The Nick Standlea Show

AI tools are powerful. But do they actually know your company? Rick Nucci, CEO of Guru and founder of Boomi, joins The Nick Standlea Show to explain why AI inside companies is much harder than personal productivity with ChatGPT. The models may be capable, but they don’t automatically understand your team, your products, your customers, your pricing, your processes, or the way your company actually...

What happens when AI becomes so good that we can no longer tell what is real? In this episode of The NickStandlea Show, Nick sits down with Steve Rosenbaum to talk about AI, misinformation, fake video, social media, education, creativity, and the future of truth. Steve argues that AI is not simply another new technology. It is a force that may change how we understand reality itself. From deepfake...

Detective Julia Bowman was one of the investigators who helped expose John Meehan — the man the world would come to know as Dirty John. In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, Julia walks through the real case behind the headlines: how John Meehan manipulated, stalked, threatened, and terrorized the people around him, and how law enforcement began putting the pieces together before the story be...

What happens if the companies racing to build superintelligence succeed before anyone knows how to control it? In this episode, Nick sits down with Malo Bourgon, CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, to discuss why today’s chatbots are only a stepping stone, why leading AI companies are racing toward systems that could automate AI research itself, and why “letting it rip” may not be...

Most people think they understand how they work. They don’t. In this episode, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, explains what actually happens when you connect AI to your tools, your data, and your workflow. It doesn’t just help. It sees things you don’t. From analyzing your work to automating entire systems, AI is becoming something closer to a second brain—one that can understand your b...

Google is no longer the only place people look. So how do we show up in AI searches? In this episode, Nick sits down with marketing strategist Ross Simmonds to break down what businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs need to understand as discovery shifts from traditional search to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Reddit, YouTube, and beyond. They get into query fan-out, why LLMs pull from multiple pla...

If you think AI in medicine is still some far-off future, it’s not. Dr. Peter Weir is a family physician and health system leader, and in this conversation, he explains how AI is already changing what happens in the exam room. We get into ambient AI for medical documentation, how these tools may reduce physician burnout, where AI is already helping with clinical decision-making, and why the future...

If you’ve ever been told “just post every day and you’ll eventually blow up”… T.D. Orel is living proof that advice can be wildly wrong. T.D. spent 14 months posting daily with basically nothing to show for it—then he made one shift, leaned hard into niche, specific, “if you know, you know” content, and his accounts exploded. In this episode, we break down: Why posting every day didn’t work (and w...

Most “business advice” on AI is noise. But if you’re building an AI-powered service, consulting business, or agency, the real bottleneck isn’t the tech... It’s positioning, pricing, and selling outcomes. Alan Weiss—author of *7-Figure Consulting* and the guy who’s been teaching value-based fees for decades—joins me to lay down the fundamentals that actually compound in an AI economy: how to stop s...

AI is changing school, college admissions, and the workforce faster than most parents and students realize. In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Kiick (CEO of Revolution Prep) to talk about the skills that won’t get automated, and how to use AI without becoming dependent on it. We get into the real danger of offloading thinking, why the most powerful way to use AI is to generate better questions...

In this conversation with philosopher Dr. Philip Goff, we dive into one of the deepest questions in science and philosophy: what if consciousness isn’t produced by the brain—what if it’s fundamental to reality? We explore panpsychism, the “hard-to-ignore” problem of subjective experience, why physics may describe what matter does but not what it is, and what it would mean if even the smallest buil...

Fear of other people’s opinions quietly shapes how we perform, how we speak, and who we allow ourselves to become. In this conversation, Michael Gervais—performance psychologist to Super Bowl champions, Olympic gold medalists, and Fortune 50 leaders—breaks down why the fear of judgment is one of the greatest limiters of human potential. We explore why winning and losing can become distractions, ho...

Most people use AI like a faster assistant. Leaders use it differently. In this conversation, Geoff Woods (author of The AI-Driven Leader) explains the shift that turns AI from a shallow productivity tool into a true thought partner—one that helps you think better, make better decisions, and unlock leverage you didn’t have before. We go deep into: *Why “better prompts” aren’t the real breakthrough...

