Sonia Booker – affectionately known as the “wealth-builder” is on a mission to build a better world. An internationally-recognized thought leader and top-rated keynote speaker on wealth creation, real estate investing, entrepreneurship and impact philanthropy, for the last decade Sonia has been at the forefront of a movement to equip everyday people with the blueprint to build wealth, one dollar at a time. This focus has evolved and expanded into a firm commitment to expand people's understanding of wealth as a dimension of wellness. 

Founder of several companies, Sonia has built from blank pages an impressive portfolio of real estate holdings and businesses.  As a conservative-growth investor of over 20 years, she has led, invested in and advised a broad mix of creative industry talent, brands and real-estate enterprises doing business in the US and China.

THE VAULTS

In addition to her own startups, Sonia has been involved with the launch, growth, or financing of over 15 other companies. Today she is Chief Visionary Officer, of Vault Industries, Inc., and President of the Vault Real Estate Group where she manages all aspects of re-imagining  urban neighborhoods into wellness communities. Sonia opened the flagship location - The Vault at East Point in June 2018 and officially started programming in the arts, wealth, entrepreneurship and wellness in October. Learn more and follow the journey at WeAreTheVault.com. 

BIOBIO

Sonia's desire to help women build what she refers to as Beauty Wealth, produced a grand location in the heart of downtown Atlanta. BIOBIO | The Beauty Place is a co-work space by day for the beauty, glam, style and wellness to build and grow profitable businesses. The space is used for pop-up shops, networking, community growth and wellness activities. "It's a place where we can go to be intentional about supporting women businesses."

BOOKS

Sonia is the author of the Essence best seller – Real Estate and Wealth: Investing in the American Dream, this step-by-step guide has helped thousands to be successful.  She followed up this book with Self-Wealth for Women: An Inspirational Book & Journal, this popular book for women was published through Sonia’s company, Sunny Life Publishing which also assist budding new authors to build wealth by sharing their stories. Sonia is a coach for Think Realty, a platform dedicated to the success of real estate investors where she records regular content and speak at conferences throughout the U.S. 

MEDIA

In addition, Sonia hosted her Wealth Building Show on The Wall Street Network/Biz 1190 AM for two-years before moving to Podcast. She can be seen regularly on TV One's Sister Circle Live, recently appearing on CBS as well as NBC affiliate stations. She has been featured in dozens of publications and media including O, The Magazine, Entrepreneur, Onyx Woman and Black Enterprise. For the past ten years, she has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Women of Influence in Atlanta, by the Atlanta Business League. 

ADVOCACY 

Sonia is a former Board Member for the YWCA of Atlanta where she served as the Chair of Real Estate Committee. Currently, she sits on the board for the Downtown Development Authority in East Point, GA. She is the founder of a one of a kind women’s wealth building group known as My Inner Circle.  Sonia holds a Business Administration Degree from The University of Southern Mississippi and a M.B.A from the University of Dallas.