Inspire AI Podcast
Our mission is to cultivate AI literacy in the Greater Richmond Region through awareness, community engagement, education, and advocacy. In this podcast, we spotlight companies and individuals in the region who are pioneering the development and use of AI.
Episodes
- Ep 99 - How To Lead When Everyone Has AI: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail AI is making knowledge cheap. That’s the uncomfortable truth underneath the hype and the hopeful invitation underneath the fear. When everyone - Ep 98 - Frontline AI Leadership: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail AI isn’t only transforming spreadsheets and slide decks. The biggest change is showing up where work is physical, immediate, and deeply human: - Ep 97 - The Middle Manager: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail Middle managers have been “written off” for years, especially whenever a new wave of technology promises faster communication and smarter decis - Ep 96 - Workflow Redesign: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail Most teams don’t fail with AI because they picked the wrong software. They fail because they drop powerful AI tools into workflows that were al - Ep 95 - AI Literacy For Leaders: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving into every corner of work, and it’s creating a quiet trap for leaders: the belief that we have to become deeply technical before w - Ep 94 - Building Trust With Responsible AI: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail Want to join a community of AI learners and enthusiasts? AI Ready RVA is leading the conversation and is rapidly rising as a hub for AI in the - Ep 93 - AI Augmentation For Leaders: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving into every workflow, but most teams are still treating it like a faster search bar. We take a different stance: the winners aren’t - Ep 92 - Clarity Before Certainty: Transformational Leadership In The AI Age
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving into your workplace whether leadership feels ready or not, and that reality creates a dangerous gap: employees are already experim - Ep 91 - How Artificial Intelligence Helps You Learn Faster And Build Better Habits
Send us Fan Mail AI headlines love extremes: total automation or sci-fi superintelligence. We take a different angle and ask a more personal, more practical que - Ep 90 - Loop Engineering: When Intelligence Gets Cheap, What Still Wins?
Send us Fan Mail Prompt tricks used to feel like the whole game. Now AI coding agents can run commands, inspect logs, edit multiple files, and stay on task for - Ep 89 - Making the Invisible Visible: Enterprise AI Accountability w/ Ben Hawkins
Send us Fan Mail AI doesn’t fail in enterprises because the model isn’t impressive. It fails because nobody can answer the uncomfortable questions: who owns the - Ep 88 - Debugging Human Communication w/ Andrea Goulet
Send us Fan Mail The biggest risk in an AI-powered organization isn’t a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of shared meaning. As tools get faster and output gets - Ep 87 - The AI Native Organization
Send us Fan Mail Software is slipping from “hard to produce” to “easy to generate,” and that single change forces a rethink of how we build companies, teams, an - Ep 86 - Staying Competitive: Build A Resilient Engineering Career With AI
Send us Fan Mail If you’re an engineer staring at AI code generation and wondering where you fit, the uncomfortable truth is also the freeing one: trying to “ou - Ep 85 - Leverage Outruns Wisdom: Systems Leadership In The AI Era
Send us Fan Mail AI is quietly rewriting the org chart, and it’s not because everyone suddenly works faster. The real shift is structural: teams are becoming bl - Ep 84 - The Philosophical Shift: As Intelligence Becomes Cheap, Evaluation Becomes Everything
Send us Fan Mail AI can generate code, analysis, and recommendations faster than any team in history, but there’s a catch: verification doesn’t scale the same w - Ep 83 - Up the Stack: The Five Layers Of The Future Software Engineer
Send us Fan Mail AI can write code faster than any team on earth, so why does it still feel like shipping software is hard? The uncomfortable answer is that spe - Ep 82 - A Devs Transformation: New Values Emerge As Code Becomes Cheap
Send us Fan Mail The scariest part of AI in software is not that it writes code. It is that it changes what “being an engineer” even means. When generative AI c - Ep 81 - AI Needs Better Data: Agentic AI Foundations at Scale
Send us Fan Mail AI agents are showing up everywhere, but most enterprises are discovering a frustrating truth: getting an agent to “work” in a demo is easy, ge - Ep 80 - The Competitive Reset: AI Creates New Winners By Moving Value
Send us Fan Mail AI is everywhere right now: copilots, automated workflows, faster analytics, better dashboards. And yet a lot of leaders still feel the same un - Ep 79 - Techno Stress: You Are Now A Permanent Beginner
Send us Fan Mail The biggest problem with modern technology is not that it moves fast, it’s that it makes us feel like we’re failing to keep up. We keep adding - Ep 78 - Learn By Building: From Strategy Decks To Working Agents w/ Matt Bartles
Send us Fan Mail “We’ll learn AI once we understand it” sounds responsible, but it’s one of the fastest ways to fall behind. We sit down with Matt to argue for - Ep 77 - The Ralph Loop: How Iteration Turns AI Into A Reliable Work System
Send us Fan Mail Most teams are still using AI like a vending machine: type a prompt, hope for the right answer, then waste time nudging it closer. We take a di - Ep 76 - The BMAD Method For Building Reliable Agentic Systems
Send us Fan Mail AI can write code on demand now, but that doesn’t mean we’re building better software. When we treat AI like a chat window with a long memory, - Ep 75 - Where Human Judgment Belongs Throughout A Multi-Agent Workflow
Send us Fan Mail Multi-agent AI feels like a breakthrough right up until you realize the real problem isn’t intelligence anymore, it’s coordination. When planni - Ep 74 - Agentic Workflows: Did The Job Actually Get Done?
