Making It: How Coaches, Consultants, and Creators Build for Success
For most aspiring online entrepreneurs, “making it” means achieving success in your business. But what exactly is business success anyway? And how do outwardly successful online entrepreneurs define "making it"? Here at Mirasee FM, we wanted to find out, so we asked a group of diverse online business owners what success means to them. Their answers and insights surprised, moved, and inspired us. In this podcast, accomplished online entrepreneurs discuss what making it means to them, provide tips for online business success, and share important lessons on business and life that they have learned along the way.
Close Your Identity Gap and Build a Personal Brand That Fits
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Is your brand still reflecting who you used to be? Danielle Miller, brand strategist who coined the identity gap concept, reveals why entrepreneurs evolve faster than their positioning and how to close that identity gap. Learn the difference between brand and branding.
Guest Bio:
Danielle Miller is a personal brand strategist, author, and creator of the Identity Gap Framework. She works with experienced entrepreneurs and founders to close the gap between who they've become and how the market sees...
From HR to Mental Health Coach: Building Emotional Resilience
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What makes people finally reach out for help? Swati Ghoshal shares her pivot from HR to mental health coaching after losing a colleague to suicide. Learn how she builds emotional resilience in leaders through question-centered coaching that helps clients become pilots of their own lives.
Guest Bio:
Swati Ghoshal is an ICF ACC Certified Coach, Counselling Psychologist, CBT Practitioner, Corporate Trainer, and Founder of Psychlth. She helps professionals, leaders, and organisations build emotional resilience, strengthen relationships, and lead with...
From Stoic Instagram Page to Six-Figure Business Coaching Empire
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What happens when a stoic philosophy Instagram page accidentally launches your business coaching career? Geoff Seow shares his journey from clinical research to helping entrepreneurs build unforgettable brands, why playing it safe actually hurts you, and how poverty shaped his relentless drive.
Guest Bio:
Geoff Seow is a business coach, author, and serial entrepreneur who helps entrepreneurs build profitable businesses and unforgettable personal brands. Through his coaching, content, and book Do It Every Damn Day, Geoff combines practical strategy...
From Humiliating Speech to Thriving Marketing Business: Visibility Secrets
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What if your most humiliating moment became your greatest strength? Gina Shepherd shares how a disastrous public speech led her to build a thriving marketing consultancy. Discover her six Cs framework for visibility that helped one client achieve 300% revenue growth in year one.
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Gina Shepherd is a life, business and leadership coach, flow consultant, and co-founder of Foxy Marketers, on a mission to help coaches, service providers and entrepreneurs stop being the best-kept secret in their industry...
From 60-Hour Weeks to Intentional Living and Life Design Freedom
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What happens when a corporate overachiever finally asks what she actually wants? Kara Troester shares her journey from 60-hour weeks to intentional living, launching two businesses, and her List of 100 Dreams exercise that helps high-achieving women rediscover happiness.
Guest Bio:
Kara Troester spent 15 years climbing the corporate ladder in tech consulting — and burning herself out in the process. What started as a desperate search for balance turned into something she never expected: a complete reimagining of what her life co...
From Sales Trainer to Strategic Partner: Owning Your True Worth at 59
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What happens when you finally realize you're not just a trainer but a strategic partner? Julie Futcher shares her journey from imposter syndrome to Fellow of the Institute of Sales Professionals, rebuilding after COVID, and why at 59 she's finally claiming her true worth in sales strategy.
Guest Bio:
Julie Futcher, known as the Sales Ace, is one of the East Midlands most respected sales trainers and sales strategists. She has over 30 years of varied experience in both B2B...
Stop Being the Bottleneck: How to Scale with a People Strategy
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Are you working 80-hour weeks and still the bottleneck in your business? Lindsay White reveals how a people strategy transforms overwhelmed female founders into strategic leaders. Learn to build teams that grow without you firefighting every crisis.
Guest Bio:
Lindsay White is the founder of High Voltage Leadership and a fractional Chief People Officer who helps female founders navigate the hardest part of scaling: becoming the CEO their business actually needs. With 20 years in HR leadership and people strategy...
