Episode 012 - Auto-Magical: Two Marines, Two AIs, One Book with Mike Wish and Buddy Rushing

Two Marines sat down to rewrite a hundred-year-old book and finished it in four hours. In this episode of AI Made Simple, Carmen Skipworth sits down with Mike Wish and Buddy Rushing — co-founders of White Feather AI, teaching veterans, first responders and business owners to actually use AI. They met at a Naval Academy career conference where Buddy was running what he calls an anti-job fair. Then they took Wallace Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich, opened a shared screen with their two personal AIs, Maverick and Ender, and watched the book write itself. Buddy explains why most people get "pretty decently dressed up garbage" out of ChatGPT and the three steps that fix it. Mike explains why he almost never uses a special prompt. Human-Led. AI-Powered.

HOST
Carmen Skipworth

GUESTS
Mike Wish — co-founder of White Feather AI, an educator and systems builder who turns complex ideas into frameworks that work under pressure. A Naval Academy graduate who ran a math and physics tutoring business alongside a small publishing house, with a dozen books published.

Buddy Rushing — founder and CEO of White Feather Investments, helping veterans, first responders and military families achieve financial freedom through real estate. A Naval Academy graduate who built White Feather while serving active duty in the Marine Corps.

SUMMARY
Buddy tells Carmen how a Service Academy Career Conference became an anti-job fair: everyone else pitched benefit packages, he pitched never needing a job again. Mike had the fire in his eyes, and the pair clocked AI as a train coming through that was going to run everything over. They entered at the frontier and had to walk all the way back down. At a real estate club last week, everyone had ChatGPT on their phone and not one person had ever written a custom instruction. The book is the centrepiece: four in the room, two of them human, Maverick and Ender firing chapters onto a shared screen while Buddy describes the Swordfish montage. Four hours. His line on why most people's AI disappoints them lands hardest — you haven't trained it.

MAIN TOPICS
The anti-job fair and how Mike and Buddy met
Building White Feather while active duty Marine Corps
White Feather Road: how the company got its name
A room of successful investors with zero custom instructions
Rewriting The Science of Getting Rich in four hours
Why untrained AI gives you dressed up garbage
Reverse prompting: making the AI interview you

INTRIGUING QUOTES
"If you haven't done those three basic steps, you're gonna get pretty decently dressed up garbage." — Buddy Rushing
"It's like working with a genius level 11 year old." — Mike Wish
"It's people who are relentlessly curious and have very little ego." — Buddy Rushing
"This book is writing itself real time live. It felt auto-magical." — Buddy Rushing

KEY MOMENTS
[04:17] How Mike and Buddy met, and the anti-job fair
[10:56] White Feather Road and the bag at church
[15:36] A room of multi-millionaires and not one custom instruction
[18:08] The Science of Getting Rich and Mike's crazy idea
[21:00] Four hours, four voices, one book
[25:28] Dressed up garbage, and the three steps that fix it
[28:43] What "train it" actually means
[30:02] Reverse prompting: make it interview you
[34:18] Wispr Flow, and connecting your tools inside Claude

NOTABLE RESOURCES
ChatGPT
Claude
Wispr Flow
The Science of Getting Rich in the Age of AI by Buddy Rushing & Michael Wish
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
White Feather AI — whitefeather-ai.com
White Feather Investments — whitefeatherinvestments.com
The White Feather AI community on Skool

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AI Made Simple is the podcast for emerging leaders and entrepreneurs who know AI matters, but feel overwhelmed by the noise. Hosted by Carmen Skipworth, this show cuts through fear-based headlines, technical jargon, and fluffy inspiration to bring you clear, practical, human-led conversations about artificial intelligence. You don't need to be technical. You don't need to move at tech speed. And you don't need to feel behind. Each episode helps you understand AI in a way that feels calm, accessible, and actionable, so you can confidently partner with it in your life and business. This isn't about AI replacing humans. It's about humans leading with clarity while using AI as a powerful ally. If you're ready to stop feeling overwhelmed and start feeling equipped, you're in the right place. AI Made Simple. Human-Led. AI-Powered.