Child Whisperer and Self-Confidence Mentor Tameka Anderson inspires both parents and children alike to be the best versions they can be. Growing up as a foster child, Tameka struggles a lot with believing in herself. She then took this struggle later on to impart what she learned in her journey to self-discovery to parents who want their kids to have more confidence and happiness. She discusses the story behind building Create-A-Kids Club and what it tries to achieve. Sharing three formulas to tap the best version of your little ones, she shows parents the capabilities and power within each of us and to show our children this value.

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Bringing Out Your Child's Inner Confidence with Tameka Anderson

I have somebody special here. We are going to talk about some topics that we haven't talked about here at Heartrepreneur Radio. My special guest is Tameka Anderson. She is an author, a court-appointed special advocate for youth and foster care, specialty foster parent and she also sits on the Governor's Board of Children and Family Services Task Force team. She's a kid coach known as Child Whisperer and self-confidence mentor for professional moms. She has coached moms for years to build confidence, boost performance and to increase happiness in their children. She's born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I used to live outside of Chicago many moons ago. She now resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

She has three biological children, 21, seventeen and seven, and a foster child aged seven. I bet that keeps here busy. She also started Create It Kids Club and that's where she teaches children how to boost confidence to be the best versions of themselves, so they excel in school and life. Her why is because she was a foster child and no one thought enough to teach her how to be confident in who she was. She struggled a lot in school and in life. She didn't have to if she had only had the skills to believe in herself. Tameka, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to have you. I find your background interesting and I can certainly see how it led you to where you are. Let's talk about why moms need help in learning how to boost confidence and happiness in their kids. Shouldn't that just be natural in moms? They just do that?

What I’ve learned over the years of working with children and moms is it is something that is not on the top of your brain. Dealing with life and issues and bosses, especially if you have crazy ones, and the day-to-day everything, that's not something that you even think about even though it is very important. I don't hold it against them.

How do these moms raise their hands and show up and say to you, “I need to understand that self-confidence and building confidence in my kids and helping my kids?” How do moms even know that they need help and if they do need help, how do they find you?

It's so funny because I totally understand what the power of word of mouth gets you because that's what happened with me. What happened was once I found out this was the secret, I started going to different places where there were kids. I went into daycare centers, schools, after-school programs, community centers, you name it. Wherever kids were, I was there. I began to educate the parents and ask them questions like, “Does your child do this? Do you struggle with that?” They’re like, “I did. How did you know?” I dropped the little clues and hints that that’s going on then this is the thing. What happened is people start telling their friends and their friends told their friends. The rest is history.

That's a beautiful, authentic and transparent way to build a business.