Joel Salomon: The Truth About Money
Joel Salomon is a prosperity coach and former Wall Street money manager. He and Richard Lowe talk about the money beliefs people inherit, when credit pays off, and why prosperity starts with caring about money.
46 episodes of conversations with the people building, leading, and pivoting careers worth talking about. Hosted by Richard Lowe Jr.
Leaders and Their Stories is a long-form podcast about how careers and businesses actually get built. The guests are founders, executives, consultants, authors, and operators who have made the kind of decisions that shape an industry, a company, or a life. Each episode is a conversation, not an interview — what worked, what didn't, what they learned, and what they would do differently.
Episodes range from 30 to 90 minutes. No rehearsed talking points, no canned questions, no rapid-fire host who interrupts every answer. Just two people sitting down to talk about real work.
BusinessJoel Salomon is a prosperity coach and former Wall Street money manager. He and Richard Lowe talk about the money beliefs people inherit, when credit pays off, and why prosperity starts with caring about money.
BusinessVictoria Chemko of Umami Journeys helps leaders get clear before they adopt AI. She and Richard Lowe talk about digital transformation, AI as an echo chamber and how two introverts built lives that suit them.
BusinessWilliam Bessette of The Brilliam Group and Homeward Wise on why companies should understand their processes before implementing AI, treating AI as a digital employee, building foster care software from his own past, and why this AI shift reaches all…
BusinessMiami AI consultant and University of Miami adjunct professor Thiago Ferreira on why his firm refuses headcount-cutting work, why training comes before tools, answer engine optimization, AI privacy and ethics, and the voice-clone scams hitting families.
BusinessProGrowth Academy cofounder Yana Semova on training project managers to hand administrative work to AI, why European corporations run on Copilot, paying for the higher tier, fresh sessions versus long context, and how much AI learns about us.
BusinessUK life and AI strategist Lisa Hamilton-Smith on teaching herself AI by writing 50 courses, rebuilding her life to become unstoppable, AI-assisted coaching, writing groups that dogpile AI users, avatars and disclosure, and ADHD as a superpower.
Personal GrowthIdentity architect Ozana Giusca on the invisible internal structures that shape what people experience, how she recodes them, ADHD as a label and a limit, and why AI works as a mirror.
Personal GrowthIrish hypnotist Enda Quealy on moving from music retail to hypnosis and self-sabotage work, life as a neurodivergent founder, writing his own copy, and a wide-ranging chat with Richard Lowe about AEO, private equity and World War II.
BusinessLeadogo founder Matt Hawksley on leaving a 20-year logistics career, the 40-day road trip that launched his reinvention, learning in the open, and mentoring entrepreneurs in Ghana.
BusinessTech journalist and ghostwriter Riley Kaminer on writing more than 1,000 startup stories for Refresh Miami, why AI stretches everything to three times its length, and what gets lost when young professionals let AI do the thinking.
BusinessRetired Navy veteran and technology leader Jay Stifflemire on losing a contract two days before Christmas, founding a publishing company by January 2, and the memoir for his children that started it all.
BusinessOrganizational systems architect Georgie-Ann Getton on the story you tell yourself, setting goals as a floor rather than a ceiling, and the morning she missed a turn and realized she had forgotten she could turn around.
Leaders and Their Stories welcomes founders, executives, consultants, and authors with real stories worth telling. If that's you, get in touch.
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