Peace. My name is Yolonda Coles Jones.

I am the force behind Empowered Journey Company, Adorn Natural Hair & Beauty with His Image Barber Shop & Natural Hair Studio, Mother Jones Music, Y.CJones Photography and Starseed Publishing (Life Sweet Words).  

My teaching and coaching experience began in 2004 at Bank of America Corporation when I was a business student at Hampton University in Hampton, VA.  I worked with banking associates from banking centers at all operational levels in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut as a Performance Improvement Coach & Facilitator.  

While in this role, I met my husband, Will Jones. We married in 2006. Together we became the birth parents to 2 daughters (in 2008 and 2009, respectively) before I graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA with a degree in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2011.  

Two years later, we welcomed a beautiful surprise set of twin boys.  

I've been committed to the work of caring well for and fully actualizing myself in this lifetime as an artist, a businesswoman and a human being. That mission has run congruently and intertwined with my work in fiercely advocating for and facilitating my children's comprehensive education with "home" and "family" as our established base. We have been of this mind and about this work since we welcomed our first child in 2008.  

With openness, warmth, professional excellence, wisdom, joy, grace and style as core values, I established Yolonda Jones Creative, LLC in 2016 setting out to ignite inspiration, fuel empowerment, stoke authenticity and cultivate healing in the world through facilitating soul-to-soul connection.  

In 2019, we welcomed our 16-year-old niece in to our immediate family. She completed high school in May of 2020 within our #HomeBasedEd structure and we are honored to come alongside her as she prepares for and moves into her young adulthood.  

I have been called a "warm," "grounding" and "powerful force" of "calm, inspiration and empowerment" by humans at all ages and stages.   

I am excited to partner with you.