JEAN'S FINANCING

STARTING a financial business can be capital-intensive, especially when you're doing it in the middle of a pandemic. But for Lotoya Jean, a career bank teller and financial consultant, all it took was a little willpower.

“I didn't know where the money was gonna come from but I knew I had a dream and I was determined to see that dream become a reality,” said Jean.

Jean is the owner of a registered business in the United States which was launched about one year ago. The business is a financial and consulting firm focused on helping other Americans with business planning, taxes, immigration and credit consulting. She explained that funding for that business came out of her own pocket. “I funded the business myself by pulling the money I saved in my 401(k); it wasn't much but it gave me a start,” Jean noted. But her knack for entrepreneurship started long ago. She said, “I have been an entrepreneur since age 13, selling first in the front of my grandmother's house to help my mom with my sister.”