December 11, 2024 • 27 mins
Angelina Darrisaw Talks Building Success, Empowering Teams, Harnessing AI For Efficiency + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Its way up at Angela. Ye, and it's our favorite
time of the week. It's Wealth Wednesday. I'm it's Stacy Tisday,
my partner.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Happy Wealth Wednesdays everybody. It is almost end of year
and we have a great end of view boost for
all you entrepreneurs out there. Angelina Dara Saw the founder
and CEO of c Suite Coach, which is just an incredible,
incredible platform is here and Angelina founded it. She's helped
so many people. She also has some interesting relationships that
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she's going to tell us about and not those kind of.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Relationships, but.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Here Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But today she's here to teach you guys all about
AI and what AI can do for small businesses. Thank
you so much for coming.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah, thank you for having me Angela.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
You know I'm big fans Stacy also, so I'm excited.
I think this is one of several Wealth Wednesdays we've
done together.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, clearly we're big fans also, Angelina.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And before we even get into the AI with c
Spee Coach, I just want you to give people some
insight again on what your business is because I know
you've gone through a lot to grow the business.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The way that you have.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Yeah, absolutely, c Suite coach. We're almost approaching a decade
and I'm really really excited about that.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Next year will be ten years. We are an.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Organizational development consultancy. So essentially what that means is we
work with large companies on people solutions, upskilling their talent,
on leadership skills, offering executive coaching services, and also building
programs that foster community. One of those programs includes the
Growth Google Digital Coaches program, which we've been working on
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since twenty seventeen, So really making sure that we're thinking
about resources that communities need to upskill themselves and to
develop themselves as leaders.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Google's not going anywhere, right, No, And it's definitely like
who doesn't use Google every single day?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
So, and I had no idea how many different ways
you can use it, especially with AI. So first of all,
tell us how you have used AI in your own business.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
One of the big things that we've been focusing on
for the near term is doing a better job at
submitting for RFPs. And I don't know if you've ever
looked at a government RFP, but they are.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Like ninety pages long.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, and so it'd be like, I don't, I can't.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Most people don't do them exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
They're so specific.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
And that's also a great opportunity for more small businesses
to be thinking about because as industries experienced a lot
of change, government tends to be a little bit slower.
But in any case, the RFPs are really long, and
I could pop my RFP into Gemini and ask it
give me my deliverables that I have to do to
answer this, RFP also tell me the timeline important dates
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I need to know because RFPs also have dates like
when to submit for questions, when you have to propose,
even down to the hour of day, and so it
goes through all that information for you.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
So that's one of the ways.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The other way it cuts down days.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Of work days of work, and also make sure that
you meet those deadlines.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Yes, yes, absolutely, And then make sure that my talent,
my quality employees who have a great array of skills,
they're not spending their time reading ninety pages.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Right, that's like a whole day of work.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, so now I can repurpose that time back and
have them do something else. And then one other thing
I will call out that's been really helpful is notebook LM,
which is another tool where you can actually put in
a web address and have it scan a website and
tell you what it finds. And we did this. We
put our website in there and asked it to come
up going through our website looking at what would the
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commonly asked questions be for our website, and it populated
a list, and now, without having to us much thought power,
we're adding frequently asked questions to our website to answer
some of those questions for our customers.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Wow, exact too, and I were talking AI is here.
Eighty percent of small businesses are using it, and especially
when I hear you describe how you're using it, it's
almost hurts your bottom line not to absolutely.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, the businesses who aren't using it are putting themselves
at a disadvantage really because it's here, and as you
call out, businesses are already using it. Those businesses that
are using it are saying it's helping them increase productivity,
they're gaining more sales, and also they're reducing cost.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Right.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
So when you look at that and you're just getting
started and you're not leveraging some of these things, it's
like you're actually it's not even that you're behind. It's
like you're taking steps backwards and not using AI.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Some people are really scared of it, right, and some
people are also nervous, like, well, it's this going to
take my job? Does this mean that people are going
to lose in the workplace and pretty soon they won't
need us? What would you say for people who are
scared of using AI.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
The first would be you have to continue to upscoe
yourself throughout your career. That's one of the things my
company helps people do, and so you want to make
sure you're tapping into trainings to keep leveling.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Up your skills. But the other piece of it is
AI is.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Really your companion. That's how we should be looking at it.
It's not creating or replacing your critical thinking or your
unique perspective. But what it is doing is cutting down
on some of that time it would take and for
those really administrative or sometimes repetitive tasks. And so I
would actually be encouraged and not discourage my AI.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It'll help you a lot, Yeah, because.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
It's like it can actually make me better at my
job because now I have more time to showcase.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
My experts and if you don't know how to use it,
you probably won't have a job at some point in
the future because that's a skill that I think everybody
is going to expect their talent to be able to do.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, people hear about it, though I know someone who would.
I used to be a technophobe, but hear about new
technology and be like, oh, I have to get trained
in this. It's not that at all. Chat GPT has
become like my best friend. You ask it anything and
it's giving you research information, proposals that would take me
days to write. It's writing in a couple of minutes.