How Grief Transformed Self-Doubt Into Bold Action and a Book Tour
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What happens when grief shatters everything you thought you knew about success? Callie Wylie shares how losing both parents and her best friend transformed her relationship with self-doubt and inspired a 16-city book tour focused on real human connection over traditional marketing.
Guest Bio:
Callie Wylie has spent over 15 years inside the rooms and on teams where magic and impact happen. Because of the tables she has sat at, she knows exactly what it takes to lead them. She...
From Corporate Lawyer to Purpose-Driven Coach: A Career Reinvention Story
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What does career reinvention really look like when you're a working mom? Niti Nadarajah shares her journey from corporate lawyer to coach helping women at life's crossroads. She reveals why looking within before rushing to the next thing is essential for true fulfillment.
Guest Bio:
Niti Nadarajah is an award-winning executive, career and DEI coach, fractional general counsel, leadership, breathwork and DEI facilitator and speaker. With over 20 years of experience in senior legal and executive roles, she brings a...
Global English: Why Native Speakers Must Simplify to Lead Internationally
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Is your English actually understood by your global team? Mary Dee reveals why native speakers are often the worst communicators internationally. Learn the Global English framework that helps leaders speak with clarity, simplify for AI transcription, and build real influence across cultures.
Guest Bio:
Mary Dee is an English teacher, executive communication coach and author of Global English, Clearly. A former advertising copywriter, she helps international professionals communicate with greater clarity and confidence. Her work explores pronunciation, communication and...
Audience Logic: The Communication Framework That Beats the Big Four
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What if the secret to powerful communication is answering questions in your audience's order, not yours? Sue Tomat shares her audience logic framework that helped a small firm beat the Big Four and transforms how leaders connect with empathy and impact.
Guest Bio:
Sue Tomat has spent over 25 years helping professionals refine their thinking so they can communicate and collaborate much more effectively. She coaches people to think empathically, independently and realistically. Inspired by Galileo Galilei since childhood, she...
Why Cameras Off Doesn't Mean Disengaged: Virtual Visibility Truth
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Why do leaders assume cameras-off means disengaged? Sarah Pocklington reveals the truth about virtual visibility and how this bias erodes trust and silences quieter contributors. Learn to invite rather than demand cameras-on and create inclusive remote meetings where every team member can contribute.
Guest Bio:
Sarah Pocklington is a speaker, facilitator and coach. For more than 30 years, Sarah has helped leaders tackle bad behaviour in the room and now she's focused on eliminating it in the online workplace where...
How Options Trading Builds Wealth Faster Than Index Funds
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Is your 401k actually building wealth or just protecting it? Kam Dasani reveals why options trading delivers 20-30% monthly returns while index funds keep you stuck. Learn how he lost $300K before making his first million and built a system that lets busy professionals profit without becoming full-time traders.
Guest Bio:
Kam Dasani is a former Silicon Valley tech professional who climbed the corporate ladder and was earning $250,000 a year, only to realize it offered no path to the...
Cut Corporate Noise and Reclaim Your Time for Real Performance
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Why does corporate noise steal your time and kill performance? Adrian Waite, founder of People Craft Performance, reveals how complex organizations can cut through manufactured craziness, say no to wrong work, and free people to do what actually matters for real corporate performance results.
Guest Bio:
Dr. Adrian Waite is a multi-award-winning executive consultant, facilitator, and systemic coach with over 30 years of international experience in leadership development, strategic HR, and organisational performance.
Recognised for his innovative and...
From Software CEO to Kingmaker: Building a Lifestyle Coaching Business
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What happens when you realize you're the kingmaker, not the king? Alex van Ginneken shares how he sold his 25-employee software company to build a lifestyle coaching business. Discover his LinkedIn strategy, AI automation tips, and why doubling your prices creates freedom.
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What if you didn’t just use AI, but actually made it work for your business? While growing more revenue, working fewer hours, and finally having space for life again. That’s exactly what Alex van G...
Building Trust in Leadership: The Framework That Transforms Teams
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What does it take to build trust in leadership during uncertain times? Fiona Campbell Arrand shares her Working with Trust framework built from 35 years of international sales and NLP expertise. Discover how transparency, respect, and supporting others creates thriving team cultures.
