Rise & Roar with the Badass Lioness

25 | Speak From Scars, Not Wounds: The Leadership Power of Sharing Your Story Without Bleeding on the Stage

Your story has power — but how you tell it determines whether it inspires transformation or simply releases pain.
In this deeply important episode, Ginine Emily Smith shares a crucial lesson for speakers, leaders, authors, and storytellers:
Don’t bleed all over the stage. Speak from your scars.
When leaders speak from unresolved wounds, audiences feel discomfort and emotional overwhelm. But when we speak from healed scars, we offer wisdom, hope, and transformation.
In this episode you’ll learn:• The difference between therapeutic storytelling and transformational storytelling• Why nervous system regulation is essential for powerful speaking• How to turn trauma into wisdom without retraumatizing yourself or your audience• Why integrated stories create deeper trust and influence• How great speakers move from pain to purpose
If you want to command a room, connect deeply with audiences, and turn your story into impact, this episode is essential listening.
 
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24 | Gratitude Rewires the Brain: The Science, Spiritual Power & Leadership Advantage of Living Grateful

What if gratitude isn’t just a feel-good practice… but a biological reset for your nervous system and leadership presence?
In this powerful episode, Ginine Emily Smith explores how gratitude rewires neural pathways, regulates stress responses, and shifts you from survival mode into empowered leadership.
You’ll discover why negative emotions struggle to coexist with genuine gratitude, how high-performing leaders use gratitude as a mental and emotional regulation tool, and why practicing gratitude daily can dramatically change your mindset, relationships, and impact.
This episode blends neuroscience, personal transformation, and real-world leadership wisdom to help you move from overwhelm to alignment.
Key Topics:• Gratitude and nervous system regulation• How gratitude rewires the brain• Emotional resilience and mindset shifts• Leadership presence and emotional intelligence• Moving from survival mode to sovereignty
If you’re ready to shift your perspective, regulate your energy, and unlock greater clarity and influence, this conversation will change the way you see gratitude forever.
 
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23 | Aging Backwards and Rising Forward- Part 3 with Joellyn Martin

Aging Backwards & Rising Forward – Part 3: Don’t Go Back to Playing Small
In Part 3 of this powerful conversation, Ginine Emily Smith sits down again with the radiant and unstoppable Joellyn Martin — 71 years young, vibrant, holistic, and living proof that aging is not decline… it’s design. Positive aging!
This episode goes deeper.
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22 | Aging Backwards & Rising Forward – Part 2: Don’t You Dare Go Back to Playing Small

Aging Backwards & Rising Forward – Part 2: Don’t Go Back to Playing Small
In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Ginine Emily Smith sits down again with the radiant and unstoppable Joellyn Martin — 71 years young, vibrant, holistic, and living proof that aging is not decline… it’s design. Positive aging!
This episode goes deeper.
We talk about:
It's Ok to say NO- Address old business -then redesign
Why playing small accelerates emotional and physical aging
The connection between energy, identity, and overall well-being
Rewiring old patterns that keep you stuck in contraction
Expanding your purpose instead of shrinking into comfort
What it really means to rise forward instead of slide backward
If you’ve ever felt the pull to dim your light…If success scared you into self-sabotage…If your body feels the stress of shrinking…
This episode is your reset.
Aging backwards isn’t about chasing youth.It’s about alignment.It’s about nervous system regulation.It’s about becoming something bigger than yourself.It’s about choosing expansion over contraction — again and again.
Because here’s the truth:Every time you expand and then shrink back to safety, your body feels it.Your spirit feels it.Your leadership feels it.
You did not come this far to go back to playing small.
This conversation blends holistic wellness, neuroscience-informed insight, identity transformation, and real-life lived wisdom — to help you rise with energy, purpose, and power at any age.
Whether you’re in midlife reinvention, second chapter leadership, or simply ready to feel fully alive again — this episode will wake something up in you.
🔥 Don’t contract.🔥 Don’t shrink.🔥 Rise forward.

