{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"She Is A Leader - The Podcast for Women Creating Impact, Profit, and Peace in Their Business","title":"Small Business Owners Finally Get an AI Strategy That Works - with Heather McLean","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/49188252\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1393,"description":"It's midnight, you're doomscrolling another \"AI took my job\" post, and you still don't have a plan.\nToday's guest on the She Is A Leader Podcast is Heather McLean. She spent twenty years in Air Force logistics before she built an AI consulting firm on one rule: do the right thing, and do the thing right.\nIn this episode, she names the exact sentence that reveals a bad AI vendor, walks through the real story behind IKEA's biggest AI decision, and calls herself out on the one conflict of interest nobody in her industry admits to.\nIf you've spent hours talking to ChatGPT and still don't have an AI strategy for your business, this episode is for you.\n \n--------------\nDISCLAIMER:\nThis podcast is sponsored by AskYvi.com. Some links are affiliate links which means if you buy something we'll receive a small commission.\n--------------\n🌟 Meet Heather McLean\nWebsite: https://mcleanforrester.com\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-mclean1/\nYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@HeatherMcLean1\n--------------\n🌟Connect with Yvi\nhttps://instagram.com/askyvi\nhttps://www.facebook.com/AskYvi/\n--------------\n🏆 Highlights 🏆\n00:00 – Introduction\n02:23 – Why AI hype and AI reality are two different things\n04:22 – People vs. profit: how companies decide who survives AI\n06:35 – The IKEA story: how one company avoided an 8,000-person layoff\n09:00 – The mistake business owners make when they let vendors decide\n11:20 – Why the word \"automation\" makes teams hesitant\n13:13 – What a good AI strategy looks like\n15:35 – The trust-building principle behind every good AI rollout\n18:28 – The one thing to do this week if you've done nothing with AI\n\n--------------\npowered by ecamm: https://askyvi.tips/ecamm\nand Transistor.fm :  https://askyvi.tips/transistorfm\n--------------\nSubscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SheIsALeader\nSubscribe to Podcast: https://askyvi.tips/podcast\nApply to be a guest: https://askyvi.tips/pod-SIAL\nProud member of the podmatch network","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/akfu7Wgndo5G-PygQYPu0QyyH8tAbWnGTAxB49FpkrI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wOTc5/M2Q1MmZlZjdhZjJi/YTE0MDViMWU3ZDMx/NTE1OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}