October 23, 2025 • 46 mins
In this episode, John takes listeners on a journey through the past, present, and future of innovation—showing how artificial intelligence is reshaping every corner of our lives. From the horse-and-buggy era to the dawn of AI, John breaks down what this moment means for workers, entrepreneurs, and dreamers alike. He shares practical, real-world examples of how anyone can turn AI into income—from revamping small business websites to launching AI-powered tutoring and consulting services.
This isn’t a tech lecture—it’s a masterclass in empowerment. John reminds us that AI won’t replace your job; someone using AI will. Tune in for a crash course on how to rebuild your future, your business, and your community with the tools of tomorrow—today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome the Money and Wealth with John O'Bryant, a production
of the Black Effect podcast Network and iHeartRadio. Hey, Hey
is John Hope Bryant. And this is Money and Wealth
and an exciting episode. I am talking about artificial intelligence
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once again, one of my very important focus areas for
twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six, when there's a
whole series, So buckle up. So I'm in my office
downtown Atlanta, the offices for the Global Corporation. It was
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a time where everything happened here. It didn't happen at all.
If you weren't sitting behind one of these computers, if
you were not sitting in one of these cubicles, if
you're not in an office mailite meeting, then nothing mattered.
Didn't it didn't record, it didn't happen. You needed the infrastructure,
you needed this system. And before this, there was another system.
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And now we're about to experience a whole new way
of life through AI, and it doesn't require you to
sit in this office building. Now we gather here for
a different reason. It's building culture. I think culture is cool.
I like making smart sexy, as you know, one of
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my phrases and I think that by getting people together
and gathering it matters. But for you to benefit from
the power of artificial intelligence, you don't necessarily need all
this infrastructure that I have and that we've paid millions
of dollars for. You can do this right from where
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you sit. I don't want you to be afraid of AI.
I don't want you to be pushing away from the
table because you're afraid that artificial intelligence is going to
take your job. I'm thinking about people who occupy the
seats of my company. I've told them, and I'm telling
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you what I told them. Your job's not going to
be replaced by AI. Your job is going to be
replaced by someone who can use AI, and I hope
it's you as in them. But one thing that is
absolutely the case. Everybody's got to become comfortable with artificial
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intelligence very quickly. This is not optional. It's not the
cassette tape, this is not the DVD. This is not
a movement to digital music or something. This is not
even the Internet, which was quite powerful. You had an
option whether you wanted to use it or not. This
is not that there are no options. This is the
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new world, and I want to teach you. I want
to inspire you to participate in it. So let me explain.
Explain first where we came from, so that you understand
how powerful this moment is and what it compares to.
I've told you it doesn't compare to, you know, any
other sort of transformations in American society. So let's we
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have to go back one hundred years. We have to
come back one hundred and twenty five years, We have
to go back almost two hundred years to give you
a snapshot of with this moment looks like. Think about
eighteen fifty the horse and buggy. Think about eighteen sixty,
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eighteen seventy, eighteen eighty, eighteen ninety, nineteen hundred. Those periods
were defined by the horse and buggy. It was divined
by the horse. The horse was machinery. The horse was luxury.
The horse was wealth. The horse was transportation. The horse
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was flossing. Think about the Mercedes of this day. That
was your horse. Think about your Louis Veuton, whatever it
is that you think is flossing, that was a horse.
Whatever you believe is wealth, that was horse. However, you
brought in your crops, that was led by the horse.
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In fact, one out of ten jobs in eighteen seventy ish.
One of our ten jobs was a fairire. A fairire
is somebody who changes horseshoes. And my guess is a
number of other jobs were tied to folks tied to
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the fairire. So the folks who gave the metal for
the ho shoes or the iron, the folks who gave
the staples or the mini nails, the tax the horse
shoe hammer, all of the pieces, the medicines of case.
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There was an infection. A lot of industries ground up
around a failure. This was everything. We got the word
phrase horsepower from the horse being the center of our universe.
But by nineteen oh one you had a surge of
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automobile companies, this new invention that showed up. But by
nineteen ten you had one hundred automobile companies. A lot
of them failed, by the way, but by nineteen ten,
one thing was absolutely sure the most valuable use of
the horse. I'm sorry to hurt the feelings of horse lovers.
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I don't mean this intentional. It's not personal. I'm just
telling you what history says. The most valuable thing for
a horse. By nineteen twenty or nineteen ten ish was
glue as in horse glue or horse as glue. The
automobile changed everything. So we're gonna go that took sixty years.
Ladies and gentlemen. We're going to go from the horse
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being the center of the universe to the automobile that
was sixty years to labor of human beings with the
beginning of industrialization. We're going to go from being labor
centric to technology centric in six years between twenty twenty
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five twenty twenty four. I really believe is when it
started in twenty thirty. By twenty thirty, you won't recognize
the world as we know it today. But don't be afraid, right,
I want you to be empowered. I want you to
embrace this. So I'm here to talk to you today.
If you got limited times and you want your friends
and listen to this episode, I want you to tell
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them to start around marker seven, minute seven where John
Bryant gets into this. So the title of this podcast
today is rebuilding the world with ai millionaire opportunities hiding
in plain sight. Get out your pen or pencil, or
your iPad or your iPhone or Android, whatever it is,
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you take notes on Le's time It's time to take
the time to write the future of time for yourself.
So start writing your business plan, because if you're not
writing it is not real. What's the difference between a
hustler and a businessman or a businesswoman? Paperwork, details, documentation.
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I want you to document this because this just might
be one of the most important conversations in your life,
because it's going to help you to pivot. Let me
tell you what AI is not very quickly. It's not
checking sports results. You can do that on it with
an internet search. This is not a fancy internet search, right,
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this is the beginning of everything artificial intelligence. I use
AI as my co creator in my life. That's right.
I use artificial intelligence as a co creator in my life.
So as I'm doing something, I turned the artificial intelligence
to help me make up time, to quicken things, to
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cut through the haze. But I know what I want
to get to, I know what I'm trying to solve.
I use this global machine of artificial intelligence to help
me get there. That's just that's my purposes. Now, let
me tell you in a practical way. You I'm talking
to you now, somebody who's not in an office building,
not running a multi million dollar corporation. Not saying you're not.
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I'm saying this is the average person. What can you do?
So let me tell you this quick story about a
young man, and I want to give Gary Vee credit
for inspiring me to do this. Is an example a
young man or a young woman who's fourteen or fifteen
years of age and they have mastered artificial intelligence. They
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have gotten this down. There are a techno geek, like
I grew up being a techno geek. They're in a
small town or a medium to do outsize city, and
they're gonna start calling around to small businesses and saying,
mister and miss a small business. You have a website
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that you paid four thousand and five thousand, maybe twenty
thousand dollars for. Let's just pick a mental range. Five
thousand dollars for that website five years ago, eight years ago.
It's outdated. I can I will with the help of
artificial intelligence and plugging you into e commerce like Shopify,
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et cetera. I'm going to redo your whole website and
update it for five hundred dollars, so it costs you
five thousand. I'm wanting to update it for five hundred.
