The Spitfire Podcast with Lauren LeMunyan

Lauren LeMunyan
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Honest interviews with creative entrepreneurs and passionate professionals about what inspires and challenges them in their respective fields. Strategic Business Coach Lauren LeMunyan goes beyond the surface level standard answers and digs into what makes people tick.

  1. 2d ago

    Is It Ok to Work with Friends?

    Your best friend has a killer business idea. Your favorite coworker just became your boss. Your college roommate wants to hire you. Sounds fun, right? Sometimes it's the best decision you'll ever make. Sometimes it's the reason Thanksgiving gets awkward. In this episode of the Spitfire Podcast, Lauren LeMunyan gets real about mixing friendship and work. Drawing on nearly a decade of coaching C-suite leaders (and a few lessons learned the hard way), she breaks down what makes these partnerships thrive and how to protect both the relationship and the results. You'll hear: The conversations to have before you sign anything or say yes How to give honest feedback to someone you'd also call at 2am What clear roles and boundaries actually look like in practice How to handle it gracefully when the work relationship needs to change Whether you're thinking about launching something with a friend, managing one, or already in the thick of it, this episode gives you the language and the guts to keep both the friendship and the business strong. Grab your coffee (or your co-founder) and press play.   Calls to action: Got an idea for a future episode? Send it to grow@spitfirecoach.com. Want free coaching? We're launching the Future Self Design Project, anonymous 1:1 coaching sessions where you bring the topic and we bring the framework. Apply here: https://spitfirecoach.myflodesk.com/futureselfapply Loved this episode? Follow the Spitfire Podcast and leave a review, it helps more Spitfires find us.

  2. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    For fans of Lele Pons: Suite 305 with Lele Pons

    Introducing Ep 12. Aniya Harvey: The Villa, Unfiltered from Suite 305 with Lele Pons. Follow the show: Suite 305 with Lele Pons Love Island fans, this is the post-villa debrief you’ve been waiting for. Recorded at Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, Aniya Harvey checks into Suite 305 with stories she has never shared since leaving the show. From what really happened behind the scenes to the cast relationships that became even deeper once the cameras stopped rolling. But this episode goes far beyond the villa: Aniya opens up about who she is when no one is watching, the personal dreams and fears viewers never got to see, and the parts of herself she hasn’t talked about publicly before. She also delivers hot takes guaranteed to ignite your group-chat and reveals how she truly feels about becoming TV famous. Surprising, personal, and impossible to look away from, Aniya is out of the villa and showing fans a whole new side of herself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

    For fans of Lele Pons: Suite 305 with Lele Pons

  3. Sep 28

    Running on Empty (Recorded Live on September 22, 2026)

    Burnout doesn't come with a trophy. No ribbon, no party, no "look how hard I worked" award. So why do so many high performers keep chasing it? In this live recording from my session at the CEHA conference, I take a room full of environmental public health leaders (the people everyone calls when something needs fixing) through what it actually takes to refuel your energy and reconnect with your purpose. And yes, I get real about my own story, from crocheting my way through college to pushing so hard I blacked out at an event I was running, and the one coaching question that changed everything. We dig into: Why your greatest strength might be your biggest energy drain The curse of the high performer (spoiler: the bar only goes up) How your body whispers, talks, yells, and then shuts you down, and how to catch it at the whisper The five stress responses, including "fix," the one that loves to masquerade as productivity Why "how do we do it?" is often a stress signal, and what to ask first Practical ways to protect your energy, from calendar buffers to the magic of a clear, kind "no" Calls to action: Got an idea for a future episode? Send it to grow@spitfirecoach.com. Want free coaching? We're launching the Future Self Design Project, anonymous 1:1 coaching sessions where you bring the topic and we bring the framework. Apply here: https://spitfirecoach.myflodesk.com/futureselfapply Loved this episode? Follow the Spitfire Podcast and leave a review, it helps more Spitfires find us.

