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BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH

2026-08-06 · 48 min · episode 216 · 24 entities

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  • → appeared on the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast podcast
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    BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH
  • → hosted by Tim Windsor person
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    Feed author/publisher: Tim Windsor
  • → discusses Society & Culture concept
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    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • → discusses Business company
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    Feed category: Business
  • → discusses Education concept
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    Feed category: Education
  • → discusses Self-Improvement concept
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    Feed category: Self-Improvement
  • → discusses Philosophy company
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    Feed category: Philosophy
  • → discusses Management website
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    Feed category: Management
  • → references uncommodified.com website
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    Link in episode "BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH": https://uncommodified.com/
  • → references themacqueens.ca website
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    Link in episode "BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH": https://themacqueens.ca/

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concepts 8

  • mentioned Society & Culture concept
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    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • mentioned Education concept
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    Feed category: Education
  • mentioned Self-Improvement concept
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    Feed category: Self-Improvement
  • discusses Society & Culture concept
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    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • discusses Education concept
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    Feed category: Education
  • discusses Self-Improvement concept
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    Feed category: Self-Improvement
  • mentioned DOUG concept
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    DOUG
  • mentioned BOUND concept
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    BOUND

websites 8

  • mentioned Management website
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    Feed category: Management
  • mentioned uncommodified.com website
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    Link in episode "BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH": https://uncommodified.com/
  • mentioned themacqueens.ca website
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    Link in episode "BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH": https://themacqueens.ca/
  • discusses Management website
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    Feed category: Management
  • references uncommodified.com website
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    Link in episode "BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH": https://uncommodified.com/
  • references themacqueens.ca website
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    Link in episode "BOUND to be FREE: UNCORKED with DOUG SMITH": https://themacqueens.ca/
  • mentioned Free website
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    FREE
  • mentioned SMITH website
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    SMITH

companys 4

  • mentioned Business company
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    Feed category: Business
  • mentioned Philosophy company
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    Feed category: Philosophy
  • discusses Business company
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    Feed category: Business
  • discusses Philosophy company
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    Feed category: Philosophy

persons 3

  • mentioned DOUG SMITH person
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  • mentioned Tim Windsor person
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    Feed author/publisher: Tim Windsor
  • hosted by Tim Windsor person
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    Feed author/publisher: Tim Windsor

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Episode description as stored
What if the collapse of everything you built was not the end of your story, but the death of the false version of you that was never meant to survive? Doug Smith was a successful social policy professional, a husband, a father, and a man quietly carrying untreated trauma, depression, addiction, and shame. By the age of 40, the life he had constructed had collapsed. He had lost his career, his reputation, his freedom, and the right to be with his daughter. Sentenced to 15 years in prison after committing four robberies to support a crack cocaine addiction, Doug discovered that when every title, achievement, and external source of identity was stripped away, something more authentic remained. Today, Doug is a trauma-informed leadership specialist, policy advocate, and the author of The Path of Rocks and Thorns: Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell. This deeply honest UNCORKED conversation between Tim Windsor and Doug Smith is not simply about addiction, incarceration, or image repair. It is about the rugged responsibility of redemption. Doug challenges us to stop anesthetizing the wounds we need to walk through, confront the false stories we have accepted about ourselves, and consider whether the darkest chapters of our lives might become the source of our greatest contribution. You will hear how service helped Doug rediscover his true identity, how investing in others became the best use of his time, and how his lived experience eventually helped change public policy and reduce barriers for thousands of people returning from prison. As you listen, prepare to wrestle with some uncomfortable questions. What pain are you still hiding behind performance? What part of your identity needs to die so something more honest can live? Where are you trying to escape the very experience that may be transforming you? Doug’s story reminds us that redemption is not a return to who we were before everything fell apart. It is the courageous reconstruction of who we were always meant to become. Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/ PRODUCERS: Alyne Gagne & Kris MacQueen MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.