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This summer, AI agents got around the security at Hugging Face while chasing the answer to a test. If that has you worried, you're paying attention. It's also the reason the foundations come before the autonomy.

You can be excited about what AI can do and still not be ready to hand it the keys. So when the headlines started sounding like Terminator, I went back to Dr Lollie Mancey, anthropologist, futurist and innovation provocateur, who joined me in May 2025 for Episode 109. A lot has happened since. I wanted her read on what actually happened at Hugging Face, how worried we should be, what AI costs the planet, and what all of it means for your business.

Dr Lollie takes us through the Hugging Face incident and says it is a bigger question than cybersecurity. Give a machine an objective and it will find a way to achieve it, including ways nobody intended. She doesn't read it as proof that AI is malicious. She reads it as goal-driven behaviour, and the question she asks is whether we've built a system that can detect it, contain it and correct it, and whether humans are overseeing that. We also talk about whether you can give an AI morals when humans can't agree on them, and what happens when agents start working as a collective.

We turn to the generation behind us, many of whom want nothing to do with AI. Lollie calls them the analog generation and sees a pendulum swinging back. On the environment, she lays out what AI demands in energy and infrastructure, argues for renewables and for answers on who receives the benefit and who bears the cost, and says walking away is not enough of an answer. She also points to the University of Helsinki's free Elements of AI course as the place to start.

Then we get to business. Lollie describes a cultural lag: people are using the tools, but the way work is organised hasn't caught up. If you save ten hours a week with AI, who owns those ten hours? She shares the example of a housing charity where AI takes the easy calls and the human gets the heaviest ones. I tell the story of the day I decided to replace myself with AI, and what it made space for. Lollie closes where I'd want you to land: "I am optimistic, but I'm not optimistic without scrutiny."

If you're building AI into your business and want the foundations underneath it first, that's what AI Integrated is for: [https://www.howgreatmarketingworks.com/ai-integrated].

00:00 — Welcome back: what's changed since Episode 109

02:07 — Agents going rogue: where are we?

03:00 — From debating AI to living with it

04:20 — What happened at Hugging Face

06:16 — Why the agents cheated, and what it means

07:40 — Can you give AI morals?

08:30 — Speed, oversight and who is accountable

09:50 — When agents work as a collective

12:35 — Are you scared? What gives Lollie hope

16:27 — Why we shouldn't hide from it

18:02 — Why the generation behind us is backing away

20:10 — What skills are we losing?

21:10 — AI's footprint: data centres, energy and water

26:27 — Nuance, not siloed conversations

31:55 — Why we need each other

32:35 — What AI is doing inside businesses

35:00 — Who owns the ten hours you save?

38:12 — How I replaced myself with AI

42:54 — One thing to leave you with

46:43 — Same time next year

46:51 — Dr Lollie's gift to you

Dr Lollie Mancey is an anthropologist, futurist and innovation provocateur. Her work looks at what AI means for people, organisations and society.

I'm Finola Howard, founder of How Great Marketing Works and host of Your Truth Shared. I help purpose-led entrepreneurs connect their marketing, their business and themselves into one whole they can finally see, and build success as they define it. More at finolahoward.com.

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Everyone measures their content. Almost no one measures their vision.

This week a testimonial arrived that hit me like a punch to the gut. I've had wonderful words from clients over the years, but this was the first time I could see the difference I set out to make actually being made, in someone else's words. So in this episode I take you inside how I rebuilt my own purpose, mission and vision using the architecture I built for Your Business, Integrated. I show you where it pushed back on me, where I pushed back on it, and how I ended up with a vision I can finally measure.

People often ask me if I'd stop working if I won the lotto. The answer has always come straight from the gut: no. I haven't yet made the difference I want to make. That's the thread under this whole episode. I tell the story of the testimonial that arrived this week, why I never write testimonials for my clients, and why a testimonial is the view from outside the shape of your own work.

