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  FridAI - The What am I Missing Prompt 02.10.2026 20Min.

  In this Casual FridAI episode of Business Brain, we kick off National Body Language Day with a reminder that your business should keep evolving until its current version is its best one. Then Shannon shares his favorite prompt for getting beyond your own brain: what am I missing? Left alone, AI inherits your biases and tells you what you want to hear. Push it past your blind spots and it will surface things like sponsor categories you’d never considered, or a consulting contract where everyone was indemnified except you. Dave takes it a step further: hire yourself an AI agent. Give it a name and its own inbox, then forward it the maybe-opportunities you’d normally delete. It follows up on your behalf and only pulls you in when it matters. If it speaks out of turn, you step in and smooth things over, just like you would with a human hire. You chase down more leads without spending more of your time, and that’s the Charmed Life. Get Business Blueprints on both ideas at businessbrain.show/blueprints. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #793 for Casual FridAI, October 2nd, 2026 October 2nd: National Body Language Day 00:02:31 Always be your favorite version 00:03:24 Beyond Your BrAIn Ask your LLM: Are you Sure? Also ask: What am I missing? 00:09:40 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:11:01 SPONSOR: Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit, can help you fuel up fast with ready-to-eat meals delivered straight to your door. Head to FACTORMEALS.com/businessbrain50off and use code businessbrain50off to get 50% off your first box. 00:12:45 “Hire” an AI Employee, give it an inbox, and a name! 00:18:45 Business Brain 793 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Ask your LLM, “What am I missing?”…and Hire an AI employee! Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – The What am I Missing Prompt – Business Brain 793 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Building in Reverse 30.09.2026 23Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we celebrate International Podcast Day by talking about building your business in reverse. Before you build the app, the community, or the program, talk to the people you want to serve. Shannon launched his first cohort after conversations with more than a hundred people who told him what they needed, how they wanted to get it, and what they’d pay. It was far more successful than he expected. Dave spots the secret ingredient: a well-managed ego that lets you admit you don’t know and lets your customers shape the vision. Then ask the hard question about your existing business: who wants this? You’re probably not your customer anymore, and when you really listen, the answer is usually about service, not price. We close with a quick tip that’s really a mindset shift. Get a tall tripod for your phone and get comfortable on camera, because unpolished, founder-led video beats AI slop every time. That’s how you show up, connect, and keep living the Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #792 for Wednesday, September 30th, 2026 00:01:27 September 30th: International Podcast Day 00:03:05 Building in Reverse Vision combined with beginner’s mind …with a well-managed ego Who wants this? 00:14:33 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:15:55 SPONSOR: Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit, can help you fuel up fast with ready-to-eat meals delivered straight to your door. Head to FACTORMEALS.com/businessbrain50off and use code businessbrain50off to get 50% off your first box. 00:17:38 Buy a tripod for your phone ShiftCam SnapStand Max 00:22:35 Business Brain 792 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Get Comfortable In Front of a Video Camera and Record Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Building in Reverse – Business Brain 792 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI Building an AI Harness 25.09.2026 23Min.

