AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI
AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI
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AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI

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AGI Podcast β€” 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 businessesβ€”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 - Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future
Monthly: The Vibe - Long-form deep dive
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AGI Podcast - Weekly Blitz Episode 1
05 January 2026

AGI Podcast - Weekly Blitz Episode 1

𝗧𝗡𝗲 π—ͺπ—²π—²π—Έπ—Ήπ˜† π—•π—Ήπ—Άπ˜π˜‡ - π—˜π—½π—Άπ˜€π—Όπ—±π—² 𝟭 | 2025 AI Predictions Review & The Return to AnalogJason and Julie review 2025 AI predictions and debate a surprising trend: millennials returning to flip phones and seeking offline spaces. Will Gen Z actually unplug, or is their phone too much like a security blanket?πŸ”‘ π—žπ—²π˜† π—§π—Όπ—½π—Άπ—°π˜€: Why AI ages in dog years and weekly recaps matter...
Paramedics, Prompts, and High School Healthcare
03 January 2026

Paramedics, Prompts, and High School Healthcare

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...
The Vibe - Season 1 Premiere: Fireside with William Mrklas
29 December 2025

The Vibe - Season 1 Premiere: Fireside with William Mrklas

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...
Navigating AI in Education: Insights from MIT
27 December 2025

Navigating AI in Education: Insights from MIT

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...
Stop Random Acts of AI: The 5-Stage Model to Become Truly AI-Native
22 December 2025

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

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...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth
20 December 2025

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth

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...
MindStudio Aficionado Tom Oswell
15 December 2025

MindStudio Aficionado Tom Oswell

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...
Skills, Schools, and the Pace of AI
13 December 2025

Skills, Schools, and the Pace of AI

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...
AI & Healthcare: Navigating the Future with Fasa Husain
08 December 2025

AI & Healthcare: Navigating the Future with Fasa Husain

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,...
The Data Skills Gap: Why Healthcare and Education Need Data Science Grads Now
06 December 2025

The Data Skills Gap: Why Healthcare and Education Need Data Science Grads Now

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...