How many takers do you think that young man or
young woman would get on that little idea. I'm gonna
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let you think about that for a moment, because if
somebody had called me with that offer, as a hustling
small business owner, who I don't have time to change
my mind. I don't have time to check up check
my website. I don't understand artificial intelligence. I'm trying to
meet payroll, and I'm trying. I got too much month
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at the end of my money. I'm hustling from can't
see in the morning, I can't see at night. I
would say yes, sure, particularly if he sounded like he
knew what he was talking about. If that young man,
if that kid using AI two s like chat GBT
my favorite. I'm co chair of the AI Ethics Council
with my friend Sam Aultman are Wix, ai, wix, our Shopify, Magic,
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Right are all the other tools? Google and everybody else
has their own tools now right? I would charge five
hundred dollars if I was his kid, and I would
see the business immediately lift and if the kid does
ten of these a month, that's five thousand dollars. Do
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it for a year, that's sixty thousand dollars. This is
middle class income. Now add some strategy. You've got a
six figure business at a team, you've got a million
dollar agency. Let me be very specific, because you know,
I like math because it doesn't have an opinion. That's
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a melody hopsing quote that I have co opted, and
I give her credit for it. She's a friend. If
you did, if this young man or young woman and
a medium sized city targeted this strategy on dominating this
area of AI upgrading of software and did over the
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course of a year two thousand contracts for five hundred
dollars each, which again these are not crazy numbers that small.
That young man or young woman right would be a
millionaire on paper. In other words, they'd have a million
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dollar revenue business at two thousand contracts. And that's one
hundred and sixty contracts give or take a month. It's
not unreasonable. One hundred and sixty contracts a month is
about five new contracts, six new contracts a day. Now,
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you have to be really assertive to do that as
a person, as an individual, But think if you had
a team of three or four people doing this, three
or four young people with endless, boundless energy, just walking
door to door, knocking on doors, saying can I upgrade
your website? Can outgrade your website? Sign here this new contract,
can upgrade your website. Sign here, We'll schedule you. And
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then once you got three or four of these signed up,
then you use that this credibility to go get some
others signed up because you say, look, I've got Joe,
Jack and Schmoe around the corner who've already has signed
a contract with me. You couldn't show the contract privacy ruse,
but you could tell the new client, the new perspective client,
who the other clients were that have signed up to
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your business. And now the new ones want to sign
up because you, oh, because the risk is already rung
out of this model, You've gotten other people to take
the risk on you, so they say, yes, I'll do
it too. This is not a very complicated example, is it.
What if I told you that everything around you, literally
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everything is about to be rebuilt with artificial intelligence with AI,
and you can be the one to do it now
I just gave you again. That was inspired by Gary V.
But there's so many examples that you can now imagine.
For yourself, and I'm going to help you with some
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of those. Listen, now, think about the great AI rebuild.
Every industry, every tool, every process is being completely reimagined
right now. The fear is out front in everybody's mind
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is because if you're a corporate leader today racing with
your competitor, these are big companies now to invest in AI. Essentially,
what you're doing is trying to become what they call
it efficient, and there's a guest of it now. Artificial
intelligence will increase businesses efficiency by about thirty percent. That
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means in the short term, extraction. It means anything that
can be processed, remove it, repetitive process, remove it, replace
it with automation, robotics, artificial intelligence technology, et cetera. That
means people in the short term. So the fear in
everybody's mind is I'm going to lose my job. And
if you're in customer service or some of these low
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level fields, that might be actually the case if you're
making six figures and the business that you're in can
be processed. Then in time, if you're working for somebody else,
that might mean you too. Yes, what did I say
to you earlier? You're not going to lose your job
because of AI. Are too AI, You're going to lose
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your job to somebody who can use A I'm want
to teach you now how to use AI so you
can make money and build wealth. The last time something
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like this happened to us was during the Industrial Revolution.
That was a focus on machines. Through Internet Revolution, that
was a focus on websites. By the way, I remember
in two thousand when the Internet was a new rage,
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all the rage, I remember thinking I was going to
change the name, literally change the legal name of Operation
Hope to Operationhope dot org and Brian grew companies as
it was called back then, Brian grew companies into briangrewcompanies
dot com. That's how manic this was, which you thought,
you have to change everything. It's all going to be
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Internet based, and it was a big shift for everybody,
and we all know how or in the Internet is today.
But that was over blown. I'm not sure that the
current hype, if you want to call it that, on
AI is actually over blown. I think it may be
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underestimated how much this is going to transform society, because
it truly is another intelligence which in some ways outstrips
for the first time ever a level, not all, but
a level of a portion of human intelligence over time.
We haven't gotten it yet, but one can see the
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writing on the wall. By the way, as an entrepreneur,
I do not think AI will take my job right
so as there are talents and tools that human beings
bring to something that I do not think can be replaced.
But anyway, that was the Internet revolution, the mobile app explosion,
that's iPhones, Uber, etc. So these are some examples where
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a lot of things changed all at the same time.
AI is bigger than all of these, But unlike those eras,
the barrier to injury is now free or near free.
Please please hear me. You don't need a factory. You
just need to focus. There's your quota for the day.
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You don't need a factory. You need a focus and
you need to focus. You know, racism is a big deal.
We talk about it, discrimination, etc. My friend Van Jones,
who's on the AI Ethics Council with me and I
think he's underestimated in his brilliance, particularly this technology area.
He said to me that of black folks, in his estimation,
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don't really know a thing about AI. Not their fault.
But then he said, you know, it's also true that
ninety nine percent of white folks don't know a thing
about AI either, So we're all equal opportunity discriminated against.
Here this everything starts at a new baseline. But the
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access at the moment is basically free. Bottom up millionaire
AI opportunities, Bottom up AI millionaire opportunities. These are some
opportunities that anyone with hustle and curiosity can act on.
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No PhD required. Number one website upgrades for small business.
Just explained that business, walked you through it, even walked
you through a little of the math of how you
can run a million dollar a year business, and basically
you can control your market. Like look at do an
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evaluation in your town and your city, and your county
and your community. Do an evaluation of how many small
busines as there are where you live. You don't need
a national platform, you don't need to be an international business.
You can do this in the Caribbean, in a small
community in one of the Caribbean nations. You can do
this in a small town in South Carolina. You can
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do this in Alabama. You can do this in the
Mojave Desert in California. You can do this in Buffalo,
New York. You can do this in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You
can do this in the most rural areas of America.
And you can control your marketplace with this one little
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business and create a business with an enormous profit margin
on that five hundred dollars. I explained to you earlier,
profit margin in that thing is about ninety percent. I
mean as much as ninety percent. So they bought it
for five thousand or more. The website. You can do
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it for five hundred. It may cost you fifty bucks
to do everything you need to do. You want to
hire people whatever and scale up. That maybe a different situation,
but you see what I'm saying. There's just there's a
lot of room there for you to be great wherever
you are and make a living, dignified living in this
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new AI era. So in this example, you have AI
powered redesigns, SEO updates, chat, bought installs, right you do,
in my opinion, you plug in some e commerce again,
I love Shopify as an example to that. You also
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have Amazon that does it, and so on and so forth. Walmart,
I'm not sure if they have an e commerce platform.
You can lock it log into, but you should look
at what they're doing because they do it as a
best in class organization and maybe take some ideas from them.
Number two Digital marketing revamps use chat, GPT and Canva
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AI to create better ads, better emails, social media strategies.
Number three Digital marketing revamps was if you need me
to go into that more. But that's an easy one
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for somebody who's running let's say an advertising agency, a
public relations agency, anybody who's who is involved in marketing
and pr. Again, this is not going to replace you.
