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Samantha Mui, 34, is the founder of thirst.
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Samantha Mui has always been a rebel.
Growing up, she knew she hated school, but loved to be creative and cook. As a child, she said, she was playing, pretending to be sick so that she could remain at home and watch Julia baby or Martha Stewart on TV and Tinker all day. Then she caused it all before her parents came home.
“I really fought at school because it was hard for me to pay attention to the class … I was really a brawler and I was some kind of offender,” Mui said CNBC do this. “I struggled with all the instructions. If I didn’t understand it, I just tried to do it in a way that made my meaning to me, but I felt that I always got a reprimand (for that).”
She remembered how it was located in the ESL class (English as the second language) in the fifth grade, despite the fact that it was born in the US and spoke English. “Ever since it happened), I just thought I’m not smart,” she said.
“At a young age, I knew that I needed to do it in my own way … I understood (what), I can’t make myself like something, but if I am interested, I will be obsessed with it,” Mui said.
And only when she was in the late 20’s, did she finally decide to accept her natural talents, not fight them.
Today, a 34-year-old San Francisco Bay is the author of the Culinary Book “Melting boiler“And the founder Thirsty dumplings. Its business brings about $ 20,000 a month, according to the documents considered by CNBC.
From cutting off to overcoming
Mui fought most of his life to fit into the form of society. After high school, she continued to study for a couple of months at college before deciding to go to the culinary school.
“I went to college into one semester and absolutely hated it. I just felt really lost, for example:” What am I doing here? “So I didn’t feel like I had another option,” Mui said. It was at the culinary school that she received much more confidence.
“I remember being on the dean’s honor list that year … At that moment I looked like:” Yeah, you’re not stupid … You’re just in the hands of man, “Mui said.
Through the culinary school, she came to accept her own learning style and decided that she should give college another chance. Thus, in 2012, at the age of 21, she abandoned the culinary school and enrolled in college to complete a bachelor’s degree.
“After that, I was always in an honorary roll. (I became) at that moment, because I finally hacked the school code. Just realizing that I was asked and … I had a lot of tricks in my head,” she said.
Until 2016, MUI received a bachelor’s degree in communications and media studies as well as a master’s degree in international business research. Over the next few years, she worked at several corporate and service jobs.
But she realized she was very unhappy. “I definitely didn’t feel that it was my ultimate goal at this moment … How, (there was) something inside me, what I wanted to do something else, you didn’t know what else,” Mui said.
In December 2022, Mui’s father died suddenly – only a few months after his grandmother’s death. She realized that only two things in life are really important: how you feel about others and whether you are happy.
Soon Mui left his corporate role and decided to take a break. She gave herself a rest, think and think about what she wanted to do next.
Thirsty dumplings in the product
For three weeks, when they were unemployed in April 2023, Mui called his mother, who said, “If you could only make a teacher, it’s just … It’s the idea of a billion dollars.”
“And the moment of the bulb disappeared … I remember the next day I started buying all these products to start making in my kitchen,” Mui said. The idea was to create a kit for their own so that people make dumplings from scratch.
I’m so much happier. It is so easier … If the money wasn’t an option, I would probably do (it) … I just feel what I always wanted to do my inner child.
Samantha Mui
Founder, thirsty dumplings
“At that moment, everything I survived … started to come back,” she said. “When I was younger where I really struggled with my studies – it’s like I knew I could create a product that could be very simple and simplified for (anyone for use).”
She thought the kits would give not only confidence in the kitchen, but also the way to learn about its culture.
Mui said that by November 2023 she had invested about $ 27,000 to start and launched a maple thirst. Now she lives in Chicago, where she is engaged in business, selling kits for dumplings, as well as teaching personal and online classes on how to make dumplings.
“I am so happy. So easier … If the money was not an option, I would probably do (it),” she said. “I just feel what I always wanted to do my inner child.”
Asked what I would tell her, if she could return to the past, Mui replied, “I would say to myself to appreciate my gifts and talents … Don’t focus so much on my weaknesses, focus on my strengths.”
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