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The Spitfire Podcast with Lauren LeMunyan — 201 episodes
Life Will Life: 5 Leadership Lessons from a Military Spouse
The Accountability Move that Changes Everything (and most leaders never do it)
Detach to Attract: Reclaiming Your Power by Letting Go of the Outcome
The Power of "I Don't Know"
We Don't Have an "Ambition Gap", We Have a Support Gap with Santana Inniss of The Glow Initiative
Wrapping Up 2025... and Preparing for 2026
Real Talk on Coaching, Advising, and Leading Through the Mess with Laurie Battaglia
Middle Management Meltdown: Who's Really Holding Up the House?
Telling Your Empowerment Story: From Survival to Self-Celebration
Redefining Success: From Doing to Being in Leadership
Please Dont Coach Me: The Cringey NPR Coaching Voice
Introducing "Please Don't Coach Me"
Is It Your Intuition or Are You Just Judgy?
42 & On Fire: The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe & Self-Worth
Breaking the Scarcity Cycle: Redefining Your Money Story for Financial Abundance
10 Years, 10 Lessons: Entrepreneurial Truth Bombs from the Spitfire Journey
Creative Sparks & Soul Shifts with Paige Williams: From Desperation to Awakening
Cracking the Code of Clarity: Why Simple Is Harder (and Better)
Recalibrating Your Values: When Old Drivers No Longer Work
Limbo, Purpose, and the Messy Middle
Through the Fire: A Summer of Survival, Strength & Future Self Design
When Life Really Lifes on You: What I've Been Up to The Last Month and Change
No Subtext, Just Truth: Fat Bias, F-Bombs & Fixing Leadership Culture with Shannon Malone deBenedictis
I Was Wrong About 'Let Them': Why Critical Thinking Matters More Than Feel-Good Fixes
Buzzwords & Bullsh*t: Exposing Performative Leadership
The Power of Not Knowing: Leadership's Secret Weapon
Leading Leaders: The Real Work Starts at the Top
From Chaos to Clarity: Unlocking Resilience Through Somatic Coaching
Reclaim Your Power: The 15-Minute Morning Reset
Spitfire Sparks: Finding Joy in the Unexpected
Does Self-Promotion Feel Slimy? Try This Instead
Dressing Room Decision Making
Embracing a "Let Them" Mindset
Beware The Shoulds: How to Spot Coaching Red Flags
The Power of Storytelling and Taking Back Control
Judgment, Alignment, and Activating Your Inner Spitfire
Curiosity Unleashed: The Secret Sauce for Smarter Problem-Solving
A Fresh Take on Self-Care and Mental Health
Yucking on Your Yum
The ELMO Dilemma: Leadership, Respect, and Psychological Safety in Meetings
Unlocking Simplicity: How We Miss Obvious Solutions & What To Do About It
Talk vs. Action: Transforming Leadership Frustration into Forward Momentum
The True Costs of Avoidance and Inaction
Five Year Guided Meditation: Visualizing Your Future
Episode 197: Embracing the Edge: Overcoming Vulnerability & Rejection
Breaking Barriers: Revolutionizing Communication and Collaboration in the Workplace
Celebrating Achievements: A Year-End Recap of The Spitfire Podcast
The True History of Hard and Soft Skills and How it Impacts our Valuation of Leaders
The First Stage of Burnout That No One Talks About
Finding Healing and Growth with Andromeda Peters
A New Strategy to Build Trust on Your Team (and with Your Teen)
Unleash Your Inner Power: Transform Your Reality with Dr. Amanda
Rethinking Feedback: How to be more effective and impactful in your feedback process
At What Cost? The Underlying Toll of Always Being "On"
Giving Someone the Benefit of the Doubt
Flexing Your Truscles (Trust Muscles)
Redefining Your Motivation
Lessons Learned from Learning to Sail and Getting a Puppy
My Rant About Venting
Make Sure You're Always Half Full
"You Should Do More"
Episode 180: How to Receive Feedback and Use it As a Gift
Episode 179: Everything is Better When...
