COVID shut down a Miami mom’s struggling business, but a quarantine need unexpectedly earned her $100K – NBC 6 South Florida

Five years after the Corona virus pandemic disease, many people consider destruction, uncertainty and fear in 2020. In the meantime, despite the chaos, some people suffered a positive change due to Kovide 19.

Claudia Roman is one of these people. The 56 -year -old has been based in Miami for about 30 years. Single mother worked in real estate, and once had a Sushi bar in Colombia.

For the past 10 years, Roman has been tanning clients. Before pandemic illness, she was renting a small room in a beauty salon.

Roman explained, “I didn’t have enough money to start the studio.” So, I asked the landlord, ‘When you have the unit available, tell me’.

It was a dream to be a suit that was always Roman, but it did not become a reality by December 2019 when the landlord told him about the location available.

“I said, ‘Okay, I’ll take it,” I didn’t even think about it, “he said with a laugh. “I was a little nervous, but I just said, go for it.”

And, he did.

She moved her tanning salon to a large place, but she wanted to be more than ‘Happy Tanning’.

“People always kept asking me what else do you do?” Roman remembered.

After receiving a certification in Colombia, Dominican Republic and Europe, Claudia added brows and micro -building in its reservoir.

He was rarely aware that after all schools education, and the renovation of his business, the global pandemic will begin after putting about $ 15,000.

“I just signed a three -year lease, and I was like ‘what am I doing here?’ You know it’s like 3 years, “Roman said.

“People are dying, people are losing their job. No, it was bad,” Roman remembered. “So, I said to myself, I was re -preparing the floor and everything and this is the Spanish saying that ‘Davis Provira’. He said with tears in his eyes.

However, even before being able to open, he closed his doors, such as mandatory to do all other businesses in Miami and the United States.

When it was given a green light to reopen, there was no business in the tanning section of the salon.

But the brows took off.

“I think ‘who’s coming to browse?’ But if you think about it, what are you looking for? ”

“So I was necessary,” he said laughing. “People needed browse because they would look in the mirror and the only thing you are seeing is the eyes and brows.”

A positive outbreak for Roman when its business Happy Browse Miami continued to be found through social media and mouth words. Roman said, since the beginning of 2020, she had been tracking 000 30,000, but at the end of 2020, she received six figures.

“I couldn’t believe it. In fact, because it was initially difficult. And, I was like that when he started to be busy and busy, I was like ‘Oh my God we made it’.

The reason for this is the opportunity to jump in Kovide 19 and Faith, that Roman is capable of living in relation to its promoted business.

“Especially as the same mother, you have to do it somehow. Roman said,” We should go for it only and to fulfill it.

The business owner is hoping that he will be able to hire more assistants in 2025 so that he can baskets in his hard work, with a person who is his number one motivation: his daughter.

“I feel very proud of myself when I am honest, and I see that I am setting an example for my daughter because she makes me feel very proud of me, so it also has a lot of meaning to me.”

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