September 2, 2025 • 27 mins
In this episode, I share my own journey into AI, what it’s been like to transition back into entrepreneurship, and why I joined an AI community called the Collective. You’ll hear from co-founders Jonathan Foltz and Umer Hadeed on what it means to be an AI integrator, the role of community, and their vision of being “AI Enhanced.”
For me, The Collective has been more than a network.. it’s been a space to learn, connect, and expand alongside other visionaries. This conversation explores why community matters right now, especially as we integrate AI into daily work and build companies of the future.
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- The Collective AI
- For listeners ready to dive deeper into AI, The Collective offers a 7-Day Free Trial that includes the AI Mastery Challenge, a vault of advanced trainings, and recordings from past webinars.
My podcast episode reviewing their Bali mastermind here.
Some of the links here may support the show if you choose to join through them at no extra cost to you.
- My AI Starter Guide (a simple free intro resource.)
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Brooke (00:03):
Welcome to How I AI the podcast featuring real people,
real stories, and real AI inaction.
I'm Brooke Gramer your host andguide on this journey into the
real world impact of artificialintelligence.
For over 15 years, I've workedin creative marketing events and
business strategy, wearing allthe hats.
(00:24):
I know the struggle of trying toscale and manage all things
without burning out, but here'sthe game changer, AI.
This isn't just a podcast.
How I AI is a community, a spacewhere curious minds like you
come together, share ideas, andI'll also bring exclusive
discounts, and insiderresources, because AI isn't just
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a trend, it's a shift, and thesooner we embrace it, the more
freedom, creativity, andopportunities will unlock.
I first got into AI a littleover two years ago.
It was a Mindvalley conferencethey were doing for free online,
and I remember to this day,listening in as I was getting
(01:09):
ready to go to my corporate job,at the time I was working for a
lifestyle boutique hotel, doingmarketing for them and I was
completely enamored right awayabout the revolution that was
coming our way.
What they said initially was,you're not gonna be replaced by
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ai, you're gonna be replaced bysomeone using ai.
And that really caught myattention.
From that day forward, I startedseeking out resources.
How to learn and staying caughtup on the news and all the
developments of tools that werecoming through.
And then eventually I learnedabout a local community, which
is now global at this point,called the Collective AI.
(01:53):
They started hosting in-personevents a couple times a year.
They were doing weeklyworkshops, and it gave me the
opportunity to connect withpeople in person about AI.
I was no longer alone about myjourney to learn to explore and
it gave me that final last pushI needed to go back to working
(02:15):
for myself.
I have over 15 years ofmarketing, events, and creative
advertising experience.
I've worked in Los Angeles, NewYork, and now Miami.
I had had some entrepreneurialpursuits in the past.
I have a background in lifecoaching I've also have
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experienced freelancing andconsulting while living in New
York as well.
But I had experienced such majorburnout when I was freelancing
in the past, and this wasbecause nothing was automated,
everything was manual, and I wasmanaging a bunch of clients and
demands.
(02:57):
But this time around, now thatI'm leaning back into my
entrepreneurial journey andlaunching a podcast, providing
AI enhancement consultantservices.
Still leaning on my backgroundin marketing and events and
partnerships.
I'm building my own brandreaching individuals, and I
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don't feel burnt out.
I feel like I'm finally at thecapacity where I have a work
life balance, and this is reallydue to two things.
It's due to AI enhancing me andmy time and my energy and
effort.
And also a local community andan online community.
(03:40):
These two things together havetruly brought me into a position
where I feel like I'm leaninginto my creative pursuits.
I'm leaning into my purpose andmission, which is to lead and
inspire others through speakingand through in-person events.
And I credit The Collective somuch, and I'm really excited to
(04:01):
interview the co-founders heretoday.
And we're gonna be speaking alot about what it means to build
community, why that's soimportant with this impactful
time that we're all experiencingright now with the AI tech
advancements and revolution.
I'm really excited to speak withthem more individually about
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creating this community we haveall known to love in my personal
friend group we'll get to sharea bit about what it means to go
to a hacker house, what is, uh,AI mastermind like, and we'll
share about some fun futureevents they have coming up and
why we think you should join,and our personal invitation to
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have you be a part of thecommunity.
There's a few things that TheCollective offers.
They offer a paid community,which I'm a member of
personally, they offer done foryou AI solutions through their
AI enhancement consultingprograms, and a way for you to
learn ai.
They do weekly academies theyalso created a really cool new
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platform called Vortex ai.
We're gonna dig into this todayand a lot of my guests that
we've had on the show have beeneither speakers at their events
or members of their community.
So I hope you enjoy this specialepisode today you hear me talk
about it every week, but maybeyou wanted to learn a bit more
(05:28):
about The Collective, and thisis the perfect episode to dive
deeper and to learn more aboutwhy they have been so pivotal in
my personal AI journey.
All right, Umer, Jonathan, thankyou both so much for being here.
I'm excited to chat more andhear just In your own words
about The Collective listenershear me talk about it every
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week.
My network and resources andtalent I've had on the show have
mostly stemmed from TheCollective.
So I love this opportunity.
And my first question for bothof you is.
What kind of founders orcreatives are a great fit for
The Collective?
What are they typicallystruggling with before they join
(06:12):
your community?
Jonathan (06:13):
Hmm.
You wanna begin and I finish?
Umer (06:17):
No, but it's up to you.
I think it's not that hey ifyou're struggling with something
and you you should join thecollective.
It's just that the mission, ifyou align with our mission
mm-hmm.
And the mission is to take upall the emerging technology.
And, The most important thing isalso.
If you're ready to level up,'Cause that's who we are.
(06:38):
Mm-hmm.
We always try and stay ahead ofthe curve.
We are always, Into what'scoming up, what's new learning
adapting.
Yeah.
And then executing on all ofthat.
So that's one element of thecollective.
So it doesn't necessarily meanthat you, are.
struggling and then hey, thecollective is your solution now,
right?
Collective is always gonna beyour solution because this is
what collective is.
(06:58):
It's at the forefront of thetechnology shift, whether it's
today, tomorrow, or Or.
Years down the road.
Mm-hmm.
That's one mission.
and the other mission is ofcourse, We are working on
ourselves.
We are trying to enhanceourselves, the human part of it,
The conscious part of it.
So we are working on that part.
So if you connect, in one way orthe other mm-hmm.
(07:20):
Or collectively to both mm-hmm.
Then of course we are yourpeople.
And.
Surprisingly, we have been,Gravitating or Not gravitating
but attracting those peoplemm-hmm.
