A wall of water stole a business, a mini-stroke threatened language itself, and somehow the path forward got clearer, not smaller. We sit down with journalist-turned-coach Tanya Targett-Camacho to trace how disaster stripped away pretense and revealed a calling: help women own their stories on video, without apology or imitation.
Tanya shares the harrowing weeks after an inland tsunami erased her warehouse and income, and the moment six months later when pins and needles, slurred speech, and dread marked a mini-stroke.
From relearning simple tasks to rebuilding confidence, she found herself drawn back to her first love—storytelling—and the media skills that once put her on national TV. Only this time, the spotlight isn’t the point. Service is.
She breaks down a simple framework that turns any lived moment into a short, potent video: the specific moment, the lesson it taught, and one practical tip. We talk imposter syndrome, the pressure to shrink on camera, and what changes when you grant yourself permission to stand tall. When you do, you grant others permission, too.
If you wish to connect and work with Tanya you can connect with her on Instagram at: @tanyatargettcamacho.
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Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
Hey Lightbringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Released Out Reveal Purpose. And today is Tanya Target Camacho, and she’s hailing from California, but originally is both from has a UK and Australian accent because she moved a lot as a young child, and so she has this hybrid accent according to her. And you’ll you’ll hear it in the interview. Um, I was really drawn to her story when I read that she lost everything, like her business inland after a tsunami at 35, ended up in the hospital with a mini stroke. I mean, she had all sorts of things happen to her. She’s in journalism, which was fascinating for me to read because I’ve always admired women that can take a good story and really get deep with it, get profound with the questions and portray a story with integrity, um, which is very rare nowadays, but is very vital in our world today. So without further ado, Tanya, thank you so much for joining us on Released Out Reveal Purpose.
Thank you for having me excited to be here.
I heard Australia, but then when she said, Well, you can’t, I’m like, I can sort of hear it, but I hear more Australia. And I am just so excited that you’re on board. I know we’ve been communicating back and forth via LinkedIn of all things, but we met on PodMatch, and I think our story has some alignment. Do share with us, Tanya, that amazing story transformation you wish to share.
Yeah, um, and I think it’s so powerful because when we see on social media, we we always see, you know, the the glamour shots and the success and the and the wins and the victories, but but so don’t do we see the struggles or the dark hours and and everybody has them, and I think shining a light on them um allows us to step out of that darkness and to know that we’re not alone. And for me, I was um, you know, I I started my career as a journalist. I was very fortunate. I was the first uh cadet journalist out of high school in ten years, and so I was working with as a journalist and and you know I won an award or a couple of awards, and um anyway, I I I wanted to have children and that being a journalist, you know, covering fires and and election campaigns, and you sort of, you know, you’ve got to be ready to go at this at that second. And I knew that if I wanted to have a family, which I did, I wanted to be, you know, I wanted to have the opportunity to be there for you know my children. And so I decided to move out of journalism and take those skills and start another business. And I was I had a retail party plan business, and and it was the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere. And I was breaking records and I was again winning all awards in the selling industry. And then in January of 2011, just after lunch, uh, and guys, the hairs have literally just stopped on my arms as I think about it, an inland tsunami came through and wiped out not only my business and everything that I had built up, and I was doing on a on an easy month, I was doing about$65,000,$70,000 a month. And we’re talking about 14, what, 2011? So we’re talking, yeah, 14 years ago. So 14 years ago, I was doing about 70,000, 75,000 on an easy month in turnover. And after that, when that tsunami came through, it killed uh 30 people. My warehouse was in the epicenter of that tsunami. I had um salespeople working for me trapped in in customers’ homes. I had them in lofts, waiting black helicopter airlifting and rescuing. I mean, it was it was absolutely horrific. And about 35 people lost their lives in that tsunami. Um some of the people, um, the souls were never recovered. Um, so the number is actually higher than that. And, you know, it is it’s bricks and mortar, it’s just a building. And so I when that tsunami hit for the next few weeks, I just closed shop and I went out and I started helping others who’d lost more than I had in the recovery process, you know, wiping