Miss AI Podcast

Everyone treats AI as the thing that saves a struggling business. Oliver Merrick builds AI systems that run whole companies, and he says that's backwards. Before you touch a single tool: audit, delete, simplify. Then automate.

We get into why most owners are actually getting slower with AI, why your context (not the model you pick) is the real moat, how he taught his AI to think like Elon Musk, and the honest truth about creators faking "AI runs my ads on autopilot." It's a proper niche AI masterclass, with a blunt take on the entrepreneurship gold rush, the marketing games creators play, and a lot you can put to work in your own business today.

New here? Miss AI is where Keira Nesdale sits down with the founders, creators and operators actually building with AI, for the real story of how they did it. Subscribe and stick around.

Guest: 
Oliver Merrick, builds AI operating systems for founders, e-commerce brands and creators. Made his first $5 online at 14 selling Instagram shout-outs, once hit 50 million views streaming FIFA, and now runs The Brain Dump, a weekly AI newsletter.
Oliver's studio: https://mez.studio
Oliver on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-merrick/
Oliver on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olivermerrick___/

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Audit, delete, simplify, then add AI
03:30 Why your context is the moat
11:30 Teaching an AI to think like Elon Musk
17:30 The paper that says AI made owners slower
27:00 The AI ad creators who are faking it
29:20 The 100-plus AI skills he's built
40:00 Building a business like Lego
46:00 From a $5 shout-out at 14 to AI systems
53:30 How to predict 70% of the future
56:30 You're your own biggest limit
1:03:00 What AI still can't replace

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She went from $500,000 in debt and 80-hour weeks to a $750,000 buyout offer all by automating her business with AI. This is how.

After selling sharks, sailing the Caribbean for 4 years, and running an e-commerce brand off a catamaran, Andrea Palacio bought a "boring" landscaping company that nearly destroyed her: a thieving seller, a manager who sabotaged the crew, revenue collapsing from $70K to $40K, and two babies at home. Closing the doors wasn't an option so she taught herself AI and automated the entire business task by task until it could run itself.

Today she runs Crueless, building AI employees for service-based businesses, and acquires companies to automate them. In this conversation she breaks down EXACTLY how she did it, the tools, the mindset, and the sales lessons that took her to a $95K month.

In this episode:
→ The #1 thing most businesses refuse to see about AI
→ How she taught herself automation (Make.com → n8n → Claude Code)
→ Why "nobody actually buys AI" — and what to sell instead
→ The exact tech stack behind her AI agents
→ The skills AI can NEVER replace (sales & leadership)
→ How to make your first $1,000 with AI — even with no business
→ Why a human using AI will replace a human who doesn't

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00  Andrea's story: 35 countries, sailing & sharks
01:23  The truth most businesses refuse to see about AI
02:51  The $500K landscaping nightmare
08:24  How she taught herself AI from zero
09:01  Coding HTML vs. building with AI today
13:24  Bringing automation into service businesses
19:16  Handing systems to clients (data & privacy)
23:29  Buy a boring business, automate it, sell it?
26:19  Her AI tech stack: Claude Code, Retell, Nano Banana
28:06  The skills her AI agents run on
31:40  Why views don't equal revenue
37:09  How a coach changed everything (mindset > strategy)
42:37  The skills AI can never replace
47:11  How to actually sell an AI solution
53:58  How to make your first $1,000 with AI
57:40  The one thing AI should never take away
1:00:28  Where to find Andrea

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Josh Gottsegen is not an AI creator. He is a creator who uses AI - and that distinction is everything.

Before Tropland Universe existed, Josh spent 25 years in LA working on creative campaigns for Universal, Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony, Ferrari, the NFL, and the Vatican Museums. He wrote children's books, one of which became a bestseller on Amazon. He pitched a TV show for a decade and got rejected. Then in 2022, while most of the world was still figuring out how to spell ChatGPT, Josh went all in on AI and built a Digital Animal Kingdom from 20 years of storytelling.

Today Tropland Universe is a registered trademark and real IP. Josh has over three million followers, reaches 50+ countries every day, and has passed 1.5 billion views. One video alone hit 280 million views. He is now in licensing talks to take Tropland from social media into physical products - figurines, merchandise, and tangible goods built on AI-generated art.

