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This holiday edition celebrates music.  It's a #ThrowbackThursday, so we are taking it all the way back to the very first episode with The Queen of Soul's Favorite Soprano, Audrey Dubois Harris. 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

SOMETHING HUGE happened while I was preparing for the #LinkedinLIVE ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/linkedinlive/) broadcast... and it is just perfect for our Culture Soup Moment as I bring back my friend author, political commentator and podcast host Toure! Are you ready? He’ll talk about how he is getting personal and reformatting @toureshow ( https://www.instagram.com/toureshow/) , his...

SOMETHING HUGE happened while I was preparing for the #LinkedinLIVE ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/linkedinlive/) broadcast... and it is just perfect for our Culture Soup Moment as I bring back my friend author, political commentator and podcast host Toure! Are you ready? He’ll talk about how he is getting personal and reformatting @toureshow ( https://www.instagram.com/toureshow/) , his...

This week's showwe have Tristan Layfield talking transitions and change. He’s the career and resume guru. You don’t want to miss it! Set a meeting maker. 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

This week's showwe have Tristan Layfield talking transitions and change. He’s the career and resume guru. You don’t want to miss it! Set a meeting maker. 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

WOKE-WASHING.  Pink Washing. Pride-Painting. You’ve seen it in marketing and advertising, or maybe you don’t know what any of it is.  Either way, you need to tune in for the brand new episode on Thursday.  I’m talking to the global practice lead for consumer brand marketing at one of the largest communications and integrated marketing agencies in the world, FleishmanHillard.    She and her teams a...

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/throwbackthursday/) #Thanksgiving ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/thanksgiving/) Edition is my Mama’s Pick. In lieu of an editor’s pick, it is one of my most important listener’s selections: my mother! We take it back to August when I had marketing legend Dorinda Walker on the show. She is a fellow @LEAD360 ( https://www....

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/throwbackthursday/) #Thanksgiving ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/thanksgiving/) Edition is my Mama’s Pick. In lieu of an editor’s pick, it is one of my most important listener’s selections: my mother! We take it back to August when I had marketing legend Dorinda Walker on the show. She is a fellow @LEAD360 ( https://www....

Social media is culture soup. Have you noticed that black church culture is extremely popular on the interwebs? If not, just pay attention during the Thanksgiving holidays. There is one meme that we just can’t shake. I talk to award-winning, national recording artist, worship arts minister and entrepreneur Gaye Arbuckle about why this is. We also talk about her being discovered by gospel legend Ja...

If we can deplete supplies of chicken sandwiches and clear the shelves of sweet potato pies, what would happen if we withheld our influence and dollars? We could kill industries, but we are too busy consuming to know it. Nielsen SVP Cheryl Grace joins me on Thursday’s show to talk black influence and the black dollar. Tune in for our regular edition wherever fine podcasts drop. Oh, and HAPPY HAPPY...

Well, it's a wrap.  We went live for the first time on LinkedIn with the Coaching Corner Episode, and by all accounts, it was good.  A little snag with audio, but you won't know of it here.  We peel back the onion on personal branding.  Listen in... and my friend Shannon Lanier from CW39 in Houston joined. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

Well, it's a wrap.  We went live for the first time on LinkedIn with the Coaching Corner Episode, and by all accounts, it was good.  A little snag with audio, but you won't know of it here.  We peel back the onion on personal branding.  Listen in... and my friend Shannon Lanier from CW39 in Houston joined. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

This #ThrowbackThursday is not only about Hidden Figures, it has a hidden gem in it.  There's news for you in this edition that includes an editor's pick harkening back to March 2019, Women's History Month.  We take a look back at the Hidden Figures event sponsored by the North Texas Black Sports Professionals Network--the first time the show recorded live...because it will happen again in a very...

You know, one of the best ways to get to know someone is to be in the trenches with them. In this case, it was the trenches of the beauty business. If you don’t know who this is, you need to. She is the driving force behind the revival of one of the most iconic brands in black beauty culture, and I’m proud to say that I got a piece of that action. My former agency took the brand onto the pages of...

We are still celebrating the podcast's birthday!  I'm going get some gluten free cake!  So I'm re-racking one of the most downloaded episodes of all time, and you may be surprised at which one it is.  Happy listening!  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

We are still celebrating the podcast's birthday!  I'm going get some gluten free cake!  So I'm re-racking one of the most downloaded episodes of all time, and you may be surprised at which one it is.  Happy listening!  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

It's hard to believe that we just made a lap around the sun in the name of tech, culture and business, but we have!  Walk down memory lane with me and listen to a surprise guest...our first true reprise...who is also celebrating an anniversary.  Who could it be? You'll have to listen to know.  Happy Wednesday, and surprise!!  A bonus episode is here...Turn UP!  Thank you for making us one of the t...

Who is ready to go all in on the vegan lifestyle?  I talk to one of the gurus out there, TV and Radio journalist Jacque Reid.  It's more than just a diet.  You need to hear this.  Eat better, do better....feel better. 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

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} span.s1 {font: 12.0px '.Apple Color Emoji UI'} I had the extraordinary privilege of chatting it up with this amazing man this morning, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr, the foremost *anyone* on culture, ancestry and black heritage. Yes, he is a friend! But I was a fan first, having cited his writings t...

In celebration of the fact that Toure just signed NSC Group to manage his speaking and other paid appearances, and because he drops Dr Henry Louis Gates, Jr's name a round a bit, I'm re-racking episode 46.  Great nuggets here about the writing process and how to hack writer's block. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} Whew... my sisters, we deal with a lot, don’t we? Turns out the stress of being a double-outsider  on the job (Catalyst)  has a physical impact on our health, and if that isn’t enough, even some of our beauty and eating habits habits are impacting our well being. Coach Gessie is on a crusade to inform women of ev...

When Lamar Tyler sets his mind to something, it gets done, let me tell you! When I first met him and his lovely wife Ronnie, I was extremely impressed. Let me first say that the bloggers of today are not cut from the same cloth as the ones my teams first worked with in 2008...I’m talking about Lamar and Ronnie, Patrice Yursik, aka Afrobella, Luvvie Ajayi...I think you follow me. These bloggers wer...

t’s Easter, ya’ll! Especially when it comes to the resurgence and resurrection of black media in the digital age. The Internet has breathed new life into some of the older names in the media landscape and given birth to the younger players in the game. But you need to know strategy to survive, according to Rolling Out publisher and media titan Munson Steed. And these consumers are on the hunt for...

LIFE’S A BEACH... or it's a cabin in the mountains if you are my new friends Calvin L. Butts, Jr. and Carrington M. Carter of East Chop Capital.  They are investing in real estate in some of the hottest vacation venues on the east coast, and business is booming!  They are putting the human touch back into the popular AirBnB model, and their properties are some of the hottest tickets in town—if you...

I'm off today.  I'm still celebrating my birthday, but I wanted to take you back to one of my favorite episodes where a listener volunteered for laser coaching.  We also shared a replay of the Women's Opera Network webinar on networking.  A rich discussion on both ends.  Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lmi...