Can AI really take your job? with Ron mangune
Is AI coming for your job? Ron Mangune won’t pretend it can’t. But he says it will never carry the one thing you bring to the work God gave you — your passion. And that single shift changes everything about how you approach it.
On this episode of the Faith & AI Show, host Dice Gamble sits down with Ron — 20 years in technology, 15 in telecom, who built a support team from three people to thirty. Here’s the twist: he’s not a coder. He just got curious, started asking Claude questions, and ended up building around 20 apps that save his team hours every week. Now he builds voice AI — the kind that can answer a business phone and talk with the caller in their own language.
In this episode, Ron gets into:
- Why you should always start with the problem, not the tool
- How a church with one English-speaking secretary could answer calls from an entire multicultural congregation — each in their own language
- Why every AI tool needs guardrails, and the calls he says should always have a real human on the line
- The mindset he calls “being brave enough to be dumb again”
- What “baptism through fire” taught him about learning by breaking things and trying anyway
If you’ve ever felt like you’re too late, too far behind, or just too “non-technical” to touch AI, this conversation is the permission slip — and the roadmap — to start.
Watch or listen to the full episode now — and learn to navigate AI without fear, and faith without compromise.
The Faith & AI Show is part of the Holy Culture Podcast Network — the only podcast built at the intersection of faith and AI.
