Authentic and Agentic with Jayson Manship

Jayson Manship talks with Brady Whitesel, a fractional CFO and former CEO, about how artificial intelligence is reshaping financial planning, accounting and decision-making for founders. The conversation explores the difference between bookkeeping and forward-looking financial modeling, why AI is a productivity multiplier rather than a replacement for CFO judgment, and how leaders should balance s...

Host Jayson Manship is joined by Kevin and Liz Schmidt to discuss how artificial intelligence is changing real work for developers, creators and small businesses. The conversation explores their move from Silicon Valley to Indiana, how AI is improving productivity without replacing people, and why community and communication matter as technology accelerates. Topics include AI in software developme...

Spokenote founder and CEO, John Wechsler joins us for a conversation about how Spokenote is using AI to help them create personalized video that can be customized at scale while preserving a sense of authenticity. We'll discuss the future of AI and how we might retain our humanity in a world that continues to be transformed by Artificial Intelligence.

In this episode, Authentic & Agentic Podcast Host Jayson Manship sits down with Brian McGinnis, an intellectual property attorney at Barnes & Thornburg, to unpack the legal chaos surrounding artificial intelligence. They discuss what’s settled, what’s uncertain, and what professionals actually need to know right now. Some of the discussion: The Perplexity vs. New York Times lawsuit and why it matt...

Jayson Manship opens this episode of Authentic and Agent on the IBJ Media Network with his top AI headlines, including what he describes as Disney investing in OpenAI and a deal where “Disney characters and worlds are coming to Sora” inside a “licensed, controlled creative environment,” with Disney still governing approvals and use. He also highlights a new global survey from Teneo that he says sh...

In this episode of Authentic and Agent, host Jayson Manship covers the week’s top AI news. Apple makes a surprise leadership change in its AI group, Microsoft positions Copilot as a platform across Windows, Office, Azure, Teams, and security tools, and the New York Times files a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI. Jayson also breaks down key findings from McKinsey’s State of AI report on agenti...

Host Jayson Manship opens this episode of the Authentic and Agentic podcast with a look at how AI is already reshaping holiday shopping, from AI powered product discovery during Black Friday and Cyber Monday to the way his own company, Moonshot Games, used dynamic pricing, predictive inventory and a stronger product mix to beat last year’s results. He also talks about early signs of ads inside the...

In the debut episode of Authentic and Agentic, IBJ Media President Mitch Frazier sits down with host Jayson Manship to introduce the new weekly podcast and explain why now is the moment for a clear, human-centered conversation about artificial intelligence. Jayson shares his journey from an entrepreneurial student at Ball State to the founder of several Indiana companies, his early adoption of AI...

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