Ep 50 - The Human Algorithm: Leading with Authenticity in an AI World w/ Judi Fox

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What if your loudest growth came from fewer, truer signals? That’s the through-line of our conversation with LinkedIn strategist Judy Fox, who rebuilt after a 2023 house fire and turned AI into a clarity engine rather than a content factory. She shares the first move that changed everything: using AI to write code, scrape 500+ client forms, and triage demand in hours. From there, collaboration unlocked more: co-prompting with Andrea Goulet revealed better questions, faster answers, and a smarter business model anchored in outcome-based offers and measurable milestones.
We dig into how to scale trust, not just traffic. Judy walks through her psychology-first playbook — including the IKEA effect — to craft posts that invite audiences to build alongside you, transforming passive viewers into invested participants. She explains how to use AI to analyze patterns across clients, extract common denominators, and repurpose real conversations into high-performing content without drifting into AI slop. The rule: source from actual words and experiences, then let AI polish; never let AI iterate on AI until meaning blurs.
Overwhelm is real, and Judy’s counterintuitive solution is constraint. Forced limitations — from crisis to a broken arm — clarified priorities and accelerated systems. You can simulate that: brain-dump a transcript, ask AI for one decisive next step, and time-box experiments. Use AI like a mirror with filters: “Think like a B2B CMO” or “act as a customer researcher,” then reflect your authentic voice back with more precision. We also talk about showing up where machines can’t: monthly in-person events, live streams, and pillar content that proves you’re real in a world of bots and inflated vanity metrics.
If you want practical ways to protect your voice, design for outcomes, and build human connection at scale, this conversation delivers. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s tired of AI slop, and leave a review with the one constraint you’ll adopt this week to create clarity.

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1. Framing The Mission: Authentic Voice (00:00:00)

2. Judy’s Story And The House Fire (00:03:26)

3. First AI Win: Coding To Triage Clients (00:05:27)

4. From Crisis To Strategy With AI (00:12:10)

5. Two Minds, Better Prompts, Better Results (00:18:40)

6. Outcome-Based Offers And Milestones (00:24:10)

7. Authenticity At Scale: Psychology Levers (00:29:34)

8. Forced Limitations To Beat Overwhelm (00:36:20)

9. Protecting Your Voice Beyond AI Slop (00:43:05)

10. Scaling Human Connection, Not Volume (00:51:10)

11. Action, Experiments, And Clarity (00:58:40)

12. Breaking Paralysis: Wants To Human Needs (01:05:10)