Jack of All Trades

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Episode Description For years, you were told to pick a lane. Specialize. Get good at one thing and ride it for the rest of your career. That advice shaped many lives. It might also be quietly expiring. The tools have changed. The expert in a single subject is everywhere now, and basically free. Today, I'll make the case that the future belongs to a different kind of person, the one who goes broad and deep at the same time. I'll show you what that looks like, why it should feel freeing, and how to start becoming it. Come find out. Featured Story I was on a coaching call when somebody told me her biggest headache was her website. Every little change took two weeks and somebody else's hands. She just wished AI could do it for her. So I pulled up my own site, typed a few plain sentences asking it to build a brand new page for my friend Kroy, and we watched it happen in real time. A few tweaks and it was done. Jaws on the floor. Then I opened Claude, typed maybe fifty words, and five minutes later, we were all using a working app I'd just dreamed up. Live, right there on the call. That's the world we're walking into. Important Points The age of the lone specialist is fading fast. Every answer you used to pay an expert for already sits inside AI. Broad on its own won't save you, and neither will deep. The people who win are wide across and deep at the same time. Your real job now is to orchestrate, not to do. Take the whole view, decide how it fits, let the tools do the rest. Memorable Quotes The age of the expert and the specialist is really going away. The age of the person who is broad and deep is here. I'm 66 years old, and I will run circles around most people in AI. This is not supposed to be possible, but it is. Most of my life is no longer doing the task at all. I just orchestrate everything around me and put the pieces together. Scott's Three-Step Approach First, stop trying to be the best at one narrow thing. Go wide and build a real worldview across everything you touch. Next, pick the areas that matter most and go deep, deep enough to know why the answer the machine hands you works. Finally, stop doing every task yourself. Step back, orchestrate the tools, and pull the pieces into one clear decision. Chapters 0:03 - Settling in with coffee and a big question 2:24 - Why the honest truth is the best motivation 2:55 - The other side of money clients I work with 3:42 - Building a website and an app live on a call 5:54 - The real human superpower in an AI world 6:36 - Why the age of the specialist is fading away 8:04 - Broad and deep, becoming the orchestrator Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify If you enjoy the Daily Boost, you might like Notes From Scott. A few mornings each week, I send a short note with something I've been thinking about or noticing lately. Sometimes those ideas turn into podcast episodes later. You can sign up at https://notesfromscott.com. Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.7	What is happening? Come on, I dear. Hang on, I need a sip of coffee.
0:46.8	You can take one, too. It's okay.
0:49.8	You could have taken it before the show. I know. It is a daily boost.
0:54.8	What do you say we do this thing, huh?
0:56.1	I need a boost.
0:58.5	I need a daily boost.
1:00.6	I need a daily boost.
1:05.9	It is the daily boost from Motivation.com.
1:08.1	How you doing?
1:09.9	Something you want to do, something you want to grow,
1:11.3	something you want to make better about your life? It's kind of a generic statement, but you know what I mean,
1:14.6	right? Or maybe you want to grow your business or start a side hustle, make some money, or somewhere in between. I have just, over the years have just become that kind of person. Well, I'm going to talk about that today, actually, not me, but
1:23.9	the kind of person that's
1:26.1	succeeding in this day and age where we live
1:28.5	these days, which is really a weird place to be. So much happening out there. My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you. You can find myself at Motivation2move.com. That's all spelled out. Motivation, T-O-M-O-V-E. A years ago, I had the chance to get the two, the number two in the middle of it, and I didn't do it.
2:03.4	And now I just don't want to pay for it. It's like, here it's worth $97 million you can buy the domain. It's like, no, heck with that. I'll just spell it out for the kids. Nice to have you. I'm, I am a toying with a community. I actually not any toy with. It's actually built. it's there. We're going to launch a community. And if you go to Motivation to Move.com,
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