Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy

Runner's knee is patellofermoral syndrome, or anterior knee pain. It can be caused by a number of reasons. Depending on the particular reason, this will determine the treatment. In this episode, I shared the time that I had to shut down from running a race because of my runner's knee. Having a runner's knee is not isolated to runners. People who participate in sports related to jumping such as soccer and basketball can also get it. It is also common to women because of relationships of the hips to the knees.

Episode Highlights:

• What runner's knee
• The important of strength training
• How women have higher potential to have runner's knee
• Prevention of runner's knee

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In this episode I talk to my clubhouse BFF. We share so much in common. We both started running to help deal with depression. She generously shares with us her story of how she started running, to sustaining an injury, recovering from it and thriving in the midst of it.

Lani Woods is an obstacle course racer, runner, podcast host, works in diagnostic medical imaging, single mom, and she also finds time to give back via the non-profit she has directs. She is also an American Ninja Warrior. Tune in to hear her amazing story.

Episode Highlights:

• Overcoming depression by running
• Recovery from physical injury physically and mentally
• Positive, uplifting use of social media
• Directing Non-Profit Organization

Guest Bio:

Lani Woods is a native of Los Angeles, California. She is a single mother of two very active and competitive kids. She has a diverse background in health care. Her love for the health industry started very young. She has worked as an EMT, caregiver, and in diagnostic medical imaging. She knew while facing difficulties growing up in poverty and not having access to a lot of resources and activities the importance of physical and mental health. She knew she had the resilience to overcome, Lani used her passion for physical fitness as a coping mechanism for her depression.

Lani started a podcast called unrelenting humans, after suffering a complex leg injury, to empower other athletes to share their stories of resilience, and how they cope mentally while living with injuries and other impairments.

She started running to cope with depression before she knew she even had depression because growing up poor, basically and not having many friends. She was just lonely and always mad. She just realized that running helped her to feel better.

October 2019 she tore her anterior cruciate ligament( ACL) and posterior cruciate ( PCL) , sustained a tibial plateau fracture, sustained a calf injury and had multiple bone contusions. She got the cast off in December 2019, but didn't have surgery until February 20 of 2020. She had to do prehab to get range of motion back after the cast just to get to surgery. After a few months of getting back to running she noticed her knee kept swelling. It was found to be caused by the screw. Her body had rejected the screw, so they ultimately had to take out the screws

Podcast helped her in many ways during this process. She started listening to podcasts and listening to people's stories of overcoming adversity. She used her social media platform to reach out to people and share their stories.

Lani is now the director of a Non-profit organization. It's called Rock Era. They are dedicated to enriching and empowering the youth in the black and brown communities. Lani had one of her dreams come true she was accepted to be a part of American Ninja Warrior.

Connect with Lani Woods:

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Facebook

Website

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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

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.

Connect with Dr. Centrise Austin:

• Dr. Catrise Austin - NY Veneers | @drcatriseaustin

Instagram

• @drcatriseaustin | Linktree

• How to Become a Celebrity Doctor Book - Dr. Austin Speaks

Find a Sports Dentist in your Area :

AcademyforSportsdenistry

Marketing Resources Mentioned

• BillyGeneIsMarketing
• Brendon Burchard
• Gary Vaynerchuk

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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.

Connect with Olatunji Oboi Reed:

• Instagram

• Olatunji Oboi Reed (@theycallmeOboi) | Twitter

  Equiticity | Website

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Insulin- the recurring nightmare and savior of many diabetics in the world. In this episode, Anthony Tony Reed talks about how he found medication in running. Though it may not be a solution available to everyone-- for him, it was exactly what he needed.

Anthony was diagnosed with prediabetes when he was eight years old. He was told he would need to be on insulin in his twenties. He decided that he would run, and his goal was to average three to four miles per day. He has kept that commitment and never had to be placed on insulin. He developed a love of long distance running and this led him to become a certified running coach, and so much more.

He is the co-founder and executive director of the National Black Marathoners' Association. He was inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame. He is one of about fifty people in the world, who completed the marathon "hat trick." . This consists of finishing (1) at least 100 marathons, (2) a marathon on all seven continents, and (3) a marathon in each of the fifty States. He's also the first Black person in the world to finish marathons on each of the seven continents. His adventures are chronicled in Running Shoes are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All seven Continents (2008)

If you're a runner, athlete, or just need some inspiration listen in to hear how Anthony (Tony) Reed was able to add running to prevent him from being placed on insulin. Tune in to this historic conversation.

Episode Highlights:

• His childhood knowing he was prediabetic
• His college life, and how he learned to thrive
• The doubt he received as a Black executive through his career, and how he succeeded in graduate school
• Anthony's beginnings in marathons and running
• Discussion of his historic interview of Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory
• His experience meeting the President of the United States
• The artifacts that he has placed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
• How he accomplished The Marathon Hat Trick
• How he felt as the only black man in his first marathon

About Anthony Reed:

Anthony Reed has fused 30+ years as a marathon coach, and 25+ years of project management strategies under his belt. His area of expertise is implementing multi-millions dollar business projects, and is the co-founder and executive director of the National Black Marathoners' Association. He is also CEO of the Caribbean Endurance Sports Corporation, organizer of the Five-Island Challenge – Marathon and Half Marathon (www.FiveIslandChallenge.com). He has been featured/quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Dallas Morning News, Runner's World, USA Today, Ebony, Southern Living, and the Journal of Accountancy. He holds two graduate degrees (management and accounting) and two undergraduate degrees (management and mathematics). He's taught project management, IT, accounting, and business collegiate courses and seminars. And he's authored six books and over fifty business, leadership, and technical articles.

