On a personal level, I always associate a smile or a laughter with leadership, especially by women. It is a great power to be able to light up our surroundings by a smile.  Laughter just might be the most contagious of all emotional experiences. It is also a full-on collaboration between mind and body as well as one of the most mysterious features we have as human beings, mainly because the little act of laughter has a complicated mechanism behind it and can encompass so many things.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://martinifisher.com/2021/01/18/potens-risus-creation-destruction-and-the-power-of-womens-laughter/