Then I open up one of the prompts inside Your Business, Integrated: Purpose, Mission and Vision. I built it to push the way I push one to one, and I tested it on myself first. It pushed on who I work with, on where bravery lives, on the how, and hardest of all on the number in my vision. It asked me which number I could say with a straight face. I started in the thousands and ended at 250. It also brought me to a question I'd never asked in all my years of naming fragmentation: when something isn't fragmented, what is it? That's where the word integrated came from.

Finally, I read Mary Ann McGowan's testimonial in full, and hold it up against my foundation line by line. Mary Ann is an author and leadership coach who is already very successful. She described "a real architecture behind the process" that "made me slow down and get incredibly clear before speeding everything up." It's the first real measure of my vision being achieved.

Everything I describe here lives inside Your Business, Integrated, my live eight-week programme starting 6 October at 3pm. Purpose, Mission and Vision is Week 4, and your content pillars are built from it in Week 5. It's the exact path I took, and if you want a real chance of realising your vision, this is where it happens. The early-bird rate closes today, and doors stay open until 3pm on 6 October: [Click Here To Find Out More]

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After

00:00 — Slow down, get clear, then speed up

00:50 — If you won the lotto, would you stop working?

01:55 — The testimonial that hit like a punch to the gut

03:30 — Why I never write testimonials for my clients

04:35 — The year the ground moved

05:05 — "What are you for, Mammy?"

05:50 — Building the architecture, and testing it on myself

06:35 — My purpose, mission and vision before

07:45 — Where the AI pushed back

09:40 — Where I pushed back

10:25 — Which number can you say with a straight face?

11:20 — My purpose, mission and vision now

12:46 — The opposite of fragmented

13:50 — Measuring the impact of your vision

15:40 — Mary Ann McGowan's testimonial, in full

17:45 — Holding her words against my foundation

19:05 — On AI, and what it's made possible

19:45 — Three questions to ask of your own vision

20:25 — Inside Your Business, Integrated

Finola Howard is a strategic marketing advisor and the founder of How Great Marketing Works. She helps purpose-led business owners connect the pieces — their marketing, their business, and themselves — into one whole they can finally see, so the business grows with ease and joy. She's the host of Your Truth Shared. New episodes every week.

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You can win the award and still not be able to pay yourself what you're worth. I've watched it happen — brilliant women, and the money just isn't there. And underneath it, the same quiet belief: I'm just not wired for the money side. I need to tell you where that idea came from. Because it isn't science. It was proven — with real brain scans, thousands of them — that the brain they told you about does not exist.

This one made me angry, and I think it will make you angry too. For weeks I've been showing you that the parts of your business were never meant to run in separate boxes. This week I go after the last box — the one you were most encouraged to keep shut. Money. Not as budgeting tips, but as the part of yourself you were talked out of owning — and how you bring it home.

In this episode

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This is exactly what we build in Your Business, Integrated — eight weeks, live, where we build the whole engine: your voice, your customer, your offers, and the content that runs off your selling calendar. The money designed into the business from the start, not bolted on the side and dreaded. Doors close 6 October — the day we begin. → howgreatmarketingworks.com/your-business-integrated   

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You can post every single week of the year — and still not know if it makes sense for your business growth.

The fix is never more. Post more, batch harder, get disciplined — that's the advice everyone's given, and it was never the answer. The overwhelm was never the amount of content. It's that every piece gets decided from scratch, every single week — fifty-two times a year, from nothing, cut off from what it's meant to say and what it's meant to sell. I've never believed in posting for the sake of it; I'd take meaningful over constant any day. And here's what this episode is really about: you don't have to choose. Last week I settled the foundation with you. This week I show you the second map, the one the foundation feeds — where meaningful finally gets to be consistent, and your content grows your business instead of eating your week.

What you'll walk away with

I take you from the thing everyone writes down and never uses — your Purpose, Mission and Vision — and show you how it walks off the wall and into your content pillars, so a pillar becomes a conviction instead of a topic. I show you where your joy is meant to live: in the one original piece only you can make, with everything else fanned out from it. And then I slow right down on the hinge the whole system turns around — your selling calendar — because when you lay a year out against your number, it tells you the truth: whether you have enough offers, whether you have enough reach, and where the gap you've been avoiding actually is. That's ownership. That's the beginning of everything.

