A Story of Impact from KW Next Gen
Tamina Sabnani had questions. A lot of them.
When a volunteer colleague named Scott told her about KW Next Gen — the free coaching, the scholarship funds, the whole thing — she didn’t immediately say yes. She sent email after email asking for clarification, trying to understand what exactly was on offer and why. Something that good-sounding deserved scrutiny.
Scott had a read on her, though. “I can tell that you’re someone that makes decisions thoughtfully,” he told her, “but when you do, you go all in.”
He was right. Tamina went all in.
Tamina, 30, is from Los Angeles and lives in San Diego. She grew up in an Indian household where the path was clear: school, good grades, college. It was a loving and supportive foundation, but it didn’t leave much room for the question she’d eventually have to ask herself — what do I actually want?
She first met Scott while volunteering at a Just In Time Foster Youth Center, where he was also working. He introduced her to KW Next Gen and suggested she try it. She resisted at first — this seemed like something meant for the young people she was there to serve, not for her. But Scott assured her it was for her, and she trusted his judgment.
So she signed up for his shorter classes — and sat down, for the first time, to put her mission, vision, and values on paper.
“It was very hard to do at first,” she says, “because you kind of just have to decide.”
For someone who prizes keeping her options open, deciding felt like closing doors. But what she found was the opposite.
Her mission statement — to inspire others towards financial freedom, personal empowerment, and holistic well-being grounded in spirituality and an understanding of the mind and body — didn’t narrow her. It named her.
“It’s really about life balance,” she says. “All of my goals are related to these different components. I wouldn’t want it any other way, because I am someone that values balance. I’m not someone that is going to go super deep on one area of my life and just let the others go.”
She attended QL Summit — KW Next Gen’s flagship multi-day event where Gary Keller teaches Quantum Leap directly — and then applied for Quantum Leap Coaching. She was paired with coach Kristin Carter.
What Kristin gave Tamina wasn’t a rigid plan. It was permission.
“She saw in me that we are very multi-passionate and have a lot of things we want to pursue,” Tamina says, “but structurally, it’s hard to build the kind of structure to manage that and our energy fluctuates.”
Kristin helped her map her calendar in a way that worked with the way she actually operates — accounting for natural energy shifts rather than demanding the same output every day. It was a kind of structure she hadn’t encountered before: one that made room for who she was instead of asking her to override it.
“Having permission to be who I am and finding ways to work with the way that I am was really helpful,” she says. “And it’s still something that I do today.”
Over time, Tamina has used Fund My Mission Scholarships to build out the different pieces of her larger vision — each one adding another layer to the foundation she’s constructing.
Early on, she used the funds to establish credentials around things she was already pursuing: a board certification for a health coaching program she’d completed on her own, and yoga teacher training. Then she turned toward her career. A sales training certification gave her the credentials to match her ambition at work, and she got the promotion she was working toward.
More recently, she’s been investing in learning from entrepreneurial coaches who have built their own brands and online presence — people who could help with what she calls the scariest part: actually putting herself out there. And the area closest to her heart, the one that first drew her into holistic wellness, is where she’s focused her most recent educational pursuit: women’s hormone health.
“That is my passion,” she says. “That’s what got me into holistic wellness in the first place — just my own experience with not understanding it. I wish I knew more about it growing up. But if I speak about it, I want to be able to really understand it deeply.”
From the outside, it might be hard to trace a straight line through all of it. Health coaching. Yoga. Sales. Brand-building. Women’s health. Tamina would be the first to acknowledge that it doesn’t follow the kind of path that fits neatly on a resume.
But the thread is there if you know to look for it: each piece builds toward a vision of teaching others how to live sustainably and well — financially, physically, and spiritually. She’s in the learning phase right now. The teaching phase is coming.
What made the difference, she says, was being believed in before she fully believed in herself.
“I didn’t even believe these parts of me were worth looking at or investing in or doing anything with,” she says. “To have a program invest in me, hear what I want to do with my life, what I’m interested in, and say — yeah, you deserve this, go do this — that was a big one.”
Tamina came to KW Next Gen skeptical, asked a million questions, and eventually jumped in completely. She is, as Scott predicted, the kind of person who — once she decides — goes all in.
She’s been going all in ever since.
“I’m grateful that I was able to get clear on these things in my twenties,” she says. “I know I wouldn’t have without this program. It would have taken longer.”
Tamina was supported through KW Next Gen’s Quantum Leap program, Quantum Leap Coaching, and multiple donor-funded Fund My Mission Scholarships. To read more stories of impact, visit kwnextgen.org.
