Meet Tashara Newton

We were lucky to catch up with Tashara Newton recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Tashara, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I pull my strength from the women before me. I pulled from my bloodline my ancestors. I have some really strong woman in my family that did what they believe they had to survive and take care of the family. So when things get hard and I feeling alone, I call on my ancestors to pour into me and give me some of that energy.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

My name is Tashara Newton, soon to be Tashara Brown I’m going through a divorce right now so I will go back to my maiden name. Where should I start? I guess you can call me a jack of all trade. As I said it before I hold a couple of different hats. Career wise, I am a merchant Seaman by trade. I also hold a Longshoremen card and I have my own cleaning business.. I’m currently working on my first book called the life of a Sea diva telling my stories about me going out to sea and traveling around the world on the ocean. I’m also a spiritual healer.. I tapped into this energy when I was researching my bloodline on ancestry.com. I found out that I’m 89% African with 72% coming from Nigeria. A little more researching took me to the spiritual practice of Ifa where we where we regionalized our ancestors and follow traditional ways from back in the day. With this information I know anything is possible I always believe that and tired to go after my dreams no matter what anyone else would tell me. I had people telling me I couldn’t be a merchant Seaman because I had kids and a husband I didn’t listen. I had people telling me I couldn’t buy property in Oakland Ca but I did I say this to say anything is possible. Recently, I have started working in my community and trying to make a change around Oakland. I started a nonprofit called project hood, which caters to the houseless situation that we have in Oakland I’m also trying to help with the development of a mental illness that we have going on with our African-American and Latino kids. By introducing them to meditation at a young age working with their mental
I hope I answered this question good enough. My life is so complex really don’t know where to start or what to tell you.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Self-awareness, meditation and introspective. First you gotta find out what is good for you because we have the Internet and a lot of times. People want to look at other people and think that they should be doing what someone else is doing, but that’s not necessarily true.. I feel like the only way that you truly find out whats for you is going inside listening to your body listening to what makes you happy then making that a career or a job? I will tell New entrepreneurs take your time. Learn your industry don’t be scared to fail that life is not a straight line. Everything is a lesson. Yes it might be uncomfortable, but don’t give up.

Who has been most helpful in helping you overcome challenges or build and develop the essential skills, qualities or knowledge you needed to be successful?

First of all, I would say myself then I will say my counselor and my mentor. I also read a lot of books one of the books that really helped me was seven habits of highly effective people. I have also did a lot of work on myself speaking of spiritual type work.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Tashara brown1
• Other: My business on ig is clean_ingladys

Image Credits

Miss Elaine Brown, vice, president, Kamala Harris,