{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Plenty with Kate Northrup","title":"176. She Built 150 AI Employees and Never Fired a Human — Then Made $19,500,000 with Callan Faulkner","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3610,"description":"What if AI didn’t replace humans—but gave us more time and capacity to actually be human?\nIn this episode, Kate sits down with AI expert Callan Faulkner, who has trained more than 13,000 business owners to become AI architects. Callan shares the extraordinary story behind a launch she expected to generate $4 million that ultimately crossed $19.5 million—and the financial and nervous system work she did in the months leading up to that expansion.\nThey unpack Callan’s money story, from growing up with an underlying feeling that there was never enough to learning how to make increasing amounts of money without necessarily knowing how to manage it. She shares how preparing for greater wealth before it arrived helped her body feel safe receiving it, and why having the systems, team, and financial plan in place mattered just as much as setting a bigger goal.\nThen they dive into AI: what it could mean for the future of work, the environmental concerns surrounding it, whether it’s making us less intelligent, and how businesses can use it without losing the human element. Callan explains how she’s built more than 150 “AI employees” while never firing a human because of AI—instead using the technology to move her team away from repetitive work and into more strategic, creative roles.\nUltimately, this conversation is about far more than technology. It’s about using AI as leverage to create more time, possibility, abundance, creativity, and space for the parts of life that only humans can experience.\n“I have not fired one person because of AI. I have only elevated their role.”   - Callan Faulkner\n🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤\n00:00 The Opportunity of AI\n02:27 Callan’s Money Story\n05:02 Making Money but Avoiding It\n08:16 Expanding Her Capacity\n10:11 The $19.5M Launch\n13:13 Preparing for More Money\n18:00 Success, Friendship & Belonging\n25:00 The Environmental Cost of AI\n31:39 What AI Makes Possible\n34:00 AI Without Firing Humans\n38:03 Can AI Increase Creativity?...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/o03JRta_QRrWYpVnGEniH9ofqOD9uyABk7kkXvT0B_E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ1MzMzLzE2OTUz/ODkwNzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}