Check out the new bi-weekly podcast called Her Next Power Move. These 10-minute audio episodes, will feature bestselling leadership author, Fortune 100 advisor and certified executive & personal coach L. Michelle Smith sharing evidence-based leadership insights, thought leadership and opinion that will move high-performing leaders closer to their life and leadership aspirations through behavioral and mindset shifts grounded in applied positive psychology and neuroscience. It's based on her Substack with the same name. Listen with a paid subscription on Substack. lmichellesmith.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://lmichellesmith.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">lmichellesmith.substack.com</a>
Her Next Power Move
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Check out the new bi-weekly podcast called Her Next Power Move. These 10-minute audio episodes, will feature bestselling leadership author, Fortune 100 advisor and certified executive & personal coach L. Michelle Smith sharing evidence-based leadership insights, thought leadership and opinion that will move high-performing leaders closer to their life and leadership aspirations through behavioral and mindset shifts grounded in applied positive psychology and neuroscience. It's based on her Substack with the same name. Listen with a paid subscription on Substack. lmichellesmith.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://lmichellesmith.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">lmichellesmith.substack.com</a>
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July 28, 2026
Ep 28: What Will Still Be Standing?
<p><strong>HER NEXT POWER MOVE</strong> <strong>Episode 28: What Will Still Be Standing?</strong> World Work and the Leadership Legacy You Are Building Right Now</p><p><strong>Episode Summary</strong></p><p>There is a ledger that does not show up in any performance review or quarterly report. And yet it is the one that will ultimately determine what kind of leader you actually were.</p><p>In this episode, L. Michelle Smith explores the third and most demanding lens of the Leadership Revival Framework — World Work — and asks the question that too many leaders let the urgency of the moment crowd out: when the pressure of this season finally passes, what will still be standing?</p><p><strong>What You'll Hear in This Episode</strong></p><p>What World Work actually is — and why it is the hardest of the three lenses to sustain when the margin is thinnest and the calendar is fullest.</p><p>What Dr. Martin Seligman's PERMA model reveals about meaning as a load-bearing pillar of leadership — and what happens to a culture when a leader quietly loses sight of it.</p><p>How Dr. Adam Grant's research on prosocial motivation demonstrates that connecting daily decisions to human impact is not a reward for finishing the hard work — it is part of what makes the hard work sustainable.</p><p>Why culture is not built during retreats or town halls, but in the daily, unremarkable, deeply intentional choices leaders make when the pressure is highest and the margin is thinnest.</p><p>A micropractice for identifying — and naming — the human difference your leadership made this week, before the week ends.</p><p><strong>Research and References</strong></p><p>Martin Seligman — PERMA Model, Flourish (2011)</p><p>Adam Grant — Prosocial Motivation, Give and Take (2013)</p><p>Leadership Revival Framework — Self Work, Relationship Work, World Work</p><p><strong>Your Powerful Thought for the Day</strong></p><p>Culture is built in the choices you make when everything is hard and your people are watching to see who you really are.</p><p><strong>Your Powerful Question for the Day</strong></p><p>When someone who works for you looks back on this particular stretch of time, what will they say your leadership gave them?</p><p><strong>Go Deeper</strong></p><p>Get your free leadership toolkit and subscribe to FlightPath: <a target="_blank" href="http://soaracademy.nsccoaching.co">soaracademy.nsccoaching.co</a></p><p>Join The Circle — L. Michelle's private leadership development community: lmichellesmith.com/thecircle</p><p>Take the Heart-Centered Leader Assessment: SOARacademy.nsccoaching.co/a/CallandResponse</p><p>Request L. Michelle for keynotes, workshops, or executive coaching: lmichellesmith.com/speaking</p><p>Subscribe to FlightPath, the weekly leadership newsletter in your inbox every Monday: soaracademy.nsccoaching.co/subscribe</p><p>Connect on Substack for essays that go deeper than the podcast: <a target="_blank" href="http://lmichellesmith.substack.com">lmichellesmith.substack.com</a></p><p><strong>About Her Next Power Move</strong></p><p>Her Next Power Move is the podcast for high-performing leaders navigating career ascension with clarity and confidence. Every other week, host and executive producer L. Michelle Smith delivers evidence-based leadership insights rooted in applied neuroscience, positive psychology, and culture — in a powerful ten minutes built for busy professionals. Paid subscribers on Substack hear episodes first and get direct access to L. Michelle.</p><p>Subscribe at <a target="_blank" href="http://lmichellesmith.substack.com">lmichellesmith.substack.com</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe</a>
July 7, 2026
Ep 27: Managing Capacity vs. Building It
<p><strong>Episode Summary</strong></p><p>Most leaders moving through a hard season are doing exactly what the moment demands — keeping up, delivering, staying functional. What fewer are doing is asking the question that actually determines what they come out with on the other side.</p><p>In this episode, L. Michelle Smith draws on neuroscience and positive psychology to examine the difference between managing capacity and intentionally building it — and why that distinction is one of the most consequential decisions a leader can make, whether they know they are making it or not.</p><p><strong>What You’ll Hear in This Episode</strong></p><p>Why managing and building can look identical from the outside while producing completely different leaders on the other side of a hard season.</p><p>What Bruce McEwen’s research on chronic stress and the prefrontal cortex reveals about why pressure alone never produces growth — and what has to be added to make development possible.</p><p>How Dr. Barbara Fredrickson’s Broaden and Build Theory explains why even brief, intentional moments of reflection during a demanding season literally rewire a leader’s capacity over time.