BIO

Wellness Advocate • Certified Personal Trainer • Speaker • Coach • Minister

Te’Retta Walker is a wellness professional, motivational speaker, certified personal trainer, running coach, minister, and founder of The Total Concept, a wellness brand committed to strengthening the mind, body, and soul.

With a passion for helping people become healthier from the inside out, Te’Retta’s approach to wellness extends far beyond exercise. She believes true transformation requires attention to the whole person—how we move, how we nourish ourselves, how we think, how we heal, and how we grow. Through fitness, wellness coaching, speaking, ministry, and community experiences, she challenges others to do the work necessary to become stronger in every area of life.

Te’Retta’s own wellness journey has been shaped by both achievement and adversity. A lifelong lover of movement and sports, she began running in 2013. She went on to become a 6-Star World Marathon Majors finisher, completing marathons around the world, including the Boston Marathon, Tokyo Marathon, and London Marathon, along with more than 70 half marathons. Her passion for running also led to years of leadership with Black Girls RUN! Memphis, where she currently serves as a Co-Ambassador and continues to encourage others to make movement and healthy living a lifestyle.

Her experiences eventually taught her that fitness could never be about one thing. Cardio alone wasn’t enough. Strength alone wasn’t enough. Nutrition alone wasn’t enough. And physical wellness without caring for the mind and soul left the picture incomplete. That realization became foundational to The Total Concept and its mission of Strengthening Mind, Body & Soul.

Today, Te’Retta brings that philosophy into personal training, group fitness, wellness education, speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, community initiatives, and inspirational ministry. As an ISSA Certified Personal Trainer and Sports Nutritionist and an RRCA Certified Running Coach, she combines professional training with real-life experience to help people pursue sustainable wellness rather than temporary change.

But Te’Retta’s work reaches beyond physical fitness. As an ordained Elder and speaker, she uses her faith, testimony, education, and life experiences to encourage others to heal, grow, establish healthy boundaries, embrace discipline, rediscover purpose, and move forward. Whether she is leading a workout, speaking from a stage, teaching a wellness session, ministering, or simply having an honest conversation, her message remains rooted in transformation.

Te’Retta holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, a Bachelor of Theology, and a Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution. She is also a wife, mother, GiGi, entrepreneur, mentor, and community advocate who believes that what we survive, learn, and overcome should produce something in our lives—and in the lives of others.

Her mission is simple: help people do the work to become well—mind, body, and soul.

And through it all, one phrase continues to embody the journey:

#getMEright

Education

Master of Arts, Conflict Resolution

Bethel University, McKenzie, TN

Bachelor of Arts, Theology

Anderson Theological Seminary, Camille, GA

Bachelor of Science, Business Management

Southern Wesleyan University, Central, SC

ISSA Certified Personal Trainer

ISSA Certified Strength & Conditioning Coach

ISSA Certified

Sports Nutritionist

RRCA Level One Certified Running Coach

CPR/AED Certified

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	Family
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Transformation: There IS Purpose in the Process

There is so much I can say about myself. I'm compassionate, tenacious, yet shy in some instances, outgoing, inquisitive, and fun-loving. I love encouraging others and seeing them reach their God-given potential. Throughout each life experience, I continue to taste...and see that the Lord truly IS good!

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Te’Retta is extremely good at designing workouts for my specific needs. As a guy over sixty, a runner, and one who struggles with extra body fat, she was able to create a training and diet plan that helped me improve my running endurance and build muscle. Her workouts are challenging for men and women.

M. Nichols

The Condition of Your Heart (Monday, January 15, 2018)

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right and steadfast spirit within me. ~Psalm 51:10 (AMP)

Life happens to us. Life happens in us. Life happens for us. And because life happens, we sometimes find ourselves all over the place. We may be happy one minute, sad the next, then frustrated, then worried, and the list goes on. Things around and in us cause us to feel this myriad of emotions that doesn't necessarily have to do with anyone else. It has everything to do with us and the condition of our hearts.

David found himself in a quandary in the above passage. So much transpired in and through him, and he needed to be still. He knew he had sinned against God and wanted forgiveness. He didn't blame anyone else for his actions. He took responsibility for his vile actions, humbled himself, repented, and asked God for forgiveness.

I've not felt my loving self for a few days. I've been attitudinal, recluse, short, and simply bothered. It could be cabin fever. It could be I'm over being sick and just want to get well. It could be that I've allowed some stuff to creep in that's not like God. Either way, I know that I don't like it and desire to do something about it. This had led me to our prayer focus and study this week...our hearts. Each day this week, I will meditate on one of these Scriptures to help get me back to where I need to be and in His presence.

Psalm 51:10 (today's Scripture)
Romans 10:10
Ezekiel 36:26
Proverbs 4:23
James 4:8
Jeremiah 17:10

Every day will not be happy...