Today we’d like to introduce you to Tammara J Banks
Hi Tammara, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, you could tell our readers some of your backstory.
When I was a little girl, I loved fashion and beauty. My sister and I were 9mos apart. Our mother wanted to dress us as twins, but I wanted my sense of individuality, not knowing it was identity. I would tell her what colors looked better on my sister and what colors would look better on my skin complexion. I even altered my clothes to fit my personality. At 8 years old, I had a sense of my style; not only that, but I could see how to elevate other people’s styles. As I grew into my teenage and young adult years, I would style myself, my friends, and my family as a hobby.
In 2013, my father was dying from liver cancer. I developed skin issues due to stress. I went to YouTube University and taught myself how to do my makeup; I became so good at it that the girls from my neighborhood would get me to do their makeup for prom. I pursued becoming a certified makeup artist. I got my certification, and I did freelance makeup on the side as a hobby as well.
In 2016, I gave my life to Christ. In 2017, I got married, and I immediately found myself in an identity crisis. I joined the church; I was ridiculed about my hair color, makeup, and choice of clothing. They would give a complaint, but with unconstructive criticism, I began to feel unworthy, ashamed, unhappy, depressed., and rejected. I prayed to God; He revealed they misrepresented him. To come out of the church and build an intimate relationship with him so that he could restore my identity in him so that I could teach his sons and daughters how to discover or rediscover their identity in Christ.
I moved myself, my two boys, and my mom to Greenville, SC, in 2019 with just a word from God. My mother was also diagnosed with Dementia, so I was a full-time caregiver in a new state and navigating going from the role of a daughter to the role of being a mother to my mother. Covid came in 2020, and we all were in disarray. In March of 2021, I joined Style Academy and became a certified Style Coach. I realized while studying to be certified as a Style Coach that this could not only build a legacy for my family, but I could also impact the world through the word of God. I love what I do. I love seeing the renewal of their minds transform people. Only once you embrace who you are can you be confident in who God called you to be; purpose becomes sweatless now you understand God created you to do great works.
Would it have been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It could have been a smoother ride. I had to learn how to be humble, patient, and sacrificial. Learning comes with experiences, distractions, delays, detours, difficulties, and dead-ends. Through this, God is preparing us to steward and multiply what he has already given us. When God chose us, he didn’t choose a perfect person. However, it was purposeful. I had enough of God’s word in me so that when those challenges came and put pressure on me, what was in me came out. I survived only because of that. It fueled me to keep going.
I appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about The Fashionably Kingdom Woman?
Founded by Tammara J. Banks, The Fashionably Kingdom Woman Image & Style Company is a full-service, luxury coaching and consulting business. Tammara specializes in mindset renewal, inner work, self-care, and style coaching, focusing on empowering women and men to be their best selves through the superpower of “identity.” Tammara also offers classroom-style courses, including personal style, identity, budget, and self-purpose. Since she was a little girl, Tammara has styled her friends and family. She embodies what it means to be an empowered Kingdom Woman in our modern world. And it shows! Women always ask her how she got where she is and if she will work with them. So, Tammara decided to make it official with The Fashionably Kingdom Woman.
- “I want women to experience the BAWSE Life! Being a BAWSE is more of a mindset, how you feel, how you look, and how you dress, How you make others feel, making it a BAWSE Lifestyle.” – Tammara
Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
This is not a Job or a business. This is why I was created. I am being fulfilled watching others transform into who God created them to be. I learn more about who I am with each client as I assist them with their generalized needs. So it’s an eco-system of reciprocity; what I give comes back to me multiplied, giving me the freedom to provide more,
Pricing:
- Pateron Membership $27.99
- Pateron Membership $57.99
- 1 Hour Wardrobe Planning Session $197
Contact Info:
- Website: https://msha.ke/thefashionablykingdomwoman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefashionablykingdomwomam/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefashionablykingomwoman
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7oh1lFrVPumxOUY6ICAGAg
- Other: https://www.patreon.com/BawseLifeStyleZ