  In this Casual FridAI episode of Business Brain, we explain the harness, the app layer that sits between you and the AI model. The model is static. The harness is where your context, memory, and prompts get packaged up and sent along with every request. Dave learned how hard that layer is to build when a single-prompt ad-script tool for his BackBeat Media team took three days of agentic coding to get right. After that, the huge price tags on harnesses like Cursor made perfect sense. Then we dig into Instinct, the beta AI that lives in your messages app and just gets to work. There’s no lengthy setup and no data dump. Ask it one question about last-minute tickets or Friday night comedy, and it keeps tracking the answer for you on its own. Shannon now starts each morning like a conductor, directing multiple AI tools instead of delegating to people. Your takeaway is to learn how each harness connects you to the models so you can use it to build your Charmed Life 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #791 for Casual FridAI, September 25th, 2026 00:01:27 September 25th: One Hit Wonder Day 00:04:08 Building a harness 00:11:52 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:13:08 SPONSOR: Perplexity Computer. Start your free trial of Perplexity Computer today at PPLX.ai/brain and experience the next phase of AI. #ad makeup 00:14:33 More work with Instinct (we still have invites!) 00:22:01 Business Brain 791 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Learn how each harness works with models AND with you Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI Building an AI Harness – Business Brain 791 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  The People Who Change Your Life 23.09.2026 22Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we unpack what happens when a conference forgets who it’s for. Fresh off Podcast Movement’s first run in New York, Dave explains how splitting creators and business folks into separate events left everyone hunting for coffee shops to meet. Before you book the flight, figure out what value an event is built to deliver. Then show up with a plan, define success for yourself and your team, and stay loose enough to catch the moments you can’t schedule. Shannon brings it home with a favorite Steve Jobs idea: you can’t plan on meeting the person who will change your life. He’s heading to New Orleans with ten friends he first met on X, and a deal walked right up to Dave at a cocktail party, so we make the case for skipping the early exit and working one more room. Opportunities dance with those already on the dance floor, and that’s how you keep living the Charmed Life. Grab this week’s Business Blueprint at businessbrain.show/blueprints to prep for your next event, work it, and follow up afterward. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #790 for Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 September 23rd: National Great American Pot Pie Day 00:02:29 Dave just got back from Podcast Movement and has thoughts Have a Conference plan for you AND for your team What does success look like? What’s your definition of success? 00:12:34 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:13:51 SPONSOR: Perplexity Computer. Start your free trial of Perplexity Computer today at PPLX.ai/brain and experience the next phase of AI. #ad makeup 00:15:17 “You Can’t Plan on Meeting The Person Who Will Change Your Life” – Steve Jobs “Opportunities dance with those already on the dance floor.” 00:21:11 Business Brain 790 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Keep Expanding Your Network Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post The People Who Change Your Life – Business Brain 790 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - Instinct + $10K AI Update 18.09.2026 24Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, Dave hands ten grand to an AI and gets out of its way. The proceeds from his domain sale became a 90-day experiment: Claude designed a static, formulaic trading system — 60% crypto, 40% equities, running through MCP connectors into Kraken and Alpaca — with lightweight weekly check-ins, a heavyweight strategy review at day 45, and a 48-hour rule that lets the system act if he doesn’t respond. Day 69, up 11%. But the number isn’t the win. The win is an operation where the founder is no longer the bottleneck and the emotion has been engineered out entirely, right down to cutting a 25% loser without waiting for a recovery that may never come. Shannon’s running his own version, parking creator revenue in X Money at 6% until it’s big enough to deploy. Then Shannon walks you through Instinct, a private-beta assistant with no app at all — it lives in your text messages. It read his insurance renewal, caught his son listed as primary driver on a new truck to the tune of $3,118, and drafted the email to his agent. Then it spotted his wife’s girls’ trip on the calendar and had flowers and a charcuterie board on her doorstep by three o’clock Friday. We get into what it costs you to build this yourself versus letting someone else own the infrastructure, and why your job is quietly shifting from doing to conducting. The takeaway: don’t wait for the perfect tool. Start now, learn what genuinely matters to you, and accept that your assistant will miss a few things while it learns you. That’s the charmed life on the other side of a little experimentation. