Lead to Soar Podcast
A leadership podcast for ambitious women who want strategic skills, sharp insights, and a clear path to reaching their full potential.
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No One Should Care About Your Career As Much As You Do (opens the original)
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Career pathing is rarely as linear as it looks, and in Michelle’s organisational diagnostic work, the single biggest gap women report is that their manager isn’t giving them useful career advice. In this episode, Mel and Michelle pull apart why the traditional career ladder is a scarcity game, why leaving your progression in your manager’s hands is a risk you can’t afford, and what to do instead. They walk through a four-move framework for evaluating what’s next, stay, reshape, shift, go, and co
You Read the Book. Nothing Happened (opens the original)
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Women Are Cleaning Up AI's Mess For Free, with Kara Bombell (opens the original)
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Women are being handed the ethical clean-up on AI in their organisations, unpaid and uncredentialed, while the people moving fastest and taking the least care get called visionary. Michelle and Mel talk this through with Kara Bombell about what that pattern actually costs, what organisations owe the people carrying it without acknowledgement, and two low-risk ways to build your own AI capability without signing up for the unpaid job.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subs
What Would Happen if a World-Class CEO Took Over Your Life? (opens the original)
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What Makes a CEO World Class? (opens the original)
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Mel and Michelle set out to answer one question: what makes a CEO world-class? Weeks of circling it later, they arrived at something harder than a definition. Every list, every ranking, every “top CEO” feature they checked was measuring leaders inside the same frame: patriarchal, capitalist, built to reward extraction. Before they could define a world-class CEO, they had to identify the system doing the defining.Subscribe now<
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