Savage Angel

About Savage Angel

🎙 Savage Angel Podcast Where power talks business, bold thinking leads the way, and every episode hits like a boardroom mic drop. Welcome to The Savage Angel Podcast, the unapologetic playground for founders, CEOs, and big-energy professionals ready to move differently in business and life. Hosted by Angela Sauvage Giles, this show is where real talk meets real results. Some days, we’re breaking down bold sales moves. Other days, we’re deep diving into AI, marketing, mindset, or the messy behind-the-scenes of building something that actually matters. Whether it’s tactical, soulful, strategic, or refreshingly honest, every episode is designed to spark clarity, expand your edge, and reignite the vision you’ve been holding. Come for the insights. Stay for the elevation. Leave with momentum.

Publisher

Angela Giles

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Oct 2025

Latest episode

17 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Jul 2026

   Episode 29 - Speak with Ashley Cruz Arata

   What if the reason meditation, breath work, and "just take a yoga class" haven't touched your burnout… is that you're chemically depleted at a level no wellness trend on Earth can fix — and every doctor you've told has quietly waved you off with "you're just stressed"? In this episode of Savage Angel, Angela sits down with Ashley Cruz Arata — Seattle-based Integrative Health Practitioner, ex-Amazon leader who spent a decade climbing the corporate ladder before her own body forced the exit, and the functional medicine expert now guiding women 35+ back to themselves through root-cause testing — not more prescriptions. Ashley opens up about the years leading to her thyroidectomy — the slight "whispers" from her body she almost ignored, the 40 pounds she gained, the hormonal rage that nearly cost her her marriage, the brain fog so thick she couldn't remember why she'd walked into a room, and the moment she realized she was about to lose everything. She spent $75,000 trying to heal herself through a broken system that dismissed her at every turn — until she went back to school, learned functional medicine, and cracked the code. Then we go full Savage: Ashley calls out the modern lie sold to women (the perfect house, the perfect career, the perfect marriage, the perfect sex life, the perfect body, the perfect kids, the perfect pets — how does anyone have time for that?), and drops the science most doctors never explain — that cortisol is a hormone, that your adrenal glands (two walnut-sized organs on top of your kidneys) run your stress response, and that years of fight-or-flight burns through your body's reserves at a chemical level no amount of "self-care" can rebuild without proper support. Angela shares her own hard-won health story — the crisis two years ago that put her business on pause, the $200K she spent finding her own cure after being told there wasn't one, and the wish that someone like Ashley had existed for her at the time. This episode is that conversation, for the women reading this who quietly know something is off. What You'll Learn Why "you're just stressed, try to relax more" is the most dangerous advice women 35+ are still getting from doctors The truth about cortisol — it's a hormone, not a mood — and what really happens to your adrenals under long-term stress Why chronic-stress depletion is a chemical problem — and no meditation app is going to fix it Ashley's own thyroidectomy → 40-pound gain → hormonal rage → near-divorce → healing journey Why 100% of the high-achieving women Ashley works with are in complete burnout — and don't feel safe telling anyone The root-cause testing approach: what functional medicine actually looks like How some of Ashley's clients "sleep through the night for the first time in years" within 10 days Why type-A women turn their own healing into a part-time job — and why that delays the healing The "1s + 2s = 10s" philosophy: small, structured changes that compound instead of overwhelm Why "if it's not curable" is often just code for "I don't know how to help you" How to stop piecemealing your way through Google, supplements, and Reddit rabbit holes Why it is never the end of your road — even if you've been dismissed for 15 years

2. 

