LaShanté Williams is a natural health advocate with a passion for life, love and laughter.  The athlete, model, community activist and business woman devoted over 12 years of her career as an Internal Auditor with Verizon, FedEx and International Paper.  In 1999 while pre-planning for marriage and childbirth LaShanté decided to pursue a deeper interest in personal wellness.  She soon discovered that one way to achieve wellness is to intentionally focus on nutrition and exercise.  LaShanté became a highly regarded natural health resource and speaker in her community.  She established A Fresh Approach in 2009 to provide a full range of nutritional solutions to clients through menu planning, nutritional coaching and personal cooking.  In addition, she volunteers and enjoys traveling with her family.

Resiliency and a flair for life characterize the founder and owner of Culinary Choices. Neither  a bout with cancer nor a layoff due to a merger could keep her down. Today that same up beat attitude infuses everything Kim touches.

Thanks to the cooking skills she learned from her grandmother, Emma “Big Mama” Monk, Kim has turned "lemons into lemon pies" and caters home cooked fare throughout the DFW area.  Read the Richardson Living article about Kim!

Amanda Hunt is the owner and director of Amanda's Dance Express in Grand Prairie, TX. In addition to her administrative responsibilities she teaches classes in all disciplines and levels. Amanda began her dance training at the age of five and went on to major in Ballet and Modern Dance at Texas Christian University, where she traveled the Southwest Conference performing as a TCU Show Girl.

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As a single mom raising a two year old daughter, I found myself with the typical dilemma faced by many executives today – how to meet the after 5 p.m. demands of a high-paying job, particularly when daycares closed at 6 p.m. In the male-dominated bond trading industry, inflexibility was simply snubbed at.

At the same time, I was discovering that business owners were retiring with more money and that security didn’t exist in the corporate world when 50% of the bond traders at my firm had been laid off. I turned off onto the entrepreneurial road.

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In 1999, Jan Van Blarcum, Ph.D. founded Creative Tutors. As an educator, Dr. Van Blarcum understood the importance of personalized attention in a child's educational growth. Her passion for learning grew into a business endeavor that provides customized, one-on-one, in-home tutoring to children with a variety of learning needs. Every child receives personalized attention from certified/degreed educators.

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