This College Student Had $100 In Her Bank Account When She Started Baking, With The Visibility From TikTok She Is Selling Out At Farmer’s Markets

Joulenie Pierre had faith the size of a mustard seed and has watched her bakery grow to new heights.

Pierre was a college student double-majoring in economics and political science on a pre-law track in Miami when she ventured into entrepreneurship. To support herself financially, she had a job working 30 hours a week at Lululemon, she shared on TikTok.

Feeling stressed, she said she leaned into her passion for baking.

“Baking was my way of having my own peace, my own clarity, and being as calm as I possibly can be. It helped keep me grounded. It was like my form of therapy essentially,” Pierre, 20, explained on TikTok.

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With the help of her business partner, Jovan, she launched Roll and Dough. Pierre had just $100 in her bank account at the time and was waiting on her financial aid to come in to cover her rent. She went two months without being able to pay her rent, but she did invest in a stand mixer.

“I was working at a golf course making $12 an hour, and I had $100 in my account, and I spent $50 on afterpay just for my stand mixer to break after the first use. And then I finally got a new one, and that lasted for a whole year,” she expressed in a TikTok video. “But I was so happy that I invested in it, even though I had no money at the time. I had no idea where the money was going to come from next, but I manifested it. I don’t care about taking a little risk because I know it’s always going to pay off.”

At the start, Pierre was making about five cinnamon rolls a week and sold about three to five orders a week, which were to people she knew around her college town. Then she expanded her product to lineup to cookies, adding a special ingredient honoring her Haitian roots.

“I started using this one element that a lot of Haitian cuisines use because I am Haitian … It made my cookies transform to a whole different type of like palette that a lot of the other cookies that I was trying did not … I literally was just raised on Haitian food, and for me to be able to like implement something Haitian into my food and my baked goods was, it was genuinely like so exciting for me because I was like ‘Oh my god I can actually share it to the world how good it is to implement things from different cultures,'” she said in a TikTok video.

Pierre sells her sweet treats online from her Florida kitchen, and after doing research she found out that is legally permitted as long as she doesn’t surpass a certain revenue limit.

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