The Power Table with Taylor Smith

Taylor Smith
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The Power Table is the podcast for women entrepreneurs who are done playing small and ready to build visible, credible, and profitable brands. Hosted by Taylor Smith, award-winning founder and “Queen of Community,” this show explores what it really takes to grow a business through relationships, personal branding, and proximity to the right rooms. You’ll hear real conversations about visibility, speaking, partnerships, content, monetization, leadership, and the mindset shifts required to move from building a business to becoming a recognized name in your ind Girlfriend, we saved you a seat!

  1. 3d ago

    What 2 Years of Keynote Speaking Taught Me

    Two years ago, Taylor gave her first large keynote. Since then, she's spoken on over 100 stages and podcasts and become one of the most sought after speakers in women's entrepreneurship. In this episode, she's pulling back the curtain on everything that's happened since, the wins, the mistakes, and the lessons that actually moved the needle.  If you're early in your speaker journey, thinking about stepping onto a stage for the first time, or already speaking and ready to get strategic about it, this episode breaks down exactly what it takes to turn visibility into real business growth. In this episode, we cover: • Why the actual talk is only 20% of the job, and what the other 80% looks like • What to do when you get to an event and realize your talk doesn't fit the room • Why audiences remember how you made them feel, not what you said, and how to build that into your talks • The real numbers behind how speaking opportunities actually get booked, including how many are paid • How Taylor prepares for a keynote, down to the exact number of times she rehearses • Why the one-on-one conversations you have off stage matter more than the talk itself • The follow-up habit most speakers skip that's costing them sales • Why readiness is a decision, not a feeling, and how to move forward without it Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  2. 5d ago

    How to Plan an Epic Black Friday Sale + Our Strategy Last Year

    In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor breaks down the exact strategy behind last year's Black Friday launch, one that blew past the sales goal she'd set for the weekend. She walks through why she avoided launching anything brand new that weekend, the offer she pulled out of the archive instead, and the simple upgrade that made it impossible to pass up. Taylor also unpacks the psychology of real urgency versus manufactured scarcity, why discounting 10 to 15 percent almost never moves the needle, and how planning months in advance meant she barely had to touch her laptop the actual weekend of the sale. If you've ever felt like Black Friday is something you dread instead of plan for, this episode will change that. In this episode, we cover: • The five offer types that actually sell on Black Friday • Why launching something brand new that weekend can backfire • The difference between ethical urgency and fake countdown timers • How planning in September set up a stress-free November • Why discounting less than 20 to 30 percent rarely moves anyone to buy Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  3. Sep 24

    We Need You! Female Founder Economy Survey Part 2

    In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor walks through exactly what happens after you complete the Female Founder Economy Survey, from the anonymous collection window this September and October to the full 2027 Female Founder Economy Report releasing in January. She also explains the goal behind the survey, reaching 1,000 female founders, why that number matters, and why women's voices, especially those running online and digital-first businesses, remain historically underrepresented in business data. Take the Survey: www.thepowertable.co/survey In this episode, we cover: • Exactly where your survey answers go after you hit submit • Why the data stays completely anonymous • What's included in the 2027 Female Founder Economy Report • Why 1,000 responses is the number this survey is built around • Who this survey is built for, and why your answer counts Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  4. Sep 22

    We Need You! Female Founder Economy Survey Part 1

    In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor draws on her academic background in cultural anthropology and behavioral science to break down the two dominant narratives currently shaping how the world understands female founders, the creator economy story and the traditional scale story. Neither one, she argues, actually reflects what most female founders are building. This episode lays the groundwork for why The Power Table is launching its own research initiative this year, the Female Founder Economy Survey, and what it's designed to finally capture that existing data has missed. Take the Survey: www.thepowertable.co/survey In this episode, we cover: • The two broken narratives currently shaping the conversation about women in business • What the research actually shows about revenue, funding, and scale • Why lean, profitable businesses are being read as failure to scale • The gap in existing data Taylor is setting out to fix • Why she believes the real story hasn't been told yet Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  5. Sep 18

    Hosting & Selling Events Roundtable

    In this episode, we're recapping the Hosting & Selling Events roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, digging into the real advice for anyone starting to plan their first, or next, event, from the earliest planning stages to actually selling it out. In this episode, we cover: • What to nail down first when you're planning an event • Common mistakes founders make hosting their first event • Real takeaways straight from the room at Stand Out & Sell Out Guest Experts: Whitney Robinson (@heywhitneybobinson) Emily Shimwell (@_emily_wilder_) Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  6. Sep 15

