The Soft and Savage podcast illuminates the great minds, great movements and great works across demographics that are actively shaping our futures. Hosted by Louise Levin, the Queen, a “woman of a certain age and raging dilettante,” this podcast is for those interested in the gray matter of global conversation, the space where challenges are defined and solutions devised. Soft and Savage seeks to both decode the modern moment and inspire listeners to action through dynamic conversations with leading visionaries, whose solution-oriented approach to the modern challenges we all face walks the razor’s edge–between Soft and Savage.
Programmable money: How your dollars will work like your photos, with Chris Giancarlo
What happens when money can move as fast as a photo, and can be told what to do years from now? In this episode of Soft + Savage, Louise Levin sits down with Chris Giancarlo, the 13th Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, known across finance as "CryptoDad." Giancarlo helped run the trading platform that handled most of the world's credit default swaps going into 2008, later led the CFTC, and now works on how the dollar moves...
2 Oct 2026
We're trying to fix a system we no longer belong to, with Marti Spiegelman
What happens to a species that stops paying attention to the system keeping it alive? In this episode of Soft + Savage, Louise Levin sits down with Marti Spiegelman, a California-based teacher who brings indigenous wisdom to leaders across Western business, education, and science. Trained first in biochemistry and then in Yale- and Bauhaus-rooted graphic design, Marti ran a design business in San Francisco for 20 years before turning to energy healing and initiation with elders in South Amer...
2 Oct 2026
Why the Career You're Building Won't Survive the Next Decade — with Arun Gupta
If the most disruptive technology of our generation is being built almost entirely outside the government it's meant to protect, who's actually in control? In this episode of Soft + Savage, Louise Levin sits down with Arun Gupta, CEO of NobleReach Foundation, a 22-year venture capitalist and author of The Mission Generation. Gupta spent nearly two decades building Columbia Capital's cybersecurity and government-technology investment practice before founding NobleReach, where he places stude...
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