Who are not only, Looking to,Learn about the new technology
that is coming up, but alsothey're trying to level up in
their own life, In their fieldand their businesses in other
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aspect of their life.
So, yeah.
Jonathan (07:45):
Yeah.
And here's the thing, it's likean amalgamation of different
things of what it really is.
'cause like I get the storiesfrom people, Some people wanna
make money and they want to knowhow to use it with ai.
Mm-hmm.
They're, they possibly could bestruggling and their business
and they're like, man my friendsare doing AI stuff, they're
doing well.
Yeah.
But more than anything it'slike.
(08:05):
There's a lot of benefit fromcoming into the community, from
seeing what others are doing.
So the reason I love doingcommunities, when I first got
into e-commerce, there was acommunity that I was in and,
when I saw people's struggles,their challenges, their wins it
help me know that I can also doit too.
It's also a very advanced way tolearn more about AI and find
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other people that are just asobsessed as we are.
Yeah.
Right?
Like I wanna be around peoplethat are literally obsessed with
AI agents, AI infrastructure,exponential shifts.
Escape velocity, like I wanna bearound these type of people and
It's hard to find these peopleout there.
Mm.
Especially very successfulpeople.
And some people that may not besuccessful, but they want to
level up, right?
So it's like this is the placewhere people are coming together
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to help each other, make moremoney, bring up the network,
bring up their knowledge, stayahead of the curve, and then
have a group of people.
That are going to take eachother to the next level.
Mm-hmm.
The other mission that Umer wasmentioning is we want to help
build the conscious leaders ofthe future.
And more and more I'm startingto see the collective more as a
mm-hmm.
Launchpad and accelerator forpeople's, companies, businesses,
(09:06):
And endeavors.
and we're seeing more and moresuccess starting to come because
of the collective, and that'sone of the most beautiful
things.
Brooke (09:12):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You're really setting the stagefor transformation and I love
that you're all about conscious.
Leadership as well.
Could you maybe share about someaha moments and some key
testimonials you've had sincelaunching this community?
Maybe there's some case studiesyou wanna share on.
Jonathan (09:31):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, There's, a ton ofstories, but one that just
happened, So, Toby that cameinto Literally just learning AI,
had no idea, was doing film andeverything like that.
He came to our hacker house.
Mm-hmm.
So excited.
Within five days, he closed hisfirst$5,000 AI client.
Wow.
And he just learned ai.
At the hacker house.
Like he had no idea right beforethat, right?
(09:53):
Like he had absolutely no clue.
Also we do a lot of JVs withpeople, right?
Yeah.
So, joint ventures, for thosethat don't know like right now,
because you can leverageaudience, you could leverage the
marketing power, you couldleverage someone's technical
skills.
A great story from two of ourmembers is that one member had
an AI training program.
He gave it to a girl namedOlivia.
(10:14):
Mm-hmm.
She translated it with AI intoFrench.
She sent it to her list.
Boom.
She made like$10,000 the firstweek.
Wow.
Wow.
And that was her first endeavor.
You know that same gentlemanalso.
Jeff Hunter, he's doing reallycool stuff.
He also closed$150,000 clientthat happened to come from one
of the members in the community.
Mm-hmm.
These other two guys they raised$500,000 for one of their
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endeavors from one of theconnections of the community.
Mm-hmm.
So it's like more and more werestarting to see people get this
success.
Like one person, they're able totriple the amount of their
clients because they startedadding AI agents.
one of our others that weactually did a joint venture
with them.
Mm-hmm.
And we just did a really goodwebinar where we started to sell
AI enhanced websites.
Like she obviously did greatbecause she started to make
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money together with thecollective, actually, as a
matter of fact.
Yeah.
'cause she's high levelbranding.
Ashley Hann big ups to her'causeshe's doing insane websites out
there.
She did that and she's like,completely shifted into the AI
space and expanded horizons.
So it's like.
All these things start to happenbecause you come into what we
like to call the vortex.
Mm-hmm.
And this vortex gives you theenergy, gives you the insight,
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gives you, you get the advice,you get to ask questions.
Just by being around thesePeople, don't realize how much
further it takes you.
Yes.
While a lot of people are tryingto do it on their own.
Learn from a YouTube video,learn from a friend.
It's not linear.
Right?
Mm-hmm.
Coming into a community is moreexponential and trying to do
things on her own and trying tolearn from little tit tat here,
friend YouTube, whatever.
mm-hmm.
Is a slower way to do it.
(11:38):
So, yeah.
We love to Be able to help andsupport people to the highest
degree.
Brooke (11:42):
Absolutely.
You spoke about Vortex, which isalso coincidentally the name of
your new application.
I spoke a little About it in thesolo episode, recapping the
hacker house in Mastermind, ButI love to hear in both of your
words, Umer, you can kick itoff.
What is Vortex and why do youfeel like it's.
Such a, revolutionary tool andplatform.
Umer (12:05):
Okay.
So Vortex is primarily A, tool,which is always gonna be in in a
stage of getting better.
Mm.
Because why it's so progressive.
cause it's based off of ai,right?
Mm-hmm.
Why is it different?
Because A, it's open source B,It gives you more, Power in
terms of What LLMs what modelsof those LLMs you can use Yeah.
To build agents for you to buildassistants for you.
(12:27):
So right now There you havelimited options, right?
Open AI offers you only four,and then besides that, There's a
community section to VortexWhere companies can come on,
they can create their own Partof the Vortex, And assign their
teams to it.
And they can assign differentroles and they can chat, they
can interact, use the sameagents that they create, the
whole team can use it.
(12:47):
Wow.
They can create departmentswithin that word.
So.
It's ever evolving.
Baby.
But of course, It's exciting'cause It is using ai, it's open
source.
And we are adding features asthe, Pop up, Every day, every
week.
We already have people usingVortex and taking advantage.
So I'm just excited that, We'vebeen able to share What we have
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built for our people, for ourcommunity.
Yes.
And of course for all the peoplelike, Outside our community too.
Yeah.
They'll be able to use iteventually.
But right now We have only opento our community And it's very
powerful and powerful to anextent where, you can create
multiple assistant and you canshare it with your team.
And John can elaborate furtheron like you know what he feels
about Vortex.
Jonathan (13:27):
Yeah.
yeah.
I mean, for me it's very simple.
It's a ever evolving live systemthat's like a ChatGPT on
steroids and you're not.
Chained up to one company, orone LLM or one of these agents,
you can literally go and use anyof'em.
So that's what's cool about it,that it's like it's unchained,
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it's, open source and it canliterally allow you to do.
a multitude of things that youcannot do.
