What if the problem was never your feet… but the shoes themselves?

In this episode of Houston Hustle, Dr. Paige Ward and Dr. Charlie Ward sit down with neuroscientist turned entrepreneur Dr. Steffie Tompson, founder of Steffies Shoes, to unpack the story behind a revolutionary footwear brand changing the way women experience heels.

After years of walking Baylor College of Medicine’s massive campus in painful heels, Dr. Steff realized women everywhere were silently accepting discomfort as normal. Instead of settling, she took a bandsaw to a pair of heels in a prosthetics lab, exposed the steel and rigid plastic hidden inside, and asked a game-changing question: Why are women’s shoes designed this way in the first place?

What followed was the creation of a footwear company built on neuroscience, biomechanics, and ...