Meet Tina
The Badass Behind The Badass Arts™
Let’s face it, no one wakes up one morning with a crown and a confidence halo.
We crawl, cry, and claw our way through grief, disappointment, and long stretches of trying to “get it right” while feeling anything but whole.
That’s certainly how I got here.
The Badass Arts™ was born from a messy life, from trauma and chaos, from resistance and fear ... and from finally learning, the meandering way, how to bridge the gap between what I knew and how I wanted to live.
The Art of Becoming a
Badass Starts in the Mess
It was also born from a profound dissatisfaction with performative living, endless self-improvement, mindfulness without embodiment, and all the surface-level spiritual bypassery and pat answers that never seemed to heal much of anything.
So, I could introduce myself in polished third person.
“Tina Bernard is a visionary founder, spiritual disruptor, midlife muse...”
But let’s be real, because that woman didn’t rise from a glossy magazine.
She rose from grief, grit, and grace earned through knee-buckling, lung-heaving life experiences.
More of My SoulJourn™ (If You’re Curious)
I overcame real-life hardships and picked myself up by the bra straps more times than I can count.
I was a single mom. I’ve experienced domestic violence. I know the fear of a chaotic childhood, physical abuse, neglect, and poverty.
I’ve slept in cars on the edge of homelessness.
I gritted through the shame of food stamps.
I mourned the deaths of loved ones and cried from the ache of so much loss.
I’ve saved money, lost it all, and depleted my resources to feed my children.
I’ve worked for great bosses who believed in me and shitty ones who overlooked me.
I’m on my third marriage, and I finally got it right.
I raised two children and broke the cycle of maternal abuse that marked my own upbringing.
These experiences shaped me, could have defined me, and thank God, they refined me instead. Along the way, I met more than a few Doubt Goblins™ and spent longer than I'd like to admit in Pattern Paralysis™.
My Degrees, Training, and Bra-Strap Grit
My path has taken me on a few spectacular SoulJourns™.
I’m a former pharmaceutical sales consultant, business development and training manager, inspirational speaker, editor, and writer with more than 20 years of experience.
I hold a degree in psychobiology from UCLA, studied psychology in graduate school at SDSU, and trained with or studied under some of the most respected mentors in the field, including Dr. Diana Kirshner, founder of Love in 90 Days, and Shirzad Chamine, creator of Positive Intelligence.
I’ve been honored as an ATHENA Leadership Award nominee and selected as a breakout speaker for the WISE Conference of North Houston.
The Badass Arts™ was born from my love of science, personal experience, innate curiosity, and hard-earned wisdom.
I live what I teach, am always learning, and suspect that’ll be the case for the long haul.
Where Do You Go From Here?
There are many ways to experience The Badass Arts™.
Whether you are a woman inspired to walk a path to living bigly with more badassery for herself, or an organization looking for a conversation that stays with your group long after the event ends, let’s connect.
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