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The AI Skills Gap and the Death of Entry-Level Jobs

Ryan Lufkin of Instructure on the AI skills gap, why entry-level jobs are vanishing, and how certificates and human skills keep workers competitive.

AI Is Coming for White-Collar Jobs, LeBron, and Bitcoin

Ryan Alford on AI replacing entry-level white-collar work, LeBron's new grooming line, booming Bitcoin miners, and the FTC's click-to-cancel delay.

Rethinking Learning: Instructure's Ryan Lufkin on AI

Ryan Lufkin of Instructure joins Ryan Alford to unpack why 70% of workers feel unprepared and how AI is reshaping skills, degrees, and education.

Trump's Gold Card Visa, DOGE Savings & Sports Card Boom

Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen break down Trump's $5M gold card visa, Apple's $500B U.S. investment, DOGE's $65B savings, crypto's dip and the sports card

Gen Alpha, AI Agents and the End of Prompt Engineering

Matt Britton, author of Generation AI, joins Ryan Alford on how AI agents, robotics and Gen Alpha will reshape work, education and business speed.

Iran War, AI and the Small Business Economy

Kapitus COO Ben Johnston breaks down how the Iran conflict, energy costs, labor shortages and AI are reshaping conditions for small businesses right now.

Layoffs, Inflation and the Sizzle vs. Steak Economy

Ryan Alford, Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall break down mass layoffs, shrinking margins, RFK Jr., the Social Security breach and Disney's arbitration

Matt Britton on Generation AI, Coding and Slow CEOs

Matt Britton, author of Generation AI, tells Ryan Alford why AI 10x's creative "stars," why coding and college are at risk, and why speed is the ultimate

Pepsi, Bad Bunny and LeBron's Taco Tuesday Fight

Ryan Alford and Christina Yassi break down Pepsi's Bad Bunny campaign, LeBron and Taco Bell, L.L. Bean's social media blackout, and Google's AI ad tools.

CrowdStrike Outage and Kamala's Nomination | Business News

Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen break down the CrowdStrike outage that hit 8.5M machines, Biden's exit, Tesla's Optimus robot and McDonald's $5 meal deal.

Rick Jordan on Going Public, Failing, and Rebuilding

Rick Jordan tells Ryan Alford how he scaled an IT company from $4M to $15M, took it public, lost it in six months, and what he is rebuilding now.

Hiring Is a Marketing Problem: Nicole Feenstra

Nicole Feenstra of The DNA Agency tells Ryan Alford why job descriptions fail, how to market the trades, and how geofencing and storytelling win

AI Leverage, Cooling Real Estate & Meta's New AI App

Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen break down May 2025 business news: tariffs, housing price cuts, Meta's free AI app, Fanatics' card boom and BNPL groceries.

AI for Small Business Growth with Dave Charest

Constant Contact's Dave Charest on how small businesses use AI for efficiency, data insights, email marketing, and owning their customer relationships.

Robovan, the AI Tongue and TikTok's AI Moderation Cuts

Ryan Alford, Chris Hansen and Brianna Hall break down GM's $625M lithium deal, Tesla's Robovan, Tom Brady's Raiders stake and TikTok's AI layoffs.

Trading Cards, Trump's Address and Skype's Shutdown

Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen break down Trump's address to Congress, tariffs, the end of Skype, AI and jobs, crypto swings and the rise of trading cards.

Rob Lennon on AI, ChatGPT and Better Prompting

AI whisperer Rob Lennon joins Ryan Alford to explain progressive prompting, AI's real dangers, what it does to SEO, and which jobs actually change.

Micro Habits, Big Impact: Brain Health with Thoryn Stephens

BRAIN.ONE CEO Thoryn Stephens on micro habits, AI-built brain health protocols, dementia prevention, wearable data and why sleep beats diet.

Amazon's TikTok Bid, Musk Exits DOGE, OpenAI's $40B

Ryan Alford breaks down Amazon's TikTok offer, Elon Musk leaving DOGE, the Hooters bankruptcy, and OpenAI's $40 billion raise in this weekly business news

Building Predictable Revenue Systems with Josh Troy

Josh Troy on RevOps, AI outbound agents, cold calling, and pipeline reactivation, and how founders build predictable revenue instead of chasing leads.

