Two Doors. One Guide

My father transitioned when I was eighteen years old.

One month before his transition, he looked at me and said: “It’s all in your hands now.”

I have been living those words for over forty years.

Not because they were a burden. Because they were a commissioning. There is a difference and learning to feel that difference has been the whole work of my life.

Over a year ago, my mother stepped into the ancestral realm. And after she return to the place of her ancestors, her words found me: “Go soar.”

Two commissionings. Two generations of permission. I intend to honor both.

You Found This Space for a Reason

Maybe you are navigating a career transition that no one in your circle quite understands. Maybe you are running a business, leading a team, holding a household together and quietly wondering when someone is going to give you permission to stop performing and start healing.

Maybe you found your way here through a conversation, a summit, a referral. Maybe the ancestors sent you.

However you arrived welcome. Welcome to the Circle. You are in the right place.

Who I Am

I am Rev. Lettie Ar-Rahmaan. Ordained minister. Retired IBMer. Ecosystem navigator. Ancestral practitioner. Author. Radio host. And most importantly, a woman who has learned to build from the middle of grief, transition, and becoming.

For 32 years, I lived two vocations simultaneously not sequentially, not separately, but at the same time, in the same body, on the same bandwidth.

Inside IBM, I moved from administrative assistant to programmer to software quality engineer to business analyst to a Senior Product Manager for IBM Agentic DevOps. I built relationships across continents. I learned how institutions work and how they protect themselves and how to find the doors that do not appear on any official map.

Inside ministry, I was being formed in a different institution with the same invisible architecture. I preached my first sermon in 1998. In 2001 while traveling for IBM Monday through Thursday I started seminary for three years my Fridays and Saturdays were spent in Richmond, Virginia. I was ordained in the Baptist Church in 2005. In 2012, I became the pastor of a United Methodist congregation, the fourth woman to lead that church. I held that pastorate until 2020, when I left.

I did not choose between the pulpit and corporate. I carried both. And what that double formation produced was not exhaustion alone though there was plenty of that. It produced a pattern recognition that cannot be learned inside a single institution. When you have navigated a technology ecosystem and a denominational one in the same week, for decades, you stop being surprised by how power moves. You start seeing the shape underneath all of it.

I also carry something older than either institution: a reclamation, a deep, unbroken connection to ancestral wisdom that has been with me since before I had language for it. About a year after my father’s transition, my mother poured a libation of water. By morning, that water was gone. Something opened in me that no corporate credential could train and no denomination could contain.

I am all of those things. I do not separate them.

What I Do

I operate two doors with three portals and I am the guide at every door.

The Baobab Circle (this home, RevLettie.com) is a spiritual wellness practice rooted in African Spirituality, and Kemetic cosmology. Here you will find sacred oil blends formulated with intention, ancestral rituals, workshops, journals, and consultation for high-functioning leaders who need more than productivity advice. You need your energy back. Your nervous system restored. Your lineage honored. Also, I’m the host of RevLettie Unmuted where I take the conversation further, the radio platform where I speak plainly about the systemic trauma that’s stored in our spirits, minds and bodies due to the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The MAAFA) by Breaking the Silence of those wounds.

On The Move Consulting, LLC is where I serve as an Ecosystem Navigator. I work with minority founders and minority-owned tech companies to build strategic access, enterprise credibility, and the relationships that create real outcomes. Whether you are navigating a corporate ecosystem, a technology partnership, or the next chapter of your professional life, I bring 32 years of relationship intelligence and strategic positioning to the work. IBM ecosystem navigation is a specialty within this practice, not the whole of it.

I do this work for people like me, the ones who are brilliant, overextended, and quietly burning out while holding everyone else together. What took me the longest to learn was how to stop burning the candle at both ends. That lesson is now the foundation of everything I build.

I am the brand. These are my two doors.

What This Space Is For

This blog is where I think out loud. Where I name what responsible women won’t say in public. Where I bring ancestral wisdom into conversations about leadership, rest, transition, and the long work of becoming who you were always meant to be.

I write from the lived truth not from credentials.

I write for the leader who looks together on the outside and is quietly running on empty. For the woman in transition who needs a guide who has actually crossed the terrain. For anyone who has ever been told by a system, a denomination, a family, a mirror that they were too much and not enough at the same time.

Rest is resistance. That is not a slogan here. It is a practice.

An Invitation

If something in this introduction stirred something in you that is information. Pay attention to it. You are welcome to stay, to explore, to reach out. The Begin a Conversation Call is 15 minutes. The oils are waiting. The journal is ready. The on-demand recordings are ready. The ancestors are already with you.

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Rev. Lettie Ar-Rahmaan is an ordained minister, retired IBMer, ecosystem navigator, an IBM Business Partner and founder of The Baobab Circle and On The Move Consulting, LLC. She is also the host of RevLettie Unmuted. She serves from the Greater Charlotte, North Carolina area. Begin a conversation at RevLettie.com

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