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With Ray Loewe — The Luckiest Guy in the World
Every week, Changing the Rules invites you to imagine — and live — a life designed by you. Host Ray Loewe believes every person is a unique original with talents, passions, and quirks that make them one of a kind. When you embrace your uniqueness, you escape the rules others have imposed — and you gain the freedom to flourish.
Our guests are living proof. They come from all walks of life and have each designed lives that look completely different — yet they share one thing in common: pure joy. You’ll feel it in their voices, see it in their choices, and sense it in every story they tell.
Some overcame loss, illness, or transitions. Others broke free from limbo — that gray space where you’re neither happy nor unhappy. Through courage and self-discovery, they each found their way back to joy.
Their stories won’t tell you how to live your life — they’ll inspire you to design your own. Because their joy may be theirs, but the same joy is waiting for you.
Join us each week and become one of The Luckiest People in the World.
Every week, Changing the Rules invites you to imagine — and live — a life designed by you. Host Ray Loewe believes every person is a unique original with talents, passions, and quirks that make them one of a kind. When you embrace your uniqueness, you escape the rules others have imposed — and you gain the freedom to flourish.
Our guests are living proof. They come from all walks of life and have each designed lives that look completely different — yet they share one thing in common: pure joy. You’ll feel it in their voices, see it in their choices, and sense it in every story they tell.
Some overcame loss, illness, or transitions. Others broke free from limbo — that gray space where you’re neither happy nor unhappy. Through courage and self-discovery, they each found their way back to joy.
Their stories won’t tell you how to live your life — they’ll inspire you to design your own. Because their joy may be theirs, but the same joy is waiting for you.
Join us each week and become one of The Luckiest People in the World.
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What makes a novel draw us in, keep us turning pages, and leave us saying, “Wow—I want more”?
Author and returning guest Don Helin joins Ray Loewe and Mary Ann Steinhauer to take us behind the stories. His latest novel has roots in a discovery he made at fifteen: he had Viking heritage. A trip to Norway in his fifties deepened that curiosity. Decades later, in his eighties, he turned that lifelong interest into a novel.
Don shares how Viking sagas, history, and visits to the places he writes about helped shape his story. He takes us through the craft of bringing it together: familiar characters from earlier novels, a compelling setting, a plot, and the tipping points that keep readers wondering what happens next.
It’s a conversation about how curiosity becomes a story—and how an author makes that story hard to put down.
Can ChatGPT turn a handful of random memories into a meaningful personal story? And can that story actually help you live a better life?
In this unusual episode of Changing the Rules, Ray Loewe, the Luckiest Guy in the World, and co-host Mary Ann Steinhauer invite ChatGPT into the conversation for a live storytelling experiment.
Ray shares memories of a trip to Beijing during preparations for China's 60th anniversary celebration. With ChatGPT's help, those memories become an entertaining story called We Got the Memo! But the real surprise comes when Ray and Mary Ann explore how that one story could be useful in a speech, a business presentation, overcoming obstacles, or helping family members understand who Ray really is.
It's all part of Ray's challenge to the Luckiest People in the World: Build your own personal Storybook—one story a week, just 30 minutes at a time.
No writing experience required. No elaborate planning. Just memories, conversation, and a little help from ChatGPT.
You've already lived the stories. Now discover what you can do with them!
Mining for gold by relistening to three past podcasts. Hosts: Ray and Mary Ann find storytelling gold by revisiting three podcasts -Episode 233. Don Helin — The CREATOR: Don uses fiction to explore real emotions and universal human truths. -Episode 260. Lana Edwards Santoro — The REMEMBERER: Lana draws on memories and family history and finds meaning in moments that might otherwise disappear. -Episode 240. Rebecca Hoffman — The UNCOVERER: Rebecca Hoffman helps people discover the stories already hiding in their own lives—and capture them before those memories are lost. Three people. Three different approaches. New thoughts.
Doug Heir was 6'4", headed for college, ready to play football—and ready for life.
Working as a lifeguard, Doug dove into a swimming pool to save a child. The lifeguard stand slipped. Doug broke his back and became a quadriplegic.
At one point, Doug contemplated whether life was even worth living. But with his family's help, he found the will to move forward.
Doug became a Paralympic athlete, winning more than 300 medals. His picture appeared on a Wheaties box. He became a lawyer and built a remarkable life around achievement, not limitations.
Join Ray Loewe and Mary Ann Steinhauer as they talk with Doug about what happened next. You'll be surprised. You'll be impressed. And you may find yourself thinking a little differently about what is possible when life suddenly changes the rules.
Ray Loewe and Mary Ann Steinhauer sit down with marketing guru Joe Serpente to discuss an important change in his business—and his life.
Joe has transformed his full-service marketing company into a consulting practice. Today, he helps business decision-makers make smarter marketing choices and manage their marketing departments effectively. By moving from a full-time staff to a virtual office, Joe has created the flexibility to stay in the game—but under his own terms.
Joe is also an old friend of Ray’s, and the two look back on some of their marketing adventures in the early years of their careers.
Joe’s new book, Do YOU Make These Mistakes When You Advertise?, is available on Amazon.
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