219: Meet the Meanest Woman Alive – Linda Smith

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Over her 40+ year career, Linda Smith has reached the summit of the legal profession. She's litigated on behalf of IBM and Intel, and dealt with male egos as big as Michael Dell's and Mick Jagger's without ever breaking a stride.

Linda is also a blogger and author at MeanestWomanAlive.com. She writes about confronting gender stereotypes, self-sabotage, alpha males, and how to seize and hold on to leadership positions. She believes that women should abandon the societal norms dictated by men and use their own playbook - as well as uniquely feminine advantages - to dominate in business.

Today, Linda joins the podcast to discuss that playbook, Smashing Glass and Kicking Ass: Lessons from the Meanest Woman Alive. We talk about why a lack of women in leadership roles holds both women and great companies back, the potentially traumatic experiences that helped Linda become who she is today, and what "mean" really means.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level as well as interview world-class
0:18.4	experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready? Here we go.
0:39.2	Hello, hello, goal achievers. What's going on? This is Hal Elrod and we have another author interview today. This is kind of a cool one. It's you saw the title before you came into the interview, which is, you know, you're meeting the meanest woman alive and you're about to find out why she's the meanest woman alive and why I don't I've met her I've spent time with her we've shared a meal we've broken bread I don't think she's the meanest woman alive but we'll talk about that here in a second
0:59.6	For those of those who do not know Linda Linda Smith is one of the few women who has reached the summit of the legal profession
1:07.1	Litigating on behalf of clients like Exxon and IBM and some of the biggest cases ever tried and she's often tabled with outsized male egos from Michael Dale to
1:18.1	Mick Jagger without ever breaking stride and her experience over the past 40 years landed her with the
1:24.8	prodigious title of the meanest woman alive. Now today Linda is on a mission to
1:31.1	empower ambitious women in all fields to use their talent, they're smart, and their feminine,
1:36.4	a familyinity, their kick assets as she calls them to reach their own pinnacle of success.
1:43.1	And to that end, she blogs and posts her 400,000
1:46.7	Facebook followers on meanest woman alive.com.
1:51.0	And whether it's defeating gender stereotypes, conquering self-sabotaging behaviors, handling
1:56.2	alpha males, dealing with sexual harassment or seizing and holding on to leadership positions,
2:02.0	Linda has done it all and come out on top by using her unique
2:05.6	feminine advantage as a woman to dominate in business. And Linda believes that women should
2:12.0	jettison the societal norms dictated by men and use an entirely different playbook.
2:17.8	One written by a woman for women, and she has written that playbook. let her show you how to play by women's
2:25.9	rules to succeed in business. Linda I am so fired up to talk to you today.
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