AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI
AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For whoever got stuck making AI work—and educators preparing students for what's next. Julie Koehrer and Jason Padgett cut through AI hype with practical, real-world insights for people who actually need to implement it. They focus on workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses and nonprofits literacy and adoption. Mondays: AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people navigating implementation Saturdays: School's Out - Conversations with educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future
Episodes
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, physicians and patients, are get...
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 learning, this conversation cuts...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work Episode 51
Episode Summary:
An ad-hoc conversation exploring AI adoption in the Midwest workforce, from hackathons creating full apps in 8 hours to the shift from meat-grinder hiring to apprenticeship models in the age of AI.
Guest Kelly Friend, Senior Manager at TPMA | Former Vice Chancellor at Ivy Tech | Focused on workforce devel...
School’s Out Saturdays on the AGI (Podcast) - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 51)
Episode Summary:
Dr. KaT Zarychta brings a global perspective on the mental health crisis affecting students worldwide, revealing how 1 in 3 young adults feel isolated despite thousands of online friends. She challenges educators to embrace AI as a tool while leaving space for boredom, creativity, and tea...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time.
Episode Summary: Victor Varnado went from acting in movies with Schwarzenegger and Murphy to building Magic Bookifier—an AI writing tool born from his own frustration. This conversation cuts through AI hype to explore how creators can actually use these tools without losing their humanity.
Guest
Victor Varnado, Comedian | Acto...
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'
Episode Summary:
Thomas Hummel built Eduaide.ai from a Title I classroom where teachers were drowning in work. Now serving over a million educators across 130+ co...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work! Episode 48
Episode Summary: Paula Davis—Miss Indiana, entrepreneur, and founder of Good Samaritan Project—breaks down why AI won't destroy us, but our own choices might. From addiction recovery parallels to international mission work, this conversation challenges Silicon Valley hype with boots-on-the-ground reality about technology, h...
The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday' Episode 47
Episode Summary:
Dr. Bubbles (Ronda Swartz) brings decades of educational leadership to a raw conversation about rolling out School AI to hesitant teachers, why Catholic schools might be perfectly p...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work (Episode 46)
Episode Summary: Nikki Barua breaks down why some leaders are energized by AI disruption while others want to retire early, and how organizations can close the "exponential divide" between AI's speed and human adaptation. Real talk about workforce transformation, the death of middle management, and why philosoph...
EP 45
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'
Episode Summary: While big school districts debate AI policy, Rensselaer Central Schools in rural Indiana quietly achieved a 92% student activation rate with Kh...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. Ep 44Episode Summary: Two Gen X AI enthusiasts cut through the hype from an Agentic AI conference to talk about what actually matters: clean data, optimized processes, and why your company probably isn't ready for AI agents yet.Guest Jeffrey Najar, VP of Marketing at Horsepower | Sales & Marketing Consultant | AI Implem...
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast
The most important conversations with the people shaping tomorrow—one lesson at a time. Educators, students, and ed-tech innovators join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for their future, not our past.
Episode Summary:
A Purdue industrial engineering senior reveals how she's landing job offers through strategic networking, using AI to create fake newsreels for cybersecurity training...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. EP 42
Episode Summary: Jason and Julie dive into ChatGPT's adult mode rollout, Sora's creative chaos, and the existential crisis brewing as AI accelerates past Moore's Law. From erotic chatbots potentially replacing OnlyFans to Bernie Sanders making unexpected sense about robot taxes, this episode tackles whether...
Episode Summary:
Former elementary and special ed teacher Mary Dougherty reveals how AI can revolutionize education by transforming teachers from lecturers into facilitators, while opening unprecedented doors for students with special needs and addressing the critical skills gap in our factory-model education system.
Guest
Mary Dougherty, Innovation Program Manager at TechPoint | Former K-6 Teacher & Special Ed Educator | Co-hos...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time.
Episode Summary:
Robotics pioneer David Bruemmer challenges everything you think you know about artificial intelligence. Are we spending billions chasing the wrong definition of AGI while nature has already solved it?
Guest
David Bruemmer, Former DARPA Consultant | Founder & CEO of W8less LLC | Autonomy Institute | Pioneered ...
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'
Episode Summary: Kimba Rund returns to debunk the viral AI water bottle myth and reveal what her generation really thinks about artificial intelligence. From micro-in...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time Episode 38 with Harrison Painter.Episode Summary:
Harrison Painter doesn't hold back: Apple might become the next Kodak, Microsoft is delivering half-baked AI features, and Google is crushing them both. In this unfiltered conversation, Harrison and Jason tackle tech giants stumbling in the AI revolution, why 70% of worker...
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'
Episode Summary: Solutions Architect Karisa Schwanekamp shares how a single pandemic moment transformed her teaching forever—and why the future of education depends o...
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time.
Episode Summary:
Quarter four belongs to the bold. Steve Iskander, fintech founder and AI-first mover, breaks down why waiting on AI adoption isn't strategy—it's surrender. This isn't your typical AI hype conversation. It's a hard look at velocity, risk, and the competitive moat being built right now by organizati...
School’s Out Saturdays on the AGI (Podcast) - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time.
Episode Summary:
Jason sits down with Purdue Professor Dr. Kathryn Dilworth to unpack her groundbreaking QUIZ methodology that's teaching students to control AI instead of being controlled by it. From building custom LLMs with student coders to discovering why female students get better AI outputs ...
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