How I Built a Business With No Money, No Mentor & No Blueprint

Make It Happen with Iyia Liu · Jun 22, 2026 · 13m

Before I built multi-million-dollar businesses, I was working as a promo girl, waitress and Uber driver trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.

In this episode, I’m sharing the real story of how I went from having no mentor, no blueprint and very little idea what I was doing to building businesses of my own.

I get into how I started, the risks I took and the very public business failure that nearly broke me - and how that same business went on to turn over more than $10 million a year.

I also share what those experiences taught me about failure, backing yourself and…