Robin Heaston
I'm Robin Heaston. I live in Columbia, South Carolina, and I run Heaston Innovations, an agency that builds websites, CRMs, and AI tools for small businesses. I have also been a realtor for a little over two years. Between the two, I have spent a lot of time watching how people actually make decisions, not how they are supposed to on paper, and that is most of what I bring to this show.
The rest of my time goes into Heaston Innovations. I founded it and I still run it. It's an agency built around one plain problem: most small businesses have no idea whether people can actually find them anymore, whether that's a regular search, an AI answer, or someone asking their phone a question out loud. We build the websites, the AI tools, and the automation that sits underneath all of that, so the answer to "can people find you" is yes instead of a shrug.
I also host another show, Anything & Nothing Podcast. And when none of that is happening, I'm probably on a golf course, playing worse than I'd like to admit.
Here's the thing about Dewey or Don't We. Dr. Fisher spent his life inside philosophy, real academic work, decades of it, in rooms most people never walk into. I didn't. What I bring to the table is everyday life: work, money, technology, relationships, whatever people are actually dealing with on a Tuesday. He hands me the big idea. I drag it down to ground level and ask what it means for somebody running a business, raising a kid, or trying to figure out whether the AI thing is worth the hype or just the noise.
That gap between us isn't a flaw in the show. It's the whole point. If two people who already think alike sit down and talk, all you get is an echo. Put a philosopher who has spent decades on the meaning of an idea across the table from a guy who sells houses and builds AI tools for a living, and you get something worth actually listening to.
I'm not here to win the argument, and I'm not here to prove I know more than Doc. I don't, not in his lane, and I wouldn't try. What I'm here for is to keep asking the question everyone listening is asking themselves: okay, but what do I actually do with that?
At the end of the day, that's the job. Take the idea Dr. Fisher brings, make it useful, and hand it back to whoever's listening.
