The Podcast Interview Marketing Show

You Are Not One Funnel Away with Tom Schwab

July 1, 2026·25 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Interview Valet founder Tom Schwab challenges the seductive promise that one funnel, automation, or perfect sequence stands between you and business growth. Instead, he traces 200 years of communication technology - from Morse code to AI - revealing a pattern: each new tool got cheaper but stripped away human richness, until now. As synthetic content floods the internet, real conversations (especially podcast interviews) become the scarcest, most valuable form of trust-building. You're not one funnel away. You're one conversation away. The second installment in this special monthly series, Tom reads from his new mini-book, You Are Not One Funnel Away: The Real Way Trust Is Built In The Age of AI.   Timestamps From This Episode [02:36] The lie we were sold [09:24] Optimizing for an outdated detour [12:16] You are not one funnel away. You are one conversation away. [16:14] Will AI fake conversations?   Resources From This Episode Download the minibook – InterviewValet.com/minibook Get the minibook on Amazon Kindle – You Are Not One Funnel Away PodcastInterviewMarketing.com InterviewValet.com

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