How Women Flourish In The Face of DEI

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In these times when DEI has removed women from the federal lexicon, we can celebrate the full 50% of the human race. Without them, you would not have been born and if the people of earth had been raised by men only, we might all still be walking on our knuckles. So, today will be the show where ambition goes to therapy, burnout gets a name tag, and we ask the uncomfortable questions that HR would rather we didn’t. We’re not gonna speak with just any corporate consultants. Nope. We’ve got a woman here who didn’t just survive the system—she rewired it while it was still plugged in.

Roquita Coleman-Williams is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and founder of something called The Total Woman Summit. Sounds serene, right? Like a wellness retreat with cucumber water and someone whispering "you’re enough" in the background?

Wrong. This summit is a full-blown intervention—equal parts healing circle and corporate exorcism. These two have made it their business—literally—to help women lead without immolating themselves in the name of success. It’s career growth, mental health, and self-care all tangled up in real-world strategies, not platitudes on a Pinterest board. And they’re not just whispering into the void. Their client list includes Nike, St. Jude, the City of Memphis... In short, they’ve been hired to tell the truth to people who usually pay good money not to hear it.

Roquita has faced the kind of adversity most leadership books politely skip over. We're talking about single motherhood. We're talking about surviving sexual violence. The real stuff millions of us deal with but often dare not speak about.

She’s not your average LinkedIn influencer with inspirational quotes over stock photos – she’s proved that it’s possible to climb the ladder without using your own spine as a rung. (pause)

They’ve raised over $100,000 for women and girls’ initiatives, created safe spaces where ambition and anxiety can hold hands, and are showing companies that wellness isn’t a line item—it’s the whole damn budget.

We talk with Roquita Coleman-Williams, a woman who’s turned personal wreckage into professional revolution. She’s the mind behind The Total Woman Summit, executive coaches to corporate giants like Nike and St. Jude. She’s faced more than her fair share of adversity—single motherhood, sexual violence—and she didn’t just come out stronger. She came out strategic with a blueprint reminder that wellness isn’t weak—it’s warfare.

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