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #789 for Casual FridAI, September 18th, 2026 September 18th: National Tradesmen Day 00:01:40 Dave’s Barbell AI Investing Update X Money 00:10:04 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:11:37 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:13:26 Instinct AI, your personal assistant 00:21:43 Business Brain 789 Outtro <https://businessbrain.show/> This Episode’s Big Takeway: Train your AI assistant to actually be your assistant Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – Instinct + $10K AI Update – Business Brain 789 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Domain Negotaiting and HCIH Follow Up 16.09.2026 25Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we take you inside both sides of a domain negotiation. Shannon wanted resellerrocket.com, found it sitting on a generic affiliate parking page, and opened at $2,300 against a $4,000 ask — then used AI to land on an oddly specific counter just under $2,700 that got accepted on the spot. Dave plays the other side: an unsolicited inbox offer on a domain he’d been paying registration fees on for twenty-plus years, a Claude-assisted valuation, a $15,000 ask, and a $10,000 close with the buyer eating the escrow fees. The rule you can steal today — buy with math, sell with emotion. And when someone tries to turn a price into a monthly payment, remember what FFE really stands for. Then we put your favorite management line on trial. How can I help sounds generous, but it hands your team a blank slate and makes them do the work of delegating to themselves. You’ll hear why specific beats open-ended, why Shannon walks the floor every morning emptying trash cans while he reads the room, and why he lets his people set their own KPIs instead of handing them down. The upgrade is straightforward: tell your team you’ll do anything you can to help them succeed, then put your skills, your network, and your tools on the table as resources they’re allowed to use. Expect it to take a while before they believe you. Getting there is the charmed life — a team that finally tells you what they actually need. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #788 for Wednesday, September 16th, 2026 September 16th: Working Parents Day 00:02:04 Domain Negotiating ResellerRocket.com Spaceship.com (hopefully they’re a domain broker!) 00:11:56 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:13:29 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:15:17 Revisiting “How can I help?” 00:24:26 Business Brain 788 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Be Mindful of How You Can Offer Help To Your Team Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Domain Negotaiting and HCIH Follow Up – Business Brain 788 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - GrokBot and Simplebench 11.09.2026 26Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into Grokbot, the new agent platform that packages OpenClaw-level power into something you can actually set up in minutes. We walk through a chief-of-staff bot that manages the rest, an auction scout that delivers a report every morning, a research bot that hunts liquidations across X, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn, and a personalized daily newspaper built from your email, Slack, and calendar. No coding, cloud-hosted, and free with X Premium Plus. We also cover ChatGPT’s new computer history feature that turns your desktop activity into context for your agents, what to expect from iOS and macOS 27 screen awareness, and SimpleBench results showing Astra Pro and Fable 5.1 now edging past humans on common-sense reasoning. If you’ve been waiting for agents to get easy, this is the week to start living that Charmed Life with an AI chief of staff. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #787 for Casual FridAI, September 11th, 2026 September 11th: No News Is Good News Day 00:01:26 What is Grok Bot and how do I use it? 00:12:57 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:14:24 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:15:59 ChatGPT Computer History 00:21:05 SimpleBench ratings of Astra and Fable 00:24:15 Business Brain 787 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Try Out Grok Bot! Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – GrokBot and Simplebench – Business Brain 787 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Give Yourself 2 Years + VCF Files 09.09.2026 20Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we uncover a dead-simple texting hack most businesses are ignoring: sending a VCF contact card with your very first message so your name and logo land in your customer’s phone instead of a random number. It’s a credibility boost, it sidesteps spam filters, and almost nobody is doing it yet. If you text customers at all, this is your move. Then we revisit the two-year experiment: one year to learn, one year to execute. We break down why Stripe had only fifty customers after twenty-four months, why you shouldn’t quit your day job before the runway is built, and how to read the signals along the way without giving up too early. Give yourself the time and you’ll build the foundation for the next decade of your Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #786 for Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 September 9th: International Box Wine Day 00:02:22 Add a downloadable .vcf file to your business text onboarding flow Superpower.com does it! 00:08:14 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:09:39 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:11:16 The Two Year Experiment One to learn, the second to execute After two years, Stripe only had 50 customers 00:18:40 Business Brain 786 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Give Yourself Two Years to Get Started Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Give Yourself 2 Years + VCF Files – Business Brain 786 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - First Draft Software 04.09.2026 23Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we make the case for what we’re calling first draft software. Getting custom software built used to mean months of scoping, a locked-in spec, a big check, and painful change orders every time reality shifted. That world is gone. With vibe coding and AI agents, we can put a real, working first draft in front of you in about a week, not mock-ups, the actual thing you can touch and use, then reshape it as fast as you can think of changes. We share why a friend waiting until December for a fifty-grand build is a stack of red flags, and how one of us spun up a genuinely