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Nakita M. Pope is the Chief Chick and Primary Brand Strategist of Branding Chicks, a boutique branding studio in Atlanta, GA with clients all over the United States. Branding Chicks specializes in brand strategy, development, consulting and management for women-owned businesses and female-focused brands. She helps clients narrow their focus, gives their brands a voice, slingshots their confidence, and clarifies their message so that it resonates directly with their audiences. She also helps businesses large and small to brand or re-brand to attract and grow customer bases for new products and professional services through custom, creative, relevant brand-promoting strategies. Over the past 20 years, she has worked as a strategist, graphic designer, creative director and brand manager which has given her experiences that inform how she works with her clients. Her passion for brand strategy is also evident through her teaching advertising strategy, branding and design at the Creative Circus for the past 10 years. Nakita is a graduate of Hampton University in Hampton, VA, where she obtained a B.A. in Graphic Design. She then went on to a graduate design program at The Portfolio Center (now Miami Ad School) in Atlanta, GA. She lives in Atlanta and is involved in several professional and non-profit organizations including AIGA where she is a board member and Education Committee Co-Chair for the Atlanta chapter and a member of the National Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. She is also the Board of Directors Vice President of Smart Girls on Campus and a board member of Good Thinking Atlanta. Along with her work and passion projects, she now she gets to share her knowledge and experiences with a variety of audiences on the national speaking stage for organizations like BBDO Atlanta, Phoenix Design Week, The One Club, Public Relations Society of America Georgia Tech College of Business. As always, her goal is to wield her crayons for good.

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Elisheva Ray is a house cleaning and organization specialist. Her purpose is help the world shine brighter one home, one heart, one space at a time. Her business name, Ray of Light Cleaning Solutions, was inspired by her desire to combine her love for spreading positivity and helping people find greater happiness, clarity, and peace of mind in their lives by helping to clean and clear their spaces. She believes that our homes have personalities, emotions, and voices of their very own that want to be heard, and therefore should be treated with love, compassion, and respect. She currently lives in and serves metro Atlanta and surrounding areas.. And is most grateful for her support system and what she affectionately calls her golden friendships. Her messages of love and light along with her infectious optimism about life and her love of people is one of the many reasons people are drawn to her.

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Sarah Galambos is the Creator of Unique Wellness Studios. Sarah believes total strangers divulge their whole life story to her. I’ve experienced first hand (and held many hearts) through marriages, divorces, births, deaths, and almost everything that happens in between. I am passionate about helping clients clear self limiting beliefs to get unstuck, cultivate happiness and become empowered to create lives they love living. The catalyst that drove me to create this business was the need to get my own head on straight. In 2013 I was newly divorced and making a boatload of unhealthy choices. In a moment of clarity I resolved to get myself unstuck and not take the same issues that contributed to the end of a 20 year marriage into any new relationship I was to have in the future. My Life Coaching program led me to uncover core wounds and recover from the toxic shame I was so tired of lugging around. The biggest hurdle I had to overcome was victimhood and addiction to my story. I learned to quit blaming other people, places and things for the choices I made and the way I was living. I turned my focus to intense personal development and creating a daily spiritual practice, both of which helped me take a good, hard look at myself as the common denominator in the creation of my life and circumstances. I got myself aligned from the inside out, and I’m constantly grateful for having the guts to get honest and the courage to get real. I know that all the answers we need and happiness we want already resides within us. The life I live now is so authentically happy, joyous and free~I’ve made it my mission is to help others learn how to create that for themselves. In my former life, I graduated from Agnes Scott College with a degree in psychology. I taught grades K-12 off and on for 20 years in Atlanta and I loved almost every minute of it. When I realized I was coaching and practicing yoga with my kindergartners more than focusing on Common Core Curriculum I decided it was time to pursue what I love most. I have 2 children, a husband and a cat whom I absolutely adore. They are amazing beings, my biggest supporters, loudest cheerleaders and sources of infinite gratitude. I learn something valuable from them every day. Every experience I’ve had led me to create this site and to share my passion for personal transformation with you. I am excited to learn more about you, to help you discover who you are and become the best version of yourself possible.

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Clarissa Sparks is a brand strategist, experienced facilitaor, and founder of the She Sparks Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. She is passionate about leveraging her experience across a wide range of industries to help multi-passionate entrepreneurs, emerging leaders, and corporations design innovative, sustainable business models and strategies. Clarissa turns ideas into visual and tangible experiences, and always brings a new perspective to the table – inspiring others to make an impact. She is the author of This Little Light of Mine, A Guided Journal of Purpose, Passion and Shine and co-author of Business & Career for the Christian Woman. 

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