Speak Up with Laura Camacho

About Speak Up with Laura Camacho

🏆 Ranked #1 Business Communication Podcast by Million Podcasts Do you often feel sidelined in discussions, wanting to speak up and have more influence? Ever experience that you say something in a meeting and then it seems like people maybe are still not getting what you’re saying? Do you need more executive presence in high stakes meetings? Discover tactics to confidently assert yourself and make your ideas count on Speak Up, the podcast for high-performing introverts and ambiverts. You'll learn: 1. Visibility Strategies from the art of persuasion, ensuring your voice is heard and respected in meetings and sought after for key projects 2. How to expand your influence, to reclaim your recognition, get green lights, and avoid your ideas being taken credit for by others 3. How to develop your confidence, to participate actively in senior leadership and executive meetings and beyond Host Laura Camacho, with 20 years of coaching experience, guides high-performing professionals to express their ideas clearly and build executive presence. Tune in every Monday for a 10-minute executive communication skill, Wednesdays for a half-hour industry leader interview, and Fridays for a 8 to 10-minute charisma or leadership tip from leading personalities like JK Rowling and Elon Musk. If you're ready to move forward in your career, listen to Speak Up episode 390: These 12 Science-Backed Charisma Tactics Skyrocket Executive Presence & Leadership Impact: https://pod.fo/e/2c2b5e

Publisher

Laura Camacho

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Nov 2016

Latest episode

6 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

406 of 652 episodes have a transcript.

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   6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

   654: When Your Expertise Becomes a Liability Here’s Inspiration To Build Massive Executive Presence and Get Promoted

   Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities: Click here (https://form.typeform.com/to/Xaq39O8p) to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if the expertise that made you successful is the very thing putting your career at risk in the age of AI. I’ve got you covered. You've spent years, maybe even decades, becoming exceptionally good at what you do. But as AI takes on more of the technical tasks professionals once relied on to demonstrate their value, being the most knowledgeable person in the room may no longer be enough. So how do you stay relevant, influential, and indispensable without starting your career over? In this episode, Laura shares the fascinating story of how Hermès evolved from making horse harnesses to becoming one of the world's most recognizable luxury brands—and what that transformation can teach you about AI, creativity, and executive presence. By the end of this short episode you’ll know how to: 🎯Recognize when your hard-earned expertise may be limiting your growth and reposition your value around the strategic outcomes you help create. 😎Use curiosity, creativity, and powerful questions to challenge outdated assumptions and become someone whose perspective leaders actively seek. 🧩Reinvent your professional contribution without abandoning the skills, experience, and strengths that made you successful in the first place. Listen now to discover how to turn your expertise into lasting influence and build the kind of executive presence that keeps you relevant, valuable, and heard in the age of AI. And here's one more question for you. As the world of work changes, are you being recognized for the value you bring today—or are people still seeing you through the lens of what you've always done? Because your expertise may have gotten you where you are, but your executive presence determines how much influence you have over what happens next. If you'd like to know where you stand, take my free Executive Presence Scorecard assessment. It will help you identify where your executive presence is working for you—and where you may be missing opportunities to increase your influence, visibility, and impact. Here’s the link (https://form.typeform.com/to/Xaq39O8p). To learn more visit www.speakupwithlaura.com (http://www.speakupwithlaura.com). New Speak Up podcast episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday early in the morning. The Speak Up Podcast helps high-performing professionals develop executive presence through strategic communication, executive confidence, and leadership influence. Each episode provides practical strategies to help you speak up in meetings, communicate with senior leaders, present ideas with clarity, build executive visibility, strengthen your leadership presence, influence without authority, stop overexplaining, answer difficult questions with confidence, and become a trusted executive leader. Whether you're preparing for your next Vice President promotion or looking to communicate with greater credibility and gravitas, you'll learn actionable executive communication skills that accelerate career growth. Topics covered in this episode: How AI is changing jobs, careers, and the value of professional expertise What Hermès teaches us about business reinvention and staying relevant How Nintendo, Nokia, and 3M adapted to changing markets Why creativity and curiosity are essential executive presence skills The difference between technical expertise and strategic leadership How to future-proof your career in the age of artificial intelligence Why your professional identity should be bigger than your job title How to recognize and communicate your transferable skills The role of creative thinking in executive influence and decision-making How high-performing introverts can use observation and curiosity to stand out Why being the smartest person in the room isn't enough How to build executive visibility by contributing fresh perspectives Reinventing your personal brand without abandoning your expertise How to assess your executive presence and identify opportunities for growth

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   4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

   653: 4 Strategies to Get Promoted Into Executive Leadership WITHOUT Working Harder

   Host Laura sits down with executive leadership coach Uma Subramanian to reveal four strategies for promotion beyond hard work, focusing on visibility and strategic impact.

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   3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

   652: These 4 Leadership Blind Spots Are Sabotaging Performance And Limiting Your Executive Influence

   Host Laura interviews former counterterrorism expert Annie Yatch about overcoming four leadership blind spots to enhance executive presence and influence.

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654: When Your Expertise Becomes a Liability Here’s Inspiration To Build Massive Executive Presence and Get Promoted

Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] One is identified by a task and the other by an outcome. So this is where executive presence comes into the picture. People with strong executive presence are not just demonstrating what they know. They're helping people understand what is important, why it's important, and what should happen next. […]

Who has been a guest on Speak Up with Laura Camacho

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• Uma Subramanian
• Annie Yatch
• Maz Farrelly
• Sébastien Page
• Joze Piranian

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

131 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

50 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

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92

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YouTube

0

Engagement

99

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