Jay Francis Springs is a community leader, and has been involved with neighborhood organizations, advocating on behalf of the quality of life for the disadvantaged and disenfranchised, serving as the chairperson of community based organizations, City of Atlanta, Fulton County and Federal government boards, and as a key cluster coordinator for President Jimmy Carter during the Atlanta Project.

Jay Francis Springs Recalls a time:"I came to Midtown in 1980 and started working at Peachtree + W. Peachtree where WIGO held their studios. Historically, WIGO is one of the two stations that has served the African American community dating back to the 1960’s. I used to catch the bus from Five Points and would ride by watching the melting pot that is Midtown and its changes. Midtown has always been an inspiring area, and Colony Square is a significant landmark.

In 1998, I started working in Colony Square at WAOK Radio. Everyone made me feel so welcomed. It is the comfort and safety at Colony Square that made people feel assured. The security guards were so awesomely, friendly that they even knew me by my first name.

When I came to work, I would watch the sunrise from dawn until twilight, enjoying the environment as if I were home. There used to be an older couple that lived behind Colony Square, and they would stand right in the front of the building every weekend as early as 6 AM. The scene was very romantic: two senior citizens that were out there dignified, dressed like they were going to the prom, just standing and waving at people. Sometimes they would be outside with a little dog that loved to lick your hand. I would stop and pet the dog and have a casual conversation with them and they would talk about the beauty of life. They were the kind of characters that made you feel at ease when you left them. That is one of the most unique qualities about Colony Square, everyone here makes you feel valuable."

Tameka Nichole gives time to the study of Hospitality & Resorts plus Hemp, Herbs & Muscadines for The Balmer Estates offering Hospitality, Beauty, Health and Wellness Naturally. Time to her Sanitary Napkin Business, www.TheQueenReign.com, Business consulting and artist development with #YourBeautyEntertainment Collectives, time to adults challenging Mental Health Disabilities and volunteering time to non-profit “Every Girl Shines” a multicultural program for high school & middle school age young girls as a mentor. Through her social campaign “#SistaSocialSupport” she offers social media support for women of on all social platforms as well as at social engagement and community outings where she collaborates with ‘sistas’.

When it comes to the music, Tameka Nichole began her music interest at the early age of 5 when her grandmother, Lillie Balmer moved her to the country town of Jackson, NC, after leaving the big city of Norfolk, VA, where all of her leisure time was dedicated simply to radio and beauty. Growing up on 103 Jamz (102.9fm WOWi) and FOXY (104.3fm/107.1fm) Tameka Nichole waited by the radio every night at 8 pm every night for any World Premiers and just to record the latest songs on her Just For Me cassette tapes that came free in her hair relaxer making a way to continuously hear her favorite songs while doing something in beauty, whether it was nails or hair, she fed her desire for both.

Tameka Nichole went on to attend North Carolina Central University where she stumbled into the pleasures of music, while walking the halls of the Farrison-Newton Communications building during the first week of her freshman year, causing her to change her major from her initial interest in from computers to Mass Communications with a concentration in Broadcast Media, and minoring in business and hospitality.

Tameka Nichole found immediate interest in the campus student radio station, AudioNet Campus Access Radio where she was able to build her talent as a Radio Personality, a dream that she held since the age of 5. After becoming heavily involved with AudioNet she was one of the main on-air personality to interview/record artist drops from celebrities in the entertainment industry.

Tameka Nichole then went on to become an NCCU Liasion for Black College Radio (BCR) as well as being given the opportunity to attend the BCR conferences launched by Lo Jelks in Atlanta, GA then on to become a representative for NCCU at the Kings Dominion “BET Black College Day.” From there she went on to finally create her own radio show, “The Pay Back” (paid homage to all those Classic R&B tunes that have been re-made and or sampled.). While at NCCU during her Junior year with the help of then Station Director, Truitt Oneal, Tameka Nichole become founding Organizer and President of AudioNet, affording the student station its first grant,  the station to gain necessary equipment such as station microphones.

From gaining all insights while working with AudioNet Tameka Nichole started early with Radio internships, holding her first internship the summer after her freshman year with First Media Radio in Weldon, NC to better prepare herself for her next internship, the summer after her sophomore year with Radio One Incorporated station, later using this opportunity to venture into the station’s promotion and marketing events as well as a cultivating a invaluable business relationship with Brian Dawson, where she worked as Executive Assistant and Assistant Director of Operations, Online Advertising & Marketing for Chase Media/BD Entertainment.

Tameka Nichole, now fifteen plus years later, her investments in people, through hospitality, esthetics, brand and artist development, she has developed a better insight on who she is and what she has to offer the world when it comes to entertainment. After years of cultivating, in 2017 she decided to simply merge of the two, Beauty & Entertainment. Tameka Nichole rebranded creating, “Tameka Nichole the Brand” and is now coined as “Your Beauty Entertainer”, the statement verbally expresses the combination of her life-time experiences in the beauty and entertainment industry. Her main goal is to promote beauty within while promoting the understanding that in every life experience beautiful or not, there’s always a “Soundtrack to YOUR Life”, it’s all about a memory, mood, having the feel of a hypnotic groove playing those tracks that simply get you tapping your feet and nodding your head.

DANCE! Just "Let The Music Play" by Shannon!

Offering full on personality, Your Beauty Entertainer as a host provides to all an entertaining experience that will enlighten your knowledge of the beauty and entertainment industry, divulging the everyday beautification hacks in music for women and men to continually keep the socializing, mingling, and party going!

“I told myself I would never stop achieving the unattainable, I took a chance and Perfected it into a craft not so much of a gamble because I’m a woman able to do anything, not perfect but perfecting my imPERFECTIONS, and I’m HERE NOW!!!” – Tameka Nichole #YourBeautyEntertainer

For more information about Tameka Nichole, log on to www.TamekaNichole.com

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Her dedication to communication led her to Georgia Highlands College, where she studied Communications and developed strengths in public speaking, media, and presentation. Those skills carried into her professional life, where she worked as a Regional Coordinator in a corporate office, coordinating communications and collaborating across departments. While her career grew in organization and leadership, her love for acting and media never faded.

Now, stepping into the world of radio, Ashley is excited to bring authenticity, love, curiosity, and positive energy/vibez to the microphone. Whether through music, conversation, or storytelling, her goal is to create a space where listeners feel connected, valued, and understood.

Contact Ash BZ by email at ashleybeard2006@yahoo.com

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