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

Sonja, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Alright, so you had your idea and then what happened? Can you walk us through the story of how you went from just an idea to executing on the idea

Ever since I was a young girl and as a teenager, I always had friends, male or female, that would come to me just to sit down and talk. Somehow I easily attracted people who wanted to just share their story or their situations with me and they would allow me to give them advice. I was always able to see things in a realm that most didn’t see. Apparently I was giving really good advice because they kept coming back. Sometimes it led to great friendships and sometimes I may have never heard from them again. During my young adult life I literally would go places and strangers would come up to me and just start telling me their challenges and life stories. It was as if they knew to come to me to get the help they needed. Obviously I must have been a beacon of light for them. When I became a hairstylist years ago, I noticed I was doing a lot of counseling to people behind the chair. Clients would come in and they would share and confide all of their sad stories, their happy stories, and their challenges and I would help them navigate through all of it. Then I found myself very heavy in ministry operating as the outreach coordinator. I enjoyed reaching out and serving the community. I was over the singles ministry and I had a very powerful influence over guiding people on the path to enlightenment and healthy relationships. When I turned 30 years old I got into multi-level marketing and that was where I really found my voice. I learned personal development and leadership skills that I am still using today. That was where I really learned how to strategically help people, problem solve, and give them a detailed oriented outcome. I built an organization of thousands of women where I helped them change their mindset from employees to business owners. The more I did this the more I realized the power of my voice. I was in multi-level marketing speaking and coaching for years, until finally one day, the voice inside of me said never build something that somebody else can take away. From that moment I made a decision that I was going to bet on myself. I was going to risk it all on me. I took everything I learned and IamSonja Renee` was born. I now build my public speaking and coaching platform under my own business for the people who are called to the sound of my voice, my wisdom, and my solutions. I am a beacon of light to help them navigate through this thing that we call life and I enjoy every moment of it!

Sonja, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I got into the industry of public speaking and coaching through multi-level-marketing/direct sales. It was there I learned personal development, strategic planning, leadership skills, and business skills that I still use today. I already had the gift of helping people, so being a part of the MLM industry allowed me to sharpen my ax and really develop the skill set that was already in me. As for services I offer 1 0n 1 and group coaching to my clients as well as speaking on platforms to groups at one time. The problem that I solve today is that I help women heal from abandonment trauma. So many people are walking around today with trauma that is buried so deep in them from their childhood and it is affecting the relationships that they have today. I realized that 90% to 95% of the reasons why people’s relationships fail is because of some form of abandonment trauma/childhood trauma that was never addressed. I also learned through my own abandonment trauma that I didn’t even know I had, that there are so many different behaviors that lead to abandonment trauma, and so many people who were raised in very similar ways, that really didn’t know it is abandonment trauma. They just thought it was a normal activity. The problem I saw from my clients is digging deep to get to the root of their pain point, helping them understand why it happened, and releasing the attachment to it. I also helped them with the same technique with childhood trauma as well as how to break soul ties. Soul ties are one of the biggest things that keeps people attached to the trauma. Parents, siblings, spouses, friends, etc. One of the things that sets me apart from others is my gift of being an Empath. When I am coaching clients, sometimes they’re still shadowed with shame and embarrassment and they try to hide the full truth. So because of my spiritual gift, I’m able to see through that and pull those things out of them, so that we can really get to the root of the issue and dissolve it. What I’m most proud of is assisting women shedding all that dead weight, so that they can live their life free and in peace. To know that I had a big part to play in that is very rewarding. I also want my followers and fans to know that I am a safe space for them to be vulnerable and transparent with their life. There is no judgement here. I too dealt with abandonment trauma and it led me to write my book called, “Abandonment is not your fault” How a person treats you says everything about them and nothing about you. It is not your job to take on the accountability of other people’s behaviors.

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

When I turned 49 years old, I found out that I was adopted. My mom who raised me had already been deceased for years and my father who I didn’t have the best relationship with was not forthcoming with details or information regarding what went on at that time. So it sent me down a rabbit hole to find out whatever I could from my mother’s side of the family that may still be alive which led to a dead end. I went online and filled out some paperwork to request the original copy of my birth certificate. When it came back it had my birth parents’ name on there so my sister did a background search to locate their information and the next day I was on the phone with my dad. I met my birth parents and two siblings(sisters) that I have. My birth father knew my mother was pregnant, but he didn’t know she carried me full term because they lost communication . So he had no idea he had a daughter. My birth mother was not ready to get to know me. She wasn’t ready to face her decisions that she made 50 years ago, at that time. So here I am abandoned again by the same person. So I had to sit in that pain and I had to start realizing all the times that I was abandoned or felt rejected as a child and I had to start dealing with it from the root. I know I didn’t want to keep feeling like this. I had to deal with the rejection, deal with the disappointment, and release attachments to an expected end. This fantasy or fairy tale of how life was supposed to turn out. I learned to release and let go of what I cannot control, not to go against the current, but flow with the current. Flow where the energy goes. That’s how I maintain my peace.

What do you think helped you build your reputation within your market?

Being a digital creator and influencer of thousands of people on social media, the main thing that I believe has helped me build my reputation and my market is my transparency, my vulnerability, my true authentic honesty, and my ability to relate to my audience.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/iamsonjarenee
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/iamsonjarenee
• Facebook: Sonja Renee`
• Linkedin: Sonja Renee`
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vd1ruIQAuDYsaP_S0Dq2g
• Other: Tiktok : @iamsonjarenee