You've built the career. You show up powerfully in every room — and somewhere beneath all that achievement, there's a version of you that knows they're capable of more: more presence, more love, more authority, more you.
Let's Get Iconic is hosted by Vanessa Smith — identity evolutionist, founder of Inner Icon®, and creator of the NeuroTrance® Methodology. Each episode blends neuroscience, somatic work, and identity recalibration to help high-performers close the gap between who they are on paper and who they actually are in their nervous systems, their subconscious, their bodies, their relationships, and their lives.
This is where Imposter Syndrome and Romantic Imposter Syndrome get decoded at their root — whether it's showing up in your leadership, your love life, or both.
You're in the right place if:
You're accomplished but still waiting to feel like enough
Love and leadership feel like two different identities — and you're exhausted from switching
You're ready to stop performing your potential and start living it
New episodes drop weekly.
Your life is as rich as the questions you dare to ask, the embodiment you dare to step into, and the radical self-love you dare to claim. Dare to be Iconic. Dare to be YOU. Let's get Iconic!
Bet on Humanity in the Time of AI and Why Play is What Can Saves Us
The strategy that worked two years ago doesn't quite fit anymore. The AI conversation sounds exciting in one meeting and terrifying in the next. And underneath it all, a quiet question: where is this actually going? In this episode, Vanessa makes the case that when every map stops working, the one thing you can still bet on is the thing nobody can copy: the original you. We explore why recess might be the most important part of integrating what we learn, what Tesla's imagination can tea...
22 Sept 2026
The Invisible Walls of Leadership, and Why Painting Outside the Lines Matters
You've checked every box, hit every milestone, and somewhere underneath it, a part of you is still waiting to be found out. That's not a confidence problem. That's an invisible wall. In this episode of Let's Get Iconic, Vanessa walks through four of the walls that quietly run the show in leadership: imposter syndrome, the decision dressed up as patience called someday, the room you keep making yourself smaller in, and the exhaustion that's convinced you stopping means falling apart. Eac...
9 Sept 2026
Is It a Labor of Love, or a Labor of Scarcity, and How Ten Seconds Could Change It All
This Labor Day, we're going back to 1882, to the ten thousand workers who marched unpaid, risking everything, to say enough. That courage built the eight-hour workday, minimum wage, child labor protections. None of it was handed down. It was fought for. And yet here we are, generations later, still grinding, just in a different shape. Perfectionism. Hustle culture. The quiet belief that our worth is measured by our output. In this episode, we trace that thread from the history books straigh...
1 Sept 2026
The Cost of Thick Skin, and Why Radical Self Love Brings True Success
We build a thick skin to survive, and it does its job. But what happens when the very thing that protected you starts working against you, turning inward, blocking you from truly having your own back instead of just blocking the noise outside? In this episode, Vanessa opens up about the invisible challenges she's carried, including a traumatic brain injury that even her own doctors couldn't fully understand, and why it taught her more about leadership than almost anything else she's survived....
7 Jul 2026
Episode 5- Drawing a Line in the Sand: The Iconic Leadership We Need
Drawing a Line in the Sand: The Iconic Leadership We Need | Let’s Get Iconic Ep. 5 Vanessa, founder of Inner Icon and the Neurotrance Method, introduces Episode 5 of Let’s Get Iconic and argues that in a time of uncertainty leaders must “draw a line in the sand” and choose values-based leadership rather than neutrality, because “if we don’t heal it, we deal it.” She challenges listeners to evaluate whether the systems they build would offer a way forward for someone born at the bottom of the ...
30 Jun 2026
Radical Self-Love: The Cocoon That Turns Imposter Syndrome into Unstoppable Power
Radical Self-Love: The Cocoon That Turns Imposter Syndrome into Unstoppable Power | Let’s Get Iconic Ep. 4 In episode four of Let’s Get Iconic, Vanessa (founder of Inner Icon and the Neurotrance® Method) explores radical self-love as a powerful force that dissolves imposter syndrome and expands identity. Using the caterpillar-to-butterfly metaphor and the science concept of imaginal cells, she explains how the “cocoon” is where old stories fall away and a truer blueprint emerges. She parall...
23 Jun 2026
To Know Yourself Is to Grow Yourself: Closing the Identity Lag
To Know Yourself Is to Grow Yourself: Closing the Identity Lag In episode three of Let’s Get Iconic, Vanessa (founder of Inner Icon and the Neurotrance Method) explores identity, the gap between external success and internal insecurity, and how “identity lag” occurs when your external life outgrows your internal identity. She explains that many people run old subconscious stories formed before age seven, leading to over-performing, emptiness, and patterns that feel like fate; citing Carl Jung...
16 Jun 2026
Ask Better Questions
Vanessa, founder of Inner Icon® and the Neurotrance® Method, introduces episode two of “Let’s Get Iconic,” arguing that life reflects the questions we repeatedly ask, and disempowering questions like “Am I enough?” become a subconscious “search term” that filters reality. Using a compass metaphor, she explains that many people work hard but are misdirected by early nervous-system calibration; by changing the question at the body/subconscious level through a “recode,” the constant self-m...
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