useful Apple Mail app in three hours after a takeout order, then let an agent sanity-test and re-plumb it overnight. Stop scoping, start building, keep scoping after it’s built. We also get practical about connecting your AI to everything you already use. We walk through wiring up multiple Slack workspaces in about ninety seconds through a connector, pulling exact dates and invoices straight out of email mid-negotiation, and what the so-called SaaS-pocalypse really means: crappy, rigid software you’re trapped adapting to is finished, but services that genuinely solve a problem the moment you have it are worth every penny. Build faster, explain less, and keep engineering that Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #785 for Casual FridAI, September 4th, 2026 September 4th: Bring Your Manners to Work Day 00:02:08 First Draft Software Ottograph 00:10:17 SPONSOR: Whatnot is the largest dedicated live shopping platform. Just search Whatnot in the app store and start selling today 00:11:54 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:13:30 Composio for multiple Slack workspaces 00:18:17 SAAS-Pocalypse 00:20:21 Patrick-Check out Memo AI for recording online and in-person meetings 00:21:29 Business Brain 785 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Don’t Get Trapped into old systems…First Draft Software is here Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – First Draft Software Business Brain 785 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  The 3 Most Powerful Words You'll Ever Say 02.09.2026 23Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into the three most powerful words any of us can say: “I need help.” As entrepreneurs, we train ourselves to put on the blinders, own every problem, and do it all ourselves, and that reflex makes asking for help feel like weakness. But we’ve come to see it differently. Admitting we can’t do something alone actually signals confidence, invites people in, and gives them a chance to do what most humans want to do anyway, which is help. We talk through how framing it as “you’re better at this than I am,” hiring an assistant to shrink your plate, and watching your to-do list get smaller are all just versions of that same liberating sentence. We also share a real support saga, a year-long fight over a broken AI feature and the credit owed for it, and the phrase that came out of it: empathetic but not apologetic. We break down why you get people on your side by making them your champion, showing empathy without caving, and never letting terms and conditions torch a customer relationship. It’s a reminder that we’re all on the same side of the desk, and that asking for help, giving compliments, and being human are how we keep leveling up our Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #784 for Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 September 2nd: National Blueberry Popsicle Day 00:01:34 The three most powerful words you’ll ever say: I need help Four words: How can I help? Asking for and accepting help allows you to build a team. A team allows you to scale! 00:10:37 SPONSOR: Whatnot is the largest dedicated live shopping platform. Just search Whatnot in the app store and start selling today 00:12:15 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:13:51 Compassionate Control: “I am empathetic to the position I’m putting you in, but I’m not apologetic because I didn’t cause this. Your team did.” I know it’s not your fault that this happened. I appreciate you being my champion in this. The Two Tokens concept 00:22:25 Business Brain 784 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Remember That You’re Allowed To Ask For Help Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post The 3 Most Powerful Words You’ll Ever Say – Business Brain 784 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - AI Usage and Watermarking 28.08.2026 24Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we open with a management tip that could be costing you right now: tell your staff to use as much AI as they need. You’ll hear why employees quietly ration their own usage out of misplaced budget-consciousness, why a-la-carte tokens still beat leveling up plans you don’t need, and how a quick conversation about limits can surface whether someone’s underusing a tool that could transform their work. Teach your team never to assume a tool is too expensive without asking you first. Then we tackle the AI watermarking debate, sparked by an EU mandate and the first company to publicly embrace it. You’ll learn how text watermarking actually works through word choice rather than hidden characters, why it isn’t deterministic, and what happens when you run watermarked output through another model. We spar over regulatory capture, the AI triopoly, and whether “doing it right” is the brand or the reality, then point you to the tools people are already building to strip marks out. It’s a lively, skeptical look at where this is all heading, all in the spirit of the charmed life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #783 for Casual FridAI, August 28th, 2026 August 28th: National Bow Tie Day 00:01:37 Tell your staff to use as much AI as they need Loop Engineering 101 00:07:54 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:09:29 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:11:02 Watermarking on other models 00:17:59 How Watermarking Works 00:20:55 Watermarks-Remover Script 00:23:41 Business Brain 783 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Teach your staff not to assume that any tool is too expensive Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – AI Usage and Watermarking – Business Brain 783 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Losing Huge Customers and Please Text our COO – Business Brain 782 26.08.2026 19Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we start with a simple receipt that carried a big idea: a restaurant inviting you to text its COO directly, real number and all. You’ll hear why radical accessibility