Hi, I’m Tracy | Truth Teller

I help high-impact leaders step into the biggest roles of their careers with clarity, presence, and guts.

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ABOUT TRACY

Tracy Podell has first-hand experience building the plane while flying it. After leading marketing inside high-growth startups acquired by Viacom and Tinder, she knows the pressure and politics that come with rapid scale and what it takes to lead through it.



As a Senior Partner at Evolution, she coaches senior leaders at companies like Slack, Amazon, Headspace, Instacart, and Lyft, as well as family and impact investment offices like Builders Vision and S2G, and brands like Abercrombie, Osea, and Ilia. She helps executives lead with clarity, range, and authentic authority, especially in moments of high visibility, shifting power, and growing responsibility

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Next Level Leadership

Tracy Podell, Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant

The Executive Presence Checklist

People judge your leadership in 1/10 of a second. Those snap judgments can accelerate your impact or quietly undercut it.

Download it to:
Spot where your authority is leaking without you realizing it
Learn the external signals leaders notice instantly: body, voice, pacing
Strengthen the internal signals people sense about you right away
Close the gap between how competent you are and how others perceive you

  • “Before I had a baby, my career was my whole life. Once my daughter was born and I returned to work, I realized I needed a new way of working. I sought out a coach to help me with that big transition and found Tracy. Tracy has helped me with so much more than just navigating my new work life. She's guided me through a big promotion and my first time in the C-suite, helped me find my voice as a leader in my organization, and led me to find more time for joy in my day to day life. Her advice is both strategic and tactical and she's given me so many tools that I use on a daily basis.”

    Noelle Laing // Chief Investment Officer // Builder’s Initiative

  • “Tracy has been an amazing coach to me. She is a great listener and I feel that I have 1000+% of her attention Every Single Time. She has helped me navigate through a few challenging roadblocks as a busy working mom and I especially love her techniques of reducing stress through meditation and breathing exercises.”

    DENISE B // HEAD OF TAX @ SLACK

  • “Thanks to Tracy, I’ve become resilient, centered, and much better able to tackle all the challenges that come my way. I have a toolkit of exercises, frameworks, and daily practices where I used to have nothing but instinct & good intentions. I’m a better manager, I’m a better leader, and I’m a better person. My company continues to trust me with more & more responsibility & opportunities for impact.”

    Nicole Z // Founder & Head of Ops @ Balsa

  • “Nothing is more critical to building a high-performing executive team than trust and the ability to process conflict. Tracy played two important roles for Loop in pursuit of having such a team.. As a 1-1 coach for our executives, she helped them process their interpersonal challenges and take a Powerful mindset into them. As a facilitator in our team sessions, she equipped us with the tools and conversational frameworks to process our issues effectively and productively move forward. Hearing our team use the language and tools Tracy gave on a daily basis is the surest sign of the positive impact she's had on our team!”

    Jonathan Poma // CEO & Founder // Loop Returns

The Old Version of You Got 
You Here. The Next One Leads from Here.

You’ve earned your way here. You adapted. You delivered. You built something meaningful. But the rules that got you here aren’t the ones that will take you forward. What’s next isn’t about shrinking into someone else’s idea of leadership or working harder to prove your worth. You’re done playing that game.

This next chapter is about clarity, presence, and authority that's authentically your own. The kind of leadership that lets you:

Stay centered when the stakes are highest
Speak up without overexplaining
Lead from your own center of gravity
Move with confidence through uncertainty
Let your presence speak before you do

The next version of you isn't someone else. She's more of you without the armor, without the performance, without shrinking to fit.
She's ready when you are.
You’ve outgrown the old playbook. Let’s write the next one.

LET's GET STARTED