We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Javion Whetstone a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Javion thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’re complete cheeseballs and so we love asking folks to share the most heartwarming moment from their career – do you have a touching moment you can share with us?

There’s a story I carry with me—one that began long before I ever had a title like life coach, doula, or leader. It started when I was a 15-year-old girl who had to grow up faster than she was ready for. I became a wife and a mother before I learned who I was. I survived abuse, rejection, and years of feeling unseen. But what stayed with me the most was how alone I felt navigating motherhood and womanhood without guidance, advocacy, or a safe place to grow.

I didn’t know it then, but those years were shaping my calling.

Years later, while supporting a young mother during labor—a woman who reminded me of my younger self—I felt everything come full circle. She was scared, quiet, and afraid to take up space. When she reached out and whispered, “Can you stay close? I don’t want to do this wrong,” I held her hand with the kind of steadiness I prayed for at her age.

The room eventually filled now three generations of her family. Her mother, overwhelmed and emotional, looked at me and said, “Thank you for being what I wasn’t taught to be.”

In that moment, I realized I wasn’t just supporting a birth.
I was helping a family heal.
And I was healing pieces of myself, too.

That day crystallized something bigger: my work was never just about birth. It was about becoming the woman I needed—and offering that woman to others.

As I walked deeper into my calling, I understood a deeper level of coaching women, especially women who lead. I saw a pattern: brilliant, powerful women carrying silent wounds. Women leading teams, communities, and families, yet unsure how to lead themselves with compassion. Women showing up for everyone else while quietly questioning their own worth. Women who, like the mother in that hospital room—and like the younger version of me—needed someone to remind them:
“You cannot do this wrong. You were made for this.”

My life coaching grew out of the same place my doula work did: a desire to protect, empower, and advocate. But more than that, it came from my understanding that women who lead need safe spaces too. They need guidance, reflection, accountability, and sometimes just someone who can see the leader in them even when they can’t.

Helping women leaders reclaim themselves—through healing, self-awareness, boundaries, and belief—feels like watching someone give birth to the strongest version of who they are. It’s witnessing their rebirth.

Every setback I survived…
Every room where I felt small…
Every season where I questioned my value…
Those moments didn’t break me—they built the foundation of the coach and healer I am today.

When I look back, the most heartwarming part of my career isn’t a single moment.
It’s the realization that my life—the pain, the resilience, the rebuilding—became the curriculum God used to shape my purpose.

Today, whether I’m supporting a mother in labor or guiding a woman leader through a life transition, I show up with the same intention:
To make sure no woman has to navigate her becoming alone.
To help her say “yes” to herself.
And to be the safe place I once needed.

That’s the heart of my work.
And it’s the story I carry with gratitude.

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 back background and context?

My name is Javion Whetstone—a mother of 11, a survivor, a healer, a life coach, a doula, and the founder of Javi’s Chair Inc. and Interconnected Doulaship. My work centers on helping women say yes to themselves—yes to healing, leadership, boundaries, and purpose.

Before I ever stepped into a delivery room as a doula, I was already coaching women. My coaching began long before certifications, programs, or business names existed. It started with women seeing something in me—strength, wisdom, intuition—and trusting me with their truths. I became known for helping women navigate leadership, motherhood, identity, and the often silent battle of becoming who they were designed to be.
Coaching was my first calling. It was the doorway into realizing that my life, my experiences, and my voice could heal others.

How I Became a Doula

Years later, as my own children grew older and prepared to step into parenthood, I felt an urgent need to protect and advocate for them. I knew too well the harm that can happen when mothers—especially young mothers, Black mothers, vulnerable mothers—aren’t seen or heard.
I became a doula not to start a new career, but to ensure my children had safety, advocacy, and holistic support during birth. That decision quickly expanded into serving other women, because I realized the need was far greater than my own family.

Being in the birth space deepened my calling, expanding my coaching into an even more powerful form of healing. It connected my purpose as a mentor, a nurturer, and a leader with my personal journey of overcoming trauma, early motherhood, and navigating the healthcare system without support.