up mud and all that kind of stuff. And I went back to work and when I went back uh about six to eight weeks later, we the town was still recovering. I mean, this made international news. People weren’t thinking about buying frivolous items, people were, you know, trying to protect their families. And so what I was offering in my, you know, my you know, um, lingerie and makeup and things like that, fun things like that, they weren’t really on people’s to-do list. You know, people had lost their homes. And so I went from doing$70,000,$75,000 a month to not even doing$100. And that happened every month until June. And June is significant because in Australia it’s the end of financial year, and so I got into work to get all my taxes together for my accountant, and um my daughter was unwell at the time, and so I brought her in to work with me. And just after lunch, um, six months after the tsunami had hit in that January of 2011, I felt pins and needles run down my arm, and I had numbness in my fingers, and then I felt my eyes were all back in my head, and I went to say something and I couldn’t speak, and I knew the signs of a stroke. And fortunately, uh my assistant, my secretary, had had just was just coming back from lunch and she saw me, and she let in another lady who worked for me, and she was actually a nurse, and she saw what was happening to me, and she said, We’ve got to go to hospital right now. And so there, as I left for the hospital that day, just uh um it was also just after lunch, funnily enough, um my daughter, as I mentioned, was there, and as I looked at her, I thought to myself, Am I gonna see you again? Because I’m an intelligent woman, I knew I knew the signs of a of a stroke, but it wasn’t will I see you again that was the hardest part for me. It was if I see you again, will I know who you are? Because to me, not recognizing my own child would be worse for her than to lose a mother, and that was such a such a uh uh uh um uh a powerful moment that I actually couldn’t share that story, I couldn’t even talk about that story from stage, which I ended up doing probably to America for about two or three years. And so I I’d I’d lost absolutely everything. And I thought to myself, well, what you know, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do now? Um, you know, I lost everything in the tsunami, and then I had the stroke six months later. I couldn’t drive a car, I couldn’t even walk in a straight line, I couldn’t, I would my speech was still trapped, I couldn’t, I would lose the ability to write. And this this happened for about 12 months after the stroke. So I had to learn how to do some of these things again. I mean, I could still walk and feed myself and all that kind of thing, but I would have moments, I would have seizures where I couldn’t speak and I couldn’t write, and then I was literally trapped inside my body. And a girlfriend I went for was riding my horse with my girlfriend, and she said to me, you know, Tonya, from the ashes the phoenix rises. And I want all of your audience to really hear that from the ashes the Phoenix rises. And so fast forward after my my physical recovery period, I decided that I was going to do my lifelong passion, which is to go back to a version of journalism and teach people how to do what I had done. Because when I left journalism and I started my own retail business, I used those skills of storytelling to get free publicity in media. I got on national TV, I got on international media, I got on magazines, and people were asking me, you know, how do you do that? Can you teach me? And selfishly, selfishly back then, I was living in a scarcity mentality. And I that was my competitive advantage. But then, you know, God, the universe, whatever you believe in, for me it’s God, went, you know what, Tanya, we have another idea for you, and we’re just gonna just let you know people. So the tsunami came and I’m like, whoa, okay, I guess I should do what I should have been doing. And so I decided to to share. I decided to teach people how to share their stories to get their missions and their causes and their passions out there uh into the media. And um I literally had um during this stage as well, I’d ended up um leaving my daughter’s father and I became a single mum and I put everything on me. And um within six months, I had six weeks’ rent uh in the bank to get me through. Uh it was incredible. And um within six months I had created a six-figure turnover in my business, and within about 18 months I had a six-figure business, which then brought me to America because I just I was by this time I was sharing from stage or selling from stage, and I made a top 10 in a global marketing competition, which then brought me to America. And when I came over to pick up my prize, which was um to attend uh invitation-only uh mastermind event at this secret location, I actually um spotted my husband from stage, my future husband from stage, and I ended up moving to America permanently um to be with my husband. And here I was starting all over again, which brings me to the next story, but I want to give you a moment to share my secrets on that together.
