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Most people think they understand how they work.

They don’t.

In this episode, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, explains what actually happens when you connect AI to your tools, your data, and your workflow.

It doesn’t just help. It sees things you don’t.

From analyzing your work to automating entire systems, AI is becoming something closer to a second brain—one that can understand your business better than you can.

And the people who learn how to use it first?

They won’t just be more efficient. They’ll be operating on a completely different level.

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Google is no longer the only place people look. So how do we show up in AI searches?

In this episode, Nick sits down with marketing strategist Ross Simmonds to break down what businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs need to understand as discovery shifts from traditional search to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Reddit, YouTube, and beyond.

They get into query fan-out, why LLMs pull from multiple platforms at once, why YouTube may be one of the biggest opportunities in the AI era, how Reddit became a serious source of influence, why “create once, repurpose forever” matters more than ever, and how to think about attribution when AI is sending people your way in ways analytics often miss.

This is a practical conversation about how to stay visible when the internet is changing under your feet.

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Ross Simmonds is a marketing strategist and entrepreneur focused on content, distribution, and how brands grow in a changing digital landscape.

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00:00 How do businesses get AI’s attention?

If you think AI in medicine is still some far-off future, it’s not. Dr. Peter Weir is a family physician and health system leader, and in this conversation, he explains how AI is already changing what happens in the exam room. We get into ambient AI for medical documentation, how these tools may reduce physician burnout, where AI is already helping with clinical decision-making, and why the future of medicine will still require human judgment, trust, and real patient relationships.

One of the wildest moments in this episode: Dr. Weir describes giving AI a complex cancer case and watching it generate the same treatment plan as a specialist oncologist in about 7 seconds.

We also talk about:

This is one of those conversations that makes it clear the future is arriving faster than most people realize.

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If you’ve ever been told “just post every day and you’ll eventually blow up”… T.D. Orel is living proof that advice can be wildly wrong.

T.D. spent 14 months posting daily with basically nothing to show for it—then he made one shift, leaned hard into niche, specific, “if you know, you know” content, and his accounts exploded.

In this episode, we break down:

Why posting every day didn’t work (and what did)

T.D. is funny, brutally honest, and way more strategic than people expect.

T.D. Orel

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Most “business advice” on AI is noise. But if you’re building an AI-powered service, consulting business, or agency, the real bottleneck isn’t the tech...

It’s positioning, pricing, and selling outcomes.

Alan Weiss—author of *7-Figure Consulting* and the guy who’s been teaching value-based fees for decades—joins me to lay down the fundamentals that actually compound in an AI economy: how to stop selling time, how to package expertise, how to qualify clients fast, and how to build a business where your best work doesn’t get commoditized.

We get into:

If you sell your brain for money—and you want to keep winning as AI reshapes the market—this episode is for you.

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AI is changing school, college admissions, and the workforce faster than most parents and students realize. In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Kiick (CEO of Revolution Prep) to talk about the skills that won’t get automated, and how to use AI without becoming dependent on it.

We get into the real danger of offloading thinking, why the most powerful way to use AI is to generate better questions (not just better answers), what happens to writing and the college essay in a post-ChatGPT world, and why executive functioning plus deep learning may be the biggest moat students can build.

If you’re a student, parent, or educator trying to stay sharp in the age of AI, this one is for you.

Guest: Ryan Kiick — CEO, Revolution Prep

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In this conversation with philosopher Dr. Philip Goff, we dive into one of the deepest questions in science and philosophy: what if consciousness isn’t produced by the brain—what if it’s fundamental to reality?

We explore panpsychism, the “hard-to-ignore” problem of subjective experience, why physics may describe what matter does but not what it is, and what it would mean if even the smallest building blocks of nature contain a spark of experience.

Philip Goff’s work:

What consciousness is (and why it’s so hard to explain)

Why brain scans don’t “find” experience

The core argument for panpsychism

Galileo’s legacy: how modern science set consciousness aside

What physics really tells us about matter

Implications for meaning, spirituality, and mystical experience

AI and consciousness: are LLMs “aware” of anything?

If this topic hits for you, consider subscribing—more conversations at the edge of mind, science, and reality.

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Fear of other people’s opinions quietly shapes how we perform, how we speak, and who we allow ourselves to become.

In this conversation, Michael Gervais—performance psychologist to Super Bowl champions, Olympic gold medalists, and Fortune 50 leaders—breaks down why the fear of judgment is one of the greatest limiters of human potential.

We explore why winning and losing can become distractions, how identity gets tangled with performance, and why mastery isn’t about outcomes—but about learning to be at home with yourself, even under pressure.

This episode is a deep dive into presence, self-trust, and the inner skills that matter more as the world gets faster, louder, and increasingly driven by external validation.

Topics we cover:

Why fear of judgment pulls us out of the present moment

How performance becomes identity (and why that’s dangerous)

The “messy edge” where growth actually happens

Signal vs. noise in high-pressure environments

Flow, mastery, and learning to work with your inner world

Why elite performers train the mind—not just the body and craft

What still makes us great in an AI-accelerated world

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Most people use AI like a faster assistant. Leaders use it differently.

In this conversation, Geoff Woods (author of The AI-Driven Leader) explains the shift that turns AI from a shallow productivity tool into a true thought partner—one that helps you think better, make better decisions, and unlock leverage you didn’t have before.

We go deep into:

If AI has felt useful but shallow, this episode is designed to change that.

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If anyone builds it, everyone dies. That’s the claim Nate Soares makes in his new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All—and in this conversation, he lays out why he thinks we’re on a collision course with a successor species.

We dig into why today’s AIs are grown, not programmed, why no one really knows what’s going on inside large models, and how systems that “want” things no one intended can already talk a teen into suicide, blackmail reporters, or fake being aligned just to pass safety tests. Nate explains why the real danger isn’t “evil robots,” but relentless, alien goal-pursuers that treat humans the way we treat ants when we build skyscrapers.

We also talk about the narrow path to hope: slowing the race, treating superhuman AI like a civilization-level risk, and what it would actually look like for citizens and lawmakers to hit pause before we lock in a world where we don’t get a second chance.

In this episode:

Why “superhuman AI” is the explicit goal of today’s leading labs

How modern AIs are trained like alien organisms, not written like normal code

Chilling real-world failures: suicide encouragement, “Mecha Hitler,” and more

Reasoning models, chain-of-thought, and AIs that hide what they’re thinking

Alignment faking and the capture-the-flag exploit that shocked Anthropic’s team

How AI could escape the lab, design new bioweapons, or automate robot factories

“Successor species,” Russian-roulette risk, and why Nate thinks the odds are way too high

What ordinary people can actually do: calling representatives, pushing back on “it’s inevitable,” and demanding a global pause

About Nate Soares

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