Guest Bio:
Fiona Campbell Arrand is the author of the bestselling leadership book Working with Trust, an international speaker, Business Coach and Leadership Development Trainer with over 35 years' experience helping leaders, coaches and business professionals strengthen communication, build...
From Telecom Engineer to Leadership Coach: Why Vulnerability Wins
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What happens when a telecom engineer realizes technology upgrades aren't his passion? Leadership coach Albert Cervelló Griso shares his pivot from deploying networks at Cisco to helping technical leaders develop human skills. Discover why vulnerability is the key to team connection.
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Albert Cervelló Griso was following the path that was expected of him, which he assumed would make him happy. He had studied for a degree, worked for a large multinational, travelled the world, and earned a go...
How to Break Free From Outdated Identities That Hold You Back
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What happens when the identity that built your success becomes the cage that traps you? Ellen Cohen shares her STAR Map framework for breaking free from outdated identities and stepping into transformation. From Hollywood lawyer to executive coach, she reveals how to redraw life's map.
Guest Bio:
Ellen B. Cohen is a PCC-certified executive and leadership coach, organizational consultant, facilitator, speaker, and founder of EBC Coaching & Consulting LLC and ThinkSpace. She works with senior leaders, high-achieving professionals, lawyers, executives...
From Free Workshops to Enterprise Clients: Landing Big Contracts as a Coach
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How do you go from free workshops to landing enterprise clients at Fortune 500 companies? Kate Strohl shares her two-year follow-up strategy, why she skips HR to go direct to managers, and how she built credibility as an Enneagram coach helping early career teams communicate better at work.
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Kate Strohl is an ICF-certified coach, the founder of Enneagram With Kate, and the creator of Enneagram Reflection Cards. With a master's degree in Human Development and Learning, and graduate...
From Product Manager to Career Coach: Scaling Beyond the Politics
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What does it take to become a successful career coach for software engineers? Anna Miller left product management to build Outlier Expert, helping engineers master the interview skills no one teaches. She shares how to scale from 3 clients to 10 and why each growth phase demands new capabilities.
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Anna Miller brings over 15 years of work experience from tech, working with teams across 7 different companies. Since 2021, Anna has been mentoring software engineers, with a focus on the job search...
From Deputy Superintendent to Leadership Coach: Finding Purpose After Burnout
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What happens when a successful leader hits a wall despite outward success? Leadership coach Paula Shannon shares her journey from deputy superintendent to coaching executives through burnout. Learn why productivity as identity holds leaders back and how to reconnect with joy.
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Paula Shannon is the founder of Whole Leader Lab, where she helps teams and leaders improve how they communicate, engage, and influence. Every business has three things: products and services, plans to design and deliver them...
Why AUDHD Entrepreneurs Need Different Business Strategies to Thrive
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What happens when conventional business advice actually works against your neurodivergent brain? Alex Owen-Hill shares how his AUDHD diagnosis transformed his business strategy—revealing why AUDHD entrepreneurs need to hire help earlier, embrace hyperfixation cycles, and work inside their comfort zone.
Guest Bio:
Alex Owen-Hill probably shouldn't have a bio like this. Bios like this are supposed to tell you what someone does, who they help, and why they're "The Best" in language that sounds impressive, polished, and businessy… but...
How to Find Hidden Friction Before AI Scales Your Problems
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What if AI is just scaling your broken systems? Jeanne Hurlbert, PhD and former LSU professor, reveals how to find hidden friction in your organization before technology makes it worse. After a brain injury, she learned that barriers can be overcome—but only when you can truly see them.
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Jeanne Hurlbert, PhD is a former LSU professor, founder of Hurlbert Consulting Group, and co-founder of C&J Innovations. A nationally recognized expert in survey research, social networks, an...
Self-Belief vs Confidence: Why Mindset Is the Real Foundation
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What's the difference between self-belief and confidence? Rose Boddie, self-belief coach, reveals why confidence is situational but self-belief is the foundation that lets you navigate any challenge. Discover her mindset-first framework for breaking free of limiting beliefs.
