Be Better Than Your BS (Zerlo Network)

Shayna Hammond, founder of Lead for Liberation and Indigo Unbound, talks about moving through fear, reinvention, and the discipline of rest. From gymnastics in Lansing to becoming a school principal at 25 to launching a national coaching movement, Shayna shares the lessons that carried from sport into business: the high-beam night her coach made her "stick it 10 times," why closing a bus...

Risha Grant sits down with her longtime mentor and friend, Dr. Colleen J. Payne, founder and owner of MCI Diagnostic Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Colleen started in 1998 with a single mobile unit — a company she launched as "Mobile Cardiac Imaging" while her son was six months old — and grew it into a diagnostic operation serving locations across all 50 states. A trained nuclear medicine t...

Kaanti Suresh Shetty, President and CEO of Indus Synergy Partners, shares how she left home at 21 with a single suitcase and built a career bridging business between India and the United States. Kaanti talks about being born a girl in a town that asked "what will she achieve?", losing her father at six and turning that grief into drive, and why running away from home was the boldest move...

LaDondra Wilson, Vice President of Social Responsibility for the Dallas Wings, shares her path from South Oak Cliff to a WNBA front office. LaDondra reframes the "male-dominated industry" narrative as overrated, and explains what social responsibility actually looks like inside a pro sports franchise — including writing community pillars directly into corporate partner contracts so impac...

Chithra Kannan, founder and CEO of SkinCentrick, shares how she built a clean beauty brand — alongside four learning academies and a construction business, and a team of more than 500 — across industries she entered with no prior background and no outside funding. With a background in analytics, Chithra explains why she leads with strategy over emotion ("strategies make you; when you are emot...

Keisha Allen, Financial Inclusion Leader at Truist Bank with 25 years in banking, breaks down money as a mindset. Keisha opens up about pushing through a childhood speech impediment, and about being told she was "too much" — and why that same energy is exactly what opens doors. She gets practical about building wealth on any income: giving every dollar a job, the 48–72 hour rule for sepa...

Risha Grant sits down with Taunya Williams, chief of staff at UNT Health Fort Worth. Taunya traces a path that started not in a boardroom but at home: she was a stay-at-home mom for nearly a decade before a CEO gave her a first leadership role and started her "from the ground up." Hampton-bred and Baylor-educated, she shares how imposter syndrome and years of living in fear nearly stoppe...