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.

Untamed Leader is a business podcast hosted by Lauri Smith, with 95 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Becoming an Untamed Leader: Creating from the Edge

  Aug 18, 20261h 4mS3

  Send Lauri a message What if not knowing isn't the problem? What if it’s the whole point? This conversation was recorded the evening before the very first Untamed Leader Retreat. Lauri joins Kelly Myerson on the Bridges and Beacons Podcast for a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to lead from intuition rather than prescription, and why the wild, amoeba-like feeling of not-yet-knowing might be the most important leadership state there is. They cover the origin of the Untamed Leader movement, a Human Design deep dive on Lauri's incarnation cross (orientation, freshness, discernment, guidance), the three qualities of an untamed leader, and why naming the taming is always the first step. Kelly also introduces a reframe worth keeping: untie the NOTs (the things that are not you.) ️ Originally aired on Bridges and Beacons Podcast with Kelly Myerson Find Kelly: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bridges-and-beacons-podcast/id1603063964 Key Takeaways 1. The Untamed Leader movement began with a single intuitive hit, and continued one step at a time. Lauri heard "untamed leader" and waited. Then "untamed leader retreat." Then the number seven. She didn't run to a spreadsheet first, she followed each signal to the next one. Seven people. Seven perfect alignments. The whole thing unfolded one breadcrumb at a time, which is exactly the model it was designed to teach. 2. Your Human Design is not a personality label — it's a permission structure. Lauri's incarnation cross: orientation, freshness, discernment, guidance. She couldn't see it for years because she was so conditioned to be the straight-A student. It took 15 years of leading through chaos to finally realize “yes, that's me.” 3. Wild doesn't mean rabid. It means intuitive, organic, rhythmic. The fear around wildness, both from the people being tamed and the people doing the taming, is that untamed means uncontrolled chaos. It doesn't. It means living from your innate gifts rather than a prescribed set of rules. It means your one-in-eight-billion nature showing up rather than trying to be who you think you need to be to be accepted. 4. The Christmas Eve reframe: not-knowing as anticipation, not anxiety. Lauri's favorite day of the year is Christmas Eve: the mystery, the twinkly lights, the not-knowing what's under the tree. What if every time you don't yet have the shape of something, you could feel that instead of panic or dread? What if the amoeba state of pure possibility felt like the night before something wonderful? 5. An untamed leader needs three things: vision, creative presence, and voice. A felt sense of a better world. The ability to move creatively from the present moment toward that vision (not from resistance, but from deep acceptance of what's here and where we’re headed). And the ability to speak it in a way that invites others to join. All three intersect. Each one makes the others stronger. 6. Purpose is meant to be lived out, not figured out. 7. Notice the taming. Choose the untaming. Follow your intuition. Sometimes we immediately know our intuition. Sometimes we need to name what we don’t want first, then choose the opposite, then feel our way to the real door. There's wisdom in all three. Untaming isn't a single moment, it's an ongoing practice of choosing what's actually ours. 8. Untie the NOTs (the things that are not you). Kelly's reframe: Untaming isn’t just untying knots in the body. It's untying the NOTs: the beliefs, rules, and personas that were never yours. Notice what's not you. And let it go. The Speaker Alter Ego Quiz Take the Speaker Alter Ego quiz to find out which protective mask hides your natural radiance so you can learn how to get present, connect deeply, and share your vision when it matters most! https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ If you love this show and you’re looking for some new shows to fill your queue, head over to feministpodcasterscollective.com to explore everything FPC has to offer. Soul Sucker Quiz Take the Soul Sucker Quiz to learn which Soul Sucker screams the loudest in your mind so you can release them from being in charge and set your voice free! https://voice-matters.com/soul-sucker-quiz/ Support the show Thank you so much for listening! Take the free Speaker Alter Ego Quiz to find out which protective mask is hiding your wild, untamed radiance . https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ Follow me on: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/voice_matters_llc/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri-smith-voice-matters/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@voicematters9646

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  Own The Room With Your Real Voice

