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 holistic 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 — A remarkable 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.