In this episode, Josh breaks down:
- Why joy is the only metric that actually matters in AI content
- His full creative process from idea to reel - and why ambiguity in prompting sparks the best work
- The dark side of AI content automation and where creativity dies
- How he built a chief of staff, a boardroom of AI personas, and a personal operating system inside Claude Code and Obsidian
- Why his billion views did not build the business - and what actually did
- Seedance vs Kling vs the tools he actually uses every day

If you have been chasing views instead of building something real, this episode will make you rethink everything.

Chapters:
[00:00] Intro: the man behind 1.5 billion AI animal views
[02:35] SpongeBob, juice bars, and a decade of rejection
[04:51] The lion snoring video that hit 280 million views
[07:31] Death threats, AI purists, and why joy is still art
[11:36] The Larry David method: logging small human moments
[13:51] His creative process from idea to reel
[16:35] The dark side of AI content automation
[19:03] From digital IP to physical products - trademarks and licensing
[23:52] His personal AI OS: chief of staff, personas, and boardroom meetings
[34:42] Seedance, Kling, and grieving the loss of Sora
[38:14] How far away is an AI film winning an Oscar
[45:18] The moment he woke up to 12 million views overnight
[50:15] The day OpenAI and Meta came knocking
[51:30] How to turn views into a real business
[57:12] What Josh hopes AI never takes from us

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AJ grew up in New Delhi with no roadmap. He failed grade 12. Not once, but twice, which in India gets treated like a death sentence. At 17 he moved to the United States alone, with broken English and no network. He wanted more.

So he started building. From a single Google Doc and a Tumblr page, he grew Roomi from zero to 2.4 million users across more than 20 cities, all out of an underground studio in New York City. Then came Simplified, scaled to 20 million users and one of the first companies in the world to build on OpenAI's API. Along the way he raised over $29 million in venture capital and landed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Then he walked away from the venture playbook entirely.

Today AJ is the Vibe Founder. Over 300,000 followers on Instagram. 114,000 on LinkedIn. A newsletter closing in on 40,000 subscribers. Every Sunday he builds live in public, showing anyone who shows up that one person plus AI can now replace a whole company. His mission? Take a one-person business to $1 million in revenue, in public, by the end of the year, and give away the tools as he goes.

In this episode, AJ breaks down:

- Why he is building his own tool to kill the $1,000-a-month software he was paying for
- His personal AI operating system: the local agents that run his brand deals, content, and research
- How to build bulletproof skills, and why an agent is really just a stack of skills
- Open source vs closed source, US vs Chinese models, and when to use the cheap one over the best one
- The real math behind a one-person, million-dollar business (1,000 people paying $100)
- How to make your first $1,000 with AI, and why distribution is the one thing that still needs a human

If you have ever felt locked out of the AI conversation, this episode is the door in.

CHAPTERS
[00:00] Intro: building a one-person, $1M business
[02:30] Why he is killing the $1,000 tool he was paying for
[10:50] Open source vs closed source, US vs China
[18:50] Beating AI fatigue by building in public
[21:40] His personal AI operating system and agents
[28:00] OpenClaw, skills, and what an agent really is
[38:00] Chirper.ai and the road to your first $1,000
[59:20] What AI should never take from us

🔗 Follow AJ:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevibefounder/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thevibefounder
Newsletter: https://letter.thevibefounder.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadavajay/
X: https://x.com/thevibefounder

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Sesh grew up in Philly with no roadmap. He had a bachelor's degree, the highest grades in his school, and a list of accolades, but he watched his friends settle into a life of pity, distraction, and dead-end work. He wanted more.

So he packed up everything, drove three days across America, slept in a car, then on the floor of his brother's shed in California. He set one goal: become the highest-paid private chef in the state. He hit it.

Then COVID happened, he made a video about the stock market, and it went viral. He's been riding the wave ever since.

Today Sesh is the self-styled A.I Prince. Over 125 million views on YouTube. Half a million followers on Instagram. Half a million subscribers on YouTube. He's a rapper, a #1 Yelp-ranked chef, an AI educator, and the GOAT of making money online. His message? Escape the matrix through mindset, manifesting, and AI.

