Rise & Roar with the Badass Lioness
This is where the quiet warrior becomes the unstoppable Lioness. Welcome to Rise & Roar with the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness™—the podcast for women leaders, creatives, speakers, and entrepreneurs who are done shrinking… and ready to own their story, build their voice, and step into their next chapter of impact, influence, and income. Hosted by Ginine Emily Smith—global speaker, international best-selling author of Story to Stage: The Baddass Guide to Rising from Pain to Power, trauma-to-triumph storyteller, and co-host of the TV show Rockstar Diaries – Healing Out Loud—this show is your blueprint for turning your story into a stage, a brand, and a freedom platform. Inside each episode, you’ll learn how to: ✨ Craft a powerful signature story and message ✨ Become a confident, magnetic communicator and speaker ✨ Build unshakable self-worth and embodied leadership ✨ Create a freedom-based personal brand and platform ✨ Monetize your message through speaking, media, and influence Through raw conversations, storytelling mastery, emotional healing, and real-world strategy, Ginine and guests guide you to reclaim your voice, rise into authority, and build a platform that lets you do less, be more, and make more to give more. This is for the woman in her reinvention season— the leader, the visionary, the creator— ready to stop performing and start living aligned, seen, and fully expressed. This isn’t a podcast. It’s your Story to Stage. Your platform. Your rise. If you’re ready to own your voice, build your freedom platform, and ROAR like never before—you’re in the right place.
Episodes
What if your greatest impact isn't what you achieve—it's who you become?
In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Ginine Emily Smith sits down once again with transformational leader and bestselling author Sheevaun Moran to explore what happens after success. Together, they unpack the deeper journey of influence, legacy, leadership, personal evolution, and the courage required to step fully into your next level.
This episode ...
What if the greatest breakthrough in your business, leadership, relationships, and life wasn't another strategy—but a deeper alignment with who you truly are?
In this powerful episode of Rise & Roar with the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness™, Ginine Emily Smith sits down with transformational thought leader Sheevaun Moran to explore the unseen forces that influence our success, fulfillment, impact, and legacy.
Together, they dive i...
What happens when you've achieved everything you thought would make you happy... yet something still feels missing?
In this powerful episode of Rise & Roar with the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness™, Ginine Emily Smith sits down with award-winning communications executive, leadership coach, speaker, and bestselling author Mary Lou Panzano for an inspiring conversation about reinvention, a...
What happens when you've achieved everything you thought would make you happy... yet something still feels missing?
In this powerful episode of Rise & Roar with the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness™, Ginine Emily Smith sits down with award-winning communications executive, leadership coach, speaker, and bestselling author Mary Lou Panzano for an inspiring conversation about reinvention, a...
🎙️ Tune Out the Noise… Not the Music | Rise & Roar with the B.A.D.D.A.S.S. Lioness™
In a world overflowing with opinions, comparison, social media pressure, fake perfection, and nonstop online noise… how do you protect your peace, your purpose, and your authentic voice?
In this deeply powerful and emotional episode, global speaker, bestselling author, songwriter, and transformational coach Ginine Emily Smith dive...
This may be the most personal episode yet.
In this emotional Mother’s Day special, Ginine Emily Smith opens her heart about grief, legacy, motherhood, healing, and the invisible weight so many women carry in silence. Just weeks after losing her mother, Ginine shares raw reflections about growing up in a family marked by struggle, survival, storytelling, heartbreak, and resilience—and why preserving our stories matters n...
Longevity, Energy & Next-Level Wellness with Jana Bullard Peptides, Hormone Health & the New Standard of High-Performance Living
What if your energy, focus, and vitality didn’t decline with age… but actually improved with the right strategy?
In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, we go deeper with Jana Bullard into the world of advanced wellness, peptide support, hormone balance, and sustainable energy—...
Alignment, Leadership & the Next-Level Entrepreneur with Jana Bullard
What does it really take to build a top-tier business—and stay aligned while doing it?
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Jana Bullard, a former corporate banking leader turned top sales entrepreneur, wellness advocate, and community builder, who has created a multi–seven-figure business by helping women rise in both health and wealth.
But...
Your scars are not signs of weakness—they are proof of survival, courage, and strength. In this episode of the Badass Lioness Podcast, Ginine Emily Smith reveals why storytelling is sacred and how your scars hold the power to heal, connect, and transform both yourself and others.
From the mirror to the mic, Ginine shares how facing your own reflection with honesty can free you from shame—and how speaking your truth out ...
You don't have any weaknesses (NOT!).
What happens when you stop managing people… and start unleashing their genius?
In this powerhouse episode, Michelle Valley (Freedom Collaboration). drops truth that every leader needs to hear:
👉 Your people don’t need more control. 👉 They don’t need more pressure. 👉 They need permission to shine in their zone of genius.
Because when you create a culture rooted in freedom +...
Labels can help explain our experiences — but they can also quietly limit who we believe we’re allowed to become.
In this thought-provoking episode, Ginine Emily Smith explores how labels formed through trauma, culture, or past experiences can shape our identity and keep us stuck in outdated narratives.
But here’s the truth:
You are not your diagnosis, your mistakes, or your past chapters.
You’ll learn: • Ho...
In a world obsessed with performance, hustle, and image — what if the real power lies in simply being fully yourself?
In this episode, Ginine Emily Smith dives into the transformative concept of authentic presence and embodied leadership.
When your inner identity aligns with your outer expression, your nervous system relaxes, your message becomes stronger, and your leadership becomes magnetic.
You’ll discover: • Why aut...
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 sca...
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 u...
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...
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 syst...
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 embo...
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...
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 dysr...
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