We recently connected with Asha Tarry and have shared our conversation below.

Asha, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My parents gave me guidance, but didn”t control my decisions. They would tell me stories about the past, and ask me questions to help me become a conscious & critical thinker and that, in addition to the ways I was trained by my school teachers and the training I received in undergraduate and graduate school shaped my ability to think critically.

This is a life tool that I have also imparted to my clients.

We desperately need a society that can think for themselves.

I will forever continue to do my part to support my clients and my peers and mentees to do the same.

Asha, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am first a human being and I preface everything after that with this statement because many times people want to categorize you by your profession.

As a career professional, I help adults to use their God-given gifts to help others while minimizing burnout, and creating a lasting legacy.
I do this through my work as a psychotherapist and certified life coach.

Using my gifts for the past 25 years to help people has been the most rewarding thing about my career. To have the liberty to work within a business that I own and have been able to work full-time, has been such a blessing.

I get so much joy watching people’s lives transform. To watch someone who started seeing me because they felt hopeless turn that feeling into power and start thinking differently, and changing their patterns with the past is one of the best experiences I’ve witnessed many times throughout my career.

The way that I coach and counsel people to become strengthened by their intuition, and trust in executing big and magnetic goals has helped clients grow their income easily, change their boundaries with people and work, and live on their own terms.

You may start off feeling stuck, but I am going to nurture and guide you back into a powerful place, and invoke wisdom, if you are ready and willing to live on purpose.

It’s a great feeling!

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

My career has gone through several iterations. I’ve experienced layoffs in my career and adjacent to me several times. After the 3rd time, I had had enough and I decided to redirect my plans.

I went through at least two rounds of burnout, and almost left the mental health industry.

But, after much introspection, courage, and God’s guidance I stepped into my purpose and became a small business owner. I learned how to take authority over my life and grew my income, paid off debt, and positioned myself to become a leader in my industry.

I continue to grow and am constantly in awe of how divine this work is and how I continue to experience prosperity in my creativity, expansion, and reputation.

I don’t take this responsibility for granted.

I am very grateful of this life and the flexibility my business allows me to have to also spend time with my family, travel, and rest more often. It’s wonderful. It’s not always easy work, but it’s worthwhile.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I had to learn that when things don’t work out – which for me was how to properly market my services to my business – you have the right to start again. Every new thing is not a new start. It’s a restart.

For me, it was important for me to learn how to market services. I investigated how my colleagues were gaining traction. I studied what they did, and applied their approaches to my work, and it worked. When I did that, it changed not only how I promoted my services, but over time, it changed where I promoted.

Now, I use organic marketing and word
of mouth to sustain and grow my work.

The lesson here is to not get stuck in doing things one way or your way. Learn from other people, humble yourself, and try again as many times as you need to.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.LifeCoachAsha.com
• Instagram: @ashatarrymental
• Linkedin: Asha Tarry
• Other: My newsletter, “Adulting Today” on LinkedIn.

  My book, “Adulting as a Millennial”

Image Credits

1st photo (yellow couch)- Mackenzie Clark

2nd photo (B&W polka dots)- Tyquane Bates