We recently connected with Cam Kashani, SSD and have shared our conversation below.

Cam, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

One of the biggest risks I’ve ever taken wasn’t starting a business—it was telling the truth.

For years, people knew me as the entrepreneur. The community builder. The woman helping put Silicon Beach on the map. From the outside, it looked like I had it together.

What most people didn’t know was how much I was struggling internally.

I spent years battling self-hatred, body image issues, eating disorders, anxiety, and a deep sense that I wasn’t enough. I became very good at achieving, performing, and succeeding, but underneath it all, I was carrying wounds I hadn’t fully healed.

The risk came when I decided to stop hiding that part of my story.

As I began stepping into transformational work, I had a choice. I could present a polished version of myself and maintain the image people already had of me, or I could tell the truth.

And the truth felt terrifying.

I worried people would judge me. I worried they would question my credibility. I worried they would see my struggles as weakness rather than strength.

But I also knew that the people who needed my message didn’t need another perfect success story. They needed someone willing to be real.

So I started sharing.

I shared my experiences with self-hatred.
I shared my healing journey.
I shared the lessons I learned through pain, loss, and transformation.
I shared the parts of myself I had spent years trying to hide.

What happened surprised me.

Instead of losing connection with people, I found deeper connection.

The more honest I became, the more people felt seen. The more vulnerable I became, the more others felt permission to be vulnerable too.

That experience taught me something I will never forget: authenticity is a risk, but so is hiding.

And in my experience, hiding costs far more.

Today, some of the things I was once most ashamed of have become the very things that allow me to connect with others. The wounds I spent years trying to conceal became the foundation of my purpose.

Taking that risk changed not only my career—it changed my life.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

My name is Cam Kashani, and at the heart of everything I do is one simple mission: guiding people back to who they truly are.

Today, I’m known as a transformational speaker, teacher, author, and conscious leadership expert. I’ve spoken at universities, corporations, conferences, and internationally as an Expert Speaker for the U.S. State Department. I’ve been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. I hold an MBA, a doctorate in Spirituality, and have spent years studying human behavior, psychology, leadership, healing, and personal transformation.

But the truth is, I didn’t get into this work because I had life figured out. I got into it because I was suffering.

For much of my life, I struggled with deep self-hatred. I battled eating disorders, body shame, anxiety, people-pleasing, and the painful belief that I wasn’t enough. I spent years trying to earn my worth through achievement, success, relationships, and external validation. From the outside, I looked successful. On the inside, I felt disconnected from myself.

My own healing journey became my greatest teacher.

As I began doing the inner work, I discovered that most of our suffering isn’t caused by who we are—it’s caused by the stories we’ve been told about who we are. The more I healed, the more I realized that every wound carried wisdom, every challenge held an invitation, and every person already possessed the power they were seeking outside themselves.

That realization changed the trajectory of my life.

Today, my work focuses on guiding people to transform pain into power, reconnect with their authentic selves, and lead their lives from a place of truth rather than fear. Through speaking engagements, workshops, programs, media appearances, my podcast, “Conscious Conversations with Cam”, and my book “Becoming Unfckwithable: A Woman’s Guide to Transform Pain into Power” (available on Amazon), I share practical tools for emotional healing, self-worth, embodiment, conscious leadership, and personal transformation.

What sets my work apart is that I don’t teach from theory alone. I teach from lived experience. I have walked through divorce, single motherhood, heartbreak, self-rejection, burnout, and profound personal transformation. The tools I share are tools I have used myself. They have been tested in real life, not just in a classroom.

I am particularly passionate about guiding women to reclaim their power. For generations, women have been taught to doubt themselves, disconnect from their intuition, seek approval, and define their worth through external measures. My work invites women to remember that their power is not something they need to earn—it is their birthright.

What I am most proud of is not the media features, awards, or speaking engagements, although I am grateful for all of them. What I am most proud of is the transformation I witness in the people I serve. Watching someone move from self-doubt to self-trust, from shame to self-love, or from feeling lost to feeling empowered is the greatest reward imaginable.

If there’s one thing I want people to know about me and my work, it’s this: I don’t believe anyone is broken. I believe people have simply forgotten who they are beneath the conditioning, wounds, and stories they’ve accumulated throughout life.

