Yaron Vorona: Can’t Is Almost Always a Choice
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.
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Episodes of Leaders and Their Stories: conversations with executives, founders, and experts turning experience into influence.
For Executives & ProfessionalsJoe Rockey: AI Is a Function, Not a Relationship
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.
For Executives & ProfessionalsCraig Leonard: Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not Your Resume
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.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
CommunicationRoyce 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…
autismMike 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.
AEONoah 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.
blockchainBeating 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.
Authority Through AuthorshipHow 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.
AI AdoptionSusan 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…
AI AdoptionMatt 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.
AI AdoptionBen 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.