Promptly Speaking

AI can build almost anything now, so what's actually left for a product manager to do? Cliff Barrett, who has scaled product teams at Mailchimp, ChowNow, and Iterable, joins Sara and Dan to unpack why judgment, not...

Can AI make kids better learners, or just more dependent? An educator's honest answer. For our first ever in-person guest, we sat down with Larame Spence, who has spent years tutoring, running a private school, and...

Most people are still typing questions into a chatbot. Brian Albert is building software while he sleeps. Brian went from running a digital marketing agency with a team of content creators to replacing that whole...

What if AI could make your employees feel more valued, not less? Jason Stover, Executive Vice President at SSA Group and the builder behind Scout — SSA's internal AI platform — joins Sara and Dan to share how a...

What if you could build your company's next internal tool in a weekend, for $30? Aaron Trockman is a partner manager at Glean who had zero formal coding experience — and then built PartnerSync, a fully functional...

<p>We're taking a short break to upgrade our equipment & set! </p><p>In this episode, Sara gives a brief tour of their home & recording spaces, highlighting the challenges they've faced and the changes they plan to...

<p>AI is changing everything, from how we work to how we learn to how we take care of our families. But is it replacing jobs… or creating entirely new opportunities?</p><p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, Sara and...

<p>Everyone's been talking about AI this year. Where does it move the needle? Where does it fall short?</p><p>In the final Promptly Speaking episode of 2025, Sara and Dan take a moment to reflect on what they've learned...

<p>What if the biggest risk in AI adoption isn’t falling behind, but moving too fast without clarity?</p><p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, Sara and Dan speak with Scott Barghaan, a longtime enterprise sales...

<p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, Sara and Dan speak with Matt Crowson, a fellowship trained ear surgeon who has spent the last decade working at the intersection of clinical medicine, data, and artificial...

<p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, Sara and Dan sit down with Neil Shepherd — a Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur, and former leader at PayPal, Scale AI, Cohere, and Play.ai — for a direct, deeply informed...

<p>What happens to creativity when anyone can generate “good enough” writing in seconds?</p><p>And how do you keep your voice — your taste — when machines want to average everything out?</p><p>In this episode, Sara and...

<p>How do we raise emotionally healthy kids in a world where AI companions, chatbots, and digital identities show up earlier than ever?</p><p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, Sara and Dan sit down with Sara...

<p>Are AI companions making us more lonely?</p><p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, Sara and Dan explore how AI is reshaping not only how we think - but how we feel.</p><p>From chatbots like Replika and Character.AI...

<p>How do we use AI without losing what makes us human?</p><p>In this episode of Promptly Speaking, hosts Sara and Dan Roberts sit down with Dr. Ravit Dotan, PhD - a practical philosopher and AI ethicist - to unpack the...