Shift Out Loud with Tracy Spears

About Shift Out Loud with Tracy Spears

Hosted by Tracy Spears, speaker, co-author of two best selling leadership books, founder of The Leader Lab, coach, and head cheerleader for anyone trying to play bigger. Shift Out Loud is a podcast designed to inspire you to play bigger. You'll hear from real live people sharing what their shift was, when it happened, and why it was out loud. What you think is true, and when you move from the external locus of control to the internal locus of control, your shift can happen and anything becomes possible. This podcast is your invitation to listen to others who have made the shift, and also serve as a catalyst for you to play bigger.

Publisher

Tracy Spears

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Aug 2022

Latest episode

2 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

2 of 69 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Dec 2025

   Rising Up By Your Own Rules with Heidi Hartman

   Send us a text What do highly successful people do differently? Is it possible to build a thriving career entirely on your own terms? In this episode of Shift Out Loud, I’m joined by Heidi Hartman, a sought-after speaker, leadership coach, and author of Her Rise Her Rules: 7 Secrets of Successful Leaders, an incredible book that reveals the success strategies of over 100 high-performing women leaders. Heidi and I talk about her fascinating authorship journey and interview process, how she hel...

2. 

   21 Oct 2025

   Embracing Multiple Paths of Self-Expression with Allison B. Walden

   Send us a text My guest for this episode of Shift Out Loud lives a fascinating double life! Not only is Allison B. Walden the Senior Vice President of Resource Development at the Tulsa Regional Chamber, she’s also a talented musician who just released her first studio album, “Octopus,” under the stage name Allie B. Tune in for a fascinating conversation about embracing a shift-filled life — and seizing the opportunity to play bigger on multiple different stages. We talk about the impact of gr...

3. 

   14 Oct 2025

   The Case of April Wilkens and SB 1835 with Tracey Lyall & Colleen McCarty

   Send us a text I have not one, but two incredible guests for this timely and important episode of Shift Out Loud. We’ll be exploring the case of domestic violence survivor April Wilkens, who was recently denied a shortened sentence for a crime directly related to her abuse: the murder of her long-time rapist and abuser. Tracey Lyall is the CEO of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS) in Tulsa and a Licensed Social Worker with years of direct service and advocacy for victims of DV and...

Inside a recent episode

Getting Out of the ‘How’ Business with Tricia Brouk

Published 3 Jan 2023 · Transcript excerpt

[…] When is it going to happen? How am I going to do all the things so it does happen? Now, I'm not saying that you don't want to take action and that you aren't proactive in achieving your goals and dreams. However, when you're out of the how business, it's bigger than you can imagine. We talked yesterday, Tracy, about doing a dream, a dream storming session instead of a brainstorming session, because I think brainstorming is all about being in the how business. Let's brainstorm all the ideas that we want and determine how we're going to achieve them. Hmm. Let's dreamstorm everything that we desire and let the universe take care of the how. […]

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

14,090

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

50 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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

Quality

54

Social presence

94

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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