Empowering Moms and Caregivers with AI

Are you interested in how AI can empower moms and caregivers? In this episode of The Power Lounge, host Amy Vaughan talks with Sarah Dooley, founder of AI Empowered Mom. The episode, titled "Empowering Moms and Caregivers with AI," explores how generative AI can ease the mental load for parents and turn stress into creative solutions. Sarah shares practical examples, like transforming a broken gingerbread house into a "gingerbread graveyard" and using AI to calm morning meltdowns. The discussion highlights tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT that enhance productivity and creativity.

Listen for an inspiring conversation that reveals how AI can enhance daily life and transform caregiving.

Connect with Sarah:

Sarah Dooley

AI-Empowered Strategy and Business Operations Leader

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-dooley

Instagram: Instagram (@aiempoweredmom)

Website: aiempoweredmom.com

Episode Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

01:00 - AI Tools Alleviate Caregiver Stress

03:19 - Tech Enthusiast Uses AI for Parenting

12:54 - Creativity vs. Life Interventions

15:01 - Generative AI Reduces Parenting Decisions Stress

16:50 - Morning Meltdown: AI Calming Solutions

23:57 - AI Skills Prepare Careers for the Future

26:32 - Boost Small Business Efficiency with AI

40:56 - Collaborate with Tech and Compliance

44:31 - AI Frees Time for Human Connections

52:10 - Regret for Not Using AI's Full Capabilities

55:57 - A Balance of Insight and Inspiration

56:23 - Outro

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right.
Hello everyone, welcome back.
Happy New Year.
We are kicking off season fourof the Together Digital Power
Lounge, which is just kind ofmind-blowing to me, but I'm
really excited about today'stopic.
This is your weekly powerlounge.
It's your place to hearauthentic conversations from
those who have power to share.
My name is Amy Vaughn and I amthe owner and chief empowerment

(00:31):
officer of this amazingcommunity.
That is a diverse andcollaborative community of women
who work in digital and chooseto share their knowledge, power
and connections.
You can learn more about us andjoin the movement at
TogetherInDigitalcom, so this issuch a relevant topic for today
.
You know, I recently came acrossthis brilliant quote that many

(00:52):
of us may have seen in some ofour feeds on social media and it
perfectly captured ourconversation for today.
Artist Joanna I'm not evengoing to try to pronounce her
last name, it's like Medzikowska.
Okay, I tried, but it wasn'tgreat and I'm sorry, joanna, it
was probably wrong, but she hadthis quote out there that is
just getting like.
So it's getting memed all overthe place and it says I want AI

(01:14):
to do my laundry and dishes sothat I can do art and writing,
not for AI to do my art andwriting so I can do laundry and
dishes.
And it's just like all the rage.
It's on fire right now on theinternet and it relates.
It's understandable why it'srelatable.
It's relevant and while AIcan't let our dishwasher yet,

(01:35):
our guest today is going to beshowing us the next best thing
how to use AI to free up yourmental space for what truly
matters.
So today we are joined by SarahDooley.
She's the founder of AIEmpowered Mom, with three
degrees from UT, austin and MITcertificate for AI business
strategy.

(01:55):
She also has three daughters athome.
Sarah knows firsthand what thejuggling act is that we are all
performing, but she's here tohelp us because what makes Sarah
special is that she has taken adeep tech approach and love
taking that expertise that shehas and transformed it into
practical solutions for busycaregivers.
So since founding AI EmpoweredMom in 2023, she's been on a

(02:18):
mission to help mothers andcaregivers slash their mental
load using AI tools thatactually work for real life.
It's so great no coding required, no tech overwhelmed, just
practical strategies that'llgive you back some time and
energy.
So, whether you're a mom, acaregiver or someone just simply
looking to work smarter in thisnew year.
We are here.
You're all in for a treat.

(02:38):
Sarah is going to walk usthrough how she turned AI into
her secret weapon for crushinggoals while maintaining her
sanity.
Sarah, welcome to the PowerLounge.
Can't wait to dig into all ofthis with you and learn how we
can start 2025 stronger together.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Thank you so much, Amy.
I'm so happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Absolutely.
It is going to be such a funtopic because I think in our
space we love to nerd out aboutall things AI, ai and it's all
been very practical in the waysof marketing.
But I just get really excited.
Not only do I love new tech,but I love when we find new ways
to implement it and use it.
So I'm curious what was yourfirst aha moment that led you

(03:19):
from kind of focusing leveragingAI and tech as a tool for
corporate and then founding theAI Empowered Mom?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, for me, it all started with coloring pages and
bedtime stories.
It all begins with bedtimestories in my household.
I'm an early adopter and a realtech enthusiast, so I started
trying out ChatGPT early, whenit was announced maybe in late
2022 or early 2023.
And because I'm so busy with mythree girls and really want to

(03:50):
maximize the time that I havewith them, I loved experimenting
in just different fun ways thatI could use chat GPT at home,
and I started getting custombedtime stories written for the
girls when I wanted to send ahelp enforce a lesson that we
were working on or battle alittle fear that maybe they had
going on incorporate theirfavorite characters, and I was

(04:12):
doing the same thing withcoloring sheets.
Fast forward to my time incorporate tech.
One of my responsibilitiesworking in strategy for an AI
and automation team is toencourage the adoption of AI and
automation technologies forpeople to use in their workflows
, and one of the ways that Ifound that I could really
encourage people to adopt thesetools was professionally was by

(04:35):
sharing ways that they mightadopt them personally.
So I just started anecdotallysharing these stories about the
bedtime stories that I waswriting for my kids, or the
coloring sheets, or how I usedAI for my yard sale to power up
my sales and it was reallyconnecting with people.
And then, once I figured outthat it wasn't just fun and it

(04:55):
wasn't just kind of breakingdown the barriers or reducing
the stress around trying a newtool, that it could really help
with the mental load that comeswith parenting and caregiving, I
thought I have to spread theword, I have to share this
message and that's what led meto found AI Empowered Mom on the
side, on top of my work withcorporate AI technology.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's so amazing and I agree with you.
I think sometimes we getoverwhelmed with all the newness
that's out there in the worldand sometimes it makes us want
to shut down.
But when you get to kind oftake it and use it more
practically and see thoseresults more immediately, it
makes it a number of ways.
Where do you recommend they getstarted?

