Untamed Leader
Untamed Leader is a podcast for loving rebels who are ready to speak, live, and lead from the radiant pulse of their purpose—the wild-hearted ones dedicated to transforming the vibe in the room and igniting meaningful change.
Through heart-to-heart conversations, breakthrough coaching moments, solo reflections, and inspiring stories from the edge of becoming, Untamed Leader explores what it means to lead from the inside out. Host Lauri Smith weaves together three essential leadership threads: vision, creativity, and voice.
Here, leadership is a sacred art.
Intuition guides creation.
Presence shapes communication.
And your voice channels the rhythm already alive in your soul.
Whether you’re already visible—or standing at the edge of visibility—something in you knows:
It’s time to lead untamed.
Episodes
89 episodes
Soul Of Visibility
What if visibility isn't about performing—it's about being felt?In this off-season drop, you're getting a front-row seat to a conversation that happened on Jeni Holla's Soul Chats podcast. Jeni and Lauri explore the soul of visibi...
Curious First: A New Model for True Leaders
What if your biggest leadership mistake wasn't the decisions you made, but the mental model you were carrying when you made them?Leadership coach Kurt Bush started out believing leaders had to have all the answers. Spoiler: it nearly cos...
Hide No More
What if the version of you that shrinks is both timid and brilliant?In this retreat coaching session, we sit with Brian Perry, an authentic communication coach and singer-songwriter, as his body remembers a childhood rule: being seen is ...
From Comfort To Calling With A Trusted Guide
The most dangerous career trap is not failure. It’s comfort that slowly turns into a cage. In this episode of the Untamed Leader Podcast, Lauri sits down with Dr. Karen Koepp, a strategic advisor who helps senior leaders navigate hi...
Tending Your Inner Fire: A Live Coaching Moment
What does untaming look like and how do we do it? This is a real coaching session from the Untamed Leader Spring Retreat: Embody Your Vision — unscripted, embodied, and alive.Dana is stepping into a new chapter: retiring from her career,...
Beyond Knowing
What happens when insight isn't enough — when your vision is clear, your mind runs fast, and follow-through keeps breaking anyway?Executive functioning and resilience coach Kevin Bailey spent years burning out trying to out-learn and out...
Chaos to Clarity: The Systems Behind an Untamed Life
What if the reason your business feels stuck isn't the strategy — it's all the disconnected parts that nobody's connecting? Fractional COO Lauren Zaslansky Conner has spent decades doing exactly that: linking the systems, the people, and the pu...
Leadership As A Choice (bonus)
What if the greatest leadership credential isn't a title or a degree — it's the moment you realized you had no idea what you were doing?Charlie Sheppard — founder of the Human Presence Institute and president of Sheppard Partners — spent...
Post-Crisis: The Leadership Gap No One Talks About
What happens to a leader's clarity after the crisis passes — when things go quiet and the pressure turns inward? Savio P. Clemente, TEDx speaker, journalist, bestselling author, and two-time cancer survivor, brings that answer from somewhere mo...
Own Your Weird: The Branding No One Talks About
Personal branding expert and visual designer Rachel Lee built her brand by doing something most people are terrified to do: she showed the world exactly who she is — messy edges, weird quirks, ...
Fine Is a Trap: Breaking Free from the Work-Sleep-Repeat Cycle
What does it cost to keep saying "I'm fine"? Executive coach Lauren Lefkowitz broke both her shoulders chasing a Roomba.In this episode of Untamed Leader, Lauri and Lauren unpack the price of the work-sleep-repeat cycle —...
Soul First: How to Build a Business That Feels Like Freedom
What does it take to build a global movement of 14,000 people — across 48 countries and six continents — without a single dollar of advertising? Ask Camille Miller.Camille is the founder of the Soul Professional Movement, a three-...
Forced to Let Go: The Leadership Turn No One Plans For
What does it actually take to let go — not because you're wise enough, but because your back gave out and you had no other choice?Entrepreneur and business coach Chris Shurian started his first company the hard way: handling every...
The Return: What Untamed Leader is Really About
What does it actually mean to untame a leader—and why does it matter right now? In this Season 3 premiere of Untamed Leader, Lauri Smith flips the mic. Longtime collaborator, singer-songwriter, and authentic communication coach Brian Perry step...
Untamed Leader: The Next Chapter Begins
The Soulful Speaking Podcast is now the Untamed Leader Podcast.The name has changed.The pulse has not.How did we get here?Over years of conversations about voice, presence, and creative courage, a deeper truth ke...
Beyond the Cello: Speaking Without the Shield
What happens when your voice disappears—right when you need it most?In this deeply human conversation, Lisa Roche, host of the Find Your Flow podcast, joins Lauri to explore what it really means to find your voice when your body says no....
Boxes We Live In, Boxes We Leave
What happens when the life that looks successful on paper no longer feels true inside?In this episode, best-selling author and real estate entrepreneur Betsy Pepine shares the deeply personal journey that led her to write Breaking Bo...
Career vs. Calling: The Near-Death Pivot that Changed Everything (bonus)
In this bonus episode, Speaker, coach, and Next Level University CEO Alan Lazaros joins Lauri for a raw, high-voltage conversation about fear, intensity, and the courage to be “too much.” From a high-school speech panic (and a hypnotist’s snowb...
A Hyperventilating Thought Leader?
What happens when the person who once hyperventilated in middle school at the mere thought of speaking… becomes the woman people ask to take photos with after her talk?In this episode, Lauri sits down with Kelly Schuknecht, mark...
Forget Memorization. Find Your Flow. (bonus)
What happens when “memorize it” kills your aliveness? In this bonus episode, speaker and leader Kurt Uhlir shares how forcing a script spiked his stress, shut down vulnerability, and flattened his presence — and how returning to flow ch...
From Quieted to Clear: Owning the Room After You’ve Been Erased
What happens to your voice when survival requires silence?Kat Polsinelli stepped onstage at 10… and years later, found herself slowly losing her voice inside a decade-long abusive relationship she never expected to be in. In this ...
Earth & Sky: A Soulful Speaking Tune-Up (mini-sode)
In this bonus minisode, you’re invited into a grounding ritual — one that rose up unplanned during a conversation with a guest, and insisted on being shared.This is a moment to pause.To feel the truth of where you are.To reconnec...
On the Brink (Literally): Evelyne’s Becoming
Voice and visibility coach Evelyne Brink returns with a story that’s part pilgrimage, part primal scream, and fully alive. From being told her voice was “dysfunctional” to getting into (and then kicked out of) musical theatre school, Evelyne fo...
From Silence to Sound: Finding Your Wild Voice
Therapist and nature-based guide Laura Rose shares how an early love of reading aloud and debate gave way to silence after bullying—then slowly blossomed into a wilder, truer voice through chanting, song circles, land stewardship, and community...
Hot Flashes, Cold Facts and "Ohhh… It’s Hormones!" (mini-sode)
It’s 2026 — and somehow, we’re still not talking enough about menopause.In this unfiltered minisode, Lauri and her friend and fellow coach Kelly Myerson swap real stories about navigating hormonal shifts, medical gaslighting, an...