AI for Creative Professionals: AI Tools & Prompts for Designers, Writers & Marketers
AI for Creative Professionals is a podcast for designers, writers, marketers, and video creators who are curious about AI but feel overwhelmed by it. Each week the host tests AI tools aimed at creatives and shares what worked, what did not, and what she would avoid. The show requires no coding and includes honest accounts of mistakes made while trying the tools. It is aimed at freelancers who want to stay relevant and keep their own voice as AI changes the creative industry.
Episodes
Can AI Build You a Personalized Course? (I Tested It on Myself)
You've probably done this: asked ChatGPT to "teach me photography" and gotten one giant answer you copied into a Notion doc and never opened again. I did the opposite. I built myself a real six-week audio engineering course, specifically to close a gap I already knew I had, not to relearn the basics.
I made AI interview me before it wrote a single lesson, forced it toward one specific finish line
How to Stand Out as a Creative in 2026 When Everyone Has a Good Portfolio in AI Era
Your portfolio shows what you made. But does it show how you think?
In this episode, I make the case for an “audio CV” — a small, 8-episode podcast designed to help designers, writers, editors, photographers, and other creative professionals stand out to employers and potential clients.
We get into what those episodes should actually be about, examples for different creative professions, why you d
Is It Safe to Put Client Files Into ChatGPT? AI Client Confidentiality for Freelancers in 2026
Would you email an unreleased client interview to some random company you've never worked with? Probably not. But most of us do the AI version of that without a second thought. This episode is about what actually happens to client information the moment it goes into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and the four questions worth asking before anything gets uploaded again.
By the end you'll have an exact
AI for Creatives: My Honest Take on AI & Creative Work (This or That Pt. 2)
How much AI should actually be part of a creative professional's work?
In Part 2 of my This or That episode, I'm answering the AI questions I didn't get to last time, from ChatGPT vs. Claude and AI-generated imagery vs. stock photography to automation, traditional creative skills, AI overwhelm, and whether I'd actually want AI to become more capable than it already is. Listen to Pt. 1 episode HERE
Portfolio Skills That Still Get Creative Professionals Hired in the AI Era
Which creative skills actually still sell now that everyone has access to AI? That's what I went looking for real data on this time. I dug up job posting numbers and freelance rate reports, and I also went back through my own 2018 portfolio, which is mostly dropshipping ad cuts made in Premiere and Filmora and Canva templates with a different product photo dropped in. It's cringe. it's not bad wor
How AI Is Changing Where Creatives Get Their Work Found
AI search is changing how clients find creative professionals, freelancers, designers, writers, podcast producers, photographers, and other independent creatives online. In this episode, I’m looking at how ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and other AI search tools are changing online discovery, what Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) actually means, and what you can do to improve your c
Why Constant AI Use Is Making Creatives More Anxious, Not More Productive
Why does having AI handle more of your work leave you feeling more anxious, not less? That's the real question behind this episode on AI burnout and AI anxiety for creative professionals: designers, writers, marketers, anyone whose day is work plus side projects plus a constant queue of content. I break down exactly what the stacking looked like for me: client work, my own side projects, YouTube,
I Went to a Godsmack Concert and It Explained Everything AI Still Can't Touch
There are experiences AI still can't replace - live music, theater, live sports, and handmade craft all resist AI replication for real psychological reasons, not just sentiment. This episode breaks down exactly why, using concepts like collective effervescence and the effort heuristic to explain what AI can generate versus what it can never actually recreate.
I went to a Godsmack concert last Sund
Why Creative Freelancers Hit an Income Ceiling (And What's on the Other Side)
If you're a creative professional - a designer, writer, marketer, videographer, illustrator - using AI tools to work faster and still not seeing your rates move, this episode is probably about you. I'm following up on something I said back in June and didn't fully explain: that I'm thinking about upskilling into something closer to where client revenue actually lives. A month later, I still don't
Is Stock Photography Dead? What's Happening With AI and Stock Photos in 2026
Is stock photography dead? That's the question that sent me down a rabbit hole this week... after a random Saturday spent bouncing between buying Godsmack tickets, messing with my own website, and generating about forty AI images for my blog. One of them looked exactly like something I would've paid twelve bucks for on a stock site a couple years ago. So I went and checked what's actually happenin
Do You Really Need 30 Tools to Run a Creative Freelance Business? My Simple Tech Stack
If you've ever searched "best freelance business tools" or "simple tech stack for freelancers" at eleven at night instead of doing the actual client work sitting in another tab.... well, same, and this episode's for you.
I break down the four things a service-based creative business actually needs - a website, an onboarding process, one workspace, and a real offer. And where that stack usually bal
ChatGPT Made Me Answer 100+ Questions About My Own Life, Cold (This or That Pt. 1)
This episode is a little different. I'm answering a completely unprepared round of This or That questions that ChatGPT asked, from food, travel, fitness, and music to freelancing, creative work, money, personal projects, and the kind of creative career I actually want.
Some answers were easy. Others made me question choices I've apparently been making for years.
We get into everything from creativ
AI for Freelancers: The Pricing Math Nobody Warns You About
If you're a creative freelancer using AI and still not making more money, you're not imagining it... the math in fact doesn't work out the way everyone promises. This episode is the honest, unfiltered version of that problem, starting from a night I couldn't sleep doing that exact math in my head.
I'd been lying awake doing math in my head, realizing I was repeating the exact same overcommitting p
Is AI Killing Authenticity, or Are We Just Overcorrecting?
