Founder-led. Mission-driven. Built to become system-dependent instead of personality-dependent.
The official One Pulse site places Ericka Settles at the center of the organization’s story. Cincinnati preserves that founder identity while building governance strong enough to protect the mission as the operation grows.
Ericka Settles
Ericka is an author, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, artist, speaker, and transformational coach. The official site describes her as a professional whose work brings together recovery, personal growth, creativity, family, and empowerment.
As an author and speaker, she focuses on narratives of transformation and on helping people recognize their capacity to change. As an artist, she uses creative expression to explore the human experience. As a chemical-dependency professional, she brings direct familiarity with recovery and the work required to sustain it.
Her family identity is equally central to the organizational narrative. One Pulse United’s emphasis on reunification, parenting, youth empowerment, and multigenerational support reflects a belief that recovery does not happen in a vacuum; people return to households, workplaces, schools, communities, and relationships.
For Cincinnati, the founder’s voice remains the heartbeat while governance provides the skeleton: services launched only when ready, clinical authority kept distinct, public promises tethered to evidence, and every handoff accepted and tracked.
Compassion without structure burns people out. Structure without compassion turns people into inventory.
One Pulse Cincinnati is designed to hold both: human warmth and operational discipline.
Protect the mission
Keep family, recovery, dignity, creativity, and opportunity visible as the organization becomes more complex.
Tell the truth publicly
Marketing language must match actual licensure, certification, staffing, payer status, site readiness, and service capacity.
Build accountable systems
Roles, dates, evidence, handoffs, review points, and pause authority turn a vision into an organization that can survive growth.