20 Women to Support During Black Business Month
Photo by ColorJoy Stock
Hey girl hey! Did you know… August is National Black Business Month! It’s a fabulous time to support Black-owned businesses in your community. Whether you’re a self care goddess in need of a candle refill or a babe who could use some help revamping her business’ books... we’ve got the perfect She-E-O for you!
Take a peek at all 20 of the amazing Black business owners in the Babe Crafted community and the epic services + products they offer.
Cheers to sending more dollars and support to Black-owned businesses!
3 Ways to Celebrate National Black Business Month:
Book a service and/or make a purchase from a business that is Black-owned this month
Shine a light on a business you’ve worked with and/or purchased from in the past by giving them a shout out on your social media and link to where your network can purchase from + support them
Share this blog post to help these 20 incredible business owners and their businesses get in front of more amazing, potential clients
Event & Meeting Space
Felicia Marshall | The Meet Suite // IG
The Meet Suite is a designer meeting space for modern business professionals, entrepreneurs and creatives to connect and collaborate with their audience through private events, workshops, and classes. The Meet Suite is located in beautiful Brandon, Florida.
Brandon, FL
Virtual Assistance & Systems Optimization
Kiki Marie | K Marie Digital // IG
Kiki is an Online Business Manager/Virtual Assistant that helps Influencers, Bloggers, & Entrepreneurs save time + expand their online reach so they can focus on making money. She is also a Brand Photographer with a Lifestyle/Photojournalistic flare.
Tampa, FL
Shatoria Smith | SL Smith Virtual Solutions // IG
Shatoria is a Virtual Assistant who helps small business owners organize and automate their business with systems. She has worked Cosmetologists, CPA’s, Finance Influencers, Graphic Designers, Virtual Assistants and Wedding Planners organize and automate their businesses with systems. She loves helping small biz owners feel confident about their systems and workflows.
She has recently picked up a new title as “Virtual Assistant Educator” where she teaches aspiring VA’s how to get started in the virtual space.
Apollo Beach, FL
Accounting, Bookkeeping & Tax Prep
Michelle Bradley | Tax Proof Tampa
Tax Pro of Tampa is a boutique firm, so clients can enjoy personalized service, and quality service that is beyond comparison. She is located in Tampa and provides a full range of services, including (but not limited to) Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll.
Tampa, FL
Chauvon Taylor | The Fresh Tax Maven // IG
Chauvon is a Virtual CFO & Tax Strategist - CEO of The Fresh Tax Maven, a boutique tax & accounting firm for the modern businesswoman. We strive to help clients streamline their financials, shift to smarter financial decisions, and strategize their money moves. In addition to serving clients monthly & quarterly with CFO services, we also specialize in helping clients stop wasting money on taxes they don’t owe through curated tax planning, tax strategy & tax preparation. Working with over 130 women to date, we have helped our clients collectively save over a quarter million dollars on their tax bills.
Tampa, FL
Yahaira Krahmer | Account Her // IG
Yahaira is the Founder of AccountHer, a full-service Tax & Accounting company geared toward woman-owned businesses. Their mission is to give trailblazing women fierce confidence in their finances by banishing financial confusion and offering high-level support so they can launch and scale their business without the overwhelmed. They provide a full range of services, including (but not limited to) tax Preparation, bookkeeping, CFO, and business consulting. AccountHer is based in New York City, they work with service-based businesses in all 50 states.
Dunellen, NJ
Coaching & Consulting
Nikita Williams | Thrive With Nikita // IG
Nikita Williams is a Mindset Business Coach helping Creatives with Endometriosis and Chronic illness create their own rules, find their hidden gifts masked as limitations all to create profitable and sustainable biz.
Lawrenceville, GA
Keosha Jones | Pink Productivity Coaching // IG
Keosha is a Productivity Coach who holistically supports female entrepreneurs with multiple streams of income and presents with distraction and/or have AD(H)D. Keosha helps them simplify processes and externalize goals for completion so that they can go to bed feeling accomplished, even when life throws curve balls.
Elberton, GA
Iris Thurman | IST Transformation Coaching // IG
Iris is the CEO and Founder of URLinked Enterprises, LLC and URLinked Charities INC. With a shared mission, each company uniquely focus on igniting change and equipping individuals with the tools necessary to grow.
