LAWYERS WILL BE REPLACED BY PLUMBLERS!

Are we about to see millions of new businesses… or millions of jobs lost?

After building businesses through the dot-com boom and the global financial crisis, Daniel spent decades thinking about how technological shifts create new opportunities.

So when I started asking these questions, I thought who better than Daniel Priestley to answer them.

Daniel isn’t new to this show. After his last appearance, I had loads of messages from people asking me to get him back on.

Right now, the pace of change feels relentless. Every morning, there seems to be another tool or another headline about what AI can suddenly do.

And the question I keep coming back to is simple - where do humans fit into this?

And if it begins replacing certain types of work faster than new opportunities appear, that creates a real problem for millions of people.

I wanted to ask the questions we’re all quietly thinking:

- What happens to the economy when intelligence becomes cheap and widely available? - If AI can write code, design and analyse faster than most humans, what skills actually matter? - Are we about to see small teams building billion-dollar companies? - Why might traditional career paths stop working? - And if the rules of the economy are changing, what should young people focus on right now to avoid being left behind?

In this episode, Daniel also walks me through the frameworks he teaches entrepreneurs, including how building a personal brand and developing what he calls your “intellectual property” can become a huge advantage in a world where AI can generate almost everything else.

What worries me is the gap between disruption and adaptation. If jobs disappear faster than people can retrain or reposition themselves, the consequences could be huge.

At the same time, moments like this have historically created enormous opportunities for those who understand what’s changing early.

So this conversation is really about trying to understand that balance.

If you’re trying to understand how AI might reshape the future of work, business and opportunity, this conversation is worth your time.