What I Offer

• Life Coaching for Women Leaders & Visionaries
This is the foundation of my work. I guide women through self-awareness, boundaries, belief, discipline, and identity shifts—all the inner work required for real leadership. My signature programs, including The Leaders Circle, help women stabilize their lives so they can lead with clarity and confidence.

• Birth Doula Support
Providing holistic, intuitive, and protective care for families during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. My approach blends advocacy, emotional presence, and generational healing.

• Speaking, Workshops & Transformation Events
I teach on motherhood, leadership, healing, and personal development—with a deep focus on belief and self-acceptance.

• Journals & Transformation Tools
Creative works like my self-love and boundary-setting journals help women reconnect with themselves and choose growth.

What Problems I Solve

I help women who:
• are navigating major transitions
• lead others while neglecting themselves
• need clarity, accountability, and emotional stability
• struggle with guilt, fear, people-pleasing, or over-functioning
• carry childhood wounds or generational patterns
• want to rebuild their confidence and reclaim their voice

My work supports women in stepping into leadership from a place of wholeness, not survival.

What Sets Me Apart

What sets me apart is that everything I teach comes from lived experience.
I coach from intuition, empathy, and spiritual insight—not theory. I’ve survived abuse, early motherhood, postpartum depression, and rejection from systems meant to protect me. I’ve rebuilt myself multiple times while raising 11 children and leading in multiple arenas.

Women trust me because I understand them deeply. I feel what they’re not saying.
And I hold them accountable without ever judging their process.

What I’m Most Proud Of

I am proud of the transformation I’ve created within myself—turning pain into purpose, vulnerability into power, and experience into leadership.

And I’m proud of every woman I’ve guided:
women who have healed, forgiven themselves, stood up for themselves, chosen discipline, chosen their families, chosen their dreams—and most importantly, chosen themselves.

What I Want People to Know

Javi’s Chair is more than a brand.
It’s a seat at the table where women are reminded of their worth, their strength, and their identity.
It’s a movement that gives women permission to rise without apology.
It’s a safe space for leaders, mothers, visionaries, and any woman who has ever felt misunderstood, unseen, or overwhelmed.

My life, my work, and my legacy all come down to this:
I help women say yes to themselves—deeply, fully, and unapologetically.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

One of the hardest lessons I had to unlearn was my need to feel seen and validated by others. I became a wife and mother at 15, and from that moment on, I slipped into a pattern of over-explaining, over-giving, and over-performing. I wanted people to understand my heart so badly that I tied my worth to their ability to receive me.

For years, being misunderstood felt like a personal failure. I tried to prove myself through loyalty, service, and sacrifice—hoping someone would finally say, “I see you.”

But healing taught me a deeper truth:
My value isn’t determined by who notices it.

Some people simply don’t have the capacity to see you clearly, and that’s not your burden to carry. I had to learn that being unseen doesn’t make me unworthy—and being misunderstood doesn’t make me wrong.

Letting go of my need for validation freed me. It allowed me to lead, love, and grow from a place of confidence instead of approval. And now, I teach that same truth to the women I coach:
You don’t need to be seen to be valuable.
You just need to be whole.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

The most effective strategy for growing my clientele has been word of mouth and personal recommendations. Because my work is deeply personal—whether I’m coaching a woman through a life transition or supporting a mother in birth—people choose me based on trust. Clients share their experiences with their friends, sisters, and coworkers, and those referrals consistently bring in the most aligned women.

Social media has also been powerful, not because of perfect content, but because I show up authentically. Sharing my story, my lessons, and the heart behind my work helps women feel connected to me before we ever speak. Reviews and testimonials further reinforce that trust.

Overall, my business grows through genuine connection—one woman’s transformation inspiring another to reach out.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Www.injavischair.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/injavischair?igsh=MTZkMDB6c3Fxa2ZjeQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1DLsnpMBc3/?mibextid=wwXIfr
• Other: Linktree

  https://linktr.ee/JavisChair

Image Credits

KB Photography- Chris Kelly