Growth Edge - A Leadership Podcast

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Bring a Brick, Not a Cathedral: Leadership Lessons from Improv with Dr. Michael Smith

August 17, 2026

What can improv teach us about leadership, communication, empathy, and courage? In this episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie is joined by Dr. Michael Smith, an academic hospitalist, medical educator, and founder of Healthcare Improv. What began as an unexpected gift of improv classes became an entirely new dimension of Mike’s work and a powerful way to practice the human skills that matter most in medicine and leadership. Mike shares why improv is far more than comedy. At its...

Building What Was Missing: Human Skills That Shape Great Physicians with Dr. Jennifer Soung

August 10, 2026

Medical school teaches us how to diagnose disease. It rarely teaches us how to lead people. In this episode, Laurie sits down with dermatologist, clinical researcher, and LEADderm founder Dr. Jennifer Soung for a conversation about the leadership lessons that transform great clinicians into exceptional leaders. Jennifer shares the pivotal experiences that revealed a gap in her own training, the inspiration behind creating LEADderm, and why she believes leadership is less about titles and auth...

Success Hides the Process. Why Authentic Leaders Occasionally Reveal It.

August 03, 2026

Success has a way of making the journey invisible. We see the accomplished physician leader, the respected CEO, the department chair, the entrepreneur, or the keynote speaker. We see confidence. We see success. What we rarely see are the manuscript rejections, the failed interviews, the difficult conversations, the moments of self-doubt, and the countless revisions that shaped them along the way. In this solo episode, Laurie explores why authentic leadership isn't about appearing flawless, it...