In 2018, one year after self-publishing her Amazon bestselling book, #CoachYaDamnSelf - Natisha was laid off from a 10 year career in higher education, a proverbial "$h%t or get off the pot” moment.
Where fear might have made others freeze in their tracks, Natisha took the promise of 6 months of unemployment and a student loan refund check and relocated to a sunny beach town off the Caribbean Coast of Mexico intending to promptly launch holistic leadership retreats for urban Black women.
Natisha quickly realized that the hustle and bustle life that she’d built in the states would NOT work in Mexico. Why? Well, one - it was HOT. Too hot to spend hours drumming up business online. And two? She realized she’d focused so hard on building a business that she’d completely forgotten about building a LIFE.
Now, nearly 3 years later, Natisha has designed the LIFE she’d almost completely forgotten about back in 2018. A life that now includes monthly wine and charcuterie nights with friends, weekly massages and therapy appointments and plenty of downtime to contemplate life at the beach.
In a word? Natisha stumbled into her own version of freedom. A version where she feels free to be the truest version of herself, to express her emotions and even free to do what she wants to do, when she wants to do it.
Even while now working a full time remote job- she’s somehow found herself doing work that mimics the business she’s building - coaching & training leaders - at a startup that gives her plenty of freedom and flexibility to expand her skills without burnout, stress or overworking.
This time, however, she doesn’t have to worry about forgetting to build the life to match.
Natisha now focuses on training other urban born, working class raised women to redefine and create their own version of freedom and success.
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