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What Happens to You After You Die Online? with Niki Weiss, Digital Thanatologist
Digital Thanatologist Niki Weiss on what happens to your identity, data, and AI presence after you die, and how to plan your digital legacy before it is too late.
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Sales & The Polite No: What Buyers Really Think of Localization Sales, with Wada’a Fahel
A localization buyer who spent two decades at Xerox, Harley-Davidson, and Zendesk reveals what clients really think of vendor sales tactics, and what actually earns a yes.
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He Turned $25K Into $1.9M, Lost It, Then Built AI That Protects Your Data | Yagub Rahimov
Yagub Rahimov, Founder and CEO of Polygraf AI, shares his journey from a $1.9 million trading collapse to building small, local AI models that protect enterprises from data leaks and deepfakes.
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Bots Writing Resumes, Bots Screening Them: A DoorDash & OpenTable VP on What Hiring Looks Like Now
Kate Crane went from an art history degree and a 2008 layoff to scaling DoorDash’s B2B business from $9M to $500M+. Now a career coach, she joins Robin to unpack “bot to bot” hiring and what it takes to get noticed when AI screens your resume.
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She Found Localization by Complete Accident. Now She’s Connecting 600 Cities Worldwide.
Yuka Nakasone never planned to work in localization. A chance job posting in Boston in the 1990s changed the course of her career, and decades later she is helping connect 600 cities worldwide through Global Chamber.
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Why Most Brands Are Invisible to ChatGPT (And How to Fix It) | Chris Raulf | Ep. 232
AI SEO expert Chris Raulf breaks down Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — how ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews decide what to cite, and what brands and localization companies need to do now to stay visible.
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The AI Mastermind Effect: Why Multi-Agent AI Changes Everything | Damini Delisle
Damini Delisle, Chief Executioner at Bloomstack, joins Robin Ayoub to unpack the AI Mastermind Effect — what happens when multiple AI agents cross-check each other for verified results, and why human-first AI is the only sustainable path forward.
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How to Live Anywhere, Own Everything, and Pay Less Tax — Legally | Bobby Casey | Ep. 229
Learn how to legally reduce your taxes, protect your assets, and build a borderless business with insights from international tax strategist Bobby Casey on the Localization Fireside Chat.
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Your Defensible Zone: How to Stay Valuable When AI Is Rewriting the Rules | Dilip Chetan | Ep. 228
Dilip Chetan of Recursio Lab joins Robin Ayoub on the Localization Fireside Chat to unpack the Defensible Zone framework and how professionals can stay valuable as AI reshapes the world of work.
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From Tools to Transformation: How a CPA Rebuilt His Practice with AI | Peter McCarroll
What does real AI transformation look like inside a working accounting practice? Peter McCarroll, CA, CPA and founder of The AI Accountant, gives Robin Ayoub a practitioner-honest answer with no corporate hedging.
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From Crisis to Comeback: The Fixer Who Became the Patient | Trè Anne Bartlett | LFC #226
Trè Anne Bartlett spent her career as the expert in other people’s crises. Then a 5% survival prognosis turned the fixer into the patient. In Episode 226 of the Localization Fireside Chat she defines psychological capital and tells leaders what to protect first when life do
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The AI That Outperformed the Doctor | Kirsten Karchmer on Fertility, Women’s Health and What Nobody Is Telling Us | Ep. 224
Kirsten Karchmer spent 20 years helping 10,000+ women with fertility before building an AI that outperformed her own clinical results. Robin Ayoub unpacks the fertility crisis, women’s health, and what nobody is telling us. LFC Episode 224.
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The Story of CLIA: 24 Years of Collaboration, Impact & Growth | Kim Pines, Lola Bendana, Maryse Benhoff, André Palaguine, Paul Penzo, Peter Madahian
Six CLIA founding members join Robin Ayoub to answer the question nobody wants to ask out loud: will Canada’s language industry association dissolve or evolve? This is the 24-year story nobody has told in full.
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The Google Translate Journey: From Statistical to Neural to LLM | Macduff Hughes | Ep. 223
Macduff Hughes led Google Translate through two complete technology revolutions — statistical to neural in 2016, and into the LLM era before retiring in 2024. Here is what it looked like from inside the room.
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70% of Leaders Are Making Their Companies Worse. | Dr. Kelly Monahan | Ep. 222
Dr. Kelly Monahan’s research shows 70% of leaders are leaving their organizations worse than they found them. Here’s what the data says — and what to do about it.
