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Donna Maria Coles Johnson is CEO of Indie Business Media, a communications company offering custom content and expert insights to help small and independent business owners maximize their potential in life and business. Ms. Johnson is also the founder and CEO of the Indie Beauty Network, a trade organization serving independent companies that offer health, beauty and lifestyle products and services. Ms. Johnson hosts the Indie Business Radio show, a weekly show featuring authors, experts and influencers who are as committed as she is to encouraging small business success. The Small Business Administration has honored Ms. Johnson as the Washington, DC Home Based Business of the Year. Ms...

Donna Maria Coles Johnson is CEO of Indie Business Media, a communications company offering custom content and expert insights to help small and independent business owners maximize their potential in life and business. Ms. Johnson is also the founder and CEO of the Indie Beauty Network, a trade organization serving independent companies that offer health, beauty and lifestyle products and services.

Ms. Johnson hosts the Indie Business Radio show, a weekly show featuring authors, experts and influencers who are as committed as she is to encouraging small business success. The Small Business Administration has honored Ms. Johnson as the Washington, DC Home Based Business of the Year. Ms. Johnson has been featured in dozens of national media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Business Journal, The Chicago Tribune, ABC World News, National Public Radio, Entrepreneur Magazine, Working Mother Magazine and Ebony Magazine. A native of Washington, DC, Johnson resides in her adopted hometown of Charlotte, NC, with her husband and business partner and their two children.
Donna Maria is a 2003 US Small Business Administration Home-Based Business Advocate of the Year. She works tirelessly to spearhead efforts to defeat pending draft federal legislation that would put small and "micro" cosmetics businesses out of business. Donna Maria graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. She was earned a Juris Doctorate from the Catholic University of America, where she served on the prestigious Law Review and majored in telecommunications. She served in the law and public policy department at a Fortune 500 company before exiting the workforce in 2001 to manage her businesses full-time. Donna Maria is the author of the "Lifestyle CEO Book: How to Break all the Rules, Build Your Own Corporate Ladder and Create the Life You Love," and "Making Aromatherapy Creams & Lotions." She is the National Work At Home Network Director for Mocha Moms, Inc., a non-profit organization supporting mothers of color.

Donna Maria has been included in dozens of media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Ebony Magazine, The Washington Post, the Washington Times, Global Cosmetic Industry Magazine, the Natural Foods Merchandiser, the Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, Parents Magazine, National Public Radio and the Washington Business Journal. A native of Washington, DC, Donna Maria makes her home outside Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband and their two children.