Conversation with Ashley Schmitt on Helping New Content Creators Succeed on Substack

Haters are often misunderstood. Not every critic is a hater. And not every hater is as detached as they appear. More often than not, what looks like negativity is attention. Focused attention. People rarely invest energy in what is irrelevant to them. They watch. They comment. They react. That is n…

Insight: Boss Up Stop waiting. Start leading yourself. Let’s get straight to it. “Boss up” gets thrown around a lot. People say it like it’s motivation. But most of the time, it’s just words. Because real “bossing up” has nothing to do with talking. It has everything to do with how you show up. Wha…

One tells you what’s true. The other tells you when to move. You walk into the meeting, and something’s off. Nobody says anything. The agenda hasn’t changed. But the room is quieter than it should be, and the person who always talks first is staring at her laptop. A few days later, a different mome…

Truth is not volume. Truth is not aggression. Truth is not emotional discharge. Truth is alignment between what I see, what I say, and how I lead. Most leaders do not struggle with ignorance. They struggle with avoidance. They see the misalignment. They sense the bias. They recognize the dysfunctio…