I'm Laiba. I built this so an income never had to cost me my home.

A frustration, turned into a curriculum.

In 2022, building something on Instagram felt like the right call. Before I ever taught anyone, I was the student — piecing candle making together from free YouTube tutorials. They made it look quick and easy. My kitchen told a different story. Every video skipped the ten things that actually went wrong the moment I tried it myself.

Free tutorials weren't going to get me there. So I started doing my own research — burning wax, burning my fingers, and going through more money than I'd like to admit — until the fundamentals finally clicked: the real rules behind why a candle behaves the way it does.

As my own candle business grew, something else happened. Women started asking to learn from me — not just how to make a candle, but how to make something they could genuinely be proud of.

When I finally said yes to teaching, after enough people asked, my first-ever student registered: a woman named Annie. My first batch had 23 women, ranging from 18 years old to over 70 — every one of them a complete beginner.

I remember that first class like it happened yesterday. My heart was pounding through all three hours. Twenty-three women were trusting me to help them learn something they could call their own. My favorite part of that class was the Q&A — because questions meant they were really trying, really learning. To this day, that's still my favorite part of every class I teach.

Twenty-seven batches later, I'm still improving how I teach, batch after batch — so every student can walk away able to stand on her own two feet, confidently, whether she's building a hobby or a business.