  Aug 11, 202652 minS3

  Send Lauri a message What if the reason your voice isn't landing has nothing to do with your words? In this off-season episode, Lauri Smith joins Desiree Stanley on the Pockets of Knowledge Podcast for a conversation that goes well beyond speaking tips. They cover what's happening in the body when you open your mouth, why playing offense instead of defense changes everything about how you show up, and the difference between meek, aggressive, and the powerful middle zone most of us were never taught to find. Lauri also introduces "scare-citement," the word she made up for the moment when fear and excitement are so tangled you can't tell them apart, and shares the fax machine story that became the hinge everything turned on. ️ Originally aired on Pockets of Knowledge Podcast with Desiree Stanley, Episode 189 Key Takeaways 1. Your body is already in the room before your voice is. When you're energetically present, taking up your full space rather than shrinking to one-tenth of it, people feel you coming before you say a word. 2. Play offense, not defense. When we don't set an intention, our inner critics do it for us, and they always set intentions to avoid. "I don't want to make waves. I don't want to screw it up." Flip it: What do I want to create in this room? That single shift moves you from reactive to creative. 3. There are three physicalities, and the middle one is where the magic is. Meek (caving, retreating) and aggressive (over-efforting, tunnel vision) are both off. The assertive middle — open heart, balanced effort and ease, peripheral vision wide — is the zone of genuine connection and leadership. Your toes will tell you which mode you're in: if one foot is backing toward the exit, that’s a sign. 4. The Voice starts in the toes. The fascia runs head to toe in one connected system. A healthy speaking voice isn't just throat and lungs, it's a whole-body instrument playing as it was designed. 5. Finding your voice is a remembering, not a learning. We came in playing our instruments perfectly, and then we put in hours of "don't be too loud, don't be too much." Unlearning is faster than learning. It's already in there, we just need to return to our natural wisdom. 6. Breath moves you from terror to excitement. Fear is excitement without breath. When the breath is shallow and held, the body stays in terror. When we let it deepen, we move toward the aliveness of excitement. 7. Practice it aloud, standing up, in the body. Staring at a PowerPoint is not rehearsing. The body has to do the thing before it can do the thing. When you’re preparing to speak publicly, get up and say it aloud enough for the body to recognize the moment when it arrives. 8. Your Voice Matters — especially if you think she doesn't mean you. Humanity is like a global orchestra. The string section has gone silent thinking it shouldn't take up too much space. What creates harmony is every voice playing its part. If you're listening and wondering whether she means you, the answer is YES. Especially you. The Speaker Alter Ego Quiz Take the Speaker Alter Ego quiz to find out which protective mask hides your natural radiance so you can learn how to get present, connect deeply, and share your vision when it matters most! https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ If you love this show and you’re looking for some new shows to fill your queue, head over to feministpodcasterscollective.com to explore everything FPC has to offer. Support the show Thank you so much for listening! Take the free Speaker Alter Ego Quiz to find out which protective mask is hiding your wild, untamed radiance . https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ Follow me on: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/voice_matters_llc/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri-smith-voice-matters/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@voicematters9646

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  Find Your Flow: Why Vulnerability is a Superpower

