ABOUT MANE UP MEMPHIS
EMBRACING LIFES CHALLENGES.
Founded in July 2024, Mane Up Memphis™ was built to answer the questions too many families are still asking:
“How do I heal when I can’t afford to break down?”
“Who helps me when I’m not in crisis, but I’m not okay?”
“What if I never had the chance to learn what stability even looks like?”
“Where do we go for real help?”
We are a licensed health hub offering mental health care, financial education, and personal development for youth and their families because healing, stability, and growth shouldn’t be reserved for the privileged.
We don’t operate like a charity. We provide care with structure, intention, and outcomes. From therapy to guided workshops, everything we offer is built to restore dignity and help people reclaim control over their lives. No judgment. No shame. Just a path forward.
Whether someone walks through our doors in crisis or simply in search of clarity, they’re met with both compassion and strategy. Through strong partnerships and data-informed impact, we’re closing the gaps traditional systems ignore and creating real results that ripple through generations.
At Mane Up Memphis™, we don’t just serve we restore hope, rebuild confidence, and equip people to rise.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
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Racheal Shantel
Founder. Visionary. Builder of what didn’t exist before.
Racheal doesn’t just lead Mane Up Memphis™—she is the reason it exists. Her fire was lit early: at just ten years old, her grandfather, George T. Walker, was murdered. That moment marked her. But instead of folding, she turned pain into purpose.
Born and raised in Collierville, Tennessee, Racheal holds a Master’s in Urban City and Regional Planning and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Philosophy with a specialization in Governance and Policy. But her real education came from watching how systems fail people—how even the strongest fall through cracks they didn’t create.
She built Mane Up Memphis™ because the services she needed didn’t exist. Not with dignity. Not with power. Not with strategy. So she created the hub that brings structure to healing, discipline to recovery, and results to people who’ve been told to “just survive.”
Racheal doesn’t preach what she hasn’t lived. She blends lived experience, policy insight, and strategic planning into a leadership model that challenges the status quo and invites people to do more than just make it through—to rise.
If you believe in leaders who build what they once needed, who refuse to settle for surface change, and who carry communities with them instead of speaking over them—then you believe in Racheal. And that means, whether you knew it yet or not, you believe in what Mane Up Memphis™ is here to do.