Singer-songwriter Emma Langford joins the conversation tounpack how technology shapes modern music-making, why AI needs real guardrails, and what gets lost when we outsource human growth to machines. She shares whatit’s like building soundscapes for a stage adaptation of her partner’s novel Me, Myself and Them, and why studio experimentation is its own creative craft.

Emma also reflects on writing an overt, rage-fueled response to the Natasha O’Brien court case and what it means to keep breaking glass ceilings when it would be easier to stay quiet.

Key Events Timeline

🎭 00:00 New Stage Project: Turning A Novel Into A Dark, Musical Soundscape
🎛️03:00 How Studio Tech Becomes Part Of The Songwriting Process
🤖05:00 AI, Power, And Why Admin Should Be Automated—Not Art
⚡11:00 Writing A Protest Track In Real Time After The Natasha O’Brien Case
🧱16:00 The Seduction Of Eve, Glass Ceilings, And Choosing Not To Stay Small

Books Mentioned:

Me, Myself and Them by Dan Mooney — the novel Emma’spartner wrote (and that they’re now bringing to the stage).

Amazon.com:Me, Myself and Them: A Funny and Realistic Contemporary Novel About OvercomingAnxiety and Grief: 9780778307778: Mooney, Dan: Books

Music/Artists Mentioned:

Emma Langford — Boys Will Be Boys (F* That)** —https://youtu.be/foHKwZSFt6w?si=9PIqMYrOFT5AYv8R
Emma Langford — The Seduction of Eve — https://youtu.be/5Zs7Q26Nkjw?si=hXjaY7lF_cf_9F5U

Emma Langford — Birdsong - https://youtu.be/HwcAzf9GUDo?si=tg9xogsWX5OQbgW-

Emma Langford — Goodbye Hawaii – the origin of the “mouth horn” -

https://youtu.be/ZsgZQOGZqsM?si=3oqteXmx63egL2lF

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Procurement leader Janice Marquardt shares how moderne-auction programs drive clarity, speed, and transparency—without devolving into “race to the bottom” pricing. She lays out the right order of buy-in (executives → procurement → technical teams → suppliers) and how language andexpectations shape outcomes. Janice also walks through a real rollout that delivered $2M in value within 12 weeks across ~60 auctions on ~$58M in spend, plus why municipalities can succeed when quality and safety are front-and-center.

Helpful Tip: Secure executive buy-in first, then align your procurement team before looping in technical stakeholders and suppliers.

A smart e-auction program begins with executive alignmentand continues by equipping procurement to tell the value story—before engaging technical teams or suppliers. Done this way, e-auctions become a negotiation superpower rather than a blunt cost hammer.

Key Events Timeline

🟣 00:00:00 Janice’s path from engineering to procurement and launching her consultancy
📘00:04:00 E-auctions 101 and why she wrote Transform Procurement: The Value of E-Auctions
🚦00:07:00 Myth-busting: not a race to the bottom—scope clarity, speed, and market transparency
🧭00:11:00 Change management: the exact buy-in sequence that makes programs stick
🚀00:14:00 Fast start: 12-week rollout, ~$2M value, ~60 auctions on ~$58M spend
❓00:19:00 MTMG Questions

Notable References

Books Mentioned: Transform Procurement: The Value ofE-Auctions — Janice Marquardt (Amazon):https://www.amazon.ie/Transform-Procurement-Auctions-Janice-Marquardt/dp/B0F8BDR69X

Podcasts Mentioned: Dare to Lead — Brené Brown(Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/3oEPsPKDhPVoNNL7pH5db6
Dare to Lead — Emily & Amelia Nagoski on Burnout (Spotify episode): https://open.spotify.com/episode/5n3wvqU0Tt9eKWAZZX9Vww

Music/Artists Mentioned: “Into the Unknown” — IdinaMenzel & AURORA (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIOyB9ZXn8s

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Aisling Mooney spent 15 years navigating infertility before finding her own answer in research her doctors had never heard of - a simple switch in medications and timing that worked straight away. In this episode she tells Tara how that sent her to teach herself Python, index over half a million peer-reviewed papers and trials, and whittle them down to 25,000 core articles for Fertally, the platform she founded. She also explains why a master's in psychoanalysis shapes how she builds: pacing, white space, and keeping cognitive load light when the data is heavy. Plus the rating matrix that keeps humans in the loop with the AI, why she is upfront about every AI-generated summary, and the annual habit behind the novel she wrote that nobody published.

📌 Key Events

🎯 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro

🎨 01:00 Lunch with Dorothea Tanning

🧬 04:00 Fifteen years, one protocol

🔍 09:00 From 500,000 papers to 25,000

🧠 12:00 Psychoanalysis meets system design

🤖 16:00 Practical AI workshops in Wexford

💡 Tip worth stealing: Do one thing every year that scares you. Aisling's habit is deliberate - one year it was writing a novel. Twenty publishers said no. She counts it anyway, because the point was doing the frightening thing, not selling it.

🎵 Music: Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie. Aisling's pick for the first song on the playlist of her life, and she explains why: a constant sense of urgency, test the idea now, drop it fast if it's bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I

📝 Worth a look: Fertally - sign up for early access to the platform Aisling built. https://fertally.com/

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