  Aug 4, 20261h 3mS3

  Send Lauri a message What if vulnerability isn't the thing that holds your voice back, but the doorway to finding it? In this off-season episode, Lauri Smith joins Lisa Roche on Find Your Flow, the podcast for people who are stuck and honest enough to say so. Lisa shares her own story: standing in front of a class, unable to say her name, unable to breathe, crumbling, and the room of strangers who rose, circled her, and held her. That moment became the beginning of finding her voice. Together, Lauri and Lisa explore what it really means to move through fear rather than around it. The fax machine story. The goddess in Macbeth. The group that held space and rose to the occasion when Lauri lost her voice. And the three words (Intend. Align. Invite.) that bring us back into flow when the soul suckers try to take over. This is not a conversation about sounding better. It's about becoming more available. To yourself. To others. To life. ️ Originally aired on Find Your Flow with Lisa Roche Note: Lisa Roche also appeared as a guest on the Untamed Leader Podcast — Episode: Beyond the Cello: Speaking Without the Shield Key Takeaways 1. Flow is always there, like a current at the center of the river of our lives. 2. The body knows before the mind does. 3. Vulnerability is the doorway, not the obstacle. 4. There's a voice beneath the words. 5. Speaking from the primal place creates lasting change. 6. The group can hold what the individual cannot. 7. The way out is always through. The Speaker Alter Ego Quiz Take the Speaker Alter Ego quiz to find out which protective mask hides your natural radiance so you can learn how to get present, connect deeply, and share your vision when it matters most! https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ If you love this show and you’re looking for some new shows to fill your queue, head over to feministpodcasterscollective.com to explore everything FPC has to offer. Soul Sucker Quiz Take the Soul Sucker Quiz to learn which Soul Sucker screams the loudest in your mind so you can release them from being in charge and set your voice free! https://voice-matters.com/soul-sucker-quiz/ Support the show Thank you so much for listening! Take the free Speaker Alter Ego Quiz to find out which protective mask is hiding your wild, untamed radiance . https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ Follow me on: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/voice_matters_llc/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri-smith-voice-matters/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@voicematters9646

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  Born With It: Speaking With Charisma

  Jul 28, 202653 minS3

  Send Lauri a message What if charisma isn't something you learn, it's something you were born with that got covered up? In this off-season episode, Lauri Smith joins Kelly Myerson on what was then the Mystic Nerd Squad Podcast (now Bridges and Beacons) for a wide-ranging conversation about authentic speaking, the soul suckers that drain your energy before you open your mouth, and why imitating Martin Luther King Jr. or Lady Gaga will never unleash your charisma (because that's theirs, not yours.) Lauri shares the acting class moment that changed everything, how the Speaker Alter Ego Quiz was born, and why speaking is a spiritual practice, not a performance skill. Kelly brings her own journey from holding back on stage to fully embracing a speaking style that's more maternal than commanding and more connected than controlled. Listen if you've ever wondered why your message isn't landing the way you know it could. Topics covered: • Why charisma is not one-size-fits-all • The Seydways Studio moment: jaw tension, oneness, and the first time Lauri truly let go • Soul Suckers: what they are, where they came from, and how they show up in speaking • The Speaker Alter Ego Quiz: how it was born and why it types the resistance, not the person • Silence, temperature checks, and why slowing down isn't the answer • Speaking as a spiritual practice that raises consciousness ️ Originally aired on the Mystic Nerd Squad Podcast with Kelly Myerson (now Bridges and Beacons) Find Kelly: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bridges-and-beacons-podcast/id1603063964 1. Charisma is not one size fits all, and imitating someone else's will never work. Martin Luther King Jr.'s charisma was his. Lady Gaga's instrument is hers. Copying the style, the gestures, or the delivery of speakers we admire doesn't unleash our charisma, it covers it. We are each born with a one-in-eight-billion version that only comes through when we stop imitating and start transmitting. 2. Charisma isn't about being emotional. It's about befriending sensation. The most compelling speakers haven't suppressed their emotion or let it run them, they've befriended all of it. Sensation, feeling, energy: all harnessed in service of the room. That's what moves people from "I understood you" to "I felt you." 4. The mask is like carpal tunnel: an innate trait overused into a habit. If you're naturally funny, you can be funny. If you're naturally peppy, that's a gift. The problem isn't the trait, it's when that one trait becomes the only one available, hardened by repetition into a reflexive protection. Jivin’ Jokester, Peppy Pleaser, Deranged Manikin. They're not flaws. They're innate gifts that got stuck. 5. Don't slow down. Take breaths. Telling a fast talker to slow down doesn't work. Taking one breath more than you're comfortable with does. Silence isn't a gap, it's a temperature check. It's how you read the room, let the audience integrate, and decide what to do next. 6. The audience is not your adversary, and picturing them in underwear is insulting to both of you. Fight-or-flight training makes us walk in assuming danger. The truth is the people in your audience are there because someone they trust said you were worth hearing. At worst they're neutral. At best they're leaning in. Start from there and actually look at them. 7. Speaking is a spiritual journey, not a nerve-wracking obligation to survive. Most speaking training stops at fear. Lauri's work goes further and deeper. Speaking, like relationships or health, is a path back to your true self. And the more people speaking soulfully, from their actual resonance, not a mask, the more consciousness gets raised. The Speaker Alter Ego Quiz Take the Speaker Alter Ego quiz to find out which protective mask hides your natural radiance so you can learn how to get present, connect deeply, and share your vision when it matters most! https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ If you love this show and you’re looking for some new shows to fill your queue, head over to feministpodcasterscollective.com to explore everything FPC has to offer. Support the show Thank you so much for listening! Take the free Speaker Alter Ego Quiz to find out which protective mask is hiding your wild, untamed radiance . https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ Follow me on: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/voice_matters_llc/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri-smith-voice-matters/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@voicematters9646

