In the movie, Joy was very poor at first, so when she first approached her mop designs, she used her daughter's crayons and paper and she got ideas from things in her daughter's room, such as the endless loop of rope that is on her mop that was inspired by a dolls hair. Also Trudy stopped giving her money so she needed to take out a second mortgage on her house on top of being over 500,000 dollars in debt, Gerhart the man that ran the manufacturing plant that made the parts for her mops was stealing from her (both molds and money), and she had to get over the loss of her grandmother Mimi who was the person who believed the most in her and Mimi was the one who pushed her to be a better version of herself. She overcame these by starting to sell more and more mops off the QVC because she took over the place of the man who didn’t know how to use her mop, contacting many bosses of Gerhart and discovering he was lying to her so she made him pay her back by having his boss sign a contract and pay her back the money he scammed her out of, and the loosing of her grandmother was sad, but it gave her the power to show people that deserved to be respect and not to mess with her. Some of the people that helped were her Mimi and her daughter Cristy they helped her because they both always believed in Joy and supported
In the movie, Joy was very poor at first, so when she first approached her mop designs, she used her daughter's crayons and paper and she got ideas from things in her daughter's room, such as the endless loop of rope that is on her mop that was inspired by a dolls hair. Also Trudy stopped giving her money so she needed to take out a second mortgage on her house on top of being over 500,000 dollars in debt, Gerhart the man that ran the manufacturing plant that made the parts for her mops was stealing from her (both molds and money), and she had to get over the loss of her grandmother Mimi who was the person who believed the most in her and Mimi was the one who pushed her to be a better version of herself. She overcame these by starting to sell more and more mops off the QVC because she took over the place of the man who didn’t know how to use her mop, contacting many bosses of Gerhart and discovering he was lying to her so she made him pay her back by having his boss sign a contract and pay her back the money he scammed her out of, and the loosing of her grandmother was sad, but it gave her the power to show people that deserved to be respect and not to mess with her. Some of the people that helped were her Mimi and her daughter Cristy they helped her because they both always believed in Joy and supported