You've got to augment what you do so you're your
own replacement. You're upgrading your own software so you can
compete in the twenty first century because you want to
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be in this example, the example of loves gives. You
want to be Netflix not Blockbuster. Right, Blockbuster could have
bought Netflix for a very small amount of money. They
got arrogant, got obnoxious through their nose up at Netflix
told them to go away. Remember the Blockbuster dates on
every corner every week, and over time, Blockbuster we're out
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of business. Netflix surged is one Blockbuster in the world today.
So you want to be blocked. You want to be Netflix,
not blocked Blockbuster. You want to be Amazon Walmart, not
Seers and Robucks or Kmart that we're out of business.
You want to be the iPhone today, not Kodak. So,
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if you're running a PR firm, a marketing firm, et cetera,
an ad first, an AD agency, I want you to
think about how you augment what you're doing with artificial
intelligence to take you from good to great and competitive
for the twenty first century. Number three, as I mentioned,
create a local AI concierge service. This is so cool.
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Help older businesses and older business owners adapt AI for bookkeeping, scheduling,
customer service, etc. Someone will pay you to do this.
I guarantee you this is the case. This is a
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huge opportunity. I'm gonna repeat that creating a local AI
concierge service will help help you help other businesses, older
businesses right to adopt AI for bookkeeping, scheduling, customer service,
and other essential services. Number four, there's a number of
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ways you can do that. You do as a consultant.
You can do it as a cost saving analysis. Anyway,
there is a huge, huge opportunity there. Both of America
are small businesses. By the way they call it, the
fortune five hundred because there's only five hundred of them, right,
But there are literally tens of thousands of businesses in America,
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and you want to target the portion that's in your
neighborhood or your community. Help them help themselves, and you
do well and do good with good capitalism at the
same time. Number four, start an AI tutoring and literacy
class in your neighborhood, class or classes. Teach others how
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to use AI charge twenty to one hundred dollars per
session per person. Again, pull out that calculator, do that math,
not that revenue. This going to be your side hustle.
By the way that you're nine to five financier five
to nine, work somebody's job, get their health care, give them,
give them good service. Rather they don't cheat on the
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good job. Deliver. But when you come home, you can
then pursue your dream. And this is something you can
do part time. Teach others how to use AI in
charge twenty to one hundred dollars per session per person.
Number five. AI powered resumes and LinkedIn makeovers help job
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seekers become future proofed. Number six write AI powered books
and e courses. Use AI to help others tell their
stories or share their knowledge. Again, you're comfortable with something
other people are not. Don't wait two years to do this.
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The market will be flooded. I want you, if you're
going to do any of this, do it right now.
Be in a hurry, be excited about this, and master
it before other people become comfortable with it. Number seven,
reimagine the church bulletin. I just love this one. We
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can all relate to it because we all growing up,
most of us went to a church and we knew
how raggedy these church bulletins were. Reimagine the church bulletin,
community newsletter or indoor community newsletter with a I digitize it,
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brand it logo for the church, a community group, make
it interactive, sell it as a service. So you're gonna
get them out of the paper business. By the way,
we'll save some trees, stop polluting the earth. Maybe, and
you're gonna get it. Because most people have a phone,
they've got a digital phone. They've got you can put
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a you can put a you know, a code on
the phone, I'm sorry on the pamphlet, a QR code
that people can pull from to pull their pamphlet up
at church or their bulletin. There are many ways to
do this, but the point is everybody do these days
has a digital phone in their hand, and so you
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don't even need to worry about what they's going to
read it on. They've got something to read it on.
You just need to move folks into the twenty first century.
Launch a micro AI agency for local elected officials or nonprofits.
I'm talking about speeches, strategy, email writing, grant writing, and
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you've become the hub for the new intelligence in the
community for folks who want to do the work but
understand the technology. They've confused business with busyness. They want
to go out there and just sell and hustle, but
they need somebody to be that back room business manager
in that new world. That could be you. And you're
not doing it for one business in this example, or
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one nonprofit or one elected official. But this example is
elected official or nonprofit. You can have a range of clients. Okay,
number nine, Start to fix my biz mobile AI consulting.
Pop up a physical booth or truck where you offer
quick AI solutions to small business owners you want to
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be mobile. Combine this with Uber if you like or
do too. Give people rides and when you're not doing that,
do a pop up with an AI fix my buzz
mobile app business or mobile AI consulting business. A physical
booth or truck where you offer AI solutions to small
businesses and you move around again. People who don't like
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being stuck in an office and want to see new things,
new places. Number ten, create an AI based voiceover or
video business. You can use eleven Labs, Pictory that's p
I C T O R Y, or other apps to
offer a fifty dollars explainer video or ads from mom
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and pop shops. And there's so many more examples. I
just gave you some that don't require, as I said,
a PhD, don't wait to be hired by the future.
I want you to create it for yourself. Okay, I'm
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gonna think I'm looking around my office now, just to
take this to another level, I'm looking at this painting
in front of me of an eagle. That photographer had
to wait for the ego and take spend all day
hunting for the right photo of the eagle, and I
mean the right imagery of the egle, wait for the
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son to be in the right place, and he might
have spend all day trying to maybe days hunting for
the right situation. Now you can do this same photo
in minutes with the help of artificial intelligence. But let's
maybe you say no, no, I want to keep the creative
process pure. Okay, that's fine, So let's step away from that.
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You still want to go out and photograph, photograph the
ego in your own and frankly, I do believe anything
is better than artificial anything, but the process of making
the art piece itself, the photograph on the metal in
this particular example, the backing, all of the creation of
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this art piece on my wall is going to be
reimagined with AI. AI and microphone production, AI and picture
frame production. I'm looking at my desk AI and water
bottle production, AI and office supply creation and production, AI
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and furniture production, AI and television production and technology, AI
and award production. AI and picture frames. I mentioned picture
frames already, but I was talking about art. I mean, literally,
everything in my office is going to be reimagined by
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somebody who gets obsessed with that thing. AI and sports
AI and baseball within sports, and basketball within sports, AI
and basketballs based balls in sports. Like literally, everything's gonna
get reimagined with the help of artificial intelligence, because AI
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will make it better, more efficient, the process, the system,
the way you go about it, and the product that
gets output. On the other side, let me now talk
about why most people will miss this. It will just
miss it. It's fear. The worst thing to fear is
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fear itself. Let me remind you that. But it's fear,
it's distraction. I talk about ignoring the noise in your life.
You cannot create magic in noise. It's entitlement. I don't
think this applies to you. You think that somehow the
world's going to work out for you. Know. God helps
those who help themselves. And it is biblical to be poors,
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not to not have anything, to be poors, not to
not do anything. And lazy hands make a man poor.
That's proverbs in the Bible. So God helps those who
help themselves. I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to
be an agent here of God to help you to
get moving so you don't get run over when you're
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being run out of town. Get in front of the
crowd and make like a parade. Can I get an amen?
It's not even a religious comment, but so somebody, even
though not even the person who doesn't believe in anything
or anyone or God. Please say, man, this is everything
so real. Talking seriously. I don't want you to have
an entitled mentality. That's not good for you. I don't
want you to be distracted. That's not healthy for you.
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I don't want you to be fearful. That's not you.
You are great. Worse, is so some mighty just waiting
for someone to give them permission. No one's going to
give you permission. No one's going to sit you down
and walk you through this unless it's one of these people.
Is we've start a business based on one of these
ideas and goes and consults with you in their neighborhood.
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But other than that, you're going to have to do
this for yourself, and that if you don't do it now,
I'm telling you, the world's going to walk right past you.