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  One in Eight Billion: Finding the Voice That's Truly Yours

  Jul 21, 202654 minS3

  Send Lauri a message What's the difference between a talk people remember and one that actually changes something? It's not the words, it's whether they actually felt you. In this off-season episode, Lauri Smith joins Kat Polsinelli on Real Chat with Kat for a conversation about what it really means to speak from the heart. They cover the five speaker masks that dim your one-in-eight-billion radiance, why breath is almost always the answer when presence breaks down, and how to tell the difference between sharing your story because you need something and sharing it because it serves. Lauri also introduces her three-word framework (Intend. Align. Invite.) and explains why the audience is almost never your enemy (even when your nervous system insists otherwise). Topics covered: • The five speaker masks: Porcelain Doll, Heady Hipster, Peppy Pleaser, Jivin' Jokester, Deranged Mannequin • Aggressive vs. meek vs. the open-hearted middle, and what each looks like in the body • Sharing your story to heal vs. sharing it to serve: a crucial distinction • Why breath is the fastest path back to presence • Intend. Align. Invite. Lauri's three-word mantra for embodied speaking • Rebels with a cause: redefining what it means to lead differently ️ Originally aired on Real Chat with Kat with Kat Polsinelli — — — Key Takeaways 1. The audience is not your enemy. Fight-or-flight makes us walk into a room assuming danger. In reality, most audiences are neutral to leaning in — they came because someone they trust said you were worth hearing. Start from there. 2. There are three physicalities — and only one of them connects. Aggressive (pushing, closed heart, tunnel vision) and meek (testing the waters, shrinking) are both masks. The open-hearted middle — effort and ease in balance, heart open, full peripheral vision — is where presence lives. Your body already knows the difference. 3. Safe, semi-public spaces are the bridge between private and public. Private (one on one), public (the stage), and semi-public (an intimate group) serve different functions. The intimate group is where you build enough energetic escrow to carry the story without being undone by it. 4. Breath is almost always the answer. Not slow speech … Breath. Pauses that let your mind catch up, let the audience integrate, and return you to your body when your head starts tripping over itself. It's the fastest path back to presence. 5. Intend. Align. Invite. Set an emotional intention for the room before you open your mouth. Align body, breath, and energy with your most expressive self. Then invite: speak while watching faces, reading the room, feeling the vibe shift. 6. The difference between understanding and feeling. Understanding changes a thought. Being felt changes behavior. The gap between those two is the difference between just another speaker and being an untamed leader. 7. Your flaws are your rebellion's fuel. Rebels with a cause aren't rebelling against everything — they're rebelling toward something. The sensitivity, weirdness, or outsider quality you've been told to tone down is often exactly the thing that makes your cause land differently than anyone else's. If you love this show and you’re looking for some new shows to fill your queue, head over to feministpodcasterscollective.com to explore everything FPC has to offer. Soul Sucker Quiz Take the Soul Sucker Quiz to learn which Soul Sucker screams the loudest in your mind so you can release them from being in charge and set your voice free! https://voice-matters.com/soul-sucker-quiz/ Support the show Thank you so much for listening! Take the free Speaker Alter Ego Quiz to find out which protective mask is hiding your wild, untamed radiance . https://voice-matters.com/speaker-alter-ego-quiz/ Follow me on: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/voice_matters_llc/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri-smith-voice-matters/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@voicematters9646

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