Gospel superstar, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, opens up about her fertility journey and her new devotional book, "Do It Anyway: 60 Days To A Bolder Faith."
Chapter 1: How did Tasha Cobbs Leonard cope with winning a Grammy after her father's passing?
coming up on keep it positive sweetie sometimes your heart will be broken and you don't understand the season that you're in but i want you to dig deep within yourself and do it anyway and so i got up seven days after my dad went to be with the lord and i won my first grammy
sitting there they called my name and i was like there is no way that these people are calling my name you know so i got up and the first thing i said is seven days ago the greatest man who ever walked the face of this earth went to be with jesus and i would love for you guys to honor my father and so the entire academy stood up and gave my dad a round of applause
Hi, I'm Crystal Renee Hazlitt, and this is Keep It Positive, Sweetie, a safe space to heal, laugh, grow, and love. I can't wait to bring today's guest to the couch. Her musical ministry has definitely brought me through. I'm talking about the goddess of gospel, Tasha Cobbs Leonard.
With a voice that carries the essence of praise and worship, a musical ministry that has blessed millions around the world, Tasha Cobbs Leonard is one of gospel's most grounded torchbearers. In recent years, she's traveled the world carrying her gift of song and surrender with her.
These days, she's on and off tour stages, managing a ministry with her husband, mothering her children, and enjoying the release of her new devotional, Do It Anyway. And in the midst of all that, guys, we got her on the couch to talk to me. Tasha, thank you so much for coming.
Thank you for having me. No, girl.
First of all, you came in here, you got the curls popping. Hi. What made you even decide to cut it off? We talked about the big chop. That's such a, it can be a spiritual journey when you chop your hair off or emotional. What made you chop your hair off? I love it.
And I love that you mentioned that because I don't think my expectation was for it to be so spiritual. Originally, I was like, hey, I'm gonna cut it because a lot of people don't know, I don't do wigs, so I had sew-ins all over those years. And so it was just pulling, pulling, pulling, damaging my hair. And then when I don't have the sew-ins, you're doing braids, it's the same thing.
It's kind of, I know we call it protective styles, but it's not so protective. So it was just kind of pulling my hair and I noticed that it was just damaged. So I told my stylist, I said, after this, so I did the big curls for Woman Evolve.
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Chapter 2: Why did Tasha Cobbs Leonard decide to cut her hair?
It's never. So I did Latarius Whitfield's podcast, Dear Future Wifey. And you would ask about that. And I was like, I feel right now. I was like, you know, bro, I feel like I'm in a space now where if it's meant to be, God will allow it to happen the way he wants it to happen in his will, not my way. Because I know, I mean, I'm like, all right, Lord, we're going to figure this thing out.
But definitely faith is super activated right now. That's awesome. Yeah, I love it.
So Asher. Yes. I got to talk about my baby. He's adorable. Let me talk about all of them. Oh, yeah. Let's talk about all of them. Yes. You know what? So we mentioned the blended family. Yes. And for me, it was such a growing up experience because you're thinking, I'm going to go in and this is the role I play. This is the parent that I am. I'm the disciplinary. This is what I bring to the table.
And it was so much different. My children have taught me so much about life, so much about myself. I've had to grow up to become the mother or stepmom that they need. You know what I'm saying? Just to fill in those gaps and to be able to do it with their mom and with my husband. And it wasn't always that way. You have to grow into that. I will never forget our two youngest before Ashton.
Their mom called me one day and she was like, you know, I was just watching this podcast with Jada. Pinky Smith and Will Smith's oldest son's mom. And she was like, she said something that literally just shook me to the core that I love you the way that I love you because I saw the way that you love my children.
And she told me, she said, Tasha, I can't help but love you when I see the way that you love my babies. And from that moment, all of the, anything that was a source of tension, we go into it looking like, hey, this is about these kids. And so we put ourselves to the side, and it has just been such a beautiful experience.
I love that.
22.
Yes, 22 now. She is, she just graduated Fayetteville State. Okay, yes. She's working in Charlotte. She's got a job and everything. So she's out of our pockets. Right. Yeah, so our middle son, he is at North Carolina A&T. So he's a freshman there now. And we have Symphony, who is our 13-year-old. So that's the one that tried you, right? Yeah, that's what it is.
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