And I believe the future will beabout jumping on seamlessly from
platforms to platforms, fromtech to tech.
And you can't be stuck to justone company.
And that's why we came up withthe vortex.
Brooke (14:04):
Awesome.
Another offering that thecollective has been providing
its community and its itsnetwork has been AI enhancement
consulting services, which is socrucial right now because to
Umer's point in our recentpodcast, it's never been a more
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critical time to start tointegrate and to build out your
AI strategy because.
You're just gonna fall so farbehind that you won't be able to
catch up.
So if you could share more aboutwhat it is that you're doing for
people and businesses with AIenhancement consulting.
Jonathan (14:42):
Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, so The AI Enhancementconsulting.
We used to do consulting.
Mm-hmm.
And we really never wanted toget back into it.
Yes.
But we saw just such aridiculous need from our
members, our friends, and therewas a lot of people doing.
Very amateur stuff or doingthings not the best.
And that's why we actuallystarted like our original
agency, digital age business.
(15:03):
Mm-hmm.
It came from the idea that wegot screwed over so many times,
but people didn't know what theywere doing.
And we were forced To actuallyhave a marketing agency that can
actually give good services.
Yes.
So it Derived from that of a lotof people need this right now.
And then as we looked into itmore and more, so it's like
everyone's doing a bunch ofthings that are either extremely
inefficient, they don't matteranymore.
(15:23):
They will not matter soon.
Yeah.
So it's like it's one of thelargest blue oceans ever, and a
lot of people need help andsupport, and it will also help
us with some of our ownendeavors.
So we realize that people needto integrate this because this
is not like.
When you added social media,maybe it could do a 20% lift, a
50% lift, maybe a hundredpercent lift when you're doing
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AI implementation to the highdegree.
'cause most people think havingChatGPT and using notebook LLLM.
Mm-hmm.
They think that these things aredoing, justice, but there's
other people that are trulyintegrating ai Yeah.
That are moving 10 20 x.
So this is the most drasticimprovement that has ever
happened.
In the history of writtenmankind that I know of
(16:04):
personally, Yeah.
And this is my own personalopinion.
I'm sure there's other peoplethink otherwise.
But most of the experts are onthis page.
Most of the people that, wereretired from tech have come back
full swing to go back into ai.
Mm-hmm.
Because it's such a fundamentalshift.
So if we can help companies getAI enhanced, We're coining this
word, obviously it's a word thatpeople can use, but we've been
coining it really hard becauseyou can enhance the humans, you
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can enhance the company, you canenhance the business.
Idea that I may have had.
At some point in time and I canmove 5, 10, 20 times faster.
Mm-hmm.
and the, results will start toshow.
And you're gonna start to seethe largest companies in the
world.
And, the big advisory companiesare gonna come in, figure out
what works.
For example, customer servicereps.
And we're just doing customerservice, like very simple
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information, There's a goodchance they're gonna be replaced
completely with ai, Even salesreps Yeah.
And this is happening all overthe board.
Anything digital is going to bedisplaced, replaced, and then
humans yielding this technology,using it to the highest degree
are gonna be at a far advantage.
And this is not a 50% advantage.
It's like literally sometimes500 or a thousand percent.
(17:09):
Mm-hmm.
Brooke (17:10):
Yeah.
Anything you wanna add to thatUmer?
Umer (17:12):
Yeah, a couple of things.
John hit it absolutely right.
This is what you believe, AIenhancement is, so here's the
thing, When AI came, everybodywas fearful, so that's nothing
but human nature.
You judge or fear.
Yeah.
So it was like, hey, we aregonna lose lot jobs and people
are literally losing jobs,right?
All the big corporations,They're downsizing.
They don't need those people.
Yeah.
cause AI is plugging into allthose tasks, which are mundane,
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which are like, basic levelthings and can be delegated, and
AI is taking those delegatedtasks and then doing those
repetitive tasks over and overagain better, and it's only
gonna get better.
So people are losing jobs.
That's the reality.
So what is AI enhancement?
AI enhancement is the hope thatpeople thought never existed
Because they only thought that,Hey, we are gonna lose jobs and
what's gonna happen?
(17:54):
We are gonna get replaced.
And then the word that we usemostly is displacement.
It's not replacement.
And the first array ofdisplacement was AI integration
or AI enhancement.
You AI enhance yourself.
Yeah, there's an opportunity inthe market and there's a huge
gap in the market where if youare AI literate and AI Really
better than most of the people,let's say 90, 90 or 80% of the
(18:16):
population.
Mm-hmm.
What you can do is now, you canstill be an agency, which is not
The, legacy agency model, socialmedia marketing agency, or
digital agency.
Are no more required.
'cause most of the tasks arebeing done by ai.
Right.
But if you know ai, how to plugin AI into the business, SOPs
and systems and processes andstructure, then you are in
(18:39):
demand.
Then, now companies are lookingfor those people who can come in
and automate and make theirsystems efficient.
Mm-hmm.
Hitting them, their bottom line,Their top line.
By, implementing all those AIsystem that they're not ready
to, or they're not aware of,they cannot do it on their own.
Yeah.
So there's a gap in market.
And then if you guys listening,if you are a freelancer, if
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you're, Owner of an agency, yougotta switch.
You gotta pivot.
Yeah.
And You gotta say we are AIintegrators.
Yes.
That's what We are educatingPeople who are really skilled
with 15, 10, 5 years ofexperience in their own field.
Mm-hmm.
For example, people like, Whoare consulting with other
companies.
Mm-hmm.
And, let's say in design andmarketing And, branding in, in
(19:22):
development.
What is needed is For them tounderstand how AI can be
beneficial with their skillset.
cause they already know thefundamentals of what companies
require.
Yes.
And by plugging in AI into allthose system where it is Really
fruitful.
You, Become, not indispensable,but an integral part of the
whole ecosystem.
(19:42):
So, so that's what AIenhancement is?
AI enhancement.
We do it for the companies causewe also Do it, execute it.
We are really good at it.
and We are also educating andthen, and creating that army of
people mm-hmm.
Who can go on their own now whoare fearful.
What am I gonna do?
'cause now my job has been takenby ai.
Mm-hmm.
Now what you can do is you cancome Learn about AI and then go
(20:06):
ahead And now you can enhancecompanies through integrating AI
to plug in AI So, so that's whatAI enhancement is.
Brooke (20:13):
Yes, very well said.
And that's exactly why I'mgetting licensed under the
collective as an AI enhancementconsultant.
And why I invested my time andenergy into learning One thing I
also wanna chat about isupcoming events that you have.
You have an exciting Tulumhacker house coming up.
