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A Cinderella story: From the basement to the stage. One voice, two ways to move a room.
Carli turned 22 years of hiding and silence into a keynote and a music album. A mother of three, she brings it all into a single, unforgettable booking for conferences, retreats, and rooms ready to feel something real.
Who Carli Is
Most speakers tell you how to feel. Carli sings it into you, then hands you the steps to carry it home.
Speaking
A voice that turns any room into a story.
From God's House Church and the Champions Rising women's business event to Premise Health's Annual Corporate Leadership Meeting in Nashville, a formal 50th birthday celebration, and a promotional fashion show for Quinceañera Boutique by Cindy at the Humble Civic Center, Carli tailors every room to the moment, blending lived experience, hard-won honesty, and a voice trained to hold a crowd.
As part of a corporate leadership team, Carli spent a year traveling to cities across the U.S. training managers through a program called The Art of Quality, teaching them to coach and empower their own staff. She knows how to speak the language of leadership rooms too: inspiring teams, coaching people well, and leading others through change instead of around it.
- God's House Church & Champions Rising
- Premise Health Annual Corporate Leadership Meeting
- Three days leading music at WOW Church Conference
- Soul Secrets, Evolve or Repeat, Developing Lafayette & The Tea podcasts, plus webinars
- Her own retreats, formal celebrations & fashion shows
Featured collaboration
Music
Twenty-two years of silence, turned into eight songs of ultimate liberation.
Born from an identity crisis, these songs reach into every crevice of memory to finally validate her effort, her lineage, her value, and her voice. Woven directly into her talks, they turn a room into something the audience feels in their chest.
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Talks built to be felt.
Finding Your Voice After Twenty Years of SilenceFrom the Basement to the Stage
Eighteen years in a corporate basement, performing every duty a good woman is supposed to perform. How she realized none of it was true to her core, and rebuilt her life and her voice at 41.
What the audience walks away with
- Why we go quiet to stay safe, and what it costs
- How to recognize a life you are performing instead of living
- The first step to telling the truth out loud
Rebuilding Identity After Everything Falls ApartThe Sound of Becoming, includes a live original song
Part keynote, part live performance. What it actually takes to rebuild who you are when the life you built collapses.
What the audience walks away with
- A framework for starting over when your identity was tied to a role, a marriage, or a title
- How to find the one thread worth following when everything else is gone
- An original song written from inside that collapse, performed live
Why Women Shrink Themselves, and How to StopLiberating the Suppressed Woman
For every woman who has silenced herself to stay good, safe, or small, and for the leaders who want those women to speak up.
What the audience walks away with
- How being good becomes a cage
- Where self silencing shows up at work and at home
- Practical steps to take up space again
Breaking Generational PatternsHealing the Family Lineage
On family dynamics, inherited beliefs, and how to stop passing down what was never yours to carry.
What the audience walks away with
- How to spot a pattern you inherited rather than chose
- Why good families pass down pain too
- How to end a cycle without blaming anyone
The Breakdown Before the BreakthroughLeading Yourself Through the Unknown
What truth actually does when you ask for it, and how to survive the space between the old life and the new one.
What the audience walks away with
- How to stay steady when everything is uncertain
- Why the collapse is often the beginning
- How to keep going before you can see the outcome
Featured
As Seen & Heard
Houston Voyager
Featured Interview
Podcast Guest
Soul Secrets, The Healist & More
Live Across the U.S.
Texas, Tennessee & Florida
Full press mentions and downloadable assets in the Media Kit.
What Rooms Say
“Bellísimo, bellísimo!”
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