Send us Fan Mail An AI agent that confidently says “done” can still be the most expensive kind of wrong. We start with a simple test of reality: when an agent u - Ep 73 - The AI Race: Winner Takes All
Send us Fan Mail The AI race is quietly changing shape, and if you’re still tracking it like a scoreboard of model releases, you’re going to miss the real winne - Ep 72 - The Future of Work: Designing AI-Augmented Roles w/ Vivek Gupta
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving so fast that “keeping up” can start to feel like a losing game and that speed is exactly what’s reshaping the future of work. We s - Ep 71 - Furiously Curious: How To Stay Relevant As AI Speeds Up Work w/ Caleb Snow
Send us Fan Mail The career fear around AI is real, but Caleb Snow flips the frame: the bigger threat is standing still while everything else accelerates. Caleb - Ep 70 - The Rise Of AI Runtimes: Google's Agent Development Kit
Send us Fan Mail AI is starting to feel less like a feature you bolt onto a product and more like a system you have to run. That shift is easy to miss until you - Ep 69 - Future of Work: When Intelligence Lives In Your Tools
Send us Fan Mail What if the real shift in the future of work isn’t learning to code, but learning to supervise? We dig into a new operating model where product - Ep 68 - Intent Over Keystrokes: The New Mind of the Modern Builder w/ Godwin Josh
Send a text What happens when coding stops being about keystrokes and starts being about intent? We sit down with Godwin Josh—mentor, builder, and author of The - Ep 67 - RAG Done Right: Measure The Evidence Or Drift Into Error
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a brilliant-sounding AI gives the wrong answer with total confidence? We dig into the quiet culprit behind so many “LLM failu - Ep 66 - From Prompts To Process: Building Trustworthy AI Workflows w/ Tianzhen Lin
Send us Fan Mail When intelligence is everywhere but correctness is scarce, how do we lead without cutting corners? We sit down with Tianzhen (Tangent) Lin—vete - Ep 65 - LLM-as-a-Judge: Evaluations That Scale
Send us Fan Mail What if your AI had a never-tired reviewer that caught quiet errors before they reached customers? We dive into LLM-as-judge—the simple but pow - Ep 64 - Intelligence, Accountability, And You: From AI Slop to Sound Judgement
Send us Fan Mail The pace of AI can feel exhilarating until a polished report collapses under scrutiny and your team spends hours repairing “work slop.” We’re s - Ep 63 - Human In The Loop: Designing The Boundary Between Machines And Humans
Send us Fan Mail The moment an AI agent can issue refunds or change accounts, the conversation shifts from capability to responsibility. We dig into how to desi - Ep 62 - Reconfiguring Work: A Playbook For Agentic AI Adoption
Send us Fan Mail When AI stops acting like a tool and starts acting like a teammate, the rules of work change. We explore what agentic AI really means for teams - Ep 61 - From Automation To Augmentation: How Humans And AI Become Better Teammates
Send us Fan Mail Fear says AI will replace us; experience shows the real upside arrives when we work with it. We explore how augmentation—keeping humans in the - Ep 60 - Reinforcement Learning: Reward The Process And The Future Changes
Send us Fan Mail New year energy is loud; smarter growth is quiet. We’re kicking off 2026 by trading fragile resolutions for a durable learning loop inspired by - Ep 59 - Year End Reflections With AI: And It Has Notes
Send us Fan Mail What if reflection wasn’t a year-end memory dump but a working system that sharpens judgment? We sat down to examine how AI quietly changed the - Ep 58 - Claude & MCP: And The Rise Of Enterprise Agents
Send us Fan Mail Midnight outages that never become crises. Forms that fill themselves. Support queues that sort and draft responses before a human even looks. - Ep 57 - When Machines Decide: How Agentic AI Orchestration Delivers Real Resolution
Send us Fan Mail What if your support chat didn’t just explain the fix but executed it end to end in under a minute? We explore the move from conversational hel - Ep 56 - For Those Who Served: How AI Is Empowering Veterans
Send us Fan Mail A quiet story changes everything: a few missed appointments, a medication shift, and an AI alert that prompts a human call just in time. We ope - Ep 55 - Gradient Descent: How A Simple (?) Step-By-Step Algorithm Teaches Machines To Think
Send us Fan Mail Imagine learning as a careful night hike: you can’t see the whole path, but you can feel the slope and step where it goes down. That’s the core - Ep 54 - Access is Destiny: Opening Doors To AI With Mark Cuban Foundation And AI Ready RVA
Send us Fan Mail Curiosity beats credentials. We head to Richmond, Virginia, to share how a free, hands-on AI bootcamp turns nervous high schoolers into confide - Ep 53: The Data Center Capital of the World — At What Cost?
