3 Lessons I Learned from Domonique, a 30-Year-Old Earning $22,000/Month Passively

Jide Okonjo
4 min readNov 28, 2023
Photo: Domonique Brown

Domonique Brown is living the dream I aspire to. She’s doing what she loves for a living and earning a killer income from it. But getting to the point of making $22,000 a month — it didn’t happen overnight. Every get rich quick scheme I’ve personally been sold has either been a lie or illegal. So how did Domonique do it? And what lessons did I learn from her journey? I learned three.

LESSON 1: How to Become a Problem Solver? Solve a Problem

Domonique is an artist. She creates artworks which she sells on her website, Etsy, Society6, and retailers like Target and Home Goods. According to Dominique, she found it hard growing u pto find things specifically targeted towards her as a black person. In her words:

Growing up, I was often the only Black kid in my class, and I found it hard to find things that represented my background. My father and I would go out of our way to find greeting cards that had images of Black families on it. We’d buy them from individual sellers because many retailers didn’t carry them.

So when Domonique got into creating works of her own, what did she do? She used her talent to solve a problem for her younger self. She created work that centered around black people and the…

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