We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Brianna Bellamy. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Brianna below.
Brianna, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. One of the things we most admire about small businesses is their ability to diverge from the corporate/industry standard. Is there something that you or your brand do that differs from the industry standard? We’d love to hear about it as well as any stories you might have that illustrate how or why this difference matters.
Crumbl cookies offer a lot of options however they don’t offer Vegan options , I have a permanent Vegan option list available on my Instagram and it can be requested on my website to give inclusiveness to those with allergies and dietary restrictions.
Brianna, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
My name is Brianna Bellamy and I am the owner of a small business called Juncho’s Cookies . I left my job to fully pursue being an entrepreneur. For 3 years I’ve been filling hearts with my cookie flavors, that i only plan on expanding to new heights. To keep things short and sweet I am sending this message with the hopes of finding offices, markets, schools, and even small restaurants who want to share the goodness of my cookie company. With over 20 flavors to choose from I made sure to have something for everyone!
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
Unlearning that you should live comfortably is very important. I’m not saying live uncomfortably, but you definitely want to challenge yourself and take risk. It felt better to keep all lessons and earnings 100% to myself and not break it down with a company. That by the way, can fire me at any given time. You want to have security, everything you want takes a little labor. Once you refuel yourself and teach yourself all the things you want to learn you can truly set yourself free. You do not need a company.
What else should we know about how you took your side hustle and scaled it up into what it is today?
When I was working at Philadelphia Mills Mall in Philadelphia I would bring cookies when i came to work on weekends. Believe me when I say the second I got to the back office the other staff would RUN to come get first dibs on their favorite flavors, it dawned on me. I need to start selling these. I was convinced that I could support myself by selling cookies and did research for weeks on how to start a cookie business and spoke to other bakers I knew to get inspired. I got my LLC & Serve Safe and started doing pop up events every week to share my business. 3 years later I have a website and am working on getting a food truck Summer of 2025.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://junchoscookies.bigcartel.com/?_gl=1*bc4btq*_gcl_au*NzQ1NTY1Nzk1LjE3MjY1MjAzOTQuMzYwOTE5MTAzLjE3MjY1MjA0NDAuMTcyNjUyMDQ0MQ..*_ga*MjUwMzk5NjY1LjE3MjY1MjAzOTQ.*_ga_QZ4HDFTSEZ*MTcyNjUyMDM5NC4xLjEuMTcyNjUyMDQ0NC4xMC4wLjE4MDk5Nzk1MDg.
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/junchoscookies?igsh=OHF0bnQ1czZ4dm54
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-bellamy-0b894717b
Image Credits
All photos are credits of Brianna Bellamy