(05:47):
If they haven't touched it yetat all, or if they're starting
to look for using it in maybe adifferent context, where should
they begin?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Lately I've been hearing from a lot of moms and
caregivers that they might havetouched it for professional
reasons.
They might have tried AI atwork, but they haven't tried it
at home, and I'm reallyrecommending two paths to start
Either start with somethingreally fun or start with
something really draining andtry one of those two ways using
any tool, any tool that'savailable to you, and it doesn't

(06:16):
have to be a paid tool.
It can be a free tool.
So taking something fun like atrip that you have coming up I'm
thinking a lot about what'scoming up for spring break for
my family, so I've been havingfun getting in AI and doing some
research.
We're going to a couple ofplaces that we've never been
before and I want to make themost of that time that we have
together, so I've been havingGenerative AI act, as my travel

(06:38):
agent recommend stops for us.
Also, you know it's never tooearly to start thinking about
what to pack, and we're going tobe going somewhere warm, and I
think the girls will probably begrown out of their swimsuits
and warm clothes by then, so I'malready trying to think about
what's my packing strategy.
So, starting with something funlike a trip, and making it even
more fun is one great way tostart.

(06:59):
The other great way, I think,is to think of something that's
really draining, something thatyou're carrying on your
shoulders or in the back of yourmind.
That's like I do not want todeal with that.
For me right now, that's summercamp planning here in Austin,
and I can't believe it's alreadytime to start thinking about
summer camps.
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Mental note made.
I was like I totally put mystress on you, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
So I've been going into Gemini and just I love
using Google Gemini for research, where location matters and
where I'm curious about reviews,and I'm just asking Gemini to
help me put together a littleplan and look ahead to when
camps that I'm interested in areopening up and when I need to
be thinking about registering,and already I feel my shoulders
like going down a little bitthinking about that summer camp.

(07:45):
So if folks have not yet triedAI at all or haven't tried it
for personal reasons, I reallyrecommend they either think of
something fun for a way to makeit more fun, or think of that
thing that's carrying you downand try and delegate that to
generative AI.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I love it.
I love it.
So you mentioned Gemini.
Are there any other platformsor tools that you find helpful
as far as AI goes for specifictypes of like tasks or work or
prompts?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yes, microsoft Copilot is my go-to for all
things work and professional.
You know I live in PowerPointand Outlook and Teams, both in
my corporate technology role andfor AI Empowered Mom.
So much of my work is happeningthere.
So I really rely on MicrosoftCopilot for my work for fun.
I'm pretty loyal to chat GPTwhen it comes to researching

(08:31):
where location matters, like Iwas mentioning, where I want to
know ratings or where I want todo a little shopping I find
myself leaning on Gemini.
And then Anthropics Cloud isalso a wonderful tool,
especially for those who arequite focused on privacy and
security.
It's a responsible and ethicalfirst AI tool, so that's another

(08:51):
great tool to use.
I use all of the tooltechnologies.
I'm tool agnostic and love totry them all out.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
I love that and I think you're 100% right and I
love how you called out how,like, Gemini does a great job
because it's being fed more, alittle bit more data possibly on
like locations, because I thinkI have tried to use I love clod
.
I use clod probably mostroutinely for work, but
sometimes I do find that, likeif I want to have
recommendations, uh, about acity that I'm visiting or
something like that, it's alittle bit hard sometimes to

(09:21):
kind of get like accurateinformation.
So I think that's a great ideato kind of try them all out
right and see, like based onwhat they're, how they're being
fed, what their language modelis like, where they're pulling
from.
You might get different or evenbetter results based on what
you're trying to kind of achievefrom an outcome standpoint.
But I love this because I meanbirthday parties can we just say

(09:42):
, oh my gosh, the stress ofbirth and my son's birthday.
He's God, he's turning eight inone month.
It's literally a month from nowand I'm like I haven't even
started.
I mean we've talked about itbut we haven't like put plans
into place.
And I agree, I think, forcreating and generating lists.
I used it last year for ournational conference planning a
little bit to say like whatkinds of things I need to make

(10:04):
sure that I take for the day of,and things like that, and it
just comes up with stuff thatit's like oh well, yeah, I know
these things, but there's acouple of things in there I
would not have thought of orconsidered.
So having like that additionalinput and brainstorming partner
super helpful, Love it.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm so going to use some, some AI after this work on
my son's birthday party ideas.
Oh, birthday parties.
You're right and graduations,like family events, like all
that stuff, like why and it's?
It's?
Oh, who was?
Who was always the one doing it?
It's the.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's the care person sitting in the caretaker role,
right, right Um and you knowthat used to be that advice, um,
and it's still great adviceLike if something's worrying you
or troubling, you, just writeit down.
But to me, this is taking thatto the next level.
Like, if I have these, likeI've got to make a plan for the
birthday, I need to be thinkingabout summer camp, write it down
, but that's.
I can go one step further byputting it into a generative AI

(10:58):
tool and delegating a little bitof that mental space that I
would like to free up forsomething else.
So we're right in the samewavelength.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Love it.
Yeah, I think I used it thisyear too, for well, I'll give
them a quick plug.
My husband works for a smallstartup company that's AI, and
they integrate all of thedifferent platforms, so they
pull from like Gemini, chatgpt,claude, and then Imogen, and
what's the other web?
Or the other image generatingone another, one of those image

(11:28):
generating ones?
Dolly, there it is.
I was like it's a D and it'sgreat because they it's called
Verve and so you can createverbs.
They have an app that you cancreate a verb and it's like an
agent, and so I created myself alittle elf agent for Christmas.
I love this.
Sarah's writing this downalready.

