Podcasts by Richard Lowe, Hosted Series and Guest Appearances
Leaders and Their Stories
Critical ThinkingLucas Bonder: The One-Body Idea, Ego Death, and Facing Your Shadow
March 31, 2025
Lucas Bonder joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explore the idea that there is only one body, why separation causes suffering, what ego death involves, and the spiritual work of facing your shadow, drawing on his books…
LeadershipDaniel Holguin: Leadership Lessons From a Cancer Survivor and Former Police Officer
March 27, 2025
Daniel Holguin Sr. joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to share leadership lessons forged through surviving cancer, serving as a police officer from 1993 to 2001, and learning to lead very different people as individuals instead of by…
LeadershipDeanna Farnell: How a Corporate CPA Rebuilt Her Life Around Healing Stress at the Root
March 27, 2025
Deanna Farnell joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to share how she left a 30-year corporate CPA career after an autoimmune diagnosis, opened a first-of-its-kind healing center, and now helps people eliminate stress at its root through daily…
BusinessBen the Automator: Why Digital Transformation Starts With People, Not Software
March 26, 2025
Ben the Automator returns to Leaders and Their Stories to explain digital transformation done right: what it really means, why it starts with people, the scratchpad and higher-order thinking techniques, and why it is a business project not an IT…
BusinessAnthony Markey: Why Podcasting Beats Pitch-Slapping as a Way to Network
March 25, 2025
Anthony Markey joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain why relationship-based networking beats pitch-slapping: founding I Know a Guy, using podcasting as a cleaner way to prospect, borrowing credibility through warm introductions, and leading with service.
BusinessRutherford Pascal: What New Coke, Microsoft, and 32 Years in Pharma Teach About Leadership
March 25, 2025
Rutherford Pascal joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories with a blunt premise: good is not good enough. He uses the rotten-apple principle, New Coke, the hype cycle, and Microsoft under Nadella to show what leadership that keeps evolving…
LeadershipCatherine Napoli Bruce: Writing Through Grief and Trusting the Signs You Notice
March 21, 2025
Catherine Napoli Bruce joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to talk about five years writing a book after losing her husband to glioblastoma, trusting the signs grief brings, and giving yourself permission to feel, with one message: your…
BusinessDiana Lee: Using AI as a Thought Partner That Amplifies What Makes You Human
March 21, 2025
Diana Lee joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain how to use AI as a thought partner that amplifies you: structuring engagements with ChatGPT, giving it deep context, her library of micro tools, and why AI does…
BusinessJoe Rockey: The Coming Recession Is About People, Not Economics
March 19, 2025
Joe Rockey returns to Leaders and Their Stories to argue the next recession is a human problem, not an economic one: disengagement over economics, earned benefits over participation trophies, and why caring about people, not cutting AI, is the real…
Guest Appearances
CareersThe U-Boat Commander, the Skull Rock Decision, and No Plan B | Real with O’Neill
August 15, 2021
The August 15, 2021 interview with Dakota O'Neill: Scholastic books and Iwo Jima at seven, the desegregation bus seat that ended prejudice, the crying U-boat commander and the word competence, BASIC filling a schedule hole, married four times in two…
Ghostwriting
CareersWriting to Advance Your Career: From VAX Clusters to 54+ Ghostwritten Books | The SynAck FinAck Podcast
February 14, 2021
The February 14, 2021 interview: 1981 DEC clustering and the first disk defragmenter, SCADA water systems, the Trader Joe’s exit, the $1,000-a-book apprenticeship and same-day $10,000 turnaround, the four-four-three-one technical book tally, the report-in-the-trash CEO, LinkedIn rules from 100+ profiles,…
People
Ghostwriting
Ghostwriting
CareersFrom Trader Joe’s to Zombie Apocalypses: The Born to Write Interview | With Azul Terronez
November 29, 2019
The September 11, 2019 Born to Write interview: celebrity ghostwriters versus the credibility mid-market, the wrestler predecessor and the Afghani client's escape from a prison of 15,000 skeletons, vomit-on-the-page drafting from 4:30 a.m., three promotion hours in every eight, BookBub…
Book Marketing
BusinessReal Data, Assertiveness, and the Night Trader Joe’s Almost Lost Everything | Consulting Guest Lecture 2019
September 30, 2019
The September 30, 2019 class session: pivoting clients and billable research, the telemedicine million-dollar lesson, micromanagers and the heart-to-heart Richard once received, money trails and the SEC, the confusion technique, agenda enforcement, feelings-versus-data failure signs, and the consultant who rebuilt…
