From Government Assistance to Millionaire with Tiffany Harris of Kustom Kreationz Wholesale

Season 2: Episode #28

From Government Assistance to Millionaire, Tiffany Harris of Kustom Kreationz Wholesale

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”