Send us Fan Mail The internet doesn’t live in the sky—it lives in a quiet corner of Northern Virginia, inside miles of windowless buildings that hum day and nig - Ep 52 - From Control to Collaboration: Rewriting Leadership for the Age of AI w/ Dr. John Dentico
Send us Fan Mail What if the habits that built last century’s companies are the very things holding yours back today? Dr. John Dentico joins us to challenge the - Ep 51 - Listening With Heart: How AI Turns Personal Narratives Into Actionable Insight w/ Andy Sitison
Send a text What if your culture metrics could feel as real as a story told around a campfire? We sit down with technologist and humanist Andy Sitison, CTO of S - Ep 50 - The Human Algorithm: Leading with Authenticity in an AI World w/ Judi Fox
Send us Fan Mail What if your loudest growth came from fewer, truer signals? That’s the through-line of our conversation with LinkedIn strategist Judy Fox, who - Ep 49 - Virginia’s Agentic AI Pilot: Clarity, Risks, and the Future of Lawmaking
Send us Fan Mail A state is letting an algorithm read the rulebook—and then asking people to decide what to change. We head to Virginia to unpack the “agentic A - Ep 48 - The Next Vital Sign: Kinis.ai’s Bold Vision for AI-Powered Health w/ Vincent Vu
Send us Fan Mail A simple question changed everything: what if balance were measured like blood pressure? We sit down with founder Vincent Vu—who went from a re - Ep 47 - Quantum’s Edge: What Quantum AI Really Promises
Send us Fan Mail What if intelligence could see every path at once? We dive into the live wire where quantum computing meets AI—mapping the real breakthroughs, - Ep 46 - Supercomputers: Reshaping Our World One Quadrillion Calculations at a Time
Send us Fan Mail What happens when machines can think at the speed of light? Today we dive into the fascinating world of supercomputers – not just as technologi - Ep 45 - Clarity Over Speed: The AI skills that actually matter
Send us Fan Mail Have you fallen into the AI execution trap? While everyone races to master prompt engineering and ChatGPT tricks, this episode reveals the unco - Ep 44 - The AI Reinvention Cycle: Six Steps to Future-Proof Your Organization
Send us Fan Mail The business landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, and AI stands at the epicenter. But as Accenture CEO Julie Sweet pointedly states, "AI wo - Ep 43 - Websites Finally Talk Back: The Promise of No-Code AI Chatbots
Send us Fan Mail Ever wished your website could answer questions while you sleep? That's exactly what we're exploring today as we dive into the world of no-code - Ep 42 - AI Guardrails: How AI Tools Protect Against Themselves
Send us Fan Mail The invisible line between AI innovation and disaster often comes down to one critical factor: guardrails. Just as safety barriers on mountain - Ep 41 - From Coffee to Wine: How AI Is Giving Teachers Their Lives Back w/ Cary Wright
Send us Fan Mail What if teachers could reclaim their evenings and weekends while actually improving student outcomes? That’s the promise of AI in education—not - Ep 40 - Beyond Automation: How Smart Tools are Transforming the Workplace
Send us Fan Mail The workplace revolution is here, and it's powered by artificial intelligence. No longer just quietly automating in the background, AI has evol - Ep 39 - Learning With AI, Not From It: A Guide for Students in the Digital Age
Send us Fan Mail Are students cheating with ChatGPT, or are they mastering a crucial skill for their future? Let's dive into this heated debate with clarity and - Ep 38 - Accuracy Meets Speed: The GPT-5 Advantage
Send us Fan Mail Forget the AGI hype—GPT-5's real superpower is finally being trustworthy enough for your most important work. The newest flagship model from Op - Ep 37 - Software 3.0: How AI is Redefining Programming for Everyone
Send us Fan Mail What happens when coding as we know it disappears? Two of the biggest voices in AI—Andrej Karpathy and Chris Lattner—believe we're witnessing a - Ep 36 - From PT to Python: A Healthcare Professional's AI Journey w/ Erik Lineberry
Send us Fan Mail The stereotype that AI is only for tech experts is crumbling, and physical therapist Erik Lineberry is living proof. After nine years in clinic - Ep 35 - From Pilot to Profit: No Hype, Just Results