Well, now what a pleasure and an honor to hear your story. And I’m first off like thinking of all the souls that were lost in that tsunami, because I know that you carried that with you initially. And so I want to make note of that, right? And also just what a what a truly dark chapter you found yourself in, because as you were speaking, I was in there with you in the trenches, if you will. You know, as a good storyteller that you are, because you are a journalist. This is who you’re born to be, right? This is why this comes so naturally to you. And I can see it. I was with you in that bed. I was with you when when you’re thinking these things about your your daughter, because I was in the hospital bed myself and I was wondering like, will I ever see my son again? And who is he gonna be left with if something happens to me? Because I had pulmonary embolisms in 2012. And when you have a moment like that, it changes you profoundly. Right? And and uh my second husband, like you, I I got divorced, I had a young son, and I felt the responsibility squarely on my shoulder. So all of these things that you were discussing, man, I could totally relate to because I’d been there. I’ve been there, and and our journeys are similar, but then they’re different in that you pivoted fairly quickly into what you’re doing now, which I I love that you’re teaching others, especially women, how to use their story powerfully, right? Because you’ve already done it and you know what works. So tell us more about those women that you work with. Like, how did that idea originate and what are you currently working in?
It’s a beautiful question. Um a beautiful question, thank you. And it’s not one I’ve been asked before. And as a journalist, I always appreciate really interesting questions. And the answers a little bit cliche, but I I think for your audience, Sylvia, it won’t be. Because do you remember Mahatma Gandhi said that it will be women that will change the world?
Right?
It’ll be women that will change the world, and working as a journalist and then working also, I’ve I’ve done political speech writing and I’ve done opinion piece writing, but not under my own name, under other people’s names. And so I was a ghostwriter as well. And what being a ghostwriter taught me is how to capture someone else’s voice in storytelling. And so what I personally felt with every fibre of my being was that no one’s really capturing that female voice, no one’s really capturing the essence of what that woman’s voice is. I think a lot of the time people are like, you know, and and to to segue quickly and then I’ll come back, what I do now is I teach storytelling, but through the power of video. So teaching women how to bring out the those moments of those stories that are impactful, and also linking that story with lessons that they learned. So we’re creating content and teachings and tips from the story. So it’s so it’s more than just the story, so to speak, but it’s using that story to then illustrate that lesson. And so what I found is that that that voice isn’t being captured, and that women are often reluctant to go on video and they think they need to be someone else. They’re trying to pretend to be someone else because whenever they do a video, when they watch it back, they’re like, oh, it doesn’t look like me, it doesn’t sound like me. So I wanted to fix that. I wanted to give women permission to be them because Sylvia, the world doesn’t need you know, we need you, Sylvia, and she’s unique. And anyone who tries to be Sylvia is just gonna be a carbon copy. We want you to not be a carbon copy, we want you to be to unleash your authentic self into the world. That’s what you’ve been given your talents, your skills, and your personality for. Um, I’m an introvert, believe it or not. When people hear me speak and they see me uh, you know, on video, they’re like, oh, you know, you’re it must be easy for you to go extrovert. No, I’m an introvert. I’m actually prefer to to be behind the camera. I worked in newspaper journalism. I was offered a job on the 6 p.m. news and I turned it down. That’s how much of an introvert that I am. And so I feel I know, right? Talk about full circle. So I feel this obligation that for me, and and and and I’m hoping that this will land for some of your viewers too. I have that daughter that I was talking about, Olivia. I don’t I want to be the best role model that I can be. I don’t want her to be afraid of anything. And I don’t want her coming to me and saying, I’ll ask, tell her to do something. She says, Oh, but mommy, I’m afraid to do it. You are scared to get on video. You turned down a job in TV, so it was alright for you. Well, she can’t use that now. Yes, I did turn down for job on TV, but look at me, I’m on video. So it’s it’s about helping women capture helping capture that female voice that the world so needs to share the power of their story in their unique voice, because stories not only change lives but save lives. And if I may, Sylvia, because I I you know I want to give you a moment to come in. I want to say love to share a story in just a moment about how my sharing a story saved a woman’s life. I’ve never met that woman, but I heard about it later. I heard about it later, and I’d love to share that.