In this episode, Sesh breaks down:
– His full journey from sleeping on a shed floor to becoming the A.I Prince
– The perfect prompt — characters, scene, lighting, vibe — and the Higgsfield workflow that runs his content
– How he and his team are building AI influencers, what they monetise, and where the market is going
– The 2000-day meditation streak, manifesting without the tarot cards, and how he engineers his subconscious daily
– Why he believes anyone ignoring AI right now will be "cooked in 12 months"

If you've ever felt locked out of the AI conversation, this episode is the door in.

CHAPTERS
[00:00] Intro and escape the matrix
[08:30] Philly to California: the full origin story
[19:30] The perfect prompt: characters, scene, lighting, vibe
[27:30] A day in the life, meditation, and manifesting
[43:30] Inside the AI influencer business
[01:02:00] What AI should never take from us

🔗 Follow Sesh:
Instagram: @thesessionca
YouTube: @thesessionca

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LinkedIn: /keira-nesdale-b287899b
Website: https://www.aiconsultancy.co.nz/

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Stanley Henry built a 7-figure marketing agency on one rule: never pay for ads. Everything organic. 1.2 billion views. After 7 years of building that agency, he discovered AI and he burned the rulebook.

In 30 days, he made $200,000 using Claude AI. He's now spending $3,500/day on Meta ads. He shut down parts of his agency, cut his team from 40 to 18, and replaced 11 project managers with AI.

His message to business owners? Fire your marketing agency. Build with AI instead.

In this episode, Stanley breaks down:
– The exact AI system running his entire business (he calls it "Kevin")
– How he productized 6.5 years of agency knowledge into digital products
– Why he records every conversation and feeds it to Claude
– The 50-60 "skills" that replaced an entire ops team
– His Meta ads playbook (3:1 ROAS, scaling to the US and UK)
– The "easily repeatable content series" formula behind viral growth
– Why he tells AI to treat him like the stupidest person alive
– How one time-lapse video made him $60K in a single month
– The 4-brand distribution system (personal, company, employee, newsletter)
– Why service businesses shouldn't run ads (but product businesses should)

If you're a business owner sitting on years of knowledge wondering how to leverage AI, this episode is your playbook.

CHAPTERS
00:00 The $200K month using Claude
03:15 Productizing 6.5 years of agency knowledge
05:00 The viral content formula (it's annoyingly simple)
11:00 Closing the studio, rebuilding with AI
17:00 Inside Stanley's AI operating system ("Kevin")
22:00 Where boomer business owners should start
28:00 Why you don't need to be technical
33:00 The AI slop debate (and the $7,500 typo carousel)
38:00 Distributing across LinkedIn, IG, TikTok, YouTube
43:00 F*ck/Marry/Kill: Social Platforms
48:00 Why he's now spending $3,500/day on Meta ads
57:00 Starting from zero in 2026
01:04:00 What AI should never take away

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What if your best salesperson never got sick, never had a bad day, and worked 365 days a year across calls, texts, emails, and DMs? 

That's exactly what James, founder of Meditech AI and creator of RizDial, has built.

In this episode of the Miss AI Podcast, Keira sits down with James to unpack how AI is completely transforming lead generation, marketing, and sales and how businesses of every size can plug into it.

In this episode, we cover:

• What RizDial is and why it's become the go-to AI voice agent for medical practices, home services, HVAC, roofing, and more
  
  
• How James uses AI to scrape Reddit, X (Twitter), and comment sections to generate hyper-targeted ad hooks before spending a dollar on creatives
  
  
• The "alphabet testing" method: how to flood Meta with low-cost static ads to find winning hooks fast
  
  
• Why AI voice agents are outperforming human callers in real-world tests
  
  
• The difference between OpenClaw and Claude and why James uses both
  
  
• His journey from knocking solar doors in Arizona heat to building a 100,000-call-per-month AI platform
  
  
• The exact roadmap to your first $1,000 (and then $83K/month) as an AI consultant
  
  

Whether you're AI-curious, building your first automation, or scaling an agency this episode is packed with actionable sauce.

🔗 Connect with James: @aiguyofficial on Instagram
🔗 Learn more: https://www.skool.com/evolving-ai-hub...

