Using AI as your Voice Assistant with Yasmeen Hyder

In this episode, Jack Cochran sits down with Yasmeen Hyder, an enterprise solutions consulting leader from Atlanta, to explore a game-changing approach to working with AI: speaking to it instead of typing. Yasmeen shares how she uses voice-based AI interactions as a thought companion and coaching tool to enhance decision-making, reduce mental load, and work more efficiently in her presales leadership role.

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• Connect with Jack Cochran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackcochran/ 

• Connect with Yasmeen Hyder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasmeenhyder/ 

Links and Resources Mentioned

• Join Presales Collective Slack: https://www.presalescollective.com/slack 

• Sol/Con 2026 (Chicago, August 2026): https://www.presalescollective.com/solcon-2026 

• Presales Collective Podcast: https://www.presalescollective.com/podcast 

Key Topics Covered

1. Voice AI vs. Typing: Why Speaking Creates Higher Bandwidth Communication

2. AI as Thought Companion Rather Than Answer Engine

3. Yasmeen's Career Journey: Healthcare to Pharma to Tech Presales

4. Overcoming the Behavioral Change of Talking to Your Computer

5. Stress Testing Leadership Decisions with Voice AI

6. Using AI as a Coach: Asking for Questions Instead of Answers

7. Time Compression Benefits: 60-90 Minutes Down to 15-20 Minutes

8. Addressing Zoom Fatigue: Voice AI as Reset and Grounding Tool

9. Negative Prompting Technique for Better Outputs

10. Personal and Professional Applications Beyond Work

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

02:45 Welcome Yas

05:45 Why talking to AI

08:02 Setup and behavioral change

10:57 Writing vs. speaking

15:27 Rubber ducky but better

16:28 Stress testing leadership decisions

20:46 Using AI as a coach

22:36 Addressing Zoom fatigue

26:00 Personal life applications

30:19 Closing and contact information