<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Innovative Expert Podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI conversation is moving fast enough that just keeping up feels like a second job — this channel is for the experts figuring it out anyway, the ones who want to use AI to teach more people, build courses that actually transform, and grow a business that doesn't require selling themselves out to do it. 

Hosted by Dr. Stephanie Thrower — vocational psychologist, AI integration coach, and someone who's spent 15+ years helping people live and work in alignment with their values even when the ground keeps shifting underneath them — you'll find live conversations with AI-fluent experts, teaching on AI-powered course building and codifying your expertise, and honest reflections on the psychological side of staying agile. <br/><br/><a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/podcast</link><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:06:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/5177087.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><author><![CDATA[The Innovative Expert]]></author><copyright><![CDATA[The Innovative Expert]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[theinnovativeexpert@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:new-feed-url>https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/5177087.rss</itunes:new-feed-url><itunes:author>The Innovative Expert</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Innovative Expert explores what makes human expertise valuable in the age of AI. Through conversations with founders and thought leaders, we examine how expertise is built, shared, scaled, and sustained. </itunes:subtitle><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>The Innovative Expert</itunes:name><itunes:email>theinnovativeexpert@substack.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Entrepreneurship"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Careers"/></itunes:category><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/><item><title><![CDATA[How AI Tools Can Grow Your Business with Uriah Guilford]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/how-ai-tools-can-grow-your-business</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:204611037</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Uriah Guilford]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:20:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204611037/6c5b61921f0353c32a3504897018691d.mp3" length="51383213" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Uriah Guilford</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3211</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/204611037/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting Visible on LinkedIn with Wendy Shore]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/getting-visible-on-linkedin-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:203374617</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Wendy Shore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:16:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203374617/fac6883040706c97c56630709dfd3f39.mp3" length="49257472" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Wendy Shore</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3079</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/203374617/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Operational Brain Your Coaching Business Has Been Missing with Lucretia Barraco-Martinello]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/the-operational-brain-your-coaching</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:202412090</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Lucretia Barraco-Martinrllo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:30:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202412090/33390f3ce229df8518f8ab1ea911e736.mp3" length="56366122" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Lucretia Barraco-Martinrllo</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3523</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/202412090/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why AI Still Trips Us Up - And 3 Habits That Help]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>This is a solo episode where Dr. Stephanie Thrower tests a recorded, non-live format on Substack for the first time. She opens by addressing a question she gets often — if AI can teach people things, why do courses still matter? — and answers it through belonging, seeing real human entrepreneurship modeled, and forms of support AI can’t replicate.</p><p>From there she shares three working habits for using AI well as a course creator: keeping AI accounts organized with project folders so context stays clean and relevant, recognizing that prompt quality matters most when a task is new (not when it’s repeated), and understanding that large language models and image generators run on completely different mechanics — prediction versus diffusion — which is why image prompting needs a different approach (more creative room, specific “vibe” words, borrowing language from reference images). </p><p>Throughout, she weaves in the “jagged frontier” concept to explain why AI can be brilliant on one task and clumsy on the next, and flags the trap of mistaking AI’s confident-sounding language for actual confidence.</p><p><strong>Resources & concepts mentioned (worth linking or expanding on)</strong></p><p>* <strong>Claude Projects </strong>— the project-folder feature she uses to keep files and context organized by business/category.</p><p>* <strong>ChatGPT</strong> — referenced alongside Claude for prompt help and pulling descriptive language from images.</p><p>* <strong>Markdown (.md)</strong> file exports — downloading docs (e.g., from Google Docs) as Markdown so AI tools read them faster and more cheaply.</p><p>* <strong>The Jagged Frontier</strong> — a concept from a 2023 Harvard Business School/Boston Consulting Group study. The researchers coined the term to describe an uneven boundary of AI capability where tasks of similar apparent difficulty can land on opposite sides, with AI acting as a booster on one and a disruptor on the other, and it was later popularized in Ethan Mollick’s writing. This would be a great deeper-dive link for the show notes if you want listeners to read the original research. <a target="_blank" href="https://professorkl.substack.com/p/discovering-ais-jagged-frontier-and">Substack</a></p><p>* <strong>Midjourney</strong> — the AI image tool she references for diffusion-based image generation (and the “ponytailed paper” anecdote).</p><p>* <strong>Pinterest</strong> — suggested as a place to find a reference image when you don’t have the right descriptive words yet, which you can then feed to Claude or ChatGPT to extract usable prompt language.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/why-ai-still-trips-us-up-and-3-habits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:202299696</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:00:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202299696/30dc8f58cf7a9d8ed26bf9086ef9809f.mp3" length="20096046" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>1256</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/202299696/17e362a4679fb9cbe96af930b86cf5a7.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[AEO: Getting Found By AI & Your Ideal Clients with Tracey Bauer]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/aeo-getting-found-by-ai-and-your</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:201575835</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Tracey Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:17:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201575835/28d2d667b3ed3995eca5de21690a53b4.mp3" length="50272277" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Tracey Bauer</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3142</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/201575835/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sustainable Visibility Starts with a Podcast You Love with Leslie Mathews]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/sustainable-visibility-starts-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:200594255</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Leslie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:25:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200594255/5487829fca274668f0b499520ea8c585.mp3" length="58963320" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Leslie</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3685</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/200594255/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Capable Founders Stay Stuck with Nicole Phommanorat]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/why-capable-founders-stay-stuck-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:199172578</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Nicole Phommanorat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:19:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199172578/68fe81e9ffeb747337ea98bc0712cd32.mp3" length="55000231" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Nicole Phommanorat</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3437</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/199172578/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ads in the Era of AI with Andy Franco]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:198683326</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Andy Franco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:46:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198683326/bec1c088d20d667763632bbaacce88b2.mp3" length="55276920" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Andy Franco</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3455</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/198683326/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn Your Course into a Thriving Community Using Skool]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">theinnovativeexpert.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://theinnovativeexpert.substack.com/p/turn-your-course-into-a-thriving</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:197736501</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Thrower and Angelina Shively]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:12:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197736501/a1de09092cd3b5ebd8749d084a6294f8.mp3" length="50223794" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Stephanie Thrower and Angelina Shively</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>3139</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5177087/post/197736501/efa0d236b5f03d28c375f743a6c88289.jpg"/></item></channel></rss>