Inside the Design Studio with David Peck

This podcast is where creativity meets real life—candid conversations on reinvention, identity, and designing a life that fits (with a bit of humor, because why suffer twice?).

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She Nearly Died in a Houston ER. Now, Rayna Reid Rayford Is Building the App Every Black Mother Needs
She Nearly Died in a Houston ER. Now, Rayna Reid Rayford Is Building the App Every Black Mother Needs

Rayna Reid Rayford was sent home from a Houston ER twice while suffering from acute necrotizing appendicitis — and it took five physician family members to save her life. Now she's building the app she wished had existed.

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