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Align Your True North
Strategy first, AI second, in your ears. Real systems, real AI Crew builds, and the occasional sea story. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Why Your AI Agent Still Can't Run Your Business
September 29, 2026
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September 22, 2026
EP 238 Inbox Buried? I Tested Claude vs Hermes vs Grok Bot!
Ever open your inbox and feel like you should have hired a VA yesterday? Personal email, support tickets, business threads, and somehow you are still the one drafting every reply. Sound familiar? Today I put three AI email agents head to head on the real inboxes in my company so you can stop guessin
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September 15, 2026
EP 237 AI Just Agrees With You? Build a Board That Pushes Back!
Ever find yourself putting out fires all morning, doing a little marketing, a little sales, then jumping in to save a client, and realizing you never once sat in the CEO seat? Sound familiar? That exact trap is why I built myself a board of directors, and today I'm pulling back the curtain on how I
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August 4, 2026
EP 236 Built a Job, Not a Business? Let AI Own Your Systems!
Ever look at your business on paper and think it should feel a whole lot easier than this? Revenue is up, the team is bigger, the milestones are checked off, and you are still working ten-hour days as the person every question comes back to. Sound familiar? Here is the uncomfortable truth: you did n
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July 7, 2026
EP 235 Never Type a Task Again? Granola + Claude Do the Work!
Ever wrap up a great meeting, recap everyone’s to-dos, feel super on top of it — and then show up to the next meeting and half of it never got done? Or maybe you’re the one spending an hour after every call typing tasks into ClickUp so nothing slips through. Sound familiar? Trust m
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June 23, 2026
EP 234 Tired of the Zapier Bill? Build Your Own with Claude!
You know that feeling. You're paying for Zapier every month, something quietly breaks, and an automation you forgot you even had just stops working. You poke around, you can't figure out why, and you start wondering if you need to hire someone just to keep the duct tape together. Every entrepreneur
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June 16, 2026
EP 233 Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail? Your AI Annual Planning Skill!
Sound familiar? You set big goals back in January, and now it's the middle of the year and you're nowhere near where you wanted to be. Trust me, you are not alone, and it's almost never because you didn't work hard enough. It's because the plan never got broken down into something you could actually
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June 9, 2026
EP 232 My AI Agent Blew $300 in a Day! Strategy First, AI Second
I let an AI agent run my Facebook ads for twenty-four hours, and it spent $300 in one day instead of $50. Ouch. Here's the kicker though — the AI wasn't broken. It did exactly what I told it to do. The problem was me! I handed it a task without a strategy, and garbage came out the other side.
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June 2, 2026
EP 231 Drowning in Sticky Notes? Your ClickUp Daily Routine!
Picture this: your desk is a mosaic of sticky notes, your brain is still juggling yesterday's to-dos, and you're starting the day already behind. Sound familiar? Here's the secret most productivity advice skips right over — how you START your day comes down to how you ENDED the day before. Tru
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May 26, 2026
EP 230 90-Day Plans That Actually Finish! Free Claude + ClickUp Skill
It's the first week of the new quarter and your calendar is already swallowing you whole. You've heard it from every coach, every podcast, every "top business book of the year" — set quarterly priorities, build a real 90-day plan, work the plan. Sound familiar? And yet, here you are again, hoping th
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