AI Inspiration for Career Women

Season 3, Episode 3

In this episode of Elevate with Grace, Claire and Miranda tackle a topic that’s been buzzing in every inbox, newsfeed, and team meeting: AI. Not from a tech-guru angle, but from a grounded, thoughtful perspective on how it can actually help us live and work better. Whether you’re dabbling, avoiding, or already deep in AI experimentation, this conversation will help you find clarity, confidence and a human-first mindset in this new landscape.

We’re here to explore:

• How AI can be a career multiplier
• Why your human skills are your superpower
• The ethics of using AI intentionally, and what it means to stay in the driver’s seat

Key Takeaways & Quotes

• AI is a mindset shift, expect trial and error, and delayed gratification before the magic happens
• Start with one prompt a day, build AI into your workflow gradually
• Empathy, leadership and critical thinking are more valuable than ever
• You are still the author, AI can support, but never replace, your unique voice
• Ethics matter so know where your data is going and how your outputs reflect your values

“AI can be our co-pilot, but it's not our script writer. We are still the author of our lives.” – Miranda

“AI doesn’t make someone feel truly seen. That’s our edge. That’s our job.” – Claire

“Just because it reduces labour doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.” – Miranda

Run List

00.00 Introduction

02.00 Action Challenge Recap

05.10 AI as a Career Multiplier

15.02 Human Skills are still your superpower

24.00 The ethics of using AI intentionally

30.44 Action Challenge & Closing points

Key Resources Mentioned

• Tools:  ChatGPT, Descript, Canva, Copilot, Notion, Perplexity
• Courses: Allie Miller – AI for Everyone  & Tomer Cohen – AI + Product Thinking (LinkedIn Learning)
• Newsletters: The Rundown AI, The Neuron & Simple AI
• Podcasts:   How I Work by Amantha Imber
• Books & Articles:
  • Competing in the Age of AI by Karim R. Lakhani
  • Forbes: Gen Z and AI
  • HBR: Workplace Loneliness and AI
  • Disney/Universal v Midjourney (AI + IP Law)

Music created by Claire's daughter Hannah

Transcript

Miranda: 0:14

Welcome to Elevate with Grace, a podcast for people who are short on time and long to take steps to create success on their own terms. If you are feeling overworked, undervalued, and stuck in the daily juggle, knowing you are meant for more, then this podcast is for you. We cut through the noise to bring you the most valuable up-to-date insights, expert, wisdom and practical strategies with bite-sized actionable tips we help you take bold steps to creating real progress, real impact, and a career and life that truly work for you.

Claire: 0:45

Hello. Hello, beautiful friends and welcome back to Elevate with Grace. I am so excited for this episode. Okay. I know I say that every episode, but if you know me, you'll know i've become very interested in AI latelynot in a let's jump into the hottest new tech kind of way, but in a curious, how can this actually help me live in work better kind of way? Today, Miranda and I are diving into a conversation about ai. One that's practical and real and one that I know so many of us are wanting to explore right now. What is AI really all about for ambitious, thoughtful, evolving women like us. We're gonna talk about how we can use it intentionally to create more clarity, more ease, and more space to support our voice, protect our time, and take some of that admin off our shoulders. If your inbox and media feeds look anything like mine right now, the word AI is everywhere. Headlines, job descriptions, team meetings, webinars, and with it comes a lot of curiosity and maybe a bit of overwhelm too. So let's slow it down and let's explore this together. Firstly, AI and its potential to be a career multiplier, then about how our human skills are really our superpower for long-term success, and also touch on a bit of AI and ethics and why being thoughtful and cautious and wary is a good thing and absolutely required when we're exploring how we can use AI to double down on some things in our lives. This episode is about optimism and intention and letting AI help us where it can, and at the same time holding on to what makes us irreplaceably human. Before we dive in a quick check on last Pod's Action Challenge. Our action challenge was to look at a small action each week that we can make small steps towards a reimagined version of success for ourselves that's personal to us. So for me, I looked at the Future Four model that Brendan Burchard used in his book High Performance Habits and the four aspects of that model were Self, Social ,Skills and S ervice. For self, my focus was on my energy levels. Do things like make sure I'm going to bed at the same time. And reading some fiction to try to help my sleep patterns. Paying attention to my mindfulness. I'm noticing that I'm living in my head a lot again lately. In terms of social. When someone was on my mind, I thought to send them a quick text message with something personal if I haven't spoken to them for a little while. 'cause we all get busy. For skills particularly poignant for this episode today, I've been playing around a little bit with different ways to use AI throughout my day, and service. Brendan Burchard also has this concept of asking yourself each morning, who needs me on my a game today? How can I show up as my best self for myself and those people. Um. So, yeah, I found it quite successful. I have had a lot going on in the last month, sickness in the house lots going on at work and on the personal front. So trying to stay on top of those things and having little things to focus on is always helpful, I find to just bring us back and make sure that we're staying true to those things that we want. I know you are as excited as I am to talk about all things ai. How's things with you? What did you uncover for yourself with the Action Challenge, and what are you looking forward to about today's episode?

