183: How Good of a Communicator Are You? Messaging, Reputation, Trust & Strategy in the Age of AI - With Jen Prosek, CEO and Founder of Prosek

Money Maze Podcast

Business, Investing, Management, News, Business News

4.8 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode started as “Good Investor, Poor Communicator”, but as we researched this topic ahead of the conversation it became a bigger theme than simply, why at times, great investment managers are often less effective communicators.

In this conversation, we explore how communication is changing; first in the asset management community as firms adapt, and acknowledge the importance of their brand, through to the newer ways they seek to communicate, explain and position their enterprises.

Jen then expands into other incredibly important areas for young and old. In an A.I integrated world why the power of the spoken word assumes greater importance.

The tension of “literacy vs oracy”, how to think about “nailing the narrative”, “battle the sea of sameness”, “approach people in the hallway”, “navigate a tough capital-raising environment”, deal with “glass ceilings” and maintain “humility”.

And, of course, the two most important words in business…

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0:00.0	The CEO closed the door and said, I want to tell you something. You've got the job. But do you want my advice? Like the advice I would give you if you were my daughter. Why don't you put your head down, grow that little firm of yours and sell it to us one day. Why don't you do that? You know, part of life is knowing when you're in a luck moment. That was great advice. So here we are.
0:22.5	AI is changing everything.
0:24.2	It's a threat.
0:25.0	It's an opportunity.
0:26.2	So let me take that one step further.
0:28.6	I think the most powerful thing reputationally now and into the future will be what chat
0:34.6	GBT has to say about you.
0:36.9	Chat GBT GBT not only crawls, it thinks,
0:40.5	it connects dots. It gives you an opinion. And I believe that that is going to be critical.
0:47.4	All the data shows, video, audio, people want to consume information a different way. The podcast
0:53.6	is one of the most
0:54.6	effective second meeting strategies, meaning if someone listens to this podcast and they like
1:00.3	what I have to say, am I having the first meeting with them when I meet them? I'm probably
1:04.2	having the 10th meeting. They know what I have to say. They like it and they want it.
1:08.9	Welcome to the Money Mace podcast.
1:13.9	If this is your first time joining, I'm your host, Simon Brewer.
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