sends exactly the right message to your customers, how the age of personalization lets you automate and stay personal at the same time, and why every business is really in the customer service business. Small touches like proactive reports and easy feedback loops are how you build loyalty that lasts. Then we get into the hard stuff: what happens when a giant customer disappears overnight. Drawing on real names and real receipts from clients that once made up the bulk of the business and then imploded, we walk you through how to prepare instead of panic. You’ll learn to ask your team the uncomfortable question now, redeploy the resources a big client is paying to build, and why twenty small clients often beat one whale. Change is the only constant, so build the resilience that keeps everyone employed and keeps you living the charmed life.We dig into letting staff use all the AI they need and how AI text watermarking actually works. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #782 for Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 August 26th: National Dog Day 00:02:05 Text our COO – Making yourself accessible to your customers That guy that used to put his Social Security Number on billboards 00:04:59 We’re in the age of personalization 00:08:30 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:10:01 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:11:35 How to react to losing huge customers Paying attention to your large customers internal and external signals Changes aren’t permanent, but change is. 00:18:05 Business Brain 782 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: The only constant is change. Be ready for it with your largest customer. What would happen if they disappeared tomorrow? Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Losing Huge Customers and Please Text our COO – Business Brain 782 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - AI Note Taking and Query Your Zoom 21.08.2026 19Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we get practical about AI note-taking and why your meeting transcripts are pure gold. You’ll hear why local, on-device tools like Granola and WhisperFlow are winning us over, how speaker recognition and instant summaries save you real time, and why you don’t want to be the person stuck taking notes when you should be your best present self in the conversation. We walk through feeding a trimmed transcript into an LLM to spec out a feature, generate action items, and even kick off a build, turning a casual call into a documented plan. Then we hand you the tip most Zoom users are sitting on and don’t realize it: you can query your own meeting notes with a chat interface. Ask how many downloads that show mentioned, or whether demographics came up, and get an answer grounded in your actual conversation. That’s context-aware AI working for you, and it’s part of the charmed life. Turn transcription on by default, file those summaries away, and start treating your recordings as a searchable knowledge base. Create and analyze your transcripts, the data is yours. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #781 for Casual FridAI, August 21st, 2026 August 21st: Internet Self-Care Day 00:01:52 Always assume you’re being recorded on calls 00:02:50 Local AI Notetaking Agents Granola WisprFlow Notetaker 00:08:50 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:10:44 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:12:17 Query your Zoom meeting transcripts with chat 00:18:27 Business Brain 781 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Create AND analyze your meeting transcripts Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – AI Note Taking and Query Your Zoom Business Brain 781 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Saved by Hobbies and Overcoming Being Timid 19.08.2026 24Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into two decisions that quietly shape an entrepreneur’s whole life: protecting your hobbies and refusing to play it safe. You’ll hear why the happiest business owners guard the things they love outside of work, even during the seasons when the business and the family demand everything you’ve got. We talk through how hobbies can feed your business without ruining what you love, and why setting them down for a while isn’t the same as abandoning them. If you’ve ever told yourself you’ll get back to the thing you’re passionate about “someday,” this one is your nudge to protect it now. Then we get into the meta lesson from a live show on the biggest stage yet: being timid never serves you. Your customers don’t want a hesitant version of you, they want confidence and a solved problem. You’ll learn how to take informed risks, communicate confidence in two directions at once, and play the big fill instead of shrinking back. Make mistakes, own your parts, keep going, and you’ll deliver the charmed life your clients actually came for. Don’t be timid, just go for it. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #780 for Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 August 19th: National Aviation Day 00:01:26 The importance of not giving up your hobbies Happy Birthday, Shannon! Turn your hobbies into businesses Starting your second business 00:10:45 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:12:40 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:14:13 More on Fitnexa and their packaging 00:14:37 “Play the fill, Dave” – How to react when you’re feeling timid 00:22:49 Business Brain 780 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Don’t Be Timid Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Saved by Hobbies and Overcoming Being Timid – Business Brain 780 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - Agents + Loops and AI Watermarking 14.08.2026 29Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into agents and loops — and how most of us are already using them without realizing it. Every time you interact with a chatbot, it acts as an ephemeral agent; the real leverage comes from