ABOUT DR. TANGELA
Meet
Dr. Tangela Mitchell-Rivers
Apostle • Life Coach • Corporate Trainer • Marriage Leader • Author
Helping women, leaders, and couples transform their mindset, strengthen their identity, and walk confidently in the life God designed for them.
THE WOMAN BEHIND THE CALLING
Dr. Tangela Mitchell-Rivers has been doing this work her entire life — she just didn't always have a title for it.
Since junior high school she has been the one women turn to. The peer facilitator. The safe voice in the room. The one whose phone rang at all hours — because somehow people always knew she would answer.
Her credentials are real and her experience is deep — ordained Apostle, Certified Life Coach, corporate mindset consultant, marriage mentor, and author. But what sets her apart is not what is on paper. It is what God did in her when nobody was watching.
In 2020 something shifted. An encounter with the Holy Spirit that she could not explain and could not ignore. Then COVID happened. Churches closed. People scattered. And while the world called it a crisis — Dr. Tangela called it a consecration.
While others mourned closed doors she pressed her face to the floor and got to know God personally — not through a pastor, not through a program, but face to face. She learned deliverance. She learned to see what was staring back at her in the mirror. She learned the difference between being a believer and actually knowing Him.
She has been a believer since grade school. But it took a decade of unlearning, healing, and surrender to understand what believing actually means.
That is the woman who will walk with you. Not a polished platform voice. A woman who has been in the fire — and came out knowing exactly Who was in there with her.
You cannot lead others into alignment if your own identity is out of place. Transformation begins when you return to who God originally designed you to be.
ROOTED IN FAITH.
SHAPED BY EXPERIENCE.
CALLED TO LEAD.
The journey that prepared Dr. Tangela was not comfortable. It was not glamorous, and it was not always encouraging.
It was the journey of unlearning to relearn.
Not accepting everything she had been told — but pressing in until she could hear God for herself. And what she heard was not always a warm confirmation. Sometimes it was stern correction. Sometimes it was the kind of holy disruption that dismantles everything you thought you knew about yourself so that something true can finally be built.
She sat in that disruption. She didn't run from it. She didn't perform her way through it. She let God do what only God can do — and came out the other side not perfect, but positioned.
Her transformation came through:
Deep mindset work that required brutal honesty.
Spiritual discipline that went beyond Sunday morning.
Marriage refinement that cost her comfort and gave her covenant.
Leadership pressure that revealed what she was actually made of.
Emotional breakthroughs that only happen in the secret place.
Faith-driven courage that moves even when it cannot see.
She is not a leader who learned this in a classroom. She is a leader who learned it on her knees.
"I am a woman who has walked through her own fire and come out knowing Who carried her. That journey - and GOD is what I bring into every coaching session, every ministry moment, and every woman I am privileged to walk alongside!
-Apostle Dr. Tangela
It didn't start with a business plan.
It started with a pattern.
Woman after woman sitting across from Dr. Tangela — gifted, faithful, churchgoing women — who had no idea who they were. They were not just struggling with purpose or direction. It was deeper than that.
-They didn't know their Creator and because they didn't know Him — they couldn't know themselves.
She kept hearing one word in her spirit: Greenprint.
Not Blueprint. Everyone was talking about blueprints — new plans, new strategies, new systems. Oh, but God wasn't calling these women to build something new. He was calling them back. Back to who they were before the world got loud. Back to the original design. Back to the power and authority they were created to possess.
Because the mandate was never to survive.
The mandate was to DOMINATE AND REIGN.
Becoming The Greenprint™ was born out of that revelation. An incubator for total restoration — not a patch for the symptoms but a return to the root. Identity. Mindset. Alignment. Action.
For the woman who is done surviving and ready to walk in everything God designed her to be — before the fall, before the fear, before she forgot that she was already chosen.
This is not a coaching program. This is restoration.
"You better get you one - A Holy Ghost filled Midwife who is led, Annointed, and Appointed by God. I did and it changed my life!!"- M. Pharr
HOW THE GREENPRINT™ WAS BORN
THE RIVERS MARRIAGE MINISTRY
H.E.R. & H.I.M.
— Healed. Equipped. Restored. & Healed. Irrevocably. Mantled.
Married for over a decade, Dr. Tangela and her husband Bakor, have dedicated their lives to helping couples build strong, healthy, God-centered relationships.
Dr. Tangela and Bakor Rivers are living proof that a covenant marriage is not built on perfection — it is built on two individuals who chose God first and each other every day after.
Together they lead H.E.R. & H.I.M. — a marriage ministry rooted in the belief that when she is Healed, Equipped and Restored and he is Healed, Irrevocably Mantled — the marriage doesn't just survive. It flourishes.
F.L.O.W. With The Rivers™
— Coming Soon
FAITH
God leads. She follows.
INTEGRITY
Do the work — inwardly and outwardly.
HEALING
Growth requires truth, not pretending.
DISCIPLINE
Change doesn’t happen without structure.
PURPOSE
We all were born with one.
LOVE
Marriage. Community. Humanity.
Dr. Tangela Mitchell Rivers
SPEAKER • TRAINER • AUTHOR • LEADER
When Dr. Tangela Mitchell-Rivers takes the mic something shifts in the room.
She doesn't come to perform. She comes to pull.
There is a rawness to her delivery that disarms every defense and a roar in her spirit that commands women to come forth. Because she knows what it is to be the woman sitting in that seat — subdued by fear, paralyzed by uncertainty, convinced that the life God promised was for everyone else but her.
She was that woman.
And now she stands on every stage as living proof that fear doesn't win. That the woman God designed always outlasts the woman the world tried to create.
If you are looking for a polished performance — she is not your speaker.
If you are looking for a moment that changes something permanently — call her.
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Dr. Tangela is available for:
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Conferences
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Corporate trainings
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Marriage events
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Workshops
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Retreats
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Panels
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Ministry engagements
A FINAL WORD FROM HER HEART
I want you to know something before you go.
I do this work because I want to see you free. Whole. Healed.
Not pretending. Not surviving.
Actually free.
I know what it cost to get here. I know what it feels like to not recognize the woman in the mirror. I know the exhaustion of carrying what was never yours to carry.
And I know — because God showed me — that it doesn't have to stay that way.
No matter where you are right now. No matter what you've been through. No matter how long you've been waiting.
It is never too late to discover who you were created to be, and not just discover her, but actually BE H.E.R.
Healed. Equipped. Restored.
I love you. And I'll see you in the garden.
— Apostle Dr. Tangela Mitchell-Rivers