Well, I’m Natasha Roya Azizi… Global Citizen, Persian-American, born in Houston, Texas.

Since I was young, I always wanted to merge the best of my parents… the head & the heart. This desire led me to an interesting intersection of business and “doing good” whether working for social entrepreneurship startup incubator, renewable energy companies, design thinking and behavior change science social venture or my family business in historic preservation real estate.

As much as I love the business lady in me, it also fed the part of me that is a hyper-achiever, perfectionist, living from my masculine side (an unhealthy expression of masculinity) reminding me of my college athlete days so controlled by getting the best grades and being the best athlete and captain.

In the process, I was doing it all and living from other’s ideas of what success looked like and overtime, this tore me down. I was running on fumes for years.

My turning point was when I was living in Houston founding Impact Hub there. In addition to creating a community and movement around social entrepreneurship, I was working with my family business, a partner in another community development project and I taught yoga a couple of times a week.

I was doing it all. From the outside, it looked like I was thriving and bright and shiny.

From the inside, I literally felt like I was dying. I would go on trips all of the time, escaping, craving to feel an ounce of my own spirit away from everything. But it was just a band-aid. It wasn’t getting to the roots, the need for real change to live MY life and not what others expected of me.

This period of time led to a lot of anxiety and depression that nobody knew about. And ultimately to full on panic attacks where I couldn’t even leave my house. I would be so crushed with anxiety somehow on the floor, unable to move.

I didn’t want to go out the door and mask anymore. My spirit was begging me for change but I was so scared to disappoint everyone.

Through working with a coach/guide, Kirin Bhatti, I slowly started to give myself permission and refuel my system to make the changes that I needed to make. In one sweep, I turned over Impact Hub to those who would operationalize the 2 years of founding it, I demanded to get bought out of the development project and told the family business that I would not be working on the next development project. Then I decided to take a 3-month “Houston time-out”

Around that time, a friend sent me this Earth Priestess facilitator’s training (tantric, shamanic and Taoist practices for women) in Bali that fall. At first, I rolled my eyes at the name and location, but as I was reading what we’d be learning, my whole being said, “YES! This is it!” This is the thing I’ve been praying for that I didn’t know it existed. And so I went, and it was the medicine that I needed AND felt so connected to my purpose.

Five years later, and I’ve deepened my love for the mystical, witchy, adventurer, nature lover side of me embodying more and more of these ancient practices and weaving them into the needs of today’s times.

Now I’m on a mission to support the burnt-out business ladies (like myself) who’ve lived far too long as a hyper-achiever, acting like men and draining themselves for success back into their true nature, their intuition, their authentic alignment, their sensual powers and their connection to the natural cycles of life.

The concept of Sacral Leadership came to me while sitting by the beach in Costa da Caparica, Portugal, a country I’ve lived in and consider a second home. I felt this download and vision of these business ladies leading from the wild, primal, intuitive wisdoms of our womb. The question that kept popping in my head was “what world would we live in if our UN Leaders led from their womb’s wisdoms?” So with that spirit and intention, Sacral Leadership was birthed.

By empowering women to lead from their true innate gifts, I believe our family structures shift, our organizations change and more sustainable, positive impact can be made.

With all that said, what sparks me the most?

Supporting women back into their wild, feral nature, remembering their innate wisdoms and experiencing true freedom.

Let’s play!