A new podcast from Autumn R. Russell
Leading with
Lip Gloss™
Launching Fall 2026
A candid podcast about ambition, identity, leadership, and everything Black millennial women carry into the room.
Autumn’s point of view
The good. The bad. The ugly. And the truth in between.
Leading with Lip Gloss™ is leadership through the layered perspective of a Black millennial woman who has built a career, led at the highest level, raised a family, made hard decisions, and learned that success rarely tells the whole story.
Black. Millennial. Woman. Each part of that identity shapes how Autumn has experienced ambition, authority, expectations, visibility, and the quiet negotiations women face while becoming who they are meant to be. This is not polished leadership talk that skips over the complicated parts.
Expect real conversations about power and femininity, career and family, confidence and doubt, personal style, identity, reinvention, and what it costs to keep growing when the version of success you worked for no longer fits.
Behind the microphone
Leadership sounds different when women tell the whole truth.
Autumn brings experience, humor, honesty, and a point of view shaped by what leadership looks like in real life—not just on paper.
Season 1 episodes
The conversations people hope you are too polished to have.
Season 1 drops Fall 2026.
When Loyalty Quietly Becomes Self Abandonment
The Career Advice I Had to Unlearn
Power, Proximity, and the Price of Being Underestimated
The Relationships That Changed How I Lead
When Success Starts Looking Different
Season 1 drops Fall 2026
Smart. Feminine. Honest. Always unfiltered—because it needs to be.
Leading with Lip Gloss™ is for women who want the full conversation—not just the polished conclusion.