We’re looking forward to introducing you to Ra’Nesha Taylor. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Ra’Nesha, 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 are you most proud of building — that nobody sees?
Myself. The thing I’m most proud of building, quietly, consistently, and without applause, is the version of me that exists today. The inner work I’ve done over the last five years has been the hardest project I’ve ever taken on. Rebuilding myself required healing wounds I never wanted to touch, confronting insecurities I used to hide behind, and letting old versions of me fall apart so something stronger could emerge.
It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t glamorous. It was slow, uncomfortable, and often painful. But choosing to unravel, to face the deepest layers of hurt and trauma, and then consciously rebuild from that place… that’s the part no one sees. And it’s the part I am most proud of.
Becoming this version of myself that’s rooted, clear, honest, and whole has been the most challenging and most rewarding thing I’ve ever created. I built me, and that is my greatest work.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
A lot of the women I’m connected to, friends, clients, family, even women I meet in passing, are moving through life in a constant state of overwhelm. They’re exhausted but still expected to be the strong ones. Their bodies are sending signals they were never taught to understand. Their moods feel unpredictable. Their energy crashes at the worst moments. They’re successful on paper but disconnected from themselves in ways they can’t quite explain.
And I recognize it so deeply because I’ve lived it too.
My work grew out of my own healing journey. Years of studying, researching, unlearning, and rebuilding myself after hitting a point where my body had nothing left to give. Everything I create now comes from that lived experience and from paying close attention to the women around me and previous clients. I’ve listened to their stories, their frustrations, their symptoms, their patterns, and realized we’re all navigating a similar kind of disconnection.
So what I do is help women come back home to themselves.
Not in a shallow, “self-care fixes everything” way, but more in the sense of helping them understand their bodies, their hormones, their emotions, their energy shifts, and their natural rhythms. I teach them how to regulate, how to listen inward, how to rebuild their lives in a way that doesn’t require betraying themselves just to make it through the day.
A lot of my work focuses on body literacy, cyclical living, and self-mastery. Practices that help women stop fighting their biology and start aligning with it. And because so many of us were never taught these things, I translate it into simple, relatable guidance that actually fits into everyday life.
At the heart of it, I support women, particularly Black women, in remembering who they are underneath the overwhelm and dysregulation. In reclaiming their rhythm, their softness, their stability, and their sense of self. Everything I create is rooted in that intention.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
The part of me that needed to stay hidden. The version of me that learned to shrink, to dim, to silence myself because the environments I grew up in didn’t feel safe enough for my full expression. I carried beliefs that weren’t mine. Beliefs passed down, projected onto me, or reinforced by people who didn’t know how to hold who I really was. And for a long time, that version of me served a purpose. She protected me. She helped me survive. She kept me from being judged, misunderstood, or harmed.
But that protection eventually became confinement.
I’ve spent the last few years realizing that the smallness I carried wasn’t my truth—it was my armor. And there came a point where I could feel that version of me loosening her grip, almost like she knew her time was up. She had taken me as far as she could.
Releasing her hasn’t been about rejecting who I was. It’s been about returning to who I was before I learned to hide. Before the conditioning, before the fear, before the world told me who I should be. The version of me who was confident, alive, curious, expressive, and full of fire.
She’s the one I’m honoring now. And the version built around fear and smallness? I thank her for her service, and I let her go with gratitude and love.
What’s something you changed your mind about after failing hard?
Being a solopreneur means you’re going to fail over and over again. I’ve had more “failures” in the last few years than I can count. In the beginning, every single one of them would take me out. I’d pour my heart into something, follow the formulas, study what the experts said, do everything “right,” and still watch things fall flat. And every time, I took it personally. I thought it meant something was wrong with *me*.
But after a while, I started looking back at those so-called failures with a different lens. I noticed how much information they gave me. How much experience I gained simply by trying. How every “loss” actually showed me something about what I want, what doesn’t work for me, what does work for me, and how I naturally move in this space.
The biggest shift for me was realizing that a failed outcome does *not* mean I’m a failure. It doesn’t mean I’m inadequate or not cut out for this. It just means the strategy didn’t land. The timing was off. The approach needed refining. The plan wasn’t aligned.
Once I separated *me* from the *method*, everything changed.
I stopped internalizing outcomes and started learning from them. I stopped beating myself up and started paying attention. Now, when something doesn’t go as expected, I see it as data, not defeat. It’s a lesson, not a reflection of my worth.
That mindset shift saved my confidence, my creativity, and, honestly, my business.
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
One of the biggest lies in the personal development world is the idea that discipline, willpower, and consistency are the only pathways to transformation or success. These concepts get pushed like universal truths, as if every human body moves the same, thinks the same, or regenerates the same. But most of the teachings we’ve been fed about productivity, creativity, ambition, even “self-mastery,” were built on male-centered patterns. They were designed around bodies that don’t cycle the way ours do.
For women, especially, this creates an impossible standard to live up to. We’re told to wake up at 5 AM every day, stay consistent no matter what, push through emotional or physical shifts, and rely on sheer willpower as if our hormones, our energy, our inner seasons, and our nervous systems don’t change week to week. When we can’t maintain that rigid consistency, we internalize it as a personal failure; when in reality, the system was never built with us in mind.
The truth is, women are cyclical beings. Our bodies move through phases biologically, emotionally, and creatively. Our energy rises and falls in patterns that have been under-researched, under-recognized, and deeply misunderstood. Yet the industry continues to act as if success is a straight line, powered only by discipline, rather than a rhythm that shifts and expands throughout the month.
The lie is that women need more willpower.
The truth is that women need more body literacy.
What I teach, what I’ve lived, and what I’ve witnessed in other women is that when you honor your natural rhythms, you don’t have to force discipline. You naturally create flow. You don’t have to battle for consistency. You build routines that support your biological reality. And you don’t have to push through burnout. You move with your internal seasons instead of against them.
The personal development world keeps repeating the same message, but it doesn’t fit the lives or the bodies of the women living in it. And that’s the lie I’m committed to dismantling.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
I understand, on a very deep level, that a lot of the chaos people feel inside themselves isn’t personal; it’s structural. We live in a world dominated by distorted masculine energy: constant output, pressure, productivity at any cost, emotional suppression, and a belief that life should move in a straight, predictable line. And the feminine—the part of all humans that is intuitive, rhythmic, restorative, and connected—has been pushed down for generations.
That suppression and imbalance create real dysregulation. Not just emotionally, but physically, spiritually, energetically. People feel disconnected from themselves without knowing why. Women especially feel it because their bodies were never meant to function in a purely linear way, yet that’s the only model society gives them.
This understanding is a quiet undercurrent in my work. It shapes the way I hold space for women, the language I use, and the way I interpret the patterns they describe, not as personal failures, but as symptoms of an environment that doesn’t honor their natural rhythm.
It’s why I approach wellness the way I do. Not as a push for more discipline or more force, but as a return to harmony. A return to remembering what the feminine actually feels like in the body: ease, intuition, inner pacing, fluidity, truth. When women reconnect with that part of themselves, their whole internal landscape changes. Regulation, self-trust, and a sense of “home” within themselves become possible again.
So this belief isn’t separate from my work. It’s the lens behind it. It’s why I focus on helping women understand themselves through a rhythm-based, body-honoring perspective, because the real issue was never that women were “inconsistent.” The real issue is that we’ve been taught to live against our nature in a world that isn’t designed for our rhythm.
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