We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Neith Ra a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Neith, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career?

My path to conscious living and holistic wellness began with my mother — literally.

Eleven years before I was born, my mom made a radical choice to walk away from the standard Southern food she was raised on. That decision changed everything. She chose to reclaim her health, break generational patterns, and step into her calling as a Nutritionist, Herbalist, and Home Economist.

By the time I came along, this wasn’t just her lifestyle — it was my foundation. I was strapped to her hip in the kitchen while she prepared plant-based meals from scratch. I watched her create soaps and herbal remedies by hand, practice sun salutations, and meditate before I even knew what the word meant.

She didn’t just teach wellness — she lived it. And by living it, she passed it on.

That early immersion became my compass. So when people ask why I chose this path, I always smile. Because in truth, this life chose me. I just answered the call.

Now, through my work with WELLEVATE™ — an 8-week root-cause healing experience for women ready to break free from pills, powders, and processed food — I help women return to the wisdom of their bodies, reset their health, and reclaim their power to heal.

In so many ways, I’m simply continuing the legacy she began.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

For folks who may not have read about me before, I’m a Holistic Wellness Educator and the creator of WELLEVATE™, an 8-week transformational program for women ready to detox their dependency on pills, powders, and processed food — and finally reclaim their power to self-heal.

I work primarily with women over 50 who’ve been struggling with food-related chronic illnesses for years — often decades. These include:
High blood pressure

Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes

Obesity

Fibroids, PCOS, and ovarian cysts

Chronic fatigue, bloating, and gut health issues

Skin conditions like eczema and acne

Sleep apnea, asthma, and hormonal imbalance

Most of these women were raised on love, tradition, and soul food — but over time, that diet plus a lifetime of stress and systemic neglect has left them stuck in survival mode, dependent on medication, and feeling like healing isn’t available to them.

My mission is to prove that it is.

What sets me apart is that I was born into this lifestyle. I’m not just teaching from books — I was raised by a mother who was a practicing Nutritionist, Herbalist, and Home Economist. I grew up eating whole, plant-based meals, making natural remedies from scratch, and understanding that food is medicine.

But I also know what it’s like to stray from that path and get sick — and what it takes to find your way back.

That’s why I created WELLEVATE™ — to give women a clear, root-cause roadmap that not only addresses their symptoms but helps them rebuild a wellness foundation that actually supports the lives they’re living now.

Inside the program, I blend nutrition education, detox practices, gut healing, mindset shifts, and ancestral wisdom — so my clients can stop “managing” their health and actually start transforming it.

I’m most proud of the women who’ve come through my program and gotten off medication, shrunk fibroids naturally, reversed their diabetes, lost weight without diets, and — most importantly — learned to trust their bodies again.

At the end of the day, WELLEVATE™ is about more than just healing illness — it’s about helping women remember who they were before the world told them their bodies were broken.

Because they’re not.
They just need a wellness plan built for them.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

When I left for college — my first time away from home — I didn’t just leave my family. I left the rhythm, the food, and the healing practices that shaped me.

I was raised in a home where wellness was the norm. That wasn’t a lifestyle I discovered later in life — it was the air I breathed growing up.

But college brought me into a completely different world. Cafeteria food. Fast food. All-nighters. Stress. It was the first time I consistently ate foods I wasn’t raised on — and the shift was subtle at first. But over time, my body started breaking down.

What began as small signals — bloating, fatigue, brain fog — eventually turned into something I couldn’t ignore.

The only solutions offered: medication or surgery.
But I knew there had to be another way.

I chose a different path — one that required deep discipline, trust, and resilience.

Instead of opting for surgery, I returned to my roots. I followed the exact healing framework I now teach inside WELLEVATE™ — detoxing inflammatory foods, balancing my hormones naturally, releasing emotional weight, and restoring my gut health. I started treating my body as sacred again, not as a problem to be fixed.

That experience didn’t just change my body — it changed my mission.

It reminded me that resilience is not about pushing through pain. It’s about returning to yourself. It’s about remembering that your body already knows how to heal — when you give it what it truly needs.

Now, I help other women do the same — especially those navigating food-based chronic illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, fibroids, PCOS, and obesity. Through WELLEVATE™, I walk women step by step through a process of detoxing dependency on pills, powders, and processed foods — and learning to trust their bodies again.

That’s what makes this work so powerful.
It’s not just healing.
It’s homecoming.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

Outside of formal training and knowledge, the most helpful ingredient for success in this field is embodied integrity — truly living the lifestyle you teach.

In the wellness space, especially when serving women dealing with chronic, food-related illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, PCOS, and fibroids, people can feel whether your message is coming from lived experience or a script. My work through WELLEVATE™ isn’t just a program — it’s a reflection of my personal healing journey and the legacy of wellness I was born into.

Beyond that, success comes from cultural fluency — the ability to understand not just what someone is eating, but why. The generational patterns. The emotional eating. The survival mode. It’s not just about giving someone a food list — it’s about offering liberation. And that requires empathy, consistency, and the courage to challenge norms — especially those that weren’t built for us.

Also? Community. This work isn’t meant to be done in isolation — and neither is healing. That’s why I’m proud that WELLEVATE™ centers around group coaching, sisterhood, and collective transformation.

Success comes when you stop selling solutions and start leading by lived truth.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.wellneith.com.com
• Instagram: @wellneith
• Facebook: wellneith

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