Miranda: 3:59

Claire, always a joy to be spending time with you and what a great action challenge result. I know you were saying this is lots of other things going on in your life, but it's so awesome that you've taken that model and that hopefully you're finding you can feel more control in your day by thinking about those things on top of all the other crazy that's happening. For me, I took a weekly action to help move the needle, as we said we wanted to plan out some of those changes that I wanted to see and take action to implement those changes. I'm happy with the progress. It's mostly work related. It's just really important to have those conversations that in the moment give you a headache in the moment are hard but are making a difference and do help get that progress that you need. So all is good there. On ai. I couldn't agree more. I am just. I've been really wanting to talk about these because I really do feel like there is so much potential in ai to make our lives just that little bit better. And I think in the last sort of five or six years we've been asked to take on a lot more. We've seen a lot of companies shrink their resource pool. Is this the opportunity for us to be able to reclaim our lives while still outputting that productivity that is so important to keep those businesses running. I've sought to learn a bit about the AI theory in the last 12 months while we're dabbling, just to understand a little bit of the background on what's going on in that sphere. In terms of tools, I've dabbled with things like Descript for editing or Dali. They've been challenging and I think that's a really important thing for us to think about when we are getting into these tools. They're not always gonna be super intuitive. We're gonna have to learn some things. I have found Canva quite helpful and I do feel like Chat GPT I use most and find it very effective. So I, I really do think that this is a great episode to be talking about. Because sometimes things do take time and some of our listeners may have tried a couple of things and gone, oh, that actually took longer. But from what I've seen, particularly with how I'm using ChatGPT now, I think that when our skills and the AI tools are ready, that it really we're gonna hit warp speed on the work that we can do. And I love some of the other ways you've been using it, Claire. There is so many things that we can just improve upon and almost mine the internet for all of the gems that they've got without it taking us days to go through. So I find that very exciting. I think both the tools and our learning is still got some time to take there and I don't believe anybody's truly mastered it yet. So I think it's gonna be a bit of trial and error for a little while, but this is the time to start and there is gonna be a little bit of delayed gratification around this. It's not gonna be instant magic, but I do believe that any investment of time and energy that we put behind this, we are going to get out of it. So very excited to get into this episode.

Claire: 6:29

Yeah. I, I love what you're talking about there. It's, it's quite complex and nuanced and I love how in your experimenting and learning, you talk about embracing AI as a mindset shift. I think that's such a great launch pad for the few things that we're gonna talk about in this episode today. For us as smart women with lots going on, that mindset shift is something like smart women plus smart tools equals exponential potential to help us reframe and think about AI and what it can do for us as a career multiplier and life enhancer is a good way I feel to start thinking about. As you mentioned, It's a bit of. investment in understanding the tools. There's so many tools that you can play around with. I think that's one of the challenges. Where do I start? How do I go about learning some of these things? How do I make it effective And I've enjoyed that. I've been using Chat GPT in various chats. I use it a lot now for this podcast. I find it's really helpful once it understands our brand voice and what we're trying to achieve with this podcast. It can serve me up some really good ideas around content for socials so I am enjoying that. I've also been using it as a planning tool for our European vacation that we're taking at the end of the year with the family. Chat GPT has really been good at helping me plan an itinerary. I'm testing it out at the moment to see if it can help me book flights and things. It's a bit hit and miss as you say, and I think there's a lot that we need to do to understand how to use it effectively. It's not a Google search tool. It's a very different type of tool. I haven't had as much success with it in Canva. So that's interesting to know that you've found it really good in Canva. So I think I'm keen to chat to you offline about how you're getting it to work well for you and sharing those tips and tricks and tools that we're each using, we're all learning this together Many of us are balancing so much career, life, family, community and imagine if AI can help automate 20% of our day, that's 20% more space for creativity, for strategy, for mentoring, for joy. you know, You're right, there is more pressure to deliver more things at work and at life. If AI can help us do some of those things, I think it's a positive thing to be exploring and, and being cautious as well that we're gonna talk about a little bit later in the podcast. From my perspective, and I'm sure yours Miranda, and I'm sure a lot of people, there's a a lot of conversations around AI in the workplace where it can help us, where we should be using it, how can we be using it to double down on things like productivity. And that's where the overwhelm can come a little bit, because when there's so much potential, but you've gotta always bring it back to the, what's the problem that we're trying to solve here? How is this going to help and enhance our human capabilities as opposed to just seeing it as another tool that's gonna be used for productivity uplift I think it's a bit more nuanced like that, that we've started to talk about. Have you had any good experiences with redesigning your work week? Are you using it in any specific ways or are you just dabbling different things at the moment?

