"When your finances are organized, you stop stressing, stop losing money, and start making more confident business decisions.”
Leah Michelle
Founder, LionHall Strategic Partners
Helping Businesses Gain Financial Clarity & Confidence
The Bookkeeper Who's Been in Your Shoes
I know what it feels like to swipe your card at a restaurant and hold your breath.
I know what it feels like to walk past that stack of receipts every single day and tell yourself — I'll get to it. Later. Before taxes. Next year.
I know — because I did it for years.
I have a Financial Planning degree from Purdue University. The degree was real. The chaos was real too.
It took losing my mother — and sitting alone in a quiet house not knowing what came next — for me to finally open my own books. And the moment I did, the stress started lifting immediately.
I built LionHall Strategic Partners for every business owner still waiting for that moment.
You don't have to wait for a funeral to find your clarity.
Continue reading my story below...
MY MOTHER MADE ME GET A DEGREE I DIDN'T WANT.
My dream was a daycare center. I had the vision. I had the heart for it.
My mother had other ideas.
She said: go get a business degree. So I went to Purdue University and earned a degree in Financial Planning and Counseling. A degree I didn't choose. Didn't want. Not yet.
THE YEARS I BUILT — AND AVOIDED
I graduated Mercer University. Got my Master's in Education. Built a life around the things I loved — corporate training, teaching, life coaching, writing, helping people build better lives.
And my books? Move to Happy, Move to Self-Love to name a few.
A stack of receipts on my desk that kept growing.
Bank statements I meant to review.
QuickBooks I logged into and closed without touching.
A promise I made myself every year: I'll get to it before taxes.
I had the degree. I knew exactly what I was supposed to do.
But knowing what to do and actually doing it — when you're running your business alone, pouring yourself into clients, living month to month and holding your breath at the register — those are two very different things.
I was living the same chaos my clients live in.
FIVE YEARS OF CAREGIVING
In October 2019, my mother got sick. Cancer. Later Dementia.
I became her full-time caregiver for five years. I kept my business going. I kept showing up.
But the financial side of my own business? Nobody was touching it.
I sacrificed everything to care for her. And I would do it again without hesitation.
THE MOMENT EVERYTHING SHIFTED
My mother passed in January 2025.
I came home after the burial. Five years of caregiving was over. And I sat in my house — not knowing what to do with myself. What was next? How much money did I have? What was the plan?
Something shifted.
I wanted to make my parents proud — even though they were both gone.
I sat down at my desk and opened my books.
Transaction by transaction. Account by account.
And the stress started lifting.
Not slowly. Almost immediately.
I thought — I cannot be the only one.
I cannot be the only smart, hardworking, capable business owner who has been living like this. Who has been avoiding the one thing that would set them free.
That was the moment LionHall Strategic Partners was born.
MY PROMISE TO YOU
I didn't build this business to judge you for where your books are.
I built it because I know exactly what it feels like to be there.
My mother insisted on a business degree I didn't want. It turns out — she knew what I would need before I did.
LionHall Strategic Partners is her legacy. And your financial clarity is my mission.
You don't have to explain why your books are behind. You don't have to clean them up before you call me. You just have to be ready to know the truth — and do something about it.
I'm here when you are.
Leah Michelle
CEO & FOUNDER
Office: 1954 Airport Rd
Ste 1554
Chamblee, GA 30341
Call
470-470-6313
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Site: www.lionhallstrategicpartners.com