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THE Baggage Exchange™ is a transformational lifestyle brand and podcast founded by Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP. For interviews, features, speaking, and partnerships, start here. Press contact is at the bottom of the page.
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THE Baggage Exchange is a transformational lifestyle brand and podcast that helps women trade what weighs them down for what lifts them up. Through brunches, workshops, retreats, coaching, media, and community, it guides people along the H.O.P.E. Journey: Healing, Opportunity, Purpose, and Empowerment.
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THE Baggage Exchange is a transformational lifestyle and community brand that helps people identify what they are carrying, exchange what weighs them down, and move forward with tools, language, community, and The H.O.P.E. Bag. The brand comes to life through brunches, workshops, retreats, coaching, media, products, and a future gathering space. Founded by Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP, and anchored in the Carolinas, its podcast launches on Spotify in 2026.
About the founder
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Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP, known as Dr. Shay, is the founder of THE Baggage Exchange, a transformational lifestyle brand and podcast. A doctoral-prepared nurse practitioner, licensed clinical social worker, business owner, and trauma survivor, she turned her own journey of trading heavy baggage for a lighter life into the H.O.P.E. System, and she builds it from the Carolinas.
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Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP, is a Black woman, a doctoral-prepared nurse practitioner, a licensed clinical social worker, a business owner, and a trauma survivor. By 14 she had become a mother. By 19 she was a mother of two, one born prematurely with severe special needs. She kept moving. Through more loss and setback, she taught herself to trade her heaviest bags for lighter ones, and she named the path the H.O.P.E. Journey. She became a clinician many times over, earning her LCSW, LCAS, APRN, PMHNP, FNP, and CNE. She went from weighing more than 350 pounds to skydiving at 15,000 feet over Portugal at 143, proof in her own body that no baggage is too heavy to exchange. Today she leads THE Baggage Exchange from the Carolinas, teaching, speaking, and helping other women find their way through, one exchange at a time.
Fast facts
Founded
2020
Founder
Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP
Based
The Carolinas
Category
Lifestyle brand & podcast
Method
THE Baggage Exchange
Journey
Healing · Opportunity · Purpose · Empowerment
Promise
Trade what weighs you down for what lifts you up
Podcast
Spotify · new episodes Wednesdays
Audience
Women ready to set something down
Website
Speaking
Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP brings lived experience and clinical depth to the stage. She speaks with warmth, candor, and takeaways the room can use the next morning.
Signature talks
Building a life, a career, and a brand from lived experience.
A practical path through Healing, Opportunity, Purpose, and Empowerment.
Why women carry so much, and how to let go of what no longer serves them, for good.
Knowing the difference between coaching and therapy, and honoring both.
350 pounds to 15,000 feet, and the mindset that made it possible.
Formats
Keynote, breakout workshop, fireside chat or panel, and half-day intensive. In-person or virtual.
Where she speaks
Conferences, healthcare and nursing organizations, faith communities, schools and universities, and corporate and HR teams.
Brand assets
Logos, the wordmark, founder photos, and brand colors are available to credentialed media on request. Email us and tell us what you need and your deadline.
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Press contact
Contact
Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP
Phone
Press & partnerships
Interviews, features, panels, and partnerships welcome. Tell us what you are working on and we will make it easy.
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