The key is asking the right questions. That's being trained
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in AI. Talk about how important that is.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yeah, absolutely So.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
We actually have a workshop that's free on demand online
that's available for anyone g dot co Slash Girls, Slash
AI for SMB's completely free, and that workshop is all
about the quality of a good prompt. I always say,
if you want a good answer, you really have to
ask a good question. And so when we're leveraging prompts,
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we need to be thinking about who's the audience of
whatever the end deliverable is, what is the format I
want that deliverable end. Do I want bullets? Do I
want it in a summary or social media post? What's
the tone? So I'll adapt a persona I am a
middle career social media manager, or I am the CEO
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of an executive a big corporation for example, right, and
add those things in there and give it some context
and of course to ask what do you want it
to do?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
And those help create that good quality prompt.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I do financial wellness for corporations and I asked chat
GPT what would be a good outline for Stacy Tissdale
to do a financial wellness program for this company for
this maney employees. And it was like in seconds the
full outline. It's not replacing you because you take that
and you tweak it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, you can't just take it copy and paste.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now, it's definitely some tweaking that has to happen in
all what platform?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
So I use Gemini and I'm like listening to.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You, and it's built in our phones by the way, it.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Is, Oh you must have Android.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh no, this is it. I thought it was built
in the iPhone.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It is too, It's in the Google app.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, it's built in here.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Because when I go on here, it always is Gemini,
and then I can put in whatever exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
So I do use Gemini, and I use it for
a number of reasons. I am a small business owner.
I leverage Google Workspace to run my email accounts, our cloud,
our docs, work, you know, everything, slides, everything, and so
Gemini was a natural tool for me to adopt because
one of the things I love about it is within Gemini,
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I can sync it with my Google Drive and say,
even like look at past articles I've written, and now
in my voice, like train it on my voice and
then now write an email in my voice. Right, So
there's really cool features like that. It's also embedded into
the spreadsheets Google Spreadsheets, It's embedded into Google Slides, and
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so I can create right there within those tools that
I'm using already for work, and I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, Gemini has its own app. It does and you
can go on, well, no, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Here too, okay, good Yemi.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Change every day.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I even I think it's relatively new. Oh that's great, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Because right, well, so for Gemini, there is a free
uh standalone tool. Right, so when you think about Gemini.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It exists within Google products.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
But then there's also what Ange is talking about, which
is that free standalone tool where you can use it
to ask things.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You can even talk to it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I don't know if that feature is available. Yeah, so
you can even talk to it, which I love because.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Friend, we've lost her.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
But the app now and I'm not sure how new
that is. But when I was on in the Google
app and then it has Gemini on top, and then
it says it now has you can get the app.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
That has to be I haven't even let me upload
update my phone.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's incredible.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
And see what you just did, though, is when you
talk about being a technophobe, that's what we should be doing,
is when we hear about things exactly immediately diving into it,
playing with it, trying it. You're not gonna lose when
you do that, You're only going to gain. So I
love that you already down.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And Angelina also has so I was actually on a
work trip and she sent me because I was like, look,
I'm trying to figure out like how to get better
at AI because I don't want to be the person
that's like, oh you know, I'm scared of this.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm not doing that. I do things the old fashioned way,
I want to make.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Sure that I'm always up in my skills as well.
And so she actually sent me her course on YouTube
that I was watching, and while I was on this trip,
other people were asking me about it and I was like, Angelina,
is it okay if I share your information? Because everybody
right now is trying to figure out how can we
make this something that is attainable for people, because sometimes
it can be intimidating. Like you said, people felt like, ooh,
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I don't want to, you know, try something new, and
we've heard so many I think negative things about AI
too verrier. Yeah, but the truth is that if you
don't know how to do it, you are going to
get left behind.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
You are and you know the key The scary pieces
come from people not being responsible in their uses. But
when you're responsible and your use you talked about not
copying and pasting right, so for example, and you want
to add your own tone and your own voice to
it because it's going to make it really truly reflect
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what you.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Want to say.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But I even think just the fact checking before you
send things out, or if you are going to be
using AI for certain things, maybe let people know if
it's going to have an impact on them. That makes
a huge difference. But ultimately it's here, it's our companion.
I use it for pretty much everything. It's embedded in
things that we already do.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
When you go on these social media sites and you're looking,
like the way that I even do my stories on
a daily basis is it'll put together like top trending
stories and it will give you a summary that they
pull from everywhere on what's the top trending story, so
that you can have information that they actually like put
together in one paragraph for you to make.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It a lot easier to understand.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It just gave me a journalist hack.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And you know what else is great?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And you know we're talking about this and you have
to take her course if anybody can go on to
how can people get the course?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
G dot co, slash grow, slash ai for SMBs okay,
And the other thing that's great that you can do
too is like say, you're not good at public speaking
and speaking in front of people, right, and there's capabilities
with that.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Talk about that.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh so I think okay, so Ange really did take that?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I did, I really did.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I'm telling you she's gonna get.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I was on a trip and I was literally but
sitting there and watching it because first of all, Angelina
has a very soothing voice to listen to and it
makes you feel like, Okay, I can do this.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But people were really like, oh, what's that? Oh I
need to learn about that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And that's how I even was telling you, Oh, this
person's asking me, you know, can can I give them
your information? But just even learning how to say you
don't like public speaking?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, So there was a what you're referring to, and
we do the case study of the business owner and
that training as there was a business owner, Nico agui Lar,
who was struggling with public speaking and he hired an
expensive coach and he was like, wait, there's so many
business owners struggling with us. Let me create an app
or figure out a way to scale out these tools.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
And so his app it's called Speako.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
It's powered by AI, and essentially what it does is
it detects when, for example, you're using filler words, or
you need to slow down or your pace as really
this is how advanced AI can be. And what's really
great is he leverages Gemini also as a tool to
update content and that are exercises in his library for
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his users.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So think about how helpful that is.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
AI can't go and give that speech for you exactly,
but what it can do is assist you and make
sure that you're more comfortable, make sure that your speech
is as great as it can be, getting rid of
those filler words, helping you, having somebody there that is objective.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
So the REV a companion.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, it is for those mundane tasks or for those
repetitive tasks, right, And I just think about how these
days seem to get shorter and shorter, and how we
need more capacity and AI really help with giving us
some of that time back that we ordinarily would have
spent researching and pulling things.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So Google is taking the lead with us with Gemini.