    Our Entire Tech Stack, 20 Tools in 10 Minutes

    In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor does a rapid fire walkthrough of every tool and system running behind the scenes at The Power Table, all 20 of them, across six categories. From content creation to client management to email marketing, she explains exactly what each tool does and why it made the cut. One highlight: the project management tool in her stack, GetTasked, was actually built by a member of The Power Table Mastermind. Taylor also shares why she switched from ChatGPT to Claude, and the one automation platform doing the heavy lifting behind almost everything else in her business. In this episode, we cover: • Every tool in the design, content, and website categories • The systems handling client contracts, invoicing, and payments • How automation connects every tool in the stack together • The mastermind member whose business is now part of our own systems • What's changed in the stack over the past year, and why DESIGN & CONTENT 1. Canva. My daily driver. Social posts, PDFs, branded assets, lead magnets. If it doesn't need a full production, it's happening in Canva. 2. Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere. For when a project needs more than a template. 3. Adobe Premiere. Where my Reels and TikToks get cut. If you know CapCut, the mobile app feels almost the same. 4. Claude. One podcast episode in, a week of social posts, emails, and hooks out. My repurposing engine WEBSITE & SOCIAL 5. WordPress and Elementor. Where the website lives. 6. Metricool. Social scheduling and analytics in one dashboard, instead of five open tabs. MONEY & CONTRACTS 7. Thrivecart. Payments, subscriptions, and affiliate tracking for the mastermind, conference, and events. 8. Dubsado. Contracts and invoicing. Sponsors, clients, podcast guests, speakers. Anything that needs a signature. Use code 'powertable' for 35% off your first month or year! 9. Adobe Acrobat. Where contracts and approvals get finalized with the team. Try Acrobat Studio for free! OPERATIONS & SYSTEMS 10. Google Workspace. The central home for everything. If it's not in Google, it doesn't exist in my business. 11. Slack. Internal comms, organized by channel so nothing gets buried. 12. GetTasked. Turns my voice notes into assigned tasks automatically. My best ideas stop disappearing. 13. Zapier. The quiet workhorse connecting everything, so I'm not copying and pasting all day. LIVE & COMMUNITY 14. Google Meet. Every coaching call and webinar. 15. Loom and Google Vids. Async video for feedback, updates, and SOPs. The meeting that didn't need to be a meeting. 16. Circle. Where the mastermind community lives between calls. 17. YouTube, unlisted. Free hosting when a video just needs a shareable link. PODCAST & EMAIL 18. Riverside. Recording and editing this show. 19. Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting. Try it and get $20 off with our link! 20. Kit. Email marketing with sequences, automations, and sales pages. Six years running, still hasn't let me down. Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  7. Sep 13

    Self Leadership and Expanding Your Personal Capacity Roundtable

    In this episode, we're recapping the Leadership & Capacity roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, digging into the messy work of unlearning leadership habits that don't actually serve founders or their companies anymore, starting with how to finally stop people-pleasing in your own business. In this episode, we cover: • The leadership habits founders need to unlearn as they scale • How to stop people-pleasing without losing your team's trust • Real takeaways straight from the room at Stand Out & Sell Out Guest Experts: Taylor Murphy (@bytaylormurphy) Fallon Jaye (@fallon__jaye)  Relle Dixon (@bewellwith_relle) Kerri Larose  Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

  8. Sep 11

    Converting Sales & Increasing Sales in the DMs Roundtable

    In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, we're recapping the DM, Sales & Engagement roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, breaking down how to actually start a conversation that leads somewhere real, without losing the human part of it in the process. In this episode, we cover: • How to open a sales conversation that doesn't feel like a pitch • Where founders lose the human element in DMs and comments • Real takeaways straight from the room at Stand Out & Sell Out Guest Experts: Lauren Najar (@laurennajar) Christine Campbell Rapin (@christinecampbellrapin) Zoë Dew (@zoerdew) Grab your ticket to Power Table LIVE 2027: https://www.thepowertable.co/conference Join The Power Table Mastermind: https://www.thepowertable.co/mastermind I love speaking on your podcast or at your event! Details here: https://www.taylorsmithonline.com/speaking Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowertable.co/ Join our FREE Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepowertable Apply to Speak at Power Table LIVE 2027: https://thepowertable.co/speaker-application

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The Power Table is the podcast for women entrepreneurs who are done playing small and ready to build visible, credible, and profitable brands. Hosted by Taylor Smith, award-winning founder and “Queen of Community,” this show explores what it really takes to grow a business through relationships, personal branding, and proximity to the right rooms. You’ll hear real conversations about visibility, speaking, partnerships, content, monetization, leadership, and the mindset shifts required to move from building a business to becoming a recognized name in your ind Girlfriend, we saved you a seat!

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  • Creator
    Taylor Smith
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    127
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Power Table with Taylor Smith
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