(11:48):
V-U-R-V-E-Y.
It's so fun and so like.
I created basically a little AIagent for myself to come up
with Christmas presents ideasfor my family, because I don't
like to go to everybody and belike what do you want?
What do you want?
I want to have ideas, and so Iknow their interests, I know
their hobbies.
I want to have ideas, and so Iknow their interests, I know
their hobbies.
But sometimes it's just likeagain, the mental load.
There's just no space in mybrain for this brainstorming.
And then I had also gotten mynephew's games to a football

(12:12):
game and I wanted to find acreative way to give that gift
to them other than just handingthem tickets.
And so my look at the name.
Now I'm going to open up theverbs app and it's v-u-r-b-s is
the app.
And, um, I created.
What was his name?
Hold on, it'll come up here ina second.
Oh, jolly Jingle.
I even show you like a pic.
I want to show you a picture ofJolly Jingle.

(12:33):
I know I'm sorry podcastlisteners.
You're like I can't see this.
Um, oh, and you can't see hervery well here either.
Oh, there she is.
Look, there's my Jolly Jingle.
Oh she's so cute.
And she's like I'm yourpersonal gift giving guru here
to sprinkle holiday magic onyour presence with a jolly
expertise and I'll help you findthe most heartwarming and
thoughtful gifts for your lovedones, making every occasion feel

(12:54):
like Christmas morning.
I was like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yes, jolly Jingle, come to my house.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Right or now.
And, like some of them, I kindof thought they were hilarious
because I would push her rightto kind of come up with more and
more creative, and so some ofthem got really silly and
outlandish.
But what it did do was give mesome really cool ideas.
But then life kicked in and mybrother entered some contest.

(13:20):
He's a former Army vet and theyhave like some kind of drawing
they do every Christmas and sohe went and won tickets to the
game.
I was like dude, me and Jollyhave been working on this whole
plan.
It's all right, it's all good.
But yeah, she gave me so manyfun ideas I was actually on the
hunt for.
I wanted to they're bothteenagers and I thought it'd be

(13:41):
so funny to.
One of her ideas was to find,like or make a football pinata
and have them like beat it witha stick until the tickets fell
out.
I was like that's fun.
So that's kind of what I wasthinking of doing, because they
were going to be like why in thehell are you giving me a pinata
for Christmas?
And I'm like it's a footballpinata that you need to hit and
then you'll find your present.
So I was really excited to dothat.
So I'm so mad at him when hewon his tickets, but you know

(14:15):
it's all good.
So, yeah, it's not just aboutthe gift ideas, it's also like
maybe how you give the giftsagain.
And I think you're so right,once you start to play and look
at it as play almost, and justkind of test the platforms for
what it could possibly give youin the way of thoughts, ideas,
organizations, then all of asudden you just you do, you
start getting real creative withit.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I just know there's going to be another pinata
opportunity coming up.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, what teenage boydoesn't want to take a stick to
something?
So, yeah, might as well justfind another way to bring that
in.
Oh, I love it.
So yeah, I mean I think thatyou mentioned this earlier one
of the biggest benefits ofleveraging AI in this way is
about reducing the mental load,and you know, we talk about a
lot of that in the TogetherDigital community with our
caretakers, with our workingparents, because we're trying to
do it all, be it all, balancingmotherhood and ambition.

(14:55):
It's a lot.
What is one AI tool or strategythat has the most dramatically
reduced your mental load?
And if it's not like a strategy, maybe it's like a couple of
like prompts or ideas thatyou've started to lean more
heavily on to help with that, orideas that you've started to
lean more heavily on to helpwith that.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
So, for me, the mental load that I need the most
help with is making theparenting decisions.
I'm not an expert parent.
I'm just learning this as I go,like all parents and caregivers
, and as soon as I've gotsomething figured out, it feels
like another curveball is comingto me.
So I've used a lot of differentways to automate different

(15:36):
tools to help me improve my life, but the thing that is really
making a big difference in mymental load is using generative
AI to serve as my like on thespot parenting coach where I
feel my blood pressure going upand or I feel stuck, like I'm
backed against the wall and Idon't know how to handle this.
And a couple of times that thishas come up recently, like one
fun one, was fun for me.
My kids, my three daughters,worked so hard, like for an hour

(15:58):
, to build a beautifulgingerbread house and they
wanted to.
Each wanted to take a pictureholding the gingerbread house
and, like you could see thiscoming before I could, they
dropped it in the handoff.
Between the two I have twins.
They just did the handoff andit was completely destroyed and
they were beyond distraught, youknow, just like screaming
Because they're five, right,they're five, the twins are five

(16:20):
.
They're in a scream, cryingmode right now.
They were so upset and at first, you know, I'm like trying to
suppress a giggle just becauseit's so crazy that this happened
.
But you knew it and in the backof my mind I'm like don't
dismiss their feelings, don'tjust throw it in the trash, it
will hurt.
I'm like what do I do?
So I go to chat TBT, like whatcan I do with a gingerbread

(16:41):
house?
And I got ideas to turn intogingerbread graveyards.
We were just like, oh, it's agingerbread cemetery, just
pretend.
You know, could throw it outand move on.
And the other one that happenedrecently with my kids, where
generative AI helped me reducethe mental load, was just my
older daughter, who's six.
She was just having one ofthose meltdown mornings, you

(17:01):
know, where everything she'sextra sensitive and everything
was causing tears.
And I'm okay, I'm doing fine,but I'm trying to get us out of
the house on time and then I canfeel myself like getting snappy
and I don't want to start theday like that.
I hate it when I send them offto school and we haven't, you
know, we've all left things on abad foot.
So I stepped away and I justwent into generative AI and said

(17:23):
it's a meltdown morning, it's awindy morning and I'm getting
frustrated.
Give me five ideas on what Ican do to turn this morning
around.
And one of the ideas that cameout was to write my daughter a
note.
And okay, of course I couldhave come up with that on my own
if I had the space in my mentalload to think of those ideas.
But I didn't think of that andI wrote her a note and she wrote

(17:44):
me a note back and we went backand forth a couple of times and
it totally turned our morningaround.
So these aren't groundbreakingideas, but just knowing that I
have a partner in my pocket inmy phone to help me reduce the
mental load and try and be, youknow, do my best at the most
important job that I have, whichis as a mom and a caregiver and
a wife like be the best that Ican with my family.