Episode 178: How to Determine Your Brand without Hiring an "Expert"
Episode 177: Just Show Up
Episode 176: Why Self-Help Books Don't Work
Episode 175: How to Work With People You Cant Stand
Episode 174: Stop Doing the Most - How to Sustainably Manage a Team Member Through a Performance Issue
Episode 173: Why We Need to Be More Self-Centered
Episode 172: The Difference Between Pressure and Intensity
Episode 171: How To Protect Your Empathetic Energy
Episode 170: The Impacts of VUCA and BANI on Employees
Episode 169: 3 Things Middle Managers Need to Do to Manage Up and Down Effectively
Episode 168: Why Your "Why" Doesn't Matter (And What I Really Think of Simon Sinek)
Episode 167: Can You Say More With Less?
Episode 166: Building Resilience Through Burnout Recovery
Episode 165: Marketing Through The Customer Lens
Episode 164: Leveraging Your Leadership Style to Maximize Your Influence and Impact
Episode 163: How Much Do You Trust Yourself?
Episode 162: Getting Dirty with Christina McInnis of AgriTech and SoilKit
Episode 161: Time to Tell the Whole Truth
Episode 160: Designing for the New Workflow with Lauren Chipman of Chipman Design Architecture
Episode 159: Audacious Confidence with Alicia Couri
Episode 158: How to Shift out of a Hunger Games Mindset in Small Business with Andrea Lyons
Episode 157: The Need for Emotional and Mental Spring Cleaning
Episode 155: The Great Numbing: How We Can Help One Another Reconnect
Episode 156: Love and Light Goodbye with Tracy Litt
From Referee to Coach: How to Lead Your Feuding Team Across the Finish Line
Episode 154: Amanda Laden From Period to Pause
Episode 153: The Painful Truth with Dr. Stacy
Episode 152: From Performance Improvement Plan to Exceeding Expectations
Episode 151: Intentionally Design Your Life in 30 Minutes
Episode 150: Lauren Answers Psychological Safety Questions from Risk Summit
Episode 149: The Magical Joy of Poo
Episode 148: How to Come Back from Vacation Recharged
Episode 147: How Take Make Decisions in Uncertain Times
Episode 146: Being in Integrity
Episode 145: Unpacking Your Internal Story
Episode 144: Love and Leadership with Cornelia Shipley
Episode 143: How to Make Friends as an Adult
Episode 142: How to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Episode 141: Changing Your Relationship with Time
Episode 140: Why You Need to Stop Saying You're Fine
Episode 139: The Dark Side of Servant Leadership
Episode 138: Getting Back Out There (Reset Series)
Episode 137: Expectations v Agreements (Reset Series)
Episode 136: The Power of Forgiveness (Reset Series)
Episode 135: Asking for What You Need (Reset Series)
Episode 134: How to Be Consciously Profitable with Wendy Dickinson
Episode 133: De-Niche-itizing Your Systems with Beate Chelette
Episode 132: The Introvert's Playbook to Networking with Madeline Schwarz
Episode 131: How to Handle the Incoming Workforce Tsunami with Amy Kan
Episode 130: Climbing Through Discomfort with Christine Trumbull
Episode 129: How to Make New Friends as an Adult
Episode 128: Thriving as an Introvert with Alan Heymann of Peaceful Direction
Episode 127: How to Find 25% More Time in Your Day
Episode 126: What I Really Think About Resolutions
Episode 125: Envisioning an Awesome 2021 with Caz Gaddis
Episode 124: How Can I Feel More Productive?
Episode 123: How to Shut Down Toxicity in Your Team Culture
Episode 122: The Day After
Episode 121: How Can We Make Things Easier?
Episode 120: Compounded Employment Trauma and The Effects of Workplace Resentment
Episode 119: How to Increase Engagement in Your Team Meetings
Episode 118: How Inclusive and Diverse are Your Zoom Meetings?
Episode 117: Stop Coaching Scared from September 10, 2020
Episode 116: Taking Stock of Your Awesomeness
Episode 115: How to Allow Your Business to Succeed (Even in a Pandemic)
Episode 114: Using Your Feels to Resolve Your Blindspots
Episode 113: Where Are You in Your Pandemic Journey?
Episode 112: A Deep Dive with Ashley Powdar of Ruby Sampson
Episode 111: How Do We Build Remote Trust?