21|Aging Backwards & Rising Forward: Nervous System Mastery, Business Strategy & Becoming Bigger Than Yourself

What if your nervous system held the key to aging backwards, expanding your impact, and building a business that actually supports your wellbeing?
In this soulful + strategy-packed conversation, Ginine sits down with Joellyn Martin — international author, holistic wellness expert, and living proof that 71 can look (and feel) younger than ever.
Together, they dive deep into:
✨ Why every part of you matters — nervous system, emotional health, physical body, purpose, and business✨ How holistic wellbeing directly fuels leadership, creativity, and income✨ What it really means to “age backwards” from the inside out✨ Practical strategies for staying prepared in life and business✨ And the powerful call to be something bigger than yourself
This episode is for visionary women, leaders, and entrepreneurs who know they’re made for more — and are ready to align their inner world with their outer success.
If you’ve been craving a conversation that blends healing + high performance, soul + strategy, and longevity + legacy… this one’s for you.
🎧 Press play and discover how total wellbeing becomes your unfair advantage.
 
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20|Narcissism in the Workplace (Part 2): Protecting Your Energy, Your Voice & Your Power

How to recognize unhealthy patterns, set boundaries, and lead with strength — without becoming hardened
with Laurie Hardie
Part 2 goes deeper.
Because narcissism doesn’t just show up in romantic relationships —it shows up in workplaces, leadership dynamics, families, teams, and communities.
And in this episode, Ginine and Laurie Hardie shift the conversation from awareness to self-protection, empowerment, and embodied leadership.
Let’s be clear:
Not everyone who causes harm is a narcissist.And we are not here to label or diagnose.
We are here to help you recognize patterns —so you don’t normalize emotional abuse, chronic stress, or toxic dynamics anymore.
This conversation is for high-achieving women, leaders, and professionals who:
• Feel drained, dismissed, or over-functioning at work• Struggle with boundaries in unhealthy environments• Have experienced gaslighting, manipulation, or control• Want to lead with integrity without burning out• Are ready to break cycles instead of repeating them
Inside this episode, we explore:
✨ How narcissistic traits show up in the workplace✨ The difference between difficult people and emotionally unsafe leadership✨ Why your nervous system often knows before your mind does✨ Subtle red flags that signal power imbalance and manipulation✨ How to protect your energy without becoming guarded or reactive✨ Practical boundary strategies for professional environments✨ What healing leadership actually looks like✨ How to reclaim your voice, clarity, and authority
This isn’t about becoming bitter.
It’s about becoming aware.
It’s about moving from survival mode into sovereignty.From people-pleasing into presence.From confusion into clarity.
Because when you see the pattern,you can interrupt the pattern.
And when you interrupt the pattern,you change your future.
2026 is the year we rise.
In truth.In boundaries.In nervous-system safety.In unapologetic self-respect.
If you’ve ever felt silenced, minimized, or emotionally exhausted at work —this episode is for you.
🎧 Press play.🦁 Take your power back.✨ Lead from alignment.
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19|2026 Is the Year We Rise: Breaking Free From Narcissistic Patterns (Without Labels or Shame)

with Laurie Hardie
2026 isn’t the year we stay silent.
It’s the year we rise.
In this powerful, heart-centered conversation, Ginine and Laurie Hardie pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood topics in personal growth and leadership: narcissism, emotional harm, and relational patterns.
Let’s be clear right up front:
Not everyone who causes pain is a narcissist.And we are not here to diagnose or label anyone.
We are here to bring awareness.
Because awareness is what breaks cycles.Awareness is what stops abuse from repeating.Awareness is what turns quiet survival into conscious sovereignty.
In this episode, we explore:
✨ The difference between narcissistic traits and narcissistic abuse✨ Why so many high-achieving women normalize emotional harm✨ How unhealed patterns quietly recreate themselves in relationships, leadership, and business✨ What it actually feels like in your body when something isn’t safe✨ How to reclaim your voice, boundaries, and power without becoming bitter or hardened✨ Why healing isn’t about blaming the past — it’s about choosing differently moving forward
This is not a victim story.
This is a rise story.
A conversation for women who are done minimizing red flags.For leaders who are ready to stop over-functioning.For quiet warriors who are becoming bold, embodied Lionesses.
Because when you see the pattern,you can interrupt the pattern.
And when you interrupt the pattern,you change your future.
If you’ve ever felt confused, depleted, gaslit, or silenced…this episode is for you.
2026 is the year we rise —in truth, in boundaries, in nervous-system safety,and in unapologetic self-respect.
🎧 Press play.🦁 Take your power back.✨ And remember: awareness is the beginning of freedom.
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18| Trauma-Process in Private, Lead in Public. The difference between embodied storytelling and emotional leakage

