Practical Prompting

🎙️ Episode 12: Guest Series - John Mathias' GenAI Journey — From feeling behind to expert In this episode of Practical Prompting , Alex is joined by longtime collaborator John Mathias—law degree from Regent University, a stint at a think tank in DC, and now years of startup building. Act I: Dives into John’s personal journey with GenAI: his first experiments, everyday wins, and the “aha” moments t...

🎙️ Episode 11: Why GenAI Feels Scary — Driving clarity through the foggy fear GenAI feels like quicksand: kids are already using it for schoolwork, headlines scream that most enterprise pilots flop, and “strategy” sounds like a buzzword. In this episode, we name the fear—and shrink it. You’ll get a simple, repeatable way to turn ambiguity into choices you can prove in 30 days. Act I: We start at t...

🎙️ Executive Series — Episode 10: Objection Anticipated — Turning AI Into Your Toughest Opponent In this Executive Edition of Practical Prompting, Alex and his AI co-host, Practically Speaking, turn a tactic into a habit: use AI to surface objections before your stakeholders do—so decisions get faster, safer, and sharper. Act I: The Couch Dilemma → The Hidden Criteria Play Alex walks through repla...

🎙️ Executive Series — Managing Up with AI Episode 9: From Two Pages to 100 Words (and Why Timing Beats Brevity) In this Executive Edition of Practical Prompting , Alex and his AI co-host, Practically Speaking , dig into one of the most overlooked leadership skills: managing up. Act I: We put a two-page update on the chopping block—distilling it into a high-impact, 100-word brief for a senior leade...

🎙️ From 0 to 30 Prompts a Day (Executive Edition) – feat. Promptly Speaking What happens when you go from never touching AI to using it 30 times a day? In this Executive Edition of Practical Prompting , we break it down step-by-step—without adding a single new chore to your calendar. Act I: We tackle a pain point every executive knows too well: being looped into a sprawling, weeks-old email chain...

Episode notes 🎙️ Guardrails & Governance – From Kitchen Table to Boardroom Why does “governance” sound scary when it’s really just handing your kid scissors — plus the rule “only at the kitchen table, blade down”? In this Executive Edition of Practical Prompting , host Alex Kalish shows how the same guardrails that protect family photos can save your company millions in breach fines. Act I: Ti...

🎙️ Half-Budget, Full Impact What if your ops budget was cut in half—today—but your KPIs stayed the same? In this Executive Edition of Practical Prompting , host Alex Kalish turns a high-pressure constraint into a strategy accelerator. Act I: Household Constraints, Executive Mindset What can GenAI do with 4 mouths to feed, $80, and a week of dinners? More than you'd think. Alex walks through how a...

Grab your coffee and your passport: this episode shows how GenAI can plan a multi-city European getaway and become the everyday co-pilot you didn’t know you needed. Act I: Vacation Wizardry Tabs everywhere, brain in overdrive? Alex demonstrates a repeatable prompt that turns loyalty-point juggling and must-see lists into a polished 10-day itinerary in seconds. Learn the simple role → task → constr...

Episode Description – “You Can Fix It” Grab your phone and your repair tools: this episode turns GenAI into both a pocket-size repair walkthrough and the uses at the workplace. Act I – The Litter-Robot Lifesaver: A pre-coffee catastrophe: the self-cleaning litter box is flashing red and stinking up the house. Instead of YouTube rabbit holes, Alex snaps one photo, feeds it to GenAI, and gets a thre...

Grab your phone and your curiosity: in this episode we turn everyday snapshots into AI-powered wins. Act I guides you through a photo-based household walkthrough from using GenAI to meal-plan from your fridge, untangle to-do list chaos, self-diagnose that leaking faucet, and more. Act II scales the magic with a repeatable individual 2-step ritual and a team-based 5-step ritual. It talks about a “o...

Episode 02 – “My First 90 Days with GenAI” Follow host Alex Kalish’s leap from curious AI tourist to daily power-user. Act I: turns GenAI into a pocket coach with mood-ring journaling, five-line reflections, CBT ladders, and future-you postcards that slash mental load . Act II: maps the exact four-phase ramp—from early fumbling to a workplace flywheel—serving up copy-and-paste prompts so you can s...

Everyone’s hunting for the perfect GenAI platform, an awesome Agent, some perfect tool. Meanwhile, opportunity is passing them by. In this debut episode, Alex dismantles the “perfect-tool” myth and shows how off-the-shelf apps like ChatGPT can slash hours off operational workflows today. You’ll hear a real-world story from the Pennsylvania government pilot that cut policy-drafting and HR classific...