Successful Idiots | Using AI to Grow Your Business

Successful Idiots | Using AI to Grow Your Business

Hosted by Joe Downs and Peter Swain · Stories and Strategies

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51
Episodes
7
Transcribed
27
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2025
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About Successful Idiots | Using AI to Grow Your Business

Two operators, no gurus, one AI obsession. Joe Downs (self-storage entrepreneur) and Peter Swain (AI strategist who's worked with Apple, Microsoft, Google, and the BBC) are figuring out AI in real time — and showing Main Street business owners how to do the same. No hype, no jargon, no promises of overnight riches. Just practical, idiot-proof ways to use AI in your business, your job, and your actual life. Every episode delivers real prompts you can steal immediately, pulled from everyday problems: settling family debates, prepping for a raise, building a one-page business plan, planning a trip, decoding your company's unwritten rules. If it's useful and it works, it's fair game. We don't have all the answers. We're just successful idiots who made it work despite ourselves — and we'll show you how too. Got a question? Send it to idiots@successfulidiots.ai (mailto:idiots@successfulidiots.ai) — we might answer it on air in Dear Idiots.

Publisher
Stories and Strategies
Category
business · business · education
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
27 Nov 2025
Latest episode
8 Nov 2026
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7 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 8 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

    AI Sounds Human Now. Can You Tell the Difference?

  2. 1 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

    This AI Assistant REMEMBERS Everything You Won't

  3. 25 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    No More Excuses: AI Video Is Finally Ready

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AI Sounds Human Now. Can You Tell the Difference?

Published 8 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The AI perfectly match. And you're correct. It was the it was the order taker was the AI. But it perfectly matched the order maker. And I can't tell you. how on point that was for water ice. And even just the way the guy, the cadence of the way he was speaking, taking the orders. So Philly, it blew my mind. […]

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