BOB Spotlight #3: Lil Leaders — Backpacks That Put Leaders in Classrooms
Every Tuesday, the Black Business Focus Group puts one Black-owned business in front of all of us. This week — Spotlight #3 — it's Lil Leaders of League City, Texas.
Lil Leaders creates products that inspire young children to see themselves as leaders. The designs say it out loud: a young doctor in her white coat under the words "You can do anything," surrounded by the vocabulary of ambition — learn, success, goals, friendship. These aren't backpacks with cartoons on them. They're pep talks a kid carries on their back.
The ONE thing: the featured backpack — fuchsia, school supplies included — is $49.99, and it's made to be put directly into a classroom in your community. Buy one, and a student walks in equipped while a Black-owned business grows. That's the whole BBFG idea in a single purchase.
And this isn't theory. Lil Leaders just showcased at AfroTech in Houston — and Earn Your Leisure founders Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings stopped by the booth, heard the story, and bought a bag. In Ingrid's own words afterward: "Phillip W. Dunn, Founder of #BlackBusinessFocusGroup has been a supporter since the very beginning... success isn't just about what you accomplish, but also about who you help along the way." That's what this community does — we show up, we buy, we connect.
Do your part:
- Buy the backpack: https://lilleaders.com/collections/backpacks/products/lil-leaders-backpack-fuschia-3
- Then log it: https://www.blackbusinessfocusgroup.com/track-black-owned-business-support — every log moves the counter, and the counter is how we prove what our dollars do together.
Want your business in a future Spotlight? Submit through the BOB Spotlight form on blackbusinessfocusgroup.com/bob-spotlight — complete submissions (price and location included) go first. The Spotlight is free, and it always will be.
It's our time!
-Phil-
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