Girls Who Prompt
Girls Who Prompt is a podcast about using AI in everyday work and life. Hosts Anna-Liisa and Ave share practical tips, real stories, wins and failures, and conversations with guests from different fields. The show is aimed at people who want to use AI for boring and creative tasks without needing to code.
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Season 2! #36. Anna-Liisa Reinson x Girls Who Prompt. We Don’t Need Product Experts, We Need Problem Experts
We used to wait for the stars to align. Now we wait for the calendars. Season 2 starts here, with a brand-new co-host 👇🏻✨Anna-Liisa Reinson✨ is a product strategist, founder of Produktize, vibe-coding enthusiast and the guest Ave tried to book for a whole season. Now the calendars aligned, and it turned out even better!This episode is half a welcome party for Anna-Liisa, half a deep dive into what
#35 Ave & Karin: Season 1 Finale: We Never Found the Big Idea. We Found Something Else.
No guest this week — just Ave and Karin, Tallinn meets Frankfurt, sitting back down one final time to compare notes on the year that started in a Tallinn café covered wall to wall in books.This episode is less about AI and more about what a year of asking other people about AI did to the two of them — and why one of them is handing over the microphone.In this episode we discuss:The anniversary nei
#34 Girls Who Prompt: A Feature Film for €2,000 and Other Things That Shouldn't Be Possible
No guest this time- just Ave and Karin, one in a 37-degree Frankfurt without air conditioning, the other in a very smug 20-degree Tallinn, sitting back down before the Summer got over.This episode is more about what you do with the time and money it frees up — whether that's a film, a portfolio, or an eighteen-year-old nephew asking a very good question.In this episode we discuss:Dreams of V
#33 Jan Schulte x Girls Who Prompt: What If Your App Builds Itself While You Watch?
What if you opened an app and there was… nothing? No buttons, no menus... just a blank screen waiting for you to say what you need.In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Jan Schulte, founder of Betalyra, an AI innovation lab on the coast of Portugal, to talk about generative UI - software that builds its own interface in real time- and what it means that Europe's AI f
#32 Marko Rillo x Girls Who Prompt: You Can't Send AI to the Gym for You
Marko Rillo opens every MBA strategy course the same way: he asks four AI models to write a full company strategy, live, in 10 minutes. Then he tells his students the course is over. It never is.In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Marko Rillo — strategist, Head of the MBA Programme at Estonian Business School, LEGO Serious Play facilitator, and co-founder of EdTech app
#31 Kalev Kaarna x Girls Who Prompt: Why Being Late to AI Might Be the Smartest Move
What if the smartest AI strategy right now is simply to wait?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Kalev Kaarna - scientist, entrepreneur, sales detective, and one of Estonia's most curious minds on the frontier of quantum computing - to talk about why he's deliberately slow on AI, what qubits actually are, and why trust might be the most valuable thing the digit
#30 Ave & Karin: Is the AI Economy Actually Stacked Against You?
The market is up. AI is everywhere. And everyone's either panicking or trying to sell you something. What if the smarter move is just... to step back?No guest this week — just Ave and Karin, back in the online studio, sitting down to compare notes on AI fatigue, investment strategy, the casino economy, China's robot taxis, and why your LinkedIn feed is probably 70% AI-generated noise.This
#29 Melanie Nethercott x Girls Who Prompt: Your Mind Is a Muscle - Don't Let AI Do All the Reps
AI is the most powerful learning tool we've ever had. It's also the fastest way to quietly stop thinking. The question is — are we choosing?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Melanie Nethercott, Director of Education Programs EMEA at STACK Infrastructure, where she leads STACK Academy — an 18-month workforce development programme closing the skills gap in the
#28 Saniya Vardak x Girls Who Prompt: The Episode Where an AI Avatar Joined the Show
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Saniya Vardak, Head of Growth at Beyond Presence — a Munich startup building real-time AI avatars that can see you, hear you, and respond in under 100 milliseconds.With nearly a decade scaling Wise, Wolt, and Deel, Saniya is now the sole marketer inside a company where the product didn't exist 18 months ago, growth is 45% month-on-mo
#27 Stefanie Janssen x Girls Who Prompt: When AI Killed My Business (And Built Me a Better One)
What happens when AI quietly takes your clients, breaks your business model, and forces you to rebuild everything from the inside out? You stop fighting it. You learn Claude Code. And you build a better company.In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Stefanie Janssen, Co-Founder and CEO of MarchiteQ — an AI/Tech-first marketing agency for paid ads, GEO, data and automation
#26. Karin & Ave: From ChatGPT to Claude, FOBO & Closing Chapters: An AI Catch-Up
Ave and Karin are back for a two-of-us catch-up. No guest today, just yapping about everything that's shifted in the past few months.Ave shares why she moved her daily work from ChatGPT to Claude, how Cowork connectors and Skills are reshaping her work and some extra projects with competitor research and AI visibility audits, and why Whisper Flow turned her home into "a podcast all the t
#25 Jovana Paroški (Otterly.ai) x Girls Who Prompt: Get Found by AI. Get Helped by Humans.