  4. Sep 21

    Zone of Influence: Why You Can't Change People (But You Can Change This)

    You can't make someone change. Not your boss, not your teammate, not that one person in every Zoom meeting who makes your blood pressure spike. But you can get clear on where your actual influence lives, and that's the whole game. In this episode, Lauren breaks down the concept of your Zone of Influence: what it is, how it expands and contracts based on trust, and why trying to force change in a space that isn't safe is a losing bet. She talks through contributor safety, the four stages of psychological safety, and why trust is never all or nothing. If you've been white-knuckling your way through a toxic dynamic hoping it'll finally click for the other person, this one's your permission slip to zoom out and ask a better question: where do I actually have power here? In this episode: Why you can't out-effort someone else's willingness to change What contributor safety is and how you build it How to figure out your "lane of safety" with people who haven't earned your full trust Why your zone of influence isn't fixed, it can get bigger or smaller depending on the environment When it's time to stop pushing and start looking for a better environment instead Calls to action: Got an idea for a future episode? Send it to grow@spitfirecoach.com. Want free coaching? We're launching the Future Self Design Project, anonymous 1:1 coaching sessions where you bring the topic and we bring the framework. Apply here: https://spitfirecoach.myflodesk.com/futureselfapply Loved this episode? Follow the Spitfire Podcast and leave a review, it helps more Spitfires find us.

  5. Sep 14

    Be a Fat Penguin: How to Master Awkward Networking

    We trust chatbots with 70 to 80 percent of our decisions without blinking. Put an actual human next to us at a conference, and suddenly we're hiding behind a pastry, hoping nobody makes eye contact. In this episode, Lauren unpacks what happened at a cybersecurity conference this week: a keynote on AI and trust, a wave of social anxiety in a room full of extroverted tech people, and a stranger who gave her the best networking advice she's heard in a while: be a fat penguin. (Yes, really. Listen to find out why.) It's a conversation about psychological safety, why chatbots feel easier to trust than people, and why the fix for adult loneliness isn't confidence. It's just someone willing to break the ice first. Calls to Action Have a topic you want covered on the show? Send it to lauren@spitfirecoach.com. We're launching the Future Self Design Project and looking for volunteers to receive free coaching (30 to 45 minutes, fully anonymous). Apply here: https://spitfirecoach.myflodesk.com/futureselfapply  Enjoyed this one? Leave a review and send it to a friend who needs to hear it. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or head to https://www.spitfirecoach.com/episode

  6. Aug 31

    How to Lose a Potential Client in 10 Minutes

    Here are the 10 everyday conversation habits that quietly cost business owners the sale, from over-explaining price to skipping the follow-up, plus what to say instead of each one.   If you caught yourself in even one of these ten, don't just nod along, go fix it in your next conversation. Subscribe to the show so you don't miss the next one, and if this episode hit home, send it to a business owner who needs to hear it. Leave a rating while you're at it, it helps more people find the show. And if you want more of this straight to your inbox, head to spitfirecoach.com and get on the list. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/S2ck2zu5ed8 🎧 New episodes of The Spitfire Podcast drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. 📅 Ready to pitch from a position of confidence? Book a free discovery session

  7. Aug 24

    Be the Friend You Wish Someone Would Be to You

    Making friends used to be easy. Same neighborhood, same school, same team, done. As adults, it's a different game, and most of us are quietly bad at it. In this episode, Lauren talks about the loneliness epidemic hiding behind our "connected" world, why rejection hits your brain like physical pain, and the one habit that got her a coffee date with a total stranger two weeks after moving to a new city. If you've ever waited around hoping someone else would make the first move, this episode is your permission slip to be the one who instigates the invitation.   🎧 New episodes of the Spitfire Podcast drop regularly. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. 📅 Ready to define your own boundaries and lead with more clarity? Book a free discovery session

    Be the Friend You Wish Someone Would Be to You

  8. Aug 21

    [Bonus] Unleashing The Power of "I Don't Know"

    A talk on why "I don't know" is a leadership superpower, not a weakness, delivered at the NGLCC Leadership Conference. Covers the body science behind uncertainty, psychological safety, imposter syndrome, and practical language swaps for leading through not-knowing.

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Honest interviews with creative entrepreneurs and passionate professionals about what inspires and challenges them in their respective fields. Strategic Business Coach Lauren LeMunyan goes beyond the surface level standard answers and digs into what makes people tick.

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