Wickedly Smart Woefully Stupid Podcast

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Wickedly Smart Woefully Stupid Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Wickedly Smart Woefully Stupid, with 10 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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  Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 9 - Mike Long - The Evolution of Democracy

  May 8, 202651 minS0

  <p>What Does Democracy Actually Feel Like From the Inside?</p><p>Most conversations about democracy right now feel like arguments — volleys of talking points launched from entrenched positions, designed to win rather than illuminate. This episode is something different.</p><p>This week, Wendy sits down with her partner, Mike Long, a lifelong student of history and human psychology, and, together with Harvey, the three of them do something that feels almost radical in 2026: they just... think out loud together. About where we came from, what we might be losing, and whether the thing we call democracy has ever ac...

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  Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 8 - Gary Salyer - Attachment Styles

  Apr 3, 202648 minS0

  <p>What if the way you love was shaped before you could even speak — and what if that same pattern is running our institutions, our politics, our planet?</p><p>In this episode, Wendy and Harvey sit down with transformational relationship mentor Dr. Gary Salyer to explore the hidden architecture of attachment — the early patterns that wire us for connection, conflict, or shutdown long before we have words for any of it.</p><p>But this conversation doesn't stop at the personal. Anxious clinging, avoidant walls, the compulsive need to dominate or disappear — these aren't just relationship dynamics. They're the operat...

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  Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 7 - Nature As Board Member

  Mar 27, 202631 minS0

  <p>What if nature had a seat at the table — not as a resource to be managed, but as a voice to be heard?</p><p>In this episode, Wendy and Harvey dig into Alexandra Pimor's Nature on Board movement — a radical, quietly spreading idea that nature deserves representation in the very boardrooms and decision-making bodies shaping its future.</p><p>From Ecuador writing the rights of Pachamama into its constitution, to New Zealand granting legal personhood to a forest and a river, to Patagonia transferring its ownership entirely to the earth — something is shifting. The question is whether it's shifti...

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  Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 6 - Erin Dayl - Regenerative Business

  Mar 20, 202641 minS0

  <p>The soil beneath your feet is a living system. So why do we treat it like dirt?</p><p>In this episode, Wendy and Harvey sit down with sustainability pioneer and transdisciplinary systems thinker Erin Dayl — a woman who has spent 25 years at the intersection of clean energy, regenerative agriculture, social justice, and the kind of organizational thinking that actually moves things forward.</p><p>From breaking a 50-year energy contract in rural New Mexico, to building tribal energy sovereignty, to designing what a truly regenerative company might look like from the ground up — Erin is someone who doesn’t just...

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  Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 5 - Teddy Roosevelt's Legacy

  Mar 6, 202627 minS0

  <p>What would Teddy Roosevelt think of today's world — and what would you do if you were president? Wendy and Harvey kick off with a powerful (if possibly misappropriated) Roosevelt quote about leaving the land better for future generations, then trace the arc from his bold conservation legacy to today's dismantling of public lands and the silencing of climate from mainstream discourse. Along the way, they wrestle with “conventional wisdom,” the politics of natural resources, $15 bags of grapes, and whether a Thomas Paine-style catalytic moment could still shift the cultural narrative. They end up somewhere unexpected: a shared presidential platform, a tag...

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