Lead With AI

Lead With AI

Join Dr. Tamara Nall for coffee-shop-style conversations that explore how AI is transforming our world today. With 25 years in data analytics and a doctorate in AI and machine learning, Dr. Nall creates a welcoming space where the doers, the builders, and the innovators share their stories. Each episode cuts through technical jargon to showcase AI-powered solutions that are solving real problems across industries. You'll hear from the people who are actually creating these technologies—no fluff, no abstract ideas—just real technology, real impact, and real innovation that expands what we thought possible. Lead with AI focuses on authentic stories and practical applications. Dr. Nall's conversations highlight the genuine impact of artificial intelligence without the hype. Whether you're an AI expert or simply curious about how this technology is changing our world, you'll walk away thinking: "Wow. I never thought this was possible." Subscribe to discover how today's innovators are using AI to address challenges, create opportunities, and shape our future.

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October 7, 2025

What happens when a cybersecurity expert who defended against nat...

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What happens when AI can read client emotions...

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This isn't sci-fi. 145,000 surveillance cameras across North America are now monitored by AI, one that doesn't know your name but can predict what happens next. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Alex Vourkoutiotis, CTO of ECAM, whose AI security systems have literally prevented murders and assaults while maintaining complete anonymity for everyone they monitor. Alex shares how their patented Blackout ...

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What if education finally worked the way your brain actually learns? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Affan Shaikhsurab, an undergraduate founder who's tackling the biggest problem in education: the gap between memorizing for tests and actually understanding concepts. His platform JourneyNext uses AI to create personalized learning experiences that adapt to whether you're a visual learner, need hands-...

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In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Damon Burrow, co-founder of Scholar AI and Duke PhD student, whose research assistant is transforming how scientists access knowledge. Scholar AI ranks among the top 5 GPTs in ChatGPT's store by solving a problem every researcher faces: drowning in data while starving for actionable insights. Burrow shares how his tool goes beyond simple keyword searches, extracting s...

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What started as a husband's joke about alerting his wife to "hair night" just became the solution millions have been waiting for. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Tori Elstrom, founder of SmartHair, who built an AI app that analyzes your hair's health, porosity, and density from a single selfie in under 60 seconds. After his wife followed an AI-generated routine for just one month, her hair had never ...

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In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Samuel Solberg, Co-founder & CEO of Hoggo, who reveals how his AI platform is transforming the tedious world of vendor compliance from a business blocker into a competitive advantage. Solberg shares the "holy smokes" moment when a seasoned lawyer's face lit up seeing Hoggo instantly generate detailed risk profiles that would typically require days of manual document co...

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In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall i...

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In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Nicholas Capone, owner of Mixed Slate Productions, who built an AI system that predicts movie revenues with stunning accuracy across all distribution channels and territories. Capone shares the moment when his AI correctly forecasted box office numbers, streaming revenues, and international sales for 15 different films within $20,000 of their actual performance, tr...

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In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Tom Winter, co-founder and CGO at SEOwind, who's cracked the code on AI-driven content that dominates search rankings. Winter reveals how his platform goes beyond basic AI writing by conducting the research humans typically spend 4-5 hours on, pulling competitor data, case studies, and trending topics to create content that reads like it was written by someone who ...

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What if Hollywood-level storytelling could rew...

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On this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Mike Skura, whose AI model picked the top two Kentucky Derby finishers after ...

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In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Lexi Reese, CEO and co-founder of Lanai Software, who exposes a startling reality: 80% of AI use in companies happens completely off the radar. Reese shares a jaw-dropping story from an insurance company where sales teams unknowingly uploaded customer zip codes into AI tools - creating potential legal issues as zip codes can serve as proxies for race in insurance decis...

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