We were lucky to catch up with Tishamarie Strasser recently and have shared our conversation below.
Tishamarie, so great to have you with us and we want to jump right into a really important question. In recent years, it’s become so clear that we’re living through a time where so many folks are lacking self-confidence and self-esteem. So, we’d love to hear about your journey and how you developed your self-confidence and self-esteem.
I want to group together where do you get your resilience from with this question!
Confidence and self-esteem come from a lifetime of taking action over and over again!
Resilience is an intricate piece of how your confidence will show up for you. Over our life span we get told we need to have confidence/self esteem, that its so important for our future, yet the path doesnt look exactly the way its been painted in how you can truly achieve authentic, genuine confidence. So many times we want to speak these things into our truth, we want to make ourselves believe we have them, or allow others to help us believe we have them. Trying affirmations, journaling, conversations, self image changes, and on. Yet the truth is you will gain it slowly over a series of life events of adapting, taking action, doing things that are uncomfortable, facing fears, learning to bounce back and allowing ourselves the grace and time to build it solid like a foundation.
My life has been a series of adapting, finding my well being and bouncing back from all the different labels of trauma over a life span. Moving out at 16 to find safety created a deep desire to be ok and believe Id be ok. The action steps that had to be taken to set these beliefs in motion start with knowing I could do hard things, work a job, finish school, face the fears of being alone so young, choosing to go into the military so young gave me the adaptability to know again I could do hard things, face fears, find strength within myself. Becoming a mother in my 20’s and understanding I needed to take more actions to make life better not only for myself but them, I had to adapt time and time again in many different careers, go after different things, not let fear or insecurity hold me back, adapt and take action. Every time I have taken action and have been resilient this has created little specks of authentic unique confidence for me.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am the CEO/Founder of Bring It-Push It Own It Mission: For our next generation of girls to know their Worth*Voice* & Inner Strength.
As I stumpled through life myself learning to find these things I then began to see my own oldest daughter lose herself in her middle school years. I knew it was time to go back to the youngest version of me and become that Hero that I kept waiting to showup so that my girls and all girls could do the same.
At Bring It we use Joyful movement*Mindfulness*Interactive Workshops*Obstacle Courses
Joyful Movement allows groups of girls to get into a great endorphin head space, after playful movement/excercise, high fives, chicken dances, etc it allows us to put aside our insecurties and come together for empowering real talk.
Mindfulness – teaching us at a younger age how to sit with ourselves for a few minutes so we can learn to hear ourselves
Workshops-learning to have conversations about how to gain our worth, voice and strength and how to take action, face fears and empower eachother
Obstacle courses- learning to do hard things, get uncomfortable, face fears and help eachother achieve this together
I also own Elements Massage:
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Learning to adapt, self awareness, facing fears head on.
Always be ready to pivot, shift and be flexible for what may be next in your professional lives or personal, keep an open mind to see all angles!
Be self aware, always assess yourself, are you being your best self, is there room for growth, do you need to apolgize, how can you do better or be better!
Fear is meant to protect us from bears not to withold us from doing things that are new, uncomfortable or we arent sure we can do, face the bears!
How would you spend the next decade if you somehow knew that it was your last?
What Im already doing to empower girls/women to keep building and growing their self worth/voice and inner strength! And loving on my family…
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.bringitpushitownit.com
- Instagram: @bringitpushitownit
- Facebook: Bring It Push It Own It // Tishamarie Ann Strasser
- Linkedin: Tishamarie Strasser
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