Between the mess and the miracle,
there’s The Badass Arts
Interrupt the patterns holding you back
so you can live with more soul & sass
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Welcome to The Badass Arts™
If you've ever rolled your eyes mid-meditation or felt secretly broken because your “practice” didn’t stick, we’re soul sisters.
After a few too many lung-heaving, knee-buckling experiences, I was tired of shallow solutions, performative growth, ‘Shelf-Help’ books, and repeating the same damn patterns.
I didn’t want to spend another year room-mating with regret.
I wanted a life that was bigger than my fears and truer than my excuses.
What followed changed the way I understood growth, transformation, manifestation, and one stubborn truth:
Knowing better doesn’t automatically mean living better.
That gap between knowing and living became the work.
The Badass Arts™ grew from it, along with the framework I call The Badass Method™.
Welcome to The Badass Arts™, your bridge between the life you have and the one you want to live with more soul, sass, and substance.
So, where do you go from here?
WISE Conference 2026 breakout speaker
Athena Leadership Award nominee 2026
Featured in VoyageHouston
2026 Global Recognition Award Winner (Leadership)
WISE Conference 2026 breakout speaker Athena Leadership Award nominee 2026 Featured in VoyageHouston 2026 Global Recognition Award Winner (Leadership)
The Organizations That Hire Me
Speaking, Events & Conversations
Audiences are drowning in information and starving for meaning.
Organizations want speakers who can move a room and leave people thinking differently about their work, one another, and what is possible.
I bring soul, sass, and substance to conferences, retreats, leadership events, association meetings, podcasts, and community gatherings.
Let’s create something people will feel, remember, and carry back into their work, relationships, and lives. Badassery included.
“Tina Bernard of The Badass Arts has a remarkable gift for helping people unlock their creativity and see possibilities they didn’t know existed. Her innovative approach goes far beyond traditional assistance—she creates experiences that inspire personal growth, healing, fresh thinking, and genuine transformation.”
The Women Who Find Me:
Experiences, Retreats & Studio Sessions
The women drawn to The Badass Arts™ tend to have a few things in common.
They’re smart, capable, and emotionally aware, often better at giving advice than following it. They know more than they’re living.
They may not trust other women as easily as they want to, even though they are usually the first to celebrate another woman’s success.
They have a strong connection to something greater than themselves and little patience for spiritual bypassery and surface-level platitudes.
They are wise and tender, playful and deep, practical and mystical.
If you're reading this and thinking, "Well, damn..." welcome.
The Salon Series is Now:
The Badass Arts™ Studio Sessions
Been to a Badass Arts™ Salon before?
This is different.
After listening closely to the women who’ve been in the room, the Salons are evolving.
Welcome to the Studio Sessions: small-group, immersive learning experiences.
You’ll laugh, reflect, tell the truth, and connect. You’ll also leave with a clearer understanding of what’s happening, a practice to work with it, and a way to use what you learned when real life gets messy.
We get into the stuff that shapes your actual life: why you keep saying yes when every part of you means no, whether the ambition you’re chasing is still yours, and why a friendship has you questioning yourself.
We practice Radical AWEpreciation™ until noticing what’s good becomes something you actually live.
And we take on manifesting without the woo-woo bullshit: get clear about what you’re calling in and become the woman willing to receive it.
Bring the questions, the messy middle, and the shit you haven't quite figured out yet.
Leave with something you can live. Badassery included.
In the News
EIN Presswire • The Tennessean • Akron Beacon Journal • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • The Oklahoman • Fall River Herald News and many more.
Women Over 40 Aren't Losing Their Ambition—They're Evolving It
My first national commentary with Boundless Media explores why women appear burned out, but I don't believe they're losing their ambition. Women are choosing to become more intentional about where they invest their time, talent, and treasure.
Why Friendship Loss Can Hurt as Much as Losing a Partner
In this commentary with Boundless Media, I explore friendship grief, an ache often overlooked even though it leaves millions to mourn one of life's most profound losses in silence.