Jun 16, 2025 · 27m · bigdeal
Scared of AI? Give Me 28 Minutes to Change Your Mind
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In this episode of the Big Deal podcast, investor Codie Sanchez demonstrates practical AI workflows, software prompts, and strategic frameworks designed to help entrepreneurs dramatically accelerate operational efficiency, eliminate contractor costs, and scale modern businesses.
How this conversation actually went
Every chapter scored 0–10 on four independent dynamics. Hover any point for the reasoning behind the score. Codie holds 99.9% of the talking time here. How this is scored →
Codie as informed peer 0.0 Guest teaching 0.0 Guest disagreement 0.0 Codie pushing back 0.0
speaking balance: gold is Codie, purple is the guest (3 minute bins)
Sharpest disagreement ▶ 0:00 Baseline non-combative solo presentation
The episode is entirely a solo tutorial with no opposing guest or debate dynamic present.
Hardest push from Codie ▶ 0:00 Baseline non-pushback formatHost is presenting directly to the audience rather than interviewing or challenging a guest.
Biggest teaching moment ▶ 0:00 No schooling dynamicNo guest appears to educate or correct the host during this walkthrough episode.
Codie holds their own ▶ 25:34 Host philosophical distinction between tools and human relationshipsSanchez firmly articulates why relying on AI for emotional validation is misguided compared to leveraging it as an operational multiplier.
the scores for every segment, with the reasoning behind each
| Chapter | Topic | Codie as informed peer | Guest teaching | Guest disagreement | Codie pushing back | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reframing AI as a Superpower for Entrepreneurs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Solo tutorial presentation by Codie Sanchez demonstrating Whisperflow. Producer interjection is purely affirmative. | |
| Streamlining Inbox Management Using Superhuman AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Monologue walkthrough of email efficiency and keyboard shortcuts using Superhuman AI. | |
| Automating Content Strategy with Custom ChatGPT Agents | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Host demonstrates creating custom ChatGPT operators for finance brand memes without any guest interaction. | |
| Conducting Market Research and Frameworks with Perplexity AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Solo presentation testing market research frameworks in Perplexity AI, punctuated only by a studio check-in. | |
| Benchmarking Competitor Pricing with Perplexity and Handling Policy Guardrails | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Host demonstrates competitor price benchmarking on Perplexity and notes OpenAI content policy restrictions. | |
| Iterative Visual Asset Creation with Generative AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Monologue demo of image refinement and testing the customized Kodi.chat avatar system. | |
| Crafting Stylized Newsletter and Social Graphics via Custom GPTs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Solo walkthrough explaining how to construct a custom GPT style prompt for newsletter illustrations. | |
| World-Building Freedom Farms and Generating Avatar Branding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Host describes world-building creative assets for Freedom Farms and iterative prompt engineering. | |
| Mindset Mastery: Treating AI as a Tool Rather Than a Relationship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Solo closing argument addressing human mindset, emotional dependence on chatbots, and utilitarian tooling. |
Statements from this episode (8)
Sanchez: Future Billion-Dollar Companies Will Be Run by One Person and AI
“I think in the future there will be billion dollar companies made with one person and an army of AI agents underneath it.”
Sanchez: Portfolio companies must study Superhuman's onboarding sequence
“Their onboarding sequence is so good that I make every one of my portfolio companies look at it, so I highly recommend Superhuman.”
Sanchez: ChatGPT replaces thousands of dollars in monthly contractor costs
“But for the cost of like a couple lattes a month with ChatGPT, I have somebody who historically I would have had to pay thousands of dollars a month in order to create visual content for me and come up with memes. And now I've got that happening with ChatGPT L…”
Sanchez: Perplexity completely replaced her paid Yahoo Finance subscription
“One thing that Perplexity just added, which is super cool, is they've created their own Yahoo Finance inside of Perplexity, where you can download all the data, and it has completely replaced what I used to pay money for on my Yahoo Finance subscription.”
Sanchez: Market viability requires three C's—cash, curiosity, and a crowd
“At our company, we have something called the three C's which is how we determine If a market is useful to go into and will make money, the market has to have cash, curiosity, and a crowd. And if we have those three things, then we think it's a market worth goi…”
Sanchez: Perplexity replaces a $150,000-per-year research hire
“I think it's like having a researcher at your fingertips that I used to have to pay like a 150,000 dollars a year from some of the brightest schools in order to come up with consultant level feedback right here.”
Codie Sanchez: Kodi.chat Is Trained on Her Book, Community, and Public Content
“The thing that's cool about this is we trained it on my entire book. We trained it on all of the chats inside of our community. We trained it also on, ah, everything that you guys get from me publicly.”
Sanchez: AI cannot be a friend and should strictly be treated as a tool
“AI cannot be your friend. Why? Because it can't have your same life experience. A friend is somebody who can sit there with you, who can travel through time with you, Who understands what it's like being human, who understands your perspective, and will Tell y…”