His latest book is an autobiography, "From the Road Race to the Rat Race: Essays From a Black Executive Marathoner".

Connect with Anthony Reed:

• From the Road Race to the Rat Race: Essays From a Black Executive Marathoner (autographed)
• From the Road Race to the Rat Race: Essays From a Black Executive Marathoner (eBook)
• Anthony Reed | LinkedIn
• For Information regarding the National Black Marathoners Association https://blackmarathoners.org

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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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Title: Pivoting From a Singing Artist to Performance Coach with Keanna Henson "KJ Rose"

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 ~ from Artist ~ to Coach ~ to Author

https://vimeo.com/436865314

Connect with KJ Rose

Keanna "KJ Rose" Henson

Author of The Rose Effect

Grammy Award Winning

Get a copy of KJ Rose's book 👉🏾 here

Artist Development & Performance Expert

Website: roseeffect.com

For general inquiries or to book a coaching session with TheRoseEffect, email: [email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/keanna.henson

https://twitter.com/kjrosemusic

https://www.instagram.com/kjroseeffect/

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"I love running but I have a love-hate relationship with it because when I pick up speed, I get injured from either doing too much running, or doing too much speed and hill work."

How much does it take to reach the finish line? When you love something so much but your body wants to quit, do you give up on it?

Being a hardcore lover of running, I will share how I started running from 3 miles to 5 miles until I first finished my first full marathon. As much as I wanted to keep on going, I started having injuries, so I had to undergo physical therapy, and had to preserve in order to reach my goals.

However, these physical struggles weren't enough to stop me. My transition to triathlons started with a simple text from my Godson. I purchased a bike, joined a cycling club, and learned to love cycling. Next, I pursued swimming despite my great fear of drowning. Swimming lessons were certainly not easy. I worked hard with such self-determination.

In order to make it to my triathlon finish line, I had many struggles. It took a lot for me to reach every one of them and this episode is meant to inspire you to do whatever it takes to reach your finish line.

Never give up on anything that your heart beats for. If you have to be stubborn at something, you should be stubborn at fulfilling your goals. This episode is the perfect call you need to hear to keep you going.

Highlights from this Episode:

• What prompted me to start running
• Going from my 1-mile run to my first marathon run
• The injuries I sustained from running
• Physical therapy
• Moving to Chicago
• My journey to triathlon
• How I overcame my fear of swimming
• My experiences with coaches and staff during swimming during triathlons
• My mantras
• Black Triathlon Association
• How I started cycling
• My DNF and learning it is not a death sentence
• My first Ironman

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Where we start isn't always where we end up. Today I'm joined by a longtime friend, Rob Hardy, to talk about his life and all it's unexpected turns and opportunities laid on his path. He has overcome so many obstacles to make it to his finish line. From Mechanical Engineering to Hollywood directing, it wasn't exactly a straight line for Rob. His love for his calling came with the drive and passion to take a chance and go for it. While interning, he knew inside that he wasn't fulfilled by his work. After putting pen to paper and building his team, they raised thousands of dollars to finally shoot their mega film, earning the attention of investors along the way. Join us today to listen to Rob's story of grit and determination becoming a prominent TV director and producer.

Episode Highlights:

• How Rob became interested in film
• Rob's college decisions and why he chose Mechanical Engineering
• How he slowly built his name in directing
• How his team first got funded
• Rob's projects after Chocolate City
• The different terms in Hollywood Directing and Producing
• His writing process, and finding his writers
• The obstacles in his way to becoming a director
• How Rob stays humble
• The different skill sets for different genres
• Rob's foundation and its goals and purpose

Guest Bio:

Rob Hardy is a film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. Rob Hardy recently directed the pilot for Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Hardy previously directed the pilot for All American, which is currently in its third season on The CW, while also streaming on Netflix. Additionally he developed the BET Networks series The Quad. It was listed by the New York times as one of the Top 15 Shows to Watch in 2017

Hardy began his career as a high school Senior, with the camcorder-shot movie G-Man. While pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Florida A & M University, he made the leap to film with the low-budget motion picture Chocolate City. This experience earned him the institution's highest honor, the Bernard Hendricks Student Leadership Award, and launched his company Rainforest Films.The underground buzz on the project soon led to his controversial film Trois. Hardy not only directed and co-wrote the thriller, he was also instrumental in self-distributing the project to be the fastest Independent African American film to pass the $1million dollar mark. In 2003, after directing the critically acclaimed thriller Pandora's Box, he added the role of "Executive Producer" to his credits by collaborating with his former business partner Will Packer, to produce several movies including: No Good Deed, Think Like A Man Too, Think Like A Man, Stomp the Yard, Three Can Play that Game, and Motives. Hardy also wrote and directed the spiritually themed drama entitled The Gospel, and later directed the sequel Stomp the Yard: Homecoming

In 2014, Hardy formed Rainforest Entertainment and partnered with Mitzi Miller where they have developed projects with the likes ofViola Davis' JuVee Productions, Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Productions, John Legend's Get Lifted Productions, Bruckheimer Productions and rapper/actor T.I.

He recently created a foundation to help train and place apprentices on film and TV sets called the Rob & Shaun Hardy Amazing Stories Foundation.

Connect with Rob Harby:

• Instagram
• Amazing Stories Foundation

One of Rob Hardy's Reels

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KLHP0Wxi_yPUa08VxcHHZD6XuEpusiRU/view?usp=sharing

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