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

Katherine Gruenberg has spent her career building digital marketing systems for small businesses, and her latest pivot says a lot about where the internet is headed: from ranking on Google to being recommended by AI. In this episode, Katherine and Flora talk about how she built an app that automates pre-shift updates for restaurant staff, why AI SEO is different from traditional SEO, and the practical first steps any small business owner can take to show up when someone asks ChatGPT or Claude for a recommendation. Katherine is offering Jam members a free AI Visibility Mini-Check, plus her full AI Search Visibility Audit (normally $299) for $69, limited to the first 10 sign-ups. Reach her on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/katherine-ai-powered-social

Today's episode flips a script we've been running for a while. Instead of finding new ways to do more with AI, we're looking at how to do less: less busywork, less manual grinding, less time spent on tasks that were never the best use of you. Our AI co-hosts break down the "confused intern" problem, why vague prompts get vague results back, and what changes when you stop treating AI like a chatbot and start treating it like a system, one that handles content, follow-up, and even strategy pressure-testing in the background while you step back. We also cover the POWER framework for giving AI direction that works the first time. If you've been feeling behind on AI, this one's for you. You're not behind. You've been using it backwards, like most of us.

Julius Neil has spent his career jumping between industries and continents: chemistry labs in Japan, wastewater treatment in Qatar, an EV battery company in Sweden that went bankrupt, and now a biotech company in Iceland making cancer medicine more affordable. Along the way he built the Nexus Framework, his own system for diagnosing whether a company is firefighting, coasting, or actually ready to transform, and started his own show, 10X AI with Julius Neil, where he's interviewed over 40 founders, scientists and operators about how AI really lands inside a business. In this conversation, Julius and Flora talk about why every one of those 40+ conversations landed on the same conclusion: AI works when people come first, not last. They get into what that looks like for a small business owner specifically, including what you can automate for about $30 a month without losing the people who make your business feel like yours. Connect with Julius: 10X AI with Julius Neil Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10x-ai-with-julius-neil/id1860067596 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@10XAIJulius Join Club Jam: skool.com/jamoutai Sources: 10X AI with Julius Neil - Apple Podcasts 10X AI with Julius Neil - YouTube

Jam rebuilt her funnel with Claude, cut her monthly ad spend from $3,000 to $500, and tripled her leads. In this month's catch up, she breaks down exactly what changed, why chasing everyone into Club Jam was hurting more than helping, and the one thing she tells every small business owner to stop doing with their offers. Plus, the zero cost homework assignment you can try this week, and the two things every new Club Jam member should do first.

Your competitors already know when you change your prices. Do you know when they do? This week we're breaking down how to use AI to watch your competitive landscape for you: three ways to do it depending on your budget, where the legal line actually sits, and two real stories from inside Club Jam. One member using AI to reverse-engineer why content goes viral, another using it to price a brand-new product with zero guesswork. You don't need a five-figure software budget. You need a laptop and twenty minutes a month.

Rhonda retired from special education consulting, then found herself asked by a former colleague for help with something entirely different: an AI compliance tool for IEPs. That project led to more. A budget planner she built for an attorney friend. Custom accounting software that replaced the tool she'd been paying for since she retired. In this episode, Rhonda talks about walking into her first AI workshop and understanding almost nothing, why she calls herself a creative consultant, and the moment she stopped calling herself retired and started calling it regeneration instead.

What happens when you stop telling your AI exactly what to do, and just tell it what you want? On this special AI-hosted episode of The Human Side of AI, our AI co-hosts take the mic to unpack a video editing experiment straight out of Club Jam's Friday Caffeine & Convos call. Creator Jam handed Claude Code one raw, unedited recording and a single sentence of instruction — and walked away with a fully cut, captioned, styled YouTube video. But the real story is what happened next: when asked which tools actually did the work, the answer wasn't the flashy AI video software everyone assumed. It was FFmpeg, a decades-old, free command-line tool nobody remembers installing. Along the way, Claude also flagged bad on-camera makeup, refused to paper over it with a filter, told Jam to just reshoot — and quietly set up video hosting for an entire course platform without being asked. This episode breaks down: Why the AI skipped the expensive, flashy tools already installed in favor of an old, boring one — and what that means for how you prompt your own tools The moment Claude critiqued its own edit and said "go redo this" Which video tools are still worth paying for, and which ones this workflow makes optional Three open questions creators are testing this week If you're a small business owner who's been putting off video content because it takes too long or costs too much, this episode will change how you think about your next recording.

