Rise & Roar with the Badass Lioness
This is where the quiet warrior becomes the unstoppable Lioness. Welcome to Rise & Roar with the Badass Lioness™, the podcast that hands you the mic, the match, and the momentum to ignite your next chapter. Hosted by Ginine Emily Smith — global speaker, Int'l best-selling author, trauma-to-triumph storyteller, and co-host of the hit TV show Rockstar Diaries — Healing Out Loud — this show is for the woman who’s done hiding, done shrinking, done surviving… and is finally ready to live louder. Discover how to craft a powerful story, become a magnetic communicator, build unshakable self-worth, and position yourself as a trusted authority in your field. Through raw conversations, practical tools, and breakthrough insights, The Badass Lioness guides you to rebuild, reinvent, and roar into a new level of impact and income. If you're an emerging speaker, creator, leader, or woman in reinvention season — this podcast will elevate your voice and revolutionize your life. Every episode is a fusion of truth-telling, empowerment coaching, emotional healing, storytelling mastery, and fierce Lioness energy. This isn’t a podcast. It’s a rebirth. A remembering. A rising. If you’re ready to walk in your power, own your story, and ROAR like never before— you’re in the right place.
Episodes
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...
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 m...
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.
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:
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It's Ok to say NO- Address old business -then redesign
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Why playing small a...
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, emotiona...
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.
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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 he...
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 f...
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 wi...
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, creativ...
Burnout isn’t a personal failure — it’s often the result of being brilliant for too long without support, boundaries, or rest.
In this powerful episode of the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith sits down with Lizette Warnerto reframe one of the most misunderstood experiences facing high-achieving women today: burnout.
This conversation is for the women who:
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Carry responsibility effortlessly
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Lead, give, and h...
No More Mediocrity is not a New Year’s resolution — it’s a declaration.
In this powerful kickoff episode (with NEW Theme Song!) of the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith sets a bold new standard for high performance, personal growth, women’s leadership, burnout recovery, and self-worth in 2026.
This episode is for women who are done surviving… Done shrinking… Done tying their worth to output, hustle, and exhaustion.
...Your voice is more powerful than you think — it’s not just sound, it’s spirit. In this electric, soul-shaking episode, Ginine Emily Smith and Laurie Hardie unpack what it truly means to amplify your voice — to rise from silence, own your story, and stand unapologetically in your divine calling.
Together, they dive deep into the courage to speak, the art of storytelling as healing, and how authentic self-expression becomes a catalys...
We’ve all been there — the job that vanished, the relationship that ended, the dream that suddenly crumbled. It’s easy to label those moments as failure, but what if they were never detours at all… just divine rerouting? In this powerful episode, Ginine Emily Smith and Laurie Hardie unpack what it means to trust God’s timing when life doesn’t go according to plan.
Laurie shares a deeply personal story of a door that slammed shut an...
This conversation hits deep. Laurie Hardie joins Ginine Emily Smith to unpack The Power of Permission — the courage to let go of perfection, lean into healing, and lead from the heart. Whether you’re in reinvention or recovery, this episode reminds you that your next chapter begins the moment you give yourself permission to live it.
Be afraid and do it anyway!
Give yourself permission to grow without guilt, rest without shame, and ...
Your soul keeps score. It remembers what lights you up, what drains you dry, and the whispers you’ve ignored for far too long. In this episode of the Badass Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith takes you on a raw and transformative journey of self-discovery through the practice of a soul inventory.
You’ll learn how to: 🔥 Reclaim the fire by identifying the passions and practices that make you come alive. 🔥 Release the drain by cut...
In the wild, lionesses don’t hunt alone—they rise, thrive, and survive together. In this episode of the Badass Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith unpacks the powerful leadership and life lessons we can learn from the pride: teamwork, trust, and resilience.
Through fierce storytelling and real-life strategies, you’ll discover how to: 🔥 Build authentic sisterhood and community that fuels your growth. 🔥 Cultivate trust—in yourself ...
For too long, you’ve carried the weight of duty, perfection, and people-pleasing—burying your truth under the noise of everyone else’s expectations. But the truth is, your voice was never meant to stay quiet.
In this episode of the Baddass Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith shares how to rise as the Quiet Warrior—the woman who has endured, survived, and stayed silent long enough, and is now ready to reclaim her fierce, authentic v...
Have you been restless, craving more, or feeling invisible in your own life? Those aren’t random emotions—they’re signs you’re ready to rise. In this episode of the Badass Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith reveals how to decode the whispers of your soul that are nudging you toward growth, courage, and unstoppable confidence.
Through bold storytelling and practical wisdom, you’ll learn how to: 🔥 Recognize the hidden clues that yo...
What happens when you give everything to everyone else… and your body finally says no more? In this raw and life-changing episode of the Badass Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith shares her personal story of hitting rock bottom—flatlining in a hospital bed in 2010—and the fierce awakening that followed.
This episode is about more than survival. It’s about moving from burnout to brilliance, from living small and silent to choosing ...
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