

AI Explored
Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner—AI marketing
This is the podcast for marketers, creators, and business owners who want to know how to use AI. Join Social Media Examiner’s founder Michael Stelzner as he helps you discover practical and actionable ways to put AI to work.Show notes at Socialmediaexaminer.com/aipod
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Mar 24, 2026 • 42min
How Real-Time Data Unlocks 100X AI Performance
Ryan Staley, AI strategist and founder of Whale Boss who builds AI orchestration and agent systems. He discusses connecting live data to models for speed-of-thought workflows. He shows content creation from transcripts, linking CRMs and drives to chat models, and using coding agents and multi-agent workflows. Practical starts include CRM or drive connectors and choices between chat connectors and long-running agents.

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Mar 17, 2026 • 42min
How to Sell AI Services Without Selling Your Soul
Anne Murphy, AI strategist and founder of She Leads AI, helps mission-driven leaders implement responsible AI. She discusses how to turn AI skills into paid services, why teaching workshops is a top lead magnet, and practical pricing and assessment tactics. Short, actionable strategies on selling value, designing workshops, and building long-term client relationships.

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Mar 10, 2026 • 41min
The AI Tool Stack That Saves Creators Hours Every Week
Rene Remschik, AI educator and creator behind Viral Sky and Sky Snail, builds tools that speed content production. He shares how AI slashed his work hours and helped scale with a small team. He outlines a practical 80/20 tool stack, safe experiments with advanced models, and multi-asset media workflows using platforms like Hilo and Claude.

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Mar 3, 2026 • 46min
Clone Your Knowledge: Getting AI to Truly Sound Like You
Have you ever wished you could clone yourself to handle more clients or create more content? What if AI could actually capture your unique expertise and communication style? To discover how to train AI tools on your specific knowledge and personality using the Leadership Lexicon, I interview Loren Bartley.Guest: Loren Bartley | Show Notes: socialmediaexaminer.com/a95Review our show on Apple PodcastsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Feb 26, 2026 • 44min
Will AI Take Your Marketing Job? Here's What Two AI Experts Are Seeing
Rachel Woods, founder of DivvyUp and AI Exchange, builds AI workflows for marketing teams. Chris Penn, chief data scientist at Trust Insights, focuses on generative AI and analytics. They discuss how AI reshapes marketing roles, agencies using AI to scale, template-driven automation, agents as strategists, essential skills like critical/creative/contextual thinking, and signs you’re falling behind.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 47min
AI Video Mastery: Creating Videos That Sell
Eve Whitaker, a former TV producer turned AI consultant and educator, teaches small businesses to make pro AI videos. She breaks down a three-phase production framework. She shares practical tools, storyboarding with timecodes, cameo characters, and Hollywood editing rules in short, actionable segments.

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Feb 17, 2026 • 41min
AI Video Made Easy: How to Create High Quality Content That Grows Your Business
Stephanie Navinskas, an AI marketing strategist and author who builds AI-driven content systems. She discusses creating professional-looking avatar videos with no production skills. She covers training avatars, repurposing long content into short clips, practical recording tips, and tools like HeyGen, Opus Clips, and Lumen5. Practical, scalable AI video workflows for marketers.

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Feb 10, 2026 • 44min
Rethinking Prompting: Getting AI to Work for You
Jordan Wilson, AI strategist and founder of Everyday AI who teaches context engineering and prompt workflows. He explains why treating models as collaborators beats using them as search. Learn about priming, the Prime-Prompt-Polish framework, using examples to correct outputs, and practical tips for building reliable, maintainable AI assistants.

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Feb 3, 2026 • 44min
Becoming AI Ready: How to Creatively Secure Your Future
Kyle Shannon, an AI community builder and strategist who helps artists and educators embrace change. He tells his AI origin story and reframes AI as a human amplifier. He outlines a three-phase framework: play first, create excellence, and generously lead. He shares practical daily practices, tool-chaining workflows, and the power of cross-domain learning and community.

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Jan 27, 2026 • 44min
AI Images for Business: Tools, Prompts, and Strategy
Lauren deVane, AI creative futurist and former creative director known as 'your AI auntie', teaches brands how to use AI for design and image generation. She discusses when AI-generated people work, business benefits like speed and lower budgets, and how to choose models and tools. Lauren also outlines a seven-pillar prompting framework and practical workflows for professional AI images.