Episode 110: Routine Reset
Episode 109: Finding Pockets of Opportunity in Uncertainty
Bonus Show: Lauren and Justin Do a Living Room Concert (3 12 2020)
Episode 108: Colleague Favor Foul
Episode 107: Unpacking The Business of Subscription Boxes with Julie Ball
Episode 106: No Buts About It
Episode 105: What's the Difference Between Balance, Integration, and Alignment?
Episode 104: How to Deal with Difficult Conversations
Episode 103: Achievement Planning: The Four Step Process to Eliminate Excuses and Distractions
Episode 102: Addressing Your Labels
Episode 101: The Energy Scorecard - Your Secret Weapon to Saying No
Episode 100: Pay Attention to Your Corners
Episode 99: Using The Scaling Tool to Find the Gaps
Episode 98: What Are You Willing to Let Go Of?
Episode 97: Listen to This Before Making Your New Years Resolution
Episode 96: SpitFire CEO Spotlight: Brett Snyder, Knucklepuck
Episode 95: Are Your Support Groups Supporting You?
Episode 94: Low Lift High Impact
Episode 93: The Power of Gratitude
Episode 92: SpitFire Spotlight: Holly Harper, Founder, Blue Bike Communications
Episode 90: The 4 Ps That are Key to Productivity
Episode 91: Micro-Goals for Your 2020 Vision
Episode 89: SpitFire Spotlight: Sara Lingenfelter, CEO, Virtual Biz Partner
Episode 88: Cleaning Up the Clutter
Episode 87: Own Your Sh*t: Lessons Learned from a Weekend Women's Retreat
Episode 86: Birthday Bummer
Episode 85: SpitFire Spotlight - Lesley Pyle, Founder of HireMyMom.com
Episode 84: Get Out of The Story
Episode 83: Mapping Your Journey to Success
Episode 82: Give Yourself The Credit You Deserve
Episode 81: The Two Questions People Always Ask Me
Episode 80: The Art of Interviews
Episode 79: What Can We Do After a Tragedy?
Episode 78: Self-Care Confessionals
Episode 77: How and When to Leave a Toxic Job
Episode 76: Pinpointing Workplace Stress
Episode 75: Converting Feedback into a Gift
Episode 74: Your Operating Principles and Universal Rules
Episode 73: Owning Your Frustration at The Core
Episode 72: New Beginnings Restarting after Change and Grief
Episode 71: For You Not For You
Episode 70: What Do You Deserve?
Episode 69: Active v. Passive Voice
Episode 68: The 4 Dimensions of You
Episode 67: Fear of Success
Bonus: Boundaries - How to Set and Maintain Standards to Amp Up Your Energy
Episode 66: Balancing Priorities
Episode 65: Taking Risks
Episode 64: Help v. Support: One Shift Can Make All the Difference
BONUS: March 5, 2019 Personal Branding Workshop Presentation for International Women's Week
Episode 63: Marching Into Your Goals and Clearing out The Excuses
Episode 62: Resentment's Role in Your Business and Relationships
Episode 61: Is Bigger Always Better in Business with Guest Co-Host: Sharon Rowe
Episode 60: How to Not Be Fake at Work with Guest Co-Host: Ginny Hill
Episode 59: Using Your Bottom with Guest Co-Host Bobby Plagmann
Episode 58: Owning Your Time and Schedule with Miss United States, Andromeda Peters
Episode 57: Mind Your Mindfulness with Guest Host: Erin Sonn of Eat Yoga Drink
Episode 56: Sparking and Maintaining Your Creativity with KiKi L'Italien of Association Chat and Amplified Growth
Episode 55: DIYitis: Can you really do it yourself? Guest Co-Host: Chelsea Cole
Episode 54: Rewriting Your SpitFire Story
Episode 53: The Mad Optimist: They Give a Sh*t!
Episode 52: 1 Year Update Show - Mindset Shifts, Celebrations and What's Next for Our SpitFire Guests
Episode 51: Navigating Negative News: Emotional Range and Coping Mechanisms
Episode 50: Guest Host - Justin Trawick, Do You Talk About What You Make?
Episode 49: What's Your Power SpitFire Role?
Episode 47: Guest Co-Host Justin Trawick
Episode 48: The Leadership Lab with Chris Lewis, Founder and CEO of LEWIS PR
Episode 46: Safe Goals and True Intentions (The Birthday Episode)
Episode 45: To Discount or Not to Discount, That is the Question with Friends and Family