by Ave Annuk and Karin Nemec
🎙️ Girls Who Prompt is a podcast where technology, creativity and new ideas meet. Hosted by Karin, a startup-founder, and Ave, a startup marketeer and storyteller, we explore how AI fits into daily life and work. Expect real stories, wins and fails, myths busted, and guests from different fields. No coding required just curious chats and practical tips to help you use AI for the boring stuff, the creative stuff, and everything in between.
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July 9, 2026
<p><strong>Marko Rillo opens every MBA strategy course the same way: he asks four AI models to write a full company strategy, live, in 10 minutes. Then he tells his students the course is over. It never is.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of <strong>Girls Who Prompt</strong>, Karin and Ave sit down with <strong>Marko Rillo</strong> — strategist, Head of the MBA Programme at Estonian Business School, LEGO Serious Play facilitator, and co-founder of EdTech app Helge — who, after a doctorate from St. Gallen and a consulting career across 17 countries, went back to university to do a bachelor's in software development. Just to understand what's actually under the hood.</p><p>This episode is less about AI tools and more about self-regulation — knowing which work you delegate, and which work is the thinking you can't afford to hand over.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The classroom experiment: four AI models, one volunteer, a complete strategy in 10 minutes — and why that's where the real course begins, not ends</p></li><li><p>"Learning software development is learning thinking" — Marko's gym logic for what you should never delegate to AI</p></li><li><p>The moving bottleneck: ideas are free now, execution wins — and human attention is next in line (hello, consumerism 3.0)</p></li><li><p>Organizations turning into "post boxes": bosses sending 20 AI-generated pages, employees replying with AI, productivity quietly dying in between</p></li><li><p>The real price of the AI party — burning investor money, plan B with local models, and why Karen Hao's Empire of AI is on Marko's reading list</p></li><li><p>Why LEGO Serious Play is the exact opposite of AI: 100% presence, no multitasking, nowhere to hide</p></li></ul><p>PS: You'll also hear the moment Marko almost asked AI to run a race for him — and which AI tool is actually his daily go-to (hint: it's not ChatGPT) 😉</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Meet the guest:</strong> </p><p>• <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markorillo/"><strong>Marko Rillo</strong></a> — Senior Lecturer & Head of MBA, <a href="https://www.ebs.ee/en/contacts/marko-rillo"><u>Estonian Business School</u></a> · Co-Founder, <a href="https://helge.app/"><u>Helge</u></a></p><p><strong>Meet the hosts:</strong> </p><p>• <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-nemec-246ba8/"><strong>Karin Nemec</strong></a>, the finance brain and founder exploring the fine line between human emotion and machine response. </p><p>• <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ave-annuk/"><strong>Ave Annuk</strong></a>, marketer and experimenter wondering what happens when AI stops being just a tool and starts acting like a companion.</p><p><strong>Meet the team:</strong> 🎵 Post-production, editing & music by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-roy-5b3b99202/"><strong>Vincent Roy</strong></a> — audio expert, sound designer and composer.</p><p>📧 Write us: <a href="mailto:girlswhopromptpodcast@gmail.com"><u>girlswhopromptpodcast@gmail.com</u></a> 💬 Join the discussion and suggest guests in our <a href="https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbArAwJLY6d3zcwssr08"><u>WhatsApp channel</u></a><br></p>
June 29, 2026
<p><strong>What if the smartest AI strategy right now is simply to wait?</strong></p><p>In this episode of <strong>Girls Who Prompt</strong>, Karin and Ave sit down with <strong>Kalev Kaarna</strong> - scientist, entrepreneur, sales detective, and one of Estonia's most curious minds on the frontier of quantum computing - to talk about why he's deliberately slow on AI, what qubits actually are, and why trust might be the most valuable thing the digital age is quietly burning through.</p><p>This episode is less about quantum computing and more about how a deeply contrarian, book-quoting optimist navigates a world that moves faster than trust can be rebuilt.