(18:05):
That's where generative AI isreally helping me with these
strategies, and the tool doesn'treally matter.
Any of the tools could havegiven me those ideas, but just
having that to help me calm downand make a better decision or
give me some more options hasreally helped my mental load.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I love that story.
I love how you slowed it downbecause, yeah, you're right, as
a parent, you feel that moment.
You're like I see it, it'scoming, it happens, and then
you're like trying not to laugh.
It reminded me of a time mydaughter and I went sled riding
together.
I think it was one of our veryfirst experiences in sled riding
and we the sled we had was likeprobably seven or ten years old

(18:40):
.
It's like, you know, cheapplastic, and we used to go down
the hill and we hit a huge bump,go flying in the air and we
land.
The thing just shattered andI'm like, with the hill, it was
so busy, that whole place was sopacked with all these people,
and I just started laughingright away because I just look
and it's like literally inshatters, and I looked down at
my four-year-old daughter andshe's just crying.

(19:01):
Oh, I wish I'd had some air topull out of my pocket at that
moment.
I just took her to Starbucksfor the hot chocolate.
I was like, well, no more hotchocolate time.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
We'll see what's with some sugar and chocolate.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
But you're right, like the, it's not just the
mental load, it's also like thatmoment of you know we're, when
you're, when your kids are insome sorts of despair or
argument, like you go into fightor flight mode, and so I think
it's so cool that even in thatmoment for you, you took a beat,
you know, and so I did morethan just help you come up with
an idea.
It reminded you to take amoment and like, kind of go to

(19:37):
something, versus straight toreact mode, which is sometimes
really easy to do when you'retired and your kids start kind
of going crazy over stuff orsomething happens that you know
gets everybody upset.
I love that.
That's such a sweet idea.
I love that you guys did theletters together.
That's so cute, so so cute.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, it's helping me respond versus react, and that
is my total goal right now, atthis stage in life, yeah, and
it's such a good model for themtoo, right, yes, I hope so,
because I want them to feel thattheir feelings are fine.
You know those feelings areokay, right, dismiss their
feelings.
But also you know the bigquestions and the mental load

(20:15):
like am I coddling?
Am I giving too much?
Am I meeting them in the middle?
So just having that partner tothink through things.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, it was so productive in that moment.
You know, I think that that'scool.
It was I don't think it wascoddling at all because you were
giving her the moment and theopportunity to maybe articulate,
kind of how she was feeling andwhat she was thinking in
writing, which you knowdefinitely forces us to slow
down.
So such a great process.
Look at that.
Ai for mindfulness even let'sgo.
I love it.
Oh man, our live listeningaudience chat.

(20:44):
Sarah, I don't know if you'vehad a chance to look over, there
is on fire.
Everybody loves yourgingerbread graveyard.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think we had the same with my nephews.
We turned them into zombies.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
And then, all of a sudden, the red icing got real
popular.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
It's such a great way to kind of again take something
that feels very negativeexperience-wise and helping your
kids look at like the issue orthe challenge or the hurdle as
an opportunity to do somethingelse, do something creative.
I love it.
So, yeah, it's great modelingfor your kids.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
I love it.
All right, let's get to thenext question and also live
listening audience.
If you have a specific questionyou want to ask, sarah, please
drop it into the chat and let usknow.
That's why we love having youhere.
We want you a part of theconversation.
How would you recommend busyprofessionals evaluate which AI
tools are worth their timeversus just another thing to

(21:34):
learn?
Because, again, we are tryingto help alleviate overwhelm, not
add more Right, sure.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have two recommendations.
First is, if you're a workingprofessional or you're a student
or both, look to see what toolsyou might have access to
through your workplace orthrough your educational
institution or wherever else youmight, because not only is that
a great way to get access topaid accounts, paid access to
the tools, but also if youremployer is funding those tools,

(22:01):
then it's likely support andtraining or learning resources
and references come along withit.
So that's the perfect place tostart, because you know trying
to learn it on your own whenthese things are changing so
rapidly.
So my first recommendation isjust see what's available to you
and what support you can getaccess to and second, if you
don't have maybe you work in aplace that's not adopted AI yet,

(22:23):
or you're between roles andyou're looking I would encourage
folks to look at their ownworkflow and the technology that
they gravitate to the most.
You know, one of my sisters islike Apple loyal.
She wants everything Apple andnow she's very excited about
trying out Apple intelligence,some of the just a new phone,
and she's trying out some of thenew features there.
Or a lot of people live and dieby their Google calendars and

(22:46):
do everything in Googleworkspace.
So if you're a Google person,then Gemini is the right place
to go.
Or, like me, where I am workingall day in Microsoft tools, and
, rather than feeling pressuredto check out all of the tools,
figure out which technology youalready gravitate to, because so
many of these differentcompanies are creating their own
AI tools and embedding them inapplications or hardware that

(23:09):
you might already be using.
So those are my tworecommendations on where to
start Thinking about the techthat you like the most, and
think about who might already bepaying for you to use an AI
tool.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yes, yeah, no, that's great advice because, yeah, it
can get overwhelming fast and Ithink, just knowing that, you
can kind of take baby stepstowards it.
Look at, yeah, what are theplatforms that I use the most,
because you want thatintegration right.
So maybe start with that andthen play and I've been quick to

(23:36):
do that too.
I'll pick up something becauseit's like, oh, this is fun, this
is exciting, this is new.
I'll give it a try, and if Ifind that I'm just not
defaulting or going back to it,I don't give myself the pressure
of like, this is the tool Ihave to use.
I will keep making sure thatthe ones that I use are the ones
that work best for me, and Ilove the idea, too, of making
sure that you're working to getpaid accounts too, because you
know, again, like accuracy andinformation privacy, things like
that are some concerns withinthe AI, but I'm wondering, are

(23:59):
there any other like bigmisconceptions about AI that you
find yourself having to debunkfor caregivers and moms?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes, well, professionally, the biggest
misconception that I'm talkingabout with folks is that you
know whether AI is out to stealour jobs.
But it seems like that messagethat professional rather than AI
coming for your job, thatprofessionals who use AI are the
best qualified for roles andare future proofproofing their

(24:27):
careers.
I think that message isstarting to break through.
But with moms and caregivers, Istill find a lot of folks that
I'm connecting with who areconsidering AI to be just a fad
or another trend and justanother thing that they can push
off learning because this willbe gone in a year or two.

