Boss Leap

Mental health and burnout are not just temporary hurdles but reminders that the way you care for yourself today shapes the life you’ll live tomorrow. In this episode, hosts Dr. Sylvia Morris and Dr. Angela Walker open an honest conversation with Vee Caldwell, an entrepreneur and educator who learned firsthand how success can collide with exhaustion. Together, they explore how self-awareness, faith, and intention can turn burnout into breakthrough—and why protecting your peace is the most powerful move you can make. Through V’s story of resilience and reinvention, we are reminded that slowing down isn’t a setback but a strategy for living with purpose and joy.

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Music artist: djezi

Women continue to transform healthcare leadership by showing that empathy, courage, and vision can coexist in powerful ways. In this compelling conversation, Dr. Bisi Alli and Dr. Jasmine Smith-Onyebuolise open up about what it means to lead through compassion, equity, and purpose. They share how mentorship, authenticity, and community have shaped their careers—and how they’re helping others find meaning in the demanding world of medicine. Their stories highlight that leadership in healthcare isn’t just about outcomes; it’s about humanity.

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Music artist: djezi

Healthcare should always prioritize the well-being of the patient and must be done in the most personalized way to properly address their specific needs. Dr. Kimberly Works wanted her medical practice to be grounded in time and trust, and therefore found her way into concierge medicine. She joins Dr. Sylvia Morris and Dr. Angela Walker to share how she delivers quality care directly to children's homes and creates an incredible rapport with them in the process. She explains how she balances equity with entrepreneurship, as well as the role of persistence in maintaining business growth. Dr. Works also talks about the importance of getting therapy, the right way to find joy in your career to avoid burnout, and the unique happiness found in taking care of dogs.

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Music artist: djezi

Diverse entrepreneurs make a critical contribution to the economy, but they desperately need more reach to be able to compete with bigger brands. Candi Carter makes them easily accessible through her e-commerce platform, shopredbag. She joins Dr. Sylvia Morris and Dr. Angela Walker to share how taking action with intention allowed her to bring underrepresented founders to a much bigger world of online shopping. Candi also talks about her leap from media to e-commerce, her advocacy for teens with special needs, and her interesting role as a diversity ambassador for Nevis. If you want to learn what it takes to move forward with intention and purpose, this episode is for you.

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Music artist: djezi

Audacity over everything fuels Keisha Fullerton’s rise from sketching clothes as a child to building her bold fashion brand, Raiment. She shares how her Jamaican heritage, a move from New York to the South, and mentors like Daphne Adams shaped her vision, her design aesthetic, and her belief that clothing should make women feel powerful. Listeners get a behind-the-seams look at how she turned wholesale relationships into growth opportunities, balances motherhood with entrepreneurship, and channels her grandmother’s seamstress legacy into collections that celebrate confidence, heritage, and audacious creativity.

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Dr. Sylvia Morris and Dr. Angela Walker flip the script for this one. Instead of talking about a particular topic, they put the spotlight on themselves by answering rapid-fire questions. Get to know your hosts much better as they share about their personal preferences, pet peeves, professional perspectives, and even online search histories. And who knows, perhaps Drs. Morris and Walker may also discover brand-new things about each other!

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Burnout is a highly complicated state of self. It is more than feeling tired in your place of work – it is also about having prolonged stress, mental exhaustion, and emotional imbalance. Dr. Sylvia Morris and Dr. Angela Walker discuss how to recognize burnout and take the right stress management approach to stop it in its tracks. They break down the difference between good and bad stress, as well as five practical steps to effectively protect your well-being. If you ever feel exhausted, discontent with your work, or disconnected from the people around you, this episode is a must-listen.

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Healthstyle is more than a program—it’s a mindset shift that empowers women to design lives rooted in balance, vitality, and joy. Dr. Angela Walker shares how her journey from Obstetrics and Gynecology to a wellness-focused practice shaped her approach to integrating mind, body, spirit, and even financial well-being. Drawing on the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—nutrition, movement, sleep, community, stress management, and avoiding risky substances—she explains how small, intentional changes can transform long-term health. Dr. Walker also highlights her work with Girlology, a program teaching young girls to embrace and honor their bodies, and offers practical self-care tools like prayer, meditation, walking, and gratitude practices to inspire listeners to see their health as a gift, not a problem to solve.

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Travel entrepreneurs know that the best journeys are the ones that transform not just where you go, but how you experience the world. Jill Carter, founder of Fly Mommy Travels, shares how she turned her passion for discovery into a thriving business that curates unforgettable adventures for women, families, and solo travelers alike. From her earliest travel memories shaped by her parents to her Boss Leap moment of evolving a blog into a global travel company, Jill reflects on building like-minded travel communities, navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the balance between group connection and moments of solitude. With curated trips from Mexico City to Marrakesh, Paris to Tokyo, she offers both inspiration and practical wisdom for those ready to explore with intention.

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Through her company, Taken by Storm, Chelsé “Storm” Lilly has built a career as a visual ethnographer, educator, and creative strategist, working at the intersection of storytelling, community development, and design thinking. Inspired by a childhood gift of a camera from her father during the Gulf War, Chelsé has built a career capturing unfiltered truths that go beyond surface-level images to reveal the “why” behind human experiences. In this conversation, she shares how authenticity and trust guide her work with underrepresented communities, how technology like drones and mirrorless cameras enhances but never replaces creativity, and why her company is dedicated to helping people be seen in their passions. Chelsé also reflects on refilling her own creative cup through prayer, reflection, and personal projects, while envisioning her large-scale cultural pieces displayed in spaces where more people can connect with her art.

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Music artist: djezi