I've heard some version of the same advice about five times in the last couple weeks from content coaches, creator newsletters, and other podcasters: in the age of AI, people crave authenticity, so keep your episodes messy, leave in the tangents, don't over-edit. I agree with about 70% of that. It's the other 30% I think we're taking way too far.
In this episode I get into why editing and authenti
AI Tools Are Not an AI Strategy. What Creative Professionals Need Instead
Six AI subscriptions. Three I use regularly. That's what I found going through my own bank statement, and it's the whole reason this episode exists because collecting AI tools isn't the same thing as having an AI strategy, and I think a lot of us have basically mixed those two up.
This one's about where AI actually fits into creative work: research, ideation, production, distribution, and why spre
AI Slop vs. Canva Slop: Why AI Design Tools Make Everything Look the Same
"AI slop" isn't just a meme - it's a real design failure pattern, and it's got a 1985 ancestor most designers have never heard of. This episode breaks down the "ransom note effect," why AI image tools are heading toward smooth sameness instead of visible chaos, and what that means for anyone using AI tools for designers right now.
Okay so you know that specific visual, the AI-generated poster with
Content Overload Is Real, but Creatives Don’t Actually Have Shorter Attention Spans
If you've felt exhausted before you've even opened an app, you're not imagining it — content overload is a real, measurable problem, and it started well before AI showed up. This episode traces it back to 2015, debunks the "humans have shorter attention spans than goldfish" myth that never had real science behind it, and gets into why AI didn't create the oversupply problem, it just stepped on th
How I Produce a Podcast Solo Using AI Tools in Under Two Hours
Here's my actual AI-assisted podcast production workflow - no editor, no team, recorded to fully scheduled in under two hours most weeks. If you're a solo creator wondering how AI tools actually fit into a real production process (not a fantasy one), this is the unglamorous, specific version.
In this episode I walk through exactly how I do it. The tools, the order I do things in, and why that orde
AI Copyright Lawsuits Explained. What Artists Need to Know Right Now
If you're a working artist trying to understand the AI copyright lawsuits actually happening right now — Disney, Midjourney, Stability AI, Andersen v. Stability... this episode breaks down what's real, what's legal precedent, and what it means for your work. I spent a night deep in r/ArtistHate and came out with the data, the court documents, and the industry reporting to back it up.
What I discov
AI Saves Time, So Why Are We Working More? AI Productivity Paradox Explained
AI productivity tools are supposed to help creative professionals work faster, reduce repetitive tasks, and create more in less time. And they do, but I’ve noticed a strange AI productivity paradox in my own creative workflow: even when ChatGPT and other generative AI tools help me finish my work earlier, I somehow end up working longer. In this episode, I explore why AI efficiency doesn’t always
Will AI Replace Creative Careers? The Data on Who's Adapting and Who's Struggling
Will AI replace designers, writers, and other creative careers? The real data says it's more complicated than the panic headlines. Graphic designers went from "moderately growing" to a top-11 fastest-declining job in two years, but the picture isn't uniform. This episode walks through the actual research on AI and freelance income, career adaptation, and what to actually do about it.
Some of it is
AI Tools for Designers | How to Create AI Visuals Without a Design Degree
These are the AI tools for designers I actually use for real client work — not the ones I wish I had time to master. This episode covers AI image generation tools for creatives who need usable results fast, with an honest breakdown of what's worth your time and what isn't.
Just got back from Greece (yes, I was working on holiday because my brain literally cannot turn off when I'm following AI news
Why AI Writing Sounds Robotic (And How to Make AI Writing Sound Like You)
If you've ever read AI writing and cringed at "unlock your true potential" or "elevate your business game," this episode is about exactly why that happens — and how to make AI writing sound human instead. I found the AI-written podcast description that inspired this deep-dive, and we get into the specific techniques for keeping your creative voice intact.
So I was hunting for new podcasts the othe
Advanced AI Prompts for Creatives: Prompt Engineering Beyond the Basics
Ready to go past basic AI prompts? This episode covers advanced prompt engineering techniques for creatives — chain-of-thought prompting, comparative prompting, constraint-based prompting, and reverse prompting — so you stop getting the same predictable AI output everyone else gets.
I'm sharing some advanced AI prompting tricks that'll help you break free from those bland, generic AI responses we'
How to Write AI Prompts for Creative Work | A Beginner's Framework
Learning how to write AI prompts is the single skill that changes everything else about using AI for creative work — this episode breaks down seven core principles plus discipline-specific frameworks for writers, designers, marketers, and photographers. No tech background required.
Tired of getting bland, generic responses from AI tools? In this episode I break down the art of effective prompting
AI for Creative Professionals: Where to Start If You're a Complete Beginner
If you're a designer, writer, or marketer who's been avoiding AI tools out of overwhelm, this is the beginner's starting point. No assumption you want to become an engineer. This episode covers what AI tools actually do, how they fit into creative work, and how to start without freaking out.
Remember when we all thought layer masks in Photoshop were complicated?
Or when you first encountered th
AI for Creative Professionals: Show Trailer — AI Tools for Designers, Writers & Marketers
Hey creative pros! Tiana here.
Remember those moments when your creative tank hits empty but your to-do list is still stuffed to the brim? That point where you're staring at an empty Premiere Pro project and your coffee is doing nothing except making your eye twitch faster? We've all been in that creative quicksand - where even your favorite playlist can't pull you out.😑
After seven years of makin
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