(24:47):
And I have built a 20 yearcareer in digital transformation
and I believe in my bones thatthis will be the most
transformative technology that Iwill see in my career and maybe
, hopefully, in my long lifetime.
And you know, folks say, okay,be bigger than the internet, but
this is built upon the internet, so it's building upon
something that has alreadytransformed how we work, and I

(25:11):
think AI will transform how welive and how we interact with
technology.
So my mission is to try andfind easy, low stress ways for
people to interact with thistechnology, because I think AI
can either build bridges orincrease inequality, and my hope
is that it will be a force forequality and that we all come
along.

(25:31):
So I am passionate aboutdebunking what I believe to be
the myth that this is just aflash in the pan.
I think AI is here to stay andgoing to transform the way we
work and live.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, I think it's already done so much and yeah,
it's too big to be a flash inthe pan if you kind of look at
the timeline of it.
But it is hard, like, how doyou bring that into like almost
layman's terms for people tounderstand, when you haven't
been sitting in the digitalspace or if you're not digitally
native, how that is such animportant thing?
I think a lot of ways I havehelped people understand this is
explaining to them that AI hasbeen around far longer than they

(26:03):
realize, right, so you knowit's about machine learning as
well as the AI.
You know it's all the samething, essentially no-transcript

(26:41):
.
And then I think once you startto look at like image
generation and workflows andagents I mean obviously that's
for probably those who are moresteeped into like what's going
on I am with you.
I think the possibilities arereally endless.
And I would also caveat to sayany of you listeners who are
small business owners thathaven't embraced AI yet, oh God,
please, like process can be inplace of people.

(27:08):
Like when you have limitedresources and can't afford to
hire four and five people, youcould easily work like four or
five people if you've got theright systems, automations in a
little bit of AI on your side tohelp, and so actually embracing
these technologies could helpyour small business work like a
medium sized business, which Ithink is a great democratizer
for a lot of folks who, you know, maybe don't have all the tools
and resources that a bigcompany might have.

(27:28):
So, yeah, I think I'm rightthere with you, sarah.
I've had a number of reasonsthat it's just, it's worth it
and you're right, I think ifpeople are fearful of it, the
best way to alleviate that fearis to understand it is to learn
it.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
You know, just to try it out.
You know, sometimes inworkshops that I have run, we've
spent some time visualizinglike what is the best thing that
could happen with AI and whatis the worst, and people can
come up with some wild ideas ofthe worst thing and the best
thing.
You know where we work one houra week and AI does all of our
work for us.

(28:03):
But, just like most things, inall likelihood it's not going to
be the best nor the worst.
It will be somewhere in themiddle.
And you know, letting your mindimagine those possibilities is
one way to move forward and, youknow, move past any fears.
But the best way is just rollup your sleeves and give it a
try.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean honestly, it's pretty, Ifeel like it's when you're
playing around with it and usingit experimentally.
So I'm going to join legalstuff.
It's like it is.
It's kind of fun to sort of seelike how could what could I,
what could I have it help mewith?
So, on that note, could youwalk us through maybe your
favorite AI prompt that ourlisteners could possibly use
today?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yes, okay, here we are, beginning of January.
I love we were talking aboutthis before we got started here
that we love a fresh start andthe new year.
This time of year is sowonderful to think about the
possibilities and what mightbring.
So I have been having so muchfun using AI to help me set my
intentions for this year andwhether you're an attention
center or want to put goals downor like resolutions any of

(29:03):
those things because I'm anactive and frequent user of
ChatGPT and we have developedquite a relationship I have
really enjoyed putting in theprompt, saying knowing
everything you know about mebased on all of our interactions
ChatGPT.
What would you recommend myintentions be for this year, if
I want to set three intentions?
And then the intentions werespot on.

(29:25):
They were about how to connectwith my family, how to grow my
business, how to be an activemember of my community while I'm
pressed for time.
And then I asked for a monthlyplan to make those intentions a
reality, and as soon as I didthat, I felt overwhelmed.
Monthly is too much.
So then I backed it out andsaid, okay, how about a
quarterly plan?
Give me a quarterly milestoneso that I can work for so that I

(29:46):
can be thinking about thesethings.
So if folks would like to trythat prompt out today, that
would be a fun way to start theyear and think about what you
might be looking forward to.
And if you have not been usinggenerative AI as closely, or you
think AI might not chat GPT orGemini or Copilot or Cloud might
not be able to set yourintentions for you you could
also just spend a few minutessharing a little bit about you

(30:08):
and what your life is like,could also just spend a few
minutes sharing a little bitabout you and what your life is
like, what your day-to-day islike, and then see what it comes
back with.
Given what you've shared, whatwould you suggest for goals or
resolutions?
And I love that as a way tostart the year and use AI to
help us make this our best yearever.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
I love it.
Yeah, I'd recommend.
I know a couple of listenerssaid that they were going to
download the Verbs app.
There's one in there.
Look for a agent called mindmirror and it does kind of what
you're explaining where itprompts you.
The AI prompts you instead ofyou prompting it so that it can
learn more about you.
And because what I did was Iessentially used the mind mirror
to then basically kind of getto know and understand me, my

