Episode 199

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30th May 2025

199: How to Use AI in Your Podcast and Speaking Workflow with Carol Cox

Where can you use AI to streamline your podcast and content creation, without losing the secret sauce that makes you and your message stand out?

If you’re anything like me, you want deeper connections with clients, not just more “content.” But as AI shakes up our creative world, how can we work smarter with AI, while staying true to ourselves and keeping the heart and humanity in our business?

Carol Cox is a speaker, podcast host, and self-proclaimed AI evangelist. We talk specifically about where AI fits in podcasting and thought leadership for folks like us. Learn to use AI as a tool for writing proposals and podcast show notes to unlock value in your episode back-catalog. Most importantly, you’ll hear how to keep your content truly yours, not just another generic ChatGPT output.

Carol talks tools, workflows, and the voice-cloning experiments she’s using in her business today. You’ll hear what’s working, what feels weird, and where the boundaries are being tested in real time.

Chapter Highlights

(00:00) How Do You Use AI in Your Business Without Losing Your Humanity?

(04:00) Why is Carol Cox an AI evangelist?

(05:24) Where Can AI Save You Time in Speaking and Content Creation?

(06:48) How to Train AI to Write and Sound Like You

(09:15) Concerns about Sharing Your Intellectual Property with AI

(12:20) Common AI Mistakes Speakers Make—and How to Avoid Them

(13:41) What Makes a Compelling Speaker

(16:35) Using AI to Supercharge Your Podcast Workflow and Show Notes

(17:42) The Best AI Tools for Podcasters: What’s Worth Paying For

(18:43) Turning Your Podcast Library into an AI Knowledge Base (RAG)

(20:14) Would You Clone Your Voice with AI? Ethical and Practical Concerns

(23:16) Using AI for Smarter Networking and Outreach

(27:58) What to Try Next: Your AI Homework and How to Share Your Results


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The Brassy Broadcast with Jen Edds
The Brassy Broadcast is an exploration of ways we create, engage, and communicate more effectively using the technology, social media, and platforms available to us.
The Brassy Broadcast is an exploration of ways we create, engage, and communicate more effectively using the technology, social media, and platforms available to us.

We're living through a revolution in how content is created. AI tools can now help with every aspect of content creation - from ideation to research, copywriting, editing, creating graphics, and beyond. These tools can save you hours of work and help you produce more polished content than ever before, but there's a darkside to these magic tools.

The more we use them, the higher the risk we run of losing the very thing that makes our content ours - our unique perspective, our authentic voice, our human experience, and our heartbreak. AI can suck the heart and soul right out of our work.

I’m on a mission to find that sweet spot where technology enhances rather than replaces our humanity, where we can save time on the mechanical aspects of content creation so we can invest more energy in the parts that truly require our creativity, experience, expertise, and perspective.

We are navigating this new world together, along with our guests.

I’ll be interviewing business owners and content creators to learn how they are getting the most out of AI without sucking the soul out of their work. We'll learn about the pitfalls and perks of AI use in our business and creative endeavors.

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