AI doesn't require you to be rich. I'm gonna repeat that.
AI does not require you to be rich. This is
mind blowing because for most other things, you've got to
start with resources, money, connections, contacts. You've got to do something,
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you got to start with. You got to have some
starting place. This makes this puts you at the same
basic starting place as a multimillionaire, maybe even a billionaire.
And maybe you're in a better position because you got
hustle and you've got and you're hungry for success, and
maybe they're not. Maybe they're just sitting around chilling. I
tell you something about wealth. First generation makes it, second
generation spins it, third generation loses it. That's historic over
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thousands of years. So if you have the hustle of
a first generation entrepreneur, a small business owner or worker,
somebody who's an immigrant or migrant, or somebody with just
you know, bottoms up hustle, and you're willing to work
from can't see in the morning, I can't see at night,
and you're nosy, you're willing to get into this. How
do you not succeed? Is what I'm thinking about. As
my friend Tony Wrestler would say, if you don't quit,
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you can't fail. So AI doesn't require you to be rich.
It requires you to be curious and consistent. This is
the new pick and shovel economy. Be the one handing
out the tools. Can I get an amen? I'm gonna
repeat that, this is the new pick and shovel economy.
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Be the one handing out the tools. Doctor Dorothy Hyde,
god wrestler Soul, once told me John, I like you
because you're a dreamer with a shovel in your hands.
I want you to be a drummer, a dreamer with
a shovel in your hand. I want you to now
have the right mindset to seize it. Okay, I want
the work. I want you to have the right work
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ethic right, and in fact, I need you to have
more work ethic than tech skills. Yes, this is different
from science, technology, engineering, and math STEM. This is different
from coding. This is different from the computer class that
you needed, the coding classes that you took, where it
took years and years and years and you had to
get that right before we could do anything right. No,
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you don't need that with AI. I'm sorry you don't. Now.
Computer skills may be better for other things like repairing
the computer, and there's places where coders and people got
these computer skills. They will have a job and a place.
But for this that I'm talking about here, you do
not need to be a tech genius. You need to
have a work ethic that's undeniable, and some tech skills
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learn just enough to be dangerous. My friend Tim Burke
would say, be dangerous from the neck up. I agree
with him. In fact, I want you to be dangerous
more than I want you to be famous. YouTube and
chat GPT are your mentors. Focus on adding value to others.
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AI is the tool. You are the bridge. I hope
you guys are writing this down. If you don't, rewind
the podcast episode and listen to it with friends, listen
to it with family, share it with those you love,
pull out that pitted paper or that digital inc on
your mobile device, and create a business plan for your
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life based on what I'm telling you. Number six, I
want you to have a call to action, the AI challenge.
Challenge your audience that's in front of you, your family members,
your coworkers, your loved ones, whoever your audience is. Maybe
the audience, by the way, is yourself. But challenge that
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audience to pick one of these idea. Let's start with
the audience of you. Pick one of these ten ideas
and try it for the next thirty days. Just give
it a shot, and even if you fail, you'll fall forward.
Even if you're not doing that, you end up doing
something else. I guarantee you no different than the advice
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I give to people about Operation Hope and the coaching
and counseling we do with Operation Hope, people who have
taken me up on that their lives have been transformed.
If I have never had somebody who said, I did
what you told me to do about credit score, increasing
your credit score or lowering debt, increasing savings, and I
didn't end up a better person, less drama, less stress,
more opportunity, more optionality, I didn't have, I mean more
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self esteem. I've never met anybody who did what I
instructed them to do and their lives have not been transformed.
I can stop every day by people who tell me
Operational is transform their lives. There'll be a special announcement
soon coming from Operation Hope where we're going to expand
the work or work of literacy and include AI literacy
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with it. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime, check
out the AI Ethics Council that Sam Altman and I
co chair. Check out the AI LP three, our partnership
with Georgia State University and Mayor Andre Dickens and the
Atlanta Public Schools. That's some primer work for the work
to come. But I want you to just fall forward,
don't be afraid, don't let the perfect become the death
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of the good. Just step into this world. Invite people
you love to try to try this, and then collaborate
with you in a bit of an informal club. And
I want you to DM each other. I want you
to tag each other on social media with the tagline
write this down AI Rebuild challenge right, And I'm going
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to be looking for that over the next weeks and months.
I'm gonna be looking for the AI Rebuild challenge and
the rebuild is you right? But I want you to
infect your friends and those you love with this new mindset,
starting with you. So one year from now, you could
be telling me you made your first one thousand dollars
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or your first one million dollars. What you do today
will decide that here's some tools for the trade for you.
Which tools should you use? First of all, and very
much like we do it Operation Hope in the banking
actor area, I don't tell you what to invest in.
I tell you how to invest I don't tell you
what banking products or what bank to use. We give
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you options and you choose. I'm not going to tell
you which things or companies to use. But I'm going
to tell you ones that I think are credible, and
then you decide what you want to use. Here's some
quick fire AI tools to start with. My favorite chat Ept, Canva, Magic, Durable,
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dot Co that's instant Websites, Durable, dot coeo, Pictory Slash,
Runway Email that's AI Videos, eleven Labs as Voice AI,
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Opus Clips short Form Video, Opus Clip Agent, gt, GPT Agent, GPT, Godmode,
dot Space. These are build agents. So for that kid
business I told you about, I give you an example
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here of a tool you can use. You tell me
in the comments when you see that this is a
clip on social media, you tell me which one of
these apps you use to start that website upgrading business.
I want you inspired and educated. I want you to
have a PhD and a PhD too right. I want
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you to have agency in your life. I want you
to have hustle and belief, and I want you to
understand the free enterprise system and capitalism can work for you.
I want you to understand that the AI is for everyone,
not just for coders and techies. I wanted to give
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you today some practical action steps, not just theory. I
hope that you felt empowered by this. I hope that
you feel that there's something in here for you. If
you want more on this topic, let me know and
let me know what you want me to cover, and
I'm happy to do that. I plan on doing this
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as a series already have in mind episode two in
this series, but you tell me what you want me
to focus on. And also, I'm bringing back a couple
friends from a very popular AI episode I did with
them because I think that they can add some context
(42:58):
for the larger discussion of how this is going to
change our world by twenty thirty. So they're going to
give you some theory and some strategy and some perspective
when I come back with Van Jones and others for
that conversation, go back and read, read, watch the prior
episode we did. It's in season two this year, and again,
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I'm going to give you a regular diet of this
so that I walk you into the future, so that
you're not afraid. I want you to be bold, I
want you to be audacious. I want you to believe
in yourself. I didn't know a thing about AI two
and a half years ago, and now I use it.
I don't know thirty fifty times a day as my
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co creator. I have one just to wrap this up.
I have one product I used by plot Plaud, and
I use it to record staff meetings and to record
my ideas on the run. It's not just a transcription.
It's artificial intelligence. One's powered by chat GBT and it
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will take my meeting or my comments on the run.
It will summarize it. It'll give me a mind map
of it. It'll give me a transcripts of the meeting.
It'll tell me what my to does are, who I
met with, what I promised them, the names I forgot
after the meeting. It remembers. It gives me a to
do list of what I need to follow up on.
