Professional speaker and business coach L. Michelle Smith says Black women in corporate America are taught to blend in. “If I stand out, if I shine, I get backlash,” Smith says. “I heard from women who lost their positions because the shine got too bright.” That’s why Smith says she wrote her latest book, “No, Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I’ll Include Myself,” which Smith describes as a “hardcore leadership…
Afrotech has called The Culture Soup Podcast®️one of Seven Great Podcasts for Black Tech Entrepreneurs. 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Shout out to the incomparable Morgan DeBaun and her incredible team at Blavity and more. Thanks for the recognition. We are on hiatus until January 2021, and we are planning some great shows. Meantime, there are about 200 episodes for you to binge listen to over the holidays to get caught up. Enjoy! Read the…
I do not own the rights to this video. Courtesy Roland Martin Unfiltered. Thrilled to speak to Roland’s illustrious panel and especially in awe to take a question from Dr. Jullian Malveaux. GET THE BOOK.
(photo courtesy: Debra Hunter Johnson) The pandemic has spiked in many states. The CDC is issuing warnings about holiday gatherings. That’s all fine, it then it hits you: you have to break it to your family that you won’t be coming. Afraid to face off with your mother or that demanding uncle? Today, I recorded an interview on NBC DFW on how to break that news to family.…
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The Guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of Color in the Workplace Provides Seven Affirmations, Coaching and Seasoned Insights from Author L. Michelle Smith’s Career Story as a Fortune 10 Ex-Pat and Serial Entrepreneur DALLAS, TX Aug.10, 2020—What if women of color, especially Black women not only understood their value, but how to leverage it in order to climb to executive leadership? That question is core to the new…
Sis, we have rockstar leadership qualities in our DNA. We simply need to tap into them! Sylvia Robinson demonstrated all the qualities, and most people don’t know her story. She took hip-hop mainstream when she produced Rappers Delight in one take in her makeshift home studio with talent plucked the same day from a pizza joint. It was the first commercial rap single to hit the airwaves. We…
Chapter 8 in No Thanks, 7 Ways to Say I’ll Just Include Myself: A Guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of Color in the Workplace shows you how to walk in your power. You’ll get to be a fly on the wall to one of my informal coaching sessions with a good girlfriend who’d been taken advantage of by a retailer that decided to sell her book without her…
(Of the 45, The Culture Soup Podcast nabbed #13) If it took a pandemic for you to seek out some black podcasts to listen to, shame on you! If you’re just looking to add to your already impressive list of black podcasts, then welcome! Podcasts have had an incredible decade in the 2010s. Their popularity has grown to such an immense level that starting a new podcast…