The Culture Soup Podcast®

The Culture Soup Podcast®

The Culture Soup Podcast is where tech, culture and business collide. Each episode, L. Michelle Smith interviews foremost and emerging thought leaders in the space, with topics driven by hot conversations on social media.

Episodes

Episode 192: Soul Meets Science – Leadership Revival Series

June 19, 2025 • 33 mins
This week, we step into the second pillar of Call & Response—science. In this episode:
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Ep 191: It’s a Leadership Revival Series Kickoff

May 29, 2025 • 16 mins
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Ep 189: All things transformational: AI & The Power of the Pivot

February 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Show Notes - The Culture Soup Podcast In this episode, host L. Michelle Smith takes us on a reflective journey back to 2018, when she first launched The Culture Soup Podcast. She shares how an unexpected speaking career and a chance encounter led her to create both a podcast and a book, despite corporate challenges. She then shifts focus to the present, discussing the impact of recent executive orders on diversity, equity, and incl...
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Ep 187: Five big lessons I learned in 5 years: The Coaching Corner w/ L. Michelle Smith

May 16, 2024 • 35 mins
In this episode, I take time to reflect on 5 lessons I've learned over the past five years of running my professional private coaching practice. We are celebrating NSC Coaching's 5th anniversary all this month, and we are also observing International Coaching Week. Listen for what I learned along this journey so far about perseverance, determination, focus, relationships and other important lessons that you can take away for your j...
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Ep 187: 5 Lessons I learned in 5 Years: The Coaching Corner w/ L. Michelle Smith

May 16, 2024 • 35 mins
In this episode, I take time to reflect on 5 lessons I've learned over the past five years of running my professional private coaching practice. We are celebrating NSC Coaching's 5th anniversary all this month, and we are also observing International Coaching Week. Listen for what I learned along this journey so far about perseverance, determination, focus, relationships and other important lessons that you can take away for your...
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Ep 186. The Coaching Corner: The Catch Up w/ L. Michelle Smith

March 7, 2024 • 33 mins
Where have I been? What have I been up to, you ask? This episode will catch you up, and drop some Nuggets that you probably weren't expecting.
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Ep 184: Yes Please! DFW Book Signing at BLACKLIT w/Leah Frazier (Guest Host)

June 29, 2023 • 37 mins
This special episode is dual streamed and sponsored by The Culture Soup Podcast(r) and PR Yourself Podcast with Leah Frazier who is my guest host for today's show. It is a replay of the DFW Book Signing for Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I'm Entitled to the C-Suite. It was recorded before a live audience. Listen to part one of the Fireside chat between myself and Leah and then tune in to Part 2 on TCSP After The Show, exclusively on A...
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ARCHIVED EP: The Human Genome Makes Us All The Same w/ Dr. Henry L. Gates, Jr.

May 11, 2023 • 39 mins
Let's take a look back at my conversation with one f the world's most loved historians, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This takes us back to Episode 51 where we discuss his hit show Finding Your Roots and his journey to the show.
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Ep 179: #TBT What's Black about Opera with Denyce Graves

April 27, 2023 • 40 mins
Let's talk CULTURE...and when I say culture--I mean the ARTS! I'm throwing it back to one of my favorite episodes as I wrap up a year-long engagement with one of my favorite clients, Lyric Opera Chicago and round the corner on my last term on the board of Opera America. One of the most acclaimed mezzo sopranos of our time is joining me on The Culture Soup Podcast®, and I’m so proud to call her friend! She debuted at the Metropoli...
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Ep 177: What really happens when women leaders get sponsorship? Pt 1 w/ Dr. Diana B. Allen

March 30, 2023 • 35 mins
Women+ leaders in tech have access to sponsors, at the same rate as their male counterparts. That isn't the issue. It's that once women have sponsors, what happens next is often very different. There is also some discrepancies in titles between the genders. Both become obstacles for women leaders who are looking to walk in their power in rooms and at tables as they aspire to E- and C-Suite roles. That's a preview of ...
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Ep 176: What should Leaders Consider Now w/Sacha Thompson

