Podcasts by Richard Lowe, Hosted Series and Guest Appearances
Leaders and Their Stories
BusinessRoyce Blake: Your Voice Is an Instrument, and You Are Playing Three Keys
The first guest this show ever had returns fifty episodes later. Royce Blake on why your voice is an instrument, why you hate the sound of it on playback, and the one technique he would teach if he could only…
BusinessMike Merkur: Driving the Bus While the Pizza Flies
Leadership is driving a school bus while everyone in the back throws shoes and pizza. Mike Merkur on being fired fifteen times, hiding the workshop from the customer, and using neurodiversity instead of fixing it.
BusinessNoah Landow: The Machines Stopped Being Predictable
Thirty years of IT taught everyone that a system behaves the same way twice. Noah Landow, who founded Macktez in 1996, on AEO, live queries, and the adjustment nobody prepared for.
BusinessBeating the No-Win Scenario: Kobayashi Maru Decisions, Sunk Costs, and Changing the Rules | Michael Santore
BlockSkunk founder Michael Santore joins Richard Lowe to talk no-win scenarios, the elevated paradox, the fantasy sports startup that stopped like a spaceship, sunk costs, and why AI compliance is quietly asking for immutable audit logs.
BusinessHow to Get a Book Deal
Randy Peyser has helped first time authors land deals with New York publishers for 25 years. In this conversation she breaks down what publishers actually buy: the proposal, the platform, and the moves that make or break a first book.
BusinessSusan Evangeline Bagh: Seeing the Whole Chessboard
Susan Evangeline Bagh spent 25 years climbing from engineer to global strategy executive by learning to see what specialists miss: the whole chessboard. In this conversation, she breaks down why most AI hype is noise, why transformations fail, and what…
BusinessMatt Biggar: Why the Best Coaching Starts With Your Strengths
Matt Biggar joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain why the best coaching starts with strengths not problems, why most coaching fails, the personality-test trap, small habit change, and using AI without losing yourself.
BusinessBen the Automator: Why AI Agrees With You and How to Get the Truth
Ben the Automator returns to Leaders and Their Stories to explain why GPTs are built to please you, how to get real pushback, why AI still needs QA, and the security and legal risks of trusting it.
BusinessJack Barsky: What a KGB Sleeper Agent Learned About Trust and Leadership
Jack Barsky joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories: the KGB sleeper agent who built an American life, on what espionage taught him about trust, decisions under uncertainty, and leading people.
Guest Appearances
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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