The Science of Comfortable Heels | Dr. Steffie Tompson’s Entrepreneur Journey

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 innovation — blending beauty with true comfort. This episode dives deep into: • The hidden cognitive toll of discomfort and “micro stressors” • Entrepreneurship after academia • Learning marketing and e-commerce from scratch • The reality of building a startup as a mom • Why modern business owners must constantly adapt • The journey to getting Steffie's Shoes into Nordstrom • Designing products that genuinely improve people’s lives It’s an inspiring conversation about innovation, resilience, and solving problems the world has normalized for far too long. If you’re an entrepreneur, creator, founder, or someone chasing a vision nobody else fully understands yet — this episode is for you. 🎧 Listen now to hear how one Houston entrepreneur is disrupting an entire industry… one step at a time. Find Dr Steff at: https://steffies.us/ https://www.instagram.com/shopsteffies/ Host contact: https://www.championforestchiro.com/