March 17, 2023 • 38 mins
In this current touch-and-go environment, both economically and socially, what should leaders consider now? I speak to inclusive leadership & psychological safety expert Sacha Thompson, ACC the founder of The Equity Equation and faculty member of SOAR Women’s Leadership Academy about it. Join us Thursday March 16, streaming everywhere podcasts play, and live at noon across all of my social platforms. And don’t forget to subs...
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Ep 175: Mastering the Middle w/ Adrion Porter

March 9, 2023 • 38 mins
Mid- career, mid life...and in the middle. I'm talking about my generation... Gen X. So much attention is paid to the Boomers and the Millennials and now Gen Z...but make no mistake, we are trending upward--that is when we place some intention behind it. Thursday, I'm talking to fellow ELC adjunct faculty member Adrion Porter who is a Gen X expert when it comes to mastering the middle. He is also faculty for SOAR Women's L...
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TRAILER: Introducing TCSP After The Show & DUETS

March 3, 2023 • 3 mins
BONUS CONTENT IS HERE! Beginning this month, you will be able to subscribe to gated content from the show. In fact, the conversations may surprise you. Since most of my shows spur additional conversation about some of the most random things, I intend to share. Introducing TCSP After the Show and DUETS. You may have guessed what both are all about, but you'll need to subscribe and listen to the trailer to hear details. I'll give awa...
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Ep 174: There's Data to Back What We've Known All Along w/Karrie Sullivan

March 2, 2023 • 35 mins
What if you could predict the success of a company based on stock price and revenue based on the mindsets of their leaders?It's already happening, and there are huge implications for all of us, but especially women and women of color. It's everything you haven't yet learned about fixed and growth mindsets...and put some machine learning with it. Prepare to have your mind blown.
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Ep 173 Coaching Corner Knowing Your Value - 10:6:22, 3.24 PM

October 7, 2022 • 34 mins
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Ep 173: The Coaching Corner: Knowing Your Value w/Coach L. Michelle

October 6, 2022 • 34 mins
This week's episode is all about the message that keeps on giving. It's the message that organization after organization continues to ask for. It's all about knowing your value and how it's a powerful tool in your life and leadership aspirations. We dive in deep as I broadcast from Washington D.C. at the Executive Leadership Council's Mid-level Management Symposium where I delivered the talk twice--once as a keynote in a standin...
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Ep 172: The Coaching Corner: The Privilege of Language

August 19, 2022 • 32 mins
Ever considered how language can be leveraged to dictate the rules of a culture? Tonight's episode of The Culture Soup Podcast® is a Coaching Corner episode, and we discuss exactly how that it happens in world events and the workplace and what that works to the detriment of those who are not centered.We also take a deeper dive into today't #YesPlease (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=yesplease&highlightedUpdateUrns=u...
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Ep 171: Multicultural is still the new mass market...and they're BIG mad w/ Adriana Waterston

August 4, 2022 • 52 mins
Today's show begins with a special message from me from the #NABJNAHJ22 (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=nabjnahj22&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6960987819079073792) Convention as I prepare for my booksigning this afternoon at Caesar's Palace. Then we dive deep on a topic that seems to have some people in their feelings. That topic is the browning of America.Let's face it, some people just despise the...
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Ep 170: It's crazy out here! Phone a friend. w/Eva Greene Wilson

June 23, 2022 • 60 mins
If you're a longtime listener, you know that when it gets a little crazy in our culture, I phone a friend.Episode 170 is no exception. I don't know about you, but after putting $112 dollars in my tank, hearing more of my friends and family contract Covid, still tearing up about Buffalo and Uvalde and the many mass shootings since, and watching parts of the January 6 hearings...it was time to dial up a bestie.Eva Green Wilson, my so...
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Ep 169: Guns, Return to Work and Scathing Evaluations

June 9, 2022 • 28 mins
We're carrying a very heavy load as leaders these days, so I'm speaking directly to you on Thursday's episode of The Culture Soup Podcast®️, The Coaching Corner. We're going back to our roots with all audio streams for the summer, and we are kicking off with three hot topics that are important to you as high-performing leaders:✔️Dealing with the barrage of gun violence and the trauma we all feel as leaders as a result of the traged...
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