Podcasts by Richard Lowe, Hosted Series and Guest Appearances
Leaders and Their Stories
Personal GrowthOzana Giusca: Reflecting the Architecture of Identity
October 8, 2026
Identity 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 GrowthEnda Quealy: Getting in Your Own Way and Other Cool Things
October 7, 2026
Irish 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.
BusinessMatt Hawksley: Learning in the Open
September 29, 2026
Leadogo 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.
BusinessRiley Kaminer: AI Says It in Three Times the Words
September 29, 2026
Tech 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.
BusinessJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written Down
September 5, 2026
Retired 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.
BusinessGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free Will
September 5, 2026
Organizational 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.
BusinessYaron Vorona: Can’t Is Almost Always a Choice
August 20, 2026
Startup coach Yaron Vorona on coaching deep tech founders through the Series A step up, escaping the supplicant trap, and why can't is almost always a choose not to.
BusinessJoe Rockey: AI Is a Function, Not a Relationship
August 16, 2026
Consultant Joe Rockey returns with one test for every AI decision: is it a function, or is it replacing a relationship? Get it wrong and AI costs you money and clients.
BusinessCraig Leonard: Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not Your Resume
August 15, 2026
LinkedIn strategist Craig Leonard on how the interest-based algorithm decides who sees you, why most profiles read like resumes, and where AI helps and where it wrecks the job.
Guest Appearances
BusinessWhat Pain Are You Solving? Guests, Free Advice and the Socratic Method | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 248
September 29, 2026
Richard Lowe's third regular appearance on The Impossible Puzzles Show with Mike Merkur: the four-day week, clients who run revisions through AI, guests who want free advertising, why people who tried writing with AI hire a ghostwriter, giving advice with…
PeopleYour Answer Has No Page Two: How AI Search Decides Who Gets Cited
September 8, 2026
Clicks on Richard Lowe's site fell for 18 months while impressions held, and the reason was the answer engine. In a live AEO presentation hosted by Robert Rounsavall: training versus retrieval crawlers, why branded mentions beat backlinks, how contradictions make…
PeopleFail Where It’s Safe: Comfort Zones, Hyperfocus and Face Blindness | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 198
September 1, 2026
Richard Lowe's second regular appearance on The Impossible Puzzles Show with Mike Merkur: why you fail where it's safe and keep six months in the bank, why comfort keeps people stuck, the internet's anonymity problem, ADHD hyperfocus, face blindness and…
GhostwritingThe 100th Guest: Ghostwriting, Roman History, and the Follow-the-Money Doctrine | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 167
August 9, 2026
The August 9, 2026 episode in full: the comic-strip wall, 113+ and 54+ in 12 years, Trader Joe's central office, the quarter-million defragmenter lesson, Socratic ghostwriting interviews, Hannibal and Josephus, AEO canon rules, ADHD hyperfocus and Crazytown, and follow the…
GhostwritingThe Least They Could Get Away With: Pricing, Worth, and Why the Cheap Work Never Ends
July 29, 2026
Two contracts arrived unasked for and paid $25,000 in advance, and the look on the client's face said the quote had been too low. On Gamify Business Tavern Tales with Paul Pape: the $980 book that works out to five…
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Artificial IntelligenceAI: The Death of Thinking | Richard Lowe on Optimal Conversations EP 55
June 19, 2026
Richard Lowe returns to Optimal Conversations with Mary Wong to unpack the Enemies of You series: why cheating with AI kills your ability to learn, how the augmented path turns AI into a digital assistant instead of a replacement brain,…
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