Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership

About Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership

From navigating everyday team operations to carrying maximum impact in the boardroom, visionary leaders have used their experiences to create success. Listen to Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership as the Schmidt Associates’ team speaks with executives and leadership experts to uncover their achievements, watershed moments, and the turning points that have shaped their careers. Along the way, you’ll hear about their influences, discover what it takes to build strength and stability at the top, and learn lessons anyone in business can appreciate.

Publisher

Schmidt Associates

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jul 2022

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Dr. Andrea Behrman: Never Underestimate the Spinal Cord

   Welcome to another episode of Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership. Host Sarah Hempstead sits down with Dr. Andrea Behrman, professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Louisville and director of the Kosair for Kids Center for Pediatric Neurorecovery. Together they talk about a career spent rewriting what recovery looks like for children living with paralysis. Listeners will hear about: Dr. Behrman's path from frustrated clinician to scientist...

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Michael-Paul Hart: From HVAC to City Hall and a Vision for Washington Square

   Luminate is back! Welcome to another episode of Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership. We're kicking off a new season with host Sarah Hempstead and guests Councilor Michael-Paul Hart, Indianapolis City-County Councilor representing District 20, and Joseph Jarzen, client liaison and associate at Schmidt Associates, talking through the vision for turning 94 acres of nostalgia into a neighborhood's next chapter: Washington Square Mall. Listeners will hear about: Councilor ...

3. 

   27 Aug 2026

   Foundations + Futures: Building the Next Chapter

   To close out our Foundations + Futures anniversary series, we're flipping the format. Rather than revisiting a decade already lived, this roundtable turns to what's next: host Sarah Hempstead speaks with four Schmidt Associates team members, an architect, an interior designer, an engineer, and a landscape architect, about what today's practice looks like, what's changing fastest, and what they hope never does. Listeners will hear from: Alvin Laguerre, Graduate Architect: on the lesson t...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

30,032

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

77

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