We were lucky to catch up with Nassiah Saaneah recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Nassiah thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

I would say one of the most defining moments in my career was when I realized I had a desire or passion to do something I feared. When I realized it, I couldn’t understand it. I had an desire to talk with others opening a safe for a healing discussion. Meanwhile I was terrified to talk in front of others let alone share my experiences on similar issues. I thought to myself why would the Lord gift me with something I feared my whole life. Looking back on my encounters that I had talking to family members & friends I always noticed it ended up with me giving advice, support, or just simply sharing my experience. I noticed I would feel a sense of warm joy because I was able to help someone with what they were going through. Then that’s when I understood why I was given the gift. Most of the time what you fear doing is what you’re actually suppose to do. You just have to see the vision and build yourself up. Once I realized that my career shifted even the way I showed up in the world shifted. I started to post more and more videos of topics that might have been uncomfortable to share but I knew someone needed to hear it. This journey has even helped me to stay true to myself and be honest with I go through.

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?

I’ve always been the type of person to stay to myself mixing up concoctions while being in my own world. It all started with me taking my mental health in my own hands by making a product that would keep me calm and centered. So I came up with my own aromatherapy spray then eventually adding a roll on. As time progressed so did my relationship with myself. Learning what makes me feel good about myself along the journey. I eventually came up with a hair oil. I’ve always expressed myself through my hair learning how to do it in multiple ways that expressed how I was feeling. And taking care of it, making sure it was moisturized, and healthy was a act of self love. I’ve currently focused my attention on making hair oils because it’s really hard to find a good oil that doesn’t have any chemicals. What I do and create is an expression of who I am and how I take care of myself. So the products I make reflect that and also my growth within myself. Most companies reflect what is in demand but I wanted to take a different route and just simply reflect me, what I go through and what helps with my mental health. I love to open the floor to create a vulnerable space for growth, healing, and honesty. Because mental health is not in just about how you look but how you feel, what habits you have that are either harming yourself or supporting, and the environment you surround yourself in.

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

One of the hardest lessons that I had to unlearn was that sometimes your family members don’t have their best interest in you. I had to release the notion that since their my family members they know how to treat me and how I need to be treated. Being the type of big hearted person that I am I expected that how people treat me was how I would treat them. This is not to bash or anything but just simply being honest on a topic that is not really talked about and swept under the rug. This is not even with family but also friends that I had put on a pedestal, gave them the upmost respect, and the benefit of the doubt. But I noticed that I would never get that in return. I would always overcompensate my relationships with others. Always giving more than what I got in return and didn’t even see that they were giving less than what I was giving. Being that way was not healthy for my mental, spiritual, and emotional self. It always led me to being hurt being ,let down, and wanting to be alone. It’s not a bad thing to have discernment with your family members or friends. Because at the end of the day you have to protect yourself and your dreams and there’s nothing wrong with that. Most of the times your friends and family members don’t see your vision until it’s in the physical form until you put all the work and sweat in it. And that’s okay, because who is suppose to see it and understand it is you.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

When taking a leap of faith you have to basically let go of the old version of you, or at least that’s what I had to do. After making that decision for myself I had to trust myself and in the Most High. I basically had to step out on faith not being able to see what’s in front of me because I’ve never done it before. I took a leap of faith on my business, my relationships, and the version that I was seeking to be. It’s very scary when you do that because you literally go through a whole 180 transformation. You start to have to relearn yourself. Others won’t recognize you anymore. The relationships won’t connect anymore. That’s all because the person that you were before you took the leap of faith you no longer are. So when you do that everything changes whether you have control over it or not. This is the part where you really see your strength and what you’re capable of. It’s breathtaking to see it in that way. The things you thought you wouldn’t be able to do alone or wouldn’t be able to change you wind up doing it anyway. All the doubts and disbelief in yourself start to fade away. You come out stronger, wiser, courageous, and whole. I took my leap of faith a while back and it has been a long journey. A lonely one, heartbreaking one, relieving, breathtaking, and exciting journey. You never really get to see what you’re actually made of until your back is against the wall. I never gave up because the vision given was stronger than my fears, doubts, and worries. I also didn’t wanna go back to being the person that was scared and always put in a box and taken advantaged of. Now I can say I know what I’m capable of and I’m not scared of what’s to come next.

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