Share about why a founder wouldwanna be at an event like that.
Jonathan (20:35):
Yeah, so, so actually.
Last year was the Tulum hackerhouse.
Um, this year coming up, like weseparate what our hacker houses
and our masterminds are.
Masterminds are a little bitmore teaching.
Mm-hmm.
We bring in high level speakers.
The networking is very high.
There's a little bit lessimplementation, but I feel like
we're gonna start doing more ofit.
So theoretically this year isgonna be a Tulum mastermind.
(20:58):
Got it.
Usually masterminds are done inthe USA and then hacker houses
outside of the USA.
Okay.
This happens to be so close toMiami, which is our home base
and headquarters.
Mm-hmm.
And so many people were askingabout it Mm-hmm.
That like, We had to do it.
So we're gonna be having anamazing time and it's gonna
happen October 23rd to 26th.
Mm-hmm.
And we're so excited about itbecause like last time we did
it, on a whim in a three weekspan oversold the event and it
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was absolutely incredible.
And for some reason there'ssomething Insanely magical about
Tulum.
And What they say is there'sunderwater cenotes So there's
some weird resonance thathappens.
Yeah.
So we tend to have a lot ofmagic happen and due to popular
demand, we're bringing it toTulum this year.
Yeah.
Brooke (21:39):
Exciting stuff.
I think for my final Wrap up,I'd love for you each to share
what it means to have communityin this rapid change of AI and
why community is so importantright now.
In your own words.
Umer (21:54):
I'll begin.
So, yeah, listen, there's an oldsaying and I say it over and
over again.
And if you're gonna go fast, goalone.
That's, there's nothing wrongwith it.
But if you wanna go far, gotogether.
Yeah.
Cause nobody is perfect.
Nobody's complete.
We are all fill in each other.
Voids.
We all become each other'sstrengths.
Where weaknesses lie.
So if you're somebody, if you'rea, solo rider, And if you think
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hey, you can do it all.
No, you cannot.
you have limitations, you havetime limitations, you have
energy limitations, you haveskill limitations.
Mm-hmm.
You have, you your, executionlimitations.
So find your other, Belgianhorse, a person who's.
Who's really good at certainthings that You do not possess
come together.
Yes.
And then you're gonna realizehow big and important, it is to
work with other people, Andbuild community.
(22:38):
Yes.
Because the change only happens,of course.
It is triggered By one person orby one entity.
Yes.
But then the fusion effect withthe help of community The fusion
effect becomes like anexponential, right?
Mm-hmm.
So it's important, Especiallycurrent times.
'cause for me it's, not aboutany more smartness, it's about,
it's model time now.
Mm-hmm.
(22:59):
Model speed now.
Mm-hmm.
So More can be done.
more can be learned.
More can be achieved And morecan be executed in a community
setting, Whether it's for yourcompany, for yourself.
For me that's the biggesttakeaway Of, community.
The process of learning mm-hmm.
Is so exponential.
The process the shortcut thatyou can.
Get through community's help.
(23:19):
Absolutely.
And then Us people say, Hey,ins, inspiration, inspirational.
Mm-hmm.
Inspirational, And, motivation.
They always go up and down,right?
Mm-hmm.
We are all.
Nothing but human.
And that's where the communityalso helps you find other
people.
I find Jonathan, who in my lowtimes he, says that, Hey dude,
this is what I'm doing.
This is what we are heading.
So, so he's helping me level up.
(23:41):
So I see him behave, performingat the highest level.
Yeah, I need to go there.
So there's so many things,small, little details.
that we miss out on.
Yeah.
Which community really helps andbenefits you, which we oversee
or overlook when we try and doeverything on your, on our own.
And we, think that, we can doeverything.
So that's great.
that's for me, that's thebiggest takeaway for of
(24:02):
communities.
Strength.
Brooke (24:03):
Beautiful.
Anything to add, Jonathan?
Jonathan (24:05):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When I made the decision to stepdown from the public company and
then to sell one of our othercompanies, I knew AI was going
to move ridiculously fast.
So I actually put a lot of timeand effort into what my next
moves would be.
Mm-hmm.
And it always just came back tocommunity because, launching a
technology, launching anothercourse, Like building this next
(24:25):
company with community, we'renow creating a hive mind of
people that are out in thefield.
Getting information'causethere's too much information out
there.
Yes.
And then you get to come back,feed the entire mind, let's just
call it.
and then now we can move muchfaster and we're gonna help
support each other while thingsget very chaotic.
Yeah.
They get out of the way and thensimultaneously people are going
(24:48):
to start seeing a little bit ofCrazy volatility.
It's the reality it's going tohappen.
Geopolitical, social, We may seeunrest and everything.
Mm-hmm.
So why would you not wanna bearound a group of people that is
gonna help each other?
Yeah.
That is global and basicallyhelping each other to the
highest degree.
So once I saw that, I knewcommunity was the biggest thing.
And I've, if I had to go backand do it all over again,
there's two things that I woulddo.
(25:09):
I'd find a community and I'dfind a mentor.
Mm, okay.
And then that would help me getto the next degree way faster
from all the endeavors that I'vedone.
And that's why I think communityis important.
Brooke (25:18):
Beautiful.
Well, thank you again so muchfor everything that you've
created and impacted and I seeyou both as mentors in this time
of my life as well andembracing, adapting ai.
And thank you again so much forbeing here and I was just happy
to share more about thecollective with everybody.
Jonathan (25:33):
So Yeah, and I'm super proud to see you with this
amazing podcast that isnecessary during the times right
now.
And I can't wait to see thisthing blow up'cause you're doing
an amazing job.
Thank you.
Umer (25:43):
Yeah, no, thank you.
Thank you very much for havingus.
And yeah, like Jonathan said,keep it up.
And I'm pretty sure you're gonnamake it big.
Yay.
Yeah, let's do it.
Alright.
thank you.
Brooke (25:54):
During this time of rapid technological change and
evolution, it's more importantthan ever to be leaning on each
other, to be learning from eachother and growing together.
This is why I am so active in mycommunity.
I try to lean into techcommunities and women's
communities, speak inengagements whenever I can and
(26:18):
grow this online community underthe podcast How I AI, because we
are all in it together.
And there really is no one rightway to be learning, to be
applying this in your business,to be using it personally.
This is why community is soimportant when it comes to
(26:40):
artificial intelligence and howwe are adapting it and using it.
This is my mission behind thepodcast, how I AI and why I love
partnering with the collectiveas a sponsor of my podcast
because it's the best way tostart to share resources, to
(27:01):
learn from one another, to getcreative sparks in ideas share
our mistakes, share our keyfindings, share our learnings.