If anyone builds it, everyone dies. That’s the claim Nate Soares makes in his new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All—and in this conversation, he lays out why he thinks we’re on a collision course with a successor species. We dig into why today’s AIs are grown, not programmed, why no one really knows what’s going on inside large models, and how systems tha...

Professor Christopher Summerfield, a leading neuroscientist at Oxford University and Research Director at the UK AI Safety Institute, former Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, discusses his new book, These Strange New Minds, which explores how large language models learned to talk, how they differ from the human brain, and what their rise means for control, agency, and the future of wor...

Sam Altman told him that 95% of marketing as we know it will be done by AI within 3–5 years. That single sentence became the “holy smokes moment” that shaped the entire book AI First, written by this week’s guest, Andy Sack (co-author Adam Brotman) — a technologist who has built companies across four tech eras: internet, mobile, social/cloud, and now AI. Andy is the co-founder of Forum3, a VC inve...

Are we getting smarter with AI—or just forgetting how to think for ourselves?  In this episode, Nick answers your top questions about artificial intelligence, education, and what it means to stay human in an automated world. Today’s Big Questions: 1️⃣ Is AI making us dumber? 2️⃣ Will AI replace teachers — or finally make education fair for everyone? 3️⃣ What happens when machines outthink us??? Ni...

Most people train their bodies. The best train their minds. NFL and NBA psychologist Dr. Alex Auerbach joins Nick Standlea to reveal how elite performers stay calm under pressure, turn nerves into fuel, and master stress instead of fighting it. Whether you’re an athlete, founder, or coach, this conversation will change the way you think about focus, resilience, and performance. 🎯 What You’ll Lear...

Dr. Michael Osterholm — the world’s leading infectious disease expert and author of The Big One — joins Nick Standlea for a sobering but hopeful conversation about the next global pandemic. Osterholm advised every U.S. president since Reagan and predicted the scale of the pandemic long before it unfolded. In this episode, he explains why “the pandemic clock is ticking again,” how we could prevent...

What if the biggest threat of artificial intelligence isn’t the technology itself—but who owns it? In this wide-ranging conversation, economist Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan and University of New South Wales) joins Nick Standlea to unpack how AI is reshaping labor, wages, education, and even democracy. Wolfers explains why AI is a cognitive revolution that could mirror the Industrial Revo...

What if the real edge in the age of AI isn’t data or code—but emotional intelligence? Therapist & coach Hannah Lord joins me to explore why the “humanistic element” still matters, how to build mental fitness like a gym routine, and the dance between masculine and feminine energy that shapes our relationships, teams, and leadership. We cover: *Why AI can give tools—but not true attunement or de...

Artificial intelligence won’t just change jobs — it could rewrite the balance of global power. Professor Jeffrey Sachs has been in the room where the world’s most consequential decisions get made. For four decades, he’s advised more than 100 governments, from Poland’s transition out of communism to the United Nations’ fight against poverty and disease. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most i...

What happens when one of the most influential thinkers in modern education meets the disruptive force of artificial intelligence? In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, Nick sits down with Howard Gardner, a Harvard professor and creator of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, to explore how AI is reshaping schools, learning, and our understanding of human potential. Gardner shares his candid...

What happens when you earn a perfect SAT score, write a book that gets rejected by 100 publishers, and then turn that failure into a multimillion-dollar company—with help from Mark Cuban? In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, I sit down with Dr. Shaan Patel—dermatologist, entrepreneur, author, and Shark Tank success story. We dive into how he bootstrapped a test prep empire, landed a deal wit...

What if better sleep isn’t just about rest—but about unlocking peak mental clarity, emotional stability, and long-term health? In this episode, Dr. Paul Rohdenburg returns to @TheNickStandleaShow to unpack the real science of sleep. From memory and mood to metabolism and fertility, we explore why sleep isn’t just a luxury—it’s the foundation for high performance and healthy aging.   🔍 You’ll lear...