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Most entrepreneurs know they should be creating more content. What stops them isn't motivation — it's time, and the feeling that each piece requires starting from scratch.

In this episode, Chris Cooper sits down and shows his exact AI content workflow, live and in real time. Starting from a blank screen, he walks through how he uses five AI tools in sequence to go from zero to a fully published content package — podcast, video, blog post, Instagram carousel, short-form clips — in under 20 minutes.

Here's the workflow:

Perplexity handles the research. Give it your audience and your topic area, and it tells you exactly what to talk about — then writes the script for you.

Claude takes that script and multiplies it. One script becomes Instagram captions, carousel slides, a WordPress draft, and a YouTube thumbnail. All from one prompt.

Descript turns your raw recording into a polished video. Edit by deleting text. Remove filler words in one click. Fix your eye contact. Level your audio. Export to podcast and video simultaneously.

Opus Clips watches your video, picks the best short-form moments, captions them, and posts them directly to social — while you're already working on the next thing.

The result: eight to ten pieces of content from a single recording session. No graphic design skills required. No video editing experience required. No social media team required.

If you're a Canadian entrepreneur who knows content matters but keeps running out of time to make it, this episode shows you exactly where to start.

Connect with Chris Cooper:

Website - https://businessisgood.com/

fter World War II, villagers on a Pacific island built bamboo replicas of military airstrips — and waited for the planes to come back. They still wait today. Historians call it a "cargo cult": a community so committed to repeating the rituals of success that they completely lose sight of what actually caused that success in the first place.

This episode is about what happens when brands do the same thing.

Using CrossFit as the central case study — and drawing on the timelines of Kodak, Blackberry, and Blockbuster — Chris Cooper maps out exactly how a thriving, innovative brand calcifies into a cult. The signs are predictable. The pattern is consistent. And the result is always the same: the company stops evolving while competitors do the science.

You'll learn the five warning signs that a brand is heading toward cult status, what the "dark ages" look like inside a company, and why the most dangerous thing a business can do is confuse its method with its mission.

This episode ends with the biggest test facing businesses right now: AI. The companies that are already testing, experimenting, and adapting will be the ones still standing. The ones waiting for things to go back to normal are building bamboo control towers.

If you're a Canadian business owner who wants to grow — not just survive — this one's for you.

Connect with Chris Cooper:

Website - https://businessisgood.com/

Every election, politicians promise to create jobs. There's just one problem: governments can't create real, sustainable jobs. Not in a way that adds value to the economy. Not in a way that pays for itself.

In this episode of BusinessIsGood, Chris Cooper breaks down the fundamental difference between governments that create the conditions for businesses to grow — and governments that try to substitute for them.

The right approach looks like clear laws, enforced contracts, solid infrastructure, and sensible protections. When that's done well, businesses grow. They hire. They pay taxes. They fill the pot that funds our hospitals, schools, and roads.

The wrong approach is governments hiring their way to "full employment." Unlike private-sector jobs, these positions produce no goods, serve no paying customers, and generate no revenue. They consume the pot instead of filling it.

Here's what that actually costs. The Parliamentary Budget Office calculated that the average full-time federal government worker costs $125,300 per year in total compensation — salary, pension, paid time off, and benefits included. The average Canadian individual taxpayer pays roughly $24,000 a year in total taxes. That means it takes about five taxpayers' entire annual tax bills just to fund one government position.

Meanwhile, more than one in five Canadian workers now works in government — and nearly half of all net new jobs created since 2019 have been in the public sector. Chris explains why the bureaucracy almost never shrinks, introduces the concept of More's Law, and makes the case for why your business is more important to this country than you might think.

Connect with Chris Cooper:

Website - https://businessisgood.com/