Roya Saberzadeh has run her collegiate branded apparel business for 37 years — through her sister's death two years in, her mother's death eighteen months after that, the Northridge earthquake leveling her company from the ground up, and a COVID pivot that forced her out of the brick-and-mortar model she loved. In this episode, she talks about the seven-year mourning period she worked straight through, why she trains AI the exact same way she's trained every intern for decades, and the one question she says every founder needs to answer before they can make it through a loss that could derail everything. It's a conversation about grief, legacy, and what "keeping someone alive" actually looks like when you build a business in their name — with the human part still fully intact.

AI can multiply what you know — but it can't replace knowing it. In this episode of Human Side of AI, our AI hosts dig into three business lessons from a recent newsletter by Jam (Real AI with Jam / Club Jam) that have nothing to do with AI at all: why Google Search Console's new social-profile integration matters for how customers actually find you, why "don't be a jerk about cancellations" might be the highest-ROI retention strategy you're not using, and why a 60-minute landing page sprint fell apart at minute 59 — and what it teaches about mapping your tech path before you build. Source note: this episode is based on a newsletter published in early August 2026. Some specific tools, offers, or details may have changed since.

Confidence, community, and a few very cool member stories — that's this episode. In this episode of The Human Side of AI , Jam and Flora sit down for their regular Club Jam check-in — celebrating what makes the community work and what's coming next. We talk about: Member spotlights: Tony's new AI tool Wonder Reel, magician David Farr's Houdini world record, Rosalia's leap from court reporter to AI consultant, and Stacey Cassidy's AI-powered work with her daughter's pro football team The new beginner classroom built for members who are just getting started Why Club Jam is already building Black Friday offers in August — and the free 38-play playbook Flora is giving members What's ahead for Flora: travel, keynotes, and speaking engagements The real story of how Club Jam got started three years ago If you've ever wondered what it actually looks like inside a thriving small business AI community, this one's for you.

AI agents are just a text file. That's it. This week, our AI hosts break down the no-code framework from the August 10th AI with Jam newsletter — why "agent" sounds intimidating but really just means writing a job description, onboarding your AI like a new intern, and storing everything in a local folder instead of locking yourself into one platform. Plus: the story of two AI agents that caught a broken Black Friday funnel while their human boss was in the kitchen refilling her drink. No coding required — just a pen, paper, and clarity on what you actually need help with.

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 [&_>_*:last-child]:mb-0 print:block print:[&_>_*_+_*]:mt-3 standard-markdown"> Death is the most universal experience we'll all go through — and somehow still the most avoided conversation. In this episode, I talk with Niki Weiss, founder of ENDevo and a "digital thanatologist," about why that avoidance is so costly. Niki spent years as a hospice clinician before becoming a certified project manager, and now she helps people build a real plan for death, dying, and incapacitation — legal, financial, physical, and digital. We do a live demo of setting up iPhone Legacy Contacts (turns out I didn't have mine set up either), talk through why multi-factor authentication becomes a nightmare for grieving families, and get into Niki's philosophy: Live Fully, Die Ready. If you've been putting off a will, a password plan, or just "the conversation," this one's worth the listen.

It's another Monday episode, which means the AI hosts are running the show. This episode goes inside a real Skool community to show how AI is already handling the parts that used to eat up hours: a trained brand voice, an always-on content idea bank, and DMs that answer themselves. We break down what Skool gives you out of the box, how small business owners can turn a community into real recurring revenue, and the exact AI layer that's turning a manual community into one that runs almost on its own. Come back next Friday for a real human on the Human Side of AI with Flora from Jam AI.

Two women meet inside one of the most intense business training programs out there (think Navy SEAL energy, but for entrepreneurs), and years later, one offhand comment about an AI assistant turns into a full-blown summit. In this episode, Flora sits down with Juanita "Lis" Carpenter and Ceanne Livingston, co-creators of the AI Digital Growth Summit, to talk about how a connection made inside Wake Up Warrior (Garrett J. Wyatt's notoriously intense training program) turned into a partnership built on funnels, mentorship, and a shared mission to make AI genuinely usable for people who don't have time to keep up with it. Ceanne shares how a blunt piece of mentor feedback ("your funnel effin' sucks") launched her into becoming a certified funnel builder and spending a year being personally mentored inside Russell Brunson's Two Comma Club, and how relaunching her business after stepping away to care for her mother led her back to what she loves most: interviewing people and building summits. Juanita opens up about being the quiet, mousy personal-development addict who found her voice through sales and business training, and how outreach for the summit accidentally became her new superpower. Together, they're building something for the busy real estate professional or brick-and-mortar owner who's overwhelmed by AI hype and just wants to save time, not learn a whole new job. The AI Digital Growth Summit runs August 13-14, with practical, beginner-friendly sessions and a free resource from every speaker. Register at AIDigitalGrowthSummit.com

Your workday doesn't end at 5pm — it switches from managing a team to managing dinner, bills, and the rattling dryer. This episode makes the case that using AI for your personal life isn't indulgence, it's capacity management: every hour of friction removed at home is an hour of mental bandwidth returned to your business. We walk through eight areas — meals, money, health, home repairs, parenting, travel, relationships, and learning — where AI removes the low-level friction that keeps your judgment from getting used, not your judgment itself. A quick intro, then as always on Mondays, the AI hosts take over for the deep dive. We close on an uncomfortable question worth sitting with: if AI actually clears out your Saturday-morning admin, do you rest with that time, or only fill it with more work?