Gemini Business I know is for small businesses. And if
people want to get trained on all of this, you
are a Google Digital coach. Tell us what that means.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Yeah, So since twenty seventeen, I'm really excited. I've been
working with growth Google Digital Coaches program and I serve
as the national coach. Essentially, what that means is we
create trainings and deliver trainings like what Ange went through
and all across the.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
How long is that training.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It's like, how long is it?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Like that one is about forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I was like minutes.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah, you can learn and it's so helpful.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And also, because I'm gonna be honest, it's a lot
of different options to choose from, and this is really
great at giving you, like things that have been vetted
out that are useful, because it is sometimes you can
get like oversaturated with different programs and you're like, I
don't even know which one should I be getting this
one popular today, this one's not. I've never heard of this,
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So this was really helpful and helping kind of, you know,
put that together, because I think it's important to have
somebody that you trust that's kind of guiding you along
this and then you can obviously branch off and figure
out how to do things on your own, but it's
a nice base for you to figure out how you
can do things and how to get started.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yeah, and I love that you called out trust because
that's essentially what grow with Google Digital Coaches are. They're
trusted local community business owners who also have marketing expertise,
and they're really focused on throughout the whole country figuring
out how to help more small business owners, and they
do this.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
With free We do this with free skills based.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Training, no cost at all, and you can sign up
for free training anytime. We're in seventeen states and trainings
are happening throughout the country every day.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
So really glad that that's a resource.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
We've been able to support over two hundred and fifty
thousand small business owners at this point, and the numbers
will just keep growing. And next year we're going to
be supporting a lot on AI because it's going to
keep changing and we're gonna have to keep business owners
up to date on these things.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
How do people sign up for that?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
So you go to grow dot, Google Slash Digital Coaches
and you can find the coach that's nearest to you.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You can also, as.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
We called out, take some of my on demand courses
that are available, but there are workshops again in all
the markets, both virtual and in person, completely at no cost.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
See that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now I want to ask you, Angelina, because obviously since
you've been a digital coach, things have been changing, growing, evolving.
When you first heard of AI, do you remember early on,
like what were some things that you were thinking and
how you used it early on?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Yeah, I think the very first thought that I had
was I'm a business owner. I don't have time for this,
like I'm gonna have to yep, So that you said, right,
like there's.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
A learning curve. I'm gonna have to learn how to
do this.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Who has the time to learn something new? But again
to that point, more and more I started to hear
about like out or see real life examples like how
you went from never creating social content so you have
calendars ready full of posts, or people putting more and
more blogs on their sites because they're leveraging AI to
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help them produce more content. And so as I was
hearing more and more from other business owners, I was like,
I need to just engage with it. And then the
thing that was crazy is I didn't realize that AI
has already just been a part of things that we
already do, so it's not this big thing.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
For example, when you're.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Watching YouTube yeah or yeah, any streaming. When you're watching
these things, it is serving you up recommendations based on
your past viewing history and that.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's why sometimes you look at somebody else's
account and you're like, what the hell a day watching right?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Messing up my recommendation.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But yeah, it is something that you use whether or
not you're aware of it, and so you might as
well figure out how can you use it to the
greatest advantage possible. Even coming up with logos, you know,
business plans, putting together a deck, all of those things
that take so much time.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
This can really help you with that.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I know people who are not good at writing emails,
so they say, and you know, I hate when somebody
sends an email out and things are like spelled wrong
or improper grammar. It can help you, you know, fix
that up so that at least you have the base
of what it is that you want to say. And
now a lot of times it'll finish your sentence for
you too.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I even ask to check my tone. So I remember
I was writing.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I was writing an email to someone and.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
You know how things can be misread, and I was like,
I'm wondering if this.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Is sounding passive aggressive.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
So I popped the email into Gemini and I'm like,
how is the tone on this?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Is it passive aggressive?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
And it says it gave me exact language that I
could change.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Wow, to shift the tone a little passive aggressive?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It was?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It was so I had to change a couple of
things around and be a little more direct, so you know,
better relationships.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
See, Gemini can give you better relationships.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
So Gemini the sign is a little crazy, but Gemini
to focus on the nuts and personally. I want to
talk about art because now I said that you did
something at your home with art in your house, and
then obviously I went to the art show that you
helped to curate the other day. So can you talk
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to us about your in this art world, what it
is that you're you're doing.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, I would just say what I'm doing is the
same thing that I'm doing with technology and everything else.
I'm taking spaces that have felt really uncomfortable for me,
and also because of just my personality and my mission
and life, I'm bringing community along with me and trying
to drive more comfort in these spaces. So I have
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always engaged with art in some capacity or been interested
in it. My mom was the educator, taking us to
museums on trips. And then as I got older and
started thinking about how to decorate my apartment, and I
knew that I was beyond cutting out the I used
to have the Jacob Lawrence calendars and cut out the
photos and put them in frames. I was like, you
can't really do that anymore. How are you going to engage?
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I said, let me take this seriously, and I joined
Black Arts Counsel at MoMA, founding member of Studio Museum
of Harlem and started just engaging meeting artists. And then
there are some amazing groups that exist, like Art Noir
that's who hosted the event in my home, that really
focus on making art less scary for us because a
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lot of times we go into galleries, we historically haven't
had a lot of the resources to buy art. And
it is about listen. You can walk into a space
and learn when you're ready. At least you're building up
the knowledge that you need to engage in art, and
in the meantime, you should feel included in these spaces.
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And this is really I don't want to get too
crazy ahead, but what I'm also learning is that there's
also an you know, you're building your financial portfolio if
you do diversify, if.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
You're engaging in art the right way.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
So that's the advanced place, but I think the starting
place is how do we get.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
More of us in spaces?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
And that makes a difference, right when the Met Museum
sees that everyone is going to the Ancient Egypt the
new exhibit that just came out, They're like, wow, people
do respond to more black art in our museum. Maybe
that should do this more right. So it's like us
engaging has an impact.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Absolutely, and we've tried to bring a lot of attention
to that art. Was one of the first alternative investments
that allowed micro investing. Also, that's the same thing that
brought a lot of people of color into the stock market,
all those micro apps. I think we had master works
up here. There's really ways to engage with it. But awesome,
Great on you as always for bringing the community and
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community into those spaces and arming them.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I just thought that was fascinating. And I want
to make sure again I took the course. I don't play,
and I'm always about educating myself, So I want to
make sure that people again take this absolutely free course,
because why wouldn't you this year play.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
It in the background while you're, you know, washing your dishes.
It's very quick, it's very efficient, and I would say
most importantly impactful, and you'll walk away with a new
knowledge of how to do something. You're using Google anyway, right,
like everyone is, so at least figure out now how
to adapt to that next stage, which is those AI
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tools that are embedded.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
One another angle. I want you to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Black businesses, we always know the trouble that we have
access to capital that might even be changing and get harder.
People don't make that link between AI and your bottom
line and the whole access to capital situation.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Yeah, when I was starting a business, and now almost
ten years ago is still crazy to me. But when
I was starting a business, the biggest thing was.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I didn't have enough resources.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I needed help, I needed more time, I needed.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
More people around it.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
You have to pay people, right, And so when we
think about AI, what AI can do is some of
those tats. Like you talked about creating a business plan.
People pay people to make business.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Plans, and now you need them a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And I applied for grants and apply.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
For a grant that can be very time consuming too.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
All of that is very time consuming, and so leveraging
AI is kind of affecting your bottle online by giving
you money back right that you would have had to
spend in other places.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
And so that's one big piece of it.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
And then to the point of as we think about
our community in particular, we have been last at.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The table and a lot of spaces.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
And I always think, every time something new comes out,
this is our opportunity to jump to the front, right
and really create something new, really figure out how to
build with it. If I leverage AI, Like let's say
I'm a local hair salon and I'm leveraging AI to
take care of my pos or do financial help me
with financial planning in some way. Now that's time back
that I have where I can differentiate myself by having
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my people focus more on our customer services. There Paris, yes, yes, yes,
right there, Yeah we do Paris hooks me up.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
That's soft suppressed.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And scheduling all because we all know how hard it
is like being a small business owner myself, just even
hiring employees, keeping check of the schedules, even figuring out
what you need to order if things are running low,
how can we make sure that we stay on top
of those things? And sometimes human error is a real thing.
And if this can be something that helps somebody be like,
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oh it's time to order this or relow on that,
or how can we also get a lower cost. Where
can I find this so that I can buy it
and bulk from here instead of spending X amount of dollars?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
You can just ask at that, Yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
There's definitely ways, Like you know, we're always trying to
shop around to get the best price or whatever it
is that you're.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Trying to find.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Maybe you want to work with some black owned brands,
some women owned brands. How can I replace my what
other black owned brands you know? Can I use in
my coffee shop? That's going to actually help because again
we were talking about making sure that we spend money
in our own as well, and that's an important thing too.
And these are all ways that AI can help you
find those find those resources.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Content and marketing too. All the time you think make
you spend creating social media posts and all this other stuff.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Yeah, And so the point now that you say you're
using AI for some of the things you call out for,
now that front desk person or someone who was on
your team who was doing that before, now they can
spend the time focusing on something else that helps you
be competitive and be really innovative in your space.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And even like you said, scheduling posts to go up
with social media. Now you have content and instead of
you having to be like, I gotta hurry up and
do this by this time, you can just schedule it
and you can have them do that. They can also
put together the best language to use to get the
best everybody's always talking about, okay, the algorithm, X, Y
and Z, how do I get the most you know
out of this post? And it can help you with
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all of that because people are always trying to figure
out what's the best time of the data post?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know, how long should this be in a carousel?
How many?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Engagement is so important and a I can really help
you with that too.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
AI experts, No, I'm not many favorite things about Angela.
She's such an avid learner and I learned from the
stuff she's.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Learning and just hearing you and Ai.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You have given us a lot of websites for Google
Digital Coaches and for c Suite. Promise that you'll put
these on your social media and tell people how to
find you on social media.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Yes, yes, yes, I am on social media at Lena
darisaw and you can find all of our programming and
we put when our schedules are going to be at
Digital Coaches program So lots of updates and tips on
there for small business owners, also on how to use
technology for your business.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
So they're following what on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
At Digital Coaches program.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Or Lena Darisa Alena Daris or at Wealth Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Because we're gonna post all of this stuff, but thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
We're gonna have you back, You're gonna you are gonna
walk our community through AI.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yes, that's our.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Twenty Angelina is like one of my favorite people and
she always responds anytime I have a question about anything.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
So I appreciate you so much for this.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Like I said, I'm a forever student and so this
is important and I want to make sure anytime we
get something that I think is great and valuable, we
pass it on.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Big shout out to Angelina's mom.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's my that's my girl.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Thank you, Happy Wealth Wednesdays. More to come.
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Its way up at Angela. Ye, and it's our favorite
time of the week. It's Wealth Wednesday. I'm it's Stacy Tisday,
my partner.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Happy Wealth Wednesdays everybody. It is almost end of year
and we have a great end of view boost for
all you entrepreneurs out there. Angelina Dara Saw the founder
and CEO of c Suite Coach, which is just an incredible,
incredible platform is here and Angelina founded it. She's helped
so many people. She also has some interesting relationships that
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she's going to tell us about and not those kind of.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Relationships, but.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Here Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But today she's here to teach you guys all about
AI and what AI can do for small businesses. Thank
you so much for coming.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah, thank you for having me Angela.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
You know I'm big fans Stacy also, so I'm excited.
I think this is one of several Wealth Wednesdays we've
done together.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, clearly we're big fans also, Angelina.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And before we even get into the AI with c
Spee Coach, I just want you to give people some
insight again on what your business is because I know
you've gone through a lot to grow the business.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The way that you have.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Yeah, absolutely, c Suite coach. We're almost approaching a decade
and I'm really really excited about that.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Next year will be ten years. We are an.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Organizational development consultancy. So essentially what that means is we
work with large companies on people solutions, upskilling their talent,
on leadership skills, offering executive coaching services, and also building
programs that foster community. One of those programs includes the
Growth Google Digital Coaches program, which we've been working on
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since twenty seventeen, So really making sure that we're thinking
about resources that communities need to upskill themselves and to
develop themselves as leaders.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Google's not going anywhere, right, No, And it's definitely like
who doesn't use Google every single day?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
So, and I had no idea how many different ways
you can use it, especially with AI. So first of all,
tell us how you have used AI in your own business.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
One of the big things that we've been focusing on
for the near term is doing a better job at
submitting for RFPs. And I don't know if you've ever
looked at a government RFP, but they are.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Like ninety pages long.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, and so it'd be like, I don't, I can't.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Most people don't do them exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
They're so specific.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
And that's also a great opportunity for more small businesses
to be thinking about because as industries experienced a lot
of change, government tends to be a little bit slower.
But in any case, the RFPs are really long, and
I could pop my RFP into Gemini and ask it
give me my deliverables that I have to do to
answer this, RFP also tell me the timeline important dates
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I need to know because RFPs also have dates like
when to submit for questions, when you have to propose,
even down to the hour of day, and so it
goes through all that information for you.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
So that's one of the ways.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The other way it cuts down days.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Of work days of work, and also make sure that
you meet those deadlines.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Yes, yes, absolutely, And then make sure that my talent,
my quality employees who have a great array of skills,
they're not spending their time reading ninety pages.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Right, that's like a whole day of work.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, so now I can repurpose that time back and
have them do something else. And then one other thing
I will call out that's been really helpful is notebook LM,
which is another tool where you can actually put in
a web address and have it scan a website and
tell you what it finds. And we did this. We
put our website in there and asked it to come
up going through our website looking at what would the
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commonly asked questions be for our website, and it populated
a list, and now, without having to us much thought power,
we're adding frequently asked questions to our website to answer
some of those questions for our customers.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Wow, exact too, and I were talking AI is here.
Eighty percent of small businesses are using it, and especially
when I hear you describe how you're using it, it's
almost hurts your bottom line not to absolutely.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, the businesses who aren't using it are putting themselves
at a disadvantage really because it's here, and as you
call out, businesses are already using it. Those businesses that
are using it are saying it's helping them increase productivity,
they're gaining more sales, and also they're reducing cost.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Right.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
So when you look at that and you're just getting
started and you're not leveraging some of these things, it's
like you're actually it's not even that you're behind. It's
like you're taking steps backwards and not using AI.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Some people are really scared of it, right, and some
people are also nervous, like, well, it's this going to
take my job? Does this mean that people are going
to lose in the workplace and pretty soon they won't
need us? What would you say for people who are
scared of using AI.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
The first would be you have to continue to upscoe
yourself throughout your career. That's one of the things my
company helps people do, and so you want to make
sure you're tapping into trainings to keep leveling.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Up your skills. But the other piece of it is
AI is.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Really your companion. That's how we should be looking at it.
It's not creating or replacing your critical thinking or your
unique perspective. But what it is doing is cutting down
on some of that time it would take and for
those really administrative or sometimes repetitive tasks. And so I
would actually be encouraged and not discourage my AI.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It'll help you a lot, Yeah, because.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
It's like it can actually make me better at my
job because now I have more time to showcase.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
My experts and if you don't know how to use it,
you probably won't have a job at some point in
the future because that's a skill that I think everybody
is going to expect their talent to be able to do.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, people hear about it, though I know someone who would.
I used to be a technophobe, but hear about new
technology and be like, oh, I have to get trained
in this. It's not that at all. Chat GPT has
become like my best friend. You ask it anything and
it's giving you research information, proposals that would take me
days to write. It's writing in a couple of minutes.