Of course, and I want you to share that. It’s I’m actually feeling the Holy Spirit as you’re speaking, so I know that that story really needs to be shared. And I know now why God sent you to me today. It’s the the timing is impeccable as always. Um, because the message that I shared with my community this morning, I have a group on Facebook called In Faith I Thrive, and it’s it’s named after my best-selling book, In Faith I Thrive, Finding Joy Through God’s Master Plan. And the first line that I said is, You are fearfully and wonderfully made. And that was the message that God had for me because of a conversation I had had with my husband just yesterday on the ride back from South Texas, visiting my mother for her 85th birthday party. He had observed I’d been very competitive with my brother in conversation with him. I had actually gotten up and left the room. And there’s a lot of dynamics in my birth family that I’m uh going through currently in therapy because I want to understand why I was feeling inadequate and not worthy and these things. Like, where were they coming from? And so when he shared this truth with me initially, I was ashamed and I tried to deny it and justify it, and I went through all the things that I normally do. And somewhere deep inside of me, I heard a voice that said, Stop, just listen, let the communication happen, you know. And so I just I kept asking him questions, even though my husband was getting frustrated and flustered because I was saying no to what he was saying, which can be very frustrating. Um, inside I heard a voice that said, You don’t have to prove anything anymore because you’re a new creation in me, you know, and I want you to understand that the way you are made is perfect, it’s complete and full. Because I see you and I know the the power you have inside of you. You don’t have to prove it to anyone anymore. That’s your old programming, that’s the way you grew up with your dad. You know, I adored my father, and all the listeners on my podcast know he passed away last year. And had I not written my book in 2020, I wouldn’t have healed that relationship with him. The one thing that was revealed to me in that conversation, that very hard conversation with my husband later was my father created subconsciously competition between my brother, sister, and I’m the oldest. And because he was someone that was never home, he was always working super hard as a surgeon. Um, his idea, since he was an immigrant in this country, was to be successful. You either had to be a doctor or a lawyer. And if you weren’t one of those things, you were not successful, and you needed to prove it through your achievements and the knowledge. So he pushed us hard to get upper, you know, our degrees. And I got my Bachelor of Arts at Austin College. I had a double major and I went to work, and that frustrated him because he wanted me to be a lawyer. Obviously, I was not going to be a doctor. I did not like the sight of blood. I fainted at the sight of light. So that was out of the question. Um, so then he thought, well, you’re very verbal, but like you um stated earlier, Tanya, and this is why I think it’s funny. I was born an introvert. Most people would never suspect that of me. I was very quiet, very observant as a child because I suspect, uh, highly suspect that I have um level one autism. And because there’s so much evidence that’s pointing to that direction, you know, I would get lost in conversations. I would I would be able to dive very deeply into profound subjects and understand these really complicated subjects. And the French love me because I remember when I lived abroad, they had us do this this paper, this 20-page paper to graduate. And of all the Americans, I picked this very controversial subject in France, which was the impact the immigration from Algeria was having on the education system in France. That was not that was a taboo subject in France. Nobody wanted to talk about it. And I had to interview people and write 20 pages worth of material and research on this, and we couldn’t use books. So this is how I’m fearfully and wonderfully made, but I can’t, I don’t understand simple. Concept sometimes. So I I surround myself with people, especially like my husband’s really talented at this, to like really you know, take a profound subject and just give me the bullet points. I have to sit back and reflection, and and then I understand it, but I can’t do it sometimes in conversation. So, you know, I mean, so that was like what was coming to me, fearfully and wonderfully made. So, as you’re speaking about how you want women to step into that light using their story, I think it’s so powerful, Tanya, and God bless you for stepping into that. And I’m sorry you went through the stroke because the stroke is terrifying, but it does make you reflect, it changes the way you see things in life and it makes you value life that much more, doesn’t it?
