Podcasts by Richard Lowe, Hosted Series and Guest Appearances
Leaders and Their Stories
BusinessMike O’Neil: The Right Way to Generate Leads on LinkedIn
March 6, 2025
Mike O'Neil joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories for a hands-on masterclass in LinkedIn lead generation: the three account types, search criteria that matter, the three-message sequence, and the know-like-trust foundation that turns LinkedIn into real business.
BusinessBen the Automator: How to Automate the Work That Wastes Your Day
March 4, 2025
Ben the Automator joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to demystify automation: the five traits of a good automation candidate, automating email and content workflows, why automation delivers lifetime ROI, and why AI is a workforce multiplier not…
BusinessJoe Rockey: The Psychology of Getting People to Be Honest and to Buy
February 28, 2025
Joe Rockey joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain the psychology of honesty and selling: why our reptilian brain makes honesty hard, how to get people to want you to succeed, why there is no universal sales…
Book MarketingRoyce Blake: Why Benefits Beat Features in Every Pitch You Make
February 28, 2025
Royce Blake joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories for a clinic in persuasion: copywriting as salesmanship in print, why benefits beat features, believing in your product, and how storytelling turns a technical pitch into an approved one.
Guest Appearances
GhostwritingISBNs, Contracts, and the Ghostwriter’s Many Hats | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 256
April 16, 2019
The April 16, 2019 hour: editor before proofreader, cover designers versus graphic designers, Bowker ISBN packs and library cataloging blocks, styles-not-manual-formatting, the $1,000-a-book origin and the $15,000 contract one day later, seven hats priced honestly, the full contract walkthrough, and…
GhostwritingThe Art of Ghostwriting: Voice, Pricing, and the Whole Process | Sustainable Success with Chris Salem
March 21, 2019
The March 21, 2019 Voice America interview: ghostwriting as method acting across six to twelve simultaneous voices, 50-cents-a-word pricing with 25 percent down, why one keynote pays the book back, the process from free consultation to handshake termination, and why…
WritingA Bucket Full of Seeds: How to Develop Ideas for Your Book | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 253
March 19, 2019
The March 19, 2019 session on developing book ideas: nonfiction from passion without term-paper style, fiction seeds gathered by the hundreds at faires, reenactments, museums, and old folks' homes, the rings-on-a-tree expansion method, research before writing, why only-3-left never applies…
GhostwritingHow to Monetize Your Writing: Freelancing, Content Mills, and the Hustle | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 249
February 19, 2019
The February 19, 2019 hour on monetizing writing: ghostwriting demand explained through celebrity books, the gig economy, content mills at a dollar an hour versus one contract worth 75 of them, LinkedIn outreach and reference chains, the it-takes-work phenomenon, the…
Book MarketingA Snowflake in the Blizzard: Marketing Yourself When 10,000 Books Publish Every Day | The Brian “The Hammer” Jackson Show
February 8, 2019
The February 8, 2019 Hammer 96.7 BT Radio hour: the complete Focus on LinkedIn case study, the snowflake-in-a-blizzard reality of 10,000 daily releases, hobbyists versus authors with a business, why "write what you know" is terrible advice, content mills and…
CareersGrief, Belly Dancers, and Taking Control: The Full Life Story Interview | Live Your Life with Chris Baker
January 24, 2019
The January 24, 2019 W4CY interview: the four-person startup vice presidency, SCADA water systems, 20 years running Trader Joe's computers, losing his wife and refusing to keep grief as a friend, Marjani and the belly dance photography years, $4-an-hour first…
WritingWhere Book Ideas Come From, and Why Good Books Don’t Sell | The Exceptional Scribble Show, January 2019
January 15, 2019
The January 15, 2019 hour on ideas and market reality: thirty seeds generated fast, KDP Rocket research, the unbeatable coloring book wall, two winnable categories pulling up a tough one, short books as market tests, the space opera prequel strategy,…
PublishingMake a Living as a Professional Self-Published Author: The Complete Webinar | Yeadon Public Library
January 10, 2019
The full January 10, 2019 webinar for the Yeadon Public Library: why print-on-demand opened a golden age, brand-before-book, the Chicago Manual daily habit, word counts raised monthly, the woman-antagonist engagement play, Fiverr rights warnings, platform overlap traps, read-aloud proofreading, pen…
WritingIs Fear Fiction or Nonfiction? Confidence, Cold Calls, and the Dancer Who Almost Quit | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 242
December 18, 2018
The December 18, 2018 hour on confidence: publish the imperfect first book, the freelancer as salesperson, approaching agents through conversation, Richard Branson's accept-and-figure-it-out, fear as fiction, the pretend-no-savings mind game, Bonnie's 80,000 words at 78, the pop-and-lock dancer nobody clapped…
