#207: Geoff Woods—How to Use AI as a Strategic Partner to Grow Your Business
Business Made Simple Podcast
StoryBrand.ai
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
AI is revolutionizing the way businesses operate—but how do you harness it effectively without getting lost in the noise? In this final episode of the Business Made Simple Podcast, Bobby Richards and James Sweeting sit down with Geoff Woods, author of The AI-Driven Leader, to unpack the practical ways small business owners can leverage AI as a strategic thought partner.
Geoff shares the essential mindset shifts needed to embrace AI, from reframing limiting beliefs to asking the right questions that unlock its true potential. Discover how prompts like “How can AI help me solve this problem?” can help you design AI interactions that enhance decision-making, streamline workflows, and uncover non-obvious solutions.
As we wrap up the Business Made Simple Podcast, we want to thank you for joining us on this incredible journey of becoming better business owners. This final episode offers actionable strategies to help you adopt AI, amplify your impact, and future-proof your business—proving it’s never the end, just the beginning of what's next.
Access more resources from Geoff at AILeadership.com.
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| 0:00.0 | 60% of the jobs that exist today didn't even exist in 1940. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Business Made Simple podcast brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Bobby Richards. |
| 0:13.2 | And I'm James Sweeting. |
| 0:14.2 | Do you feel overwhelmed in your business? |
| 0:16.9 | Maybe revenues down. |
| 0:17.9 | Maybe you're just having communication issues with your team. |
| 0:21.3 | Maybe there's processes that are just dragging operations in your company, almost to a halt even, and there's |
| 0:26.3 | inefficiencies. Whatever it is, you're feeling overwhelmed. Absolutely. And today, we've got some |
| 0:31.6 | sound for that in the form of AI. Now, some of you, you might be scared of AI replacing you. You |
| 0:37.4 | might have tried it and gone, I don't know how this is going to provide for me a solution. |
| 0:40.3 | I want to challenge you to listen to our conversation with Jeff Woods. |
| 0:44.3 | Jeff is the author of the AI-driven leader and has provided a way to think about AI, not as a way to replace us, |
| 0:51.3 | but to think of it as a thought partner, unlocking your ability |
| 0:55.2 | and superpower to be the thought leader you truly are. Jeff talks about this idea of how you can |
| 1:00.9 | use AI to enhance what you do, to actually harness it, to help you make faster, smarter decisions. |
| 1:07.7 | There's an incredible takeaway at the end that you don't want to miss that could |
| 1:11.2 | literally free up so much time for you. So for this final episode of the Business Made Simple |
| 1:16.2 | podcast, I cannot wait for you to dive into this conversation with Jeff Woods and see how |
| 1:21.7 | AI can absolutely enhance everything that you're doing right now. We all know AI is the future, |
| 1:27.1 | but if you don't know where to start, this episode is perfect for you. |
| 1:30.3 | We've got all that and more right after this. |
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