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October 14, 2025 • 24 mins

🔴 Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/743

Hosts: Mark Smith, Meg Smith

Creativity is not replaced by AI. It is amplified. Meg and Mark unpack how AI frees time, widens ideas, and supports practice. They argue for redefining wealth as time to create, building human-AI teams, and using tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to move from blank page to applied output. They ground it in gardening, branding, writing, and “vibe coding,” and echo Neil deGrasse Tyson’s call to out-create the machine.

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🎙️ What you’ll learn
Reframe “will AI take jobs?” into “how will I create more value?”
Build daily creative habits that AI accelerates, not replaces.
Turn fuzzy ideas into drafts, designs, and prototypes fast.
Use “vibe coding” to ship simple sites without a CMS.
Work as human-AI teams that respect customer needs and mana.

✅Highlights
“Everything is gonna change.”
“It’s going to allow us to step into a level of creativity like we’ve never known”
“What are we going to do with all this free time”
“Why don’t I bring the creativity forward into my day now”
“Can we create in a different way?”
“I think we will enter an era where creativity will be the golden age.”

🧰 Mentioned
Nyssa Waters https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyssawaters/
Possible AI https://www.possibl.ai/
PAX 8 https://www.pax8.com/
Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-degrasse-tyson-680a35357/

Connect with the hosts

Mark Smith:  
Blog: https://www.nz365guy.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy

Meg Smith:  
Blog: https://www.megsmith.nz
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megsmithnz

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✅ Keywords:  
ai, creativity, human ai teams, vibe coding, chatgpt, copilot, claude, mid journey, vs code, azure, te ao māori, mana 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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