The Human Side of AI with Flora, from Jamout.ai

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Jun 2026

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The Human Side of AI is a podcast for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to use AI in a way that actually fits their life and work. Each week, Mondays are led by our AI hosts diving into tools, trends, and practical applications, while Fridays bring real conversations with real humans using AI to work smarter and live fuller lives. Because at the end of the day, we believe AI gives you something priceless back: time to be human. Hosted by Flora Mercury. A Jamout.ai original podcast, made for the Club Jam community and anyone ready to stop drowning in the to-do list and start living on purpose.

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June 12, 202635 min

"Stop Waiting for Permission to Build" with Brent LaGrange

_*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> Brent LaGrange is a doctor of physical therapy from Denver, Colorado, a lifelong tinkerer, and someone who woke up from a coma on his birthday and realized his family had no way to reach anyone. No contacts, no calendar, no plan. _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> That experience sent him down a path of building something that didn't exist yet. He's not a developer. He's an entrepreneur who decided to stop waiting for permission. _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> In this episode, Brent talks about training AI on movement and rehabilitation modalities most therapists can't integrate, his personal agent setup that lets multiple AI tools compete for the best answer, the 90-10 philosophy he learned from the AI Surfer, and Glidewell, his new company helping people navigate end-of-life planning at any stage of life. _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> If you've ever felt like you needed someone else to build the thing you're imagining, this one is for you. _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> Join the Club Jam community at skool.com/jamoutai/about

June 8, 202616 min

Cowork and Code: The Full Picture on Claude's Two Biggest Tools

Claude ships two autonomous agents -- and most people don't know the difference, or why it matters. In this episode, our AI hosts go deep on Claude Cowork and Claude Code: how they actually think, act, and remember, why only 1.6% of Claude Code's source code is actual AI logic, and what the five-layer memory pipeline means for how these tools handle your work. Plus: why Thomson Reuters dropped 16% in a single day after Anthropic's plugin release, what enterprise security teams are quietly panicking about, and a closing question worth sitting with long after the episode ends. This one came straight from our Club Jam community -- inspired by members working through the current Claude Sprint. 🏡 Join Club Jam: https://www.skool.com/jamoutai

June 5, 202658 min

From War Zones to Replacing Seven Developers: How Resilience Built a Tech Innovator

Olesya grew up in the final years of the Soviet Union -- born in Azerbaijan, displaced by ethnic war at nine, raising herself through the chaos of 1990s Russia alongside an entrepreneurial single mother who had company registration number one in their region. By 21, she had two university degrees with honors and a scholarship to Boston. By 26, she had her own lighting design firm in Moscow. By her 40s, she had lived in four countries, filed five patents, built and lost a decade of investment in a cross-continental business when the Russia-Ukraine war hit, and then rebuilt her entire tech team -- replacing seven experienced developers in three months -- using AI. In this conversation, Olesya shares the mindset behind that kind of resilience, why most people are misusing AI (hint: they're skipping the methodology), and why she believes we have a very short window right now to learn deeply before the opportunity closes. What you'll take away: Why building a methodology before touching any tool is the real competitive edge How Olesya used Claude to replace an entire dev team and ship a product What it means to "feed the beast" and how to make sure you're the one profiting first Her practical advice for small business owners: write down what you do each day, then ask -- what can the machine do instead? This episode is for anyone who has ever been pushed to start over -- and chose to build something better.

June 1, 202619 min

The Zero to Claude Sprint: Rediscovering the Human Element

What actually happens when you spend six weeks learning Claude from the ground up? In this episode, our AI hosts do a full recap of the Zero to Claude Sprint — Club Jam's newest training program where members go from AI beginners to builders. We trace the full arc: getting past the search engine mindset, connecting your real tools like Gmail and HubSpot through MCP, building Skills so Claude stops forgetting who you are, creating Projects to keep your contexts clean, and finally stacking workflows so the whole system runs without you. Layered underneath all of it is the bigger question the sprint keeps coming back to: if AI handles the busywork and gives you your time back, what are you actually going to do with it?

May 29, 202632 min

From $32K in Debt to Dr. AI: How Jonathan Built a Digital Company of One

In this episode, Flora sits down with Jonathan, known online as Dr. AI, a Southern California-based automation strategist and educator who went from $32,000 in debt and two months behind on rent to empowering over 500 entrepreneurs with AI and automation systems. Jonathan shares how necessity turned him into a self-taught coder and robotics builder, why he believes entrepreneurs in early traction shouldn't seek balance, and how he's helping coaches and consultants become the bottleneck in their own business and then get themselves out of it. He also breaks down his four core systems that can save business owners up to $2,000 a month in overhead, and the moment a live stream viewer gave him his name.

May 22, 202631 min

Jess Pischel Says AI Should Be Boring on Purpose. Here's Why That's the Smartest Thing You'll Hear This Week.