Miranda: 9:34

Definitely a bit of both. And I must admit, Canva's been a bit hit and miss. So we'll certainly talk about that more. And I do think that this is a great platform, maybe with the socials, but also each episode, maybe we offer an AI tool or an AI tip. I feel like the Internet's suggesting that we're already too late. We've already missed out on mastering ai. And that the people with the jobs in the future have gotta have ai and that if you don't have it, you're somehow going to be losing a job or not being able to get the next job. And I just think that we all just calm down a little bit on that because it is still new, it is still evolving. It's really only been the last six months that people have been actively talking about these AI tools. So for anyone out there that feels like they just woke up and this AI thing became a thing and they missed out on it, you're on that journey with us and it's absolutely a right time to dabble. I've stumbled onto a really great LinkedIn training from Ali Miller, who speaks about adapting AI as a mindset that when we first use it, it's not coming naturally so we need to sort of help to bring it into part of our everyday or any of everyday thinking. As part of that, I've started using it in anything that's gonna take more than 30 minutes. I'm saying, okay, could AI help me with this to speed up that time? And I've found that that's been really great. So an example of a 30 minute task might be something like summarizing a doc into one or two, high level strategy pieces. It's great sort of taking that information and helping you summarize it. It does need caution. You then need to read it and you need to make sure that it, makes sense. It's not gonna stop you bringing your intelligence or your insights into it, but it is gonna take a whole lot of information and summarize it into those key points so that you can then very quickly analyze it rather than spending all of your time trying to digest what is this document trying to tell me? So I think it takes some of that. Early days, like assistant role out of it for you, right? Somebody would've got that document, summarized it for the head guru. The head guru would've then taken that information and used the data or the key facts, and put that out there as what everybody needed to know. So I do think that's great. I've also used it to try and edit our podcast a little while ago when we were doing our first episode, and I found that initially I did the videos, I did the training, but actually it took longer to edit using those tools. And I think partially some of the technology's not quite there yet. So then I've dialed it back for, episode since and just put a toe in and tried some little bits and pieces. And I think that it's just gonna take some training and, you are training the AI as much as it's training you. So I do think that that's something that we really wanna keep in mind. I'm not put off by that. It's not like I'm not gonna use the tool again. It's just okay. Bit by bit understanding that some of that technology's not there. And I do feel like that's for everybody. We are gonna have some hits and misses. It takes time to learn, but when you get past that early friction, it's gonna be a great support system. It is gonna save us time. It is worth that little bit of investment. For anyone who's feeling unsure. I'd say just start. It's a tool. Think about the prompt and the more that you can put into the prompt, it's not Google, the more that you can put into a prompt, the more you're gonna get out of it. So when you're doing Chat GPT I've got an app for Chat GPT where I can press a little speaker and I can speak into it, my daily agenda, and it's gonna give me back some key points which is fantastic. If I've got an email that I'm sending to somebody who is fairly different to me, maybe has some biases in terms of the way that they want to understand or read things then I can make sure that. I've taken the information I put in and then rather than agonizing over how would somebody interpret it or how when someone speak it, I can say to Chat GPT I wanna send this to somebody who is very corporate, very direct, doesn't like a lot of personality in their emails, so can you rewrite this in that way? And it's gonna pump it out in something that is a little bit more on point and succinct for the type of person I'm sending it to. I think that's incredibly valuable. So to start, start with a prompt. Start with a bit of curiosity and um, know that you're just at the beginning of this journey and let's take it together.

