Interview With Transformational Coach R. Natasha Stephens
- Brainz Magazine
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min read
Updated: Dec 1, 2021
Natasha, a retired dental hygienist, turned entrepreneur as owner of Transformational Coaching with Natasha and a women's athleisure clothing brand, Ripped and Restored, is committed to the transformational journey as she discovers new ways of being and higher than realized levels of existence through the power of pain and using it to her advantage as a springboard to create an ideal life for herself. Along the way, she answered the call to empower others with this revelation. With fiery passion and authentic advocacy, she is dedicated to revolutionizing mental health and fitness by embracing the pain of conflict and resistance in whatever form as a weapon for good. Realizing that thoughts shape reality, Natasha's coaching model is built around mindset shifts resulting in realized potential. She loves to volunteer in local and global dental missions, physical exercise, and travel in her spare time.
R. Natasha Stephens, Transformational Coach
Who is Natasha?
I'm Natasha, a retired dental hygienist of 20 years turned Transformational Coach and entrepreneur as owner of Ripped and Restored, an athleisure clothing line who knows firsthand what it requires to commit to the transformational journey. Feeling underwhelmed with merely surviving my entire life, I grappled with the idea of thriving and what it would take to get there. Therefore, I used the pandemic as a catalyst to create a new life for myself. Prior to the pandemic I had been doing some deep reflection with introspection and believed it prepared me to seize the moment when time and opportunity collided. As a result, it became the pathway leading to my purpose and place in the world.
My motto, "Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Winston Churchill
Never being a risk taker I've always played it safe and often wondered what my life would be like if I throw all my fears to the wind and dream again like I did as a kid and actually pursue those dreams in making them a reality.
This wasn't something that emerged overnight, but has been a process with surprising new discoveries about myself, my gifts and what I was created for. It's a journey and there is more to discover and unearth as I commit to the way that lies before me. I can say since I answered the call to change, my life has transformed from a life of obscurity to one that has meaning, significance, and even adventure!
When I am not helping others transform their lives, I also thrive in participating with local and global dental missions and volunteering in some capacity within my local community.
What is it that you do for your clients?
I do for my clients what I do for myself. However, instead of doing, there is an "undoing" in transformational coaching. In my coaching model technique, I facilitate the process of excavating the true essence of themselves by undoing their old paradigm and ways of thinking, then living in alignment with this truth. I believe our perception creates our reality, with this concept I accompany them through a reflection of their operating system to identify old limitations and conditioning that are attributed to why they have experienced life as they have. Then from their newly discovered way of being their "doing" can now flow.
Who should hire/work with you?
Individuals who feel tension from the pull of the old way of doing and new way of being. Also, groups or organizations that support women in rebuilding and restoring their lives from some form of pain and trauma.
What keeps you motivated?
People! There are people who need to see me overcome and lead the way by example for when the time comes when they are called to arise.
With pain being such a weighty subject why do you choose it to center it around your coaching technique?
There is power in pain. Every great story has conflict and conflict is usually associated with some sort of pain or discomfort. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. Until we embrace pain from this perspective we will continue to shrink back and never actualize our full potential. Pain reminds us that we are alive!
Tell us more about your work and how you ended up where you are today?
As a transformational coach, I facilitate and guide women in their transformational process with a coaching model created to encourage intentionality and awareness of this shift. I am also owner of an athleisure clothing line Ripped and Restored with the same mission as my coaching business, and that is to use pain to propel us to a greater and purposeful life that transforms us. We all have one thing in common and that is pain. But it is what we do with it that makes the difference.
One of my personal stories with pain was from a particular injustice that led to a crisis in our communities. I later discovered the same pain I felt from that injustice was the same pain that led me to the discovery of my purpose. I believe each of us are all created to be a solution to a problem. Sometimes we feel the problem is too big to solve leaving us with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. The strategy I used to make a difference led me to build a business that would later give me a platform and a voice to address those social injustices and have impact and influence to change. In the process of creating the businesses I realized I had become a more evolved version of myself as I discovered a new way of being. Before I realized it my life shifted as I was operating from a new paradigm. Pain was the catalyst to this shift. So now I want to coach others to see opportunities in a crisis and use it as a springboard to launch them into a greater purpose resulting in their new paradigm.
What is your big goal/where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
My big goal is to become a household name by revolutionizing mental health and fitness and amplifying the message of finding purpose through your pain by way of a transformational process and journey via speaking engagements, books, athleisure clothing line and partnerships.
