Inspirational speaker and emotional wellness facilitator
Women’s leadership audiences, corporate wellness programmes, community groups, schools, NGOs, personal development events, and organisations focused on mental and emotional health
Barbara Kamba Nyathi is an inspirational speaker, author, poet, TEDx presenter, lifestyle coach, and psychotherapist whose voice has been shaped by a lifetime of public speaking and a deeply personal journey of healing. Her first speaking moment at age six sparked a passion that has grown into a career dedicated to empowering women, girls, and diverse audiences to embrace emotional wellness, personal growth, and purposeful living.
With more than nine years of experience as a psychotherapist and over two years as a speaker and facilitator, Barbara integrates mental health expertise with practical transformation tools. Her masterclasses blend vision boarding for clarity and goal setting, team development sessions, and personalised coaching, all designed to help individuals uncover their “golden thread”—the core purpose that holds their story together.
Barbara’s signature keynote, Unbecoming: The Art of Becoming, is a powerful exploration of vulnerability, resilience, and identity. She openly shares her lived experiences, including cervical cancer, endometriosis, a hysterectomy, sexual and emotional abuse, deafness, a swollen pituitary gland, divorce, domestic abuse, and fourteen major surgeries.
Barbara Kamba Nyathi has been speaking publicly since she was six. Her first brush with public speaking occurred when she recited a Bible verse at the school assembly. T
hat experience ignited a passion within her that has grown over the years. During the course of the years she has gained experience and has transformed into an inspirational speaker, an author, a poet, a TEDx speaker, a lifestyle coach.
She is also an entrepreneur with a passion for empowering women and girls.
She has over 9 years of experience as a psychotherapist and over 2 years as an inspirational speaker, and facilitator in her masterclass series.
She focuses on mental and emotional wellness using techniques such as vision board workshops for professional and personal growth, team building exercises and personal coaching.
Her vision is to inspire audiences to identify their golden thread, and overcome their life’s challenges.
In her signature talk, Unbecoming: The Art of Becoming, Barbara takes her audiences through her personal journey with cervical cancer, endometriosis, hysterectomy, sexual and emotional abuse, deafness, swollen pituitary gland, divorce, domestic abuse, and 14 surgical operations.
Barbara Kamba Nyathi fearlessly rips off the band aid through her address of brokenness, woundedness, human fallibility and eventual triumph with such authenticity that her audience is easily drawn into her process of Unbecoming to who she is still Becoming today.
Barbara Kamba Nyathi shares about her ongoing transition into leading a more purposeful life where love, peace and light are her core values.
She also engages the audience in self introspection to tell their own story, identify what they want to become and find ways to achieve it. She is highly motivated to help others transform their lives and achieve their greatest potential.
With her TEDx talk, Barbara Kamba Nyathi touched on issues that affect the modern day African Woman. She delved into those uncomfortable areas that we always try to avoid in conversation.
In 2018, we all believe we have advanced socially and have raised the bar on how women are treated or viewed. Barbara exposes that the patriarchy still exists and is thriving. She systematically points out how we choose to ignore or glide over all the instances were women are handled as 2nd Class Citizens.
Unbecoming: The Art of Becoming
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