   10 Jul 2026

   Episode 28 - Speak with Andy Moye

   What if the leadership playbook that helped a Colonial militia beat the British at Guilford Courthouse in 1780 is the same one that separates great CEOs from title-holders in 2026 — and every generation in between has been trying (and mostly failing) to learn it from scratch? In this episode of Savage Angel, Angela sits down with Andy Moye — 8-year Navy pilot who flew planes during 9/11 and the Iraq War, PhD in Health Economics, 20-year healthcare executive, brand-new founder of Glide Path Health, and author of the newly released From Bunker Hill to the Boardroom: Battle-Tested Leadership for Today's Executives. Andy opens up about the strange advice military officers used to get when they transitioned out ("downplay your service, don't scare the civilians") and why he spent 20 years quietly doing exactly the opposite — leaning into the leadership foundation that made him successful in cancer diagnostics, corporate America, and now cell and gene therapy. His book traces his own family's military line — from two ancestors at the pivotal Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1780, through the Civil War, to his dad's 25 years in the Army — and pulls out the three leadership pillars that have stood the test of every American conflict. Then we go full Savage: Andy breaks down why "commander's intent" (the military principle that everyone from the general to the private has to know the objective — in case the top layers die) is the single most under-used framework in modern executive rooms. He explains why "debate, decide, commit" is what separates real leadership teams from the ones where the CFO walks out and quietly tells his team "the boss made a stupid call." And he shares the real reason young leaders stall out: they think the title made them a leader. It didn't. Plus: how Glide Path Health is using AI to fix the trillion-dollar friction problem in cell and gene therapy — the $500K–$5M curative drugs that are being blocked from patients by bureaucratic bottlenecks — and why "empathy is a superpower" even in the boardroom (yes, Sun Tzu agrees). What You'll Learn Why the advice to "hide your military background" quietly hurt a whole generation of veterans in corporate America Why the "vision statement" era is dead — and what actually gets people out of bed for your company How to lead a team where three people have completely different purposes (the mission-driven one, the tech nerd, the sales guy who just wants money) What commander's intent is — and why every C-suite needs it more than any strategic plan The debate, decide, commit framework — and why bosses who "vent to the team" submarine their own companies Why A-players hire A-players and B-players hire C-players — and what that means for scaling teams The Zappos story: how giving $12/hour customer service reps unlimited budgets made the company (and why "judge the judgment, not the outcome" works) Empathy as a leadership superpower — even Sun Tzu backs this one Why the title never made anyone a leader — and what actually does What advanced therapeutics (CAR T, gene therapy) are — and how they're already curing sickle cell disease Why the American healthcare system is a trillion-dollar friction machine — and where AI can finally help The moment Andy went from Navy pilot to healthcare CEO to founder — and why the "winding road" was the point

3. 

   4 Jun 2026

   Episode 27 - Speak with Deborah Daniel

   What if "I haven't saved enough for retirement" isn't actually a savings problem… but an inflow problem — and the old script of get-the-degree, get-the-job, get-the-gold-watch was quietly setting an entire generation of women up to fail? In this episode of Savage Angel, Angela sits down with Deborah Daniel — CPA, MBA in finance, three-decade veteran of the money and business world, contributing author of the bestselling anthology Women of Wealth: A Proverbs Legacy of Grace and Grit, and soon-to-be solo author of Women's Wealth Secrets. Deborah opens up about why she calls money "currency" (a word most people never stop to feel the weight of) and why most women — even high-earning ones — are silently losing more to taxes every year than they pay on their mortgage. She shares the inflow-first philosophy from her chapter, She Gathers the Harvest, and why entrepreneurship gave her the freedom to say "okay, my daughter needs $5,000 in braces — let me go generate that" instead of begging a boss who'd never say yes. Then we go full Savage: Deborah lays out the four types of income every woman should know (taxable, tax-deferred, tax-now, and never taxed) and how the wrong "bucket" can quietly cost your heirs a fortune. She introduces her three-leg framework — mindset + skill set + tool set — and explains why all the woo-woo abundance in the world can't help you if you don't know how compound interest works ("Albert Einstein called it the most powerful force on earth — and the man wrote the theory of relativity"). Plus: how the digital economy is quietly letting women in their 50s and 60s build $10K–$70K/month income streams from scratch, why "set it and forget it" savers struggle when it's finally time to spend the money, and why your kids are watching how you handle money even when they're not listening. What You'll Learn Why money is a flow, not a number — and what "currency" really means The inflow advantage of entrepreneurship: how to generate $5,000 on demand Why high-income earners pay more in taxes than mortgage — and almost nobody talks about it The four kinds of income (taxable / tax-deferred / tax-now / never taxed) and why this changes everything The three-leg framework: mindset, skill set, tool set — and what happens when you only have one The "three phases of wealth" mindset shift: builder → preserver → spender (and why phase three is the hardest) How women in their 50s and 60s are building $10K–$70K/month digital income streams Why the 40-year-job-and-gold-watch model is broken for most people today The hidden danger of "I'll save when I make more" — and why time is the real multiplier How to set up your heirs the right way (and the expensive way most people accidentally leave money behind) Why couples need to both stay informed on money — especially because women statistically live longer The simple "logins, passwords, who to call" list every household needs Albert Einstein's compound interest quote — and why it matters as much as relativity 📖 Grab the bestselling anthology Women of Wealth: A Proverbs Legacy of Grace and Grit (featuring Deborah's chapter, She Gathers the Harvest) on Amazon. 📚 Keep an eye out for Deborah's upcoming solo release, Women's Wealth Secrets — coming this summer.

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