Claire: 13:30

Yeah. And what I'd say on that is once you start, or certainly it's a bit like, if you're gonna buy a type of car and then all you ever see on the roads is all of a sudden that type of car, I think once you start, you'll notice that there is a lot of content, say in LinkedIn feeds about ai, some people are posting some really good suggestions on those prompts that you can use. You can ask ChatGPT, what am I missing here? Or here's my strategy document. In a best practice strategy document, what sort of things should I be talking about in 2025 for thinking long-term future, and you can ask it questions as well as prompt it I use it a lot for those email tidy up. I tend to power out an email and now I just put it in a first draft and then I throw it in copilot or Chat GPT, and I'm like, can you just neaten this up a bit for me? it just does that second layer of editing that I don't need to do. So I found that really handy. In terms of keeping an eye out for little tips and tricks they are everywhere when you start to notice, and it is worthwhile testing and learning with those prompts and tools in your toolbox. Amantha Imber, and her podcast, How I Work. I've noticed lately, she's got some great episodes on tips and tricks on how to guide ai. She talks about using it as an architect rather than guns slinging. They're really short episodes, so I highly recommend our listeners subscribing to Amantha's podcast so you can see these episodes as they drop and just giving you little tools and suggestions and ideas on how you can play around with the tools that are available, particularly Chat GPT they talk about. Now while I am super curious and optimistic about the ways AI can support us. as a general rule, my biggest passion is about helping humans level up to their highest potential to help them create real lasting impact. And right now human connection and capabilities matter more than ever, particularly in this world where we're trying to blend blend AI capabilities, AI agents, automations with humans. While AI is powerful, it's not human. And in this technology, fast-paced world our most valuable skills are the ones that tech can't replicate. Our empathy, our leadership styles, storytelling, our intuition, our perspective, our life experiences. While AI can help us write content, it can't build trust. It can analyze data, but it can't walk into a room and make people feel seen and heard. It can help us brainstorm ideas, but it can't use lived experiences of our lives to make complex decisions or coach people in teams through conflict. There's so much of our human superpowers that we need to continually be bringing to the table. And so anyone that's feeling a bit fearful around AI and what it's gonna do for our jobs. It's about really thinking from a personal perspective, what are those things that make you you and give you your superpowers and giving you the opportunity to double down on those and let AI take some of that administration work, the second drafts, the reviewing documents and things like that, but it doesn't take away from our humanity and who we uniquely are as individuals. So how I would talk to AI or how it picks up our voice from our Elevate with Grace Podcast is different to how someone else will communicate and the more you work with ai, the more it gets to know your styles. And you can work together as a tool, but you are always the one that's coming with the creativity, the ideas. I think that's really important for us to remember. AI can be our co-pilot, but it's not our script writer, we are still the author of our lives. We still get to shape how we want our lives to be, and we need to be using it as a personalized help tool. It's not taking over what's uniquely you and I think. we've got a critical responsibility to protect ourselves, our customers, our teams, our kids, the next generation. Making sure that we are really being thoughtful and considered and cautious about how we are blending AI in with our humanity and, and human skill sets. I don't know what you think about that, Miranda, but that's something that's really important to me.

