We were lucky to catch up with Tasha Champion recently and have shared our conversation below.

Tasha, appreciate you joining us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

I’ve always loved learning the mission of a company and to see if their actions aligned with that mission. I never thought about my own until I was asked. I only knew that I wanted women to know they were more than their pain. I was unable to verbalize it more than that.

I became a mom at 19 and by the time I was 24, I had 2 more kids with who would become my ex-husband or “wasband” which is what I like to call him. We were off and on for 7 years and then married for an additional 6 years and had one more child. When I ended my marriage, I was already involved with someone who I was trying to “make” a family with since we both thought what we shared was love. In reality, we were unknowingly filling a temporary void in our own lives. This turned out to be just as disastrous and unhealthy as my marriage. As this relationship was ending, I felt hopeless, helpless, empty, unloved, and broken. My actions and often my words were begging this person to see something in me worth loving and I realized I had done the same in my marriage.

I wanted to blame others for the way I felt and for a long time I did. I would say to myself “They should have treated me better. I did so much for them. I can make this work.” But at the end of the day, I was the common denominator and had a choice. And no matter what I did I had to remember I had 4 little ones watching me.

I decided life had to change. I knew if it didn’t, I would likely fall below the low point where I was. There was major fear in being vulnerable and letting someone into my hurt and my feelings where I was already judging myself. I went on an intense healing journey, and I must say, it is not easy to own your mess even if not all of it is your fault. You still must accept your part. The deeper I got into my healing and the more I learned about myself through the acknowledgement of hard truths, I discovered this person within me that was always there, but I felt I had never met. I was feeling a love I had never explored, the love of myself.

Fast forward, I started living in this truth and letting people meet the Tasha I was discovering and loving. It felt amazing. This was freedom defined and I knew in the core of my soul and spirit that God was revealing to me my purpose and the calling to help other women explore and live in this kind of love and freedom.

That is how my mission was born. This is why I push through the frustrations self-employment can bring. Every day I get to support women who feel lost in their pain and mistakes. I take them on a journey back to their inner wisdom to own their truth, open their intuition, and love themselves unconditionally and live a life of desired fulfillment. My mission is personal, and I live it with purpose!

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

It is in the depths of pain where most passions and purposes are awakened and in the previous answer you learned a bit about how I discovered mine.

I had cried endless nights wondering why I was here on earth. More times than not I only saw myself as a mom, then a single mom. A baby mama, a wife, then an ex-wife. I did not know who I was as a person because having a baby so early, I had to learn myself as a mother first. We are heavily taught that our children come first, and nothing matters more than your children so I lived life that way. No need to learn about me, I had to be a mom and love my children. I had no clue what it meant to love myself. All the women in my immediate grasp, and those I had grown up watching all lived this way. Everything was about family first and I didn’t see women who could balance that and their dreams. The strongest woman I know is my mother, but I saw her be strong in the fight for her marriage to keep us all together. I never saw the strength in her to choose to be happy within herself. I adopted this same behavior. Why would I think I could or should do or have anything differently? I envied women outside of my reach that made life happen for themselves. Sometimes I would have dreams and goals and with no clue on how to even bring it to light, it was much easier to make the excuse that my children must be the focus.

What I learned in living that way is you lose who you are, grieve the person you didn’t get to know, and become more fearful of what you can become. I got stuck here for years, ultimately accepting it and chopped it up as “well this is just how it is.” Yet, I wanted more.

I believed in a God I wasn’t connected to and wasn’t listening to, so prayer seemingly didn’t work. Many people tell you to stay strong and pray but no one tells you how to listen for the answers. They say faith without work is dead, but I didn’t know the work I should do. I needed God to make what I identified as bad go away and just drop the good in my lap. I wouldn’t learn until later that he showed me so many answers and so many ways out and because I was stuck in my fear, I couldn’t see it, therefore I felt stuck in life.

The disappointments of where I was felt like it was embedded in the DNA of my cells. And if you have ever felt like that then you know it feels like obstacles find you, latch on like a leach and send you through the cycle all over again.

When I chose a healing path, I didn’t know what would come of it. I just knew it could not be worse than going in circles preparing for the next hurdle that I had come to think I deserved. When you hit a pain point, or when you must admit and own some hard truths, it will make you want to stop but you get to trust the process if you want to feel the healing you deserve.

My healing journey truly became my safety. It became my voice, and it guided me to a power within that I didn’t know was there. When I connect with women feeling the way I have felt and experiencing life only through that pain, it makes me want to jump in and solve all their problems, but I know I can’t. What I have learned is that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. Each woman, truthfully any person that has a journey to explore, has to come into the reality within that they deserve better in this life, and they can have more than what the disappointments have given them. They must be willing to travel their path.

