The Human Side of AI with Flora, from Jamout.ai
Built to Keep Her Alive: Roya Sahibzada on Loss, Legacy, and Turning to AI When Her Team Walked Out
Roya Sahibzada has run her collegiate branded apparel business for 37 years — through her sister's death two years in, her mother's death eighteen months after that, the Northridge earthquake leveling her company from the ground up, and a COVID pivot that forced her out of the brick-and-mortar model she loved. In this episode, she talks about the seven-year mourning period she worked straight through, why she trains AI the exact same way she's trained every intern for decades, and the one question she says every founder needs to answer before they can make it through a loss that could derail everything. It's a conversation about grief, legacy, and what "keeping someone alive" actually looks like when you build a business in their name — with the human part still fully intact.