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The "second mover advantage" — Kalev's case for why rushing to adopt every AI tool is just procrastination in disguise</p></li><li><p>Quantum computing from zero: qubits, superposition, and why it won't replace your laptop (but will change everything else)</p></li><li><p>How AI is eroding societal trust at speed — and why Kalev thinks that's the real crisis nobody's talking about loudly enough</p></li><li><p>Failing "successfully" — two failed startups, one very specific lesson, and why he still leads with the failure part</p></li><li><p>Luck vs. fortune: the Tina Selig book he just finished, the ship metaphor that stuck, and why luck doesn't sail solo</p></li><li><p>What happens when a living library meets Claude — Kalev's very practical, very unhurried AI setup</p></li></ul><p>PS: You'll also hear Kalev explain quantum computing so clearly that even Ave understood it. 😉</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Meet the guest:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalevkaarna/"><strong>Kalev Kaarna</strong></a> — Sales Detective & Head of R&D Sales at <a href="https://www.metrosert.ee/"><u>MetroCert</u></a>, Investigator at CDL Estonia</p></li></ul><p><strong>Meet the hosts:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-nemec-246ba8/"><strong>Karin Nemec</strong></a>, the finance brain and founder exploring the fine line between human emotion and machine response.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ave-annuk/"><strong>Ave Annuk</strong></a>, marketer and experimenter wondering what happens when AI stops being just a tool and starts acting like a companion.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Meet the team:</strong> 🎵 Post-production, editing & music by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-roy-5b3b99202/"><strong>Vincent Roy</strong></a> — audio expert, sound designer and composer.</p><p>📧 Write us: girlswhopromptpodcast@gmail.com 💬 Join the discussion and suggest guests in our <a href="https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbArAwJLY6d3zcwssr08"><u>WhatsApp channel</u></a></p><p><br></p>
June 17, 2026
<p><strong>The market is up. AI is everywhere. And everyone's either panicking or trying to sell you something. What if the smarter move is just... to step back?</strong></p><p>No guest this week — just Ave and Karin, back in the online studio, sitting down to compare notes on AI fatigue, investment strategy, the casino economy, China's robot taxis, and why your LinkedIn feed is probably 70% AI-generated noise.</p><p>This episode is less about AI hype and more about staying sane — and solvent — while the world rewires itself around us.</p><p><strong>In this episode we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>Why sustainable investing quietly outperformed the hype cycle (clean energy +40% YTD — and almost nobody's talking about it)</li><li>The "casino economy" — why Gen Z is betting on sports instead of building wealth, and what Karin would tell her own kids</li><li>Will AI actually kill jobs? Karin makes the historical case for calm; Ave is... conflicted</li><li>The loneliness problem nobody wants to talk about — and why it might be a bigger threat than unemployment</li><li>ChatGPT just launched ads. Ave is not thrilled. Karin would have priced tokens instead.</li><li>China has 33,000 autonomous vehicles on the road. Europe has thoughts.</li></ul><p>And as always — Ave set up Claude Code. Lovable loyalists, consider yourselves warned. 😄</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Meet the hosts:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-nemec-246ba8/"><strong>Karin Nemec</strong></a>, the finance brain and founder exploring the fine line between human emotion and machine response.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ave-annuk/"><strong>Ave Annuk</strong></a>, marketer and experimenter wondering what happens when AI stops being just a tool and starts acting like a companion.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Meet the team: </strong></p><p>🎵 Post-production, editing & music by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-roy-5b3b99202/"><strong>Vincent Roy</strong></a><strong> - </strong>audio expert, sound designer and composer.</p><p>📧 Write us: <a href="mailto:girlswhopromptpodcast@gmail.com"><u>girlswhopromptpodcast@gmail.com</u></a></p><p>💬 Join the discussion and suggest guests in our <a href="https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbArAwJLY6d3zcwssr08"><u>WhatsApp channel</u></a>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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🎙️ Girls Who Prompt is a podcast where technology, creativity and new ideas meet.
Hosted by Karin, a startup-founder, and Ave, a startup marketeer and storyteller, we explore how AI fits into daily life and work.
Expect real stories, wins and fails, myths busted, and guests from different fields. No coding required just curious chats and practical tips to help you use AI for the boring stuff, the creative stuff, and everything in between.
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