Podcasts by Richard Lowe, Hosted Series and Guest Appearances
Leaders and Their Stories
BusinessTerry Fossum: A B-52 Officer’s Tenets for Leading People
April 12, 2025
Terry Fossum joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to share a B-52 officer's leadership tenets: purpose over mission statements, believing in others, giving credit, and letting people fail so they can grow.
LeadershipUrmi Hossain: Building Leadership Across Cultures and a Screen
April 12, 2025
Urmi Hossain joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to talk identity, resilience, and leadership: a memoir of four cultures, how Toastmasters built a leader, leading through a screen, and championing women in leadership.
BusinessShawn Abeling: What Bad Leadership Looks Like From the Ground Up
April 8, 2025
Shawn Abeling joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories for a ground-level view of leadership: why leading by example is the real test, how one bad apple spreads, and why the best leaders work in the trenches alongside their…
BusinessMichael O’Brien: Why Startups Fail and What VCs Actually Look For
April 8, 2025
Michael O'Brien joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain why startups really fail, why you should raise only what you need, where AI sits in the hype cycle, and what venture capitalists actually look for.
BusinessArnaud Lucas: Why Leading People Is Harder Than Writing Code
April 4, 2025
Arnaud Lucas joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to reflect on the human side of technical leadership: why people are harder than code, learning to lead up when your boss is not technical, extreme ownership, and why you…
BusinessJeff Hassemer: Why Great Marketing Builds Trust and Bad Marketing Kills It
April 2, 2025
Jeff Hassemer joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain why marketing is about know, like, and trust, how sales language erodes it, why patience and consistency win, and why referrals are another form of trust.
BusinessRalph Brown: Four World Records and a Race Around the Entire Planet
April 2, 2025
Ralph Brown joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories: four world boating records, a boat that crosses oceans, and building the first powerboat race around the world as a global fundraiser with a hospital fund.
Personal GrowthDoug Hohulin: How AI Could Save a Billion Lives and Prevent Avoidable Deaths
April 2, 2025
Doug Hohulin joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain how AI could prevent a billion avoidable deaths, why it should assist instead of replace doctors, the Lancet dementia factors, and why humans must stay in the loop.
BusinessJeri Seeley: Customer Service, Empathy, and Leading in Hospitality
April 1, 2025
Jeri Seeley joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to talk hospitality and leadership: why service takes finesse, why customer service is eroding, and why the customer is not always right but always your customer.
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CareersFrom Hiding in the Closet to Front Row Center: How a Camera Broke a Lifetime of Shyness | Optimal Conversations, Episode 6
December 29, 2023
The December 29, 2023 reciprocal interview with Author Talks guest Mary Wong: 2,000 systems and unaccepted awards, shy-versus-introvert defined, the closet childhood, the grief decision at Skull Rock, Marjani and front row center, the couples matched and one divorced by…
CareersFrom IT Leader to Storyteller: The Boss Certified Insane and the Gig Economy Playbook | Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Episode 220
October 26, 2023
The October 26, 2023 episode: the first disk defragmenter, SCADA still running on VAX/VMS, 1980s phone-card fraud profiling, phone phreaks, the boss with an insanity certificate and the armed-guard firing day, John Shields and Dan Bane, customer-free digital transformation, the…


