www.negociosnow.com
10 February 2017
Founder of Fantasty Party
Beatriz Cantu is a Latina en-
trepreneur with an empire of
businesses in the quinceñera
marketplace. Cantu established
her first business, Fantastic Par-
ty, in 2009, providing full-service
party planning. She is also the
founder and director of Sweet
15 Magazine, which launched
in 2011. Her program Family,
Ownership, Respect, Culture
and Education (FORCE) aims to
further inspire and motivate the
young Latinas who participate
in the Sweet 15 pageant/mode-
ling program. And ReCouture
is a community service project
that recycles gently used quin-
ceañera gowns for other Latinas
in need.
Building on the success
of her quinceañera business,
Cantu took over as interna-
tional director of the Plexon
Group's Expo 15 & Sweet 16. In
2015, she began offering life,
group and career motivational
presentations to young girls
and their mothers. She is a cer-
tified motivational speaker by
Asociación de Conferencistas
Hispanos and a contributing
author to Today's Inspired La-
tina. She is also the director of
Latinas en Chicago by LENY, a
private Chicago social media
group.
Cantu has served on the
committee for the Belvidere
chapter of the League of United
Latin American Citizens. She is
also founder and president of
the fledgling nonprofit Latino
Youth Empowerment. Cantu is
a regular guest on radio, televi-
sion, and webcasts and served
in 2016 as co-host of the weekly
radio program Ladies Night on
Radio Vive.
She holds a certificate from
Preston Bailey's Event De-
sign School and lives in Boone
County with her husband and
blended family of six.
Beatriz Cantu, 39
An
entrepreneuer
for
quinceañeras
"J
ust as the lotus flower blooms
in adversity you too can
bloom. No matter how cloudy the
water is, the important thing is to
believe in yourself and have faith
that something better will come."
