What does it mean to stay human in a world increasingly run by AI?
In this episode, Nina sits down with Patrice Poltzer — Gracie Award–winning former TODAY Show producer and co-founder of My Story Pro — about the everyday griefs and shifts of our era: the loss of certainty, the erosion of critical thinking, and the disappearing line between who we are and the tools we rely on.
Patrice shares how a cross-continental move from New York to Lisbon, a vanished family income, and a launch that flopped led her to "accidentally" build an AI storytelling company. But this isn't just a hustle story. It's a conversation about agency. Why our active participation in building the future is required, especially for women and people from historically excluded communities.
In this episode, we explore:
- How loss and uncertainty can become the ground for reinvention
- Why "being more human" is the most valuable skill in the AI era
- The trust crisis, and why storytelling is the only marketing that neurologically changes a stranger's mind
- Whether outsourcing our thinking to AI is dulling the very traits that make us human
- How grievers, living in liminality, can use their lived experience to define what's next
- Practical, low-fear entry points for women curious about AI
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This is a both/and conversation; the and of fear and agency, grief and possibility, technology and humanity.
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