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So you see, AI is not going to take your
job or do your job, but it will make it
easier for you to be excellent at your job or
your chosen profession. And if you don't do this, you
can easily see I think why somebody else doing a
job even have baked with AI will clock you doing
your job excellent without it. This is John O'Briant. I'm
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stepping you into the future, and I'm taking you with
me as I go this is money and wealth and
please tell a friend. Let's go. Money and Wealth with
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Welcome the Money and Wealth with John O'Bryant, a production
of the Black Effect podcast Network and iHeartRadio. Hey, Hey
is John Hope Bryant. And this is Money and Wealth
and an exciting episode. I am talking about artificial intelligence
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once again, one of my very important focus areas for
twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six, when there's a
whole series, So buckle up. So I'm in my office
downtown Atlanta, the offices for the Global Corporation. It was
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a time where everything happened here. It didn't happen at all.
If you weren't sitting behind one of these computers, if
you were not sitting in one of these cubicles, if
you're not in an office mailite meeting, then nothing mattered.
Didn't it didn't record, it didn't happen. You needed the infrastructure,
you needed this system. And before this, there was another system.
(01:09):
And now we're about to experience a whole new way
of life through AI, and it doesn't require you to
sit in this office building. Now we gather here for
a different reason. It's building culture. I think culture is cool.
I like making smart sexy, as you know, one of
(01:30):
my phrases and I think that by getting people together
and gathering it matters. But for you to benefit from
the power of artificial intelligence, you don't necessarily need all
this infrastructure that I have and that we've paid millions
of dollars for. You can do this right from where
(01:53):
you sit. I don't want you to be afraid of AI.
I don't want you to be pushing away from the
table because you're afraid that artificial intelligence is going to
take your job. I'm thinking about people who occupy the
seats of my company. I've told them, and I'm telling
(02:16):
you what I told them. Your job's not going to
be replaced by AI. Your job is going to be
replaced by someone who can use AI, and I hope
it's you as in them. But one thing that is
absolutely the case. Everybody's got to become comfortable with artificial
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intelligence very quickly. This is not optional. It's not the
cassette tape, this is not the DVD. This is not
a movement to digital music or something. This is not
even the Internet, which was quite powerful. You had an
option whether you wanted to use it or not. This
is not that there are no options. This is the
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new world, and I want to teach you. I want
to inspire you to participate in it. So let me explain.
Explain first where we came from, so that you understand
how powerful this moment is and what it compares to.
I've told you it doesn't compare to, you know, any
other sort of transformations in American society. So let's we
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have to go back one hundred years. We have to
come back one hundred and twenty five years, We have
to go back almost two hundred years to give you
a snapshot of with this moment looks like. Think about
eighteen fifty the horse and buggy. Think about eighteen sixty,
(03:48):
eighteen seventy, eighteen eighty, eighteen ninety, nineteen hundred. Those periods
were defined by the horse and buggy. It was divined
by the horse. The horse was machinery. The horse was luxury.
The horse was wealth. The horse was transportation. The horse
(04:11):
was flossing. Think about the Mercedes of this day. That
was your horse. Think about your Louis Veuton, whatever it
is that you think is flossing, that was a horse.
Whatever you believe is wealth, that was horse. However, you
brought in your crops, that was led by the horse.
(04:33):
In fact, one out of ten jobs in eighteen seventy ish.
One of our ten jobs was a fairire. A fairire
is somebody who changes horseshoes. And my guess is a
number of other jobs were tied to folks tied to
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the fairire. So the folks who gave the metal for
the ho shoes or the iron, the folks who gave
the staples or the mini nails, the tax the horse
shoe hammer, all of the pieces, the medicines of case.
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There was an infection. A lot of industries ground up
around a failure. This was everything. We got the word
phrase horsepower from the horse being the center of our universe.
But by nineteen oh one you had a surge of
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automobile companies, this new invention that showed up. But by
nineteen ten you had one hundred automobile companies. A lot
of them failed, by the way, but by nineteen ten,
one thing was absolutely sure the most valuable use of
the horse. I'm sorry to hurt the feelings of horse lovers.
(05:59):
I don't mean this intentional. It's not personal. I'm just
telling you what history says. The most valuable thing for
a horse. By nineteen twenty or nineteen ten ish was
glue as in horse glue or horse as glue. The
automobile changed everything. So we're gonna go that took sixty years.
Ladies and gentlemen. We're going to go from the horse
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being the center of the universe to the automobile that
was sixty years to labor of human beings with the
beginning of industrialization. We're going to go from being labor
centric to technology centric in six years between twenty twenty
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five twenty twenty four. I really believe is when it
started in twenty thirty. By twenty thirty, you won't recognize
the world as we know it today. But don't be afraid, right,
I want you to be empowered. I want you to
embrace this. So I'm here to talk to you today.
If you got limited times and you want your friends
and listen to this episode, I want you to tell
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them to start around marker seven, minute seven where John
Bryant gets into this. So the title of this podcast
today is rebuilding the world with ai millionaire opportunities hiding
in plain sight. Get out your pen or pencil, or
your iPad or your iPhone or Android, whatever it is,
(07:28):
you take notes on Le's time It's time to take
the time to write the future of time for yourself.
So start writing your business plan, because if you're not
writing it is not real. What's the difference between a
hustler and a businessman or a businesswoman? Paperwork, details, documentation.
(07:51):
I want you to document this because this just might
be one of the most important conversations in your life,
because it's going to help you to pivot. Let me
tell you what AI is not very quickly. It's not
checking sports results. You can do that on it with
an internet search. This is not a fancy internet search, right,
(08:12):
this is the beginning of everything artificial intelligence. I use
AI as my co creator in my life. That's right.
I use artificial intelligence as a co creator in my life.
So as I'm doing something, I turned the artificial intelligence
to help me make up time, to quicken things, to
(08:35):
cut through the haze. But I know what I want
to get to, I know what I'm trying to solve.
I use this global machine of artificial intelligence to help
me get there. That's just that's my purposes. Now, let
me tell you in a practical way. You I'm talking
to you now, somebody who's not in an office building,
not running a multi million dollar corporation. Not saying you're not.
(08:56):
I'm saying this is the average person. What can you do?
So let me tell you this quick story about a
young man, and I want to give Gary Vee credit
for inspiring me to do this. Is an example a
young man or a young woman who's fourteen or fifteen
years of age and they have mastered artificial intelligence. They
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have gotten this down. There are a techno geek, like
I grew up being a techno geek. They're in a
small town or a medium to do outsize city, and
they're gonna start calling around to small businesses and saying,
mister and miss a small business. You have a website
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that you paid four thousand and five thousand, maybe twenty
thousand dollars for. Let's just pick a mental range. Five
thousand dollars for that website five years ago, eight years ago.
It's outdated. I can I will with the help of
artificial intelligence and plugging you into e commerce like Shopify,
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et cetera. I'm going to redo your whole website and
update it for five hundred dollars, so it costs you
five thousand. I'm wanting to update it for five hundred.
