Today we’d like to introduce you to Nina Camille.
Nina, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
Currently, I am focused on sharing my love with the world in every way I know well – coaching, yoga, travel, and service.
In my mid-twenties, I found myself in a job that looked really cool on the outside – I was running a destination music event business – but I felt out of alignment and unfulfilled. I knew I wanted to give more of my heart to the world. I started working with a coach, did my yoga teacher training certification, quit my job and moved to the Caribbean to start living life on my terms. The lessons, experiences, and journeys I embarked upon were some of the most opening moments of my life. I found myself in places and with people I had never dreamed of and I rode that wave for quite some time.
The high of adventure began to settle, and again I found myself wanting to give more of myself to the world. I had left the traditional workforce to focus on fun, but after a while, I knew I had to do something bigger than simply chase new experiences and connection.
I moved back to San Diego late last year, engaged in some online coaching programs and began coaching myself. I realized that coaching was a way to directly offer my love, everything I had ever learned from spirituality to business and more could benefit my clients and give me that sense of fulfillment I had been chasing all along.
I always thought I had to decide between fun or success and this year, I realized that I can choose both. That has been the mantra for the past several months – Choose Both.
Today, I have a full client list, I am getting ready to lead the summer Yoga Teacher Training at Reach Yoga in PB, and I am filling my first coaching program, called Experience Freedom. The program is really the biggest project of my life so far – a complete culmination of everything I’ve learned and gathered through life and my journey through spiritual awakening. It’s a 4-month online coaching program that includes a luxurious tropical retreat.
I truly believe that in order to teach the work, you must first be it – so I’d say what got me to the place I am today is a combination of virtually everything I’ve ever been through – from the abundance of yachting through the Caribbean to the sheer heartbreak of the death of my best friend, learning to navigate the waters of this human experience with grace.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Discovering the power within to actually build something myself only came after many years of pouring my light on other people and their ideas/visions/businesses. I am an excellent implementer, organizer, and creator – I have played the supporting role in many of my friends’ and mentors’ companies, but I never turned my own skillset toward building anything for myself. I taught a lot of yoga and aerial, but for the most part, I always had this idea that true success was going to come from someone else – most often, a man. Whether that man was a romantic or business partner, I always kept myself in the role of supporter. They took the risk, I made it happen, and everyone won. Or, so I thought. It took a couple of truly shattering events to wake me up – I had my heart completely broken by a man I thought I’d be with forever and as soon as I came up for air, my best friend died unexpectedly. Dealing with that amount of grief in a short period of time shook me to my core and made me realized that I cannot count on anyone outside myself – they could leave and I’d be left with nothing. So, I really began to feel inspired to build my own business, my own success, my own legacy.
If I had to share advice with other young women, I’d say to look carefully where you put other people’s needs and desires above your own. I used that as a safety net, a way to avoid taking a risk and truly doing something for myself. A lot of it was fear of failure. I thought that supporting the men in my life was the noblest way to achieve success. The ironic note is that those men were beautiful, wonderful humans who never wanted me to put myself aside in order to uphold them – they wanted me to chase my dreams, but I was paralyzed with fear. To the young women who are thinking of doing their own thing but have those same fears – Who am I to build a business? Who am I to be different? Who am I to put myself first? – LEAP! There are no failures. Only growth, only feedback, only twists and turns in this human experience. All roads lead home and you are here to unapologetically bring your magic into the world. You don’t have to lose everything to realize that truth. You can simply open it.
What should we know about your business? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
Right now I am focused on filling my coaching program and serving my existing coaching clients to access their inner truth and live from a place of pure freedom. I specialize in alignment (everything from health + nutrition, movement + fitness, self-love, and creativity), awakening, and living free. A lot of books and tools are out there, but incorporating that knowledge into daily activity and turning it into a lifestyle is where I come in. I love helping clients achieve true freedom by releasing limiting patterns, opening to their truth, and learning exactly what it takes in order to feel good. I have spent my entire life going against the grain, breaking all the rules, and essentially living how I want, where I want, when I want because I know we are divine creators and the universe has our back. Coming from that place, I have developed techniques and tools that can get anyone there – anyone who is willing to show up, fully open and committed to the path of freedom and alignment. What sets me apart is that I have lived everything I teach, firsthand.
In addition to my coaching program, I am leading Yoga Teacher Training at Reach Yoga in Pacific Beach. Yoga has been a transformative part of my life for twelve years and I am beyond excited and inspired to share that gift with others on a bigger scale.
Do you have a lesson or advice you’d like to share with young women just starting out?
We don’t do the thing in order to feel good. We feel good, then, we do the thing. That means knowing what it takes for you to get into alignment FIRST. Creativity is not something we force or push out – it is something that moves through us once we are open and our basic needs are met. Step one is feeling good. Step two is endless creativity and magic.
Contact Info:
- Website: ninacamille.com
- Phone: 707-480-0027
- Email: love@ninacamille.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/itsninacamille
- Facebook: facebook.com/itsninacamille
- Twitter: twitter.com/itsninacamille
- Other: experiencefreeedom.co
Image Credit:
Gabriel Stephens, Gregory Cain
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