Désirée Sprauve, Founder & CEO
The Wellness You Desire®
Founder Story
The Guide High-Achieving Women Trust With Their Most Intimate Life Transitions
Désirée Sprauve is a women’s and maternal health consultant who has been a birthworker since 2018. She previously practiced as a certified holistic full-spectrum doula and RYT certified perinatal yoga and meditation teacher. Désirée has guided more than 2,000 women and mothers through programming, yoga and meditation, pregnancy and doula support, speeches, and sacred ceremonies.
“At my first official birth, traffic delayed the midwife, so I caught the baby myself. My heart has been lit up ever since.”
Of Caribbean descent, Désirée draws on herbal medicine and ethnomedicine rooted in her heritage, weaving ancestral wisdom into evidence-informed care. She has a profound love of humans and believes culture plays a significant role in the care one should receive. Désirée ensures she reveres cultural practices from around the globe into her work, including but not limited to, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, Oceania, and Europe.
Before birthwork, she spent almost a decade leading global operations and strategy across the aerospace and automotive industries, negotiating multi-million dollar supply chain contracts across five industries and seven countries. She was thriving on paper and quietly suffering in her body from severe menstrual cramps. That pain became her calling, first to heal herself, then to help women and mothers do the same.
Today she’s a graduate student in Medical Anthropology and Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy, work that sharpens the same rigor she once brought to the boardroom. Her approach blends evidence based education with culturally rooted, spirit honoring care, giving high-performing women permission to slow down, reclaim their energy, and lead their lives the way they lead everything else: fully, and on their own terms. She is also a proud alumna of Howard University School of Business, graduating with a BBA in Supply Chain Management.
Désirée has spoken and taught for organizations including the NYC Department of Health, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte MEDWeek, and The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, translating research, culture, and lived experience into guidance built for women who don’t have time to guess.
Experience & Training
A true expert.
Tens of thousands (10,000’s) of training, hands-on hours, personal experience and education in holistic health and wellness, expanding since 2014.
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>> Certified Birth + Postpartum Doula - (Mama Glow - January 2019)
>> Evidence Based Birth Professional Member (2020)
>> Certified Sensuality + Intimacy Doula - National Black Doula Association (May 2021)
>> Certified Traditional African American Postpartum Practices- Shafia Monroe Consulting (February 2023)
>> Womb Bloom Expo (Holistic Women’s Health) - Co-Host (April 2023)
>> Guided 1000's of women and families in women’s and maternal health via 1:1 coaching, workshops, speeches, classes, meditation, menstrual cramps, pregnancy, postpartum, miscarriage, yoga, nutrition, and more.
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>>Certified Birthworker since 2019
>>Home Birth | Birthing Center |. Hospital Births
>>VBAC (Vaginal Birth after Cesarean) | Vaginal Birth| Cesarean Birth
>>Lotus Birth | Twin Birth | Water Birth | Breech Birth
>>Preeclampsia| Placenta Privia | Severe Hypertension| Severe Anxiety
>>IUI | NICU| Miscarriage
>>Substance Abuse/ Addiction | Domestic Violence | STDs
>>Infant Morbidity | Geriatric Birth| Adoption
>>Traditional Postpartum Care
>>Yoga | Meditation| Nutrition
>>Traditional Herbal Care
+ So Much More
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>> RYT Certified Prenatal Yoga + Meditation Teacher - Maha Mama (February 2020)
>> Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Trained (50+ hrs) - Three Jewels (April 2021)
>> Chaunice Parchment Yoga Masterclass (Sept 2022)
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>> Personal Holistic Healing Journey (since 2014)- healed from severe menstrual cramps, toxic relationship, grief, reproductive tumor (benign), over-weight, etc. Healers rise from the ashes and blossom into a lotus.
>> Sacred Vibes Apothecary Spiritual Herbalism Workshops (since 2019)
>> Iyanla Vanzant Fix It Workshop (August 2022)
>> Queen Afua & Devi Brown Women Who Heal Retreat (2023)
>>Caribbean Herbalism (2024)
>> Abibi Duro: Holistic Medicine of Black People (2025)- Student
>> Self Study and Evidence-Based Research (since 2014)
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>> NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene- Audience: 100+ | Motivational
>> Mama Glow Doula Expo - Audience: 400+ | Birthwork
>> WIN Women’s Conference- Audience: 30 | Life Transition
>> Care Ring- Audience: 150+ | Breathwork
>> Winthrop University NAACP- Audience: 50+ | Women's Health
>> 100 Black Women-UNCC- Audience: 30 | Dress for success
>> Charlotte MED Week- Audience: 250+| Women in Entrepreneurship
» 100 Black Women- Queen City Audience: 30 | Pre-Conception & Maternal Health
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>> Bodily (FemHealth CPG E-Commerce) - Sr. Mgr. Head of Global Purchasing + Logistics + Company Morale (2021)
>> Legal Aid Society (Non-Profit)-Purchasing Mgr. Head of Purchasing + Guest Meditation Teacher (2019)
>> Pratt & Whitney of United Technologies (Aerospace)- Global Sr. Procurement Specialist + Diversity Recruiter (2016)
>> Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (Automotive)- Global Lead Buyer +Diversity Champion & Recruiter (2012)
>> Howard University School of Business, BBA Supply Chain Management (c/o 2012)
I was a Basketball Cheerleader and Caribbean Dance team member
My grandma is the reason I know how to cook so well. She had a zero tolerance policy! Eventually, she would call her friends about my food so I knew it was delicious!
I am a conscious eater, meaning I am mostly Whole Foods plant-based but if my body is calling for something else, I will eat as my body desires
Fun Facts
I am obsessed with stand-up comedy. OBSESSED. I love to laugh and comedians actually have to be very intelligent to win over a crowd
YouTube is my favorite social media platform. We are just starting our own. Follow us here.
I’ve worked and led multi-million dollar global strategies in China, Brazil, South Korea, and Japan. One might say, I like culture and travel!
Press & Media
Désirée Sprauve is a former Aerospace Global Supply Chain Management professional who transitioned into a Holistic Women’s and Maternal Health Consultant. She is the founder of The Wellness You Desire®, a wellness guide, yogi, speaker, meditation teacher, and dedicated educator. Désirée blends ancestral wisdom with modern science to support high-achieving women through sacred transitions like periods, pregnancy, and postpartum.
She is available for interviews, panels, podcasts, and articles on topics such as:
Holistic womb wellness for high-performing women
Preparing for conception, pregnancy, and postpartum
Reclaiming ancestral practices in modern womanhood
Reproductive health equity in corporate spaces
Honoring deep self-care with the support of nature
Nourishing the mind, body, spirit, and womb
Transitioning into social entrepreneurship
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My Teachers
Wise Guides I’ve Had the Honor to Sit at the Feet Of
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Latham Thomas
Founder of Mama Glow
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Krissy Shields
Founder of Maha Mama
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Queen Afua
Founder and Author of Sacred Woman
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Krystal Taylor
Founder of Krystal Tantric Yogi
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Chauncie Parchment
Founder of Healing Artists
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Iyanla Vanzant
Founder of Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development
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Mama Shafia Monroe
Founder, Shafia Monroe Consulting
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