Podcast

Between
the Leap
& the Land

Between the Leap and the Land is a podcast about the messy middle — the space between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming.

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Latest Episodes

Authenticity Is an Experiment

Authenticity at work isn’t a declaration. It’s an experiment you run to find out whether a room has space for you. On Impatience Is a Virtue: the slide, the ladder, and what executive presence is really measuring.

Ep 2. We’re Doing Confidence All Wrong

Stop waiting to feel confident. Confidence is a decision — and we've got the whole idea of it wrong. 94.7% of my coaching sessions come back to one...

Ep 1. Perception is the Thief of Joy…and Progress

You know the voice. The one that says "what will they think?" before you've even opened your mouth. It's the reason you edit yourself in meetings,...

Welcome to the Between The Land and The Leap podcast

Renita Joyce Smith is an executive coach and facilitator who’s spent two decades inside the human systems most people are quietly navigating: power, identity, fear, belonging, ambition, silence.

She names the patterns that hide under professionalism — the performing, the shrinking, the ways we abandon ourselves to feel safe in systems that were never designed for our full humanity.

This isn’t motivational. It’s just honest. For anyone who’s done performing and ready to start creating from their own center.

Topics include: leadership, identity, self-trust, navigating organizational culture, perception, permission, creativity as practice, neurodivergence, AI and the future of work, and what it actually looks like to lead as a full human being.