Leanna Archer was 9 years old when she began bottling and selling her great-grandmother’s secret recipe of hair pomade to friends and family. The hair pomade expanded into a line of all-natural hair products including a variety of hair cleansers, conditioners and treatments. Leanna is now 17 and serves as the CEO of her company. She has 6 locations, one of which is in France. Along with working to improve her products and make new ones, she designs the website and filters online orders. She has been recognized by prominent business publications like Forbes and Success Magazine and was selected as a youth Honoree recipient of the 2013 McDonald’s 365 Black Award in New Orleans.

With a proceed of the profits she started the Leanna Archer Education Foundation to help build schools and safe learning environments for underprivileged children in Haiti. One of the things that’s so unique about Leanna is her success at such a young age. She combined her passion for health and beauty to make a product that would help thousands. Leanna is a true Entrepreneur that has defied the odds of many young entrepreneurs today. Her entrepreneurial spirit and business inclined mind has allowed her to take initiative in new opportunities, while her youth grants her the ability to inspire and motivate the next generation of entrepreneurs. Leanna has shown that running a business at such a young age is not only possible, but profitable. In doing so, she has inspired may teens to do the same and keep working at their ideas even when they fail.

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