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Sometimes they call rockstar leaders nuts. When Jamie Roberts ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAx2vlgBE4U0-kcxbUgc28bzmWKnRLoCopQ) told friends and colleagues he planned to launch a radio station in the #1 media market, they told him he couldn't do it. They really thought he was nuts when he planned to do it in the middle of a pandemic. But he did it, and he's doing it! 108soul.com ( http://108s...

Sometimes they call rockstar leaders nuts. When Jamie Roberts told friends and colleagues he planned to launch a radio station in the #1 ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/1/) media market, they told him he couldn't do it. They really thought he was nuts when he planned to do it in the middle of a pandemic. But he did it, and he's doing it! 108soul.com is a reality. If he had asked me, I wou...

It's back to school, but not the way any of us like it.  In the pandemic age, how has university life changed?  How are students coping?  My friend and colleague is guest host.  He turns the tables on me to ask what students should be thinking and doing now to step up and lead. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmi...

Throwing it back to our Valentine's Day Bonus episode...as I highlight the people in the acknowledgements in my new book No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I'll Just Include Myself. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe

Revisiting Episode 76 with Valorie Burton.  It also inspired the way I approached my new book, No Thanks: & Ways to Say I'll Just Include Myself: A Guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of Color in the Workplace.  It's a coaching tool!  You can coach yourself right into the C-Suite if you do the work.  Listen in to this conversation between myself and my sisterfriend and mentor coach to understan...

It’s a special "Coaching Corner" episode of The Culture Soup Podcast with a live reading from my new book and some discussion on the topics. The book is No Thanks, I’ll Just Include Myself: A Guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of Color in the Workplace. Want to support the launch of No Thanks on social media? Order the book, then post a photo of yourself with the book or your device. Write a c...

Diversity in Action: Moving from Middle Management to the C-SuiteI'm dropping gems with this amazing panel about how to actually and literally be yourself in the corporate workspace that does not center people of color. This is how it’s done and I get extremely granular on the topic in my book No Thanks, 7 Ways to Say I’ll Just Include Myself: A Guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of color in t...

My new book is launching soon.  Aug 10, look for No Thanks, 7 Ways to Say I'll Just Include Myself: A Guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of Color in the Workplace.  Preorder your download for Kindle today on Amazon at  https://amzn.to/3jSOrJ7 ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DG8MBZG/ref =dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0).  Paperback preorder will happen next week.  I wanted to celebrat...

Today's #TBT is my powerful chat with Tiffany Hendra, former Housewives of Dallas cast member. It's all about walking in your power.  And I make an announcement as I'm walking in mine. As always...fresh monologue here for you.  Be sure to go by lmichellesmith.com to get on the bandwagon.  BTW, do you have a list? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

A wonderful brand awareness tactic for your personal branding efforts is to get out and speak. But is everyone cut out to be a speaker? It is an indeed learned and honed craft. The key is to not only refocus your mission to message delivery, but you need to take the focus off of yourself (or even your company, if that is your situation) and place it squarely on the people you're speaking to and wh...

Dr. Jeff Gardere is back on this #ThrowbackThursday to talk about something that is as American as apple pie: privilege.  It's time we actually understood it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Jeff Gardere is back on this #ThrowbackThursday to talk about something that is as American as apple pie: privilege.  It's time we actually understood it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe

When your college roommate and sorority sister grows up to be a full on BOSS and a hero, you must share her with the world. She is decorated military and now the Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Officer at one of the largest health/hospital networks in the country. She has leadership lessons for us from the front lines of fighting a pandemic and insights into a day in the lives of her tea...

If there is anything that this movement is teaching us, it is that we can no longer be silent.  How are you impacting change where you live?  In your house? In your pocketbook?  In your career?  Systemic racism is pervasive and in the corporate workplace, it's a part of the furniture.  How can you leverage this moment in time to get what is rightfully yours?  I'm calling back this episode with my...

*Sips Tea* ☕️ But what will @dallascowboys ( https://www.instagram.com/dallascowboys/) owner Jerry Jones do? He’s quiet as a mouse on this topic of social justice, and Clarence Hill, Jr says “That’s not like him.” Even I said, “Come on out to the picnic, Jerry! It’s a good move!” He also says that the @nfl ( https://www.instagram.com/nfl/) got “punked” by @nascar ( https://www.instagram.com/nasca...

Part 2 in my series What Does the Civil Rights Movement Mean for the Workplace? continues tomorrow with a very special guest. Lafern K. Batie and I met last March outside Atlanta, Georgia at the CaPP Institute coaching intensive. She was one of my trainers, and in our first interaction, we became fast friends. I consider her to be one of my mentor coaches because she taught me a lot of what I know...

The winds of change are blowing.  How will we take this opportunity to change the corporate workplace for the better?  I explore it in this episode of the Coaching Corner. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe

We have never seen a time such as this in our lifetime. What does it all mean? We are experiencing a pandemic, the bubbling over of systemic racism and massive worldwide protests and a catastrophic failure in leadership...all at once. What more can we take? I speak with @jarretthill ( https://www.instagram.com/jarretthill/) creator of the @fantipodcast ( https://www.instagram.com/fantipodcast/) an...

Here we go again with names and hashtags. In times like these, you have to call your longtime girlfriend, because if the pandemic wasn't enough, they're killing black people again. Socamom® and Socamom Summit founder, children's book author and Caribbean parenting expert Eva Greene Wilson, JD and I have a raw conversation about what it is like to be black in America, raise children, especially son...

When a global pandemic hits, things change, and they can for the better if you just put your mind to it.  Five of technology, business and opera's finest minds discuss how covid-19 will bend but not break because it is determine to lead with technology and not just use it as an "in the meantime" tool.  This fascinating discussion is applicable to any industry or business plotting what's next in th...

If you missed it, here’s your chance to listen to this walking encyclopedia, @henrylouisgates ( https://www.instagram.com/henrylouisgates/) . You’ll hear a covid-19 story that you haven’t heard before just as the show gets started. If you have watched @findingyourroots ( https://www.instagram.com/findingyourroots/) , you know how interesting and downright riveting he is. Imagine what it is like to...

If you missed it, here’s your chance to listen to this walking encyclopedia, @henrylouisgates ( https://www.instagram.com/henrylouisgates/) . You’ll hear a covid-19 story that you haven’t heard before just as the show gets started. If you have watched @findingyourroots ( https://www.instagram.com/findingyourroots/) , you know how interesting and downright riveting he is. Imagine what it is like to...

The Coaching Corner is going through some changes. Leaving Linkedin Live? You'll want to hear this! It seems appropriate, since the order of the day seems to be change on Planet Pandemic.  How are you getting ready?  We talk about Career Transitions.  Get ready. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmichellesmith.subs...

There is power in the telling of a story. It’s even more powerful when it is personal and centers on culture. It’s the only kind of story @natashasalford ( https://www.instagram.com/natashasalford/) tells, for herself and for @thegrio ( https://www.instagram.com/thegrio/) . She is the People’s Journalist and the Millennial Executive and on Thursday’s show, we discuss everything from how covid-19 i...

SO MANY GEMS DROPPED! Did you know that Madam CJ Walker hosted one of her first Mary Kay-like conventions in 1917? Do you know what date that was in history? Just on the heels of the so-called “Spanish Flu” the only other pandemic in American history, and much like the #bossbabes ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bossbabes/) of today, she had to weather the storm with her business during he...