: youtube/@CNBCMakeIt 2 She makes £270,00 a year from her jewellery business Credit: youtube/@CNBCMakeIt She took a job as a retail assistant at a luxury label instead, and just a month and a half in, decided she wanted to start a jewellery brand.
Maya said that her colleagues thought she was "insane" but she decided to pursue her business venture, Kitten & Co, regardless. She started the business with just £1,500 back in 2019 and spent a month and a half coming up with the idea. After finding a supplier, she created a ring design, and then turned to social media to promote her work.
Maya soon got noticed by a number of influencers, who started to share her jewellery online. She soon began making sales, at first selling her rings for just £14.75.
As her business began to grow, she upped her prices, and Kitten & Co. was soon making £8,000 a month. Maya began taking classes to help her market her brand, which she said "scaled my company to a point that's unimaginable".
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