Roar with Lakecia Gunter Reinvention, Bold Leadership & Becoming the Architect of Your Own Impact with Cherizza Lundy
In this episode of ROAR, host Lakecia Gunter sits down with Cherizza Lundy, Founder and CEO of Kneed Health, for an inspiring conversation about leadership, reinvention, and building a life of purpose. From her early beginnings as an intern at Intel to serving as Chief of Staff for top executives at Google and Stitch Fix, Cherizza reveals how she intentionally built her career—one bold question and one fearless move at a time.
Cherizza also shares the deeply personal journey behind founding Kneed Health, an AI-powered recovery app inspired by her own experience navigating eight knee surgeries. Together, Lakecia and Cherizza explore the courage to pivot, the importance of relationships, and why every reinvention begins with a single brave step forward.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- (03:55) – How Cherizza’s grandfather inspired her earliest ideas of leadership and ambition
- (06:15) – Why fearlessness and asking bold questions shaped her leadership journey
- (07:53) – What serving as Chief of Staff taught her about influence and decision-making
- (13:55) – How she intentionally built her career by choosing roles for skills, not titles
- (20:56) – The pivotal lessons she learned working with Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake
- (23:54) – The personal moment that sparked her reinvention and led to founding Kneed Health
- (27:03) – Why authentic, consistent relationships are the cornerstone of resilience
- (35:41) – How she defines her purpose today and why it’s tied to empowering others
- (36:49) – How her AI-powered app is transforming the way people recover from surgery
- (46:35) – Her message for anyone standing on the edge of reinvention: start small, but start
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