Despite being an orthopedic surgeon, oftentimes I don’t do what I need to do to recover. I admit I can be a terrible patient. In a previous episode, I shared my two-year battle with plantar fasciitis. Well in the midst of that battle, I had another injury.
Today, I’ll be sharing with you my own personal experience with a stress fracture. I will share how I was diagnosed, the treatment, and how despite this injury I returned to the sport that I love.
Episode Highlights:
Discovering the reason for my pain
Dealing with Stress Fractures on top of my Plantar Fasciitis
Listening to my body and finally allowing myself rest and recovery
Treatments for stress fractures
Slowly getting back into the game of running
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Are the vaccines that will be released to the public safe? Have they been tested with diversity in mind? In order to make the best decisions for your health, it’s best to know and understand the process of how drugs and vaccines are developed.
In this episode, I bring in Dr. Marquita Qualls– a chemist with a background in drug development. Dr. Qualls professional career began at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world. During nearly a decade at GSK, she held roles of increased global responsibility spanning drug development, technology evaluation, program management, strategy, and people development.
Hopefully, this episode will help you make better-informed decisions regarding COVID, and the vaccines during these times of uncertainty.
Episode Highlights:
About Dr. Marquita Qualls
How she got her degree and how long it took
Dr Q’s obstacles in getting her PhD as the only black woman and how she dealt with it
Her experience with GlaxoSmithKline
The process of drug development
Inclusivity and diversity in clinical trials
Covid from those in the perspective of one in the pharmaceutical industry
Her shifting careers and gaining an entrepreneurial mindset
Going for your dreams
About our Guest:
Dr. Marquita M. Qualls has over 20 years of leadership experience in consulting, coaching, and motivating people who want to produce order out of their chaos. Though a scientist by training, she commands a masterful understanding of the interpersonal skills needed to thrive in today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment. Marquita made history by becoming the first female African-American to receive her Ph.D in chemistry from Purdue University.
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“After a two-and-a-half-year battle with Plantar Fasciitis, I was finally pain-free and could run.”
It was October 2014 when I first experienced the most intense pain from my Plantar Fasciitis after I finished the Chicago marathon. Plantar Fasciitis is when the fascia that connects your heel to your toes becomes inflamed and causes intense pain in your foot.
Listen in as I share how I overcame this obstacle and was able to run again through therapy and treatment. Be sure to tune into the end where I share easy ways to combat Plantar Fasciitis and take preventive measures against other injuries.
Episode Highlights:
What is Plantar Fasciitis?
Will you still be able to run again with plantar fasciitis?
My physical therapies and healing procedures that helped me recover from plantar fasciitis
Three tips to avoid or deal with plantar fasciitis
A person who sees obstacles as set-backs or a person who sees it as a necessary route to get to where God set you to be, which one are you? How do you treat your obstacles, set-backs, delays? How do you see beyond a devastating incident? How do you succeed in your life?
This episode’s podcast features Keanna Henson “KJ Rose”. KJ Rose is a Grammy Award Winning Artist Development and Performance Expert who is affectionately known as the “Talent Whisperer.” She has spent over 15 years in the music industry performing with P. Diddy, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and several other stars while navigating corporate America as a professional at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, J Records (for Clive Davis), and Sundance TV. The culmination of these experiences shaped KJ’s fervor for pushing performers, actors, singers, executives and artists of all disciplines beyond their perceived capacity. She is a performance coach to LIL Nas X. She is also a newly published author of “ The Rose Effect: Eight Steps To Delivering The Performance of Your Life”
She shares a lot of her experiences that are not only relatable, but are also essential for any audience to understand how she was able to turn everything into a huge rolling ball of success.
With Rose as her middle name and the name she prefers to be called, she intends to spread wisdom to her clients and for any person who aspires to be successful or just simply to look at life in a more positive way. Her high energy radiates from everything that she does and so expect this podcast to inspire you and get you to your feet to start if you haven’t yet started, and keep you on your feet when you feel like you need to reassess yourself.
Having pivoted from solo artist to performance coach, KJ Rose doesn’t consider herself a quitter. Neither did she downgrade herself by this pivot but her versatility to fuse both career experiences to give her best is truly inspiring.
Tune in to be refilled and refueled. Learn how KJ Rose made it to her finish line and how you can too.
Listen. Learn. Be transformed. Succeed!
Episode Highlights:
What inspired KJ Rose to write her book
How was the process of becoming an author when it was a completely new lane
What KJ Rose experiences are as a background, and solo artist
What other experiences KJ Rose had working in the music industry
The importance of showing up
Her experiences working with Heavy D and Clive Davies
The importance of understanding that background singing isn’t all about you
How professionalism and keeping abreast helped her stay humble
Why one should recover quicker from a disappointment
How to win against the Impostor Syndrome
How she got over stage fright
What snake pit or emotional pit is and how to fight it
Her moving from New York to Los Angeles
The significance of her name Rose
How much her grandfather meant to her
A Better Way, the single – “ How God can redeem time and take something we disquality as old and make it new again”
How God worked in her life
Her pivot from solo artist to performance coach
The challenges of the pivot
Some verses she avidly believes in
Some beautiful reminders to becoming the person you were meant to be
Video that captures a portion of KJ Rose’s journey ~ fromArtist~ toCoach~ toAuthor
How does one fall in love with football? Even a female, yes we do watch and know the game. Maybe it’s a family tradition every Sunday or a friend introduced you to it. Or maybe it is the drive, the desire, the passion that the players have. That same drive and determination is contagious. Either way, there are many reasons as to why a person can fall in love with football.
In this episode, you’ll discover what makes Football the “Best Spectator Sport Ever”. Join me and my best football friend Samantha Danielle as we talk about how we fell in love with Football, Fantasy Football, our all time favorite players, favorite football movie and all things football.
Understand the joy that Football gives to its fans and how it serves as a break from life, and how it can be a source of inspiration. Discover Football, on and off the field. Football is more than just a sport. It is actually a lifestyle.
Episode Highlights:
Falling in love with Football
Fantasy Football
Superbowl, AFC and NFC
Favorite Football Players
Present Day Players
Favorite Football Movies
Best Football Games and Memories
About Our Guest:
After graduating from East Carolina University’s School of Nursing, Samantha Danielle pursued a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management. Her goal of becoming a pediatric hospital administrator was deferred once she fell in love with wedding planning. While living in Durham, NC, she opened Bliss By Sam (BBS) Weddings & Occasions in 2005. She then moved herself and the firm to Chicago in 2012.
As a planner, Samantha Danielle recognized the importance of champagne within the wedding industry. The drink itself and the region of Champagne, France became a passion of hers. She decided to close BBS in 2018 and is now pursuing certification as a Master of Champagne through the Wine Scholar Guild.
Samantha Danielle resides in Chicago, IL and her friends say she lives like a tourist. She loves all things Chicago and her favorite places are Soho House and Millennium Park. She also enjoys attending church, cheering for the Dallas Cowboys and traveling internationally.
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