The Leaders Hub
Every episode of the Leaders and Their Stories podcast, where founders, executives, veterans, and change-makers share the moments that shaped their lives. Hosted by Richard Lowe, The Writing King. Experience turns into influence here.
No pitch. No pressure.
Everyone has a story. These leaders told theirs.
Forty-six conversations with people who led under pressure, reinvented themselves, and built things that mattered. Browse by theme below. Every one of them proves the same point: the experience you lived is the authority you own.
Technology, security, and AI
Leaders who built, secured, and automated the systems the rest of us depend on.
- ► Andrew Bolton: Making technology human again with a 24-hour tech rescue line
- ► Arnaud Lucas: Leading high-growth, technology-first organizations
- ► Ben Christensen: The Automator on eliminating 650,000 hours of work
- ► Ben Christensen: Digital transformation through automation, $16M saved
- ► Ben Christensen: What you should never automate
- ► Daniel Holguin Sr.: From the bottom of IT to the C-suite, three times
- ► Doug Hohulin: AI that has to be right: saving a billion lives
- ► Matt Walker: Air Force veteran on enterprise security and incident response
- ► Norman Kromberg: Thirty years in cyber, audit, and bank regulation
- ► Shawn Abeling: From trade skills and bartending to software developer
- ► Trevor Sumner: Serial entrepreneur synthesizing billions of searches with AI
- ► Dr. Vladimir Ingerman: Advising the world’s biggest oil companies
Sales, marketing, and growth
How real businesses actually find customers, from LinkedIn to a million organic followers.
- ► Anthony Markey: Growing networks through meaningful connections with IKAG
- ► Dan Shinder: One million followers, 130 countries, zero paid ads
- ► Jeff Hassemer: Thirty years of marketing tech, from direct mail to AI
- ► Joe Rockey Jr.: The emotional undercurrents that decide how people buy
- ► Joseph Rockey: Honest selling in one-sided environments
- ► Joseph Rockey: A sales system built for recessions
- ► Mark Blocker: Attracting clients instead of chasing them
- ► Martin Ricketts: Marketing mastery and the technology behind it
- ► Mike O’Neil: Lead generation on LinkedIn with Integrated Alliances
- ► Nikhil Raval: Understanding the Gen Z mindset on brands and work
- ► Royce Blake: Copywriting that turns experience into influence
- ► Rutherford J. Pascal: Building high-performing sales teams across three Fortune 100s
Coaching, wellness, and reinvention
Leaders who rebuilt themselves and now rebuild others.
- ► Catherine Napoli Bruce: Grief recovery, hypnotherapy, and conversations with a dead husband
- ► Deanna Farnell: A CPA and CEO whose autoimmune diagnosis transformed everything
- ► Diana Lee: Using AI in a way that is practical, human, and impactful
- ► Doris Walsh: Helping career-driven parents past overwhelm and guilt
- ► Dr. Jeffrey E. Berger: A finance-first approach to complete wellness
- ► Jeri Seeley: Thirty years of hospitality leadership and operational excellence
- ► Lucas Bonder: UX design, non-duality, and the illusion of separation
- ► Matt Biggar: Coaching the internal and external worlds of business owners
- ► Michelle Hardwick: Teaching men to be allies through menopause
- ► Paul Barry: Building habits with conversational AI
- ► Rhonda Bowen: Strategic communication across 70 countries
- ► Rico Caveglia: Age 83 with a fitness age of 35: ageless living
- ► Rob Fenstermaker: From corporate burnout to rekindling great dreams
Extraordinary lives
A KGB agent, a police superintendent, a powerboat racer, and other stories you could not make up.
- ► César Dongo-Soria: Trade compliance, the overlooked discipline
- ► Gerry Mecca: Wrestling, resilience, and the memoir Bent But Not Broken
- ► Jack Barsky: KGB deep-cover agent turned American executive
- ► Michael O’Brien: Venture capital at the intersection of technology and policy
- ► Pat Welsh: Police superintendent, attorney, and the Warrior Servant Leader
- ► Ralph Brown: Marine, four world records, racing powerboats around the world
- ► Sascha Gorokhoff: An unusual story of overcoming
- ► Terry L. Fossum: Nuclear B-52s, the Cold War, and a WSJ #1 bestseller
- ► Urmi Hossain: Author, polyglot, CFA, and a rebirth from interracial struggle
Your story belongs in a book.
Every guest on this podcast has a story worth an hour. Some of them are worth three hundred pages. If yours is one of them, let’s talk about writing it down before it fades.