Strategy. Empowerment. Voice. Impact.
I’m Markieta Carter — strategist, podcast host, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, LGBTQ+ wedding and funeral officiant, and event singer.
I use professional expertise, strategy, creativity, and lived experience to help people navigate challenges, build ideas, find their voice, and move forward.
Whether you need workplace strategy, help growing your business, an empowering conversation, a speaker for your event, or someone to help make an important moment meaningful — there’s a way to work with me.
WHAT I DO:
PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
BUSINESS STRATEGY:
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:
EVENTS:
COMMUNITY:
PODCAST:
MORE THAN ONE THING — ON PURPOSE.
I believe people are allowed to be multidimensional.
My work brings together nearly two decades of professional experience with HR and employment law knowledge, entrepreneurship, digital strategy, speaking, podcasting, community building, music, and lived experience.
I don't try to force all of that into one title.
Strategist comes closest.
Because whether we're talking about your workplace, your business, your next chapter, or an idea you're trying to bring to life, much of my work comes down to the same thing:
Getting clear about where you are, where you want to go, and how you're going to get there.
⚖️ EEOC & WORKPLACE STRATEGY
Know Your Rights. Understand Your Options. Develop Your Strategy.
Dealing with a workplace problem can become overwhelming quickly.
I provide one-on-one strategy sessions for employees navigating concerns involving discrimination, retaliation, accommodations, HR complaints, documentation, performance concerns, PIPs, difficult workplace situations, and EEOC processes.
My background includes nearly two decades of HR experience, professional HR credentials, and a Master of Jurisprudence in Labor & Employment Law.
I am not an attorney and do not provide legal advice or representation. My services are educational and strategy-focused.
💼 BUSINESS STRATEGY
Turn Your Ideas Into Action.
Have the expertise but aren't sure how to turn it into consistent business?
I work with entrepreneurs, consultants, creators, and service-based business owners on the strategy behind building, marketing, and growing their businesses.
Strategy can include:
• Offers and pricing
• Lead generation
• Brand positioning
• Marketing strategy
• Social media
• Paid advertising
• Sales processes
• Websites and landing pages
• Customer journeys
• Systems and automation
🌐 WEBSITE DESIGN
Your Website Should Have a Job.
A beautiful website isn't enough.
Your website should tell people who you are, what you do, who you help, and exactly what they should do next.
I create strategic websites and landing pages for entrepreneurs, consultants, creators, and service-based businesses that want a professional online presence built around their goals.
📱 SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Show Up Consistently Without Doing Everything Yourself.
Your social media should support your business — not become another full-time job.
I provide social media strategy, content support, and management designed to help businesses create a consistent online presence and communicate their value clearly.
🎯 PAID LEAD STRATEGY
Stop Paying for Attention. Start Building a Path to Clients.
Views, clicks, and followers don't automatically become revenue.
I help service-based businesses develop paid lead-generation strategies designed around attracting prospects and moving them toward an actual business opportunity.
Services may include advertising strategy, audience strategy, lead funnels, messaging, landing pages, and follow-up systems.
⚙️ SYSTEMS & AUTOMATION STRATEGY
Your Business Shouldn't Depend on You Remembering Everything.
As your business grows, your systems need to grow with it.
I help entrepreneurs identify opportunities to simplify and automate parts of their customer journey — from capturing a lead to scheduling, follow-up, nurturing, and client onboarding.
The goal is simple: less manual work and a better experience for you and your clients.
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
Be Fully You.
I provide a dedicated space for LGBTQ+ women navigating identity, coming out later in life, relationships, boundaries, confidence, self-love, starting over, and major life transitions.
These one-on-one sessions are centered around honest conversation, clarity, empowerment, and helping you determine what comes next for you.
No judgment. No expectation that your life needs to look like anyone else's.
🎙️ PODCAST HOST
Honest Conversations About Being Human.
I’m the host of the Living Deeply Podcast.
I explore relationships, identity, grief, family, work, humanism, LGBTQ+ experiences, boundaries, personal growth, and the complicated reality of being human.
No pretending to have everything figured out.
Just honest conversations about living deeply.
🎤 MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
Conversations That Move People Forward.
I bring professional expertise, lived experience, storytelling, and honest conversation to conferences, organizations, workshops, panels, podcasts, and community events.
Topics may include workplace empowerment, self-advocacy, entrepreneurship, LGBTQ+ experiences, authenticity, resilience, grief, boundaries, starting over, and navigating major life transitions.
💍 LGBTQ+ WEDDING OFFICIANT
Your Love. Your Story. Your Ceremony.
I provide LGBTQ+ affirming wedding and commitment ceremonies designed around the people actually getting married.
Ceremonies can be personalized, romantic, secular, non-religious, spiritual without being traditionally religious, intimate, or completely customized around your relationship.
No judgment. No assumptions about what your relationship or ceremony is supposed to look like.
🕊️ FUNERAL, MEMORIAL & CELEBRATION OF LIFE OFFICIANT
Honor Their Life — Their Way.
A meaningful goodbye doesn't have to follow a religious tradition.
I provide compassionate funeral, memorial, and celebration-of-life officiant services centered around the person being remembered.
Services can be secular, non-religious, LGBTQ+ affirming, or simply personalized around the person's story, relationships, values, memories, and life.
🎶 EVENT SINGER
Sometimes the Moment Needs Music.
I'm available for select weddings, funerals, celebrations of life, community gatherings, and special events.
Event singing can stand alone or, when appropriate, be combined with my officiant services to create a more personalized experience.
🌈 THRIVEN HUMANS
Community Matters.
Thriven Humans is a community designed to create opportunities for meaningful connection, conversation, events, and shared experiences.
Through virtual and community events, I create spaces where people can connect around identity, life experiences, personal growth, and simply being human.
MEET MARKIETA
Strategist. HR Professional. Entrepreneur. Creator.
My professional background includes nearly two decades in Human Resources and People strategy.
I hold a Master of Jurisprudence in Labor & Employment Law from Tulane University and professional HR credentials including PHR and SHRM-CP.
But my work isn't defined by credentials alone.
I'm a strategist, entrepreneur, podcast host, speaker, singer, community builder, and officiant.
I've built businesses. I've changed directions. I've started over. And I've navigated enough of life to know that sometimes moving forward requires expertise, sometimes it requires strategy, and sometimes it simply requires having the right person in your corner.
That's what I bring to my work.
PEOPLE. POSSIBILITIES. PURPOSE.
The work may look different depending on the day.
The purpose doesn't.
Helping people gain clarity.
Helping people find their voice.
Helping people advocate for themselves.
Helping people turn ideas into action.
Helping people move forward.
Ready for what's next?
