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AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI

AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what"s next. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer cut through AI hype with practical insights for workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses—where AI implementation happens in the trenches, not the headlines. 4 shows, 1 mission: Mondays: The Weekly Blitz - AI news recap Mon/Wed/Fri: Data Bytes - 5-min YouTube Shorts on data literacy Saturdays: School"s Out -

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00:47:18

Paramedics, Prompts, and High School Healthcare

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2026/01/03

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Season 2, Episode 1)Episode Summary:When a paramedic instructor meets an AI educator, high schoolers win. Jason breaks down how he's teaching Tulsa students to use ChatGPT for real healthcare scenarios while Rebekah Dearing shares why the medical field desperately needs this kind of preparation.About My Guest Rebekah Dearing is an emergency medical technician at Phoenix

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02:25:18

The Vibe - Season 1 Premiere: Fireside with William...

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2025/12/29

The Vibe on the AGI Podcast - No code, no clock, no BS. No holds barred riffs with people who know their stuff. (Episode 60)Episode Summary:The premiere of The Vibe: 2 hours 40 minutes with William Mrklas from Brain Master Technologies. We explore the Midwest AI corridor nobody talks about, specialized AI models that actually work, why consciousness is humanity's only moat, and whether OpenAI survives 2026. No agenda, no time limits, just depth.About My GuestWilliam Mrklas is VP of Sales &

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01:01:19

Navigating AI in Education: Insights from MIT

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2025/12/27

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 59)Episode Summary:MIT PhD candidate BreAnne Fleer brings a political scientist's lens to AI in education. We dig into why curious skepticism beats blind adoption, what the Luddites actually opposed, and why coding literacy matters more than you think for K-12 students.About My GuestBreAnne Fleer is PhD Candidate at MIT Department of Political Science | Fourth-year

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00:53:57

Stop Random Acts of AI: The 5-Stage Model to Become...

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2025/12/22

The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 58)Episode Summary:Most organizations are moving too fast with AI while missing the foundation entirely. Melissa Reeve brings a marketing transformation and change management lens to explain why "random acts of AI" fail, what the blue-collar manufacturing collapse of the 1980s teaches us about white-collar AI displacement, and her five-stage Hyperadaptive Model for becoming truly AI-native without

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00:52:59

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth

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2025/12/20

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 57)Episode Summary:What does it look like when someone who actually trained AI chatbots in 2010 becomes a K-5 educator? Courtney Bock bridges her NextIT background (Ask Jenn, Sgt. Star) with classroom reality, leading district-wide AI implementation in Mead, Washington. She tackles the messy middle: teaching Dewey Decimal with Magic School, why "go slow to go fast"

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00:58:35

MindStudio Aficionado Tom Oswell

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2025/12/15

The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 56)Episode Summary:Tom and Jason dig into data readiness for AI, the complexities of deploying agents in regulated industries versus startups, and why healthcare can't just roll out AI like a candle shop. They share experiences with MindStudio and practical tools like Whisper Flow, discuss cutting through AI FOMO to focus on what actually delivers ROI, and explore what engineering a desirable AI future

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00:46:47

Skills, Schools, and the Pace of AI

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2025/12/13

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 55)Episode Summary:What happens when a podcast host challenges his own city's mayor and economic development CEO about whether schools are keeping pace with AI? This conversation gets real about entry-level jobs disappearing, the gap between employer needs and education timelines, and why Hamilton County's 75% college-educated workforce might not be enough.About My

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01:11:14

AI & Healthcare: Navigating the Future with Fasa Husain

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2025/12/08

Monday on the AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 54)Episode Summary:What happens when AI makes doctors more efficient but hospital systems demand they see twice as many patients? Fasa Husain breaks down why healthcare AI isn't following the script, why rural hospitals will adopt robot surgeons first, and why the people actually delivering care, physicians and patients, are getting left out of the AI conversation entirely.About My GuestFasahath

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01:04:35

The Data Skills Gap: Why Healthcare and Education...

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2025/12/06

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 53)Episode Summary:Julian Yoon breaks down data architecture, AI education, and workforce preparation without the usual tech jargon. From explaining data lakes vs warehouses using laundry baskets to discussing why Purdue students are learning philosophy alongside machine learning, this conversation cuts through the complexity of preparing for an AI-integrated future.About My

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00:59:42

Hoosier AI Collaborators' Casual Conversation

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2025/11/30

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work Episode 51Episode Summary: An ad-hoc conversation exploring AI adoption in the Midwest workforce, from hackathons creating full apps in 8 hours to the shift from meat-grinder hiring to apprenticeship models in the age of AI.Guest Kelly Friend, Senior Manager at TPMA | Former Vice Chancellor at Ivy Tech | Focused on workforce development and educationGuest Oliver Belanger, COO at CitizenAI | Building AI

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01:06:45

Is Our Current Education System Useless?

