{"podcast":{"title":"Follow The Yellow Brick Road","slug":"follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493","podcast_index_feed_id":7056493,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/follow-the-yellow-brick-road/","website_url":"https://followtheyellowbrickroadpodcast.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4c54bc52-27db-4657-8c91-caf35a4d3f86/Untitled-design-11.png","author":"Emma Rainville & Mitch Barham","episode_count":110,"summary":"Follow The Yellow Brick Road is the podcast for founders who want a clear path to turning clicks into customers. Hosted by Emma Rainville (Founder of Shockwave Solutions, Wizard of Ops) and Mitch Barham (Founder of Barham Marketing, Wizard of Ads), this show breaks down what actually drives growth — from acquisition to conversion to operations. Emma brings the systems and execution behind businesses that run without the founder in the day-to-day. Mitch brings the ads and acquisition that turn attention into revenue. Together, they connect both sides — so your business doesn’t just get clicks, it converts. If you're serious about scaling your business — subscribe and follow the path.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T00:21:00.297392+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493"},"episode":{"title":"Fire Yourself From Your Own Business (Here's the Math)","slug":"fire-yourself-from-your-own-business-here-s-the-math","published_at":"2026-09-04T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493/fire-yourself-from-your-own-business-here-s-the-math","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493","url":"https://followtheyellowbrickroadpodcast.com/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ffca315a-5e22-47c5-b7a5-3d52d1d4d20a.mp3","summary":"When you have a child, they inherit your DNA. When you hire an employee, they need to inherit your company's. Emma Rainville (the Wizard of Ops) and Mitch Barham (the Wizard of Ads) make the case that this is the most important marketing conversation they've had — because a shared company AI DNA turns every agent into a marketer who remembers every split test, every button, every headline you've ever run. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 BUILD YOUR AI WORKFORCE LIVE Three live sessions with Emma and Mitch. You leave with two AI employees deployed inside your business: an Ops Intelligence Analyst and a Media Intelligence Analyst — roles that replace $170K–$240K a year in payroll, running on the AI subscription you already pay for. Learn more 👉 https://theaiworkforcelab.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Emma once hired a copywriter at $500K-a-year rates because of what he carried in his head — years of iterations and split tests from one of the biggest companies in his space. That knowledge is exactly what an AI DNA gives you, permanently. Then she does the math on the time: 6 to 12 hours to build it, 20 hours back the first month, 55 to 60 the next. And she has a name for anyone who says they're too busy. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 2:53 – The most important marketing episode we'll do 3:25 – The five chromosomes, fast 5:00 – Pattern recognition vs. a human being 5:42 – Five years of YouTube data, pulled by an agent 7:37 – Subscribe + comment break 8:41 – Two years of ad data in minutes 10:07 – The $500K marketer and what he really sold 12:23 – \"I'm too busy to build it\" 12:58 – You're not a leader, you're a doer with a fancy title 13:19 – The time math: 20 hours, then 60 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 FREE RESOURCES Grab all our guides, checklists, and growth tools in the Hidden Control Chamber: https:/…","meta_description":"When you have a child, they inherit your DNA. When you hire an employee, they need to inherit your company's. Emma Rainville (the Wizard of Ops) and Mitch…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":972,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493/episodes/fire-yourself-from-your-own-business-here-s-the-math/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493/fire-yourself-from-your-own-business-here-s-the-math.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}