Today we’d like to introduce you to Patrina Wisdom.
Patrina, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’m an Amazon Bestselling author, speaker, Wealth Mentor, and creator of the Badass Bodacious Life Movement. I believe that before you can live a BadAss Bodacious Life you must connect with, embrace, and exercise every part of yourself. After losing my husband of 20 years to suicide in 2009 and learning that I was pregnant with my fourth child the same day – I took my personal story and decades of experience as an entrepreneur and business leader and began the process of creating my BadAss Bodacious Life.
This experience was the defining moment in my life that changed everything! My relationship with myself, my relationship with others, my relationship with my kids, spirituality, and even my relationship with money. I was acutely aware in the moments following the loss of my husband that I was being called to step out of the shadows and into the light, and I was terrified by the thought of doing so. Up until that point I had spent my entire life hiding. Hiding behind my husband, hiding my true feelings, desires, and needs, hiding my greatness so that I didn’t make others uncomfortable. I was wearing a mask.
The “Caretaker Mask”, putting everyone else’s needs before my own and following the rules and expectations of what being a good wife and mother were supposed to look like. The “Good Girl Mask”, avoiding judgment and confrontation at all cost because of my need to be liked/loved. I had a deeply ingrained belief that I had to DO something in order to be worthy of or EARN love. The mask of “Perfection”, becoming a slave to “image” and what other people think.
Never showing weakness and smiling on the outside while my soul was slowly dying. And lastly, the “Superwoman Mask”, believing that if it is to be, it’s up to me. Taking on the responsibility of saving myself AND others, not asking for help, and rejecting anything that resembled weakness.
I was relentlessly pursuing what I had been programmed to believe was a success and began working my ass off to continue the legacy that my husband and I had begun creating together. All while also trying to be the perfect homemaker and mother. I had stepped into his shoes and began pushing and forcing my way through life in a masculine way, not realizing that it was killing me.
As the caregiver, nurturer, AND breadwinner I had to find a better way. It was time to redefine success. It was time to “Take Off The Masks” and chart my own path, on my terms. It was time to develop and step into a more Feminine style of Leadership.
I made a conscious decision to destroy all of the constructs and programming that had been running my life up until that point and begin the process of “Awakening Life.” What did I have to lose? What I was doing wasn’t working. I felt like I was committing emotional suicide by continuing to live my life in accordance with rules set by others.
“Our lives are shaped by the decisions we drape over the moments we cannot escape”
My tragedy essentially became my greatest gift and the catalyst for my transformation because it called me into myself. It provided me with an opportunity to completely redesign my life.
We all have experiences in life (good and bad ones) and that’s just what they are, experiences. It’s the meaning we attach to the experiences that create or destroy our lives. I chose to take the Wisdom gleaned from this experience and use it to help others, and I was committed to becoming the example of what moving from Victim to Victor could look like.
Fast forward 10 years, I’m now thriving as a CEO Mompreneur, best selling author, wealth mentor, and a dynamic speaker that has graced the stages of Lisa Nichols, eWomen Network, and TedX just to name a few… I’ve successfully recreated my life and my parenting style, and I’ve helped hundreds of other women do the same.
What I discovered on my journey of re-creation is that life is a series of Awakenings:
Awakening Self Esteem | Awakening True Self | Awakening Creativity.
As I walked through my journey of healing I documented what worked for me and I invested in mentoring and training with some of the top healers and coaches in the industry. I created my own signature 6 Step Wisdom System that I now use to help other Badass Moms, Entrepreneurs, Healers, and Leaders.
My mission in life and with my work in the world is to LEAD, INSPIRE, and EMPOWER Moms to Stand in Their Personal Power and Create their Badass Bodacious Life using my 6 Step Wisdom System, which includes an arsenal of proven Personal/Spiritual/ Financial Development, Healthy Work/Life Balance and Sacred Self Care strategies.
My work takes me all over the world to help busy Mompreneurs transform their lives from stressed to blessed, tired to inspired, difficult to joyful.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Much like you I’ve had a life filled with all kinds of experiences, some of the incredible and some of them not so great. I am a survivor of loss, heartbreak, disappointment, molestation, rape, financial hardship, abandonment, insecurity, shaming and many other traumas. I embody and share the collective experiences of the community.
Needless to say, the road has not been smooth. The Patrina Wisdom you see today is a result of decades of personal and spiritual development and utilizing lots of tools that have helped me gracefully move through any and all obstacles that attempt to keep from living my best life.
Badass Bodacious Life Movement – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
I am a healer. I transform peoples lives through personal/spiritual development, leadership and financial development. I positively impact the world through the contribution of Who I BE.
Through my mentorship and coaching, I help women create an empowered life of love, wealth, happiness, freedom, and connection by balancing a focused work ethic, self-awareness and expression, and a strengthened practice of sacred self-care.
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
-Connection and love of self.
-Trusting of self and the Spirit voice that speaks through you.
-and Gratitude
-Fulfilling relationships with others
I am also a firm believer in creating material wealth and legacy. The more I have, the more I can give. We must fill our cups first and serve from our overflow. I have a Big Calling in the world and therefore I am committed to creating Big Wealth and helping others do the same.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.Patrinawisdom.com
- Phone: (702) 683-0039
- Email: Patrina@Patrinawisdom.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PatrinaWisdom
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatrinaWisdom
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PatrinaWisdom
- Other: https://www.youtube.com/PatrinaWisdom
Image Credit:
Jerry Metellus, Andrew Reed, Shannon Henry, Jennifer George
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