Fresh off Friday's AI Portland event for job seekers, Megan and Nicole bring AI Portland's favorite resume expert, Andrea Gerson, onto the podcast for round two. This one goes deep on what actually moves an ATS score, why LinkedIn should work more like a dartboard than a diary, and why the fundamentals of a good resume haven't really changed much—even as everything else has.

Andrea, founder of Resume Scripter, has read tens of thousands of resumes over her career and is watching AI reshape both sides of hiring in real time. She breaks down what took one resume from a 40 to a 100 on an ATS screen without any keyword stuffing, why "context, scope, outcome" beats a list of tasks every time, and why showing a little more humanity on a resume is starting to work in people's favor again.

Along the way:


🎯 Why "context, scope, outcome" beats a bullet list of tasks, every time


📊 How Andrea took one resume from a 40 to a 100 ATS score without keyword stuffing


🪞 Why LinkedIn should work like a dartboard, not a diary


🚪 Why the shift toward self-employment and entrepreneurship might be the next real change in how we work

Plus: the great car-vs-walking-and-talking LinkedIn influencer video debate, Nicole's dream job checking people out at New Seasons, and a full-circle return to manifesting as a legitimate job search strategy.

Breaking news: Andrea's new pathfinder tool is NOW LIVE! Try it out here: PathFinder

Related links:

• Andrea Gerson / Resume Scripter
• Oregon AI Accelerator

"Burtual" Reality: AI in Healthcare Redux

Megan and Nicole reunite the experts from their AI + Healthcare panel for the conversation they didn't get to have in front of the live crowd: no time limits, no audience questions, just Megan and Nicole finally getting to ask what they actually wanted to know. Joining them: Janet Johnson, founder of the AI Governance Group; Dr. Arpi Chalian, a physician and systems-thinker; and Burt Rosen, who manages his own cancer care as a true partnership between himself, his doctors, and AI.

Join our meaty conversation about what AI is already doing to healthcare — the real benefits, the privacy trade-offs, and the questions of access and equity that don't get nearly enough airtime.

Along the way:


• Why the "always-on" nature of AI might matter more than we think
• The privacy trade-offs we keep pretending we haven't already made
• Why the real equity story is rural and underserved communities, not early adopters

• Burt's new obsession: building a "digital twin" to test-drive his own healthcare decisions

Last week was a full week. Like, genuinely full: mayors, panels, happy hours, and a revelation about cheese portions.

Megan and Nicole are back to unpack a stretch that somehow included a civic tech incubation lab with the City of Portland and Oregon State University, a sold-out healthcare panel that had people fired up enough to walk out (we mean that as a compliment), and a happy hour collaboration with Prosper Portland that brought knife makers and violin professors into the same room to talk AI.

The healthcare conversation hit different: featuring Janet Johnson from the AI Governance Group, cancer patient and AI power-user Burt Rosen, and pediatrician Dr. Arpi Chalian, the panel dove into the real, messy, genuinely unresolved questions around AI in medicine.

Along the way:

🏙️ How a civic incubation lab at Big Pink is setting the stage for Portland Startup Week's hackathon in May

🩺 The "three-legged stool" model: you, your doctor, and your AI

🧬 N=1 medicine vs. population-level care — and why Burt cares most about one of those

⚖️ The uncomfortable space between AI's promise in healthcare and the very real risks of getting it wrong

🧀 The just-right amount of cheese (no, really — it was a breakthrough)

Plus: the mayor shakes hands and cleans up trash, a Nighthawk connection that somehow ties into the panel, and Nicole finally nailing the snack situation after years of cheese surplus.

Related links:

• Janet Johnson
• Burt Rosen
• Dr. Arpi Chalian
• Oregon State University AI Week
• Prosper Portland
• Upstart Collective
• Civic Incubation Lab
• AI Portland Calendar of Events