John Corcoran is a former White House Writer, speechwriter, an attorney, an author and a podcasting and lead generation 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 the groundbreaking Mixergy podcast.
Rise25 helps B2B businesses to connect with their ideal clients, referral partnerships and strategic partners using a combination of a done-for-you podcast and content marketing combined with LinkedIn. In both cases, Rise25 provides strategic advice and counsel aimed at helping clients to get great ROI by building proactive relationships with their ideal clients, referral partners and strategic partners.
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.
John 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.