Oh, a thousand percent. Yeah, absolutely. You really get that sense of perspective, what really matters, you know. And I think, you know, you were talking about how you felt that need to prove yourself prior to where you’re sitting today. And I think that that’s so important because I feel that that for a lot of women, there is this imposter syndrome, there is this, you know, I’m gonna get caught out. You know, what if people find out I’m not who I really am? You actually are, you’re just being so hard on yourself, and it’s not about proving yourself, it is about permission to give yourself. And by giving yourself permission to step into your light, to step into your greatness. We don’t need you to turn your light down. The world doesn’t need you to collapse your body language. We need you to put your shoulders back, we need you to send that light out there, and when you give yourself permission to step into the light and to step into that fearless you uh to to achieve the greatness that you have within you, when you give yourself permission, here’s the beautiful effect. You give other women permission too. And that that to me is is how I operate because I am an introvert and I have I I I struggle with it. And so I I it’s never about me. And whenever you’re getting nervous about doing video or nervous about doing a podcast or nervous about speaking on stage, I I just want to tell my my my clients, I want you to think about who that one person is. Who is that one person that’s sitting out there waiting for you to say only what you can say in the language that you can say it? Because that’s that one person that you’re speaking to. Because how many times would you know will someone say, Oh, it’s cold outside, grab a coat, it’s cold outside and grab a coat? And then, you know, like a dad saying to a daughter, and then the boyfriend comes on, oh sweetie, it’s a little chilly. Yeah, I’m where you’re gonna get um, you know, sick. Um, you might want to get a jacket. Now you go and get a jacket, right? So we it because they spoke that language, you’re just someone out there is waiting for you to say uniquely what you can say. And an example of that is that I was going to an event. Um, I had a speak at a at a at a breakfast event. This is years ago, this is like 15 or so years ago. I was doing media training, and I just read I I just read a book uh recently released by Kirik Ashley, for those who are interested, called How Would Love Respond? And I can’t remember a lot about the book, but there was one line in particular that struck with me, and you know, I’m always looking, as a journalist, I’m looking for to make whatever I’m talking about fresh, new, timely, and relevant, which is what we do as journalists. And so this book was, you know, a bestseller, it was being talked about a lot. I read it by chance, and so I was sharing this line, and the line was this that everything is in a perpetual state of motion. Even the coffee cup on your desk, the molecules are moving. They’re just moving so fast that you can’t see them and it forms a solid. Now, if everything is in a constant state of motion and you are not moving forward in your life, be it personal, fitness, business, academia, if you’re not moving forward, you are by definition moving backwards. By standing still and doing nothing, you are moving backwards. And I I found out literally about six, seven months later, someone came up to me at uh um and s and said, Um, oh, do you you gave a talk at such and such about um some book, Love Something, and vibrations and moving backwards? Like it was just sort of you know, half they they didn’t really and I’m I I got enough, I got enough to go, I don’t know what you’re talking about. And I’d only only shared that that line once because I don’t like my talks to be, you know, the same thing at a different venue. I like it to be a little bit different. And so I knew instantly what talk he was he was talking about, and I said, Oh, yeah, I didn’t mind. He goes, Do you know you saved a woman’s life that day? I said, What are you talking about? What are you talking about? He goes, I have a client, she had I only have her now because of you. He said, She had written her son, her teenage son, a goodbye letter, had gotten all her affairs in order, was gonna jump off the story bridge in Brisbane in uh, you know, mid-morning or whatever, before she didn’t want to be there when he got home from school, she wanted to be dead. And he said, She went to your breakfast meeting, and whatever you said about this love, he said, it just changed her mind. She went back, tore up a letter, and she’s still alive to this day. And I was I know, I I had no idea. And and I thought to myself, you know, I really didn’t want to give that talk that morning. I really didn’t feel like it. But look what look what happened. And so to to to to come back when we when we’re thinking about that voice and we get nervous and we’re second guessing ourselves, it’s not about you. And when we get nervous about an interview or a stage or a video, that’s because we’re making it about us. What we need to think about is who is that who is that mum with that teenager? Because health, uh, health issues, finances, uh, marriage issues, all these things that people go through on a day-to-day basis, they end lives. What you’re sitting on, what your audience and Sylvia, what you have, and and it’s so awesome you’re getting out there in the world because there are people out there who need to hear what only you can say, and it literally not just changes life, it saves lives. So if you’re introvert like us and you’re struggling with it, or you’re just not sure about what to do, and is anyone interested to hear what I have to say? It stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Think about who is out there. Yes, there is someone out there, and let’s make it about them, and then watch those nerves disappear. You’re still gonna be uncomfortable, which is great because you’re stretching, right?