Miranda: 17:54

No, I truly agree with this, and I think it's something that more conversation needs to happen around that. I don't think there's enough people talking about what that tool looks like today. I. While it might help us work faster, it really can't make us someone feel truly seen. And what we've seen with social is probably, it's gone too far to the negative side. So I think it's important that we really think about the positive and negative sides of AI and try and help shape what is good for us and what is going to up level our lives. And not take away from them. So I keep using the word tool. This is a tool like email or the internet, it's actually a way that makes the internet more meaningful potentially for us to use. So it could be fantastic but it is critical that we keep training ourselves in those core skills and some of those potentially have gotten away. So cognitive processing, critical reasoning empathy, it's so important. It feels like it's really missing sometimes. And that's subconscious human connection. That's how edge it's our job. And I know when I've put prompts into Chat GPT, the responses I've got back do have to be shaped. You still have to spend a lot of time crafting it and it is never gonna be a hundred percent if you submit that as your a hundred percent, I promise you people read through it in a heartbeat. You have to bring your humanness and your background and your insights back to it. it doesn't replace your job, it enhances it, potentially it tries to help you. It takes some of that mental load off you so that you can focus on what's truly important in terms of the outcomes of that. There is a real concern, I think, around the erosion of core skills. I mean, imagine if you're using this at 10 at 15 before you've had a chance to really understand and develop cognitive processing and critical reasoning. I think that's concerning and that's something that there is a little bit of conversation around and there needs to be a lot more conversation around. I've seen some great influences out there ex teachers, et cetera, putting together tools where they're trying to say, look, kids are gonna use this tool. But we have to shape it and we have to sit there with them and every week we have to catch up with them and really understand what they want out of it and how do we make it a tool that's enhance their study experience and not take away from their ability to do that critical reasoning. So I think that is a good start. But it has to be, I think, at that education global level because it is something that we need everyone to be across. Research is showing declining levels of cognitive abilities. We're seeing social fluency impacted by screen first interactions. So I don't think it's alarmist. I think this is something we have to learn from. We're not just losing attention spans, we are losing empathy in the workspace as a result of those screen first interactions. So we want to consider what makes us explicitly human. And how can we ensure that those people around us feel like they have a quality human connection. And potentially AI is gonna help with that because it may actually gift people back more time to spend with people. When you are trying to squeeze what used to be 15 hours of work into eight hours and it's never eight hours it does take away from some of those human connections. Because it's like too busy, too busy, too busy. So if the tool can give us back more time and we can spend more time going, yep, what do you need? I think that'd be absolutely fantastic. And what do you need? What do my team need? What's those connections that they're missing with their team, with their families, with their community? That if they could just be able to get this one task done in a quarter of the time that, that would bring some impact to the workforce, but also to their quality of life. That's where we step in as leaders, as colleagues, as parents, that we model the conversations that we ask better questions, that we're really listening and that we're actually having that conversation about what this tool could do.

Claire: 21:23

You mentioned teachers. For any of us that have teachers in our lives there's a lot of challenges with teaching young people today who are quite, for what of a better word, addicted to getting back on screens, getting back on devices. I saw a Forbes article recently that touted a figure something like 80% of Gen Z said they would marry an ai, which I found really quite eyeopening and intriguing. But part of me can understand that a little bit if I'm honest, because when I'm typing into Chat GPT and asking for help. Or asking Chat GPT to look at things particularly for our podcast, it's full of compliments back. Oh, Claire, this is a fantastic idea, I really like what you're doing here. This is amazing there's a lot of positive reinforcement from Chat GPT. And in some ways it is flattering and addictive, but the challenge for us and the growth for us as humans, as you said, is in that critical thinking and dissenting views and having those human to human conversations. This conversation that you and I having, like I'm learning things that I just wouldn't learn if I was sitting all day on Chat GPT chatting away to my ai. I read an interesting Harvard Business School article, I think it was from last year, that found that across four studies employees who use AI as a core part of their jobs reported feeling lonelier, drinking, more suffering from insomnia than employees who don't. So this is a really big piece that we need to navigate quite carefully, and I think it's why there's quite a bit of resistance to ai, but it's here, right? It's a bit like, with social media. I know we're trying to get some laws in place about children under 16, not using the tools, but it's all been a bit too late and I think we've really got an opportunity to not be thinking about just experimenting with these tools, thinking quite carefully about how, as you say we support kids in the classroom to understand what it can and can't do. We are thinking about what it can and can't do. We are looking to how we use it to then create space to spend time on our human connections and developing those relationships, not to use it to avoid those human relationships. It doesn't replace them by any means. And we have to be very careful about getting, I guess, swept away with the all of the compliments that we can sometimes get with our AI tools and the assistance. So yeah, it's a, it's a really interesting space.