My work is about guiding people back to themselves.

Because when we remember who we truly are, everything changes.

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

I didn’t just pivot one thing—I pivoted everything at once.

Years ago, I was deeply immersed in the technology industry. I co-founded the first coworking space in Los Angeles dedicated to the startup and technology ecosystem, and over time I became known as the “Godmother of Silicon Beach.” I had built a strong reputation, an incredible network, and a business I was deeply proud of. From the outside, it looked like everything was working.

Then, in what felt like a single breath, everything changed.

I went through a divorce, lost my business, and found myself starting over as a single mother to one-and-a-half-year-old twin boys. It wasn’t just a professional loss—it was a complete identity crisis. So much of who I thought I was had been tied to my marriage, my company, my achievements, and the role I played in the world. Suddenly, all of that was gone.

I remember asking myself a question that many people face at some point in their lives: “Who am I when everything I built my identity around disappears?”

That question became the beginning of a profound transformation.

I began doing deep inner work. Not because I wanted a new career, but because I wanted to heal. I wanted to understand why I had spent so much of my life seeking validation outside of myself. I wanted to understand my pain, my patterns, my fears, and ultimately, myself.

As I did the work, I realized that true power doesn’t come from success, titles, businesses, relationships, or accomplishments. It comes from knowing who you are beneath all of those things. It comes from remembering your worth when the external world is no longer reflecting it back to you. It’s being fully sovereign.

As I healed, I began remembering my own power. And in that process, I discovered my life’s work.

Today, I guide others through their own transformations, helping them reconnect with themselves, reclaim their power, and create lives rooted in authenticity rather than external validation. I am especially passionate about guiding women because I know firsthand how easy it is to lose ourselves in the expectations, roles, and stories we’ve inherited.

Looking back, losing my business and going through that divorce felt devastating at the time. But it was also one of the greatest gifts of my life. It stripped away everything that wasn’t truly me so I could finally discover what was.

Sometimes the most painful pivots become the doorway to our deepest purpose.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One of the biggest lessons I’ve had to unlearn is the belief that my body was the enemy.

For most of my life, I didn’t just dislike my body—I hated it.

I judged it, fought it, punished it, starved it, ignored it, and spent years wishing it were different. I believed that if I could just lose enough weight, fix enough flaws, or become beautiful enough, then I would finally feel worthy. Finally feel lovable. Finally feel enough.

But no amount of changing my body ever changed the way I felt about myself.

The truth is, my war with my body was never really about my body.

It was about the deep belief that something was wrong with me.

I spent decades trying to control my body because I didn’t know how to love myself.

I struggled with eating disorders. I struggled with self-worth. I struggled with looking in the mirror and feeling disappointed by what I saw. There were moments in my life when I genuinely believed my body had betrayed me.

What I couldn’t see then was that my body had never betrayed me.

I had betrayed my body.

I had abandoned it in pursuit of acceptance. I had ignored its wisdom in exchange for other people’s approval. I had spent years treating it like an obstacle rather than an ally.

Everything changed when I began doing the deeper healing work.

Slowly, I started listening.

And I realized the weight I carried wasn’t just weight. It was protection.

The symptoms weren’t punishments. They were messages.

The disconnection wasn’t failure. It was an invitation to come home to myself.

For the first time, I stopped asking, “What’s wrong with my body?” and started asking, “What is my body trying to teach me?”

That question changed my life.

Today, the thing I once hated most has become one of my greatest loves.

My body became my teacher, guide, and compass.

It taught me intuition before I trusted my intuition.
It taught me self-love before I knew how to love myself.
It taught me that healing isn’t about fixing ourselves—it’s about remembering ourselves.

When people ask me about my life’s work, I often tell them that I am a woman who met God through her body.

Not because my body became perfect.

But because my body became the place where I finally learned to listen.

The greatest lesson I had to unlearn was that my body was the problem.

It wasn’t.

My body was carrying me home the entire time.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://camkashani.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/cam_kashani
• Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/camkashani
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Cam_Kashani

Image Credits

Brian Lima (only the two professioanl photos with the white background)