How many takers do you think that young man or
young woman would get on that little idea. I'm gonna
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let you think about that for a moment, because if
somebody had called me with that offer, as a hustling
small business owner, who I don't have time to change
my mind. I don't have time to check up check
my website. I don't understand artificial intelligence. I'm trying to
meet payroll, and I'm trying. I got too much month
(10:44):
at the end of my money. I'm hustling from can't
see in the morning, I can't see at night. I
would say yes, sure, particularly if he sounded like he
knew what he was talking about. If that young man,
if that kid using AI two s like chat GBT
my favorite. I'm co chair of the AI Ethics Council
with my friend Sam Aultman are Wix, ai, wix, our Shopify, Magic,
(11:08):
Right are all the other tools? Google and everybody else
has their own tools now right? I would charge five
hundred dollars if I was his kid, and I would
see the business immediately lift and if the kid does
ten of these a month, that's five thousand dollars. Do
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it for a year, that's sixty thousand dollars. This is
middle class income. Now add some strategy. You've got a
six figure business at a team, you've got a million
dollar agency. Let me be very specific, because you know,
I like math because it doesn't have an opinion. That's
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a melody hopsing quote that I have co opted, and
I give her credit for it. She's a friend. If
you did, if this young man or young woman and
a medium sized city targeted this strategy on dominating this
area of AI upgrading of software and did over the
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course of a year two thousand contracts for five hundred
dollars each, which again these are not crazy numbers that small.
That young man or young woman right would be a
millionaire on paper. In other words, they'd have a million
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dollar revenue business at two thousand contracts. And that's one
hundred and sixty contracts give or take a month. It's
not unreasonable. One hundred and sixty contracts a month is
about five new contracts, six new contracts a day. Now,
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you have to be really assertive to do that as
a person, as an individual, But think if you had
a team of three or four people doing this, three
or four young people with endless, boundless energy, just walking
door to door, knocking on doors, saying can I upgrade
your website? Can outgrade your website? Sign here this new contract,
can upgrade your website. Sign here, We'll schedule you. And
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then once you got three or four of these signed up,
then you use that this credibility to go get some
others signed up because you say, look, I've got Joe,
Jack and Schmoe around the corner who've already has signed
a contract with me. You couldn't show the contract privacy ruse,
but you could tell the new client, the new perspective client,
who the other clients were that have signed up to
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your business. And now the new ones want to sign
up because you, oh, because the risk is already rung
out of this model, You've gotten other people to take
the risk on you, so they say, yes, I'll do
it too. This is not a very complicated example, is it.
What if I told you that everything around you, literally
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everything is about to be rebuilt with artificial intelligence with AI,
and you can be the one to do it now
I just gave you again. That was inspired by Gary V.
But there's so many examples that you can now imagine.
For yourself, and I'm going to help you with some
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of those. Listen, now, think about the great AI rebuild.
Every industry, every tool, every process is being completely reimagined
right now. The fear is out front in everybody's mind
(14:45):
is because if you're a corporate leader today racing with
your competitor, these are big companies now to invest in AI. Essentially,
what you're doing is trying to become what they call
it efficient, and there's a guest of it now. Artificial
intelligence will increase businesses efficiency by about thirty percent. That
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means in the short term, extraction. It means anything that
can be processed, remove it, repetitive process, remove it, replace
it with automation, robotics, artificial intelligence technology, et cetera. That
means people in the short term. So the fear in
everybody's mind is I'm going to lose my job. And
if you're in customer service or some of these low
(15:28):
level fields, that might be actually the case if you're
making six figures and the business that you're in can
be processed. Then in time, if you're working for somebody else,
that might mean you too. Yes, what did I say
to you earlier? You're not going to lose your job
because of AI. Are too AI, You're going to lose
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your job to somebody who can use A I'm want
to teach you now how to use AI so you
can make money and build wealth. The last time something
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like this happened to us was during the Industrial Revolution.
That was a focus on machines. Through Internet Revolution, that
was a focus on websites. By the way, I remember
in two thousand when the Internet was a new rage,
(16:32):
all the rage, I remember thinking I was going to
change the name, literally change the legal name of Operation
Hope to Operationhope dot org and Brian grew companies as
it was called back then, Brian grew companies into briangrewcompanies
dot com. That's how manic this was, which you thought,
you have to change everything. It's all going to be
(16:53):
Internet based, and it was a big shift for everybody,
and we all know how or in the Internet is today.
But that was over blown. I'm not sure that the
current hype, if you want to call it that, on
AI is actually over blown. I think it may be
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underestimated how much this is going to transform society, because
it truly is another intelligence which in some ways outstrips
for the first time ever a level, not all, but
a level of a portion of human intelligence over time.
We haven't gotten it yet, but one can see the
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writing on the wall. By the way, as an entrepreneur,
I do not think AI will take my job right
so as there are talents and tools that human beings
bring to something that I do not think can be replaced.
But anyway, that was the Internet revolution, the mobile app explosion,
that's iPhones, Uber, etc. So these are some examples where
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a lot of things changed all at the same time.
AI is bigger than all of these, But unlike those eras,
the barrier to injury is now free or near free.
Please please hear me. You don't need a factory. You
just need to focus. There's your quota for the day.
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You don't need a factory. You need a focus and
you need to focus. You know, racism is a big deal.
We talk about it, discrimination, etc. My friend Van Jones,
who's on the AI Ethics Council with me and I
think he's underestimated in his brilliance, particularly this technology area.
He said to me that of black folks, in his estimation,
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don't really know a thing about AI. Not their fault.
But then he said, you know, it's also true that
ninety nine percent of white folks don't know a thing
about AI either, So we're all equal opportunity discriminated against.
Here this everything starts at a new baseline. But the
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access at the moment is basically free. Bottom up millionaire
AI opportunities, Bottom up AI millionaire opportunities. These are some
opportunities that anyone with hustle and curiosity can act on.
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No PhD required. Number one website upgrades for small business.
Just explained that business, walked you through it, even walked
you through a little of the math of how you
can run a million dollar a year business, and basically
you can control your market. Like look at do an
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evaluation in your town and your city, and your county
and your community. Do an evaluation of how many small
busines as there are where you live. You don't need
a national platform, you don't need to be an international business.
You can do this in the Caribbean, in a small
community in one of the Caribbean nations. You can do
this in a small town in South Carolina. You can
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do this in Alabama. You can do this in the
Mojave Desert in California. You can do this in Buffalo,
New York. You can do this in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You
can do this in the most rural areas of America.
And you can control your marketplace with this one little
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business and create a business with an enormous profit margin
on that five hundred dollars. I explained to you earlier,
profit margin in that thing is about ninety percent. I
mean as much as ninety percent. So they bought it
for five thousand or more. The website. You can do
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it for five hundred. It may cost you fifty bucks
to do everything you need to do. You want to
hire people whatever and scale up. That maybe a different situation,
but you see what I'm saying. There's just there's a
lot of room there for you to be great wherever
you are and make a living, dignified living in this
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new AI era. So in this example, you have AI
powered redesigns, SEO updates, chat, bought installs, right you do,
in my opinion, you plug in some e commerce again,
I love Shopify as an example to that. You also
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have Amazon that does it, and so on and so forth. Walmart,
I'm not sure if they have an e commerce platform.
You can lock it log into, but you should look
at what they're doing because they do it as a
best in class organization and maybe take some ideas from them.
Number two Digital marketing revamps use chat, GPT and Canva
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AI to create better ads, better emails, social media strategies.
Number three Digital marketing revamps was if you need me
to go into that more. But that's an easy one
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for somebody who's running let's say an advertising agency, a
public relations agency, anybody who's who is involved in marketing
and pr. Again, this is not going to replace you.
You've got to augment what you do so you're your
own replacement. You're upgrading your own software so you can
compete in the twenty first century because you want to
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be in this example, the example of loves gives. You
want to be Netflix not Blockbuster. Right, Blockbuster could have
bought Netflix for a very small amount of money. They
got arrogant, got obnoxious through their nose up at Netflix
told them to go away. Remember the Blockbuster dates on
every corner every week, and over time, Blockbuster we're out
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of business. Netflix surged is one Blockbuster in the world today.