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2025/11/29

School’s Out Saturdays on the AGI (Podcast) - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 51)Episode Summary: Dr. KaT Zarychta brings a global perspective on the mental health crisis affecting students worldwide, revealing how 1 in 3 young adults feel isolated despite thousands of online friends. She challenges educators to embrace AI as a tool while leaving space for boredom, creativity, and teaching students to ask better questions.Guest Dr. KaT Zarychta,

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01:01:10

Comedian Turned AI Founder, Victor Varando

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2025/11/24

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time.Episode Summary: Victor Varnado went from acting in movies with Schwarzenegger and Murphy to building Magic Bookifier—an AI writing tool born from his own frustration. This conversation cuts through AI hype to explore how creators can actually use these tools without losing their humanity.GuestVictor Varnado, Comedian | Actor | Founder of Supreme Robots | Creator of Magic Bookifier | New Yorker

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00:46:10

"He Hates Those Other Models!"

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2025/11/22

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'Episode Summary: Thomas Hummel built Eduaide.ai from a Title I classroom where teachers were drowning in work. Now serving over a million educators across 130+ countries, he's navigating the messy reality of bringing AI into

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01:04:22

God, Good Samaritans, and the Future of Intelligence

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2025/11/17

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work! Episode 48Episode Summary: Paula Davis—Miss Indiana, entrepreneur, and founder of Good Samaritan Project—breaks down why AI won't destroy us, but our own choices might. From addiction recovery parallels to international mission work, this conversation challenges Silicon Valley hype with boots-on-the-ground reality about technology, humanity, and what we're actually optimizing for.Guest Paula Davis,

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00:56:47

Dr. Bubbles Blueprint for Tomorrow’s Schools

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2025/11/15

The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday' Episode 47Episode Summary: Dr. Bubbles (Ronda Swartz) brings decades of educational leadership to a raw conversation about rolling out School AI to hesitant teachers, why Catholic schools might be perfectly positioned for the AI era, and how project-based learning combined with AI

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00:55:45

The Golden Age of Entrepreneurship

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2025/11/10

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work (Episode 46) Episode Summary: Nikki Barua breaks down why some leaders are energized by AI disruption while others want to retire early, and how organizations can close the "exponential divide" between AI's speed and human adaptation. Real talk about workforce transformation, the death of middle management, and why philosophers might be the future.Guest Nikki Barua, AI Workforce

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00:59:49

Rural AI Success: How a Small Indiana School District...

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2025/11/08

EP 45 School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'Episode Summary: While big school districts debate AI policy, Rensselaer Central Schools in rural Indiana quietly achieved a 92% student activation rate with Khanmigo. Hunter Hickman explains how his small district moved fast,

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00:56:30

The 'Get Off My Lawn' Guide to AI: 2 OGs on What...

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2025/11/02

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. Ep 44Episode Summary: Two Gen X AI enthusiasts cut through the hype from an Agentic AI conference to talk about what actually matters: clean data, optimized processes, and why your company probably isn't ready for AI agents yet.Guest Jeffrey Najar, VP of Marketing at Horsepower | Sales & Marketing Consultant | AI Implementation AdvocateGuest LinksJeffrey on LinkedIn:

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00:50:21

Why This 21-Year-Old Isn't Worried About Robots...

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2025/11/01

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI PodcastThe most important conversations with the people shaping tomorrow—one lesson at a time. Educators, students, and ed-tech innovators join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for their future, not our past.Episode Summary:A Purdue industrial engineering senior reveals how she's landing job offers through strategic networking, using AI to create fake newsreels for cybersecurity training, and why she believes the real career threat isn't automation—it's

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00:46:25

OnlyFans, Existential Dread, and French Fries

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2025/10/27

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. EP 42Episode Summary: Jason and Julie dive into ChatGPT's adult mode rollout, Sora's creative chaos, and the existential crisis brewing as AI accelerates past Moore's Law. From erotic chatbots potentially replacing OnlyFans to Bernie Sanders making unexpected sense about robot taxes, this episode tackles whether we're ready for a future where 70% of workers might need to find new

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