80: Meet Natasha: A bad-ass mechanic and 'car parts' business owner...

I came across Natasha through some other ladies I have been trying to pod at 'Spanners with Manners' - an all female car garage in London. Because I follow SWM on insta, Natasha (who works with/for the SWM girls) got recommended to me by Meta as someone 'I might like'.

... And by jove I did.

Not only does Natasha work at an all-female garage, as a mechanic, but she also owns and runs her own car-parts business, and is a specialist at knowing and sourcing car nuts and bolts... Which are notoriously hard to source - correctly at least. In the chat Natasha talks about how countless mechanics and garages buy and attempt to fit certain bolts, only to realise they don't fit and won't work, and then have to order some more, all while your car sits there waiting to be fixed.

(and when we say 'mechanics', we actually mean 'male mechanics')

Natasha's story is awesome. She's a drop-dead gorgeous, feminine woman, living and woking in a very, VERY man's world, and she's bossing it. Yes, she gets countless comments (online especially) about how she should 'get back to the kitchen', and she gets mansplained to on an almost daily basis, but she's thriving nonetheless.

And she's thriving alongside being a great mum, having found out that she was (unexpectedly) pregnant 3-months after launching her car-parts business 11-years ago.

Life for Natasha was (and still can be) daunting to say the least; but she's carried on and she's adapted and learned - in a tremendously humbling way, there isn't even a hint of arrogance about Natasha - every day. And she takes her aspiration to be an 'expert' with really unique, specialist car knowledge incredibly seriously.

Enjoy.

Chops x

Natasha's parts business is called A2B Components and her social handles are: @a2b.components and her website is: https://www.a2b-components.com

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