If you're building, buying, or implementing AI systems, you need to understand this: accessibility isn't an add-on. It's a design decision that determines who gets included and who gets left out.

In this episode of AI: Voice or Victim, host Erica Rooney sits down with Joe Devon, founder of A11y Audits and co-creator of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Joe has spent his career making the digital world usable for everyone, and now he's turning his attention to AI.

You'll hear why the accessibility challenges we're seeing with AI aren't new—they're amplified versions of mistakes we've already made. Joe breaks down where AI has the potential to break down barriers for people with disabilities, and where it's creating new ones. This isn't about compliance checkboxes. It's about whether the AI systems you're deploying actually work for all the people they're supposed to serve.

This conversation is for product leaders, HR teams, customer experience managers, and anyone responsible for technology decisions that affect real people.

In this episode, you'll learn:

-Why accessibility must be built into AI from the start, not bolted on later
-How AI is already creating barriers for people with disabilities
-Where AI has real potential to improve accessibility
-What leaders miss when they treat accessibility as a legal requirement instead of a design principle
-Why ignoring accessibility in AI isn't just unethical—it's bad business
-Practical steps you can take right now to make your AI systems more inclusive

If you're deploying AI tools without considering accessibility, you're making a choice about who matters. This episode will help you make a better one.

About Joe Devon
Joe Devon is the founder of A11y Audits, a company dedicated to making digital products accessible to everyone, and the co-creator of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an annual event that raises awareness about digital accessibility worldwide. With over two decades of experience in web development and accessibility advocacy, Joe has worked to ensure that technology serves all users, regardless of ability. His work focuses on bridging the gap between innovation and inclusion, proving that accessible design benefits everyone.
Learn more:

A11y Audits: https://www.a11yaudits.com/
GAAD Foundation: https://gaad.foundation/

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What happens when AI turns your entire team into generalists? And what does that mean for how organizations hire, promote, and build teams?

In this episode, Greg Boone sits down with Alec Coughlin to unpack how AI is reshaping not just tools, but entire workflows, organizational structures, and what it means to be employable. This is not a conversation about prompt tips or productivity hacks. This is about what happens when the old playbook for career development, specialization, and organizational design stops working.

Greg shares how he moved his entire team at Walk West from AI anxious to AI confident by making adoption personal, fun, and psychologically safe. He breaks down why the traditional path of hyper-specialization is breaking, why invisible unemployment is a bigger threat than layoffs, and why the generalist mindset combined with domain expertise is the unlock for the next era of work.

If you are a leader trying to integrate AI into your org without burning it down, or an individual contributor wondering how to stay relevant, this conversation will give you both the mindset shift and the tactical clarity to move forward with intention.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why making AI adoption personal, fun, and safe is the only way to get real organizational buy-in
• How psychological safety drives AI adoption more than any tool or training program
• Why treating AI like a smart intern boxes you into outdated thinking
• The disconnect between people who say they use AI and people who actually use AI
• Why invisible unemployment is a bigger risk than headline layoffs
• How Walmart not hiring for three years signals a fundamental shift in workforce strategy
• Why the Renaissance age of AI rewards generalists over specialists
• How to use AI to unlock business context and horizontal skill development
• Why formal AI certifications and building in public matter more than ever
• How the traditional org chart and siloed functions are breaking under AI transformation

If you are responsible for shaping your team, your career, or your organization in an AI-enabled world, this episode will help you move from reacting to the change to designing for it.

Chapters

00:00 - Welcome and Introduction

01:00 - The Future of Work with AI

02:00 - AI in Team Collaboration

03:00 - Cultural Adoption of AI at Walk West

05:00 - Making AI Personal, Fun, and Safe

07:00 - Psychological Safety and Leadership

09:00 - AI in Sales and Marketing

11:00 - SDRs, BDRs, and the Anthropomorphism Problem

15:00 - The Hollowing Out of Entry-Level Roles

17:00 - Mentorship and Learning in the AI Era

19:00 - Stop Calling AI a Smart Intern

22:00 - The Disconnect in AI Understanding

24:00 - Historical Business Models Are Breaking

27:00 - The Problem with Hyper-Specialization

28:00 - The Renaissance Age of Generalists

31:00 - Rethinking Organizational Structures

34:00 - Domain Expertise Meets Horizontal Skills

37:00 - Go Get Certified and Build in Public

40:00 - Invisible Unemployment and the Future of Hiring

43:00 - Final Recommendations

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This episode is a special collaboration with Alec Coughlin, host of AI with Alec. Check out his show for more conversations on AI, business, and the future of work at https://aiwithalec.com/

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Search is broken. Email is harder. Paid ads cost more. Lead flow is drying up across the board—and most marketers are still playing by the old rules.
In this episode of AI: Voice or Victim, Greg Boone sits down with Marc Sirkin, former CEO of Third Door Media, and Chris Long, co-founder of Nectiv and SEO strategist behind brands like Adobe and Amazon. Together, they dissect the lead flow crisis facing revenue leaders, marketers, and operators in 2025—and why ignoring it could be fatal.
This is not another "SEO is dead" debate. This is a hard look at what happens when Google flips the switch to AI Mode, when attribution models collapse under platform incentives, and when product-market fit becomes the only thing that matters. The conversation cuts through the noise with tactical clarity on how AI-powered search, zero-click results, and LLM-driven experiences are reshaping the entire customer journey.
If you're responsible for growth, pipeline, or revenue, this episode will challenge how you think about channels, authority, and where your customers actually are.
In this episode, you'll learn:

What the lead flow crisis actually is and why it's hitting now
How AI Mode will replace Google's 10 blue links faster than you think
Why attribution data is disappearing and what that means for proving ROI
The real difference between product-market fit and marketing tactics
How Reddit, forums, and human-generated content became irreplaceable to LLMs
Why technical literacy is now a non-negotiable skill for marketers
How to build authority in an AI-first search ecosystem
Where small businesses and mid-market brands can still win
What happens when platforms like ChatGPT, Google, and Perplexity own the entire customer experience

Key moments:

Why Google has no choice but to roll out AI Mode (and when it's likely to happen)
The stair-step strategy Google is using to train users for full LLM search
How Reddit became a battleground for brand reputation and LLM training data
The hidden risks of building your brand on rented platforms
Why marketers need to think like engineers to survive the next 12 months

This episode is required listening for CMOs, CROs, founders, and marketing leaders navigating the fastest transformation in digital history. The rules changed. The question is whether you're ready to adapt.

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Subscribe to AI: Voice or Victim for more conversations that move you from AI anxious to AI curious. Hosted by Erica Rooney and Greg Boone aka AISerious™, we're helping people and organizations embrace AI ethically, strategically, and with humanity at the center.
Follow us and join the movement to shape the future — before it shapes us.
🔗 Follow us and dive deeper:
On the web: https://voiceorvictim.com/
Greg Boone on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregboone
Erica Rooney on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericarooney/
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