Miranda: 23:55

Maybe because we're a bit older and we're used to the way the world worked before, we're not as swept up by that. It's sort of almost a little bit shammy, but potentially for those in their twenties, getting some of those compliments feels really nice right now. And it's hard when you're first learning the workforce and learning how to be an adult and having someone tell you that you're brilliant feels good, even if it's not necessarily real. I do think that some of the ethics around. AI definitely are where I feel both cautious yet hopeful because if we can get it right we create something very powerful and we create something that potentially does warp speed our lives. But if we don't, we do risk amplifying the worst parts of the internet. You mentioned something around bias, and bias is huge, right? People have trained the AI tools, people have put the information into the internet, so bias is there. We have to actively look for it and make sure that we are not perpetuating that in our world just because we've used the tool. So misinformation iss another big one. We've seen how misinformation can be used and abused through social media, and I think with the AI tools it becomes even more risky. So we need to make sure that we're really on alert. We're actively looking for it and we're pushing against it. While AI often presents as a gift to humanity, and it could be, and the internet has been, let's be honest, we've become a real global world as part of it. We just need to understand what those inherent risks are, and I don't think we understand them all just yet. I certainly don't but I'm curious and I am following different newsletters and different learning and studies to try and educate myself on that space. And I don't think it should deter us from using it, but I think it's about understanding the right way to use it. And as we catch up on some of those concerns, that we are raising them and we're not waiting for somebody else to go, oh, that's a problem. I think it's important that we actively all play a role in saying, what can we do to make sure that that doesn't hurt our workmates, it doesn't hurt our school communities, it doesn't hurt our way of being and just because it will reduce the labor costs, it doesn't always mean it's the right thing to do. We've seen some of the industry movements from the writers and from the actors where they've really pushed against it and it was hard for them in the moment. Some of them were really struggling to pay their bills, but they fought for what was right 'cause they understood that not just now, but in the next 5, 10, 15 years, their rights were important. Midjourney is currently being sued by Disney and Universal because, they're creating content that's too close to their character ip. It is incredibly important that just because the tool provides it to you, you are still in charge of the output. So if it's going across some kind of creator IP or it just doesn't feel right don't use it because you are still inherently responsible for the outcome of that. But I am glad to see, and I think it's important, whether it's from a design point of view or a creation of thought leadership point of view, that we are, I love your analogy at the driver's seat we are making sure that it's the co-pilot. It's helping you to find some more efficiencies. It's the assistant that you wish you could hire, but you just don't have that resource or that time or that money. But it is the assistant, it is not the driver. Kareem Lakini from Harvard had said something who stuck with me, that AI lowers the cost of expertise. It means that people with curiosity and broad knowledge can use this tool incredibly well. So people with liberal arts degrees are gonna come back in fashion. Things like literature, history, ethics. Because it's going to help feed the right prompts into the prompt engineering to get a great outcome because it is helping that critical thinking and that processing, which I think is very cool. And so I'm hopeful that it will help us with that mental load. But I'm really glad, Claire, that in this where we're getting very excited about the tools and the time it can save us that we're also very much thinking about the bias. I do think in terms of the concerns around taking away jobs, there's some really good studies out there, and I think in our living history, we've only seen jobs created as part of these tools. Yes, some the jobs have gone away, but there's been more jobs created. Think about social media. The role search optimization it was only a tool after the internet came out, we definitely need the right ethics and due diligence and healthy dose of curiosity and optimism.

Claire: 27:56

I agree with that. There is many interesting jobs that are gonna come out of this, but I also think when I look at a lot of the entry level roles for university grads, for example those roles, you mentioned before about developing critical thinking, in high trust environments like healthcare, education, financial services, there's a trust element to it. We've got organizations that hold our money. And so some of those customer facing roles what does that look like in the future? What does the jobs look like for people? What about people that are in their forties and fifties that are in jobs that are likely to be taken over by ai. Where are we as leaders making sure that we're upskilling people or giving them opportunities to upskill. Because what we've gotta be careful about is these set of jobs become redundant, but those people that are doing those jobs haven't been given the opportunity or leadership or skill sets to transfer into other jobs. I think what's really interesting too is this concept of what are the gen alphas gonna do? What does the next layer of jobs look like? And I think we're all not sure about that. But spending time, on working alongside those younger generations or people that are in specific jobs to help them re-skill or help them understand the limitations and where their own personal IP and lived experiences are critical. They can't just pick them all up off the internet or off Chat GPT is a big part of the equation as well. How are we moving and shifting and changing as humanity to make sure that those job opportunities are available for everyone as we go forward? I think that's a big thing too, that we need to be thoughtful of.

