Leslie Haywood is Founder and President of Charmed Life Products, LLC, inventor of Grill Charms™. Haywood was a stay-at-home mother to two daughters until April of 2006 when a very spicy light bulb moment thrust her into the entrepreneurial ring. Despite a diagnosis of breast cancer in June 2006 and a bilateral mastectomy in August 2006, Haywood launched her product Grill Charms™ November of the following year. Since the debut of Grill Charms™, she has appeared multiple times on CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”, on Charleston ABC affiliate Channel 4 “LowCountry Live” as well as ABC's hit reality TV show "Shark Tank". She has numerous publications such as Everyday with Rachael Ray, Parenting Magazine, Inc Magazine, Health Magazine, Inventors Digest, Chile Pepper Magazine, newspaper features, radio and pod cast interviews to her accreditation. For more information please visit her “news” page at www.grillcharms.com
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