Soft + Savage Podcast
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.
Episodes
14 episodes
The Penn-Trained Health Strategist: The quiet transfer of medical innovation to the East.
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Dr. Lauren Arnold explores the intersection of medicine, research, AI, and the human questions shaping the future of health.
Most personalities are survival strategies pretending to be identities. — Bizzy Gold
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Bizzie Gold unpacks resilience, reinvention, and the method behind lasting personal change.
Can architecture restore human connection in emotionally abandoned cities? — Adam Bamba Tanaka
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Adam Tanaka reframes wellness as civic infrastructure — and asks what our cities should be designed to restore.
Frontline Innovation: Entrepreneurship in Conflict & Humanitarian Response with Jesse Levin
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Jesse Levin takes us inside crisis, readiness, and the human architecture behind real-world response.
What the Fed didn't know on the eve of the 2008 crash — with Chris Giancarlo
What if the entire 2008 financial crisis ran on a number that was wrong by fifty times?In this episode of Soft + Savage, Louise Levin sits down with Chris Giancarlo, the 13th Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Comm...
The Design Director of World Spa: Environment controls five dimensions of your experience.
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Leonid Khanin breaks down wellness as architecture — not escape, but a system for restoring the body and mind.
Breaking cycles of violence by owning your role, with Award-Winning Filmmaker and Trauma Specialist
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Marcina Hale and Stephen Apkon examine division, dialogue, and what it takes to choose another way in a world built for conflict.
Psychedelic Facilitator: Ayahuasca activates your personal agency. It was never just the medicine
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Jessica Francis explores ayahuasca beyond myth and spectacle — into the body, the story, and the work of real healing.
The most dangerous environments in America are built from people who were never given a language.
In this episode of Soft + Savage, Sean Dino Johnson reflects on rehabilitation, performance, and what it means to restore dignity after the system has already written someone off.
An artist hunted down everyone who wounded him and photographed them naked — Angelo Musco
What does the body remember before the mind can explain it?In this episode of Soft + Savage, Louise Levin sits down with Angelo Musco, an Italian-born, New York-based contemporary artist whose work transforms the human bod...
Dr. Michelle Holko: The Intersection of Biology and AI. The Race to Control Life.
In this episode of Soft and Savage, Louise Levin speaks with Dr. Michelle Holko about the urgent crossroads at the intersection of biotechnology, AI, and national security. Holko explains how biology is shifting from discovery to design, unlock...
Beyond Manipulation: The Annihilation of Personal Agency with John Kirbow
In this episode, Louise Levin sits down with John Kirbow—a former U.S. Army Psyops specialist—to unmask the tactics used to fracture societies from the inside out. From the warzones abroad to the algorithm-driven battlefields of social media, K...
The Planet Earth Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency with Sir John Hargave
In this episode of Soft and Savage, John Hargrave—CEO of Media Shower and author of The Intelligent Crypto Investor—cuts through the confusion of crypto by reframing it in familiar terms: blockch...
Narcissism: The Soup We’re Swimming In Sam Vaknin
Episode Summary: Dr. Samuel Vaknin unveils narcissism's dual nature: wounded children wearing masks of grandiosity. From love-bombing to discarding, they create psychological mazes for victims while their emptiness drives constant validation-se...