Jess Pischel didn't plan to be an AI consultant. She spent years in corporate learning and development, had a few babies, stepped back from the road-warrior consulting life, and eventually found her way back to the work she loved through a SCORE webinar and a community called Club Jam. Now she runs Human First AI Consulting out of Cleveland, helping small to mid-sized businesses figure out where AI actually fits in their operations before spending a dime on fancy tools. Her philosophy? People, process, technology. In that order. Always. In this episode, Jess talks about helping a funeral home automate data entry so directors can be more present with grieving families, building a morning briefing agent for a California general contractor driving between 10 job sites a day, and why the biggest mistake most businesses make is skipping straight to the chatbot. She also shares how Ohio's TechCred program reimburses businesses 100% for AI training and why she built a course for it. If you've been waiting for permission to start small, this one's for you. Connect with Jess at humanfirstaiconsulting.com or find her on LinkedIn.

May 18, 202618 min

The Social Media Strategy for Small Business Owners Who Are Over It

Every Monday on The Human Side of AI, I hand the mic to our AI hosts so I can show up fully for the things only a human can do. And this week's topic hit close to home. Friday's guest, Katherine Gruenberg of AI Powered Social, is one of the sharpest minds I know when it comes to social media strategy for small business owners. But when we sat down together we went so deep on her House Manager OS concept — AI systems for reducing the mental load of running a home — that social media never made it into the conversation. That gap inspired this episode. Our AI hosts pulled from the biggest voices in the industry — Buffer, Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Social Media Examiner, and Neil Patel — and filtered everything through one ruthless lens: what actually works when you're time-strapped, overwhelmed, and posting into what feels like a void. What's inside: Why you should never create content from scratch again How to research your audience in under a minute using free AI tools The visual consistency hack that requires zero design skills How to sound more human by handing your words to a robot first A dead-simple way to know what's actually working — no spreadsheet required And it ends with a question worth sitting with: when AI makes everyone's content look polished and perfect, what becomes the new premium? Want to go deeper on social media strategy? Katherine is the expert — reach her at info@aipoweredsocial.com. Back Friday with another human-powered episode.

May 15, 202635 min

Your Home Has a CEO Problem (And AI Just Fixed It) -- with Katherine Gruenberg

What if your home could run like a well-managed business -- without you having to be the one running it all the time? In this episode, Flora sits down with Katherine Gruenberg, founder of AI-Powered Social and creator of the AI House Manager, an operating system designed to take the mental load of home management off your plate so you can show up fully for your work and your life. Katherine's path is one for the books -- from running a 50s diner and motel in the Adirondack Mountains, to 9 years in Las Vegas where she discovered tech, to building an AI-powered business that is now part of the Anthropic Partner Network. And through all of it, she kept running into the same problem that most busy people face: the invisible labor of just keeping life running. In this conversation, you will hear: How Katherine is using AI to organize, automate, and manage her home -- from meal planning to nighttime routines to home finances The phone automation she built that pulls up her shopping list the moment she arrives at the store Why most productivity tools miss the mark (hint: they focus on output instead of stress relief) How she unpacked and organized an entire kitchen in 4 hours using photos and ChatGPT Her simple starting point for anyone who wants to apply this today: one problem, one tool This episode is for the mom who has 47 tabs open in her brain before she sits down to work. The entrepreneur who keeps forgetting that tonight is sports night. The human who just wants a little less friction between where they are and where they're trying to go. Katherine's AI House Manager is still in development, but she is building it to be accessible -- and she is sharing prompts and resources in the meantime so stay tuned for that! If you want to meet more humans using AI to live and work better, join us in Club Jam, our online community, at skool.com/jamoutai/about. We would love to have you there!

May 8, 202628 min

From AT&T to All In: Angie Smith on Coaching, Books, a TEDx Talk, and Learning AI from Scratch

Angie Smith spent 25 years at AT&T before finding herself at a turning point. Instead of searching for another corporate role, she launched Angie Smith Summit Consulting and went all in on three things she had been building quietly for years: a life coaching practice, a podcast, and a public speaking career. In this episode Angie talks about what it actually feels like to leave a 25-year career and start over, how she works with professional women navigating personal and professional transition through the Unbreakable Life framework, and why she thinks the skills that made her successful in corporate America, trust-building, human connection, and communication, are the same ones that make her an effective coach. She also shares where AI fits into her new chapter. She is currently in Jamout.ai's Zero to Claude sprint and has been using Claude to find her brand voice and explore podcast sponsorships. For someone who leads with human connection, she has a refreshingly honest take on what AI can and cannot do for the work she cares about most. Plus: her TEDx talk on the power of imagination is coming in January 2027 in partnership with LEGO. That one is worth the listen alone. The Human Side of AI with Flora, from Jamout.ai. New episodes every Monday and Friday.

May 4, 202617 min

The AI Time Reclamation Act: Reclaiming Your Humanity

div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> We talk a lot about using AI to save time. This episode asks a harder question: what are you actually saving it for? The AI Time Reclamation Act flips the usual productivity conversation on its head. Instead of asking how AI can help you do more, it asks how AI can help you be more present: with your family, your creativity, your own inner life. In this episode we get into cognitive load theory and why your brain treats scheduling a meeting the same way it treats a major life decision. We talk about the vacuum problem, what happens when you successfully free up time and then immediately fill it with more screen time. And we dig into the guardrails that actually make this work: AI handles the preparation, you handle the presence. This one is not about hacks or efficiency. It is about what becomes possible when the machine handles the friction and you finally have the energy to show up for the parts of life that actually matter. The Human Side of AI with Flora, from Jamout.ai. New episodes every Monday and Friday.