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421 | Why Emotional Intelligence is Your Biggest AI Advantage | Tamara Laine
Tamara Laine — Emmy-winning investigative journalist turned fintech founder — joins Jeff Mains to unpack how she built Empower, the first policy-bound agentic infrastructure for lending. Tamara explains how she pivoted from chasing a "better credit score" to building an orchestration layer that helps banks underwrite the new economy (gig workers, creators, non-traditional borrowers) responsibly. The conversation covers why storytelling and grit from her journalism career still drive her as a founder, why tool overload is quietly killing SaaS stacks, how she built an all-star team while…
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