Scott Smith, Principal Advisor

The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast

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The Stoic Inner Strategy – Leadership, Stoicism, and Decision-Making Under Pressure The Stoic Inner Strategy is a daily leadership podcast for founders, CEOs, executives, and operators navigating high-stakes decisions. Hosted by Scott Smith, Principal Advisor and founder of Akhada Consulting, this show blends Stoic philosophy with modern business strategy, executive decision-making, and leadership clarity. Each short episode explores topics like judgment under pressure, strategic thinking, emotional discipline, execution focus, authority, resilience, and founder psychology. Drawing from Stoic...

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Scott Smith, Principal Advisor

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Society

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Legacy Is Built in Ordinary Days – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 09.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing. — Zeno of Citium   Legacy isn’t built in grand moments — it’s built in ordinary days. Scott explains how small, consistent actions compound into extraordinary leadership and enduring impact. 🧠 What You’ll Learn...

Joy Is a Discipline, Not an Accident – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 08.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: It is not things that disturb us, but our opinions about them. — Epictetus   Joy isn’t an accident—it’s an act of leadership. Scott teaches how daily mindset choices create emotional resilience and shape stronger leaders who uplift others. 🧠 What You’ll Learn Today: How daily m...

The Danger of 'Someday' Thinking – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 07.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: Delay not. The present moment is all thou hast. — Og Mandino   ‘Someday’ is a dangerous myth. Scott explores why postponing dreams and decisions slowly erodes leadership and how taking decisive action today is a core part of building a meaningful legacy. 🧠 What You’ll Learn Tod...

Gratitude Is a Form of Strength – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 06.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus Gratitude isn’t passive — it’s powerful. Scott shares how practicing gratitude fortifies leaders against setbacks, creates resilience, and builds cultures of st...

The Urgency of Now – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 05.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. — Marcus Aurelius   Today’s episode focuses on living with urgency and intention. Scott reminds leaders that life isn’t a rehearsal. Every action today ma...

Lead Like It's Your Last Day – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 02.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. — Marcus Aurelius Today’s episode centers on urgency and clarity. If today were your last chance to lead, to love, to build—how would you show up? Scott invites leaders to embrace a sense of finali...

Adversity Builds Identity – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 01.05.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: Difficulties show men what they are. — Epictetus Adversity doesn’t create weakness—it reveals strength. In this episode, Scott explains how difficult seasons shape and sharpen leaders, and why hardship is the ultimate training ground for resilience and identity. 🧠 What You’ll L...

Strength Is Built in Silence, Not Applause – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 30.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—and your life will flow well. — Epictetus   Applause is temporary. True strength is built quietly, when no one is watching. Today’s reflection focuses on wh...

Leadership Is About Lightness, Not Weight – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 29.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius   Leadership isn’t about carrying all the weight—it’s about living the virtues you believe in and allowing others to thrive. Scott challenges the traditional view of leadership as burden-bearin...

Milestones Matter: My BYU Graduation – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 28.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Quote: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Epictetus   Today’s episode is personal. Scott reflects on the journey of graduating from BYU—a milestone that became less about earning a degree and more about building an identity of perseverance, disc...

Live in Agreement with Nature – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 25.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:  “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”   This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Strength. And strat...

Freedom Through Self-Mastery – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 24.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”   This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Streng...

The Stoic Response to Misinformation – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 23.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:  “Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”   This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Stren...

Losing Your Tribe, Finding Yourself – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 22.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:  "Custom reflection on corporate loss and identity rebuilding.”   This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Streng...

Control What You Can – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 21.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:  “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”   This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want al...

Don’t Mistake Motion for Progress – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 18.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “Nowhere you can go is more peaceful… more free… than within yourself.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Stren...

Leading Through Service, Not Status – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 17.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “To help others is noble. To seek praise is vain.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Strength. And strategy tha...

Time Is Not Money. It's More – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 16.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness....

Peace Is Found Within, Not After – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 15.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder from Seneca:  “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want...

There Is No Strategy Without Character – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 14.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder from Panaetius of Rhodes: “What is right for a man to do, not only in private, but in his role in society?”  This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. T...

Move with the Wind, Not Against It – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 11.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:  “Lead me, Zeus and Destiny, whithersoever I am appointed to go… I will follow without hesitation; but even if I do not, I shall be dragged.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for le...

Discipline Is the Root of Leadership – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 10.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “If one has trained himself properly, he should be able to withstand the greatest hardships, even while living a normal life.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want...

Time Is the One Thing We Waste Without Guilt – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 09.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness....

Virtue Over Victory – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 08.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than growth. They want alignment. Stillness. Streng...

Control Through Calm – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders 07.04.2025

We'd love to hear from you! Click this link to text us feedback or to share your thoughts. 🎧 Episode Summary Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection, clarity, and powerful insight—designed for leaders who want more than gr...

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