We go further together than wedo alone.
This is really the core impactand center of community.
If you wanna learn more aboutThe Collective AI, I can share a
(27:22):
ton of resources in my shownotes that are exclusive for
you.
And a thank you for tuning in.
Welcome to How I AI the podcast featuring real people,
real stories, and real AI inaction.
I'm Brooke Gramer your host andguide on this journey into the
real world impact of artificialintelligence.
For over 15 years, I've workedin creative marketing events and
business strategy, wearing allthe hats.
(00:24):
I know the struggle of trying toscale and manage all things
without burning out, but here'sthe game changer, AI.
This isn't just a podcast.
How I AI is a community, a spacewhere curious minds like you
come together, share ideas, andI'll also bring exclusive
discounts, and insiderresources, because AI isn't just
(00:47):
a trend, it's a shift, and thesooner we embrace it, the more
freedom, creativity, andopportunities will unlock.
I first got into AI a littleover two years ago.
It was a Mindvalley conferencethey were doing for free online,
and I remember to this day,listening in as I was getting
(01:09):
ready to go to my corporate job,at the time I was working for a
lifestyle boutique hotel, doingmarketing for them and I was
completely enamored right awayabout the revolution that was
coming our way.
What they said initially was,you're not gonna be replaced by
(01:30):
ai, you're gonna be replaced bysomeone using ai.
And that really caught myattention.
From that day forward, I startedseeking out resources.
How to learn and staying caughtup on the news and all the
developments of tools that werecoming through.
And then eventually I learnedabout a local community, which
is now global at this point,called the Collective AI.
(01:53):
They started hosting in-personevents a couple times a year.
They were doing weeklyworkshops, and it gave me the
opportunity to connect withpeople in person about AI.
I was no longer alone about myjourney to learn to explore and
it gave me that final last pushI needed to go back to working
(02:15):
for myself.
I have over 15 years ofmarketing, events, and creative
advertising experience.
I've worked in Los Angeles, NewYork, and now Miami.
I had had some entrepreneurialpursuits in the past.
I have a background in lifecoaching I've also have
(02:35):
experienced freelancing andconsulting while living in New
York as well.
But I had experienced such majorburnout when I was freelancing
in the past, and this wasbecause nothing was automated,
everything was manual, and I wasmanaging a bunch of clients and
demands.
(02:57):
But this time around, now thatI'm leaning back into my
entrepreneurial journey andlaunching a podcast, providing
AI enhancement consultantservices.
Still leaning on my backgroundin marketing and events and
partnerships.
I'm building my own brandreaching individuals, and I
(03:18):
don't feel burnt out.
I feel like I'm finally at thecapacity where I have a work
life balance, and this is reallydue to two things.
It's due to AI enhancing me andmy time and my energy and
effort.
And also a local community andan online community.
(03:40):
These two things together havetruly brought me into a position
where I feel like I'm leaninginto my creative pursuits.
I'm leaning into my purpose andmission, which is to lead and
inspire others through speakingand through in-person events.
And I credit The Collective somuch, and I'm really excited to
(04:01):
interview the co-founders heretoday.
And we're gonna be speaking alot about what it means to build
community, why that's soimportant with this impactful
time that we're all experiencingright now with the AI tech
advancements and revolution.
I'm really excited to speak withthem more individually about
(04:23):
creating this community we haveall known to love in my personal
friend group we'll get to sharea bit about what it means to go
to a hacker house, what is, uh,AI mastermind like, and we'll
share about some fun futureevents they have coming up and
why we think you should join,and our personal invitation to
(04:44):
have you be a part of thecommunity.
There's a few things that TheCollective offers.
They offer a paid community,which I'm a member of
personally, they offer done foryou AI solutions through their
AI enhancement consultingprograms, and a way for you to
learn ai.
They do weekly academies theyalso created a really cool new
(05:08):
platform called Vortex ai.
We're gonna dig into this todayand a lot of my guests that
we've had on the show have beeneither speakers at their events
or members of their community.
So I hope you enjoy this specialepisode today you hear me talk
about it every week, but maybeyou wanted to learn a bit more
(05:28):
about The Collective, and thisis the perfect episode to dive
deeper and to learn more aboutwhy they have been so pivotal in
my personal AI journey.
All right, Umer, Jonathan, thankyou both so much for being here.
I'm excited to chat more andhear just In your own words
about The Collective listenershear me talk about it every
(05:51):
week.
My network and resources andtalent I've had on the show have
mostly stemmed from TheCollective.
So I love this opportunity.
And my first question for bothof you is.
What kind of founders orcreatives are a great fit for
The Collective?
What are they typicallystruggling with before they join
(06:12):
your community?
Jonathan (06:13):
Hmm.
You wanna begin and I finish?
Umer (06:17):
No, but it's up to you.
I think it's not that hey ifyou're struggling with something
and you you should join thecollective.
It's just that the mission, ifyou align with our mission
mm-hmm.
And the mission is to take upall the emerging technology.
And, The most important thing isalso.
If you're ready to level up,'Cause that's who we are.
(06:38):
Mm-hmm.
We always try and stay ahead ofthe curve.
We are always, Into what'scoming up, what's new learning
adapting.
Yeah.
And then executing on all ofthat.
So that's one element of thecollective.
So it doesn't necessarily meanthat you, are.
struggling and then hey, thecollective is your solution now,
right?
Collective is always gonna beyour solution because this is
what collective is.
(06:58):
It's at the forefront of thetechnology shift, whether it's
today, tomorrow, or Or.
Years down the road.
Mm-hmm.
That's one mission.
and the other mission is ofcourse, We are working on
ourselves.
We are trying to enhanceourselves, the human part of it,
The conscious part of it.
So we are working on that part.
So if you connect, in one way orthe other mm-hmm.
(07:20):
Or collectively to both mm-hmm.
Then of course we are yourpeople.
And.
Surprisingly, we have been,Gravitating or Not gravitating
but attracting those peoplemm-hmm.
Who are not only, Looking to,Learn about the new technology
that is coming up, but alsothey're trying to level up in
their own life, In their fieldand their businesses in other
(07:42):
aspect of their life.
So, yeah.
Jonathan (07:45):
Yeah.
And here's the thing, it's likean amalgamation of different
things of what it really is.
'cause like I get the storiesfrom people, Some people wanna
make money and they want to knowhow to use it with ai.
Mm-hmm.
They're, they possibly could bestruggling and their business
and they're like, man my friendsare doing AI stuff, they're
doing well.
Yeah.