Oh my gosh, I’m like speechless. Seriously, like my heart was beating so fast as you were talking about this woman because I could see her, I could see her, and then to just hear the one thing, you and I both know that it’s in the details where transformation occurs. It was in that minor detail of those words that came to you that you just spoke, even though you didn’t want to be there, and then you impacted a life, and not not just by impacting it, but keeping her from ending hers. That is huge. That is that should empower, honestly. What an empowering story for anyone listening of the power of the tongue, the power of your words, the power of your presence, the power of trusting that inner voice that said, No, you need to go, you need to be there today. You don’t know, you trust that, okay, I’m doing this first for the Lord, and then my love for others, because we are all interconnected. We are. Believe it, I I had an experience like that with someone recently that I interviewed, and I initially didn’t know how I was gonna do that interview, and I just allowed the Holy Spirit to guide me that morning. I said, This is your gig, I’m your vehicle, and there’s a reason why you’re sending this this girl to me, and and she had sent me her book, and I I very rarely read all the books prior to the interviews because I have so many interviews, right? And so the time frame of doing these things, but for whatever reason, that cover like was yelling at me, like you need to read me. And I read it, and it was one of the final pieces I had been praying about to God to receive. And can you believe that she came from Oregon to Texas? She was gonna, she’s originally from Texas, and she was gonna go visit family, and I was her first pit stop, and we got to meet in person. That was one of the posts I put on LinkedIn that I think you liked of all people. And I was like, you know, that’s the power of our stories. We don’t know who it’s going to impact. It’s kind of like that book from Mitch Album, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. We impact people every day of our lives. We don’t even know it. Just we smiled at them, and we don’t know what that smile did for someone.
Exactly.
You know, and and so for us introverts, if we can get on stages, and I’ve gotten on stages, or if I can get in, I hated the camera, by the way, just so you know. Every time the red dot would come on, um it would, I would, everything would get caught up in my throat. I couldn’t even do it. And then a journalist, a lady, um, Kim Barnes, she’s local here to Austin, Texas, and she said, I’m going to challenge all of you to if you don’t feel comfortable, just do it. Just keep doing it. So I started to do these focus Friday videos during 2020, and then, which was not easy for me, I would actually write out my speeches first, you know, like forever. And then I would try to memorize it and go on camera, and that was like crazy harder, I think. And then finally one day I just went live. I said, Oh, to hell with us. I’m just gonna do this, you know. I’m just gonna try this out, and it’s actually worked out better for me to go live, and then now I’m ready for anything, nothing really scares me. That light comes on, I’m like, eh, it’s just a red light, you know, it’s a it’s no big deal. But but I have something to share. The Holy Spirit wants me to share. This is I’m his vehicle, and this is my mission, and I’m completely in my divine purpose. But like you mentioned earlier, it’s it’s not linear for women, and I want women to understand that our identity sometimes don’t get revealed till 30s, you know, mid-30s. That’s why I work with 30 to 60-year-old women, uh, primarily, even though my husband’s like, hey, men need help too. Oh god, I do. I’m like, well, yeah, but I primarily work with women because, like you said, women, we take um different roles in life thinking that’s where we need to be because we’re afraid. Sometimes we feel inadequate. I we’ve both been there, and and now we can tell them, no, no, no, you can step into your light, step into it fully. So, any last words of encouragement that you want to share with the listeners?
