Zero to AI
From Zero to AI: my honest journey of mid-career reinvention — sharing the wins, losses, and lessons so you can shape your own path. The world has changed, and so has the economy. For many of us, the “safe” career paths no longer feel safe. After nearly two decades running a digital agency and years as a senior business analyst, I realised experience and education weren’t enough to guarantee stability. Zero to AI is my way of sharing the messy but real story of what it takes to reinvent yourself in this new era — using AI as both a tool and an opportunity. Through Zero to AI, I’m sharing the personal side of this shift: the wins, the missteps, and the playbook you can adapt. AI is no longer just for techies — it’s a chance for anyone, in any role, to reclaim financial and personal freedom. Join me on this reinvention journey, learn the lessons quickly, and discover how to pivot and build your own future.
Episodes
Today’s episode is about the pivot. Not just changing jobs, but reshaping a life. If you’re mid-career, juggling family, and wondering if you can actually do this … this one’s for you. This is the story of how one small question — and a few brave experiments — can completely change the way you see your work, your time, and your future. And I want to share this you.
It’s been six years since my dad passed away, and not a day goes by that I don’t think about him. He wasn’t just my father — he was my best friend, my quiet mentor, and the person who grounded me no matter how chaotic life got. I can still hear his voice when I’m overthinking something — that calm, steady tone that seemed to cut through every storm. Two lessons in particular have shaped how I live, lead, and build my businesses tod...
This isn’t a dig at courses. I still think they’re important. But at some point, I realised: knowledge wasn’t the missing piece. Transfer was.
I needed a way to move from knowing about AI to using AI — to build something that worked in my world. So I flipped my learning plan on its head. Instead of treating courses as the path, I started using them as fuel. I stopped optimising for certificates… and started optimising for outcome...
This is week two in our year journey of AI transformation and reinvention. Today, I want to talk about a video that absolutely changed how I think about work — and honestly, how I think about myself. It was a very important lesson, one where I learnt to use AI as my guide, my training partner and my enabler to deliver results. This includes a 14 day plan for you to do the same
Today’s story comes straight out of my own consultancy, Changeable. It’s about something we quietly built that completely changed how we handle new enquiries. We call it the Changeable Contact Engine — and it’s basically our digital receptionist.
You’ll ship a simple pipeline that captures leads via Google Forms, stores them in Sheets, scores them with an AI prompt, and sends a helpful, on‑brand email automatically. Start tiny, kee...
Today is deliberately practical. First, the Six-Step Framework I use daily. Then three copy-and-paste playbooks you can ship this week (each with two build routes: visual n8n or Google Apps Script). I’ll point out where ChatGPT/OpenAI makes everything faster and more personal.
Today we’re building something you’ll use every day: a prompt generator that routes your requests to the right expert, keeps everything on-brand, and gives you tool-ready prompts without the trial-and-error.
Underneath all the shiny AI tools and clever prompts, there is one question that keeps coming up for people in mid career:
- How do I stabilise my income
- How do I reduce the quiet panic in my head
- How do I design systems that give me breathing room instead of burning me out
We talk a lot on this show about tools. But today, we are talking about what sits underneath the tools.
Today we are tackling the quiet crisis of the modern worker. Not "how do I prompt better," but questions like:
- How do I keep this personal when AI is doing the heavy lifting?
- Where do ethics actually live when I'm tired at 11 PM?
- And the big one: How do I keep my voice, my taste, and my creative control when the machine can ...
Today we are digging into the Zero to AI Toolkit. This is the collection of prompts, templates, and simple frameworks that can cut your learning curve in half. You do not need to become a prompt engineer. You just need a few reliable tools that help you think clearer and move faster.
Today we are digging into the Zero to AI Toolkit. This is the collection of prompts, templates, and simple frameworks that can cut your learning curve in half. You do not need to become a prompt engineer. You just need a few reliable tools that help you think clearer and move faster.
You are going to start creating your own AI assistant.
Not some fluffy digital twin that lives in a slide deck. A simple, useful assistant that helps with real tasks in your life and work. So you can spend more time on strategy, creativity, family, or just not drowning in your inbox.
This week, we are levelling up your assistant game. You are going to learn how to design AI personas, and then how to put them together into a collaborative AI panel that behaves like a small expert team.
This podcast focuses on looking back, noticing the shifts, capturing the insights, and building a simple, realistic ninety day plan that keeps your momentum alive.
We're taking everything you learned in the first twelve weeks and we're turning it into proof. Evidence. Portfolio pieces. Testimonials. Results that other people can see.
This week, you’re creating your signature AI-assisted project. Something portfolio-worthy. Something you can show people. Something that makes them say, “Wait, how did you do that so quickly?”
Last week, you built something impressive. Your signature AI-assisted project. Something portfolio-worthy that you can actually show people This week you're going to prove it's not a one-off. You're going to measure and document your AI-driven productivity gains
This week, you're turning those habits into a documented system. Not because you need to change what you're doing, but because you need to be able to explain it.
Here's what happens when you document your system:
- You clarify your own thinking.
- You create something shareable.
- You prove you're systematic.
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