The AI Readiness Project is a weekly show co-hosted by Anne Murphy of She Leads AI and Kyle Shannon of The AI Salon, exploring how individuals and organizations are implementing AI in their business, community, and personal life.Each episode offers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at how real people are experimenting with artificial intelligenceโwhatโs actually working, whatโs not, and whatโs changing fast.Youโll hear from nonprofit leaders, small business owners, educators, creatives, and technologistsโpeople building AI into their day-to-day decisions, not just dreaming about the future.If you're figuring out how to bring AI into your own work or team, this show gives you real examples, lessons learned, and thoughtful conversations that meet you where you are.โข Conversations grounded in practice, not just theoryโข Lessons from people leading AI projects across sectorsโข Honest talk about risks, routines, wins, and surprisesNew episodes every week.
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Episode #24
The AI Readiness Project Series Finale
Apr 29, 20261 hourS1
<p>This week, Kyle Shannon and Anne Murphy bring past guests back to close out The AI Readiness Project together. No new topic, no single focus โ just the people who shaped the show, in the same space one more time.</p><p></p><p>A few guests will share where they are now and what has shifted since we last talked. The rest will be the kind of conversation that happens when people who've been paying attention finally get to compare notes.</p><p></p><p>This is our last episode.</p>
Your AI Business Analyst Is Already Waiting, with Alice Bazdikian
Apr 22, 20261h 3mS1
<p>"๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต โ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ: ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐-๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต." </p><p>โ Alice Bazdikian</p><p></p><p>๐ช๐ต๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐</p><p></p><p>Most small business owners think AI is for big companies with big budgets. Alice Bazdikian has spent 20 years โ and the last several of them training hundreds of entrepreneurs โ proving that wrong. The real barrier isn't technology. It's mindset.</p><p></p><p>๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐</p><p></p><p>Alice Bazdikian built Small Business AI Coach on one core conviction: entrepreneurs deserve to reclaim their time. With 20 years of cross-functional experience and a track record training 300+ people on SaaS tools โ including 100+ participants in Ontario small business accelerator programs โ she's watched firsthand what happens when someone stops fighting AI and starts using it as their personal business strategist. A published author, self-described multipassionate, digital nomad who's traveled to 45 countries and speaks five languages, Alice brings a glob...
How AI is Changing Design Thinking, with Sumin Chou
Apr 15, 202655 minS1
<p>๐๐๐๐ง๐'๐จ ๐ ๐ก๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐. ๐ฝ๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐๐จ ๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐๐จ๐๐๐ฃ?</p><p>๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐:</p><p>We're going live with Sumin Chou, Managing Partner at Schema โ a research and design firm working at the intersection of data, technology, and human experience. Sumin has spent decades shaping digital products for The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Victoria's Secret, CBS Interactive, and more. Now he's turning his attention to one of the most important questions in tech: as AI takes over execution, what becomes of design thinking?</p><p>In this conversation, Kyle Shannon and Anne Murphy dig into how AI is reshaping the role and value of design โ and where designers have the greatest impact right now. Expect a grounded, thoughtful take from someone who's been at the forefront of digital product design for 25+ years.</p><p>๐๐ป ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ:</p><p>โข How AI is changing what "design work" a...
From Tool Sprawl to One System for Small Business with Eugina Jordan
Apr 8, 20261 hourS1
"AI is not going to be built by Big Tech or Silicon Valley, it's going to be built by people like us." โ Eugina Jordan<p></p><p>Why This Matters: Small businesses drown in disconnected tools โ QuickBooks here, HubSpot there, Gmail somewhere else โ and waste hours toggling between tabs instead of growing. Eugina Jordan built a patented platform to end that chaos and put real-time business intelligence into the hands of non-technical founders.</p><p></p><p>The Story: After 24 years in telecom โ where she created a new market category called Open RAN and rose to Chief Marketing Officer โ Eugina Jordan bec...
She Built a University Because the Old One Couldn't Keep Up, with Sasha Thackaberry, Ph.D.
Apr 1, 20261h 1mS1
<p>Most conversations about AI and education ask how traditional institutions can adapt. Sasha Thackaberry asked a different question: what if you didn't start with the old system at all? As Founder and President of Newstate University โ the nation's first AI-founded, AI-focused university โ she's not retrofitting a legacy model. She built something new from the ground up, and the architecture itself is the argument.</p><p></p><p>๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐</p><p></p><p>Sasha spent decades inside some of higher education's most respected institutions โ LSU, SNHU โ leading digital transformation and watching the same patterns repeat: slow curriculum cycles, credential debt that outpaced career payoff, and a gr...
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