(30:47):
values, my motivations, mybackground, my history, I think
I even uploaded like my LinkedInprofile, my resume, I just kind
of fed it a bunch of stuff, andso it all gets self-contained
in there.
And then I actually created anAutobot, amy.
So I have like an Amy agent.
So it's like when I'm doing mytravel and things like that, I,
you know, the Autobot Amy knowseverything about me.
So it's like when I'm going toSan Diego for this trip, what

(31:09):
are the restaurants I shouldcheck out, what are the sites
that I should see?
It's like, okay, I know thatyou're vegan and you love hiking
and yoga, so here are theplaces and the things you should
be doing.
And so finding a way, I think,to train a certain chat or that
chat, gpt, you can createprojects, I think, in Claude.
I think it's such a great ideaand it's a great tool for

(31:30):
coaching.
Honestly, like you were talkingabout parent coaching, I think
even a little bit of careercoaching to some degree, because
it can really come out of leftfield with things that you would
not normally consider in theways of roles and opportunities.
I actually just had the idea Ireally want to create a guidance
counselor.
I want to give it to my highschool age nephews, a guidance

(31:52):
counselor, and I want to give itto my high school age nephews,
you know, because it's like Igrew up in a small town and are
like I always joke about this.
But he basically told methere's like you can be a doctor
, I know he said a nurse.
He didn't say a doctor Cause Iwas a woman.
So you know, I can be a doctor,a nurse, a teacher, I don't
even remember the other two twoother things that were very kind

(32:12):
of commonplace.
And then a wife.
He literally listed wife asnumber five and I was like ready
to flip the desk on him.
You know and again becausedepending upon I don't even know
if guidance counselors stillexist Maybe they do.
My kids are in elementaryschool, so we're not there yet
but just having that whole worldopened up to you because it's
got the input and informationthere are so many types of jobs
and careers and opportunitiesout there you as one human, even
with Google as a search tool,will not be able to summarize or

(32:35):
find out what those things areand it can really take
juxtaposed ideas andphilosophies and values for you
and put them together and findone role that actually fits all
those things.
Which I found was reallyinteresting because I kind of
use it as like a career coachtoo.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
I love it, I love that and, amy, you know what
else I did.
That kind of help could helpwith.
A career coach is like um.
Over the years, in various rolesor different trainings that
I've been to, I have gotten totake a lot of those different
typing tool like disc and whatcolor is your parachute, and I
have all of those results savedin a file on my laptop and I

(33:10):
trained my own little bot basedon here's all this information
about me.
This is my color of myparachute.
I'm yellow.
Whatever these are all myresults and I'm not nervous
about putting that informationinto generative AI Sharing that
type of information about myself.
I'm not precious about that,but I put that all in and made

(33:32):
my own little bot and then askeda lot of questions about, like
preparing for performancereviews, you know, setting goals
at work, thinking about timemanagement and with a bot that
knows all of this about me, itcould give me some really good,
even scripts.
You know scripts on down, howto respond to things.
So that's a fun way I think touse to train your tool to learn

(33:53):
more about you use what othertools have said about you oh,
100%.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, now that you mentioned it, I'm pretty sure
I'm going to put in Myers-Briggsand my Enneagram and a bunch of
other things in there too,cause, yeah, the more you can
kind of feed it, as long asyou're comfortable with it, the
better.
And, like you said, none ofthat's like all of that's on the
internet, for the most part forme, so I'm not like it's
already out there.
I'm not super nervous about it.
I love it.
All right.
We did get a question from oneof our live listeners, so I do

(34:18):
want to, I do want to make surewe ask.
Linda wants to know do you havea recommendation for a tool
that can help manage your to-do?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
list.
Yes, okay.
So my to-do list lives in twoplaces, linda.
One it's in my notes app andtwo it's in my calendar.
And I love to put things on mycalendar to block time from my
to-dos.
And lately I've been using thisgreat tool that for calendar
management.
It can do a lot of other things, but I use it mostly for
calendar management.

(34:45):
It's called Ohai O-H-A-I Ohai.
You can download it in the appstore and it integrates with
your calendar.
So if I have a to-do, I cantext Ojai or I can communicate
with the Ojai app and ask it toput things on my to-do list and
then, if I don't have time toget to it because so often, you
know, I have like block time towrite my social posts or block

(35:06):
time to answer emails, and thensomething comes up then I can
ask oh, I move that to tomorrowor move that to another day, and
it will prompt you in theevenings to ask do you need me
to block time for anything foryou to do?
So, if you're a manager to dolist through your calendar.
Oi is a wonderful tool to usefor that.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
That's wonderful.
I love it.
I'm going to have to check thatout with our goal getters
because our members if you'relistening we've got 50 people
registered.
I hope everybody shows up forour authentic ambition and goal
setting workshop we have.
We often recommend reclaimai andit integrates with Google and
Google calendars and it'll dosomething similar where you can

(35:45):
take emails and make them tasksand it'll block time for you.
I am the same way, like if it'snot on my calendar, it just
doesn't happen.
And then it actually gives youreports on how you're spending
your time and it's reallylooking for work-life
integration and balance in thesense of like how you're
spending your time.
So it'll like category as thethings that you're doing to
really make sure that you'rejust not burning yourself out.

(36:06):
So it's like it's almost likeanother coach in a way, right as
looking at your calendar goingyo, amy, you've been on 12 hours
of phone calls, you've beendoing 10 hours of deep work a
day, like you need to just slowyour roll and get kind of more
and it'll make recommendationsand it'll always find time and,
like you said, it'll kind oflike if you miss it or you don't
get the task done, you can moveit ahead in your calendar and

(36:28):
it is brilliant, brilliantbrilliant, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
There's a lot of good list working here of things.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I know we'll definitely include all the links
inside the show notes as well.
Um, for some of these toolsCause yeah, it's, there's a lot
of good stuff out there, I thinksometimes just finding, like we
said earlier, what works foryou.
But getting recommendationsfrom others is also just really
helpful, right, Cause it cutsthrough the clutter.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
You don't have to look forever and ever and ever
for the right thing, becausethat's also part of like the
rabbit hole right, yes, and whenyou subscribe to something or
do the free subscription andthen it turns out that you're
you have so many tools andyou're paying for tools but
maybe not getting the value.
So it's wonderful to hearwhat's really working for others
.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah, absolutely All right, let's see.
Our next question is lookingahead what excites?

