When Success Is the Wrong Fuel
A conversation about achievement, external validation, self-worth, and recognizing when an impressive role is no longer the right fit.
Explore interviews, profiles, and conversations featuring Molly Smith’s work on self-trust, emotional wellness, meaningful change, and taking your next best step.








Molly Smith is a breakthrough coach, energy healer, speaker, bestselling author of What the Funk?!, podcast host, and former corporate executive. Known for honest storytelling, grounded insight, and relatable humor, she connects with people who feel stuck or are navigating change.
Drawing on decades of leadership experience and real life as the mother of two neurodivergent adult sons, Molly brings credibility, vulnerability, and practical tools to the stage. Her talks help audiences respond instead of react, rebuild self-trust, and move forward without pressure to have everything figured out.
Quick Facts about Molly:
• International Speaker & Bestselling Author
• Breakthrough Coach, Energy Healer & Former Corporate Executive
• Author of What the Funk?! and creator of the Next Best Step Journal
• Host of The WTF Podcast
• Creator of the STEP Formula® and Mindset Inventory®
• Live and virtual keynotes, leadership events, retreats, and community experiences
Audiences will walk away able to:
• Recognize the early signs of a funk and name what they’re feeling
• Replace avoidance and self-judgment with curiosity
• Use the body and breath to settle the nervous system
• Separate what is within their control from what is not
• Choose a practical next best step and move forward purposefully
Meet Molly through candid conversations about reinvention, emotional wellness, self-trust, leadership, and the honest work of taking your next best step.
Molly shares the risks, reinvention, and decisions that helped shape Next Best Step—and what it means to trust your own timing.
Read the feature → VoyageDallasA candid conversation about moving beyond achievement-driven success, choosing alignment, and building a practice around the next best step.
Read the feature → Bold JourneyMolly reflects on optimism, resilience, and the mindset shifts that help people move through change without bypassing what they feel.
Read the feature → Legacy Makers TVLegacy Makers highlights Molly’s story and her perspective on moving through emotional barriers toward greater alignment and personal growth.
Read the announcement →Go deeper with honest conversations about success, self-worth, emotional healing, reinvention, and getting out of the funk.
A conversation about achievement, external validation, self-worth, and recognizing when an impressive role is no longer the right fit.
Molly and Sarah talk emotional healing, self-trust, reinvention, and what it takes to recognize when your life is no longer aligned.
Molly is available for podcasts, interviews, panels, and speaking conversations focused on emotional wellness, self-trust, reinvention, leadership, and how to pivot out of the funk.
Start a Media Conversation“Molly was very relatable in her talk, combining vulnerability and information with actionable steps. I left feeling like I could move forward from the funk.” — Jessica H.
“How to disrupt a chaos spiral, come back to the present, process the emotions, and move forward purposefully.” — Traci S.
“An engaging talk on moving through feelings that tend to keep us stuck by using a series of steps to move into a more empowered state.” — Leanne T.
“This is powerful for actionable ways to pivot through the things that come up in life.” — Naomi A.