Jamie McCauley

Jamie McCauley is the co-host of AI Hustle, the top-ranked business podcast he produces three times a week with Jaeden Schafer. The show sits in the top 5% of all podcasts globally and in the top 100 of Apple’s Entrepreneurship charts — not because it chases AI hype, but because Jamie brings a rare thing to an AI business show: a long, documented track record of actually building the kind of small, cash-flowing businesses the show talks about.

Before he was an AI podcaster, Jamie and his wife Sarah ran a wedding photography business in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that hit roughly $150,000 a year in revenue before they wound it down. During the 2020 slowdown he started a YouTube channel about furniture flipping, pallet reselling, and house renovations; it grew to more than 100,000 subscribers and 20 million views, and CNBC profiled the couple in a 2022 feature on how their side-hustle teaching business clears around $9,000 a month. In parallel, Jamie spent more than a decade quietly building a real-estate portfolio — today eleven fully renovated rental units in West Michigan, generating low-five-figures in monthly passive income.

That résumé is what makes him a credible voice on AI Hustle. The show is about using AI to accelerate real, boring, profit-making businesses — agencies, creator channels, small service shops, rental ops — and Jamie has lived every one of those categories. He’s an early adopter of ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the current wave of AI automation tools, and his lens on every episode is the same one he’s used for a decade of side hustles: anyone can do this, if you can see the playbook clearly and ship faster than the next person.