Speaker 2 (37:18):
you the most about AI's potential to support
working parents.
Okay, amy, you mentioned agenticAI earlier and I am thrilled by
the prospects of agentic AI tochange the game for parents and
caregivers.
Agentic AI I know you'vediscussed this on the podcast
before, but agentic AI is AIthat can act as an agent for
humans, kind of like the botsthat we've been talking about
here.

(37:38):
Ai that can actually take thingsoff of the plates of caregivers
and in my discussions with momsand caregivers about the mental
load, generative AI can betransformative, you know, to
have that thought partner tohelp you come up with ideas,
generate strategies and coaching.
But I think agentic AI is trulywhat can change the game for

(38:00):
folks whose time is the mostcompressed, and that's parents
and caregivers those who arelooking after others.
So I am so excited about what'sto come and you know,
automation has been around forsome time and, like you
mentioned, ai has been aroundfor 40 years, depending on how
you count the beginning of it.
But we're just at the beginningof uniting those two things and

(38:20):
seeing the power of howautomation and AI can come
together in the form of AIagents, and I just can't wait to
see what the future will bringfor those who care for and look
after others.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Absolutely.
I love it, I 100% agree, andactually one group I'm thinking
of right now is parents or thosewho are caring for kids with
like special needs, because thatcan be such a big, heavy load
and daunting and it can take upa lot of their time and energy
and effort to find the resources, I think, for resource
searching and things like that,for tools and things, that which

(38:55):
you know you can find, eitherhelp, support, for yourself or
for your kid in that situationis so good, because it can also
be a very isolating experienceto be the parent of a kid with,
you know, special needs, whetherthey're physical or mental or
learning.
That's a heavy, heavy load thata lot of my friends, family,
neighbors have all kind of comeup against and I think it could

(39:15):
be a really exciting way to helpthem find those resources.
Because, again, it's like youknow, most of these nonprofits
or they're usually nonprofits,right, and they're not super
tech savvy companies themselvesso even just trying to find the
right places and the right toolsis hard.
So to have that informationgathering ability is just, it's
wonderful.
I'm excited for that.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
So to have imagining a future where an AI agent or an
AI assistant can help doresearch, whether it's health
research or special needsresearch, make calls act as your
advocate when you are needingto.
You know, advocate on behalf ofyourself or your loved ones that
you care for, whether it's kidsor, you know, elder generations

(39:57):
, parents yeah, helping navigatethings with insurance, just
giving you the strategies or dothe research for you.
The idea I mean the futurevision where AI can support and
help people and give some oftheir time back and empower them
to advocate for themselves andothers is so thrilling to me.
Agreed.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Agreed, because everything we're talking about
there, whether it's raising kidsor taking care of aging parents
, it's such an emotional rollercoaster on top of everything
else.
So to have to take on theinformation and I don't know
about anybody else that'slistening but I feel like when
I'm under pressure or stress, Iretain less, I feel a little bit
dumber, I'm like I have to dowhat where it's so easy to kind
of run into that wall ofoverwhelm.

(40:38):
So I agree with you I thinkthis is going to make, I hope, a
lot of people's lives easier,and those are the kinds of tools
between that and healthcare too.
I'm really excited to see whereAI goes in the realm of helping
with our healthcare system,because, oh my, I do take care
of my mom and it's just, it's anightmare.
So, yeah, I love it All right.
What advice would you give tosomeone who wants to be

(41:00):
innovative with AI but workswithin maybe a traditional or
more resistant environment?

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Okay, there's so many folks who are finding
themselves in this challenge andthe folks that their team, that
they need to connect with, thefolks who are going to be their
best friends in taking smallsteps towards innovating with AI
, are going to be those who workin technology, who work in
compliance and who work in legal, because we're not going to get
anywhere trying to adopt AIwithout the buy-in of those

(41:27):
folks in a professionalenvironment.
And I would really encouragepeople to do two things.
One is to start small.
Start small with a pilot or alocal program that's low stakes,
that doesn't involve customers,that's internal, that's
operationally focused andidentifies tasks that are
repetitive or manual in nature.
So, in creating that smallpilot in a safe space, it's

(41:49):
something easier to say yes to.
And then, second and I amseeing the pain myself
personally from running pilotswithout clearly identifying how
you're going to measure yoursuccess at the beginning,
identifying what is the goal.
Is it time saved?
Is it more throughput?
Is it employee satisfaction?
What is it that you're tryingto achieve with your AI pilot?

(42:12):
Setting that out at thebeginning and then measuring
throughout the pilot so that atthe end, if it's successful, you
can use that to make the caseto scale with your new partners
in crime working on this, thetechnology, compliance and legal
folks.
In my professional world and inmy personal world, I've run
little pilots or experimentsusing AI but haven't been so

(42:34):
clear about what success lookslike and how I'm going to
measure it.
And, being an early adopter,sometimes it's easy to just roll
up my sleeves and jump right in.
But now the pain on the backend of running what I think
would be a successful pilot butnot being able to scale because
I can't prove that it wassuccessful oh, that pain is so
real, so sharp.
So if folks are in anenvironment where they're
looking to innovate and wouldlike to bring this into their

(42:56):
professional world, I reallyhope that they can partner with
technology, with compliance orwith legal, start small in a
safe space that doesn't involvethe customers, that's
operationally focused, and thatthey know what they're going to
measure and what success lookslike so that they can plan that
on to scale.
On the other end, that'sbrilliant.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Thank you so much.
I love that.
That's great.
That's a great little outlinethere.
I hope all of you are takingnotes.
If not, guess what?
You can watch the recording orlisten to the podcast again.
No, that's great.
I love that framework.
I used to do a lot of work witha massive CPG company and I
learned early on, even as acreative, that like test and
learn.
You know, safe space to testand learn is always a great way
to get buy in on kind of newemerging ideas and tech.

