The Flow State Podcast
The Flow State Podcast is made for people who love digital, and more importantly love to hang out and talk about it. Join Stuart P. Turner (and guests) on a wide-ranging voyage of discovery and self reflection discussing the rapid pace of development in the digital industry. The show focuses on the implications, the ramifications and the evolving, increasingly symbiotic relationship we have with our technology. Live Fridays at 10:30am AEST.
Episodes
July 3, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode Stuart P. Turner revisits the subject AI, 18-ish months of from the first Implications of AI series.
What's changed? What hasn't? What's coming next?
Stu runs through the headlines (in amongst the usual semi-work related rambles and free opinions) to provide a rapid fire rundown of what's been happening an what we should all be thinking about right now.
Listen in for a rundown on:
AI industry evolution sinc...
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June 26, 2025 • 12 mins
Today Stu is joined by his two new imaginary (or are they?) friends, Greg and Gloria, to recap The Implications of AI - the glorious first season of The Flow State Podcast recorded way back in 2023.
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This miniseries of the Flow State podcast, hosted by Flow State founder and managing director Stuart P. Turner, delves into the implications of AI, aiming to cut through the hype and discuss real-world use cases, examples, an...
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This episode features a wide-ranging conversation between host Stuart P. Turner and Ashton Tuckerman, focusing on Ashton's career journey in marketing, her current pursuit of an MBA, and broader discussions about the marketing industry, particularly in the context of startups and the current economic climate.
Key themes include the in-house versus agency debate, the challenges of attributing marketing ROI, the value of continued ...
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In this episode host Stuart P. Turner speaks with guest Alex Boyd, the co-founder of Aware. They discuss the challenges and benefits of using LinkedIn for business, focusing on strategic approaches beyond simply using the platform and addressing common complaints about its evolving nature.
Alex introduces Aware as a tool to improve LinkedIn usage, born from his personal need while growing his previous service business and generat...
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Stu and Amanda Behre discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by mid-career marketers. Amanda, who recently launched a business called Dear Thrive, explains that her platform connects mid-career professionals with coaches and advisors to address various work-related issues, from soft skills like communications and leadership to technical expertise like navigating new technologies.
They explore the pressures of this career s...
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In the third of three conversations on the importance of brand, Brooke and Stu get into the practicalities of bringing your brand to life with intent and meaning.
Listen in to hear how the pair have come at this challenge and how to avoid some of the common pitfalls that working across multiple teams and agencies can create in the process.
The most important thing? Just get started! You have to start from somewhere, once you have t...
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Brooke and Stu are back! This time the duo are talking having fun at work, and why it's so important to hit the brakes and just stop sometimes.
It can feel like you're constantly under pressure juggling plates, getting deliverables out and managing stakeholders with little time for contemplation or creativity. This is somewhat ironic in an industry (marketing) that is stereotypically populated by extra creatives full of wild ideas....
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Brooke rejoins Stu 18 months on from their predictions in The Implications of AI series last year, to discuss how they are both using (and thinking about) AI technology.
Thankfully the creative arts; specifically branding and copywriting, have survived the AI explosion. While adoption has been rapid, a lot of people and brands are still feeling their way through the what, how and why of AI for their specific use cases.
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Stu is joined by ex-colleague / fellow B2B professional Tino Ho to discuss the current state of play in SaaS product marketing.
In the second part of the conversation, Stu and Tino discuss how your mentality around growth can have significant implications across the business beyond just marketing or sales. Looking at things like Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) and going beyond the classic marketing funnel help shift us to a more hol...
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Stu is joined by ex-colleague / fellow B2B professional Tino Ho to discuss the current state of play in SaaS product marketing.
Since the shift from "growth at any costs" to "wait, we need you to make a profit" driven by market conditions and, let's be honest, investors, the SaaS and tech world as a whole has seen some massive cuts and shifts in team structure. Tino and Stu dig into what this means for marketers or growth professi...
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Join Jen and Stu for the final part of the trilogy on customer relations. What started out as a genuine quest for data that could improve our lives has become an unchecked obsession that often results in data hoarding, processes or KPIs at odds with business strategy and a whole lot of very futile feeling interactions in our daily lives.
Jen and Stu walk through how digital permeates almost every layer of customer thinking in a bus...
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Jen and Stu are back for the second of three conversations on customer experience. Much like three kids in a trenchcoat, the various parts of a large company are often poorly balanced and easy to spot despite their best efforts to appear like one functioning person. Is this simply due to process misalignment, or is the bottomless hunger for data points and obsession with technology getting in the way of simple, human touchpoints th...
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What is the role of the savvy marketer in the post-sale glow of a new customer relationship? Once you've got someone "over the line" do you simply palm them off on Customer Success and start thinking about your next campaign? Or are you more holistically minded, bringing your acquisition smarts to the table to build long, er, sticky relationships that last way beyond that first pain point?
In the first of three conversations on the...
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The Implications of AI - Ep05
AI has actually been in existence for quite some time, so why has it suddenly exploded out into the public consciousness? Eve and Stu dive into the current state of AI tools and how they can be successfully leveraged to drive forward digital transformation for brands, as well as the more dangerous real world implications of adopting AI models being used in areas like mental health and support services....
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September 28, 2023 • 52 mins
The Implications of AI - Ep04
AI is functionally helpful and we should embrace it (with caution), however it lacks the nuance and richness in communication that comes from living the human experience.
Brooke and Stu dive into the utility and limitations of AI for writing; how clients are considering it in briefs, how copywriters can work with it and crucially, where the big gaps are in the current language models.
Guest: Brooke Hil...
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The Implications of AI - Ep03
To the practiced eye, it's still easy to tell the difference between a human crafted piece of written copy and a ChatGPT stock output (for now), however that doesn't mean that the current models can't help you.
Lee and Stu talk human vs. robots, the opportunities and limitations surrounding the current models and why there's only so much you can learn by putting things in your mouth.
Guest: Leenesha F...
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The Implications of AI - Ep02
Navigating the incredible complexity of the buyer journey in the B2B data products space, Melinda and Stu discuss how AI can help simplify complex concepts, bridge cross functional gaps inside global brands and enhance your team just like our old friend Clippy used to in 1990s Microsoft Word.
Guest: Melinda Stuart, Enterprise Go-to-Market, Data Analytics and Experience, Optus
Melinda is an Account Base...
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August 17, 2023 • 41 mins
The Implications of AI - Ep01
AI has the potential to help us create solutions to some of the biggest issues we face as a species right now - but will it be deployed as a force for good or simply become another tool in the advertising / capitalist machinery?
Terri and Stu discuss the implications for the next generations if AI becomes part of every day life, the dangers of the commercialisation of education and why you should alway...
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