{"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":"Why Your AI Agents Don't Know the Company They Work For","slug":"why-your-ai-agents-don-t-know-the-company-they-work-for","published_at":"2026-09-15T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493/why-your-ai-agents-don-t-know-the-company-they-work-for","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493","url":"https://followtheyellowbrickroadpodcast.com/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2f6a489e-1d97-4100-a592-5e59dbe596fd.mp3","summary":"Most AI agents are missing the company they work for. Emma Rainville (the Wizard of Ops) and Mitch Barham (the Wizard of Ads) on why a task, a tool, and a prompt with some files attached is not an employee — and what has to be there before an agent can work without you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 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/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Company identity, decision rules, authority, quality standards, escalation logic, measurement. Miss those and you're stuck prompting forever. Include them and you get what Emma and Mitch run now — a daily newsletter that ships without them, split tests that promote themselves, ads analyzed and iterated on their own. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 1:31 – A task, a tool, a prompt — not an employee 2:53 – The great penny standoff (a tangent) 4:35 – Chaining agents so every output becomes the next input 6:19 – AI DNA plus structure equals not being the bottleneck 8:05 – \"The SOPs are on my other computer\" 8:36 – Here's a clipboard, good luck, bro 9:08 – Meet Veda and Arden 🎁 FREE RESOURCES Grab all our guides, checklists, and growth tools in the Hidden Control Chamber: https://followtheyellowbrickroadpodcast.com/hiddencontrolchamber 📬 AI COMMAND BRIEF Our free daily newsletter — written end to end by our agents. 👉 https://aicommandbrief.com/ Get in Touch with Emma Rainville YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@followtheybrpodcast Website: https://wizardofops.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_rainville512 LinkedIn: https://www.linke…","meta_description":"Most AI agents are missing the company they work for. Emma Rainville (the Wizard of Ops) and Mitch Barham (the Wizard of Ads) on why a task, a tool, and a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":704,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/follow-the-yellow-brick-road-7056493/episodes/why-your-ai-agents-don-t-know-the-company-they-work-for/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/why-your-ai-agents-don-t-know-the-company-they-work-for.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}