But more than anything it'slike.
(08:05):
There's a lot of benefit fromcoming into the community, from
seeing what others are doing.
So the reason I love doingcommunities, when I first got
into e-commerce, there was acommunity that I was in and,
when I saw people's struggles,their challenges, their wins it
help me know that I can also doit too.
It's also a very advanced way tolearn more about AI and find
(08:25):
other people that are just asobsessed as we are.
Yeah.
Right?
Like I wanna be around peoplethat are literally obsessed with
AI agents, AI infrastructure,exponential shifts.
Escape velocity, like I wanna bearound these type of people and
It's hard to find these peopleout there.
Mm.
Especially very successfulpeople.
And some people that may not besuccessful, but they want to
level up, right?
So it's like this is the placewhere people are coming together
(08:46):
to help each other, make moremoney, bring up the network,
bring up their knowledge, stayahead of the curve, and then
have a group of people.
That are going to take eachother to the next level.
Mm-hmm.
The other mission that Umer wasmentioning is we want to help
build the conscious leaders ofthe future.
And more and more I'm startingto see the collective more as a
mm-hmm.
Launchpad and accelerator forpeople's, companies, businesses,
(09:06):
And endeavors.
and we're seeing more and moresuccess starting to come because
of the collective, and that'sone of the most beautiful
things.
Brooke (09:12):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You're really setting the stagefor transformation and I love
that you're all about conscious.
Leadership as well.
Could you maybe share about someaha moments and some key
testimonials you've had sincelaunching this community?
Maybe there's some case studiesyou wanna share on.
Jonathan (09:31):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, There's, a ton ofstories, but one that just
happened, So, Toby that cameinto Literally just learning AI,
had no idea, was doing film andeverything like that.
He came to our hacker house.
Mm-hmm.
So excited.
Within five days, he closed hisfirst$5,000 AI client.
Wow.
And he just learned ai.
At the hacker house.
Like he had no idea right beforethat, right?
(09:53):
Like he had absolutely no clue.
Also we do a lot of JVs withpeople, right?
Yeah.
So, joint ventures, for thosethat don't know like right now,
because you can leverageaudience, you could leverage the
marketing power, you couldleverage someone's technical
skills.
A great story from two of ourmembers is that one member had
an AI training program.
He gave it to a girl namedOlivia.
(10:14):
Mm-hmm.
She translated it with AI intoFrench.
She sent it to her list.
Boom.
She made like$10,000 the firstweek.
Wow.
Wow.
And that was her first endeavor.
You know that same gentlemanalso.
Jeff Hunter, he's doing reallycool stuff.
He also closed$150,000 clientthat happened to come from one
of the members in the community.
Mm-hmm.
These other two guys they raised$500,000 for one of their
(10:35):
endeavors from one of theconnections of the community.
Mm-hmm.
So it's like more and more werestarting to see people get this
success.
Like one person, they're able totriple the amount of their
clients because they startedadding AI agents.
one of our others that weactually did a joint venture
with them.
Mm-hmm.
And we just did a really goodwebinar where we started to sell
AI enhanced websites.
Like she obviously did greatbecause she started to make
(10:57):
money together with thecollective, actually, as a
matter of fact.
Yeah.
'cause she's high levelbranding.
Ashley Hann big ups to her'causeshe's doing insane websites out
there.
She did that and she's like,completely shifted into the AI
space and expanded horizons.
So it's like.
All these things start to happenbecause you come into what we
like to call the vortex.
Mm-hmm.
And this vortex gives you theenergy, gives you the insight,
(11:18):
gives you, you get the advice,you get to ask questions.
Just by being around thesePeople, don't realize how much
further it takes you.
Yes.
While a lot of people are tryingto do it on their own.
Learn from a YouTube video,learn from a friend.
It's not linear.
Right?
Mm-hmm.
Coming into a community is moreexponential and trying to do
things on her own and trying tolearn from little tit tat here,
friend YouTube, whatever.
mm-hmm.
Is a slower way to do it.
(11:38):
So, yeah.
We love to Be able to help andsupport people to the highest
degree.
Brooke (11:42):
Absolutely.
You spoke about Vortex, which isalso coincidentally the name of
your new application.
I spoke a little About it in thesolo episode, recapping the
hacker house in Mastermind, ButI love to hear in both of your
words, Umer, you can kick itoff.
What is Vortex and why do youfeel like it's.
Such a, revolutionary tool andplatform.
Umer (12:05):
Okay.
So Vortex is primarily A, tool,which is always gonna be in in a
stage of getting better.
Mm.
Because why it's so progressive.
cause it's based off of ai,right?
Mm-hmm.
Why is it different?
Because A, it's open source B,It gives you more, Power in
terms of What LLMs what modelsof those LLMs you can use Yeah.
To build agents for you to buildassistants for you.
(12:27):
So right now There you havelimited options, right?
Open AI offers you only four,and then besides that, There's a
community section to VortexWhere companies can come on,
they can create their own Partof the Vortex, And assign their
teams to it.
And they can assign differentroles and they can chat, they
can interact, use the sameagents that they create, the
whole team can use it.
(12:47):
Wow.
They can create departmentswithin that word.
So.
It's ever evolving.
Baby.
But of course, It's exciting'cause It is using ai, it's open
source.
And we are adding features asthe, Pop up, Every day, every
week.
We already have people usingVortex and taking advantage.
So I'm just excited that, We'vebeen able to share What we have
(13:08):
built for our people, for ourcommunity.
Yes.
And of course for all the peoplelike, Outside our community too.
Yeah.
They'll be able to use iteventually.
But right now We have only opento our community And it's very
powerful and powerful to anextent where, you can create
multiple assistant and you canshare it with your team.
And John can elaborate furtheron like you know what he feels
about Vortex.
Jonathan (13:27):
Yeah.
yeah.
I mean, for me it's very simple.
It's a ever evolving live systemthat's like a ChatGPT on
steroids and you're not.
Chained up to one company, orone LLM or one of these agents,
you can literally go and use anyof'em.
So that's what's cool about it,that it's like it's unchained,
(13:48):
it's, open source and it canliterally allow you to do.
a multitude of things that youcannot do.
And I believe the future will beabout jumping on seamlessly from
platforms to platforms, fromtech to tech.
And you can't be stuck to justone company.
And that's why we came up withthe vortex.
Brooke (14:04):
Awesome.
Another offering that thecollective has been providing
its community and its itsnetwork has been AI enhancement
consulting services, which is socrucial right now because to
Umer's point in our recentpodcast, it's never been a more
(14:24):
critical time to start tointegrate and to build out your
AI strategy because.