So you want to be blocked. You want to be Netflix,
not blocked Blockbuster. You want to be Amazon Walmart, not
Seers and Robucks or Kmart that we're out of business.
You want to be the iPhone today, not Kodak. So,
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if you're running a PR firm, a marketing firm, et cetera,
an ad first, an AD agency, I want you to
think about how you augment what you're doing with artificial
intelligence to take you from good to great and competitive
for the twenty first century. Number three, as I mentioned,
create a local AI concierge service. This is so cool.
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Help older businesses and older business owners adapt AI for bookkeeping, scheduling,
customer service, etc. Someone will pay you to do this.
I guarantee you this is the case. This is a
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huge opportunity. I'm gonna repeat that creating a local AI
concierge service will help help you help other businesses, older
businesses right to adopt AI for bookkeeping, scheduling, customer service,
and other essential services. Number four, there's a number of
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ways you can do that. You do as a consultant.
You can do it as a cost saving analysis. Anyway,
there is a huge, huge opportunity there. Both of America
are small businesses. By the way they call it, the
fortune five hundred because there's only five hundred of them, right,
But there are literally tens of thousands of businesses in America,
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and you want to target the portion that's in your
neighborhood or your community. Help them help themselves, and you
do well and do good with good capitalism at the
same time. Number four, start an AI tutoring and literacy
class in your neighborhood, class or classes. Teach others how
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to use AI charge twenty to one hundred dollars per
session per person. Again, pull out that calculator, do that math,
not that revenue. This going to be your side hustle.
By the way that you're nine to five financier five
to nine, work somebody's job, get their health care, give them,
give them good service. Rather they don't cheat on the
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good job. Deliver. But when you come home, you can
then pursue your dream. And this is something you can
do part time. Teach others how to use AI in
charge twenty to one hundred dollars per session per person.
Number five. AI powered resumes and LinkedIn makeovers help job
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seekers become future proofed. Number six write AI powered books
and e courses. Use AI to help others tell their
stories or share their knowledge. Again, you're comfortable with something
other people are not. Don't wait two years to do this.
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The market will be flooded. I want you, if you're
going to do any of this, do it right now.
Be in a hurry, be excited about this, and master
it before other people become comfortable with it. Number seven,
reimagine the church bulletin. I just love this one. We
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can all relate to it because we all growing up,
most of us went to a church and we knew
how raggedy these church bulletins were. Reimagine the church bulletin,
community newsletter or indoor community newsletter with a I digitize it,
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brand it logo for the church, a community group, make
it interactive, sell it as a service. So you're gonna
get them out of the paper business. By the way,
we'll save some trees, stop polluting the earth. Maybe, and
you're gonna get it. Because most people have a phone,
they've got a digital phone. They've got you can put
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a you can put a you know, a code on
the phone, I'm sorry on the pamphlet, a QR code
that people can pull from to pull their pamphlet up
at church or their bulletin. There are many ways to
do this, but the point is everybody do these days
has a digital phone in their hand, and so you
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don't even need to worry about what they's going to
read it on. They've got something to read it on.
You just need to move folks into the twenty first century.
Launch a micro AI agency for local elected officials or nonprofits.
I'm talking about speeches, strategy, email writing, grant writing, and
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you've become the hub for the new intelligence in the
community for folks who want to do the work but
understand the technology. They've confused business with busyness. They want
to go out there and just sell and hustle, but
they need somebody to be that back room business manager
in that new world. That could be you. And you're
not doing it for one business in this example, or
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one nonprofit or one elected official. But this example is
elected official or nonprofit. You can have a range of clients. Okay,
number nine, Start to fix my biz mobile AI consulting.
Pop up a physical booth or truck where you offer
quick AI solutions to small business owners you want to
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be mobile. Combine this with Uber if you like or
do too. Give people rides and when you're not doing that,
do a pop up with an AI fix my buzz
mobile app business or mobile AI consulting business. A physical
booth or truck where you offer AI solutions to small
businesses and you move around again. People who don't like
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being stuck in an office and want to see new things,
new places. Number ten, create an AI based voiceover or
video business. You can use eleven Labs, Pictory that's p
I C T O R Y, or other apps to
offer a fifty dollars explainer video or ads from mom
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and pop shops. And there's so many more examples. I
just gave you some that don't require, as I said,
a PhD, don't wait to be hired by the future.
I want you to create it for yourself. Okay, I'm
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gonna think I'm looking around my office now, just to
take this to another level, I'm looking at this painting
in front of me of an eagle. That photographer had
to wait for the ego and take spend all day
hunting for the right photo of the eagle, and I
mean the right imagery of the egle, wait for the
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son to be in the right place, and he might
have spend all day trying to maybe days hunting for
the right situation. Now you can do this same photo
in minutes with the help of artificial intelligence. But let's
maybe you say no, no, I want to keep the creative
process pure. Okay, that's fine, So let's step away from that.
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You still want to go out and photograph, photograph the
ego in your own and frankly, I do believe anything
is better than artificial anything, but the process of making
the art piece itself, the photograph on the metal in
this particular example, the backing, all of the creation of
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this art piece on my wall is going to be
reimagined with AI. AI and microphone production, AI and picture
frame production. I'm looking at my desk AI and water
bottle production, AI and office supply creation and production, AI
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and furniture production, AI and television production and technology, AI
and award production. AI and picture frames. I mentioned picture
frames already, but I was talking about art. I mean, literally,
everything in my office is going to be reimagined by
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somebody who gets obsessed with that thing. AI and sports
AI and baseball within sports, and basketball within sports, AI
and basketballs based balls in sports. Like literally, everything's gonna
get reimagined with the help of artificial intelligence, because AI
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will make it better, more efficient, the process, the system,
the way you go about it, and the product that
gets output. On the other side, let me now talk
about why most people will miss this. It will just
miss it. It's fear. The worst thing to fear is
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fear itself. Let me remind you that. But it's fear,
it's distraction. I talk about ignoring the noise in your life.
You cannot create magic in noise. It's entitlement. I don't
think this applies to you. You think that somehow the
world's going to work out for you. Know. God helps
those who help themselves. And it is biblical to be poors,
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not to not have anything, to be poors, not to
not do anything. And lazy hands make a man poor.
That's proverbs in the Bible. So God helps those who
help themselves. I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to
be an agent here of God to help you to
get moving so you don't get run over when you're
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being run out of town. Get in front of the
crowd and make like a parade. Can I get an amen?
It's not even a religious comment, but so somebody, even
though not even the person who doesn't believe in anything
or anyone or God. Please say, man, this is everything
so real. Talking seriously. I don't want you to have
an entitled mentality. That's not good for you. I don't
want you to be distracted. That's not healthy for you.
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I don't want you to be fearful. That's not you.
You are great. Worse, is so some mighty just waiting
for someone to give them permission. No one's going to
give you permission. No one's going to sit you down
and walk you through this unless it's one of these people.
Is we've start a business based on one of these
ideas and goes and consults with you in their neighborhood.
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But other than that, you're going to have to do
this for yourself, and that if you don't do it now,
I'm telling you, the world's going to walk right past you.
AI doesn't require you to be rich. I'm gonna repeat that.
