Anita Washington, M.Ed. & M.B.A., is a passionate author dedicated to helping individuals achieve their fullest potential. With a wealth of knowledge in personal development, her mission is to inspire and guide readers on their journey to self-improvement. Author of 7 Steps to Beat Emotional Baggage and Family Is Not Everything, Anita provides personal development strategies and techniques for women to learn, laugh and more importantly heal emotionally. 

A former school and community agency counselor and creator of the 7-Step Method, Anita’s helped guide people from the ages of eleven to fifty through their own life issues, personal transformations and professional endeavors. With an old soul and a comedic, honest voice. She uses many southern colloquialisms and colorful expressions to unwrap personal stories of surviving a homicidal alcoholic father, a mother in denial and a physically and emotionally abusive brothers and relates them to guiding principles and healing techniques.

From nine-to-five, Anita is a Senior Acquisition Support Specialist, possessing years of performing and administering program management and cradle-to-grave commercial and federal contracting activities for acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to over $2 Billion. She has progressively worked her way up the federal acquisition lifecycle and commercial supply chain through various positions from pre-award and requirements definition to commodities buying to program management.

Anita is a graduate of Limestone College, Virginia State University, and Strayer University with a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.Ed. in Guidance & Counseling, and an M.B.A. in Contracts & Acquisitions. You can find Anita online at AnitaWashington.com, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Her handle is OneMoveToMore on all social media platforms.