You're just gonna fall so farbehind that you won't be able to
catch up.
So if you could share more aboutwhat it is that you're doing for
people and businesses with AIenhancement consulting.
Jonathan (14:42):
Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, so The AI Enhancementconsulting.
We used to do consulting.
Mm-hmm.
And we really never wanted toget back into it.
Yes.
But we saw just such aridiculous need from our
members, our friends, and therewas a lot of people doing.
Very amateur stuff or doingthings not the best.
And that's why we actuallystarted like our original
agency, digital age business.
(15:03):
Mm-hmm.
It came from the idea that wegot screwed over so many times,
but people didn't know what theywere doing.
And we were forced To actuallyhave a marketing agency that can
actually give good services.
Yes.
So it Derived from that of a lotof people need this right now.
And then as we looked into itmore and more, so it's like
everyone's doing a bunch ofthings that are either extremely
inefficient, they don't matteranymore.
(15:23):
They will not matter soon.
Yeah.
So it's like it's one of thelargest blue oceans ever, and a
lot of people need help andsupport, and it will also help
us with some of our ownendeavors.
So we realize that people needto integrate this because this
is not like.
When you added social media,maybe it could do a 20% lift, a
50% lift, maybe a hundredpercent lift when you're doing
(15:44):
AI implementation to the highdegree.
'cause most people think havingChatGPT and using notebook LLLM.
Mm-hmm.
They think that these things aredoing, justice, but there's
other people that are trulyintegrating ai Yeah.
That are moving 10 20 x.
So this is the most drasticimprovement that has ever
happened.
In the history of writtenmankind that I know of
(16:04):
personally, Yeah.
And this is my own personalopinion.
I'm sure there's other peoplethink otherwise.
But most of the experts are onthis page.
Most of the people that, wereretired from tech have come back
full swing to go back into ai.
Mm-hmm.
Because it's such a fundamentalshift.
So if we can help companies getAI enhanced, We're coining this
word, obviously it's a word thatpeople can use, but we've been
coining it really hard becauseyou can enhance the humans, you
(16:27):
can enhance the company, you canenhance the business.
Idea that I may have had.
At some point in time and I canmove 5, 10, 20 times faster.
Mm-hmm.
and the, results will start toshow.
And you're gonna start to seethe largest companies in the
world.
And, the big advisory companiesare gonna come in, figure out
what works.
For example, customer servicereps.
And we're just doing customerservice, like very simple
(16:48):
information, There's a goodchance they're gonna be replaced
completely with ai, Even salesreps Yeah.
And this is happening all overthe board.
Anything digital is going to bedisplaced, replaced, and then
humans yielding this technology,using it to the highest degree
are gonna be at a far advantage.
And this is not a 50% advantage.
It's like literally sometimes500 or a thousand percent.
(17:09):
Mm-hmm.
Brooke (17:10):
Yeah.
Anything you wanna add to thatUmer?
Umer (17:12):
Yeah, a couple of things.
John hit it absolutely right.
This is what you believe, AIenhancement is, so here's the
thing, When AI came, everybodywas fearful, so that's nothing
but human nature.
You judge or fear.
Yeah.
So it was like, hey, we aregonna lose lot jobs and people
are literally losing jobs,right?
All the big corporations,They're downsizing.
They don't need those people.
Yeah.
cause AI is plugging into allthose tasks, which are mundane,
(17:33):
which are like, basic levelthings and can be delegated, and
AI is taking those delegatedtasks and then doing those
repetitive tasks over and overagain better, and it's only
gonna get better.
So people are losing jobs.
That's the reality.
So what is AI enhancement?
AI enhancement is the hope thatpeople thought never existed
Because they only thought that,Hey, we are gonna lose jobs and
what's gonna happen?
(17:54):
We are gonna get replaced.
And then the word that we usemostly is displacement.
It's not replacement.
And the first array ofdisplacement was AI integration
or AI enhancement.
You AI enhance yourself.
Yeah, there's an opportunity inthe market and there's a huge
gap in the market where if youare AI literate and AI Really
better than most of the people,let's say 90, 90 or 80% of the
(18:16):
population.
Mm-hmm.
What you can do is now, you canstill be an agency, which is not
The, legacy agency model, socialmedia marketing agency, or
digital agency.
Are no more required.
'cause most of the tasks arebeing done by ai.
Right.
But if you know ai, how to plugin AI into the business, SOPs
and systems and processes andstructure, then you are in
(18:39):
demand.
Then, now companies are lookingfor those people who can come in
and automate and make theirsystems efficient.
Mm-hmm.
Hitting them, their bottom line,Their top line.
By, implementing all those AIsystem that they're not ready
to, or they're not aware of,they cannot do it on their own.
Yeah.
So there's a gap in market.
And then if you guys listening,if you are a freelancer, if
(19:01):
you're, Owner of an agency, yougotta switch.
You gotta pivot.
Yeah.
And You gotta say we are AIintegrators.
Yes.
That's what We are educatingPeople who are really skilled
with 15, 10, 5 years ofexperience in their own field.
Mm-hmm.
For example, people like, Whoare consulting with other
companies.
Mm-hmm.
And, let's say in design andmarketing And, branding in, in
(19:22):
development.
What is needed is For them tounderstand how AI can be
beneficial with their skillset.
cause they already know thefundamentals of what companies
require.
Yes.
And by plugging in AI into allthose system where it is Really
fruitful.
You, Become, not indispensable,but an integral part of the
whole ecosystem.
(19:42):
So, so that's what AIenhancement is?
AI enhancement.
We do it for the companies causewe also Do it, execute it.
We are really good at it.
and We are also educating andthen, and creating that army of
people mm-hmm.
Who can go on their own now whoare fearful.
What am I gonna do?
'cause now my job has been takenby ai.
Mm-hmm.
Now what you can do is you cancome Learn about AI and then go
(20:06):
ahead And now you can enhancecompanies through integrating AI
to plug in AI So, so that's whatAI enhancement is.
Brooke (20:13):
Yes, very well said.
And that's exactly why I'mgetting licensed under the
collective as an AI enhancementconsultant.
And why I invested my time andenergy into learning One thing I
also wanna chat about isupcoming events that you have.
You have an exciting Tulumhacker house coming up.
Share about why a founder wouldwanna be at an event like that.
Jonathan (20:35):
Yeah, so, so actually.
Last year was the Tulum hackerhouse.
Um, this year coming up, like weseparate what our hacker houses
and our masterminds are.
Masterminds are a little bitmore teaching.
Mm-hmm.
We bring in high level speakers.
