Be a Guest on Leaders & Their Stories

You’ve been invited to join Richard Lowe on Leaders & Their Stories, an hour-long conversation about your path, the turning points, and the thinking behind them. No scripts and no gotchas, just a real conversation about how you got where you are. You’ll receive the full episode to share with your audience. Pick a time below and you’ll get a confirmation with the meeting link and everything you need to prepare.

About the Show

Leaders & Their Stories is a conversation, not an interrogation. Every leader has a version of their story that fits on a slide, and a real version full of turning points, close calls, and decisions that only make sense in hindsight. This show is about the real version. Host Richard Lowe is a professional ghostwriter who has spent his career drawing out those stories, and he brings the same craft to the microphone: genuine curiosity, careful listening, and questions that go somewhere.

What to expect

We talk for about an hour over Zoom. There is no script and nothing to memorize. Before we record, you’ll receive a short note on the themes we might explore, drawn from your own background, so nothing catches you off guard. If there are topics you’d rather not touch, say so and they’re off the table. The goal is a conversation you enjoy and a story your audience will want to hear.

Where your episode appears

Every episode is published on this website at Leaders & Their Stories and on YouTube. When your episode goes live, you’ll receive direct links to both, along with promotion across Richard’s social media channels, including LinkedIn. Your episode stays up permanently, giving you a professional long-form interview you can share with your network, embed on your own site, or point people to for years.

Why leaders do it

An hour of honest conversation produces something a bio or a post never can: your thinking, in your voice, at length. Guests use their episodes to give prospective clients and partners a real sense of who they are, to support a book or a venture, or simply to put the accurate version of their story on the record. Whatever brings you here, the hour is yours.

How to prepare

This is a video conversation, so your camera will be on and the recording includes both of us. A few things make a visible difference in how your episode turns out:

Wear headphones or earbuds. This is the single biggest audio improvement. Speakers cause echo that no editing fully removes. Any earbuds beat none; a headset or external microphone beats built-in laptop audio.

Face your light. Sit facing a window or lamp rather than with one behind you. Backlighting turns you into a silhouette; front light makes you look like yourself.

Find a quiet room. Close the door, silence the phone, and warn the household or the office that you’re recording for an hour. Hard walls echo, so a room with some furniture or curtains sounds warmer.

Use a stable connection. Plug into your router if you can; if not, sit close to the WiFi. A steady connection matters more than a fast one.

Raise the camera to eye level. A laptop on a stack of books works fine. Looking slightly down at the lens reads better than the lens looking up at you.

Don’t rehearse. Have water within reach, dress the way you’d meet a client, and come as you are. The unpolished version of your story is the one people trust, and anything you stumble over can be handled in the edit.

Ready?

Pick a time in the calendar above. You’ll get a confirmation immediately, the meeting link, and everything you need to prepare. Questions first? Reach out here.