A WOMAN who shared a bed with her parents until she was 19, and earned less than a pound an hour, now owns a six figure business. Katya Varbanova, 32, may have come from humble beginnings making 80p an hour as a waitress at one point, but she now gets paid £1.9k per hour for consulting and her viral marketing company made £1.
4m+ in revenue in the last 3 years alone. Katya says despite sharing one small room to sleep in, her lifestyle in post-communist Bulgaria set her up for success as a "scrappy" entrepreneur in the UK. Katya, who has 250k+ followers across all her social media @theofficialkatya said: "My parents made sacrifices to support me.
It goes to show the importance of believing in your kids”. "We lived in a tiny apartment, so they could invest in my education, my piano lessons, or tennis practice. They dreamed of big things for me and I am blessed that they told me from a young age that I could be anything - because it helped me believe in myself too.
" Now Katya is the CEO of a multi-faceted online business, Viral Marketing Stars, with over 20,000 customers worldwide and over 250,000 followers across her social media channels. When she was 19, Katya left her humble home life in the small town of Montana, Bulgaria to study law and business in Liverpool. After graduation she lived in Liverpool, London and Leeds and her business is registered in the UK.
But for now she lives in Malta with her fiance, Jamie Nudelman, 32, because she says she has built the business t.