The networking is very high.
There's a little bit lessimplementation, but I feel like
we're gonna start doing more ofit.
So theoretically this year isgonna be a Tulum mastermind.
(20:58):
Got it.
Usually masterminds are done inthe USA and then hacker houses
outside of the USA.
Okay.
This happens to be so close toMiami, which is our home base
and headquarters.
Mm-hmm.
And so many people were askingabout it Mm-hmm.
That like, We had to do it.
So we're gonna be having anamazing time and it's gonna
happen October 23rd to 26th.
Mm-hmm.
And we're so excited about itbecause like last time we did
it, on a whim in a three weekspan oversold the event and it
(21:22):
was absolutely incredible.
And for some reason there'ssomething Insanely magical about
Tulum.
And What they say is there'sunderwater cenotes So there's
some weird resonance thathappens.
Yeah.
So we tend to have a lot ofmagic happen and due to popular
demand, we're bringing it toTulum this year.
Yeah.
Brooke (21:39):
Exciting stuff.
I think for my final Wrap up,I'd love for you each to share
what it means to have communityin this rapid change of AI and
why community is so importantright now.
In your own words.
Umer (21:54):
I'll begin.
So, yeah, listen, there's an oldsaying and I say it over and
over again.
And if you're gonna go fast, goalone.
That's, there's nothing wrongwith it.
But if you wanna go far, gotogether.
Yeah.
Cause nobody is perfect.
Nobody's complete.
We are all fill in each other.
Voids.
We all become each other'sstrengths.
Where weaknesses lie.
So if you're somebody, if you'rea, solo rider, And if you think
(22:16):
hey, you can do it all.
No, you cannot.
you have limitations, you havetime limitations, you have
energy limitations, you haveskill limitations.
Mm-hmm.
You have, you your, executionlimitations.
So find your other, Belgianhorse, a person who's.
Who's really good at certainthings that You do not possess
come together.
Yes.
And then you're gonna realizehow big and important, it is to
work with other people, Andbuild community.
(22:38):
Yes.
Because the change only happens,of course.
It is triggered By one person orby one entity.
Yes.
But then the fusion effect withthe help of community The fusion
effect becomes like anexponential, right?
Mm-hmm.
So it's important, Especiallycurrent times.
'cause for me it's, not aboutany more smartness, it's about,
it's model time now.
Mm-hmm.
(22:59):
Model speed now.
Mm-hmm.
So More can be done.
more can be learned.
More can be achieved And morecan be executed in a community
setting, Whether it's for yourcompany, for yourself.
For me that's the biggesttakeaway Of, community.
The process of learning mm-hmm.
Is so exponential.
The process the shortcut thatyou can.
Get through community's help.
(23:19):
Absolutely.
And then Us people say, Hey,ins, inspiration, inspirational.
Mm-hmm.
Inspirational, And, motivation.
They always go up and down,right?
Mm-hmm.
We are all.
Nothing but human.
And that's where the communityalso helps you find other
people.
I find Jonathan, who in my lowtimes he, says that, Hey dude,
this is what I'm doing.
This is what we are heading.
So, so he's helping me level up.
(23:41):
So I see him behave, performingat the highest level.
Yeah, I need to go there.
So there's so many things,small, little details.
that we miss out on.
Yeah.
Which community really helps andbenefits you, which we oversee
or overlook when we try and doeverything on your, on our own.
And we, think that, we can doeverything.
So that's great.
that's for me, that's thebiggest takeaway for of
(24:02):
communities.
Strength.
Brooke (24:03):
Beautiful.
Anything to add, Jonathan?
Jonathan (24:05):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When I made the decision to stepdown from the public company and
then to sell one of our othercompanies, I knew AI was going
to move ridiculously fast.
So I actually put a lot of timeand effort into what my next
moves would be.
Mm-hmm.
And it always just came back tocommunity because, launching a
technology, launching anothercourse, Like building this next
(24:25):
company with community, we'renow creating a hive mind of
people that are out in thefield.
Getting information'causethere's too much information out
there.
Yes.
And then you get to come back,feed the entire mind, let's just
call it.
and then now we can move muchfaster and we're gonna help
support each other while thingsget very chaotic.
Yeah.
They get out of the way and thensimultaneously people are going
(24:48):
to start seeing a little bit ofCrazy volatility.
It's the reality it's going tohappen.
Geopolitical, social, We may seeunrest and everything.
Mm-hmm.
So why would you not wanna bearound a group of people that is
gonna help each other?
Yeah.
That is global and basicallyhelping each other to the
highest degree.
So once I saw that, I knewcommunity was the biggest thing.
And I've, if I had to go backand do it all over again,
there's two things that I woulddo.
(25:09):
I'd find a community and I'dfind a mentor.
Mm, okay.
And then that would help me getto the next degree way faster
from all the endeavors that I'vedone.
And that's why I think communityis important.
Brooke (25:18):
Beautiful.
Well, thank you again so muchfor everything that you've
created and impacted and I seeyou both as mentors in this time
of my life as well andembracing, adapting ai.
And thank you again so much forbeing here and I was just happy
to share more about thecollective with everybody.
Jonathan (25:33):
So Yeah, and I'm super proud to see you with this
amazing podcast that isnecessary during the times right
now.
And I can't wait to see thisthing blow up'cause you're doing
an amazing job.
Thank you.
Umer (25:43):
Yeah, no, thank you.
Thank you very much for havingus.
And yeah, like Jonathan said,keep it up.
And I'm pretty sure you're gonnamake it big.
Yay.
Yeah, let's do it.
Alright.
thank you.
Brooke (25:54):
During this time of rapid technological change and
evolution, it's more importantthan ever to be leaning on each
other, to be learning from eachother and growing together.
This is why I am so active in mycommunity.
I try to lean into techcommunities and women's
communities, speak inengagements whenever I can and
(26:18):
grow this online community underthe podcast How I AI, because we
are all in it together.
And there really is no one rightway to be learning, to be
applying this in your business,to be using it personally.
This is why community is soimportant when it comes to
(26:40):
artificial intelligence and howwe are adapting it and using it.
This is my mission behind thepodcast, how I AI and why I love
partnering with the collectiveas a sponsor of my podcast
because it's the best way tostart to share resources, to
(27:01):
learn from one another, to getcreative sparks in ideas share
our mistakes, share our keyfindings, share our learnings.
We go further together than wedo alone.
This is really the core impactand center of community.
If you wanna learn more aboutThe Collective AI, I can share a
(27:22):
ton of resources in my shownotes that are exclusive for
you.
And a thank you for tuning in.
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