Send us Fan Mail The AI revolution is no longer just hype—it's delivering measurable business impact across industries in 2025. We explore how artificial intell - Ep 34 - Digital Guardians: How AI helps stop the Digital Heist
Send us Fan Mail The digital realm is a battleground where attacks happen at machine speed, striking before humans can even detect them. Ransomware locks hospit - Ep 33 - Digital Deception: How Scammers are Using Technology to Target You
Send us Fan Mail Those three seconds of your voice on social media? That's all scammers need to clone it perfectly. That routine video call with your CFO reques - Ep 32 - Software 3.0: How LLMs Are Becoming the New Operating System
Send us Fan Mail The digital world stands at a pivotal moment as we witness the emergence of Software 3.0 – a revolutionary paradigm where your words become cod - Ep 31 - Beyond Smart: What Happens When AI Enters Moral Territory?
Send us Fan Mail The moral compass of artificial intelligence isn't programmed—it's learned. And what our machines are learning raises profound questions about - Ep 30 - Grounding AI in Reality: The Power of RAG and ReAct
Send us Fan Mail Artificial intelligence is undergoing a profound transformation. Gone are the days when AI could only work with what it had memorized during tr - Ep 29 - Future-Proofing w/ AI: Unusual AI Careers
Send us Fan Mail Your dream career in artificial intelligence might not involve a single line of code. Beyond the stereotypical image of machine learning engine - Ep 28 - Democratizing Wealth Management Through Artificial Intelligence w/ Vic Rogers
Send us Fan Mail What if sophisticated wealth management tools weren't just for those with finance degrees or deep pockets? In this eye-opening exploration of a - Ep 27 - Future Proofing with AI: Classroom Revolution
Send us Fan Mail The education revolution is here, powered by artificial intelligence that's reshaping how we learn, teach, and grow. Gone are the days of one-s - Ep 26 - Future-Proofing with AI: AI for Small Business Success
Send us Fan Mail Running a small business often feels like an endless juggling act—operations, marketing, customer service, finances—all while trying to compete - Ep 25 - Future-Proofing with AI: How Artificial Intelligence is Democratizing Wealth Management
Send us Fan Mail Money management shouldn't be complicated or reserved for financial experts. The digital revolution has brought us powerful AI tools that are t - (Introducing) Future-Proofing with AI: Building Knowledge for Tomorrow's Challenges
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Future-Proofing with AI: Building Knowledge for Tomorrow’s Challenges, a segment of “Inspire AI” dedicated to helping you navigate t - Ep 24 - Exploring the Future of AI Agents: From Personal Assistants to Multi-Agent Systems w/ Vic Rogers
Send us Fan Mail What happens when artificial intelligence evolves beyond simply responding to prompts? Welcome to the world of AI agents—autonomous systems tha - Ep 23 - Beyond Headcount: The Power of AI Coworkers w/ Liz Baker
Send us Fan Mail What if every employee in your organization could instantly double their productivity? Liz Baker makes this seemingly impossible feat a daily r - Ep 22 - Beyond the Code: Reimagining the Human-AI Partnership w/ Kyle Johnson
Send us Fan Mail From protecting billions of people against online terrorism at Meta to founding tech startup Ara, Kyle Johnson is pioneering new ways for human - Ep 21 - The Singularity Report: The Rise of AI Agents
Send us Fan Mail The AI revolution we've anticipated for decades isn't coming—it's here, and AI agents are leading the charge. These autonomous digital workers - Ep 20 - Tech's Most Creative City: A Conversation with RVA Tech CEO Nick Serfass
Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered what makes a city truly tech-forward? Nick Serfass, CEO of RVA Tech, takes us on a compelling journey through Richmond's evolving - Ep 19 - AI's Role in Business Transformation w/ Baron Wright
Send us Fan Mail Baron Wright takes us on a fascinating journey from traditional IT consulting to pioneering tribal tech leadership at UMIT Technologies. His st - Ep 18 - CloudCast Meets Inspire AI: Building the AI Ready RVA Community
Send us Fan Mail Two podcasts collide as Jason McGinthy from AI Ready RVA's Inspire AI joins forces with Aaron Delp of The CloudCast, bridging Richmond's emergi - Ep 17 - The Singularity Report: Is Vibe Coding the Future of Software Development?