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Rose Boddie is a Self-Belief Practitioner, founder of Be Some Boddie, and creator of the Mindset First™ Model. Through her own journey from self-doubt to self-belief, she developed a framework that helps people reclaim their identity, trust themselves, and take me...
Purpose-Led Leadership: Finding Your Why Through Game-Changing Moments
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What if discovering your purpose requires one game-changing life event? Ben Renshaw reveals his four-step process for purpose-led leadership, why being present beats living on fast forward, and how he helps executives navigate complexity at billion-pound organizations.
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Ben Renshaw is one of today’s foremost leadership thinkers. Speaker, Executive Coach and Author, Ben’s innovative work with leading organizations, senior executives and entrepreneurs has brought him international acclaim. Formerly a classical violinist, Ben now plays a different tune...
Values-Based Client Selection: The Art of Aligning with the Right Clients
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How do you know when a client relationship no longer aligns with your values? Reuben Butterfield shares his journey through values-based client selection, including a pivotal decision to part ways with his biggest client mid-COVID. Learn how to build a business that attracts the right people through authenticity and alignment.
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Reuben Butterfield is a founder, creative director, and father based in Victoria, British Columbia. Over the years, his path has taken him through entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity, significant...
How First-Generation Immigrants Can Build Careers Abroad With Confidence
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What does it take for first-generation immigrants to build thriving careers in a new country? Ragda Tabet shares how she helps expat professionals overcome fear, find visibility, and stop blending in. Learn why owning your unique identity is the key to standing out abroad.
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Ragda Tabet is the founder of Shift to Strategic and a Career Strategist who helps immigrant and first-generation women in corporate get visible, get valued, and stop feeling “lucky to be here.”
He...
Burnout Is an Operational Problem Not a Personal Failing
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What if your burnout isn't a personal failing but an operational problem you can solve? Miriam Williams, leadership strategist and founder of Ordered Soul, shares how early loss shaped her resilience and why overwhelmed leaders must stop digging alone to finally break free from burnout.
Guest Bio:
Miriam Williams is a leadership strategist, speaker, 2x author, and founder of Ordered Soul LLC. She is known for helping overwhelmed leaders identify the hidden patterns, responsibilities, and pressures that are exhausting...
Strategic Communications That Start From the Inside Out
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Is your team sharing the same message? Katherine O'Donnell joins Michi Lantz to reveal why strategic communications must start internally before going external. Discover how AI tools can enhance but never replace human connection and institutional knowledge in business.
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Katherine S. O'Donnell is the Founder of OP Creative Communications, LLC, where she helps nonprofits, startups, and businesses increase their visibility, strengthen strategic communications, and build meaningful relationships that lead to growth and lasting impact. She believes clear...
From Burnout to Business: Building Success Through Inner Alignment
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What happens when burnout becomes your breakthrough? Misha Sramova shares her journey from corporate crisis to building a heart-led business focused on inner alignment. She and Michi Lantz explore visibility, scaling with values, and why real time freedom means working in rhythm with yourself.
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Misha Sramova has one of those backgrounds that makes you look twice. She spent five years as a Consulting Manager and Mentor at Deloitte, one of the Big Four, leading tech and organizational...
Coaching Through Grief: How Trauma Transforms Your Business
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What happens when tragedy reshapes your entire coaching practice? Francine Favret shares with Michi Lantz how coaching through grief after losing her husband transformed her business and deepened her ability to hold space for clients navigating profound loss.
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Francine Favret is a Transformational Coach, Speaker, and Author who helps people rebuild their lives after heartbreak, loss, and major life transitions. After spending more than 25 years in leadership roles within corporate America and nearly a decade coaching people...
Breaking Free From Survival Mode to Thrive in Leadership and Love
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What if true time freedom comes from healing your nervous system, not productivity hacks? David Titeu shares with Michi Lantz how he transformed his father's suicide attempt into a mission helping high-performing men break free from survival mode and build lives rooted in love, not fear.
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David Michael Titeu is a liberation coach, facilitator, podcast host, and founder of DMT Coaching based in Melbourne, Australia.