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Why Your AI Tools Keep Failing — And the Fix Is Simpler Than You Think | Marvin Martinez, Bandsaw AI | LFC EP. 221
Marvin Martinez of Bandsaw AI explains why most AI implementations fail, the real difference between tools, workflows, and agents, and how service businesses can start automating today.
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AI in Sales: Why You’re Measuring the Wrong Things | Jack Siney | Ep. 220
AI in Sales: Why You’re Measuring the Wrong Things | Jack Siney | Ep. 221 Leadership, Podcast, Personal Development AI in sales, sales leadership, revenue operations, FrontRace, Jack Siney, CRM data, data normalization, sales KPIs, AI ROI, sales forecasting, pipeline manage
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Building the Infrastructure for ASI | Ganesh Krishnan | Ep. 219
Ganesh Krishnan, Founder of AiHello and HalZero.ai, joins Robin Ayoub to discuss building hallucination-free AI infrastructure, managing $1B in Amazon ad revenue, and what it really means to build the foundation for Artificial Super Intelligence.
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He Ran City IT. Now He Builds the Software That Runs Cities. | Tom Amburgey, Euna Solutions
Tom Amburgey, CEO of Euna Solutions, shares how his years as a government CIO shaped the way he builds software for 3,600 public sector organizations across North America and how AI is finally fixing the broken RFP problem.
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The Future of Business Is Localization. Why AI Alone Won’t Save Your Global Content
Simon Hodgkins, CMO of Vistatec, joins Robin Ayoub to break down where AI actually works in global content operations, what responsible AI looks like in regulated industries, and why the future of business is localization.
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Your AI Pilot Worked. Now What? Why Enterprise AI Dies Before Production
Most organizations have done an AI pilot. Few have something running in production. Omid Pakseresht of GOODFOLIO joins Robin Ayoub to break down why enterprise AI keeps failing before it reaches the real world.
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AI Won’t Rank You. It Will Retrieve You. Or Ignore You. | Gaetano Romeo | Ep. 215
Gaetano Romeo, Head of Global Digital Marketing at EasyVista and OTRS Group, joins Robin Ayoub to unpack the shift from content marketing to evidence engineering and what it means for SEO, multilingual strategy, and the language industry.
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Why 85% of Your Customers Won’t Buy From Your Website | Christina Spaulding | Manzanita Marketing
Christina Spaulding of Manzanita Marketing joins Robin Ayoub to reveal why 85% of buyers prefer to purchase in their first language and what businesses can do right now to capture that global revenue opportunity.
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The Pitch Deck Is Dead. An 18-Year-Old Has the Proof. | Elie Bouzaglou | Ep. 213
At 18, Elie Bouzaglou left school, got rejected by every crowdfunding platform, and built FishTank, a platform reimagining how founders raise capital through short-form video, AI-backed vetting, and radical public transparency.
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81% of Buyers Already Chose Before Your First Call — Braydan Young, SlashExperts
Braydan Young, co-founder of Sendoso and CEO of SlashExperts, joins Robin Ayoub to reveal why 81% of B2B buyers choose a vendor before the first sales call, and how peer validation changes everything.
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Your Cloud Vendor Might Be Your Biggest Risk | Murphy John, StorX Network
What if your cloud vendor is your biggest data risk? Murphy John of StorX Network joins Robin Ayoub on the Localization Fireside Chat to explore decentralized storage, DePIN, and data sovereignty for global enterprises.
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Most Companies Go Global. Very Few Are Built For It. | Talia Baruch | GlobalSaké & LocLearn | LFC Ep. 210
Talia Baruch of GlobalSaké and LocLearn joins Robin Ayoub to recap the sold-out GlobalSaké 2026 event at Adobe HQ in San Francisco and unpack the new LocLearn course on AI-powered geo-culturalization of visual assets.
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Are You Hiring in Ontario? Navigating Bill 149 with Julie Alleyn
Julie Alleyn of Pegasus Evolution joins Robin Ayoub to break down Bill 149, fractional HR for Canadian SMEs, Conversational Intelligence, and what Ontario employers must do right now.
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You Have 3 Beneficiaries: CRA, Family & Charity. You Only Pick Two. | Mark Halpern | Ep. 208
Mark Halpern, CEO of WEALTHinsurance.com, reveals how Canadian founders and families can redirect tax dollars into lasting charitable legacies. A conversation about money, purpose, and what you leave behind.
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From Near-Death to Emotional Operating System: Thayne Martin on Healing Trauma and Installing EQ in Organizations
Thayne Martin healed bipolar 1, DID, and PTSD without medication and built the ELAH eqOS, an emotional operating system installed through experiential neuroscience. Here is what he taught Robin Ayoub about upgrading human performance in organizations.