Community Highlights: Meet Tabby Biddle

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tabby Biddle.

Hi Tabby, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Thank you so much. I am honored and grateful for this opportunity. I’ll first share with your readers that my life’s work is dedicated to elevating the voices of women changemakers. I help women find their voice and amplify it as writers, public speakers, artists, activists and thought leaders – not tethered to the old ways of patriarchy, but in a new paradigm of feminine leadership.

I believe there is medicine in a woman’s voice. This is how she transmits her wisdom into the world. We desperately need women’s wisdom now. I believe that if we ever want to create a world where everyone can thrive, we need to balance the feminine and masculine within ourselves and within our worldly leadership.

I often tell my clients when we first start working together that I define leadership as something that is innate in every woman, and something that doesn’t necessarily need to be learned, as much as it needs to be remembered. By this, I mean that we have so much knowledge and wisdom inside of us already – particularly in our bodies — but it has been buried, covered up and shamed by millennia of patriarchy. In my work, I support women in the process of uncovering their gifts, wisdom and purpose so they can move forward in the world as the leader they came here to be.

I got into elevating the voices of women changemakers from a place of deep reverence for the Divine Feminine – the feminine aspect of divine power that lives within all of us. After an early career in journalism and a decade as yoga and meditation teacher, I had what I call a “Divine Feminine Awakening.” At that time, I woke up to the true power of the Feminine – or Shakti as we call it in yoga — and the knowledge that She is trying to rise within all of us.

Simultaneously, I woke up to the human rights abuses happening to women and girls around the world – something I had turned a blind eye to for many years living from a patriarchal lens. I became keenly aware of the oppression, abuse, violence and silencing of women and girls worldwide — past and present – and I vowed I wouldn’t stay silent.

I started a blog called The Goddess Diaries to share what I was learning and waking up to and to shine a light on women doing work in the world to better the lives of women and girls. My intention was to amplify the voices of women changemakers and to call out the human rights abuses happening to women around the world so that they didn’t get swept under the rug. At the time, mainstream media wasn’t doing much reporting on this.

Within a year, I became a weekly writer for The Huffington Post and two years later, a United Nations Foundation Press Fellow writing on the human rights of women and girls. As I expanded and elevated my writing platform, I shifted gears from CEO of a feminine-based yoga lifestyle clothing line that I founded a few years earlier to working as a writer and editor for female-owned businesses — to then launching a coaching and consulting business focused on helping women find their voice and use their voice to create the change they want to see in the world.

As I supported women to find their voice and build their leadership platform, I continually expanded the reach of my voice and my own leadership platform. In 2014, I wrote a bestselling book, Find Your Voice: A Woman’s Call to Action. The following year, I gave a TEDx talk on a similar topic. Not long after that, I co-founded a gender equity initiative in Hollywood to grow women’s leadership in media & entertainment, and presented at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women about how to build sisterhood across industries to strengthen our power.

During this time, I taught classes, led women’s circles, and coached hundreds of women, supporting them to find their voice and establish themselves as thought leaders in a new paradigm of feminine leadership.

Today, I work with women who are in the process of uncovering their wisdom and purpose so they can move forward in the world as the leader they came here to be and leave a feminine legacy for generations to come.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No, it hasn’t always been a smooth road. As someone who supports other women to find their voice and use it in the world, I have gone through seasons when I feel quieter and less active and interested in using my voice. I used to see this as a problem, but now I see it as part of a natural cycle that we all go through and need to replenish and restore ourselves. Just like nature’s cycle of the seasons, we need time to cozy up, slow down, turn inward and be quiet so that we have the energy for growing our creative projects and bringing things into full bloom when the time is right. This has been an important lesson for me.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
I love to work with smart, talented, purpose-driven women who are ready to step into the next phase of their leadership — not tethered to the old ways of patriarchy but in a new paradigm of feminine leadership. These women are visionaries, culture changers and social changemakers.

My clients have gone on to give TEDx talks, publish bestselling books, write screenplays, produce shows, start female-centered production companies, release albums, launch new businesses, start foundations, amp up their activism, launch and grow a movement, align their career with their life’s mission, and make more money than they’ve ever made!

What sets me apart in the way I work is that I’m not coming from a place of pushing my clients to achieve their goals. I’m coming from a place of unfolding and expansion, which feels a lot better on the feminine system.

Most women already know how to work hard, and it is likely burning them out. I support women from a place of feminine embodiment and wisdom while helping them connect with their feminine center. This helps nourish my clients and allows them to be happier and more relaxed as they meet their life’s purpose.

I’ve been called an alchemist, a vision caster, an activator, an empowerer, a magic manifestor, an earth angel and a midwife. One of my favorite things a client said was: “Working with Tabby was the best thing I could have ever done for my career! I feel so much more valuable in the world, and like this is a whole new stage to my work, my life, and my spiritual growth.”

I’m so proud and fortunate to support so many incredible women who are dedicated to living their feminine legacy for themselves, their families, and for the benefit of future generations.

In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
It used to be sort of fringe or “woo” to speak about the Divine Feminine. But not so anymore. I think women are really looking for how to make the transition from being a leader in a male-dominated and male-oriented world to leading from a feminine place of power.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.tabbybiddle.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabby_biddle/

Image Credits
Caroline White