Send us Fan Mail What happens when AI writes your code for you? The software development landscape is undergoing a seismic shift with the emergence of "Vibe Cod - Ep 16 - Pioneering Responsible AI w/ Bryan Ilg from BABL AI
Send us Fan Mail What happens when artificial intelligence makes critical decisions that affect people's lives? Who's responsible when AI systems produce biased - Ep 15 - Prompt Engineering: From Zero to Hero w/ Vic Rogers
Send us Fan Mail What if you could create a personal collection of "cheat codes" that unlock the full power of AI? Vic Rogers, board member of AI Ready RVA, rev - Ep 14 - The Singularity Report: Unlocking the Full Potential of AI with Prompt Engineering
Send a text Discover the art of prompt engineering in our latest episode, where we unpack how effective communication with AI can lead to significant improvemen - Ep 13 - The Singularity Report: The Future of Responsible AI
Send us Fan Mail Responsible AI is one of, if not the single most important topic in Artificial Intelligence. As AI technology continues to evolve at an astonis - Ep 12 - Unlocking AI for Growth: Victor Rogers on Personal and Professional Transformation
Send us Fan Mail What if you could unlock the secrets to personal and professional growth with the power of artificial intelligence? This episode features an in - Ep 11 - The Singularity Report: DeepSeek's Challenge for the Tech Titans
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a groundbreaking AI startup defies industry norms and challenges tech giants on their own turf? Discover how DeepSeek, a trai - Ep 10 - Revolutionizing Storytelling w/ James Warren from "Share More Stories"
Send us Fan Mail Unlock the secrets of harnessing the power of storytelling in business with our guest, James Warren, the visionary CEO of Share More Stories. F - Ep 9 - The Singularity Report: Thriving in an AI-Revolutionized Job Market
Send us Fan Mail What if AI isn't just transforming the future, but actively redefining your career right now? Join us, as we unravel the seismic shifts AI is b - Ep 8 - AI-Driven Leadership Transformation: Drew Saur on Navigating Tech Careers
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a tech engineer becomes a leader in a world increasingly shaped by AI? Meet Drew Saur, a career coach with a unique perspecti - Ep 7 - Integrating AI with Purpose: Ida Pierce on Ethical Innovations and Empowering Small Businesses
Send a text Explore the inspiring journey of Ida Pierce, the innovative force behind Pierce Creative & Consulting, as she shares her transformative approach to - Ep 6 - Empowering Veterans and Transforming Communities w/ Chris Mowry
Send us Fan Mail Chris Mowry, the Chief Information Technology Officer of the Virginia State Police and a Marine Corps veteran, joins us to explore an innovativ - Ep 5 - A Visionary Approach to Business and Societal Transformation w/ Alexander Whiteway
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered how AI could be more than just a tool for operational proficiency? In this episode, we unlock the transformative power o - Ep 4 - Harnessing AI for Entrepreneurial Innovation w/ Will Melton
Send us Fan Mail Discover the incredible journey of Will Melton , a visionary force behind AI Ready RVA, as he unveils the transformative power of artificial in - Ep 3 - AI Strategies for Optimizing Business Operations w/ Matt Bartles
Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered how AI can transform your business operations or how industry experts navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape? Join us for an - Ep 2 - AI's Impact on Work and Life: A Conversation with Jack O'Gorman
Send us Fan Mail The episode shines a light on how AI is transforming daily tasks and professional dynamics. Our guest shares personal insights on effective use - Ep 0: Introducing Inspire AI
Send us Fan Mail What if automation could reshape not only industries but also the very fabric of our daily lives? Join me, Jason McGinthy, as we explore this c - Ep 1 - Pilot Episode with Will Willis from AI Ready RVA and Jason McGinthy from Capital One
Send a text Want to join a community of AI learners and enthusiasts? AI Ready RVA is leading the conversation and is rapidly rising as a hub for AI in the Richm