Yeah, you were talking about the God-given talents we have, and that’s true. They are God-given talents. God gave us these talents not to keep to ourselves, God gave us these talents to share with the world, to bring beauty to the world, through art, through writing, through poetry, through storytelling, to bring inspiration and change and comfort storytelling, and and the skills that your your uh your listeners have, the powers of healing, the powers of growing the business, the powers of transformation, the powers of beautification, interior design, and and all that sort of thing. And so if you’re not using your skill, if you’re not using the talents that you were given, and and let me say I understand that because you know, uh when I arrived here in America, I had in nine years ago, I had no safety net. I mean, yes, I had my beautiful, wonderful future husband who I call McSweeney, but I didn’t have the networks that I had in Australia. You know, I’d never worked here as a as a journalist. I’ve never even worked here at um Burger King, um, you know, like I did as a teenager in Australia. I didn’t have any friends, so I just I didn’t have this network at all. And so I was building over from scratch. And then adding to that was the media landscape, which I’m not a fan of, and I didn’t want to be a part of it. And so the thing that had called me since I was a three-year-old little girl, storytelling, but that storytelling to make change, and I storytelling for the sake of it, storytelling to make impact, that was not the the the the environment here in America I I didn’t care for, and I didn’t feel an integrity and authenticity to be a part of it or to encourage others to be a part of it when I could see firsthand what was going on. And so I I was pivoting and I was I was for about 18 months to two years lost. I didn’t I couldn’t figure out what to do. And it was very important for me to be doing my soul-driven purpose, my alignment. And if you were to read my prayer journal from that 18 months, I mean it is a dark prayer journal. I I was looking in it you know a few months ago, and everything was, dear God, am I on the right path? Dear God, where do you want me to be? God, can you please show me? God, can you please send the Holy Spirit? God, can you please help me listen to the Holy Spirit a little more accurately? So, you know, the there becomes that question of am I doing what I meant to do? I keep hitting all these walls, what am I supposed to do? And that comes down to spending time alone with the Lord, a lot being prayerful and listening. But also take a stock, like take an inventory, write down on a piece of paper, what are you really good at? If you could do something every day and not get paid for it, what would that be? For me, it’s writing stories and playing with horses. So for a while there, I used to write stories about horses. So we could write, what is it that you would do and not get paid? Think about what is it that’s extraordinary for you, and that might be the joy that you bring other people. And step into that, follow that, and please, enough of the shrinking. Let’s turn your light up because the world needs your light, and in particular in this climate, not just here in America, around the world, if you watch the news. We need more light, we need more hope. And so I encourage you to think about who is waiting out there for you to share the God-given talents that you’re given to save their life and to change their life and the world. Because Mahatma Gandhi said it will be women, and Sylvia and I are here to help you do just that.
Oh my goodness, I chose. I want to work with you. I wanted to work with you, Tanya. How do I do that? How do I find you?
Yeah, uh, well, you can find me. I guess the easiest way would be to look me up on Instagram, Tanya Target Camacho, and you’ll see under my bio a little Linktree link. I’ve got all kinds of things you can you can look at there. In fact, if you want me to have a look at your uh your videos and give you some tips, I legitimately have a 30-minute free video audit. Like that’s legitimate. And I offer that because of my passion for helping women share their stories. So uh the easiest way to find me is just to head to Instagram, um Tanya Target Camacho, and then head to my my bio, my link in bio and and um yeah, come say hi.
Oh my goodness, I definitely will. Well, you and I are linked up already. So we’re gonna be linked up more. I think so too.
I don’t know, I’m just getting that feeling right now. Oh my god, I wrote a note, I would have gone and join your Facebook group.
I yes, please do. And and you can give me tips there, and by all means, I’m all for tips and and encouragement, and and you encouraging the women in that group would be amazing, and even the men, because I’ve encouraged the men too. Uh, there are some men out there that really need to step more into their light. So uh they really do, our husbands included. So I just want to thank you, Tanya, because this has been such an amazing interview. And for the listeners have released that reveal purpose. Remember, Matthew 5.14 to always be the light. Be this wonderful, beautiful light because you don’t know the life you will impact just by stepping in there confidently. Um, I love y’all. Have a beautiful and blessed rest of your week. Bye now.
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