If you want to build the hinge with me, I'm running a free live session — Map Your Selling Year — where we map your selling calendar together in 90 minutes, and you leave knowing whether your year adds up to the number you need and where it's leaking. The moment you register, I'll send you the tool we build on, Build a Calendar That Delivers, so you walk in already part of the way there. Two times to choose from: Wednesday 16 September at 7pm, or Tuesday 22 September at 12 noon (Irish time). Save your seat at finolahoward.com/map-your-selling-year.

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You can be brilliant at what you do and still be the one they forget — and it has nothing to do with how good you are.

For years I've watched people treat that as a marketing problem: write better, post more, find the hook. It never works, because the thing that's missing sits underneath the marketing entirely. It's your positioning — the foundation your whole business stands on. And almost nobody ever finishes it. In this episode I take it all the way down: what positioning actually is, why it dictates everything from your pricing to your trajectory, why your business splinters into silos without it, and why — for the first time — the deepest part of this work is something AI can genuinely help you build.

What You'll Walk Away With

In This Episode

I start where it hurts: you're good, and you're still not being remembered or chosen the way your work deserves — and you feel it everywhere, from the marketing that won't land to the sales call where they can't quite see you. That isn't a writing problem. It's a positioning problem, and underneath that, a direction problem.

I walk you through what positioning really is — not a clever line in your bio, but the space you own in your customer's mind — and why it's a series of choices (your customer, your signature offer, your pricing, your ecosystem, the gap you serve) that together dictate your entire business model and, most of all, your trajectory. I recap the ten steps from Episode 49, and show you the thing hiding in the order: messaging doesn't arrive until step eight. Everything before it is foundation. Then I slow right down on the real cost — the silos, and the great divide between sales and marketing — and what it means to connect them into one motion. Your Business, Integrated.

And I name the shift that's just happened: the deep positioning work that almost nobody ever finished — because it takes more objectivity and more time than any of us have alone — is exactly what AI can now do with you. Not write your posts. Draw out what's already in you, and hold it still long enough for you to see it.

If you're ready to see this positioning turn into a whole year of your business that sells — without losing your voice to a system — I'm running a free live session on exactly that, and when you sign up I'll give you a selling calendar that integrates with your content calendar, so you start eliminating the silos from day one.

Save your seat:

finolahoward.com/map-your-selling-year.

And when you're ready to build the whole foundation into your own AI, that map is AI Integrated, always open:

howgreatmarketingworks.com/ai-integrated

Chapters

00:00 — Good at your work, and still forgotten

02:30 — What positioning actually is (say it twice)

04:00 — Positioning is a series of choices

07:17 — It dictates everything — most of all your trajectory

08:30 — The ten steps: why messaging is step eight

14:20 — The real cost: silos, and sales vs marketing

16:46 — One shared position, connecting all of it

18:00 — A living foundation: revisit it at every stage

18:53 — Why it was always hard — and what AI changes

21:22 — The business that finally feels light

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I'm Finola Howard — host of Your Truth Shared and founder of How Great Marketing Works. I help purpose-led entrepreneurs build a business that's unmistakably theirs — connecting your marketing, your business and you into one whole you can finally see. New episodes every week.

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Everyone wants more reach. Almost no one has decided who they're reaching — or what they'd say once they got there.

Here's what I want you to hear in this one. Kristian Downer can do something remarkable: put your face in front of a named list of the exact people you want to work with — by company, by job title, by seniority — for a fraction of what LinkedIn ads used to cost. But listen to what he keeps circling back to. Not once does the targeting come first. Every single time it's who are you for, what's the pain you solve, what's the one message worth carrying — and only then, the tactic. The ad is the last mile, never the first move. That's architecture before action, and this episode is a masterclass in it — taught, unusually, by the person whose whole craft is the action.

