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Algorithm Burnout

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Directed by James John Buzzacco
Produced by Creative Doorway
Format Talk-Show · Video Podcast
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A new kind of exhaustion is spreading — and it has nothing to do with working too hard. It starts the moment you try to share what you've built with the world. The content. The metrics. The optimization. The slow transformation into something the algorithm rewards. The Algorithm Burnout podcast captures what happens when real people start asking the questions everyone else is only thinking. 18 episodes. No filter. Now streaming.

The podcast is the live, ongoing exploration of that pattern — what happens when the metrics you chase start replacing the instincts you used to trust, and the person you perform starts replacing the person you actually are.

Every episode begins with a real question from the audience — people who've felt something shift and can't quite name it yet. Not the algorithm in our feeds. The one we've been running inside ourselves. If that resonates — you're not the first.

Genre
Talk-Show
Platform
YouTube
Year
2026
Status
18 Episodes

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Directed by James John Buzzacco · A Creative Doorway Production

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James John Buzzacco

James John Buzzacco

Director · Host · Producer

James John Buzzacco spent his career on the production side of identity — shaping how people and companies were seen, felt, and remembered. Nobody tells you this about spending your career helping others project optimized versions of themselves: you start doing it to yourself without realizing it. The same metrics he used to measure campaign success became the metrics he used to measure his own worth. The performance he helped clients sustain became his own.

The podcast is the live extension of that work — real questions, real time, no rehearsal.

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"A community of people brave enough to ask the questions out loud that most of us have only been thinking."

— Algorithm Burnout, The Podcast

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Clips and highlights circulate on social media. Full uncut episodes — the complete conversations — are available inside the Algorithm Burnout dashboard, alongside your personal ABI score and results.

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Each episode starts with a real question from the audience — and ends somewhere none of us expected. Full episodes are available inside the dashboard.

Ep 01
Is A.I. Actually Making Me Dumb?
James responds to Maddie B about colleagues losing their voice and personality to AI dependency — and why your gut instinct is the one thing no algorithm can replace.
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Ep 02
Are Success Formulas Actually a Lie?
A question about feeling like your business is being run by whatever trending idea pops up in your feed — and why chasing someone else's success formula is quietly eroding your own identity.
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Ep 03
Is AI Starting to Destroy Your Brand?
A small business owner notices their brand is starting to sound and look like everyone else — and why customers can absolutely tell when content feels too AI.
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Ep 04
Is It Bad for AI to Fake My Creative?
A creator feeling caught between evolving with the times and losing their creative identity to AI — and why using AI to replace your brand's DNA rather than support it is a line worth protecting.
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Ep 05
Is AI Causing an Identity Crisis?
Someone who has come to accept that AI can replicate a lifetime of learned skill — but can't accept what it's done to their sense of identity.
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Ep 06
How Did AI Steal My Job?
Someone who lost their job of 11 years to AI asks the question so many are afraid to: how is employment recovery even possible when AI just does the work better?
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Ep 07
Am I a Fraud for Projecting My Image?
Someone getting real engagement from projecting a bigger version of themselves online — but can't shake the anxiety that comes with it.
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Ep 08
Is the Wrong Dream Causing Your Burnout?
Someone genuinely confused about whether burnout means they've lost the love for their work — or if it's just another obstacle proving the dream is worth fighting for.
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Ep 09
Is Quietly Quitting Online Bad for My Biz?
A business owner who has been quietly quitting social media for years wants to know if their business can survive without an online presence or going all in on AI content.
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Ep 10
Is Anyone Actually Qualified Anymore Without AI?
A business owner burnt out from hiring people who use AI to appear overqualified — only to discover they can't actually do the job.
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Ep 11
Have I Become as Predictable as the Algorithm?
A content creator feeling boxed in by short-attention-span format rules — and questioning whether following them means sacrificing authentic expression.
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Ep 12
Did I Just Sell Myself Out for an Engagement Hack?
A yoga studio owner used sex appeal in their content to drive business — and it worked — but now they're attracting the wrong audience and questioning the cost.
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Ep 13
Why Doesn't My Brand Feel Like Me Anymore?
A business owner whose rebrand left their vision feeling completely foreign — and whether it was possible to scale without losing the heart of what they built.
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Ep 14
Did I Trade Human Connection for AI Tools?
A business owner who has leaned so heavily into AI tools that the absence of human collaboration has quietly become its own kind of burnout.
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Ep 15
Why Did Success Make Me Question My Worth?
A business owner who scaled to the level of success they always dreamed of — only to find that achieving it hurts more than chasing it ever did.
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Ep 16
Is My Brand Stuck in Survival Mode?
A creative business owner who admits financial gain has become their only driving force — and wants to know if it's still possible to build something with real depth from that place.
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Ep 17
Why Is AI Therapy Making Me Worse?
A content creator wondering if AI therapy could help them find their identity again — and why turning to the same source of your burnout to heal it may be the most dangerous paradox of the AI age.
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Ep 18
Did the Algorithm Replace My Personality?
Someone who used to feel creative and inspired — but now feels like they've become the very algorithm running their life.
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