The Problem With Not Using AI: Daniel Priestley

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James Smith

Society & Culture

4.9 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Daniel Priestley, bestselling author and leading entrepreneur, explains why AI is the most disruptive force of our lifetime - bigger than social media, mobile phones, or even the internet itself. He reveals why businesses that fail to adapt by 2027 will be left behind, how personal brands and communities will survive the AI wave, and why now is not the time to rest. Daniel Priestley is an internationally recognised speaker, author of five bestselling books including Key Person of Influence, and founder of multiple multimillion-dollar companies. In this episode, he shares powerful frameworks and predictions that every entrepreneur, creator, and professional needs to hear as AI reshapes the economy. He explains: What to look out for as indicators of change; Big Tech reactions. Why “your business is already dead”—and how to reinvent it with AI. The “sponge vs. icing” framework: how humans add the only value AI can’t. Why 2027 marks the turning point from “AI toy” to total disruption. The Loops & Groups model: running high-output businesses with lean teams. How to future-proof your career by becoming a director, not a doer. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:20 - The problem with.. Business & AI 3:12 - Reluctance to change 10:38 - How to think about AI 15:04 - Loops & Groups 18:26 - Positive Lifestyle Changes 24:20 - Is University Over? 32:33 - AI & Farming 37:32 - Wages & Productivity 42:48 - Personal Brands 56:50 - The Dog Trainer 1:03:14 - Staying Motivated #theproblemwith #jamessmithpodcast #ai Follow us on socials: www.linktr.ee/theproblemwith I'm on a mission to help men check their levels of Testosterone, more info here: https://www.manual.co/smith Please check out and try Neutonic here: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith For a free trial of my online personal training app go here: https://www.affordableonlinecoaching.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of the things that currently make money will not make money in five to ten years.
0:03.0	You don't know what's just happened.
0:04.0	Your life is going to fundamentally change.
0:06.0	If a tsunami was about to hit the shore, you move your family out of the way.
0:09.0	This is not the time to rest.
0:11.0	This is the time to paddle like crazy and surf this thing.
0:13.0	You need to work as hard as you possibly can without burning out.
0:18.0	What is the problem with businesses not utilizing AI?
0:23.2	AI is the biggest thing that has ever happened in our lives, and we've had big things
0:26.6	happen in our lives. We've had mobile phones, and we've had social media, and we've
0:31.3	had internet, and we've had global financial crises and pandemics, and all of that sort
0:36.0	of stuff. All of that felt pretty disruptive
0:38.0	at the time, AI is going to disrupt absolutely everything. So if you're in business or if you're
0:44.1	in a career, you've got to assume that you are currently on borrowed time, that AI is going to, in some
0:50.3	way, small, medium or large, going to disrupt your entire life. It's going to come
0:54.5	for your business. It's going to come for your job. This technology is, you know, I can't
1:00.5	overstate how massively disrupt if this technology is going to be. It's going to change the way
1:04.9	the whole world does business. Do you think that this message can be diluted because some
1:09.0	people will see genuine messaging, and you're
1:11.6	absolutely correct, but they'll go, oh, this is a marketer trying to use this for email sign-up,
1:16.5	so they're using this as part of lead generation. Maybe they're catastrophizing the outcome that's
1:21.1	really happening. How can we say to those people, no, this is truly genuine? Well, if I was going to
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