Think AI Podcast
Whether you’re curious about how AI might impact you, an AI enthusiast looking for the next big thing, or an AI skeptic trying to implement AI for your personal or organizational growth, there’s something for everyone!Please join me !
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Meet My AI Crew | Ep. 11
<p>🎙️ <b>Meet My AI Crew</b><br /><br />I opened the garage door on the system that runs my company. Not a chatbot. A real crew of AI employees with names, jobs, and shifts that show up on my calendar every morning. I will not hand you the secret wiring, but by the end you will know exactly what is possible and have the shape to build your own.<br /><br />**In this episode:**<br />00:00 The handbike and the garage door<br />01:11 The real bottleneck was me<br />03:24 What an AI employee actually is (not a chatbot)<br />05:29 Meet the c...
The 5 F's of a Legendary Life | Ep. 10 with Coach Kevin (We Live Legend)
<p>🎙️ The 5F's of a Legendary Life | Coach Kevin<br /><br />Coach Kevin has coached more than 40,000 people across five continents, from everyday entrepreneurs to heirs and billionaires. In this episode he tells Dave Goyal what almost every single one of them got wrong about success, why his first three billionaire clients were suicidal, and how to build KPIs for the parts of your life that actually matter: your marriage, your kids, your fitness, your faith.<br /><br />We get into the Five Facets framework (Fitness, Faith, Family, Finance, Fun), why a grind season is fine but a "season" without an en...
Grow Without Sacrifice | Ep. 9
<p>🎙️ Grow Without Sacrifice</p><p></p><p>This is an episode about three things that looked unrelated and turned out to be the same thing: a composer, a hand bike, and an AI workforce. If you have ever felt like the business you built was the thing standing between you and the life you actually wanted, this one is for you. By the end, I'll show you how an AI workforce gave me back my Saturdays, my hobby, and my today.</p><p></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>00:00 The dark monitor moment that changed everything</p><p>03:30 Why s...
Why 90% of Manufacturing POCs Die | Ep. 8 with Naresh Mehta
<p>🎙️ Why 90% of Manufacturing POCs Die with Naresh Mehta<br /><br />After 20+ years building enterprise tech for global manufacturers across India, Mexico, and the US, Naresh Mehta has lived through every wave from Excel dashboards to digital twins to agentic AI to physical AI. In this conversation, he gets blunt about why most manufacturing AI projects never make it to production, names a brand new trap nobody is talking about (intelligence silos), and walks through two real deployments that prove what works when you stop chasing the model and start respecting the plumbing.<br /><br />We get into a real agent...
The Long Arc of Data and AI | Ep. 7 with Reza Rad (RADACAD)
<p>The Long Arc of Data and AI with Reza Rad</p><p>Reza Rad has watched every Microsoft data platform turn since SQL Server. 15-time MVP. Founder of RADACAD. Author of seven books. 10 million YouTube views. In this episode he tells Dave Goyal exactly which workforce AI is replacing, why your Copilot output is only as good as your star schema, and what a 22-year-old should spend the next two years learning if they want to survive the next decade.</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>00:00 Cold open: Who AI is actually replacing</p><p>00:34 Welcome and intro<...
Compliance, Music & AI | Ep. 6 with Nilesh Maheshwari (Yuktra AI)
<p>What do music and regulated manufacturing AI have in common? More than you'd think. Nilesh Maheshwari, founder of Emorphis, Emorphis Health, and Yuktra AI, joins Dave Goyal to unpack why the hardest places to deploy AI (pharma, healthcare, regulated plants) demand faithfulness over cleverness — and why structure and freedom aren't opposites.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>00:00 Why a "knowledge thread" beats a database on the shop floor</p><p>04:17 The real pain signal that built Yuktra (hint: it wasn't "we want AI")</p><p>07:08 Guardrails for regulated AI — why clever LLMs are dangerous</p><p>10...
Data Before AI | Ep. 5 with Alex Ryals (MicroAge)
<p>What happens when a cybersecurity leader who has sat on every side of the tech table — customer, reseller, distributor, and vendor — decides the future belongs to AI? Alex Ryals, CISO and SVP at MicroAge (celebrating 50 years!), breaks down why most companies are getting AI security dangerously wrong, and what to do before you flip the switch on Copilot or any AI tool.<br /><br />In this episode:<br />00:05 — Intro: Alex's rare career journey across all four sides of the tech channel<br />03:47 — Why Alex traded global scale at TD SYNNEX for a smaller, more impactful role<br />10:53 — As a CISO, how...
Data Before AI
<p>Everyone wants AI. But most companies are skipping the step that determines whether it works or blows up in their face. Alex Ryals, CISO and SVP at MicroAge, has seen it from every angle — customer, reseller, distributor, and vendor. His message is simple: get your data in order first, or Copilot will expose every permission mistake you made in the last 20 years.<br /><br />In this episode:<br />00:05 — Alex's journey across all four sides of the tech channel<br />03:47 — Why he chose smaller and broader over bigger and specialized<br />10:53 — How a CISO balances "move fast" with "stay safe"<br />14...
AI Sprawl Is Real | Ep. 4 with Priya Udeshi
<p>What happens when someone with 17 years of IT strategy experience gets a front-row seat to the AI transformation inside a global tech enterprise? Priya Udeshi is Chief of Staff to the CIO and Head of IT PMO, sitting at the intersection of AI strategy, governance, and execution. She shares how she balances enterprise-scale agent deployments with democratized AI for every employee, why old governance frameworks are breaking, and what CIOs need to do right now to stop falling behind.<br /><br />In this episode:<br />00:00 Meet Priya Udeshi: From PMO leader to Chief of Staff<br />05:25 AI curious vs...
WHEN MACHINES START TALKING - AI IN MANUFACTURING | EP. 3
<p>🎙️ Inside the Factory: Real-Time AI Intelligence for Manufacturing | Think AI Podcast Ep. 3<br /></p><p>Your machines already know what's wrong — but nobody's listening. Dave Goyal takes you inside 4 real manufacturing companies to show how real-time data and AI transformed their operations. Plus: a 4-layer framework to get started and 7 AI use cases you can implement now.<br /></p><p>⏱️ In this episode:</p><p>00:21 – Why your factory machines are smarter than your spreadsheets</p><p>03:15 – The data silo problem: ERP, MES, and PLCs that don't talk</p><p>06:30 – 98% exploring AI, only 20% ready — here's why</p><p>08:45 – Case Study 1: Professional audio eq...
