Rise From The Ashes Podcast

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Linda Won Nationals

October 09, 2026

For years, Linda Fisk carried a secret. She was clinically shy as a child, and then she stuttered. It followed her from grade school to college, and she called it an invisible disability. In Part 1, Linda tells Baz how she faced it. She took every speech class she could find. She passed out at the podium. Then her professor let her turn the lectern to face the wall. By her senior year she had won a national speech competition. Along the way she shares why she started LeadHERship Global, what...

Under-Architected, Not Overwhelmed

October 03, 2026

She was ready to burn it all to the ground. Then Stacy Raske saw what was really on fire: an old identity, not her business. In Part 2, Stacy tells Baz what she did next. She stopped the posting, the emailing and the selling. She sat in the discomfort instead of hustling to fix it, and she let a new kind of work find her. Along the way she shares why the signal you send is the signal that comes back, how she builds an ecosystem around a founder's future self, and why success can be simple. ...

When High Achievers Hit Rock Bottom

September 24, 2026

What has to die for the real you to rise? Business and brand strategist Stacy Raske joins Baz Porter to tell the story of the identity she had to let burn. From a military career cut short in Iraq, to seven years as a pharmaceutical chemist, to a rock-bottom moment that nearly ended her life, Stacy rebuilt everything by changing one thing she had full control over. This conversation is for the high achievers and recovering control freaks: why your control issues wear a prettier face as you s...