From Zero to Head of AI in 1 Year (as a regular person)
$1000 Free Hyperagent Credits (limited): https://www.hyperagent.com/nate My FREE AI OS Course: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society/about?el=ailin-podcast&hcategory=youtube-videos&utm_campaign=free-group Full courses + unlimited support: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society-plus/about?el=ailin-podcast&hcategory=youtube-videos&utm_campaign=ais-plus Apply for my YT podcast: https://podcast.nateherk.com/apply Work with me: https://uppitai.com/ AI Automation Society Clips: @aiautomationsociety My Tools💻 FREE MONTH voice to text: https://get.glaido.com/nate Code NATEHERK for 10% off VPS (annual plan): https://www.hostinger.com/vps/claude-code-hosting Ailin spent 15 years as an email developer before her entire team was laid off, leaving her unemployed at 39 with two young kids. About a year later, she's Head of AI at a company with 15 brands under it, owning the AI strategy across all of them. In this episode she walks through how she got there with no technical AI background: learning n8n and Claude Code from scratch, building in public, and showing up to interviews with real proof instead of a resume. The whole thing came down to one question her interviewer asked: what have you built? Sponsorship Inquiries: 📧 nate@smoothmedia.co Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateherkelman/ https://x.com/nateherk https://www.instagram.com/nateherk/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 1:52 The New Role 6:36 The Judgment Call 8:26 Sponsor 10:52 Fifteen Years of Email 14:09 The Pivot 18:28 Show Yourself 26:05 What Have You Built? 30:52 Making It Stick 35:15 The Blueprint 39:27 Full Circle 41:35 Final CTA
