✨ The Heart of Sagacious Souls
We exist so mothers can finally exhale.
So children can grow in homes grounded in peace, not survival.
So future generations inherit emotional safety, not emotional scarcity.
The Heartbeat of Sagacious Souls
Trauma-informed support, designed for real life.
Emotional Overwhelm & Nervous System Fatigue
The challenge:
Many single mothers live in constant fight-or-flight — mentally overloaded, emotionally exhausted, and stretched thin.
How we support:
We teach nervous-system regulation, emotional awareness, and grounding tools that restore calm, clarity, and steadiness — without forcing or rushing healing.
🌿 Loss of Identity & Broken Self-Trust
The challenge:
Survival and responsibility can quietly disconnect mothers from their intuition, confidence, and sense of self.
How we support:
We guide mothers back to themselves — rebuilding self-trust, inner authority, and clarity through reflective practices and trauma-informed coaching.
🌙 Parenting From Survival Mode
The challenge:
Overwhelm leads to reactive parenting, guilt, emotional exhaustion, and repeated generational patterns.
How we support:
When a mother experiences emotional safety, it naturally changes how she parents. Regulation becomes something children learn through connection — not correction.
🌺 Lack of Community & Safe Support
The challenge:
Many single mothers are raising children without a village — carrying everything alone while appearing “strong.”
How we support:
Our Verified Village™ offers intentional, judgment-free community where mothers can exhale, be supported, and feel seen without explaining or performing.
🌼 Trauma Patterns in Daily Life
The challenge:
Trauma shows up in boundaries, relationships, schedules, finances, and self-perception — not just memories.
How we support:
We help mothers recognize and gently shift survival patterns through trauma-informed tools that honor capacity instead of pushing past it.
🌞 Time, Capacity & Structure Challenges
The challenge:
Most systems ignore a single mother’s real capacity — leading to burnout, chaos, and no room for rest.
How we support:
We teach capacity-aware planning, cycle-aligned structure, and nervous-system-led routines that support real life, not unrealistic expectations.
✨ Emotional Inequity in Wellness Spaces
The challenge:
Traditional wellness often overlooks culture, identity, trauma, and lived experience — leaving many mothers misunderstood or unsupported.
How we support:
Sagacious Souls provides culturally rooted, trauma-informed care that reflects real life — especially for single mothers of color who have been overlooked for too long.
🌿 Our Trauma-Informed Approach
At Sagacious Souls, we don’t believe people struggle because something is “wrong” with them.
We believe people struggle because of what they’ve lived through, what they’ve carried alone, and what they were never supported to heal from.
For single mothers — especially those of color — this truth is amplified by layered realities that most traditional systems ignore:
These experiences don’t just dissipate — they live in the nervous system, shape behavior, and influence mental and physical health outcomes.
Understanding these layers isn’t optional for us — it’s foundational.
🌸 The Six Pillars That Guide Our Work
These principles guide our coaching, our content, our digital platform, and our community spaces:
Safety
You deserve spaces that feel calm, grounded, and emotionally protected.
Trust
Transparency, consistency, and integrity shape every interaction.
Community
Healing happens together — not in isolation.
Empowerment
We honor your voice, your choices, and your lived wisdom.
Voice
You lead your journey. We support, not direct.
Culture
Your identity, history, and experiences matter — and are integrated with respect.
We don’t push people past their emotional capacity.
We create programs that honor it.
Meet the Team
Indiana Almanzar
Founder & CEO
Indiana Almanzar is a seasoned educator, curriculum designer, and program development specialist with over 14 years of experience building intentional, data-informed programs across the nonprofit, education, and community sectors. With a strong foundation in communication, experiential learning, leadership development, and trauma-informed practice, she helps organizations design programming that is not only impactful but measurable.
Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts, an international certification in Speaking, Coaching, & Training through the John Maxwell Team, and a Trauma-Informed Programming Perspectives certification through the Mental Health Association of NYC (Vibrant), Indiana is known for bridging human-centered facilitation with evidence-based structure. Her expertise spans early childhood education, In-School Youth (ISY), Out-of-School Youth (OSY), and adult learners up to age 65.
Her program development leadership includes years at various Non-Profit Organizations, where she designed scalable curricula, trained staff, and led multiple national pilot projects from inception to evaluation. She trained and certified 80+ Teen Peer Leaders, impacting more than 800 youth citywide, and contributed to models that were later replicated across affiliates nationwide. She has also held leadership roles in Higher Education Institutions and Community Organizations serving at-risk populations, strengthening community partnerships, advancing youth development initiatives, and expanding alumni engagement in her national sorority, Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc., by 180% through strategic programming design.
Her Core Belief: When spaces are intentionally designed and responsibly measured, they not only change lives — they elevate entire communities.
Originally from the Bronx, but I have lived in Alabama, Miami, San Francisco & am happy to call Orlando home. #whereIsIndiana
I've been an educator in the non-profit field for over 13 years.
I'm a single-mom of a toddler who just entered her Terrific Two's!!
Amruta Behera
Branding & Marketing Consultant
Amruta Behera is the Social Media Manager and Integrated Creative Director at Sagacious Souls, where she leads the brand’s visual identity and digital storytelling across platforms. Working at the intersection of art, wellness, and trauma-informed design, she oversees social media strategy, digital curriculum design, merchandise, and marketing assets ensuring a cohesive, emotionally grounded, and premium brand experience.
Art is not a role for Amruta - it is the lens through which she works. Amruta holds a BFA and AAS in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York. Her foundation in fashion, illustration, and motion-led content brings a distinctive lifestyle sensibility to Sagacious Souls, seamlessly bridging visual depth with clarity, care, and intention.
Beyond Sagacious Souls, Amruta is the co-founder of Rising Among, a Mumbai-based streetwear brand she has been building since 2020. Through art-driven storytelling and design, she has grown a community of 20,000+ followers, cultivating a brand rooted in identity, expression, and culture. Her illustrative work and viral, art-centric reels have also been featured by brands such as Figma and Super You, alongside professional experience with Aéropostale, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan Sri Lanka, Colombo Fashion Week, and Bibhu Mohapatra (NYFW).
In her integrated role, Amruta ensures Sagacious Souls shows up visually with intention, consistency, and heart supporting the brand’s mission through thoughtful design, emotionally resonant storytelling, and creative leadership.
SNS System Inc.
Digital Systems Developer (Web & CRM)
SNS System is a leading global business consulting and IT services company dedicated to helping organizations adapt, innovate, and grow in an ever-evolving digital landscape. We combine deep industry and functional expertise with leading technology practices and an advanced global delivery model to design and deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready digital solutions. Our approach focuses on aligning technology with business goals, enabling companies to streamline operations, improve customer engagement, and unlock their full business potential.
The SNS System team of skilled professionals excels in delivering end-to-end business solutions, client relationship management systems, and customized web and CRM platforms tailored to diverse industry needs. Our expertise spans business strategy, process optimization, operational efficiency, engineering solutions, product life-cycle management, and robust infrastructure services. By leveraging innovation, best practices, and a client-first mindset, we build long-term partnerships and measurable results. Possessing these key capabilities allows us to successfully serve a wide range of clients, from growing enterprises to globally recognized Fortune 500 companies, across multiple markets and industries.
