An Inspired Chat with Ayesha Walker of San Francisco Bay Area

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Ayesha Walker. Check out our conversation below.

Hi Ayesha, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to share your story, experiences and insights with our readers. Let’s jump right in with an interesting one: What makes you lose track of time—and find yourself again?
I can lose track of time when I’m planning healing retreats and workshops, dreaming into the raw, sacred space where people can bring their whole selves. I’m talking their grief, their dreams, their joy, their questions that words can barely hold. In that space, I am facilitating, I am remembering myself, my healing journey and inviting people into a process of deep self discovery and exploratino. Remembering my ancestors. Remembering the child in me who needed this kind of space for myself. Remembering that healing and vision are beyond luxuries because they relaly are our birthrights.

I have to go into my own mode of finding muyself agian. When I see someone’s eyes light up with clarity after years of carrying confusion. When a father exhales his pain for the first time in decades. When a leader finally recognizes that their purpose is bigger than their profit. Time bends because Spirit takes over.

This is where I come alive, at the crossroads of story, ceremony, and strategy. It’s where I’m reminded that my work is meant to be big, monumental! It is generational. It is ancestral. It is the quiet force that shifts how resources flow, how communities heal, and how leaders remember what they were born to do.

I lose track of time when I’m doing the work that changes lives. And every time, I find myself again, more whole, more rooted, more certain that this is the reason I was born.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Ayesha Walker, an Emmy-nominated storyteller, strategist, and intuitive life coach. I am the co-founder and CEO of BE-IMAGINATIVE, an Emmy Award–winning storytelling and healing sanctuary that creates transformative spaces where grief becomes power and where art, ritual, and strategy meet.

What makes my work unique is how I weave together worlds that often stay separate. I’m talking about ancestral healing, cardology and astrology, narrative design, and executive strategy. I help community members, leaders, philanthropists, and everyday people heal and shift how resources are allocated, align with their purpose, and step into their fullest vision. Over the years, my work has touched people in over 75 countries, and I’ve partnered with organizations like the Kataly Foundation, Pinterest, KQED, YBCA, and many others.

My story is rooted in lived experience: growing up amidst trauma, loss, and especially resilience, and then forging pathways for others to transform their pain into purpose, clarity, dignity, direction, and power.

Currently, I’m expanding into new offerings: retreats, workshops, executive readings, and cultural projects that help individuals and institutions navigate this era with alignment and imagination.

At its core, my brand is sacred transformation. I create spaces where people remember who tf they really are. I help them reclaim their power and start dreaming again. That’s what keeps me committed to this path.

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
In astrology, Lilith represents our wild, unapologetic self, the part of us that refuses to be silenced or domesticated. It’s where our raw power lives, but it’s also where we’ve often been shamed or told to be little. Lilith is the truth, our deep desires, and the untamed parts of us that demand to be seen.

For me, Lilith sits in Cancer in my 10th house. It’s all the way at the very top of my chart, where my public life, career, my reputation, my legacy resides. That placement means my most powerful work in the world comes when I lead from emotional truth, from the fierce love of the mother archetype, from the willingness to name what others might be too afraid to.

But it also means I’ve had to confront the ways people may have unconsciously or consciously tried to punish or silence me for bringing that level of raw, feminine, emotional power into public spaces.

The part of me that must be released is the one that tried to quiet my Lilith, the part that thought I had to be palatable, acceptable, and safe to be respected. That version of me protected me for a while, but it no longer serves me.

What I’m keeping is my resilience. What I’m releasing is my invisibility. Lilith teaches me that the very energy I once tried to hide is what makes me unforgettable. I refuse to keep shrinking to “survive”. So I am stepping fully into the wild, sovereign, untamed power that I was born to embody.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Pain can be addictive. I recognized that some challenging experiences were subconsciously driven by emotional responses like adrenaline and cortisol, which kept me in survival mode. For experiences and reactions that I can influence, I have the power to choose a different reality. As a result, I commit to crafting a new story.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
We serve as mirrors for each other. I don’t truly “see” you; I see myself reflected through you. Much of this reflection occurs subconsciously, meaning that the conflicts, triggers, and judgments I have toward others are actually aspects of myself that I haven’t yet acknowledged or accepted.

Remembering this shifts everything. Instead of blaming someone else as the villain, I become curious: What part of myself are you revealing to me now? Even those who frustrate or hurt me offer opportunities to learn more about myself, practice radical self-acceptance, and love unconditionally.

It’s a challenging truth, humbling but also freeing, because by healing what I recognize in you, I heal myself, and together we become freer.

But no! Most people don’t want to hear that. They’d rather blame others for exposing the parts of themselves they’re too quick to hide.

Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: What pain do you resist facing directly?
Right now, I am grieving some of my favorite relationships. I am still in the denial stages of grief.

Contact Info:

• Website: BE-IMAGINATIVE.org + ayeshawalker.com
• Instagram: @beimaginativecollective + @eshiitaughtme

Image Credits
Kevin Allen, Chloe Jackman, Smeeta Mahanti