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After more than fifteen years of publishing daily and mentoring over 3,000 entrepreneurs, Chris Cooper has watched the game change completely. The old constraints — lack of information, lack of tools, lack of access to markets — are mostly gone. What's left is internal.

In this episode of Business Is Good, Chris names the six specific beliefs he has watched, across thousands of entrepreneurs, quietly decide who grows and who stays stuck. These myths don't feel like limitations. They feel like wisdom — disguised as caution, humility, and responsibility. That's exactly what makes them so expensive.

The six myths covered in this episode:

1. "I need to learn more before I act."
2. "If I raise my prices, I'll lose clients."
3. "No one can do this as well as I can."
4. "Wanting to make real money means something's wrong with me."
5. "Growing my business means I'll never have a life."
6. "I'll do it when things slow down."

Each myth gets named, examined, and dismantled — with a real-world example showing what it costs and what changes when it breaks.

This episode also introduces the Mindset Myth Buster — a free 15-minute worksheet that helps you identify which belief is running your business right now and commit to one specific action to break through it.

The limiting factor in your business isn't the market, the economy, or your industry. It's the story you're telling yourself. This episode helps you change it.

Free worksheet at businessisgood.com.

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Is AI your ally or your enemy? On this episode of Business is Good, Chris Cooper makes the case that the answer is entirely up to you.

Chris opens with a story that didn't get nearly enough attention: Anthropic — the company behind the AI model Claude — recently developed a tool called Claude Mythos Preview that found thousands of security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. Some of those flaws had gone undetected for nearly three decades. Rather than releasing the technology publicly, Anthropic quietly shared it with about 50 of the world's most critical companies — Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, JPMorgan — through a program called Project Glasswing. The goal: fix the holes before bad actors find them. That's AI being used as a force for protection.

Then Chris gets into why so many artists, writers, and editors are terrified — and why the recent collapse of a major book deal for horror novelist Mia Ballard is a story about deception, not technology. Her editor used AI without her knowledge, her publisher dropped her, and her career was left in ruins. The lesson isn't to avoid AI. The lesson is to own your process and be transparent about it.

From there, Chris walks through exactly how he produces this podcast using AI: brain dumps into Claude, fact-checking that actually pushes back, plus audio editing, video clipping, social content, and graphics — saving roughly five hours per episode.

The episode closes with a simple argument: AI bridges gaps. It removes the excuses. And curiosity is the only prerequisite.

Topics: AI tools, small business productivity, content creation, Canadian entrepreneurship, technology adoption

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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 where to watch the video: https://youtu.be/xwPRU70r24E

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.

New episodes every Monday at businessisgood.com.

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