building persistent ones. Shannon walks through the three-layer system he handed ten grand to inside Claude Cowork: dumb, fixed-rule loops that check prices daily, a weekly management agent, and a third that reports to him with approve-now, veto-now, or auto-execute options. The lesson that keeps surfacing is to keep the LLM out of the daily rules so the whole thing stays unemotional and disciplined. We also share a quick tip: when you can’t find an old chat, let your AI search its own history instead of fighting clunky built-in search. Then we get into Anthropic’s watermarking announcement, where content produced by Claude will carry hidden signals identifying it as AI-generated. We wrestle with the gray area it creates: if we feed our own transcript to Claude for a summary, that’s our content shaped by AI, not conjured from nothing — so the watermark shouldn’t imply Claude created it from scratch. We argue the definition of AI-generated content needs to be far less binary, favoring transparency about the whole chain rather than just the last step, and we look at how open-source models and Apple might reshape all of it. Owning agents, staying curious, and keeping it honest — that’s how we keep living the Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #779 for Casual FridAI, August 14th, 2026 August 14th: Navajo Code Talkers Day 00:01:57 Ask your LLM chat to search itself for old chats you can’t find. 00:03:47 Agents & Loops 00:12:20 Scribe. Don’t get caught being the only person who knows how something works. For a limited time, book a demo at https://scribe.how/brain and mention BRAIN for your first month of Scribe Capture free. 00:14:20 Claude is embedding watermarks into your text (and everything else) 00:28:40 Business Brain 779 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Learn to create persistent agents and loops Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – Agents + Loops and AI Watermarking – Business Brain 779 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Start Your 2nd Business and the Power of Food 12.08.2026 21Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we get into a lesson that landed on Dave’s doorstep — literally. A local candidate finally cracked the code by leaving cookies at a door that’s asked for exactly that for six years, proving that when people tell you what they want, the smart move is to listen and act. We connect that to food rewards inside your own business, from the Friday barbecue to feeding your clients, and why those casual moments teach you more about your team than any formal meeting ever will. From there we make the case that the first step to your next chapter is simply starting your second business. Once you’ve built a team, delegated well, and freed up a little time, complacency is the enemy — a second venture wakes you up, opens new neural pathways, and often feeds energy right back into the first. We trace how BackBeat Media and the parts business were both accidental second acts, and we land on the real engine behind all of it: staying insatiably curious. That curiosity is what keeps us living the Charmed Life, one new idea at a time. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #778 for Wednesday, August 12th, 2026 August 12th: IBM PC Day 00:02:28 Listen to your customers…and use food rewards 00:08:21 Scribe. Don’t get caught being the only person who knows how something works. For a limited time, book a demo at https://scribe.how/brain and mention BRAIN for your first month of Scribe Capture free. 00:10:18 To level-up your life, the first step is to start your second business! Embrace your insatiable curiosity 00:20:04 Business Brain 778 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Embrace your insatiable curiosity Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Start Your 2nd Business and the Power of Food – Business Brain 778 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI - Tool Testing and a Claude Cowork Update 07.08.2026 25Min.

  In this Casual FridAI episode of Business Brain, we get real about the AI tools that let us down and the ones that blow us away. You’ll hear how Shannon tried a buzzy new text-to-video service, hit a wall of tokens and friction, and gave it a thumbs down—only to get a personal email from a founder mid-recording asking to hop on a call. It’s the perfect reminder that every business is in the customer service business, and that a broken feedback loop is a black hole you can’t afford. We dig into why you should stay wary of every shiny new tool that pops up, and why great onboarding beats slick features every time. Then Dave pulls back the curtain on using AI as a procrastination eliminator, feeding messy email trails into a custom MCP connector that pulls live data and spits out a polished PDF, a spreadsheet, and a draft reply in minutes. You’ll pick up a clever pro move for the AI age—offering clients a Markdown file when they’re running your proposal through their own LLM—plus the big takeaway that anchors it all: if your AI isn’t surprising and delighting you every single week, you’re not pushing it hard enough. That’s the Charmed Life, where the right division of duties finally gives entrepreneurs like us the leverage we’ve wanted our whole lives. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #777 for Casual FridAI, August 7th, 2026 August 7th: International Beer Day 00:03:18 Be weary of lousy AI tools. Simplifying AI Newsletter Shannon didn’t like Motion.so…and the founder emailed him! 00:10:10 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:12:07 Claude Cowork: feed it your email, let it build 00:18:24 Offering a Markdown file to customers 00:23:20 Business Brain 777 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: If you’re not yet surprised and delighted by your LLM every week, push harder Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – Tool Testing and a Claude Cowork Update – Business Brain 777 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  What Happens if You do Nothing? 