CEO/Founder

"Driven by a deep passion for healing and equality, I have dedicated my life's work to guiding others into evolution, transforming lives through a different approach to achieve overall well-being, domestically and globally."

CEO and Founder of Rising Phoenix Holistic Health and Wellness. I am a native of Dade City, Florida. I spent most of my life overcoming barriers and implicit biases. I advocate for closing disparity gaps, advancing humanity, and empowering through a peculiar approach,

I grew up witnessing my maternal family's relentless cycles of stagnation and lack in our environment and culture. My history is filled with fragmented survival lessons passed down through generations. As a young dreamer, I didn’t always understand the decisions of those before me, the unconscious path of staying under the radar. Growing up in a more modern time, I sought to better myself by achieving through taking a road less traveled, better yet, a road unknown.

After graduating from Pasco High School, I pursued higher education and earned my Bachelor of Science in Biology from St. Leo University. Shortly after, becoming a surgical technologist fueled my passion for understanding illness, procedures, and the body's functions. This experience led me on a journey to gain a deeper understanding of health and healing. I achieved a Master's Degree in Public Health from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology to heighten my perception, connecting the dots and bridging gaps to develop a comprehensive understanding of what was missing in modern healthcare. Amid the knowledge obtained, I became determined to break through the barriers to create a path for true healing and empowerment for myself, and others.

Each step forward came with its share of adversities, seemingly determined to stop me from reaching my goals. I faced career, finance, and housing insecurities, and it often felt like life was against me. I had to claw my way forward to obtain the bare minimum needed to survive.

After years of pushing down challenges and refusing to be stopped, My greatest test would come to define me. In early 2023, just days before my birthday, my mother was tragically murdered. The following month, just a day before her birthday, my grandmother passed away. The devastation and pain were indescribable, burning my soul as I was consumed in darkness and despair. I found strength through applying all my experiences, knowledge, and beliefs in myself transcending into my purpose. To emerge from a place of deep pain and trauma I had to do what I had never done before, I had to heal myself. My faith and belief in the Most High God became my anchor, transforming my inner obstacles into doors that needed to be unlocked, mysteries being uncovered, and ascending through mental and emotional turmoil, revealing new opportunities through cognizant transformation.

Rising Phoenix Holistic Health and Wellness was born through self-reflecting on my pain instead of denying it exists or allowing it to consume me into a hopeless pit of hate, rage, self-loathing, and despair. Taking the opportunity to get to know myself through voluntary seclusion led me on a journey of inner discovery. The application of cognitive behavioral therapy, spiritual awareness (the acceptance of a higher power/existence), faith (allowing the process of ebb & flow while keeping a positive attitude and focusing all thoughts and beliefs), consistent nature immersion, and a centered focus on self, revealed innate skills, and abilities within me. My journey has now become my sole purpose and calling: to share my peculiar approach and view with others to evolve the well-being of humanity, and all things interconnected that influence our overall health.

I am Quantabia Maner,

"Perseverance produces hope so don't be afraid to tread mud"

~Q. Maner