Savage Executive Podcast

About Savage Executive Podcast

Wisdom for the weight you carry. Welcome to The Savage Executive Podcast with Steve Smith — Executive Pastor, fractional COO/CFO, and the leadership voice behind savageexecutive.com. This show is built for leaders at every level who refuse to settle for busy and want to lead with clarity, margin, and bold intention. Every week, you'll get practical frameworks, proven strategy, and faith-centered leadership tools to help you stop reacting and start leading — at home, at work, and in life. — What you'll hear in each episode: Leadership strategies rooted in timeless biblical principles Frameworks for financial clarity and operational excellence Margin-focused decision-making for lasting momentum Faith-based wisdom with real-world application — Resources & Connection: Website: https://www.savageexecutive.com (https://www.savageexecutive.com/) Instagram: https://instagram.com/savageexecutive (https://instagram.com/savageexecutive) X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SteveSavageExec (https://twitter.com/SteveSavageExec) New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe and follow to never miss one. #SavageExecutive #LeadershipPodcast #FaithAndLeadership #ChristianLeadership #WisdomForTheWeight

Publisher

Steve Smith

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Apr 2025

Latest episode

30 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

20 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   30 Jun 2026

   Why Some Leaders Last a Decade (And Most Don't)

   In the Season 2 finale, Steve Smith crystallizes the five disciplines of The Savage Advantage — clarity, stewardship, margin, wisdom, and multiplication — into the single most important insight from each, then hands you a five-week summer challenge to move the framework from information to transformation. Anchored in James 1: be doers of the word, not hearers only. Download The Savage Advantage Playbook free at savageexecutive.com, and get a first look at Season 3.

2. 

   23 Jun 2026

   The Leader Who's Irreplaceable Has Already Failed

   The leader who has made themselves irreplaceable hasn't succeeded — they've failed at one of leadership's central responsibilities. In this episode, Steve Smith applies the discipline of Multiplication with a five-layer framework for building a "legacy bench" of leaders before you need them, anchored in 2 Timothy 2:2 and a story of how a tragic loss exposed — and then reshaped — how his own organization develops people. Download The Savage Advantage Playbook free at savageexecutive.com.

3. 

   16 Jun 2026

   The Pivot That Cost Us 3 Years (And Saved Everything)

   Episode 16 — The Art of the Pivot A pivot isn't a failure. In most cases it's a sign of organizational maturity — and refusing to pivot when the evidence is clear is the real stewardship failure. In this episode, Steve unpacks how to change direction without leaving your people behind, then tells the story of a three-year building project his ministry fought for, lost, and ultimately pivoted away from — and why that pivot was the win, not the detour. What you'll take away: 1. Pivot the stra...

Inside a recent episode

The Courage to Confront: The Conversation You’re Avoiding

Published 9 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So before you walk into the room, ask yourself, what do I want to be true at the end of this conversation that is not true right now? Am I going in to win or to build? When your intent is genuinely development, the conversation feels different to everyone in it. The questions that you ask open up rather than close down. The tone invites rather than intimidates. The outcome is more likely to be change because change comes from people who feel invested in, not people who feel prosecuted. So the second thing is speak to behavior, not character. The fastest way to destroy a confrontational conversation is to make it about identity rather than action. […]

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

261

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

32

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