11-Year-Old Entreprenuer Turns Her Love of Slime Making
Into Cash Making Business
Z’niyah Willams turned her desire to buy snacks at
school into her very own cash making business where
she hosts slime parties.
“We got a new vending machine and we never had
money, and we needed a way to make money,” said the
6 grader. “We all knew that we were good at making
slime and we all had slime equipment. So we were like
‘hey guys let’s sell slime’.”
Z’niyah and three friends put their heads together to
create a plan to sell slime to their classmates. They
made cool designs and exotic colors for their prod-
ucts and then turned their school into a marketplace.
The then 5th graders sold the slime for $.50 to $5 and
their classmates bought it. They bought so much that
Z’niyah was able to bring home revenue of $81.
Her new business was going great, but she neglected to
tell her mother what she was up to. Her mom, Joi El-
more, discovered the money in her bookbag and was
alarmed by where she could have gotten that much
money from. Joi Elmore and her daughter Z’niyah
Williams. an 11-year-old CEO.
“So she comes home one day with a purse full of mon-
ey and I’m thinking it’s something crazy like “What
did you do?” I was about to call parents and find out
where she got this money from. She was like no mom
this is my business with my friends. This is why I was
making slime all weekend,” said Elmore.
Instead of leaving the slime creation as a side hustle
to get snacks from the school’s vending machines, her
mother encouraged Z’niyah to turn her favorite pas-
time into a legitimate business.
“I made her stop and get a paper and start writing
ideas down,” said Elmore, who’s an entrepreneur her-
self. “I basically did with her what I did with my oth-
er business.I started working on the logo and colors
schemes.”
Customers can book her services and she’ll host your
slime filled party. Z’niyah came up with a science labo-
ratory theme for her events. Each party goer receives a
kid sized lab coat and goggles to use while they make
their slime creation.
Her mom supervises, and Z’niyah runs the show.
“She’s going to teach them how to do it and each kid
will take slime home in a container,” said Elmore.
Z’niyah said she enjoys making slime because it re-
lieves stress and it’s easy to make. However, she does
admit that it took her some time to perfect her slime
making craft. She taught herself to make the goo-like
substance from watching videos on Youtube and re-
searching on the internet.
“I just kept practicing, I kept going on Youtube and I
got better and better until I became more confident
with making slime. Then I was like ‘I’m pretty good at
this.’ I got better and better to the point that now I’m a
slime master,” she said.
Elmore is a serial entrepreneur herself and has clearly
led Z’niyah by her example. She owns Huff and Puff
Hookah LLC, a full service on demand hookah cater-
ing company with an all female staff.
She also owns an online store called The Housewife
Simplified. This site provides mothers with products
that can simplify their daily tasks as mothers and pro-
vides relaxation and spa products to help them unwind
after a busy day. After going and growing through the
highs and lows of entrepreneurship, Elmore created a
Facebook Group called “Mind Wealth Book Club &
Social Group” to create a supportive community for
new entrepreneurs.
“People don’t understand how hard it really is and
juggling all of that you really have to have a positive
mindset when being an entrepreneur,” said Elmore. “I
struggled with the balance, with confidence and feel-
ing like you’re doing everything on your own. Coming
from a family that’s not entrepreneurs I was really in
a pool by myself. So I wanted to make a community
of like minded individuals who I could help along the
way while I also help myself.”
Z’niyah credits her mother’s business success as her
motivation to want to create her own company.
“I always see my mom do her business and I thought
it was really cool. I didn’t want to be a regular kid just
sitting in their room playing video games. I needed to
do something; something that was fun and something
that I wanted to,” said Z’niyah.
Joi Elmore is one proud mother and said to Z’niyah
that her creation of a business to buy snacks was pro-
gressive thinking.
“I explained to her that even with you having the
mindset to even sell it to your classmates; that’s an en-
trepreneurial mind and you can take something like
this and learn the business and learn how to work a
business and how to market a business,” said Elmore,
who isn’t surprised that Z’niayh was that outgoing.
She said she saw her lack of shyness in full display
when they were guests on the Ellen Show in 2017 and
Z’niyah freely spoke to the megastar when Elmore was
so nervous.
“She did an amazing job. But I was freaking out,” said
Elmore laughing about how the show put them on the
spot. But Z’niyah wasn’t phased. “At that point I said
she’s got something. She nailed it.”
The Golden child, as her mother calls her, is a top stu-
dent and makes stellar grades. Z’niyah dreams of be-
ing an actress and making it big in Hollywood by star-
ing in her favorite show, Stranger Things. Although
the budding actress has tinseltown in her sights, she’s
super focused on growing her new company.
“My dream and goals for the company is to make it
big. For people to actually like what I’m doing and to
keep booking and for people to be happy and satisfied
with the slime they’ve created,” said Z’niyah. “I want
other little girls of color to look up to me or any person
to look up to me and think that they can make their
own business too.”
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(Reprint from hylonewsmiami.com)