Former White House & Speechwriter, Forbes Writer, Author, Speaker

John Corcoran is a former White House Writer, speechwriter, an attorney, an author and a B2B podcasting expert.

He started his career as a Writer in the Clinton White House, and today is cofounder of Rise25, LLC with Dr. Jeremy Weisz, who is the longtime host of the top rated INspired INsider podcast, and former senior producer for one of the earliest groundbreaking business podcasts.

Rise25 helps B2B businesses to connect with their ideal clients, referral partnerships and strategic partners using done-for-you podcasts and content marketing.

Rise25 has worked with clients ranging from a division of Berkshire Hathaway to one of the nation’s largest live event ticket sellers, along consulting companies, advertising agencies and law firms.

Rise25 provides both high-level strategy around how to get great ROI and leverage with a podcast; and their team of audio and video editors, show notes writers and web developers handle 99% of the details to get the podcasts published and distributed across all the major podcast platforms.

He is a recovering attorney and the creator of Smart Business Revolution and the Smart Business Revolution podcast, where he shares strategies for using intentional relationship-building to grow your network and your income, and since 2012 he has interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs about how they have used relationships to grow their businesses and their careers.

He is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) San Francisco, and where he serves on the board of both EOSF and the EO Accelerator program.

He is the author of 3 books about relationship building and client acquisition, and has been profiled in Forbes and in the books Entrepreneurial You (Harvard Business Review Press 2017) and Stand Out (Portfolio 2015) by Dorie Clark, The Connector’s Advantage (Page Two 2019) by Michelle Tillis Lederman, Success Is In Your Sphere (McGraw-Hill Education 2019) by Zvi Band, and The Successful Mistake by Matthew Turner, and his writing has appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Art of Manliness, Lifehacker, Business Insider, and numerous other publications, blogs and websites.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and 4 kids.