Cortne Lee Smith

Emotional Wellness Advocate

Cortne Lee Smith is an Emotional Wellness Advocate, speaker, and community development leader dedicated to transforming how individuals, families, and organizations understand grief, emotional resilience, and healing. Her work bridges emotional wellness, leadership development, and cultural transformation, helping people move from survival into purpose-driven growth.
She is the visionary behind the 1 Million Hearts Reconnected Community, a movement focused on restoring emotional wholeness, rebuilding human connection, and strengthening communities through healing-centered practices.

Through this initiative, she creates spaces where individuals feel seen, supported, and equipped to rebuild their lives with clarity and confidence.
Cortne is also the voice behind the Grief Heroes movement, empowering the next generation of leaders to understand, process, and harness the power of their emotions. Her work reframes emotional intelligence as a leadership strength, equipping youth and emerging leaders with tools to navigate grief, transitions, and life challenges in healthy, empowered ways.

She holds extensive professional certifications including Master Instructor, Master Life Coach, Professional Life Coach, Corporate Trainer, Grief and Bereavement Counseling, Stress & Anxiety Management, Counseling Children & Adolescents, Psychology and Therapy of Addictions, Goal Success Life Coach, Happiness Life Coach, Life Purpose Coach, Self-Healing Coach, Mindfulness Coach, and Focus Mastery & Breakthrough Coaching. These credentials reflect her deep commitment to holistic emotional wellness, behavioral transformation, and human potential development.

Cortne has spoken on stages and platforms including You Are Enough with Les Brown and Gloria Mayfield Banks, Speakers Network “Thriving Through Transitions,” and community programs such as Words Work Wonders “Walking Through Your Storms.” She has also been featured as a podcast guest on conversations including “The Pivot to Prosperity,” where she shares insights on emotional healing, resilience, and personal transformation.

In corporate and organizational spaces, she partners with leaders to build emotionally intelligent cultures that prioritize well-being, communication, and sustainable performance. Her approach blends coaching, training, and emotional wellness strategy to support both personal and professional growth.
Her philosophy, reflected in the Healed is Sexy message, challenges individuals to embrace healing as a powerful identity shift that leads to confidence, clarity, and purpose.

Across all her work, Cortne Lee Smith remains committed to one mission: helping people reconnect to themselves, their communities, and their future through emotional healing, leadership development, and conscious transformation.