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Special Edition: "Mompreneurs" with Lenise Williams

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Lenise Williams / Attorney  

Lenise Williams is a mother, entrepreneur educator, Small Business Attorney and Business Consultant. She provides female entrepreneurs with legal and business consulting to navigate them through the challenges of launching their business and building a lucrative brand. She also assists entrepreneurs in protecting their brand through proper legal agreements, federal protection through trademark and copyright, investor agreements, contract review, legal formation and much more.

Lenise also provides resources and guides to the aspiring and existing entrepreneur. She travels nationally speaking to women about building and growing their own business. Her goal is to launch 1,000 women into entrepreneurship over the next 3 years. She further seeks to aid an additional 500 female owned businesses with expanding their business & their income.

Janelle Perilliat / Mother Hustler   

Janelle Perrilliat is a single mother to a tween son, blogger at MotherHustler.com, owner of Joonie & Jake’s Face and Body Art, and Contract Manager at an Atlanta based law firm. Janelle launched MotherHustler.com as a platform for modern moms to share information, encourage philanthropy, and inspire each other! She has worked in the field of real estate law at the Atlanta based firm, McCalla Raymer, LLC for the past 13 years. Nurturing her passion for children and the arts, she spends most weekends as a face painter and much of her free time volunteering with various non-profits in the Atlanta area.

Shanicia Boswell / Yeyo’s Organic Body Products    

Shanicia Boswell is Owner & Founder of Yeyo’s Organic Body Products, the newest revolution to organic skincare. Her company provides alternatives to the chemically ridden products and forces consumers to confront the fact that no matter how healthy you eat, your skin still absorbs everything you apply topically. “Feed your skin something good!”

Kelly Sirois / Atlanta Hollywood Entertainment & PR   

Kelly T. Sirois is a Digital Marketing and PR Specialist with a focus in entertainment industry. She is owner and president of AtlantaHollywood.com, an online hub for talent. Kelly has over 30 years experience in the Entertainment Industry and applies that experience towards helping her 2 children break into the into the music industry and YouTube world. Kelly has her BA in Film and Video Production and minor in marketing leaving her with the creative skills and business sense to build an entertainment empire in Atlanta.

Kelly works directly through referrals and is often presented with marketing opportunities for small businesses. Her niche is with Entertainers and Real Estate.

Kelly is married to her husband Jim Sirois. They have been together for 14 years. Kelly’s has two children, and is “momager” to Garland and Devan, both are students working in the entertainment industry.

Cheri Flake / The Stress Therapist for Moms   

Cheri Augustine Flake is The Stress Therapist for Moms. She believes that creating healthy habits is the key to stress reduction and happy living and has made this belief the focus of her private practice. In a high energy and engaging style, Cheri teaches her clients and workshop attendees how to work on establishing long-term change and healthy habits without stress, procrastination or excuses. The result is that clients not only generate motivation, but are able to sustain it for the long-term.

“Moms that are consistently doing whatever makes their heart sing, are happier moms. This instills a value that is more likely to be passed on to our kids.”

“One thing I know about kids is they don’t always do what we tell them to…they more likely do what they see us doing.”

“So, how can we expect our kids to go for their dreams when we’re not even thinking about ours?”

As a mother of two small children, Cheri understands firsthand how stressful and hard it can be to live your life and be a mom. Cheri believes that performing, recording and touring with Atlanta pop band 13 Stories for 12 years prior to becoming a mom, actually helped prepare her for her journey into motherhood. To the benefit of her clientele, the marriage of all of these experiences prompted a recent decision to focus on serving the mommy community — Because Cheri truly believes that every mom is a rock star.

Cheri is currently working on her forthcoming book entitled, “Be A Rock Star Mom: Be Cool, Keep Your Cool and Make Music Among Mayhem”

Cheri Augustine Flake is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience helping people in the Atlanta area. Cheri has worked as a social worker and therapist in numerous settings including inpatient, outpatient, pharmaceutical research, and private practice. Her training includes Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Michigan State University, and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia. Cheri is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist as well as a Certified Distance Credentialed Counselor. Cheri is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, the National Association of Social Workers, the Georgia Society of Clinical Social Work and the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy.