As an avid runner for over 20 year Uche has tons of stories to inspire you to start running. After you hear this episode you will begin to learn how I became a marathon addict, it is more than just running. Uche speaks to the fact that marathons expose you to confront your limits and what you’re capable of. Setting your next goal progresses you, inspires you and humbles you at the same time. Even more so when you start running with friends!
Episode Highlights:
How Uche started running marathons
Marathons keeps you on your toes and has you constantly setting your next goal
How running alongside a bunch of friends gets and keeps you motivated
Understanding the beauty of a marathon
How marathons can give you access to seeing different sites and gives you a reason to explore the world on foot.
Uche’s advice for first time runners
Guest Bio:
Uche Anusionw who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a corporate banker, and a real estate investor. He has been an avid runner for over 20 years. In that time, he has run several marathons, half marathons, ten milers, 10ks, and 5ks. He was the leader of Team United Nations, my first run club, and is now a co-leader for the Winfield track club in Philadelphia. In both instances, he marshaled and continues to marshal runners of all abilities to get out of bed, at ungodly hours in the morning. He is the ultimate run ambassador, and if it wasn’t for him I may never have become addicted to running.
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Sprained ankles are one of the most frequent musculoskeletal injuries seen in doctor’s offices. There are more than 23, 000 people per day in the United States, athletes and non athletes that require medical attention for ankle sprains. It was my first injury in my running journey. Tune in this episode as I take all of us through some of my most memorable ankle sprains. Learn how I treated myself, and hear about tips that you can use to prevent and treat ankle sprains.
Episode Highlights:
Anatomy of the ankle
Different types of ankle sprains
Grading of Ankle Sprains
Treatment for various types of ankle sprains
My ankle sprain stories and how I didn’t let it keep me from my goals.
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Taking care of celebrities isn’t something just anyone can do– but there’s no harm in reaching for the stars.
Joining me today is Dr. Cartise Austin, a dentist who did reach the stars in more ways than one tells how an orthodontist changed her life. In this episode, she’ll share with us how what started as a way to improve her smile gave her inspiration and motivation to start her own movement. She started her practice and built up a brand that wiped out her competition. Despite her lack of background in marketing, Dr. Austin built her knowledge by listening and learning to those she hired and worked around her as well as reading books.
As she picked up on marketing strategies and tools, Dr. Austin was able to build her foundation and finally got the opportunity of a lifetime with her publicist to show her skills on television and printed media, letting her work speak for itself. She now not only takes care of celebrities, she educates others in business, and gives tips so everyone can have a radiant smile.
If you need motivation, then this episode is definitely going to be a source of inspiration for you to make it to your finish life in any area of life.
Episode Highlights:
Cartise’s tips to whiten your teeth
What are veneers
Her book, How to Become a Celebrity Doctor
What are her common procedures now
Some of her celebrity clients
Sports Dentistry and tips to protect your smile while doing those sports you love
Guest Bio:
Dr. Catrise Austin is a dentist to the stars and an entrepreneur in her own right. With her passion for dentistry going back as far as when she was 15, Dr. Austin knew that early on just what she wanted to be.
Earning her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and her doctorate in dental surgery from the University of Maryland, she then moved to New York City where her life changed forever. With the completion of her dental training and working a few jobs, she was given advice to start her own practice– which she did later down the line.
After building her clientele of celebrities, she started appearing on shows and receiving multiple shout-outs that added to her reputation as a dentist to the stars– all backed up by her amazing work.
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When you hear Level-Up, your first thought would be Ciara, but today I’m here to introduce to you a movement for cycling spearheaded by an entrepreneur named Erica with the same name. Erica Davis, a long-time enthusiast of Cycling, is here today to tell us how she built– the Level Up Cycling Movement.
With a background in business management and entrepreneurship, Erica is no stranger to the dedication and time needed to make the dream work. With her skills now combined with passion, her movement has gained traction for it’s openness and inclusivity for minorities– striving to ensure that all are welcome in such a white-dominated sport.
Be sure to hit that play button to listen to Erica’s inspiring movement.
Episode Highlights:
How Erica started cyclingErica’s first group in cycling
The culture of cycling clubs
How Erica becoming the first black cycling agent
Why she started ChocLIT Pedals
Guest Bio:
Erica Davis, a Florida native, is far more than the average entrepreneur. With a bachelor’s degree in business management and a minor in entrepreneurship, she started her career in banking. In addition to her numerous professional titles, she started consulting and began to fund new ventures. She further integrated financial health and wisdom to the home by developing a financial education program for all, which was adopted by Community Redevelopment Agencies. Her program taught inner city residents and families how to use credit and banking to form a sustainable lifestyle.
It is of no surprise although she started cycling as a leisure activity, quickly she developed a charge to do her part for all to have access to cycling, on all levels. The deficiency of diversity amongst groups and club rides as well as organized events caused Erica to ask hard questions, research and conclude the sport she had grown to love, had a void in representation.
With determination in tow, she launched and serves as President of Level Up Cycling Movement, Inc., a non profit organization and nationwide movement dedicated to introducing the health benefits of cycling to minority communities as well as to create a clear path to Professional cycling at the highest level. Inspired by hard working, talented young racers with big dreams to become professional cyclists, Erica knew the mission of Level Up was not, in itself, enough
In 2019 she became the first black female (maybe first black ever) UCI Professional Rider Agent. This prestigious achievement allows her sports company, Shine World Sports, to sign, recruit, promote and place riders in jobs that expand across the world. Immediately thereafter, she facilitated the process for one of those aspiring young cyclists to become the first woman of color to race for a International Professional Women’s team, at the world level.
In partnership with the Williams Brothers of Legion of LA, she launched Miami Blazrs, a national Elite Men’s Race team with the goal to provide equal access to high level American racing. Erica also created and launched ChocLIT Pedals, a women’s ride experience, providing a safe place to nurture, appreciate and celebrate women who seek out the tools of cycling in order to transform their lives and the lives of their families.
In all that she does, Erica’s mission is to create space and culture for minorities in the sport of cycling because she understands each bike ride can save a life. She hopes to encourage, not only women, but also youth of color and other minority groups as they discover their passion, and take their first step onto the path of fulfillment, gaining the happiness and success they deserve.
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As a highly functional sufferer of depression, Olatunji Oboi Reed needed an outlet for himself to heal– ultimately finding a form of therapy one day when he decided to take his bike out for a ride for the first time in years; finding joy in the wind and sun around him.
He developed a passion for cycling and in the process he found that there were significant inequalities as far as safe mobility in black and brown neighborhoods. Oboii decided he needed to join the fight for racial equity, through the means of increasing safe mobility in these neighborhoods.
Episode Highlights:
How cycling became a part of his therapy during his time of depression
His drive and motivation for cycling
How he worked through his depression
Getting help with his mental health and the sigma that can be associated with mental illness
Mobility issues for Black and Brown people across the US
His project to address the mobility issues of minorities
Guest Bio:
Olatunji Oboi Reed’s passion is deeply rooted in community, culture, and health. As a racial equity technician, he works globally with other organizations to bring racial justice and increase mobility around the world.
Given his background in management and corporate, he is able to build a whole team of diverse individuals, all working together to achieve racial equality and mobile justice in the city of Chicago.
He was the co-founder and served as the President & CEO of Slow Roll Chicago. Slow Roll Chicago was a spin-off of the Slow Roll rides that started in Detroit. Slow Roll Chicago, purpose is to ride bicycles to make black/brown neighborhoods better. Slow Roll Chicago’s vision is equal bicycle usage across the City of Chicago with respect to race, income and neighborhood. The vision was bicycles as a form of effective transportation, contributing to reducing violence, improving health, creating jobs and ultimately making black/brown neighborhoods more livable
Oboi was awarded The White House Transportation Champion of Change award by The White House and the United States Department of Transportation, under President Obama.
He is currently the founding president and CEO of Equicity, his main outlet to manifest his social justice passions for equal mobility for all– targeted mainly at uplifting the lives of Black and Brown people across the United States.Equiticity vision is a city where racial equality is integrated at the policy and legislative levels. He envisions Equiticity creating a US city that serves as a model for the rest of the world on how to normalize, prioritize, and operationalize racial equality in terms of resources.
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