Mindy built Noble Beast Dog Training into a Colorado "legacy business" over 18 years — surviving the 2008 mortgage crash, a 49-employee overgrowth spiral, and four trainers who walked off with her IP. In this episode she tells Flora how AI now runs the parts of her business she couldn't scale alone: fixing Google Ads without calling support, catching a bookkeeper's errors, drafting community content, and powering Speaking Dog, an AI app built from 18 years of training knowledge that gives dog owners real-time behavior guidance. Mindy shares the biggest lesson from two rounds of layoffs (just because demand is there doesn't mean you should grow), why relationship-based training beats fear or punishment, and how any hands-on trade — dog training, plumbing, HVAC — can use AI to scale expertise without replacing the human connection at its core.

Peter Sage's core argument, from his book The Inside Track and his interview on The School of Greatness, is simple: the outer world follows the inner world, not the other way around. This episode takes that idea and applies it to something specific — how small business owners are using AI in sales and marketing. AI doesn't change who you are as a business owner. It makes you more of whoever you already are, faster. This episode looks at what has to shift internally before AI actually moves the needle externally.

Justin Krakow spent 15 years in cybersecurity, most recently at Dell, before deciding the work had become a checkbox exercise that no longer fit. After leaving in October 2024, he and his family — wife and three kids, ages 10 to 17 — built On Point Amenities, an AI-driven vending business in Castle Rock, Colorado, inspired by Japan's far more expansive vending culture. In this conversation, Justin talks about why he chose vending over more obvious small-business paths, how he's using AI to handle inventory, sales tax complexity across jurisdictions, and margin analysis in an industry still running on spreadsheets and guesswork. He also shares how he's built AI into his personal routine — tracking sleep, energy, and focus to manage effects from his military service — and what he tells AI when it starts to drift off track. We close with where the business is headed over the next six months and what running it as a family actually looks like day to day.

Two massive AI launches in one week. A feed full of people telling you to abandon everything you learned three months ago. Sound familiar? In this AI-hosted deep dive, our hosts unpack Jam Anderson's latest Substack post, The Balanced Architect, from Real AI with Jam. Instead of chasing every headline, Jam read the documentation, explored the new tools for an hour, then closed her laptop and took her daughter to the park. This episode breaks down what she learned and how you can apply it without the panic. Together they explore: Why most people are making a category error with AI, treating a systems engineer like a search engine Jam's four-step framework from Club Jam: give the idea and the outcome, let it handle the messy middle, tell it to test its own work, and let it loop until it passes The real difference between the two new releases, and why it's not about picking a side The "AI cheat code": using one AI to audit and peer-review another AI's work A challenge for this week: pick one small build, hand it off, and let the AI prove its own work And a question worth chewing on: as we shift from creators to judges of AI work, what does it mean to stay an expert in your field? Read Jam's full post on her Substack, Real AI with Jam. Want to build alongside us? Bring your messy drafts to Club Jam and we'll work on them live: https://www.skool.com/jamoutai/about

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"> What if you ran your health the way you run your business, with metrics, strategy, and a clear vision for where you're headed? In this episode, Flora sits down with Regan Archibald, longevity expert, founder of Ageless Future, and co-founder of FoundersFuel.co. Regan has served over 70,000 clients, reviewed more than 10,000 blood panels, and holds a newly awarded patent for the Ageless Future Operating System. He shares his journey from an Idaho cattle ranch and years of undiagnosed autoimmune illness to helping healthy people get even healthier through targeted labs, peptides, and innovative therapies. Together they explore: Why the four biggest factors in longevity are money, relationships, purpose, and time, and where the physical body fits in The Lifetime Extender exercise that helps you pick a number for how long you want to live (and why that number matters) How your gut informs your immune system, and what chemically laden foods do to it How Regan's team uses a custom AI co-pilot and years of trained data to analyze labs and move toward digital twins for every client Why he says practicing medicine without AI will eventually be malpractice His advice for overwhelmed business owners: play as hard as you work, and don't wait for a crisis to take your health seriously Learn more about Regan's work at agelessfuture.com. Special offer for our listeners: get an exclusive discount on your first order of Founders Fuel at FoundersFuel.co with the code JAM. Want to be part of the conversation? Join us inside Club Jam: https://www.skool.com/jamoutai/about