AI does not require you to be rich. This is
mind blowing because for most other things, you've got to
start with resources, money, connections, contacts. You've got to do something,
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you got to start with. You got to have some
starting place. This makes this puts you at the same
basic starting place as a multimillionaire, maybe even a billionaire.
And maybe you're in a better position because you got
hustle and you've got and you're hungry for success, and
maybe they're not. Maybe they're just sitting around chilling. I
tell you something about wealth. First generation makes it, second
generation spins it, third generation loses it. That's historic over
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thousands of years. So if you have the hustle of
a first generation entrepreneur, a small business owner or worker,
somebody who's an immigrant or migrant, or somebody with just
you know, bottoms up hustle, and you're willing to work
from can't see in the morning, I can't see at night,
and you're nosy, you're willing to get into this. How
do you not succeed? Is what I'm thinking about. As
my friend Tony Wrestler would say, if you don't quit,
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you can't fail. So AI doesn't require you to be rich.
It requires you to be curious and consistent. This is
the new pick and shovel economy. Be the one handing
out the tools. Can I get an amen? I'm gonna
repeat that, this is the new pick and shovel economy.
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Be the one handing out the tools. Doctor Dorothy Hyde,
god wrestler Soul, once told me John, I like you
because you're a dreamer with a shovel in your hands.
I want you to be a drummer, a dreamer with
a shovel in your hand. I want you to now
have the right mindset to seize it. Okay, I want
the work. I want you to have the right work
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ethic right, and in fact, I need you to have
more work ethic than tech skills. Yes, this is different
from science, technology, engineering, and math STEM. This is different
from coding. This is different from the computer class that
you needed, the coding classes that you took, where it
took years and years and years and you had to
get that right before we could do anything right. No,
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you don't need that with AI. I'm sorry you don't. Now.
Computer skills may be better for other things like repairing
the computer, and there's places where coders and people got
these computer skills. They will have a job and a place.
But for this that I'm talking about here, you do
not need to be a tech genius. You need to
have a work ethic that's undeniable, and some tech skills
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learn just enough to be dangerous. My friend Tim Burke
would say, be dangerous from the neck up. I agree
with him. In fact, I want you to be dangerous
more than I want you to be famous. YouTube and
chat GPT are your mentors. Focus on adding value to others.
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AI is the tool. You are the bridge. I hope
you guys are writing this down. If you don't, rewind
the podcast episode and listen to it with friends, listen
to it with family, share it with those you love,
pull out that pitted paper or that digital inc on
your mobile device, and create a business plan for your
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life based on what I'm telling you. Number six, I
want you to have a call to action, the AI challenge.
Challenge your audience that's in front of you, your family members,
your coworkers, your loved ones, whoever your audience is. Maybe
the audience, by the way, is yourself. But challenge that
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audience to pick one of these idea. Let's start with
the audience of you. Pick one of these ten ideas
and try it for the next thirty days. Just give
it a shot, and even if you fail, you'll fall forward.
Even if you're not doing that, you end up doing
something else. I guarantee you no different than the advice
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I give to people about Operation Hope and the coaching
and counseling we do with Operation Hope, people who have
taken me up on that their lives have been transformed.
If I have never had somebody who said, I did
what you told me to do about credit score, increasing
your credit score or lowering debt, increasing savings, and I
didn't end up a better person, less drama, less stress,
more opportunity, more optionality, I didn't have, I mean more
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self esteem. I've never met anybody who did what I
instructed them to do and their lives have not been transformed.
I can stop every day by people who tell me
Operational is transform their lives. There'll be a special announcement
soon coming from Operation Hope where we're going to expand
the work or work of literacy and include AI literacy
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with it. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime, check
out the AI Ethics Council that Sam Altman and I
co chair. Check out the AI LP three, our partnership
with Georgia State University and Mayor Andre Dickens and the
Atlanta Public Schools. That's some primer work for the work
to come. But I want you to just fall forward,
don't be afraid, don't let the perfect become the death
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of the good. Just step into this world. Invite people
you love to try to try this, and then collaborate
with you in a bit of an informal club. And
I want you to DM each other. I want you
to tag each other on social media with the tagline
write this down AI Rebuild challenge right, And I'm going
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to be looking for that over the next weeks and months.
I'm gonna be looking for the AI Rebuild challenge and
the rebuild is you right? But I want you to
infect your friends and those you love with this new mindset,
starting with you. So one year from now, you could
be telling me you made your first one thousand dollars
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or your first one million dollars. What you do today
will decide that here's some tools for the trade for you.
Which tools should you use? First of all, and very
much like we do it Operation Hope in the banking
actor area, I don't tell you what to invest in.
I tell you how to invest I don't tell you
what banking products or what bank to use. We give
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you options and you choose. I'm not going to tell
you which things or companies to use. But I'm going
to tell you ones that I think are credible, and
then you decide what you want to use. Here's some
quick fire AI tools to start with. My favorite chat Ept, Canva, Magic, Durable,
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dot Co that's instant Websites, Durable, dot coeo, Pictory Slash,
Runway Email that's AI Videos, eleven Labs as Voice AI,
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Opus Clips short Form Video, Opus Clip Agent, gt, GPT Agent, GPT, Godmode,
dot Space. These are build agents. So for that kid
business I told you about, I give you an example
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here of a tool you can use. You tell me
in the comments when you see that this is a
clip on social media, you tell me which one of
these apps you use to start that website upgrading business.
I want you inspired and educated. I want you to
have a PhD and a PhD too right. I want
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you to have agency in your life. I want you
to have hustle and belief, and I want you to
understand the free enterprise system and capitalism can work for you.
I want you to understand that the AI is for everyone,
not just for coders and techies. I wanted to give
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you today some practical action steps, not just theory. I
hope that you felt empowered by this. I hope that
you feel that there's something in here for you. If
you want more on this topic, let me know and
let me know what you want me to cover, and
I'm happy to do that. I plan on doing this
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as a series already have in mind episode two in
this series, but you tell me what you want me
to focus on. And also, I'm bringing back a couple
friends from a very popular AI episode I did with
them because I think that they can add some context
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for the larger discussion of how this is going to
change our world by twenty thirty. So they're going to
give you some theory and some strategy and some perspective
when I come back with Van Jones and others for
that conversation, go back and read, read, watch the prior
episode we did. It's in season two this year, and again,
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I'm going to give you a regular diet of this
so that I walk you into the future, so that
you're not afraid. I want you to be bold, I
want you to be audacious. I want you to believe
in yourself. I didn't know a thing about AI two
and a half years ago, and now I use it.
I don't know thirty fifty times a day as my
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co creator. I have one just to wrap this up.
I have one product I used by plot Plaud, and
I use it to record staff meetings and to record
my ideas on the run. It's not just a transcription.
It's artificial intelligence. One's powered by chat GBT and it
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will take my meeting or my comments on the run.
It will summarize it. It'll give me a mind map
of it. It'll give me a transcripts of the meeting.
It'll tell me what my to does are, who I
met with, what I promised them, the names I forgot
after the meeting. It remembers. It gives me a to
do list of what I need to follow up on.
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So you see, AI is not going to take your
job or do your job, but it will make it
easier for you to be excellent at your job or
your chosen profession. And if you don't do this, you
can easily see I think why somebody else doing a
job even have baked with AI will clock you doing
your job excellent without it. This is John O'Briant. I'm
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stepping you into the future, and I'm taking you with
me as I go this is money and wealth and
please tell a friend. Let's go. Money and Wealth with
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