Sage Advice #6 – Avery Swartz – “Pluck the Day…Don’t Be a D**k.”

In the sixth episode of Sage Advice, ⁠ Hamza Khan ⁠ welcomes tech educator, entrepreneur, and AI adoption advocate ⁠ Avery Swartz ⁠ for a hilarious and heart-expanding conversation about clarity, kindness, and carving a human path through the digital world. As the founder of Camp Tech and co-lead of AI Skills Lab Canada , Avery is on a mission to demystify technology and make AI accessible for everyone—especially women and non-binary entrepreneurs. Together, she and Hamza explore what it means to lead with radical empathy in an age of algorithms. They riff on everything from the wisdom of Martha Graham to the quiet devastation of burnout, and from maternal loss to the surprising poetry of website planning. Avery shares how the best advice she ever received became even better once she reframed it—inviting us not to seize the day, but to pluck it gently. With humour and honesty, she challenges hustle culture, dismantles tech gatekeeping, and offers a more gracious, grounded approach to learning, leading, and living. Avery’s timeless advice: 1) Pluck the day, 2) Be where you are, and 3) Don’t be a dick. This episode is a masterclass in compassionate clarity—with some of the best one-liners in Sage Advice history.

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Sage Advice #6 – Avery Swartz – “Pluck the Day…Don’t Be a D**k.” is an episode from Ideas Into Action by Hamza Khan.

This episode is 01:12:56 long.

This episode was published on Jul 6, 2025.

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