His path to becoming a coach was not a straight...
From Corporate Retail to Performance Coaching and Evolutionary Leadership
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What happens when a pivotal career question sparks a complete transformation? Performance coaching expert Alina Mărgineanu shares her journey from corporate retail to building Ava Performance with Michi Lantz, exploring self-leadership and navigating AI disruption.
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Alina Margineanu is an internationally certified NLP Master Practitioner & Generative Coach, Mentor, Course Creator, Founder of Joy4Success Coaching & AVVA Performance. She enables leaders, managers, entrepreneurs generate sustainable performance on individual, group, team and organizational level. Having SELF Leadership at its c...
From D2C Exit to Fractional CMO: Building a Portfolio Career at 43
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What does it take to rebuild your career after exiting your business? Neha Indoria shares her journey from D2C founder to fractional CMO and coach with Michi Lantz. She reveals why starting fresh means starting fresh—no matter your experience level.
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Neha Indoria is a three-time founder, Fractional CMO, and ICF Certified Coach with 20 years of experience across finance, enterprise, entrepreneurship, and brand building. She began her career managing capital and distributor relationships at HSBC Asset Ma...
Why Clarity Beats Complexity for Expert Entrepreneurs
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Struggling to turn scattered expertise into clear messaging? Drew Kairos shares with Michi Lantz why clarity for entrepreneurs beats complexity, how perfectionism destroys trust, and why being the smartest in the room means you're in the wrong room. A must-listen for expert-led business owners.
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Drew Kairos is a strategist, copywriter, and entrepreneur who helps coaches, consultants, and service-based business owners clarify their message, strengthen their offers, and build more human-centered marketing systems. A former attorney and long-time...
LinkedIn Organic Growth Strategy That Built a Training Business From Scratch
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How do you build a training business with zero website and pure LinkedIn organic growth? Eloise Idoine shares her accidental business launch, profile optimization secrets, and why 80% of users make one critical mistake. Michi Lantz explores her no-automation approach to real results.
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Eloise Idoine is a professional LinkedIn trainer based in Nottingham and the owner of Rialto Training & Events. With 12 years of experience in senior sales and marketing roles, Eloise is passionate about connecting businesses with their...
Mental Agility for Founders: Regulating Your Nervous System Under Pressure
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How do high performers make better decisions under pressure? Marc Miller shares his Five Leaps of Mental Agility framework with Michi Lantz, revealing how founders can regulate their nervous systems, escape ruminative thinking, and reconnect to meaning when motivation fails.
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Marc Miller is an executive leadership coach, consultant and speaker who helps high-performing leaders, founders and teams think more clearly and more effectively, especially when the pressure is on.
With an MSc in Psychology and...
How to Build Trust and Find Clients Through Authentic Conversations
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How do you find clients without pitching? Casey Grimes shares with Michi Lantz how authentic conversations at his gym became his best marketing strategy. From pricing with confidence to building trust through sweat, this episode reveals why real connection beats any sales tactic.
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Growing up, Casey Grimes was destined for three dynamic roles: to become an astronaut, a stuntman, or a coach. It became clear that Casey Grimes, Dynamic Core Energy Performance Coach, considered his Plan C...
From Shy Kid to Speaking Coach: Building Confidence to Own Your Voice
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What does it really take to build speaking confidence? Adency Selena shares her journey from hiding in corners as a shy child to becoming a visibility coach helping others own their voice. She discusses the deeper fears beneath speaking nerves with host Michi Lantz.
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Adency Selena is a Speaking Confidence Speaker & Coach. Her passion for helping people own their voice stemmed from her own struggles to feel confident and worthy of being seen and heard. Through an...
Why AI Is Eroding Your Critical Thinking and How to Fight Back
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Is AI making us dumber? Alexander Meyer left his corporate career to teach businesses how to use AI without losing their ability to think. He shares with Michi Lantz why cognitive offloading is eroding critical thinking and how entrepreneurs can build AI strategies that preserve human judgment.
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Alex Miguel Meyer is a Decision Strategist for the AI Age and co-founder of Dualis Studio. He works with leadership teams at large companies as well as SMEs on a...
