Today, Elsa welcomes Dr. Uché Blackstock - longtime friend and client, speaker, physician, and New York Times bestselling author - to the show! They discuss Uché’s upbringing and inspiration behind everything from her career to her style, and Uché shares how the pandemic pushed her to show UP - leading her down the path of personal style with Elsa!

Dr. Uché Blackstock received both undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, making her and her twin sister, Oni, the first Black mother-daughter legacies from Harvard Medical School. Today, she is one of the country’s leading health equity advocates and a powerful voice on racial justice. A bestselling author and Harvard-trained emergency physician with over 17 years of experience, Dr. Blackstock is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. She is a regular medical contributor for MSNBC and legislators across the country have used her research and knowledge as a basis for policy changes. A powerful speaker, Dr. Blackstock talks to organizations across the country about the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system and the leap of faith she took to start a business. Her debut book ‘Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in America’ made the New York Times best seller in its first week and is available here and everywhere books are sold.

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SHOW NOTES  

0:35 - A brief introduction to today’s special guest!

1:38 - Elsa and Uché recall how they met

4:22 - Uché shares a bit about her childhood growing up in Crown Heights (Brooklyn)

7:45 - Uché shares the inspiration behind her first book, Legacy

13:00 - Uché always talks about showing up as your full, authentic self, no matter the environment. How has she shown up as her authentic self through the years?

16:30 - Black folks have all kinds of barriers to break through - how does Uché have the capacity to be able to explore her own multitudes, creativity, be playful, etc?

20:04 - Uché shares her thought process behind deciding to invest in herself and work with Elsa 

24:05 - Elsa shares one of the reasons she works almost exclusively with female professionals

25:10 - How the pandemic pushed Uché to show UP up

27:55 - Uché reflects on her style journey from the time she started working with Elsa - and the permission she feels she’s