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Jovana Paroški, Customer Success professional at Otterly.ai - one of the first platforms built to track how brands appear in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. Jovana's path here was anything but straight: English literature graduate, teacher by training, pandemic-e
#24 Denise Reffelmann (Commerzbank) x Girls Who Prompt: Your Bank Has a Face Now . Meet Ava
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Denise Reffelmann, Product Owner of Ava - Commerzbank's AI-powered video avatar and virtual banking assistant. Ava isn't your usual chatbot. There's a real actress behind her, end-to-end banking services under her belt, and already more than 30,000 real conversations with real customers. PS: yes, there was an actual casti
#23 Girls Who Prompt: Vibecoded Wine Apps, Olympic Ice & Why European Leaders Are Asleep on AI
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, it's Karin and Ave, catching up after a while apart, comparing notes on what's changed, and going wide: from the figure skating rinks of Cortina to the boardrooms of Europe that still haven't woken up.This episode is less about which AI tool wins the race and more about two women figuring out in real time what it means to actually live with AI. The anxiety,
#22 Red Boumghar x Girls Who Prompt: Europe, AI & Power - Who Builds the Future?
Is the future of AI really about bigger models… or smarter ones?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Red Boumghar, AI and space technology expert, to explore how artificial intelligence is evolving beyond the hype.Red shares his journey from physics into AI and space technology, including early machine learning experiments long before AI became a global buzzword. From
#21 Maja Završnik (SheAI) x Girls Who Prompt: Can AI Help Close the Gender Gap in Tech?
In this 💃🏼Women’s Day special💃🏼 episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Maja Završnik, co-founder and CMO of SheAI, a growing community helping women explore and learn artificial intelligence.Maja shares how she entered the world of AI herself, the moment she realised women risk being left behind in the AI revolution, and why she decided to build a movement focused on accessible A
#20 Elar Killumets x Girls who Prompt: AI Is Fast. Should Leaders Be Slower?
AI is moving at lightning speed.But should leadership move just as fast?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with leadership and organizational change coach Elar Killumets to unpack what AI really means for managers, teams, and company culture.This episode is more about what happens to leadership when decisions get automated, speed becomes default, and thinking gets outsourc
#19 Mart Roosimägi x Girls who Prompt: AI in Banking, Reality and the Future
Is (and how) AI really transforming banking or are we just adding smarter tools to the same conservative system?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Mart Roosimägi, banking strategist and AI leader, to talk about what AI actually means inside large financial institutions.Mart shares his journey into AI, how banks are navigating innovation under heavy regulation, and why
#18 Girls who Prompt. Leadership skills in the Age of AI
How is AI quietly reshaping how we lead, manage, and build companies?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave catch up after a while and share their learnings and “aha” moments. Ave is deep in the vibe-coding zone, rediscovering how creative it feels to build (almost) anything with AI. Lovable really is just lovable! Karin has added a few fresh certificates to her name — and continues he
#17 Urmo Keskel x Girls who Prompt: You Clicked What? AI, Phishing, and the New Rules of Trust
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Ave and Karin sit down with Urmo Keskel, cybersecurity expert and founder of Phishbite, to talk about what happens when AI meets trust and starts to break it.We explore how AI is changing both sides of cybersecurity: from faster, more convincing phishing attacks to AI-powered defenses designed to stop them. Urmo shares real-world stories from the front lines, h
#16 Mart Laus x Girls who Prompt: From Code to Care: How AI Is Reshaping Software and Healthcare
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Ave and Karin sit down with Mart Laus, a platform engineering leader working at DocPlanner, to talk about software development, AI, and healthcare.Mart shares his path into tech, how AI has actually changed day-to-day software development, and why today’s AI tools are less about replacing teams and more about empowering them. We talk about what it really means
#15 Linda Võeras x Girls who Prompt: Investing in (DeepTech) Startups in the AI Era
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Linda Võeras, Investment Manager at Karma Ventures, to talk about what actually matters when building and backing deep-tech startups in the AI era.Linda shares her path from creative editorial work into venture capital, and how that experience influences the way she looks at founders, teams, and technical ambition today. We discuss h
#14 Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa x GwP: Trust the math. Question the hype. Keep the human.
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we sit down with Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa, AI entrepreneur and CEO of Attensira, to talk about what actually happens when AI meets marketing, startups, and decision-making.Karl shares his journey building AI-driven products, why he uses AI to validate his own thinking, and why blind trust in AI can be more dangerous than not using it at all. We dig into the pressu
#13 Tom Maryniarczyk x Girls who Prompt: AI Is Doing the Shopping Now? Agentic Commerce & the Future of Retail
Happy 2026 for all the listeners of "Girls who prompt!" 🥳In this conversation, we sit down with Tom Maryniarczyk, a seasoned AI and data platform leader with deep roots in global retail and e-commerce. From leading data and digital transformation initiatives at Walmart Canada and The Home Depot to his current work at Pet Valu, Tom has been building and scaling data-driven systems long be
#12 Year end Wrap and Yap: Still Here. Still Curious. Still Creative.
