The Power Table with Taylor Smith

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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_)

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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.

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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 

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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)

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In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, we're recapping the Team & Operational Capacity roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, a live conversation built around one deceptively simple question: how do you actually tell the difference between a systems problem and a capacity problem in your business?

In this episode, we cover:
• How to diagnose whether a bottleneck is a systems issue or a people issue
• What it actually looks like to build capacity before you're in crisis
• Real takeaways straight from the room at Stand Out & Sell Out

Guest Experts:
Zhara Marie Henry (@zhara.marie) 
Ariel Mastbrook (@limitlesslioness.support) 
Kara Wiliams (@helpmekara)
April Wilhelm (@itsaprilwilhelm)

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 In this episode, we're recapping the What's Working Now roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, centered on the question every founder wants a real answer to: who is the ideal buyer and ideal client on today's platforms, right now, not two years ago.

In this episode, we cover:
• The shifting client, right now, across today's most active marketing platforms
• Where the market is over-saturated versus wide open
• Real takeaways straight from the room at Stand Out & Sell Out

Guest Experts:
Rachael Perry (@itsrachaelperry)
Mollie Lo (@lotusmentoring)
Ally Canales (@iamallycanales)
Michelle Thames (@michellelthames)

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In this episode, we're recapping the Personal Brand & Positioning roundtable from Stand Out & Sell Out, unpacking how founders decide what to actually leave out of their brand story in order to build a more intentional, less scattered connection with their audience.

In this episode, we cover:
• Why leaving things out of your story can build more connection, not less
• How to get intentional about what you actually share publicly
• Real takeaways straight from the room at Stand Out & Sell Out

Guest Experts:
Bisola WhizQueen (@whiz_queen)
Renee Bowen (@reneebowen) 
Caelyn Zupko (@caelyn.jpeg) 
Kelsey Hogan (@itskelseyhogan) 

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In this episode of The Power Table Podcast, Taylor Smith tells the story of the moment she decided to completely blow up the format of Stand Out & Sell Out, even after last year's summit had over a thousand attendees, a high conversion rate, and glowing feedback. The reason was simple, when she read the survey responses, attendees weren't raving about the speaker presentations. They were raving about the live networking, the live kickoffs, and the live masterminding, the parts of the summit that couldn't be pre-recorded.

So this year, Taylor rebuilt the entire experience to be completely live. Every speaker, every session, no slide decks, nothing pre-recorded, nothing passive. Taylor walks through exactly what to expect each day, who the summit is actually built for, and why this version is structurally different from any virtual conference she has run before.

If you have ever felt like the best kept secret in your industry, or you are wondering whether this summit is actually right for you, this episode breaks down everything you need to know before you register.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Taylor scrapped a format that worked and rebuilt the entire summit around what attendees actually loved
• What to expect on each of the three days, Stand Out, Sell Out, and Lead
• Why the summit is structured around live feedback, panels, and audits instead of presentations
• Who Stand Out & Sell Out is actually built for, and why it is not for the beginner business owner
• What's included in the free ticket versus the VIP day three upgrade
• Why blocking your calendar and showing up fully present matters more than ever this year

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