Tampa, FL
Bianca Jackson | Serve, Impact & Prosper // IG
Bianca, along with her husband, founded Serve, Impact & Prosper to help servant leaders save time, make more impact & profits. Her passion is team development, training, and organizational maintenance.
Tampa, FL
Monique McLeod | The Management Suite // IG
Monique is the owner and Chief Strategist at The Management Suite. She helps business owners to be better leaders, manage their ideas, and utilize operations and strategic planning to bring their ideas to life.
Tampa, FL
Content Creation & Marketing
Silina Lee | Lina Plans // IG
With over 10 years of Event Planning, and Content Creation experience, Silina "Lina" Lee has been able to combine them and create ways to utilize your content and turn it into capital! Whether you are a business needing a social media media manager and content creation direction or you are planning an event and need marketing & promotion, her goal is to assist you to success.
Tampa, FL
Djeneé Dunn | Prymel Elements // IG
Djeneé Dunn is the Co-Founder of Prymel Elements, a Black-owned, women-led branding and consulting agency forging culture-bending minority brands around the world. At their core, Djeneé and her team are storytellers, visionaries, and dreamers who foster experiences and infuse holistic solutions from branding that evokes emotion, to design that brings ideation to life and captivating campaigns that evolve your brand and inspire impactful change.
Tampa, FL
Photography
Christina Jones | Christina Jones Photography // IG
Christina Jones is the founder of ColorJoy Stock, a stock content membership for diverse women entrepreneurs. She also serves real estate agents and investors with professional imagery for their listings and investment properties.
Clearwater, FL
Terrie Nelson | Terrie Images // IG
Terrie Nelson is the lead photographer for Terrie Images. Terrie Images is a fine art wedding creative team who specializes in creating serene, emotive, and intentional images for wedding professionals in the wedding industry. Terrie Images also caters to bride and grooms who value intentional and editorial focused work.
Terrie Images provides delicate and detail oriented photography services for both wedding professionals that adore the wedding industry and the editorial bride and groom. Terrie Images is certified in wedding planning and design. With this certification and experience in planning and design, Terrie Images and her team are able to curate a tailored and seamless process.
Terrie is also the owner of Lillie Mae Collection and the heart behind this Collection are her two daughters, Lillian and Elizabeth Mae! Lillie Mae Collection gowns are curated with a photographer and wedding designer's perspective. Each gown is filled with elements that will photograph well and elevate your next occasion..
Plant City, FL
Candles & Soul Care
Christina Arenas | Blue Sage Eco Boutique // IG
Tampa native Christina Arenas celebrates self-love, wellness, and nature through her business and community activism. A certified Sound Healing Practitioner and Reiki Practitioner, Christina founded Blue Sage Eco Boutique in 2013 to provide education about clean living and promote personal growth, soul care, and self-love. Her product line includes all-natural, hand-poured soy candles made with Essential oils, premium fragrance oils, and a touch of magic, as well as crystal-infused Intention Candle and Chakra Candle Collections.
Brandon, FL
Hair & Makeup
Milan B. Walker | Imago Dei by Milan // IG
Milan is a multi-published Bridal Makeup Artist and certified PhiBrows permanent makeup artist in Brandon, FL with over 10 years of experience in the beauty industry.
Brandon, FL
Event Planning
Stephany Perry | Stephany Perry Events // IG
Stephany is a hopeless romantic that truly is in love with love. Mix that with her love for planning and Stephany Perry Events, a Tampa based full service event planning and design company.
Wimauma, FL
Albriana Youyoute | Albriana Shante Events // IG
Albriana is an Event Planner and Designer for Albriana Shante Events and a Design Coach with Albriana Shante Consulting. Known for her attention to detail and eye for design, Albriana has been featured in luxury publications such as Martha Stewart Weddings, Style Me Pretty, and Muna Luchi. She is a mother to two beautiful princesses, a wife, encourager, educator, stylist, and motivator.
Tampa, FL
Website Design & Development
Tasha Hussey | Lavender Turtle Creative LLC // IG
Tasha is the owner and CEO of Lavender Turtle Creative LLC, a very tranquil digital web agency. She and her team help busy entrepreneurs reduce stress by designing, developing, hosting, and caring for their websites. She's a Certified Digital Business Consultant and 2022 Babe Crafted Award Winner.
Austin, Texas
Disclaimer: The business owners featured in this blog are members of Babe Crafted (at the time of publishing).
