Meet Our Editor-in-Chief

Cheryl Polote Williamson

Nationally acclaimed, award-winning multi best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker and executive producer, transformational speaker, and success coach Cheryl Polote Williamson is a global leader known for connecting other to their purpose. Owner of Cheryl Magazine, she is also CEO and Founder of Williamson Media Group, LLC, and Cheryl Polote Williamson, LLC. She is a highly sought-after influencer, and business leader who is also Founder and CEO of Soul Reborn, an award-winning 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.

Williamson tours nationally, motivating varied audiences to release negative strongholds, walk in power, and thrive in purpose. She has received multiple national and international media features and mentions, and several awards for her leadership and literary accomplishments to include: selection as one of Dallas Top 25 women and Female Success Factor Award recipients of 2016, the 2017 and 2018 Indie Author Literary Trailblazer Award, the 2018 Global Smashers Award, Who’s Who in Black Dallas Publishing, and Indie Author Legacy Award in 2017 and 2018, a 2018 African American Literary Award, and the 2020 African American Literary Award for Self-Published Author of the Year. She has been the featured author at the 2016, 2017, and 2018 NAACP National Conventions and the 2017 and 2018 Congressional Black Caucus, and is a 2021 Texas Women’s Foundation Maura Award winner. She has published multiple best selling titles and leads award-winning online communities where others have been inspired and motivated to create or take part in author or co-authorship, volunteerism, entrepreneurial ventures, and philanthropic gestures under her mentorship. 

Williamson’s memberships and affiliations include: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, The Links Incorporated (Mid-Cities Chapter), Jack and Jill of America (graduated out), The Walker’s Legacy Group Ambassador, Soul Reborn Charitable Outreach, Non-Fiction Author’s Association, Award-winning Online Communities (mentor for authorship, co-authorship, volunteerism, entrepreneurial ventures, philanthropic gestures), (formerly) Member of Forbes Coaches Council, Odyssey Media Group, and Christian Women in Media.

Serving is Cheryl Polote Williamson’s passion, but nothing comes before the love and care she gives to her husband Russ Williamson, her three amazing children, Russ, Jr., Courtney, and Lauren, and two adorable grandbabies, Leah and Russ III.