The key is asking the right questions. That's being trained
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in AI. Talk about how important that is.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yeah, absolutely So.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
We actually have a workshop that's free on demand online
that's available for anyone g dot co Slash Girls, Slash
AI for SMB's completely free, and that workshop is all
about the quality of a good prompt. I always say,
if you want a good answer, you really have to
ask a good question. And so when we're leveraging prompts,
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we need to be thinking about who's the audience of
whatever the end deliverable is, what is the format I
want that deliverable end. Do I want bullets? Do I
want it in a summary or social media post? What's
the tone? So I'll adapt a persona I am a
middle career social media manager, or I am the CEO
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of an executive a big corporation for example, right, and
add those things in there and give it some context
and of course to ask what do you want it
to do?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
And those help create that good quality prompt.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I do financial wellness for corporations and I asked chat
GPT what would be a good outline for Stacy Tissdale
to do a financial wellness program for this company for
this maney employees. And it was like in seconds the
full outline. It's not replacing you because you take that
and you tweak it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, you can't just take it copy and paste.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now, it's definitely some tweaking that has to happen in
all what platform?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
So I use Gemini and I'm like listening to.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You, and it's built in our phones by the way, it.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Is, Oh you must have Android.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh no, this is it. I thought it was built
in the iPhone.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It is too, It's in the Google app.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, it's built in here.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Because when I go on here, it always is Gemini,
and then I can put in whatever exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
So I do use Gemini, and I use it for
a number of reasons. I am a small business owner.
I leverage Google Workspace to run my email accounts, our cloud,
our docs, work, you know, everything, slides, everything, and so
Gemini was a natural tool for me to adopt because
one of the things I love about it is within Gemini,
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I can sync it with my Google Drive and say,
even like look at past articles I've written, and now
in my voice, like train it on my voice and
then now write an email in my voice. Right, So
there's really cool features like that. It's also embedded into
the spreadsheets Google Spreadsheets, It's embedded into Google Slides, and
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so I can create right there within those tools that
I'm using already for work, and I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, Gemini has its own app. It does and you
can go on, well, no, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Here too, okay, good Yemi.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Change every day.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I even I think it's relatively new. Oh that's great, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Because right, well, so for Gemini, there is a free
uh standalone tool. Right, so when you think about Gemini.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It exists within Google products.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
But then there's also what Ange is talking about, which
is that free standalone tool where you can use it
to ask things.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You can even talk to it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I don't know if that feature is available. Yeah, so
you can even talk to it, which I love because.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Friend, we've lost her.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
But the app now and I'm not sure how new
that is. But when I was on in the Google
app and then it has Gemini on top, and then
it says it now has you can get the app.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
That has to be I haven't even let me upload
update my phone.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's incredible.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
And see what you just did, though, is when you
talk about being a technophobe, that's what we should be doing,
is when we hear about things exactly immediately diving into it,
playing with it, trying it. You're not gonna lose when
you do that, You're only going to gain. So I
love that you already down.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And Angelina also has so I was actually on a
work trip and she sent me because I was like, look,
I'm trying to figure out like how to get better
at AI because I don't want to be the person
that's like, oh you know, I'm scared of this.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm not doing that. I do things the old fashioned way,
I want to make.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Sure that I'm always up in my skills as well.
And so she actually sent me her course on YouTube
that I was watching, and while I was on this trip,
other people were asking me about it and I was like, Angelina,
is it okay if I share your information? Because everybody
right now is trying to figure out how can we
make this something that is attainable for people, because sometimes
it can be intimidating. Like you said, people felt like, ooh,
(10:36):
I don't want to, you know, try something new, and
we've heard so many I think negative things about AI
too verrier. Yeah, but the truth is that if you
don't know how to do it, you are going to
get left behind.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
You are and you know the key The scary pieces
come from people not being responsible in their uses. But
when you're responsible and your use you talked about not
copying and pasting right, so for example, and you want
to add your own tone and your own voice to
it because it's going to make it really truly reflect
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what you.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Want to say.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But I even think just the fact checking before you
send things out, or if you are going to be
using AI for certain things, maybe let people know if
it's going to have an impact on them. That makes
a huge difference. But ultimately it's here, it's our companion.
I use it for pretty much everything. It's embedded in
things that we already do.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
When you go on these social media sites and you're looking,
like the way that I even do my stories on
a daily basis is it'll put together like top trending
stories and it will give you a summary that they
pull from everywhere on what's the top trending story, so
that you can have information that they actually like put
together in one paragraph for you to make.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It a lot easier to understand.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It just gave me a journalist hack.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And you know what else is great?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And you know we're talking about this and you have
to take her course if anybody can go on to
how can people get the course?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
G dot co, slash grow, slash ai for SMBs okay,
And the other thing that's great that you can do
too is like say, you're not good at public speaking
and speaking in front of people, right, and there's capabilities
with that.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Talk about that.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh so I think okay, so Ange really did take that?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I did, I really did.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I'm telling you she's gonna get.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I was on a trip and I was literally but
sitting there and watching it because first of all, Angelina
has a very soothing voice to listen to and it
makes you feel like, Okay, I can do this.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But people were really like, oh, what's that? Oh I
need to learn about that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And that's how I even was telling you, Oh, this
person's asking me, you know, can can I give them
your information? But just even learning how to say you
don't like public speaking?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, So there was a what you're referring to, and
we do the case study of the business owner and
that training as there was a business owner, Nico agui Lar,
who was struggling with public speaking and he hired an
expensive coach and he was like, wait, there's so many
business owners struggling with us. Let me create an app
or figure out a way to scale out these tools.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
And so his app it's called Speako.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
It's powered by AI, and essentially what it does is
it detects when, for example, you're using filler words, or
you need to slow down or your pace as really
this is how advanced AI can be. And what's really
great is he leverages Gemini also as a tool to
update content and that are exercises in his library for
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his users.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So think about how helpful that is.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
AI can't go and give that speech for you exactly,
but what it can do is assist you and make
sure that you're more comfortable, make sure that your speech
is as great as it can be, getting rid of
those filler words, helping you, having somebody there that is objective.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
So the REV a companion.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, it is for those mundane tasks or for those
repetitive tasks, right, And I just think about how these
days seem to get shorter and shorter, and how we
need more capacity and AI really help with giving us
some of that time back that we ordinarily would have
spent researching and pulling things.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So Google is taking the lead with us with Gemini.
Gemini Business I know is for small businesses. And if
people want to get trained on all of this, you
are a Google Digital coach. Tell us what that means.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Yeah, So since twenty seventeen, I'm really excited. I've been
working with growth Google Digital Coaches program and I serve
as the national coach. Essentially, what that means is we
create trainings and deliver trainings like what Ange went through
and all across the.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
How long is that training.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It's like, how long is it?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Like that one is about forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I was like minutes.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah, you can learn and it's so helpful.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And also, because I'm gonna be honest, it's a lot
of different options to choose from, and this is really
great at giving you, like things that have been vetted
out that are useful, because it is sometimes you can
get like oversaturated with different programs and you're like, I
don't even know which one should I be getting this
one popular today, this one's not. I've never heard of this,
(15:02):
So this was really helpful and helping kind of, you know,
put that together, because I think it's important to have
somebody that you trust that's kind of guiding you along
this and then you can obviously branch off and figure
out how to do things on your own, but it's
a nice base for you to figure out how you
can do things and how to get started.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yeah, and I love that you called out trust because
that's essentially what grow with Google Digital Coaches are. They're
trusted local community business owners who also have marketing expertise,
and they're really focused on throughout the whole country figuring
out how to help more small business owners, and they
do this.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
With free We do this with free skills based.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Training, no cost at all, and you can sign up
for free training anytime. We're in seventeen states and trainings
are happening throughout the country every day.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
So really glad that that's a resource.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
We've been able to support over two hundred and fifty
thousand small business owners at this point, and the numbers
will just keep growing. And next year we're going to
be supporting a lot on AI because it's going to
keep changing and we're gonna have to keep business owners
up to date on these things.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
How do people sign up for that?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
So you go to grow dot, Google Slash Digital Coaches
and you can find the coach that's nearest to you.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You can also, as.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
We called out, take some of my on demand courses
that are available, but there are workshops again in all
the markets, both virtual and in person, completely at no cost.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
See that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now I want to ask you, Angelina, because obviously since
you've been a digital coach, things have been changing, growing, evolving.
When you first heard of AI, do you remember early on,
like what were some things that you were thinking and
how you used it early on?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Yeah, I think the very first thought that I had
was I'm a business owner. I don't have time for this,
like I'm gonna have to yep, So that you said, right,
like there's.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
A learning curve. I'm gonna have to learn how to
do this.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Who has the time to learn something new? But again
to that point, more and more I started to hear
about like out or see real life examples like how
you went from never creating social content so you have
calendars ready full of posts, or people putting more and
more blogs on their sites because they're leveraging AI to
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help them produce more content. And so as I was
hearing more and more from other business owners, I was like,
I need to just engage with it. And then the
thing that was crazy is I didn't realize that AI
has already just been a part of things that we
already do, so it's not this big thing.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
For example, when you're.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Watching YouTube yeah or yeah, any streaming. When you're watching
these things, it is serving you up recommendations based on
your past viewing history and that.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's why sometimes you look at somebody else's
account and you're like, what the hell a day watching right?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Messing up my recommendation.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But yeah, it is something that you use whether or
not you're aware of it, and so you might as
well figure out how can you use it to the
greatest advantage possible. Even coming up with logos, you know,
business plans, putting together a deck, all of those things
that take so much time.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
This can really help you with that.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I know people who are not good at writing emails,
so they say, and you know, I hate when somebody
sends an email out and things are like spelled wrong
or improper grammar. It can help you, you know, fix
that up so that at least you have the base
of what it is that you want to say. And
now a lot of times it'll finish your sentence for
you too.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I even ask to check my tone. So I remember
I was writing.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I was writing an email to someone and.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
You know how things can be misread, and I was like,
I'm wondering if this.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Is sounding passive aggressive.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
So I popped the email into Gemini and I'm like,
how is the tone on this?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Is it passive aggressive?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
And it says it gave me exact language that I
could change.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Wow, to shift the tone a little passive aggressive?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It was?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It was so I had to change a couple of
things around and be a little more direct, so you know,
better relationships.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
See, Gemini can give you better relationships.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
So Gemini the sign is a little crazy, but Gemini
to focus on the nuts and personally. I want to
talk about art because now I said that you did
something at your home with art in your house, and
then obviously I went to the art show that you
helped to curate the other day. So can you talk
(19:30):
to us about your in this art world, what it
is that you're you're doing.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, I would just say what I'm doing is the
same thing that I'm doing with technology and everything else.
I'm taking spaces that have felt really uncomfortable for me,
and also because of just my personality and my mission
and life, I'm bringing community along with me and trying
to drive more comfort in these spaces. So I have
(19:58):
always engaged with art in some capacity or been interested
in it. My mom was the educator, taking us to
museums on trips. And then as I got older and
started thinking about how to decorate my apartment, and I
knew that I was beyond cutting out the I used
to have the Jacob Lawrence calendars and cut out the
photos and put them in frames. I was like, you
can't really do that anymore. How are you going to engage?
(20:21):
I said, let me take this seriously, and I joined
Black Arts Counsel at MoMA, founding member of Studio Museum
of Harlem and started just engaging meeting artists. And then
there are some amazing groups that exist, like Art Noir
that's who hosted the event in my home, that really
focus on making art less scary for us because a
(20:43):
lot of times we go into galleries, we historically haven't
had a lot of the resources to buy art. And
it is about listen. You can walk into a space
and learn when you're ready. At least you're building up
the knowledge that you need to engage in art, and
in the meantime, you should feel included in these spaces.
