The Power Table with Taylor Smith

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor draws on her academic background in cultural anthropology and behavioral science to break down the two dominant narratives currently shaping how the world understands female founders, the creator economy story and the traditional scale story. Neither one, she argues, actually reflects what most female founders are building.

This episode lays the groundwork for why The Power ...

In this episode, we're recapping the Hosting & Selling Events roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, digging into the real advice for anyone starting to plan their first, or next, event, from the earliest planning stages to actually selling it out.

In this episode, we cover:

• What to nail down first when you're planning an event
• Common mistakes founders make hosting their first event
• Real takeaways s...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor does a rapid fire walkthrough of every tool and system running behind the scenes at The Power Table, all 20 of them, across six categories. From content creation to client management to email marketing, she explains exactly what each tool does and why it made the cut.

One highlight: the project management tool in her stack, GetTasked, was actually built by a member of The Po...

In this episode, we're recapping the Leadership & Capacity roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, digging into the messy work of unlearning leadership habits that don't actually serve founders or their companies anymore, starting with how to finally stop people-pleasing in your own business.

In this episode, we cover:
• The leadership habits founders need to unlearn as they scale
• How to stop people-pleasing wi...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, we're recapping the DM, Sales & Engagement roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, breaking down how to actually start a conversation that leads somewhere real, without losing the human part of it in the process.

In this episode, we cover:
• How to open a sales conversation that doesn't feel like a pitch
• Where founders lose the human element in DMs and comments
• R...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, we're recapping the Team & Operational Capacity roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, a live conversation built around one deceptively simple question: how do you actually tell the difference between a systems problem and a capacity problem in your business?

In this episode, we cover:
• How to diagnose whether a bottleneck is a systems issue or a people issue
• What i...

 In this episode, we're recapping the What's Working Now roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, centered on the question every founder wants a real answer to: who is the ideal buyer and ideal client on today's platforms, right now, not two years ago.

In this episode, we cover:
• The shifting client, right now, across today's most active marketing platforms
• Where the market is over-saturated versus wide open

In this episode, we're recapping the Personal Brand & Positioning roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, unpacking how founders decide what to actually leave out of their brand story in order to build a more intentional, less scattered connection with their audience.

In this episode, we cover:
• Why leaving things out of your story can build more connection, not less
• How to get intentional about what you actua...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith tells the story of the moment she decided to completely blow up the format of Stand Out & Sell Out, even after last year's summit had over a thousand attendees, a high conversion rate, and glowing feedback. The reason was simple, when she read the survey responses, attendees weren't raving about the speaker presentations. They were raving about the live networking, the li...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith answers a question she gets asked constantly as someone whose brand runs over 350 virtual and in-person events a year, are virtual conferences and summits dead. Her answer is yes and no. The passive, pre-recorded format from 2020 to 2022 is finished, but live, highly interactive virtual events are doing something completely different right now.

Taylor breaks down exact...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith talks about the one kind of business advice that is genuinely difficult to find, and the reason so many smart, capable founders can do all the right things, create all the content, and stay consistent, and still never see the numbers change. It is not a lack of information. It is the lack of live, real-time, highly personalized feedback on your actual work.

Taylor brea...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith makes a controversial case: the advice that you should always get paid to speak is quietly costing most entrepreneurs revenue and opportunity. There is a version of speaking that pays a few thousand dollars and ends the moment you walk off stage, and there is a version that pays you for years. Taylor breaks down the difference, and pulls back the curtain on exactly how she ma...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith breaks down exactly why the premium, high-caliber clients you want aren't showing up — and it almost never has anything to do with your skill set or what you actually offer. It comes down to positioning, and the way you're speaking to your audience might be quietly repelling the exact clients you're trying to attract.

This episode is a complete breakdown of buyer...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith pulls back the curtain on one of the biggest launches in her business to date including the strategy, numbers, mistakes, lessons, and behind-the-scenes decisions that led to a $114,264 sales day and a $139,707 launch.

Rather than sharing vague launch advice or inflated revenue claims, Taylor walks through exactly what happened, how the launch was built long before cart...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith pulls back the curtain on exactly how she built a multi-six-figure coaching business without running ads, going viral, or starting with a large network.

Taylor shares the evolution of her coaching business from one-to-one services to scalable one-to-many offers, the lessons she learned along the way, and the strategies that ultimately helped her grow a thriving communi...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith and Whitney Robinson sit down for a full recap of Power Table LIVE 2026 — pulling back the curtain on what actually went into building the event, why the results have been extraordinary, and what is already in the works for Power Table LIVE 2027.

This episode is a behind-the-scenes conversation about intentionality, community, and what happens when the right wome...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith makes the case for why the popular advice to "you are the niche" is one of the most damaging things you can do for your personal brand — and breaks down what the most visible, profitable female entrepreneurs actually do differently when it comes to niche marketing and brand positioning.

This episode is a bold, direct conversation about marketing clarity, the real...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith introduces the concept of a personal brand messaging hub — a centralized, organized space where your thought leadership, signature stories, frameworks, positioning, and brand assets all live together — and explains why building this foundation is what separates founders who feel scattered from those who show up with confidence, consistency, and a recognizable bran...

In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith breaks down what a North Star actually means for your personal brand and business — and why the absence of one is the most common reason female founders end up burning out, saying yes to the wrong opportunities, and feeling like nothing is compounding no matter how much effort they put in.

This episode is a foundational conversation about business direction, bran...