05.08.2026 21Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into what happens when you finally step away. Shannon walks you through his experiment of doing “nothing” with his thriving mastermind community—handing off the day-to-day and discovering that the business didn’t just survive, it kept getting bigger and better. You’ll learn why identifying the work you actually love is the real key to scaling, how to escape both the consultant trap and the box you build for yourself, and why stepping away for a week, two weeks, or even a full month is the ultimate stress test for whether your business can run without you. Then we reframe the whole lifestyle business debate. Critics love to say a lifestyle business is “just a job”—but what if it’s a job with unlimited upside? You’ll hear why flexibility, not just money, is the most valuable thing you can chase, and how putting value at the center of everything (for customers, employees, contractors, and suppliers) builds the kind of freedom that lets you attend concerts on a Tuesday and still grow. It’s the Charmed Life in action: proof that the experiment of stopping might be the smartest move you make all year. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #776 for Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 August 5th: National Work Like a Dog Day 00:01:19 What happens when you step back? Avoiding the The Consultant Trap Is Shannon Semi-Retired? Be careful, though, that things don’t fall apart Start a second business! 00:12:57 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:14:53 A (good) lifestyle business is a job with unlimited upside. Flexibility is the most valuable thing to chase Add value for OTHER people first 00:19:58 Business Brain 776 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Stop and do nothing! Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post What Happens if You do Nothing? Business Brain 776 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  FridAI: You Don't Need Another Tool 31.07.2026 18Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into a question that’ll save you money and focus: before you buy yet another AI tool, ask the tools you already have if they can do the job. We walk through how connecting your existing stack—using AI as the glue—often beats chasing hundreds of shiny single-purpose apps down the rabbit hole. Shannon shares how linking Claude to his Kajabi community surfaced which members had gone quiet so he could re-engage them, and we talk through the real litmus test for every new tool: what’s the most important thing you can do right now to actually move revenue? Because productivity that doesn’t move the bottom line is just busywork in disguise. Then we get into MCP connectors—the model context protocol that lets your AI talk directly to your internal systems—and why building one is a game changer if you’re forever fielding “can you look this up for me” emails. Dave breaks down the read-only connector he built for BackBeat’s ad system, how it gets him out of the way of his own process, and even how AI spotted a hidden pattern in his health data that no human would’ve caught. Connect your tools, pick the right model for the job, and stop paying for glue you don’t need—that’s how we keep living the Charmed Life. We’ll see you Friday. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #775 for Casual FridAI, July 31, 2026 July 31st: National Talk In An Elevator Day 00:02:58 Don’t look for another tool, connect the tools you have SaaS-pocalypse 00:10:16 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:11:39 I built an MCP Connector 00:17:05 Business Brain 775 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Use AI to connect your business tools together Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI: You Don’t Need Another Tool – Business Brain 775 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
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  Make Your Customers Heroes 29.07.2026 20Min.

  In this episode of Business Brain, you’ll learn why the smartest marketing move is to get out of your own spotlight and put your customers there instead. Shannon and Dave break down how making your clients the heroes of your story—showing what they built, how they succeeded, how their lives changed—beats any “me, me, me” pitch every time. You’ll hear why the hero section of your website should feature your customers, not your team, and why saying something genuinely nice about your competition costs nothing while buying you trust, clarity on your own differentiator, and an escape from the race-to-the-bottom trap of competing on price. Remember: you’re a monopoly of one, and your only real competitor is yourself. Then things get delightfully weird when Dave floats a “urinal inspiration” business idea: a Tinder competitor with built-in reviews. You’ll follow the whole workshop live—star ratings, retaliatory-review pitfalls borrowed from Airbnb and eBay, and the discovery that apps like Skip, Pear, and Oyster already exist. It’s part cautionary Black Mirror tale, part real market lesson in knowing exactly what your product is for. Apply the customers-as-heroes blueprint, keep your mindset abundant, and you’ll be well on your way to living the Charmed Life your business was meant to give you. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #774 for Wednesday, July 29, 2026 July 29th: National Chicken Wing Day 00:01:07 Make Your Customers Heroes It costs nothing to help lift and highlight your customers *or* your competitors A compliment costs nothing, and often buys you a lot Abundance vs. Scarcity mindsets 00:9:25 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:10:49 Crazy Business Idea: Tinder, but with reviews. Know what your business actually is. 00:19:47 Business Brain 774 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Make your customers the focus of your marketing Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Make Your Customers Heroes – Business Brain 774 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.