Michelle Malie and Jessica Ulrich were college roommates, married their respective sweethearts and even had children about the same time. They knew how to succeed and they wanted to expand their existing entrepreneurial endeavours, Malie’s handcrafted, decorative hair bows, Binga Bows, and Ulrich’s wedding cakes, which she bakes on demand as owner of Sugar Baby Cakes.
As best friends since 2002 they were working out on the treadmill to work off their baby weight and talking, when they decided to combine their talents and create a business out of what they knew and loved. Kids and musical theatre.
They devised a plan to offer children, 2 and older, vocal training, dance technique and musical theatre opportunities. Both women had achieved success in the performing arts and together boasted 40 years of combined experience.
Teaching their mastered crafts was the next logical step in their careers. As businesswomen, wives and mothers of 3-year-old toddlers and newborns, the women added directors of Platinum Performing Arts Centre to their resumes.
They now run a booming business instilling a love for music in young kids, and moms and dads are encouraged to participate.
Now not only have the moms figured out how to succeed but they are teaching toddlers how to do it too.
“Laurelle Johnson, a work at home mom, will be honored as “Entrepreneur Mother of the Year” by “Working Mother Magazine” in New York, May 8, 2009. Johnson joins a select group of high-powered businesswomen, including Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States, to be honored as a working mom who adeptly balances her career with being a mother.”
