Tina is a feminine embodiment coach, writer, speaker, possibility agent, and unapologetic wild woman. She’s fiercely devoted to helping female leaders break up with limiting beliefs, ditch their not-good-enough-ness, and reclaim their voice so that they can thrive from boardroom to bedroom and everywhere in-between.
It’s her mission to have every woman sign her own permission slip – to ask for what she desires and to feel comfortable saying NO like she means it. It’s time to put ourselves first for a change.
To find out more, visit the Femmepreneur Pathfinder website here.
Here we sit down with Tina to learn more about her journey as an entrepreneur.
Q. Tell us a little more about your journey as an entrepreneur – how did you get started? What inspired you?
Tina: I started The Femmepreneur Pathfinder to help other women find happiness in their work again, reclaim balance, and rekindle their zest for life in full alignment with being an embodied woman. We have been led to believe that if we want to have a successful career, we must hang up our femininity and buy into predisposed ideas of what corporate structure looks like. That structure nearly broke me, and it took years to come back from it.
After 25+ years in the corporate world, as well as being a business owner I have traversed from employee to boss and designed my business in a way that feels good. My story of burnout and breakdown has led me on a journey of self-discovery and a deeply spiritual approach to life that transpires into my work. It has allowed me to take women on a heart-led path of remembering who they were before they lost themselves. To reclaim their identity and their self-worth.
I believe it’s time for women to heal their stories of martyrdom and chronic people-pleasing. It often plays out in self-destructive and toxic ways in our modern work environment and has dire consequences for our health. The body, mind, and spirit.
I’m here to share my story and the hard lessons I learned on my path of coming home to myself. I quit my corporate job and pressed pause to slowly turn my life around. I had to alchemize my old conditioning to step into a more aligned, feminine form of leadership. I now serve other women in my coaching business from a deeply intuitive place.
Q. What are your long-term goals in business? Paint a vision for the future
Tina: It’s my mission to connect women back to their feminine essence. To redefine what success means for them. We are at a crossroads as women in today’s corporate world.
As we transitioned out of a global pandemic, we could feel a ripple in workforces around the globe. The lockdowns have shown us that the companies we work for do not crumble if we are working from home and have a more flexible way to run our workday. We are tired, we have grown dreary of the nine-to-five, the hustle, and the pressures of struggling with the many hats we wear. It gives us a real chance to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and advocate for real change – to become the trailblazers of redefining corporate life as we know it.
My vision is to be on stage and share my journey in the corporate hamster wheel that brought me to near breaking point and to inspire other women who feel stuck to take a break, be still and rethink their path. To truly become whole as a woman again.
I’m passionate about shining a light for others and creating heart-lead leadership circles that create safe spaces for women. A container to share their experiences, raw and unfiltered, and where we can seed collective change together. A global movement, a sisterhood – one where we can find true support rather than compete and tear each other down.
Q. What motivates you?
Tina: Seeing other women break through barriers and reclaim their power. Witnessing them flourish when their light switches on. It warms my heart when they remember who they are, find their true purpose in life, and dare to go after their wildest dreams.
Q. What business-related book has inspired you the most, or, what is your favourite book?
Tina: There are quite a few, but “The Spiritual Entrepreneur” by Pauline Nguyen is top of the list for me.
Q. What is the most memorable thing you’ve done since you started your business?
Tina: I was invited to co-author a book called “Power HER Success” with some amazing women last year. Seeing the project come to life and the connections we made by sharing our stories was amazing. It not only opened the doors to amazing speaking opportunities but was the start of many business partnerships and future events.
Q. If you were to write a book about yourself, what would you name it?
Tina: I’m actually just about to finish my own book. It’s called “CORPORATE REWILDING – Reignite Your Feminine Power: A Guide for Women Lost in the Corporate Jungle”. It dives deeper into what I touched on in this article and I share some of the modalities I discovered as well as invite women to redefine what womanhood means for them.
The book will launch in May and you can register here for the VIP launch.
Q. What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you’ve ever made?
Tina: Having the courage to hire a great employment lawyer to address a toxic work situation that had become increasingly intolerable over a prolonged period which severely impacted my well-being. Best money I ever spent.
Q. Where do you see the future in your niche/industry 3-5 years from now?
Tina: I see the industry niching down further, being more authentic and moving away from evergreen and the cliché of ‘scale to 6-figure in four weeks’ kind of coaching strategies.
I believe it still takes dedication, consistency, investment of both time and money as well as a ‘clean’ mindset to move the dial in any business. It also takes community and real connection that builds trust and doesn’t happen overnight. The lone wolf approach was never something we particularly enjoyed as women, and it hasn’t served us. We are empathetic and nurturing by design and if we band together, we’ll become stronger. If the tide rises, all ships rise. Collaboration is the new domination and by that, I mean heart-centered leadership and true sisterhood.
As part of my journey, I had to overcome self-sabotage, procrastination, and fear of success. The fear of success is much more common than the fear of failure because we worry about how success may change us or the perception of people around us. Most of my clients have some limiting beliefs. Not feeling good enough or deserving of money, success, and love. If you pair that with fear of truly being seen and the pressure of adhering to the oh-so-perfect sanitized social media profiles, many throw in the towel. So doing ‘the work’ on our own mindset before we venture into entrepreneurship is like preparing the soil before planting seeds to give them the optimum start for growth and harvest.
Q. What is your ‘one-sentence’ piece of advice you’d like to give to someone who wants to become an entrepreneur, coach, or business owner?
Tina: Be prepared for the long haul and get ALL in – there is no halfway house here and you must get comfortable with not being liked by everybody.
To keep up to date with Tina and her journey, connect with her on LinkedIn, and Instagram.