Andrea Scoggin Leininger was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Andrea was an artistic child who excelled at art, dance, and writing, and spent each summer during her teen years studying ballet in New York and San Francisco. After graduating from High School, she pursued a professional ballet career, dancing for 10 years with various companies across the country. Her dance career took her back to Dallas, Texas, where she met and married Bruce Leininger, to whom she has been married for 17 years. After retiring from ballet, Andrea transitioned into a General Accounting career, which she enjoyed until the birth of her son James in 1998, when she left work to become a full-time wife and mother. Andrea and her husband currently reside in Lafayette, Louisiana and own their own Human Resources consulting business, Accelerated Performance Resources, LLC., for which she is a successful Professional Resume Writer. She is a gifted ballet teacher, and enjoys teaching master classes for dance schools across the country.