In this year-end wrapping (and yapping) episode, Karin Nemec and Ave Annuk look back at the journey of Girls Who Prompt that started from September 2025: what surprised them, what worked, what didn’t and how AI quietly became part of their everyday work and creativity.They talk honestly about audience feedback, guest highlights, the AI tools they actually use, and why good input still matters mor
#11 Maroš Pulščák x Girls Who Prompt: What happens to filmmaking when AI joins the crew?
In this episode, we sit down with Slovak filmmaker Maroš Pulščák to explore the question everyone in Hollywood, indie cinema, and film school group chats is arguing about: Can AI ever feel like real cinema?Maroš walks us through his journey from a kid obsessed with movies to becoming a director working across documentary and fiction. We talk about how AI is creeping into filmmaking, from writing t
#10 Kaia Gil x Girls Who Prompt: When “Words Have Power” in the Age of AI
10th episode of Girls who Prompt 🥳!In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we sit down with Kaia Gil — mother, communicator, and PR advisor who has spent her career choosing words carefully (and teaching others to do the same).Together, we look at how communication has really changed over the past decade. We talk about how the role of PR is shifting towards trust-building, what trust even means when
#9 How to Stay Visible in the Age of AI
In this episode, Karin asks Ave a question that more and more founders, creators, and professionals are quietly struggling with:How do AI change marketing and how you stay visible when AI changes how people search, learn, and pay attention?We talk about what’s actually shifting in human behaviour, from how people discover things to why personal brands suddenly matter more than job titles.Ave break
#8 Frankfurt AI Week: VR Drills, Human-First Marketing, and Ray-Ban Translation
Karin just got back from AI Week Frankfurt 2025We unpack what mattered beyond the hype and headlines—who predicted doomsday, who stayed optimistic, and what actually ships on Monday.Karin’s highlights:VR safety training that builds real muscle memoryFinance & health: new changes you’ll feel at workMarketing with AI (and a human heart)Ray-Ban Meta glasses that speak different languagesMeet the
#7 Iman Ismail-Martens x Girls Who Prompt: From Finance to Vibe Coding — A Woman’s AI Playbook
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we sit down with Iman Ismail-Martens — ex-finance pro turned AI coach, a multilingual builder, and the woman bringing vibe coding (plan → prompt → ship) to real teams who want results, not buzzwords.Iman shares concrete tools and mindset shifts, and we talk about:What “vibe coding” actually is — and how non-coders can ship a real MVP in a weekendHer pivot from
#6 Indrek Seppo x Girls Who Prompt: What Happens When Machines Start Teaching Us?
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we sit down with Indrek Seppo — one of Estonia’s leading AI experts, a teacher, a dad, and someone who’s been working with AI for more than a decade (back when ChatGPT wasn’t even a dream).Indrek shares some tools and practical tips and we talk about:Why AI fascinates him — and what really gets people to move from curiosity to actionTakes into moments from real
#5 We Asked AI How to Get Rich (So You Don’t Have To) - AI in Personal Finance
In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we tackle our first listener-suggested topic — AI in personal finance. With Christmas (and spending season) around the corner, we go straight for the question everyone’s secretly asking: “Hey AI, how do I get rich?” 🤑What starts as a joke quickly turns into a real conversation about how AI can help you make smarter money decisions — and where it’s still wiser t
#4 AI & Relationships: When Code Gets Emotional
From AI lovers to virtual best friends - the line between technology and emotion is getting blurry.In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave talk about what happens when algorithms start filling human roles: partners, friends, and even soulmates.We explore AI lover apps, the friend.com subway ads that created lot of buzz , and the growing question — can an AI really feel anything back, or
#3 How to Outsmart AI in the Job Market
The world of work is changing faster than ever - and learning might be the only real job security left.In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave talk about how technology is reshaping careers - which roles are fading, which are evolving, and how to stay relevant when skills have an expiry date.We explore real scenarios, share personal takes, and drop a secret formula for reaching the C-le
#2 AI Assistants: More Time, Less Chaos?
We all wanted AI to save us time - not run our lives. But can it actually help us work smarter and live better?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we talk about how AI assistants can step in to handle the long, boring, and brain-draining parts of work and everyday life — freeing space for creativity, focus, and maybe even a break.And yes, we also check in on Karin’s latest adventure — her venture
#1 AI as Your Co-Founder? Startup Dreams (and Nightmares)
What if your next startup co-founder wasn’t human… but AI?In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we dive into the idea of “AI as your co-founder.” Karin shares her experience as a founder and explores how artificial intelligence might reshape the startup scene - from decision-making and research to strategy, creativity, raising money and beyond.But can AI really take the role of a co-founder, or is
#0 Girls Who Prompt: Why We Finally Hit Record
Two women, two mics, and way too many AI experiments.In our intro episode, Karin and Ave share who we are, why this podcast exists, and what you can expect from Girls Who Prompt.Welcome to the very first episode in a space where curiosity meets technology (and where we definitely don’t pretend to have all the answers). And yes, where Ave & Karin meet AI.This is our “press record” moment:Karin
