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Adam Lyons

Adam Lyons

Entrepreneur

Oct 29, 2026

ArielHOST
31:52
Or what about that organization made you want to change?
31:55
Sure, yeah.
31:56
No, so I...
31:58
So January 30th, 2022 was my last night in a casino.
32:05
Unfortunately, it lasted like 36 hours and I lost everything that I had saved in the previous six months living in Texas.
32:13
Don't ask me how I ended up in Texas, but that is the last city I lived in, in my six city tour those last 10 years.
32:20
But you know, when the dust settled, I had what I have come to realize in recovery was a bit of a spiritual awakening where I After 20 years of gambling, I had this moment wash over me, this feeling, this overwhelming feeling of like, okay, I'm ready.

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ArielHOST
39:17
What's your take on that?
16:03
Yeah.
16:03
Um, and that right there...
16:04
And again, I'm, I'm, I know I'm being pedantic on that clarification, but there's a, a reason for it, and it's because people are being led by AI instead of getting ahead of it and leading it, which is where the problem is.
16:19
For example, if you have AI in your company today, or you use AI, and you did not change your employee contracts, change your client contracts with your customers to inform them that you're using AI, you're probably in breach of some pretty serious rules.
16:37
Um, a- and you should be aware of that.
16:39
In addition, if you're allowing employees to use their own personal AI, and you're encouraging that by subsidizing it and paying for it, um, that's also bad because you, uh, the personal accounts aren't SOC 2 Type 2 protected, which is what you need to control data-

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46:06
What kind of culture attracts A players to want to work for you and stay?
46:10
Ah, yeah, that's tough.
19:15
Here we go!
Adam Lyons
Adam LyonsUNKNOWN
19:21
Why should academics have all the fun when we're standing strong here with our paint guns? Skills will help this country grow.
Adam Lyons
Adam LyonsUNKNOWN
19:33
We call in all the youngsters who are ready to glow up.
Adam Lyons
Adam LyonsUNKNOWN
19:37
Eight levels to dancing graduates.
Adam Lyons
Adam LyonsUNKNOWN
19:40
Graduates.
Adam Lyons
Adam LyonsUNKNOWN
19:41
Apprentices can get this party started, started.
Adam Lyons
Adam LyonsUNKNOWN
19:44
Now we have vocational celebration day.

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Thank you.
11:46
And this could be the moment your life starts to change.
11:48
Well, yeah.
11:48
And that's the thing that obviously we learn in GA, in the yellow book, you know, the word bailout, right? Like that bankruptcy was nothing more than a gigantic bailout, which at the time, if I knew or my father knew, you know, maybe we wouldn't have done it.
12:05
Obviously I was going to I just needed to get out of that situation.
12:08
But so for the three months that, you know, let's I don't know the month, but let's just say like September, I declare bankruptcy.
12:17
October, November, I didn't gamble because I was embarrassed.
12:20
I was ashamed.

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fight or flight.
27:03
You can use it to create your SOPs, right?
27:06
Yeah, so the best way to use AI today is to pick one process in your company that you know very well and think about how can I integrate AI with that one process to make it move faster.
27:19
A lot of people are trying to get AI to do new things, but how can you critique something new you don't know whether it's good? But something you know how to do, AI is great at.
27:28
So for example, I'll give you a real case example.
27:32
I built an AI that functions as an analyzer, for stucco implementation in a wet environment.
27:42
So applying stucco cement in a wet environment is very different to doing in a dry environment.
27:49
So there is a standard operating procedure for doing that, but needless to say, sometimes on a construction site, things go wrong.
29:27
So, I mean, are there similarities? How can we teach it to give us exactly what we really, really want? How can we get better at prompting?

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