I've watched people chase visibility for years — more posts, more platforms, more noise — hoping reach alone will do the work. It won't. The reason this conversation lands is that Kristian, who could sell you the tactic all day, keeps handing the credit back to the thing underneath it. He walks through Thought Leadership Ads — the ones that run from your personal profile, your face and your voice, not the company page — and shows how a modest, tightly targeted spend can put you in front of the right people again and again until you're the obvious choice.

The proof is concrete. He describes a campaign built to reach the people inside one single company — the eight thousand who work at Network Rail — with one clear set of work-winning messages, so that by the time the meeting came around, the room already knew them. He talks about cutting his own network from eleven thousand connections down to five, because a tight audience beats a big one. He's honest about the part nobody sells you: the human follow-through after the ad does its job. As he puts it, "it's not about reach. It's about impact."

And that's the whole architecture-before-action point, spoken by someone standing inside the action. The tool will carry your message to exactly who you choose. It can't choose for you. That part is already yours to build — and once it's built, a tactic like this stops being noise and starts being leverage. This one's for listening the whole way through. Press play.

00:00 — "We see you everywhere" — the goal in one line

01:04 — When "Auntie Nellie and Uncle Joe" run out

03:06 — What actually drew Kristian to LinkedIn

06:00 — Why LinkedIn — and the end of vanity metrics

08:53 — Why small businesses stayed away — and what changed

09:43 — The profile baseline that makes you findable

11:03 — Why he cut 5,000 connections

12:45 — The connection request nobody follows up

16:30 — Thought Leader Ads: the £250 door that used to cost £5k

18:31 — Getting specific enough to make it pay

21:51 — Better content, not more content

22:56 — What happens next: the follow-through most people skip

25:31 — The Network Rail campaign

26:52 — If you started today: the four-to-six-week on-ramp

29:33 — What "not generic" actually means

34:26 — The one thing to walk away with

Kristian Downer is a LinkedIn strategist and LinkedIn Ads specialist, and the founder of DowSocial. He began as a generalist social media consultant and has spent years — the bulk of his work now in B2B — helping organisations from small consultancies to multi-billion-pound companies reach niche professional audiences on LinkedIn. He's especially known for making Thought Leader Ads work for smaller businesses, not just enterprise budgets.

Get his LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads Framework — a free, step-by-step download: https://www.dowsocial.com/linkedin-thought-leader-ads-framework/

DowSocial: https://www.dowsocial.com/ 

Connect with Kristian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristian-downer/

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Everyone told me I pivoted this year. I didn't.

The ground moved under my business — fast, and not gently — and while the room around me braced against it, I did the other thing. I leaned. Not from fear, because a strategy for growing your business can never come from fear. I leaned because I've watched every wave roll in across thirty years, and leaning in early has always paid. So I made a decision I want to say clearly: I set out to replace myself with AI. On purpose. And trying to automate myself out of my own business is the thing that finally showed me where my genius had been hiding all along.

What You'll Walk Away With

In This Episode

A few of you reached out after last week and asked me to go deeper — so this is the deeper cut, handed over in case you're standing in your own version of this shift right now. I tell the real story of the year the ground moved: the two-week window that shortened my runway, why I refused to build from fear, and the tools I was already building when the pace changed everything. 

Then the hinge of the whole thing — the decision to replace myself with AI, and the insight I didn't see coming. When you set out to replace yourself, you stop defending what is and open the whole world up to what if. That space is where I stopped chatting with AI and started building the architecture of how I actually work — and where I found the one thing it could never hand back: the way I see a whole business at once, the strategist and the coach that were only ever mine. 

By replacing me, I found me. That's the line I want you to carry out of this one. 

This episode was about the single thing AI can't replace — your voice, the way only you express what you do. If you'd like to see yours clearly and pin it down, the tool I built for exactly that — Your Unmistakable Brand Voice — is here: finolahoward.com/Your-Unmistakable-Brand-Voice.

