Better with Humans
What happens when technology reshapes how we live and work? I’m Shaun Phillips. I sit down with industry leaders and creatives navigating these changes. We explore what emerging technology means for creativity, for thinking, and for everyday life. Honest conversations about what’s happening and how people decide what matters. Let’s uncover what is better with humans.
Episodes
18 episodes
Online Course Student Results with Nathalie Doremieux
She charged ten people $500, then told them if they did the work and got the result, she'd give the money back. And she did. My guest this week is Nathalie Doremieux of The Membership Lab, who has spent twenty years in business with her husband h...
AI Safety Risks Are Real Now, Says David Wood
A million devices sold, and we honestly thought we'd made a dent in the world. We had no idea what was actually coming. David Wood spent ten years at Psion and ten years on the leadership team at Symbian, building the first smartphone operating s...
Value Selling AI: Andrew Buchanan on CFO-Proof ROI
A publisher wanted to replace a system they'd had for sixteen years, and nobody had asked why. I'm joined by Andrew Buchanan, sales strategist, coach and founder of Future Consulting, and author of Nobody Wants Your AI. He's spent forty years sel...
AI and Curiosity: Rob Dixon on What Humans Keep
A 10-year-old learns there are four states of matter at school, goes home, asks an AI, and comes back with 15. Eleven confirmed. Four still debated. Nobody set him that task. My guest this week is Rob Dixon, a keynote speaker and trainer whose wh...
Redemptive Leadership: Brian Schroller on Being Seen
A woman worked in the same auto repair shop for 25 years and nobody in her store knew it was her anniversary. My guest is Brian Schroller, a leadership coach and former fixed income portfolio manager who works with leaders on the idea that person...
ADHD at Work, Late Diagnosis: Nick Silverstone
A Mac and a PC do 90% of the same things. Different code underneath, same end goal. We've just built a workplace that only ships with one operating system. My guest this episode is Nick Silverstone, an award-winning fractional MD and ADHD coach f...
AI Content Writing: Meg Hutson on Sounding Human
You write something good. Something that actually sounds like you. Then you run it through AI to clean it up, and the cleaning up is exactly the bit that strips your personality out. My guest this week is Meg Hutson, a marketing mentor who help...
AI for Equity: Jenny Garrett OBE on the Good News
I still haven't heard anyone say AI freed up their day, so they spent it in the garden. That line came from Jenny Garrett OBE, CEO of Jenny Garrett Global, author of Equality vs Equity, and co-host of the AI for Equity podcast with her daughter...
AI Adoption Readiness: Maggie Sarfo's 7 Checks
Ask AI a vague question and you'll get a woolly answer. That rule isn't new. It's just louder now. This week I'm joined by Maggie Sarfo, founder and CEO of Meres Consult, a growth and AI adoption consultancy. She's a Gartner alumni, a TEDx spea...
AI Data Centre Energy Costs with Leslie Coelho
AI never says "I don't know." That single fact should change how you use it. I'm joined again by my friend Leslie Coelho, back by popular demand after questions came in about local models, sustainability and where all this growth is actually head...
Brand Differentiation in the AI Era with Adam Jennings
Creativity is the magic of nothing existing and then something does. That's how Adam Jennings put it to me, and it's stuck with me since we stopped recording. Adam runs Contour, a studio that builds brands for founders who've outgrown the one t...
AI Character Consistency Tips from Glen Boswell
A dragon's claw comes down on soft ground, the weight spreads through its toes exactly the way real weight would, and an animator would have spent a week getting that right. AI did it in seconds. That's the moment that stuck with me from this o...
AI Screenwriting Advisor That Unlocks Creativity
Screenwriting is lonely. Not metaphorically. Literally just you, a document, and a feeling that something isn't working, but you can't name what.Itai Hasid has been sitting in that room for over twenty years. Writer, filmmaker, tour guid...
The Tech That Fits You (And the Tech That Doesn't)
There's a moment in this conversation where Helen describes trees growing weak and weedy inside the Eden Project's biodomes. They'd forgotten about the wind. No resistance, no strength.That image has stayed with me.We're in a stra...
9 AI Guardrails to Stay Sharp
Episode 3 - Richard LalchanThere's a study from MIT that found 83% of people who used ChatGPT to write an essay couldn't quote a single sentence from what they'd written. That stopped me cold.Richard Lalchan is back, and...
We Let Technology Replace Farm Workers. Offices Could Be Next.
Better With Humans. Episode 2. Leslie Coelho. Leslie has 40 years in software engineering. He wrote safety-critical aviation code for the Airbus A321 with no internet, no code libraries, and no AI. And he still cannot stop exp...
We Waited Too Long To Question Smartphones. Don’t Repeat It With AI
One of the most interesting conversations I have had recently was around something most of us carry every single day without really questioning it anymore.Our phones.Richard Lalchan joined me on Better With Humans and we explored ...
Let's uncover what it means to be Better with Humans - Podcast trailer
The way we create. The way we think. The way we live.And most of us have not stopped to ask whether we actually chose this.I am Shaun Phillips. And I have been sitting down with the people right in the middle of it. Industr...