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About

From the basement to the stage.

Carli B is the oldest of four kids from Southwest Louisiana. Her father was a visionary: an entrepreneur who built his own ultrasonography practice scanning pediatric and adult hearts, a third-degree black belt, and the kind of builder who spent eighteen years raising a dome home with his own two hands. Her mother, a microbiologist, gave her the arts: the stage, the discipline, being well spoken, giving everything she had.

Carli grew up being the good girl: doing everything right, nothing wrong, hiding in plain sight while she waited to find out if it was safe to come out. At twenty, she got pregnant, and shame became the frame she saw her whole life through. She thought that was the cross she had to bear. Creativity wasn't allowed. So she checked the boxes: wife, mother, corporate nursing leadership, the car, the ladder. And she spent the next two decades working in what she calls "the basement," a corporate role at an airport, hiding from a voice she didn't yet know was hers to use.

Carli B singing on stage in Houston

The Awakening

"I asked God for the truth."

In April 2021, twenty-two years into her marriage, with the last twelve carrying a truth she could feel but hadn't yet been told, Carli finally asked God for the truth, and got it: dreams, visions, a changed man standing in front of her. She asked the question out loud. And in the unraveling that followed, underneath all the grief, she heard something else entirely: I think I'd like to sing.

What followed was an eight-song EP titled "No More Pretending," written to redeem, heal, and reveal every wound the marriage left behind: "No More Pretending," "Journey of No Return," "Take My Hand," "Driftin'," "On My Way Out," "Love Me (The Remix)," "Mercy," and "All Things Beautiful."

Twenty years in the basement taught her how to hide. The end of her marriage taught her how to be heard.

Spirituality and Belief System

Finding God within.

Carli grew up in a Christian home, in church, being the good girl for twenty-two years and watching the same painful patterns loop no matter how good she was. Good was supposed to mean bad things never happen. When she discovered that wasn't true, she looked in the mirror one day and said, "Okay. If this is how this game of life is played, I'm done, God." That surrender brought her to her first teacher, who taught her to find revelation in her own heart and to release herself from her past and the shame of her culture. What followed was a four-year journey of deliverance from the rules that surrounded her: the expectations of her culture, her family, and the underlying rules of religion itself.

From there, Carli built her own spiritual practice: meditation, and years spent learning from teachers and gurus, searching for how the universe works and why she was here. What she believes now: in the power of intention and words. That everyone is a teacher. That walking through your own shadow is how you find the love in it. That every belief system is right for the person who holds it. That we live in one ecosystem where everything works together. She believes in understanding spiritual law, in learning, and in everyone's right to a fair chance at being loved.

What Carli Speaks On

Liberation, not performance

Carli speaks for every woman who has silenced herself to stay good, safe, or small, and believes every one of them deserves to come out of hiding.

Healing the family lineage

The patterns in a family don't end on their own. Carli's work is about breaking what doesn't need to be carried to the next generation.

The truth is survivable

Carli asked for the truth after twenty-two years and got it. Her story, and every song it produced, is proof the truth is worth asking for.

Topics Carli Loves to Explore

Not the only things she speaks on, but the ones she comes back to again and again.

Validating your storyTurning your story into artFull expression & trying new thingsHealing the family lineageRecovering from an identity crisisFearless enough to keep goingThe wisdom of children & parenthoodTruth, chaos & mental healthHonoring your own truthReading between the linesLeadership & management coachingEmpowering & inspiring teams

Beyond the Stage

Carli's women's liberation work

Alongside speaking and music, Carli leads a luxury memoir retreat in Spain (March 2027) and works one-on-one with women through CarliBWebb.com, helping them excavate their stories, find their self-love and purpose, and tune their nervous systems through bioresonance work, prayer, and presence.

That one-on-one work now has a home: The Studio at 808 in Kingwood, Texas, soft-launching July 18, 2026.

These offerings live on their own dedicated sites, built specifically for that work.

The retreat venue in Spain

Open to Collaboration

Carli is also looking to collaborate with artists working in film and movie music. Reach out via the booking page for project inquiries.