This work that I get to do makes me proud every day. I am reminded of the work I did and continue to do to get where I am. It energizes me to show up for the woman who has been trying to show up for herself. I don’t just give a speech to empower a woman to be better. We co-create a healing space and she gets to identify what she wants for herself and explore the depths of what is preventing that from happening. I support my clients through intuition, energy, card readings, movement, and journaling, just to name a few things.

The women I have been designed to work with give me as much pleasure as I give them in their healing. When we work together, we are one. I lead women to love the champion they are and bring forth the Shenomenal woman they were born to be.

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

What helps me build my reputation within my market is my honesty, integrity, and authenticity. As I watch others who have businesses, what I see is that consistency in these three areas play a major role in the trust that you build with your audience.

My honesty is the truth I speak. My integrity shows people that I will always do the right thing. My authenticity is walking the walk that I talk. I don’t wear a mask and I share directly from my own experiences.

We are in a time where people are yearning for more out of life. They are actively seeking support to find and forge their path. They want to be empowered to keep going. By being In my truth, I give others permission to be safe in theirs.

Since the launch of my Amazon #1 best-selling book, Shenomenal Women, I’ve held an empowerment brunch. The brunch originally started to celebrate the success of the book and grew into an annual event. It has grown each year and I attribute that success to me attracting a team and speakers that stand in their authentic truth.

When people hear my name, my brand, or any of my events, I want them to immediately feel a connection because they know there is always honesty, integrity, and authenticity attached to my name.

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

Resilience is a beautiful word. We all experience resilience at some point in our life. From a child learning to ride a bike after falling down several times, to an adult losing a parent and thinking the pain of that loss will never subside.

There are two times I felt the most resilient ever! The first time is when I became a 100% single mom of four after thinking for years that I would not be able to do that. Eleven years later, a tear still gently rolls down my face when talking about this. No one could have ever told me that their father would abandon them after 13 years of being a parent. We always talked about how we would co-parent if we divorced. When he dropped the bomb that he was no longer going to be a husband or a father, the fear of being a single parent was sitting beside me. Having a girl and three boys, I didn’t know how it was going to work, I just knew I was all they had and through every dark day I had to find the light to keep pushing through. This happened before my healing journey, and I didn’t have any tools to process my own emotions and not being able to take their pain away weakened me. As time would tell, it would be a journey for us all. We would heal together but also individually in our own time. Holding shame, guilt, and embarrassment left me in a vulnerable place. I didn’t think I was going to get through the four walls of the pain I felt locked in. My fantastic four (what I call my children) gave me grace through the process of learning and navigating this new way of life. Getting through it gave me the first stamp of resilience.

The second time I was resilient was during a cancer diagnosis. The day before my 36th birthday I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, which is extremely aggressive. My sister was diagnosed 2 weeks before me. Fortunately, I had already begun my healing journey, so I had some tools under my belt to help me through it. But nothing can fully prepare you for what you will experience. I wasn’t supposed to be diagnosed. As someone who is BRCA 1 positive (having the breast cancer susceptibility gene mutation) I chose to have a prophylactic double mastectomy to reduce my risk of getting breast cancer and yet during the surgery they found the cancer already growing. I accepted this as part of my life’s journey. I asked God what he wanted me to do, and he led me to start speaking and sharing my story. Had I not learned about the power of positive thinking, shifting your mindset, law of attraction and learning how to release stagnant energy, I believe I would have had a much different experience through the cancer chapter of my life. I never thought my life would include working with families who have been hit with cancer but here I am doing just that. I am a resilient survivor, but surviving doesn’t make me resilient. I am resilient because I honored the path God laid for me through this cancer process.

Contact Info:

• Website:www.shenomenal.com
• Instagram: @theshenomenalcoach
• Facebook: Tasha Shenomenal Champion
• Twitter: theshenomenalcoach
• Youtube: The Shenomenal Coach
• Other: host of She is Shenomenal live on Wednesdays at 5:30pm PST on YouTube

Image Credits
If you need the names of the people in the in photo at my brunch: From left to right: Dr. Joseph Lathan, Kenneth Page, Denisha Kain, Gaynelle Dawson, Kisha Waters, Tasha Champion, Regina Weatherspoon-Bell, Bianca Page, Mka Morris, Dr. Donta Morrison If you need the names from my family picture Top: Tasha Champion, Denver Champion Bottom: Destiny Champion, Deonte, Champion, Dillan Champion