Just because you’re healing doesn’t mean you should lead from the wound.
In Part 2 of this conversation with Michelle Barr, we’re naming a hard truth many leaders avoid-Not every season of healing belongs on a public stage—especially in business.
This episode is about discernment, timing, and identity.
When women show up while still regulated by survival—processing pain in real time, sharing from dysregulation, or leading from an unfinished identity—it doesn’t build trust. It quietly erodes authority, clarity, and nervous-system safety for everyone involved.
This is not a message against vulnerability.It’s a message about embodied leadership.
We explore why:
Your wound is not your brand
Healing in public can unintentionally lock you into an old identity
Oversharing while dysregulated keeps your nervous system—and your business—stuck in survival
True credibility comes from integration, not exposure
Leaders don’t abandon transparency—they practice timing and regulation
You’ll learn the difference between:
Sharing as catharsis vs sharing as service
Old-identity storytelling vs integrated leadership narrative
Processing trauma vs leading transformation
Being relatable vs being regulating
This episode is for the woman who knows she’s evolved—but hasn’t fully stopped introducing herself as who she used to be.
Because leadership isn’t about telling your story while you’re still in it.It’s about showing up as the woman who has crossed the bridge.
Process in private.Integrate fully.Then lead from who you are now—not who you survived as.
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17|Healed But Still Exhausted? The trauma conversation high-achieving women need to hear

Ginine sits down with Michelle Bar- a Transformational Business and Life Coach, Speaker, Author, and Teacher who helps you find your freedom and live your vision. After turning her own expensive hobby into a full-time profitable business, she took it online and built a thriving global online business, along with a life of both Money, and time Freedom that she has created. She is best known as a Personal Transformation Specialist with over 30 years of experience working with her clients at a deep level to achieve -  lasting healing and transformation that leads to success in every area of their lives. Michelle lives in Texas and travels both nationally and internationally, speaking, teaching, and serving.
Trauma isn’t what happened to you.It’s what stayed in your body.
In this episode, we dismantle one of the biggest myths in personal growth and leadership: that trauma lives only in the past.
For high-achieving women, trauma often hides behind competence, productivity, and strength. It shows up as exhaustion, hyper-independence, emotional armor, over-functioning, and a nervous system stuck in survival—long after the story says you’ve “healed.”
This is not a soft or surface-level conversation.
Joined by trauma and healing expert Michelle Barr, we explore what trauma actually is, how it lives in the nervous system, and why willpower, mindset work, and hustle can’t override a dysregulated body.
You’ll discover:
Why trauma is a physiological response, not a personal failure
How “successful” women stay trapped in fight-or-flight without realizing it
The difference between understanding trauma and becoming it
What regulated leadership looks like—and why it changes everything
How women reclaim power when they lead without armor
This episode is for the woman who’s done the work…but still feels guarded, tired, or stuck in survival mode.
Because true leadership doesn’t come from pushing harder.It comes from regulation, presence, and embodied power.
She talks about conscious dance- an epic tool!
When women regulate, they don’t just heal.They change the world.
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16| Burn Out or Rust Out -Why High-Achieving Women Are Either Exhausted or Stuck — and How to Reignite Without Burning Out

Is it burnout…Or is it rust out?
In Part 2 of this powerful conversation on the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith continues the dialogue with Lizette Warner to explore the two silent states impacting high-achieving women everywhere: burnout and rust out.
Burnout comes from overextension — being brilliant for too long without rest, boundaries, or support.Rust out comes from underutilization — when capable, creative women feel bored, unseen, stuck, or disconnected from purpose.
Both drain energy.Both impact confidence, motivation, and well-being.And both are often misunderstood.
This episode dives deep into how women move from overgiving to underliving, and why neither state is a personal failure — but a signal that something needs recalibration.
This conversation is not theory.It’s grounded in decades of lived experience, leadership, and real-life reinvention.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The difference between burnout and rust out — and how to recognize which one you’re in
Why capable women are especially vulnerable to both
How identity, self-worth, and nervous system patterns play a role
Why “pushing harder” or “waiting it out” never works
How to reignite purpose, energy, and momentum without self-abandonment
What sustainable high performance actually looks like for women
If you feel tired but restless…If success no longer excites you…If you know you’re meant for more but don’t want to burn out again —
This episode will give you language, clarity, and direction.
🦁 You’re not lazy.You’re not broken.You’re either burned out — or rusting out.And both can be healed.
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