It’s live: our 2026 State of the Industry episode with Doug Austin.

If GenAI is “transformative,” why does adoption still look like a secret hobby?

Because the problem isn’t the robot. It’s the fact that half our workflows exist as oral tradition.

In this episode, we get specific about:

• The adoption gap—and what it’s really exposing
• Governance as the true gatekeeper (who owns the risk, who approves, who verifies)
• Incentives: why some sectors sprint and others clutch their pearls
• Defensibility: validation methods that hold up when someone asks, “prove it”

And yes: we talk about prompts—work product, strategy, and the upcoming disputes that will feel very familiar to anyone who has lived through search term negotiations.

📣 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰: “𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐍𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞: 𝟓 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟑 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐬.”

If you’re still prompting like it’s Google, you’re going to keep getting essays when you wanted work product.

💡 The fix is boring and powerful: 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫.

Angie and Bree break down 𝟓 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 (output not topic, role + rubric, earn confidence, dictation, chunking) and then show how to turn those habits into 𝟑 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 you can build today (decision support, email drafting, meeting transcript → workflow artifacts).

🎧 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬.

If your system is chaos, AI doesn’t fix it. It just makes your chaos faster.

Out now with Nicole Mott, author of The Undeniable Power of Movement and the person who built enablement from scratch at Exterro. We talk about getting unstuck, protecting focus, building discipline without waiting for motivation, and managing perception so you can push back without getting labeled “difficult.”

Where are you stuck right now: distraction, indecision, or lack of structure? Listen wherever you get podcasts.