Anthony Lee Witt is the founder and creator of The Champion Entrepreneur. He has spent his life looking for how he can create and provide value for others and their business. In short, this is exactly what The Champion Entrepreneur is all about; providing valuable information and resources to help others become the champion that they know deep down inside they are. Like most entrepreneurs and individuals in this life, Anthony has had his fair share of struggles. He believes that no matter who you are there have been one or two struggles which have held you back from becoming the champion you were made to be. He helps others overcome these struggles because we are all made with unique attributes and strengths.
Focusing on strengths is one of the ways Anthony has become a Champion. He personally has been blessed with the inability to properly take the written word and make sense of it in his mind. This is more commonly known as dyslexia. This disability or more appropriately, this weakness has plagued him his entire life. From determining how he would be able to pass a driving exam to ordering food at a restaurant or even being able to spell his children’s full names. By looking at the negatives for years, Anthony held himself back and his ability to help others and provide value for those he came in contact with.
Because of this weakness he has developed a keen sense of understanding and an ability to connect with people, helping them find their true calling. By focusing on strengths and not weaknesses he has been able to analyze situations and develop practical and usable plans for overcoming what holds you back. Converting weaknesses to strengths and focusing on those strengths has made a world of difference in his personal and professional life. Anthony absolutely loves helping others do the same in their lives.
He is a father, a husband, a brother, a son, and an entrepreneur. In all, he strives to be a Champion one day at a time.
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Christine Gritmon is 36 and on her fourth career. After Vassar, she spent nearly a decade in the corporate beauty industry which taught her a lot about marketing and branding. She then went back to study graphic design at Parsons and when her son was born became a freelance graphic designer, local lifestyle journalist, and creator of funny Photoshops for a comedy website. When her daughter was born, Christine became a full-time journalist with The Journal News which broadened her horizons exponentially and helped her become a real fixture in the community. She also learned a LOT about social media from our newsroom audience analyst, and after supplementing that with some education (training programs, lots of reading, etc.), she decided to combine her love of social media and small local business and become a social media manager.
She’s also the proud wife of Greg (like everything else in her life, she found him online), mom of two great kids plus a cat and a dog. She’s also become something of an activist recently.
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Yvonne Stafford, a consummate entrepreneur, was born in Harlem. Her broad experience includes owning Stafford Realty Group, a commercial real estate firm for the past twenty years among other business endeavors. She is a holistic health advocate, public speaker, and author of the book: From Fast Foods to Slow Foods: How to Wake up Laughing. She produces the annual Natural Living Film Festival and Community Forum, now in its 5th year at the Maysles Cinema.
Ms. Stafford graduated New York University with a Master’s Degree in Theater. She is a former Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ) small business Board Member, and Harlem Business Alliance Secretary.
Ms. Stafford is the 2016 recipient of the Woman of Substance Award, given in memory of the Hon. Theresa Freeman-Timmons, for excellence in leadership and public service in the 70th Assembly District, Part A.
She is a friend of the NYPL Schomburg Center, an avid reader, tennis player, swimmer and mother of six. Ms. Stafford holds a Master’s Degree from New York University.
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Laura Cheek is the Founder and Social Brander of Insperience It. Insperience It is a social branding agency specializing in branding and social media management for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Laura leverages social media to build irresistible brands and consumer bonds in various industries, from Professional Service Providers to Restaurants and Lifestyle Brands. After 6 years of grassroot efforts and experiential learning, Laura has developed a technique to social branding. Since the launch of Insperience It, Laura has since developed another business, Social Brandr. Social Brandr is an online community and resource center where online entrepreneurs can go to learn how to build a strong brand and exploit social media to better their business using Laura's technique.
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Billee Howard is Founder + Chief Engagement Officer of Brandthropologie, a cutting edge communications collective specializing in identifying the most powerful collision point of culture and commerce for each client to create captivating stories that are consumed, shared and drive meaningful and measurable engagement. Billee is a veteran communications executive in brand development, trend forecasting, strategic media relations, and C-suite executive positioning. She has a book dedicated to the study of the sharing economy called WeCommerce released in December 2015 as well as a blog entitled The Brandthropologist dedicated to curating the trends driving our economy forward. She is also a regular contributor to Forbes and HuffPo on the topics of marketing, storytelling and the collaborative economy.
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