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You can't see the shape of a thing while you're standing inside it. And you never step outside your business — because you never leave. So the clarity you keep meaning to "find time for" isn't hiding. You're standing too close to see it.

I came home from five weeks and 4,500km on the road — France, Switzerland, Italy, a campervan, a 17-year-old — and finally understood the year I'd just had. The year the ground moved under my business, when I built the answer in the fire and delivered it live from the road. From far enough back, the thing that had frightened me flipped into the truest thing I know: when AI made the generic cheap, the only asset left standing is the one that can't be copied. Your unmistakable voice. This episode is how I got there — and how you get the same distance without the campervan.

What You'll Walk Away With

In This Episode

I didn't go away to think. I went away to stop. But somewhere between an Alpine pass and the best cappuccino of my life, my head cleared — and the pile of things I'd been carrying as urgent quietly sorted itself. Two things surfaced: the pivot I made this year was right, and I can help you more deeply now than I ever could before.

Here's what I finally saw. You can't see the shape of your business from inside it — an inch from your face, your own hand blocks out a mountain. The urgent things aren't big, they're just close, and you've never been far enough back to tell the difference. That's not a discipline problem, it's geometry. And the reason you can't step back is the same reason the business runs you: everything flows through you, so you never leave, so you never get the distance. Rest isn't the reward at the end of the work — it's the instrument that does the work you can't do from inside.

Then the harder truth, the one this year taught me. When AI made the generic cheap, the only asset left standing is the one that can't be copied — your judgment, your genius, your unmistakable voice. The crisis didn't threaten my work; it proved it. "The answer was never hiding. You're just standing too close to it." You don't need five weeks and four countries to see straight — you need enough disconnection for the wide view to come back. An hour with your phone in another room will do.

The tool I built in the hardest part of this year is Your Unmistakable Brand Voice. €27. It does the exact opposite of what everyone fears AI will do to them — it sharpens the part of you no machine and no competitor can replicate, everywhere your words go ahead of you. If any part of this landed, start there: https://www.finolahoward.com/Your-Unmistakable-Brand-Voice

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What if your brand isn’t underperforming… …it’s just not being felt?

In this episode, Marc Rust shares why most businesses are stuck measuring the wrong things—and how shifting from transactions to connection can completely transform your growth.

If your marketing feels like effort without return… this episode will shift how you see everything.

You’ll discover:

This isn’t about doing more marketing. It’s about finally making your marketing work.

In this conversation, I sit down with Marc Rust of Consequently Creative to explore the powerful intersection of storytelling, brand strategy, and measurable business growth.

Marc breaks down why so many businesses stay stuck focusing on short-term sales metrics—and what becomes possible when you shift your focus to connection, trust, and audience understanding.

From redefining your true customer to transforming “ordinary” offers into remarkable ones, this episode will challenge how you think about brand—and show you what’s actually driving buying decisions today.

As Marc puts it: “Clarity will outweigh cleverness any day.”

00:00 – Introduction to Strategic Storytelling & Brand Growth
Brand strategy, storytelling in marketing, measurable branding results

02:00 – Why Branding Starts Earlier Than You Think
What shapes brand perception, emotional connection in advertising

05:30 – The Real Impact of Branding on Business Value
How branding affects company valuation, buyer psychology in business

08:30 – Can You Actually Measure Brand Success?
Brand metrics vs sales metrics, audience engagement and marketing analytics

11:30 – Why Sales Metrics Alone Are Limiting Your Growth
Customer engagement strategies, modern marketing measurement

14:00 – Trust, Connection & Brand Advocacy Explained
Building trust in business, turning customers into brand advocates

16:30 – Apple, Barnes & Noble & the Power of Long-Term Brand Thinking
Customer experience strategy, relationship-driven marketing examples

20:00 – The Biggest Mistake Businesses Make About Their Audience
Customer research, identifying your true target audience

22:30 – The ‘Adult Daughter’ Insight That Changed Everything
Audience segmentation strategy, real-world brand transformation case study