</p><p>What neuroplasticity research tells us about the specific conditions the brain requires to build new architecture — and why pressure without meaning and support is not one of them.</p><p>The two questions that activate entirely different parts of the brain, and why the one most leaders are asking is keeping them in survival mode.</p><p>A micropractice for shifting from management mode into intentional development — in ten minutes, before the weekend closes.</p><p><strong>Research and References</strong></p><p>Bruce McEwen — Chronic Stress and Prefrontal Cortex Architecture, Rockefeller University</p><p>Barbara Fredrickson — Broaden and Build Theory</p><p>Edward Deci and Richard Ryan — Self-Determination Theory</p><p><strong>Your Powerful Thought for the Day</strong></p><p>The pressure you are under right now is not wasted if you decide it is building something. That decision is yours to make, and no circumstance can make it for you.</p><p><strong>Your Powerful Question for the Day</strong></p><p>What has managing capacity been costing you that building capacity could restore?</p><p><strong>Go Deeper</strong></p><p>Get your free leadership toolkit and subscribe to FlightPath:soaracademy.nsccoaching.co</p><p>Join The Circle — L. Michelle’s private leadership development community for leaders who are serious about building while the pressure is on:<a target="_blank" href="https://lmichellesmith.com/thecircle">lmichellesmith.com/thecircle</a></p><p>Organizations: The Circle has an organizational membership tier designed for teams and enterprises investing in their leaders right now, not just during the quiet seasons. Link above.</p><p>Take the Heart-Centered Leader Assessment:<a target="_blank" href="https://SOARacademy.nsccoaching.co/a/CallandResponse">SOARacademy.nsccoaching.co/a/CallandResponse</a> </p><p>Request L. Michelle for keynotes, workshops, or executive coaching:<a target="_blank" href="https://lmichellesmith.com/speaking">lmichellesmith.com/speaking</a></p><p>Subscribe to FlightPath, the weekly leadership newsletter in your inbox every Monday:<a target="_blank" href="https://soaracademy.nsccoaching.co/subscribe">soaracademy.nsccoaching.co/subscribe</a></p><p>Connect on Substack for essays that go deeper than the podcast.</p><p><strong>About Her Next Power Move</strong></p><p>Her Next Power Move is the podcast for high-performing leaders navigating career ascension with clarity and confidence. Every other week, host and executive producer L. Michelle Smith delivers evidence-based leadership insights rooted in applied neuroscience, positive psychology, and culture in a powerful ten minutes built for busy professionals. Paid subscribers on Substack hear episodes first and get direct access to L. Michelle.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading Her Next Power Move! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 23, 2026
Ep. 26: The Power of Leading from Behind
<p><strong>Episode Summary</strong></p><p>When did you last follow someone else? </p><p>Most high-achieving leaders never stop long enough to ask that question. And that silence is costing their teams more than they realize. In this episode, L. Michelle Smith draws from the final chapter of her bestselling book Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church to explore one of the most counterintuitive concepts in leadership development: the power of leading from behind.</p><p>Built on the positive psychology principle of power with over power over, this episode makes the case that sharing power is not a leadership risk. It is a leadership strategy and one of the fastest ways to re-engage a disengaged team.</p><p><strong>What You’ll Hear in This Episode</strong></p><p>Why leaders who are always out front cannot fully see what is behind them, and what that costs the people they lead.</p><p>The social science behind power with over power over, rooted in the work of Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley and the foundational theory of Mary Parker Follett.</p><p>How Edward Deci and Richard Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory explains why genuine autonomy is a fundamental human need, and what happens to performance when that need is met.</p><p>Why being a good follower is an emotional intelligence skill that most high achievers have never been asked to develop.</p><p>A micropractice for identifying the one decision you have been holding onto that someone on your team could own completely.</p><p><strong>Research and References</strong></p><p>Dacher Keltner — Power and Social Intelligence, UC Berkeley</p><p>Mary Parker Follett — Power With vs. Power Over</p><p>Edward Deci and Richard Ryan — Self-Determination Theory</p><p>L. Michelle Smith — Call and Response: Ten Leadership Lessons from the Black Church, Chapter 10</p><p><strong>Your Powerful Thought for the Day</strong></p><p>The leader who knows when to step back is always more powerful than the one who never learned how.</p><p><strong>Your Powerful Question for the Day</strong></p><p>Who on your team is waiting for you to trust them enough to lead, and what is it actually costing you to keep holding that power?</p><p><strong>Go Deeper</strong></p><p>Get your free leadership toolkit and subscribe to FlightPath: soaracademy.nsccoaching.co</p><p>Join The Circle — L. Michelle’s private leadership community: lmichellesmith.com/thecircle</p><p>Pick up Call and Response: Ten Leadership Lessons from the Black Church wherever fine books are sold.</p><p>Request L. Michelle for speaking, keynotes, or workshops: lmichellesmith.com/speaking</p><p>Take the Heart-Centered Leader Assessment: SOARacademy.nsccoaching.co/a/CallandResponse </p><p>Subscribe to the FlightPath newsletter in your inbox every Monday: soaracademy.nsccoaching.co/subscribe</p><p><strong>About Her Next Power Move</strong></p><p>Her Next Power Move is the podcast for high-performing leaders navigating career ascension with clarity and confidence. Every other week, host and executive producer L. Michelle Smith delivers evidence-based leadership insights rooted in applied neuroscience, positive psychology, and culture — in a powerful ten minutes built for busy professionals. Paid subscribers on Substack hear episodes first and get direct access to L. Michelle. Subscribe at lmichellesmith.substack.com.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">lmichellesmith.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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