Kasha Vannessa Johnson

Kasha Vannessa Johnson’s life did not begin with ease, but it did begin with strength. Born into instability and loss, she entered the world already shaped by forces beyond her control. Raised in a low-income household in Harlem, NYC, Kasha learned early how to adapt, observe, and survive while still holding onto joy, curiosity, and a bright, expressive spirit. Her childhood was marked by complexity: housing insecurity, family separation, a parent navigating mental illness and addiction, and early exposure to adult responsibilities that required maturity well beyond her years.

What never left her was an instinct to build, even when the ground beneath her felt unsteady.

In 2009, Kasha formally began what would become a lifelong commitment to strategy, leadership, and community impact with the founding of KJ Strategy Group. Initially rooted in political and labor organizing, this work allowed her to channel lived experience into tangible change. For over a decade, she organized campaigns, built coalitions, developed messaging, and learned how power, policy, and people intersect. Those years sharpened her voice, her systems thinking, and her ability to lead under pressure, skills that continue to inform every brand expansion she has created since.

While her professional world was expanding, her personal life demanded just as much of her. Kasha became a mother under circumstances that reshaped her entire identity. After experiencing profound reproductive loss, followed by a high-risk pregnancy marked by severe hyperemesis and repeated hospitalizations, she gave birth to her son Peyton. Motherhood did not arrive gently. It arrived layered with trauma, grief, and the constant negotiation between survival and selfhood. When Peyton was later diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Kasha’s life reorganized around advocacy, protection, and presence.

She was also simultaneously raising her younger brother Joshua, stepping into a maternal role long before she ever planned to, and later welcoming her youngest child, Kayden, whose arrival would come to be understood as a true birth miracle. Today, Kasha is a NeuroMom to two neurodivergent children, one AuDHD and one ADHD, and a lifelong mother figure to her brother, a role she carries with pride and intention.

These experiences forced clarity. Traditional career paths no longer fit the realities of her life. Long hours, rigid schedules, and limited flexibility were incompatible with the needs of a single mother navigating special needs parenting. Kasha had to innovate, not out of ambition, but out of necessity. That necessity led her to the pleasure and wellness industry, initially as a practical solution, and eventually as a calling.

What began as a single “ladies night” became a portal back to herself.

Entering the Business of Pleasure was not about shock or novelty, it was about reconnection. Reconnection to her body, her autonomy, her voice, and her ability to provide for her family on her own terms. Over time, this work transformed into a profession grounded in education, advocacy, and empowerment. It also reopened conversations around intimacy that had been fractured by domestic violence, reproductive trauma, and years of survival mode.

Kasha’s rise within the industry was swift, but never accidental. She became one of the top-selling consultants in the country, built high-performing teams, and earned leadership roles that allowed her to shape training, culture, and strategy at scale. Her work with Bedroom Kandi evolved into service as a Master Trainer, Business Development Consultant, Brand Ambassador, and Host of Business of Pleasure, where she bridges pleasure, entrepreneurship, and ethical leadership.

Alongside this growth, Kasha’s digital presence expanded organically. What began as honest conversations about sex, relationships, and womanhood grew into a platform reaching millions. Her audience did not follow her for perfection, they followed her for truth. She spoke openly about trauma, healing, desire, grief, and joy, creating spaces where people felt seen without being shamed.

Education followed experience. Kasha pursued clinical training, becoming a Certified Clinical Sexologist and intimacy coach, grounding her lived insight in evidence-based practice. Her approach is integrative by design, blending psychology, embodiment, communication, and trauma awareness. This philosophy is reflected in her writing, including Honey on Your Tongue, and her contributions to WIN! Fear Is A Factor, Vol. 2, where she frames resilience as an ongoing practice rather than a destination.

In recent years, Kasha’s work has entered a new era. Through The NeuroMomPreneur, formerly Autism MomPreneur, she reframed her advocacy to center not only autism parenting, but the broader realities of neurodivergent families, maternal mental health, and sustainable leadership. Through The Soft and The Strong, she explores partnership, emotional intelligence, and reciprocity. Through the Reclaiming Me Retreat, she facilitates healing-centered spaces for those impacted by reproductive and maternal trauma, supported by organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

At every stage, KJ Strategy Group remains the connective tissue. What began in 2009 as political organizing has matured into a multi-dimensional ecosystem of education, media, consulting, and cultural work. The throughline has always been the same: translate lived experience into strategy, and strategy into liberation.

Kasha’s story is not about overcoming everything. It is about integrating everything. She is candid about the diagnoses that came later in life, ADHD, OCD, depression, PTSD, and the reckoning that followed. She speaks openly about grief, missteps, and lessons learned the hard way. And she remains committed to the belief that healing and ambition can coexist, that motherhood does not erase desire, and that trauma does not disqualify leadership.

This story is still unfolding. What anchors it is not pain, but purpose.