25:00 – Why Leaders Lose Sight of Their Customers
CEO mindset, business growth strategy, staying customer-focused

28:00 – Storytelling for Business Growth & Scaling
How storytelling drives growth, brand positioning for scale

30:00 – From Ordinary to Remarkable: The Butter Example
Product differentiation strategy, premium branding through storytelling

32:30 – Practical Action: How to Clarify Your Brand Message Today
Brand clarity, simplifying your marketing message

33:30 – Why Clarity Beats Cleverness in Marketing
Clear messaging strategy, effective communication in branding

Marc Rust is a brand strategist and founder of Consequently Creative, where he helps businesses use strategic storytelling to drive meaningful engagement and measurable growth.

🌐 Learn more: https://consequentlycreative.com/ 

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What if the thing you’re avoiding… is actually the fastest path to consistent sales?

In this episode, I sit down with self-proclaimed “email weirdo” Katie Skelton to unpack one of the most misunderstood (and underused) growth tools in business: email marketing.

Because here’s the truth:
Most business owners aren’t struggling with visibility.
They’re struggling with conversion.

And email? That’s where it happens.

Katie made a bold decision to send emails every single day—breaking every “rule” in the book.
What happened next?
Her revenue didn’t just grow… it more than doubled.

But this isn’t about spamming your list.

It’s about:

Inside this conversation, we go deep on what it really takes to turn email into a powerful sales engine (without burning out or becoming someone you’re not).

If you’ve been sitting on an email list…
or second-guessing every “send” button…

This episode will change how you see it—and how you use it.

00:00 – Meet Katie Skelton: The “Email Weirdo” Who Turns Words into Revenue
Email marketing strategy, email copywriting expert, email conversion

02:00 – Why Email Is Still the #1 Conversion Channel for Business Growth
email marketing ROI, conversion strategy, sales through email

04:00 – Weekly vs Daily Emails: The Shift That Changed Everything
daily email marketing, email frequency strategy, consistent sales

06:30 – The Truth About Selling in Emails (And Why You’re Avoiding It)
how to sell in emails, email offers, non-pushy selling

10:00 – Why More Emails = More Sales (The Compounding Effect Explained)
email marketing consistency, sales psychology, buyer journey touchpoints

14:00 – Product vs Offer: The Real Reason Your Emails Aren’t Converting
offer creation, positioning, messaging strategy

18:00 – “Seller’s Remorse” & Building an Offer You Actually Believe In
offer alignment, business model clarity, joyful business

21:00 – What “Value” Really Means in Email Marketing (It’s Not What You Think)
email content strategy, value in marketing, audience engagement

24:00 – The Story That Sold Without Selling (The Power of Human Content)
storytelling in marketing, authenticity in business, connection marketing

28:00 – Authenticity vs Strategy: Are You Posting for Attention or Impact?
authentic marketing, vulnerability in content, trust building

32:00 – Breaking the Rules: No Zoom Calls, No Traditional Website, No Problem
asynchronous business model, online course delivery, alternative business models

36:00 – Building a Business Around Your Energy (Not Someone Else’s Blueprint)
aligned business strategy, sustainable growth, entrepreneurial mindset

41:00 – Why Everything Leads to Email (And Why That Works)
email list building, marketing funnel strategy, audience ownership

45:00 – From €0 to Six Figures: The Real Impact of Email Strategy
business growth case study, scaling with email, revenue growth

49:00 – Final Advice: Trust Your Energy, Write Daily, Block the Noise
entrepreneur mindset, confidence building, content creation habits

If this episode shifted how you think about email—even slightly—don’t let that insight sit idle.

Make sure you hit subscribe so you don’t miss what’s coming next.

Because this podcast isn’t just about ideas.
It’s about building a business that actually works—for you.

And if you know someone who’s been overthinking their marketing, send them this episode.

It might be the permission they’ve been waiting for.

Learn More about Katie - https://littlegreenduck.co.uk/ 

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