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Zero to AI
From Zero to AI: my honest journey of mid-career reinvention — sharing the wins, losses, and lessons so you can shape your own path.
The world has changed, and so has the economy. For many of us, the “safe” career paths no longer feel safe. After nearly two decades running a digital agency and years as a senior business analyst, I realised experience and education weren’t enough to guarantee stability. Zero to AI is my way of sharing the messy but real story of what it takes to reinvent…
Episodes
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Season 3, Episode 8: Skills, Plugins and Agents: Building Capability You Can Deploy
Moving past solo prompting means building a capability once and making it accessible across your entire team. In this episode of Zero to AI, Steve Wilson…
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Zero to AI, Season 3, Ep 7: User Management and Organisational Control
A plain-language guide for managers who oversee AI tools without running the administrative console. Steve Wilson explains how user accounts, groups, and…
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Zero to AI, Season 3, Ep6: Where Does Your Data Go?
When your team pastes operational text into an AI tool, where does that information actually travel? Steve Wilson breaks down the real path of an enterprise…
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Zero to AI: Season 3, Episode 5: Who Can See What: The Access Conversation
The moment AI can read across your organisation's files, the question is no longer what it can do. It is what it should be allowed to see. In this episode…
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Zero to AI, Season 3 Episode 4: Shared Workflows in Practice: Making Team AI Repeatable
Individual AI habits save time for one person, but shared team AI workflows make capability reliable across an entire group. In this episode, Steve Wilson…
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Season 3 Episode 3: Copilot, Claude Teams or ChatGPT: Choosing for a Team
Picking an AI tool for yourself comes down to personal habits. Choosing software for thirty colleagues involves data boundaries, user administration, and…
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Season 3 Episode 2: The Microsoft Copilot Landscape, Honestly
Most organisations paying for Microsoft 365 Copilot could not tell you what it actually does well. We deliver an honest, practical read on the Microsoft…
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Season 3, Ep 1: When AI Stops Being Personal
We open Season 3 of Zero to AI by explaining what embedding AI across a team actually involves. Discover how to move past private prompt shortcuts, master the…
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Season 2 Episode 24: AI Agents Are Not Coming. They Are Here.
AI tools have moved beyond simple text responses to multi-step agents that execute actual work across software systems. Steve Wilson breaks down how to…
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Season 2 Episode 23: Building AI Tools for Your Team, Not Just Yourself
Moving from personal AI shortcuts to shared team tools turns individual productivity into visible organisational capability. In this episode, Steve Wilson…
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Season 2 Episode 22: From Idea to Shipped Product in a Weekend
Experienced professionals can now build and deploy working software over a weekend. We break down the five architecture decisions and practical build steps…
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Season 2 Ep 21: Claude Code and Cursor: Choosing Your AI Coding Tool
Non-developers are now building working tools with AI coding assistants. But should you use a terminal-based agent like Claude Code or a visual editor like…
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Zero to AI - Season 2: Episode 19 — Sensible Reduction
Podbean episode description: Many professionals rush to automate tasks without checking if they add real value. In this episode, we break down the sensible…
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Zero to AI - Season 2 Episode 20: The Non-Developer Developer
Moving from prompt writing to software creation is the defining shift for mid-career professionals. Steve Wilson explains how a non-developer developer builds…
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Zero to AI - Season 2 Episode 18: The Internal Pitch
Many experienced professionals use generative AI in private to save hours, but keeping these workflows hidden limits your career visibility. In this episode…
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Zero to AI, Season 2, Episode 17 — Build Your AI Doppelganger
Shift from chaotic manual prompts to structured tool configuration. This episode details how to build a locked, custom assistant (Claude Project or Custom GPT)…
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Zero to AI - Ep 16: Solve Someone Else’s Problem
Transitioning from an isolated tool user to a recognised capability leader requires external workflow validation. This episode provides the four-stage…
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Zero to AI Episode 15: Document Your AI Stack (And Make It Shareable)
This week, you're turning those habits into a documented system. Not because you need to change what you're doing, but because you need to be able to explain…
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Zero to AI Episode 14: The Efficiency Audit
Last week, you built something impressive. Your signature AI-assisted project. Something portfolio-worthy that you can actually show people This week you're…
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Zero to AI Week 13: Your Signature AI-Assisted Project
This week, you’re creating your signature AI-assisted project. Something portfolio-worthy. Something you can show people. Something that makes them say, “Wait…
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Zero to AI: Week 13 - 24 Overview. Your Next 12 weeks
We're taking everything you learned in the first twelve weeks and we're turning it into proof. Evidence. Portfolio pieces. Testimonials. Results that other…
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Zero to AI - Episode 12: Reflections and Your Ninety Day Plan
This podcast focuses on looking back, noticing the shifts, capturing the insights, and building a simple, realistic ninety day plan that keeps your momentum…
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Zero to AI Episode 11: Designing AI Personas and Panels
This week, we are levelling up your assistant game. You are going to learn how to design AI personas, and then how to put them together into a collaborative AI…
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Zero to AI, Episode 10. Creating Your Own AI Assistant.
You are going to start creating your own AI assistant. Not some fluffy digital twin that lives in a slide deck. A simple, useful assistant that helps with real…
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Zero to AI, Episode 9: AI Powered Dashboards for Free
Today we are digging into the Zero to AI Toolkit. This is the collection of prompts, templates, and simple frameworks that can cut your learning curve in half…
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Zero to AI Episode 8: The Zero to AI Toolkit
Today we are digging into the Zero to AI Toolkit. This is the collection of prompts, templates, and simple frameworks that can cut your learning curve in half…
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Zero to AI Episode 7: The Human Side of AI Workflows
We talk a lot on this show about tools. But today, we are talking about what sits underneath the tools. Today we are tackling the quiet crisis of the modern…
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Zero to AI Episode 6: Building Resilience Through AI
Underneath all the shiny AI tools and clever prompts, there is one question that keeps coming up for people in mid career: How do I stabilise my income How do…
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Zero to AI, Episode 5: Your Prompt Generator: One Front Door to Consistent AI Outputs
Today we’re building something you’ll use every day: a prompt generator that routes your requests to the right expert, keeps everything on-brand, and gives you…
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Zero to AI — Episode 4: Why You Don’t Need to Code
Today is deliberately practical. First, the Six-Step Framework I use daily. Then three copy-and-paste playbooks you can ship this week (each with two build…
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Zero to AI Episode 3 - Automated Lead Generators
Today’s story comes straight out of my own consultancy, Changeable. It’s about something we quietly built that completely changed how we handle new enquiries…
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How I use AI not to think for me, but perform with me (Strategist vs the Performer)
This is week two in our year journey of AI transformation and reinvention. Today, I want to talk about a video that absolutely changed how I think about work —…
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Zero to AI Episode 2: From Certificates to Shipped Work
This isn’t a dig at courses. I still think they’re important. But at some point, I realised: knowledge wasn’t the missing piece. Transfer was. I needed a way…
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Bonus Episode: What My Dad Taught Me About Worry, Life, and Business
It’s been six years since my dad passed away, and not a day goes by that I don’t think about him. He wasn’t just my father — he was my best friend, my quiet…
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Zero to AI, Episode 1: The Journey Begins
Today’s episode is about the pivot. Not just changing jobs, but reshaping a life. If you’re mid-career, juggling family, and wondering if you can actually do…