Don't forget to like, subscribe, and drop your questions in the comments. New episodes weekly on the Miss AI Podcast with Keira Nesdale.

What happens when an ex-Google Executive Coach, elite athlete, and AI entrepreneur sits down to talk about the one thing most people get wrong about AI?

AK Ikwuakor spent years inside Google coaching sales teams through the launch of Bard - right as ChatGPT was reshaping the world. He watched the anxiety unfold in real time. And he came away with a conclusion that might surprise you: the AI race is not a tech problem. It's a human behaviour problem.

In this episode we get into:
What it was really like inside Google when ChatGPT launched
Why 95% of AI companies are not making money
How your social media feed is the most dangerous algorithm on the planet
Why task-oriented thinking is what gets replaced - not you
The shift from high performer to "aligned performer"
Why slowing down is the ultimate AI strategy
Human connection as the one thing AI should never replace

AK is the founder of LeadLyft and The Next Right Move Consulting, a former three-time All-American athlete at the University of Oregon, and someone who has coached over 40,000 people across 30 countries. He also did a five-day darkness retreat in Mexico. You'll want to hear that story.

This one goes deep. Enjoy.

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LinkedIn:   / akikwuakor  

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Boris Eldagsen has spent 25 years studying at the world's most prestigious art academies, photography in Mainz, conceptual art in Prague, fine art in India, philosophy at Cologne and Mainz.

In April 2023, he won the Sony World Photography Award with an AI-generated image. Then on stage in London, he refused the prize.

Today he's a Creative Partner of OpenAI, Runway, Higgsfield, Dreamina, and Hailuo. He advocates for the word "promptography." His message? AI doesn't suffer. AI can rant, but it can't bleed. The difference between human art and AI generation comes down to one thing, mortality.

In this episode, Boris breaks down:
– Why he refused the world's biggest photography prize (and why Sony's silence forced his hand)
– The word "promptography" and why AI images are not photography
– His full workflow for the Francis Bacon AI Art Rant (20 steps, 7 tools, 6 weeks)
– Why he uses AI to attack AI in his installation "This Is Not Art"
– The four levels of how art affects us — and why authenticity is overrated
– His honest take on whether AI is unfairly exploiting the work of human creators

If you're an artist, photographer, or creative wondering where you fit in the AI revolution, this episode is for you.

CHAPTERS
[00:00] The refusal that stopped the world
[04:00] Why AI is forcing us to define what's human
[07:00] How much of "The Electrician" was AI vs 25 years of being a photographer
[10:00] Where Boris draws the line between AI generation and art
[13:40] Promptography and why the world needed a new word
[14:45] Mortality, suffering, and what AI can never have
[17:30] The four stages of how art affects us (and why authenticity is a myth)
[23:50] Should AI-generated work be labelled?
[26:30] When will an AI movie win an Oscar?
[34:45] How do you know when an AI artwork is finished?
[37:20] Inside the workflow of "This Is Not Art"
[51:55] The contradiction, critiquing AI while being a Creative Partner of OpenAI
[55:30] Where to start if you want to make AI art
[01:02:45] The biggest lesson from 25 years as an artist
[01:09:50] What AI should never take from us

🔗 Follow Boris:
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Website: https://www.eldagsen.com/

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She Used AI to Go From 0 to 15 Million Views 🚀

Shinjini is a top 10 LinkedIn motivational speaker, CEO of Das Media Group, 
and she's generates over 15 million views across all social platforms 
every year.

In this episode, we dive into:
► How she uses ChatGPT to create platform-specific content
► The shift from "positivity" to targeting audience pain points
► Why knowing your one ideal follower changes everything
► How to make AI-generated content sound like YOUR voice

Shinjini shares raw, practical insights on building a personal brand 
in the AI era, no tech jargon, just real talk.

🎯 Key Takeaway: "Whatever you want to do, are you in forward motion?"

Timestamps:
0:00 — Intro
1:30 — Shinjini's origin story
4:30 — First time on stage at 14
8:00 — What is a "go-getter"?
13:00 — Using AI to connect with audience pain
17:00 — Finding her audience & niche down
22:00 — Platform-specific content strategy
27:00 — AI-generated content vs authentic voice

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LinkedIn:   / shinjinidas  

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