Monica Marquez on Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail

Flipwork co-founder Monica Marquez tells Ryan Alford why AI pilots fail on adoption, not tech, and how leaders can flip how their teams work.

Tariffs, AI Teams, Crypto and the Trading Card Boom

Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen break down US-China tariffs, luxury markups, AI personas replacing white-collar work, crypto's rebound and Instagram Edits.

Fed Holds Rates, Shell-BP Merger and Tesla's Slump

Ryan Alford breaks down the Fed's rate hold, Shell-BP merger talk, Amazon's monopoly problem, AI price wars and a credit card delinquency red flag.

Metaverse Jobs, Coke on TikTok and Amazon's Ad Lawsuit

Ryan Alford and Joe Hamric cover metaverse job ideas, Mountain Dew's $5,000 ranger gig, Coca-Cola's TikTok debut, Amazon's ad lawsuit and Tesla gaming.

Sam Dunning on Fixing B2B Websites That Don't Convert

Breaking B2B founder Sam Dunning on the grunt test, customer research interviews, page speed, publishing pricing, and landing pages vs websites.

Amazon AI Jobs, Dollar Menus, Drones and IKEA Micro-Stores

Ryan Alford recaps the week in business: Amazon's AI job warning and hydrogen trucks, fast-food dollar menus, Walmart drones, AI rules and IKEA

John Assaraf on Rewiring Your Brain for Business Growth

John Assaraf joins Ryan Alford to explain innercise, identity, limiting beliefs, the 66-day rewiring window and how to surf the AI wave instead of

Robin Alex on Replacing Your Business Tech Stack

GoHighLevel co-founder Robin Alex joins Ryan Alford on AI hype, speed to lead, white-labeling for agencies, and scaling a 2,500-person remote company.

Rethinking Your Team in the Age of AI

Oak Theory co-founder Veronica Shelton on AI adoption, blended roles, accessibility and leading without ego in a conversation with Ryan Alford.

MarTech's Kim Davis on Data, Cookies and Brand Building

MarTech Editorial Director Kim Davis joins Ryan Alford to unpack media fragmentation, the end of third-party cookies, and why brand still matters.

Cisco's AI Concierge Agents Are Reinventing CX

Cisco's Vinod Muthukrishnan on AI concierge agents, the end of CX silos, agentic systems, and why AI should make customer experience more human, not less.

Mike Sancho: From Expelled to Passive Income Builder

Mike Sancho tells Ryan Alford how jail, Subway and three collapsed network marketing incomes led him to build automated passive income businesses.

Rejection, Resilience and Momentum: From Zero to Hero

Alex Morton, Jen Gottlieb, Ken Wentworth, Mike Sancio and Jamil Damjie on rock bottom, rejection and the first win that changes everything.

From Broke at 13 to $100M+: Josh Snow on Discipline, Luck,

Amazon Live Goes Shoppable, TikTok Notes & AI Anchors

Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen break down Amazon Live's shoppable channel, TikTok Notes, an AI death calculator, and Gen Z's move to blue collar jobs.

Own Your Audience: Email, Content and the Amazon Trap

Radical's Robbie Fitzwater on why organic reach is dying, how to move customers to email, and the content system that beats Amazon on human connection.

Marketing Chivalry Isn't Dead with Robbie Fitzwater

Robbie Fitzwater joins Ryan Alford to explain why organic social is dying, why Amazon owns your customer, and how to build content that earns trust.

DIY Facebook Ads for 2025: The Hot 30 Retargeting Play

Stephen Blackburn and Stephen Johnson of Rich From Anywhere break down Facebook ad strategy, CAC vs LTV, TikTok vs Google, and their Hot 30 retargeting

2022 Marketing Trends with Ryan Alford and Reh Harvey

Ryan Alford and Reh Harvey break down 2022 marketing trends: short-form video, live stream shopping, SMS vs email, LinkedIn, the metaverse and branding.

Alina Smith on K-Pop, TikTok and Music's Real Economics

Hit producer Alina Smith joins Ryan Alford to talk K-pop, publishing deals, growing on TikTok, female producers and the real money behind streaming.