Miranda: 29:39

A hundred percent and this potentially could allow a lot of small and medium businesses that haven't had a huge success rate in the past to really thrive because of the tools that are there, but you are right a hundred percent. We have to make sure that everybody comes on this journey and people aren't left behind. Potentially Gen Alpha will be better at using these tools than us, but

Claire: 29:59

Oh,

Miranda: 29:59

see how we go with that one. Yeah.

Claire: 30:00

In a couple of our next episodes we'll be combining some of those key human skills, and really thinking about some of those superpowers as leaders, as members of our teams and within our communities and things. So I think it's gonna be good, as you mentioned, as we go forward with the podcast, to be talking about AI as copilot as we sit in the

Miranda: 30:21

Mm-hmm.

Claire: 30:21

some of those other skills that we need to be re-imagining our own successes in 2025 and beyond. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to those chats too. I think AI is something that we need to weave into some of those conversations going forward. So it's been good to just talk about it upfront and have a bit of exploring. I'm looking forward to having a look at that LinkedIn video that you mentioned.

Miranda: 30:43

Mm.

Claire: 30:43

know, there's a lot of, a lot of great tools and education that are worthwhile dipping into here and there just to keep upskilling ourselves. So I'll check out that one.

Miranda: 30:52

Absolutely. I think it's all very exciting and I do honestly think we could talk on this for hours. So more to come for those future episodes. But for now, let's wrap up to our action challenge and a really big call out with this one. If you are using any AI tools and it's free. They are using your data and they're using the information that you feed in to help teach the tool. So I really wanna make sure big PSA on this one. Please make sure that you're using a paid version if any of the data is confidential. And if you're using any work data you need to get work permission and potentially being on a work secure AI that is paid for. You do not wanna be accidentally putting confidential information out there in the world. So big PSA on that one, it is incredibly important as part of the theory around ai. Where is this information going and protect that. Please, please, please.

Claire: 31:43

Really good point, Miranda. Yeah, Being thoughtful around corporate private data and all the

Miranda: 31:48

mm-hmm.

Claire: 31:48

is really important. Make sure that you understand where firewalls are in terms of data protection.

Miranda: 31:53

And, and just your own personal protection as well. You don't wanna be putting stuff out there that's, just you. But I do think it'd be great if you could set a goal. So our action challenge set a goal of one AI engagement per day. Per day feels too big, just per week. It could be drafting, planning summarizing or ideating. This isn't about becoming an expert, it's just about building familiarity with a tool like Chat GPT or Canva, copilot notions, like another one, perplexity or Claud and we can put a couple of the examples in our show notes on some of the tools that are available. A bonus point if you take on a learning challenge. So subscribing to an AI newsletter, and there are a couple of absolutely fantastic ones. The neuron. The rundown AI or simple AI are some really good ones that are out there. Or check out Allie Miller's LinkedIn Learning or Tomer Cohen's LinkedIn Learning. If you've got Blinkist, there's also a great little piece from Blinkist through a researcher, James Altucher. He's done a little series about, little bit more around the ethics, but also the use cases for ai. So definitely check that out. So it's an on the job training tool that's gonna shape your future. So we totally hope you take on this action challenge.

Claire: 33:07

Well, thanks Miranda. This has been

Miranda: 33:09

an

Claire: 33:09

a mazing conversation. I really think an important one, so I'm glad we sort of got into it early in season three. We have put all the curated content that we've mentioned today in the pod episode. Check out the notes and then just dip into some of the stuff that resonates with you and will inspire you to take small actionable steps for your own success journey. For more inspiration, check out our socials on Insta, Facebook or LinkedIn. We'd love, love, love to hear from you and how you're going so please drop us a comment in our socials channels, or drop us an email at elevatewith grace@gmail.com. Please like and subscribe to this podcast and send to a friend who you think might be interested.

Miranda: 33:51

Claire, you're a legend. Thank you so much. This has been an awesome episode. I am so excited that we got to talk about ai. So huge thank you. Huge thank you to our listeners, and look forward to doing it again next month.

Claire: 34:02

Thanks, Miranda. See you next month.