CEO of My Life: Malik Carey on Breaking Cycles, Healing & Purpose

What does it really mean to be the CEO of your life?

Walter Douglas sits down with Malik Carey, founder and CEO of Family Healing Center, for a deeply personal conversation about fatherhood, identity, loss, faith, entrepreneurship and the decisions that change the direction of a life.

Malik shares how growing up without his father shaped him, why becoming a young father made him determined to break a generational pattern, and how a series of losses pushed him to finally bet on himself.

But success didn’t resolve everything.

Malik opens up about eventually confronting the parts of himself he had spent years trying not to become, the role counseling and faith played in his healing, and how that personal work ultimately became part of his purpose: helping other families heal.

Along the way, Walter and Malik talk about education, failure, discipline, friendship, brotherhood and why winning often comes with more responsibility than we expect.

Because being a CEO isn’t only about what happens in the boardroom.

As Malik puts it, you carry that responsibility at home, at work and in your community.

Real conversations. No blueprint. That’s K(No)w Roadmaps.

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What happens when the question you cannot stop asking becomes your life’s work?

Walter Douglas, Host and Co-creator of K(No)w Roadmaps, sits down with geneticist, researcher, entrepreneur, and African Ancestry co-founder Rick Kittles, PhD for a conversation about curiosity, identity, DNA, entrepreneurship, health equity, and the responsibility that comes with knowing more.

Rick traces the path from asking questions about ancestry to building a career in genetics, taking research beyond academia, helping create African Ancestry, and leading research at Morehouse School of Medicine. Along the way, he and Walter unpack the complicated relationship between race, ancestry, genetics and health and what it means to build work that can actually change outcomes.

It’s a conversation about following the question before you know where it will lead.

Real conversations. No blueprint. That’s K(No)w Roadmaps.