(21:06):
And this is really I don't want to get too
crazy ahead, but what I'm also learning is that there's
also an you know, you're building your financial portfolio if
you do diversify, if.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
You're engaging in art the right way.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
So that's the advanced place, but I think the starting
place is how do we get.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
More of us in spaces?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
And that makes a difference, right when the Met Museum
sees that everyone is going to the Ancient Egypt the
new exhibit that just came out, They're like, wow, people
do respond to more black art in our museum. Maybe
that should do this more right. So it's like us
engaging has an impact.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Absolutely, and we've tried to bring a lot of attention
to that art. Was one of the first alternative investments
that allowed micro investing. Also, that's the same thing that
brought a lot of people of color into the stock market,
all those micro apps. I think we had master works
up here. There's really ways to engage with it. But awesome,
Great on you as always for bringing the community and
(22:07):
community into those spaces and arming them.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I just thought that was fascinating. And I want
to make sure again I took the course. I don't play,
and I'm always about educating myself, So I want to
make sure that people again take this absolutely free course,
because why wouldn't you this year play.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
It in the background while you're, you know, washing your dishes.
It's very quick, it's very efficient, and I would say
most importantly impactful, and you'll walk away with a new
knowledge of how to do something. You're using Google anyway, right,
like everyone is, so at least figure out now how
to adapt to that next stage, which is those AI
(22:44):
tools that are embedded.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
One another angle. I want you to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Black businesses, we always know the trouble that we have
access to capital that might even be changing and get harder.
People don't make that link between AI and your bottom
line and the whole access to capital situation.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Yeah, when I was starting a business, and now almost
ten years ago is still crazy to me. But when
I was starting a business, the biggest thing was.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I didn't have enough resources.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I needed help, I needed more time, I needed.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
More people around it.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
You have to pay people, right, And so when we
think about AI, what AI can do is some of
those tats. Like you talked about creating a business plan.
People pay people to make business.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Plans, and now you need them a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And I applied for grants and apply.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
For a grant that can be very time consuming too.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
All of that is very time consuming, and so leveraging
AI is kind of affecting your bottle online by giving
you money back right that you would have had to
spend in other places.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
And so that's one big piece of it.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
And then to the point of as we think about
our community in particular, we have been last at.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The table and a lot of spaces.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
And I always think, every time something new comes out,
this is our opportunity to jump to the front, right
and really create something new, really figure out how to
build with it. If I leverage AI, Like let's say
I'm a local hair salon and I'm leveraging AI to
take care of my pos or do financial help me
with financial planning in some way. Now that's time back
that I have where I can differentiate myself by having
(24:24):
my people focus more on our customer services. There Paris, yes, yes, yes,
right there, Yeah we do Paris hooks me up.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
That's soft suppressed.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And scheduling all because we all know how hard it
is like being a small business owner myself, just even
hiring employees, keeping check of the schedules, even figuring out
what you need to order if things are running low,
how can we make sure that we stay on top
of those things? And sometimes human error is a real thing.
And if this can be something that helps somebody be like,
(24:58):
oh it's time to order this or relow on that,
or how can we also get a lower cost. Where
can I find this so that I can buy it
and bulk from here instead of spending X amount of dollars?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
You can just ask at that, Yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
There's definitely ways, Like you know, we're always trying to
shop around to get the best price or whatever it
is that you're.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Trying to find.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Maybe you want to work with some black owned brands,
some women owned brands. How can I replace my what
other black owned brands you know? Can I use in
my coffee shop? That's going to actually help because again
we were talking about making sure that we spend money
in our own as well, and that's an important thing too.
And these are all ways that AI can help you
find those find those resources.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Content and marketing too. All the time you think make
you spend creating social media posts and all this other stuff.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Yeah, And so the point now that you say you're
using AI for some of the things you call out for,
now that front desk person or someone who was on
your team who was doing that before, now they can
spend the time focusing on something else that helps you
be competitive and be really innovative in your space.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And even like you said, scheduling posts to go up
with social media. Now you have content and instead of
you having to be like, I gotta hurry up and
do this by this time, you can just schedule it
and you can have them do that. They can also
put together the best language to use to get the
best everybody's always talking about, okay, the algorithm, X, Y
and Z, how do I get the most you know
out of this post? And it can help you with
(26:20):
all of that because people are always trying to figure
out what's the best time of the data post?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know, how long should this be in a carousel?
How many?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Engagement is so important and a I can really help
you with that too.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
AI experts, No, I'm not many favorite things about Angela.
She's such an avid learner and I learned from the
stuff she's.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Learning and just hearing you and Ai.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You have given us a lot of websites for Google
Digital Coaches and for c Suite. Promise that you'll put
these on your social media and tell people how to
find you on social media.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Yes, yes, yes, I am on social media at Lena
darisaw and you can find all of our programming and
we put when our schedules are going to be at
Digital Coaches program So lots of updates and tips on
there for small business owners, also on how to use
technology for your business.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
So they're following what on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
At Digital Coaches program.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Or Lena Darisa Alena Daris or at Wealth Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Because we're gonna post all of this stuff, but thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
We're gonna have you back, You're gonna you are gonna
walk our community through AI.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yes, that's our.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Twenty Angelina is like one of my favorite people and
she always responds anytime I have a question about anything.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
So I appreciate you so much for this.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Like I said, I'm a forever student and so this
is important and I want to make sure anytime we
get something that I think is great and valuable, we
pass it on.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Big shout out to Angelina's mom.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's my that's my girl.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Thank you, Happy Wealth Wednesdays. More to come.
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