(43:35):
That might feel a little risky.
It's like how can I mitigate asmuch of the risk as possible
but then still prove, like yousaid, the outcome?
I think that's an importantlesson.
So thank you for sharing thatand not being like oh, then you
get the data.
You're like no, I kind offorgot that.
That was the important part tobasically prove to people that
this was a worthwhile endeavor.
So I think that's great.
I love it.
All.
Right, let's see how do youbalance being an AI advocate

(43:58):
while maintaining authentichuman connections, because I
mean, that's one thing wehaven't touched on yet.
It's like okay, but now we'rejust talking to machines all the
time.
How do we approach that?

Speaker 2 (44:08):
topic.
Okay, two ways.
One is I use AI to give me timeback.
I use AI to write draft contentfor me.
I rarely, if ever, anymore,start with a blank page, whether
it's for AI Empowered Mom or mywork in corporate technology.
And AI saves time for me sothat I can build those authentic

(44:29):
human connections at work, youknow, having meaningful
interactions with my peers andcolleagues, or at home, spending
less time doing the first draftor editing my work or speaking
the thoughts of others, andinstead just working with my AI
tool.
So I save time using AI so thatI can spend it on authentic
human connections.
And then the second thing and Iasked some of the folks in my

(44:53):
advisory board, including myhusband yesterday how do you
think we're doing with all theAI in our lives and does it get
in the way or does it enable usto have authentic connections?
And his compliment to me, whichI thought was kind and funny,
was that I don't talk about AIall the time, and it's a
challenge.
I'm so passionate about AI allthe time and it's a challenge.

(45:15):
I'm so passionate about AI, butI know to build up into human
connections, the best thing todo is to connect with humans in
a human way.
So I use AI to save my time, sothat I can spend more time
connecting authentically with myhusband or with my friends, or
meeting my friends for lunch andcoffee.
You know, I could spend thisafternoon today drafting up my
social posts for this week orwriting up some product research

(45:35):
, but instead I have AI do thatfor me so that I can spend time
connecting with my friends andnot talking about AI all the
time.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Don't worry, it's hard in this household too.
He's my husband's the head ofAI at a company and I'm running
a digital community, so but yeah, I do.
But I love that and I have saidthat from the very beginning as
well that I really want, I likethis.
I'm like I want the robots toshow up and do the work of
robots.
I don't, I don't want to be therobot, I want to be the human.
It kind of brings the fullcircle back to our like the

(46:05):
opening quote right.
That was all over the internet.
It's like I wanted to do thethings that will free me up to
do more art, more writing, morecreative, more quality time, be
more present, because I'velearned how to make life and the
things that are more automaticautomatic, you know and so I get
to spend less time being thebot, which I kind of love.

(46:26):
So, yeah, all right.
Well, we're going to go intoour fun little power round of
questions, so it's kind of likeour lightning round, but before
we do that, I just want to get apulse from our live listening
audience.
You all have been so engaged.
Let us know if you have anyquestions.
I want to make sure we getthose in before we wrap up.
I do want to call out Linda'squestion.
This is so true, I feel this.

(46:47):
I have mentioned that myhusband and I need a wife many
times.
How true is that?
This is what happens when youcreate an auto bot.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
You you just found that life.
Finally, yes, I need that botto carry the mental load for me.
That is what I need to be.
I can delegate all of thatworrying and get a partner in
the decision making.
So I love that?

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Absolutely I do.
I love it.
It's so fun.
I mean, I think I've even goneto chat because, like my husband
and I, of course, like after along workday, one of the things
that will trigger me is you askme what I want for dinner, cause
I'm like I don't want to thinkabout it.
I don't want to do it, I don'twant to think about it, and so
sometimes we'll just like pull abay.
I've also used it for mealplanning as well in the past,

(47:34):
for helping me come up with mealplans for specific dietary
needs and then a grocery listfrom that as well.
So that's another fun littletip trick that you all can use
meal planning and in yourgrocery list.
Those are two things that I'malways like I don't, I want to
do this but I don't want to dothis.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
You know what I mean.
I want to have some say in it,but I want it done.
I don't want that.
They can take a picture ofwhat's in their fridge, they can
take a picture of what's intheir pantry, or they can use
voice to text, so you don't haveto sit there with your thumbs
and type it all out.
You can use that Take advantageof the multimodal nature of
generative AI and share what'sin your fridge or pantry to get
some ideas on what you can do sofun.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I feel like there's some smart fridges that do that
are already out there, which I'mjust like.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
We're not there yet I have a young fridge in my house
, though Do you, I love it.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
I love it.
It's amazing.
I mean again just about makinglife a little bit easier for us
so we can just sit down andenjoy and, like you said earlier
, be present.
I think that's something westruggle with in general as a
society is being present, and Ithink that's one thing I've
enjoyed that it has allowed meto do Again, like you said, do
more time-saving measures onlike the more rudimentary
routine, mindless, robot-y typethings, so I can just show up,

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be present and be human, allright?
Well, our listening audiencehas no further questions, it
looks like, but you know, don'tbe shy, pop in.
We still got a few extraminutes when we wrap up these
lightning round, power roundquestion.
So, all right, you ready, sarah, I'm ready.
Okay, what is your go-to AItool for a crazy Monday?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
morning Copilot all the way.
Crazy Monday morning.
I want to use Copilot to tellme what's coming up on my
calendar for the week.
Catch me up on or help me prepfor my meetings.
Draft meeting prep summaries.
Think back to what I wrapped upon Friday If there's anything
that I left undone.
Um, co-pilot is the way that Iget things going in the mornings

(49:36):
, especially on Monday mornings,to help me get ready for the
week.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
I love that.
That's fantastic Great tip.
All right, what is yourfavorite prompt starter?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
My favorite prompt starter is write me a prompt, um
, I use you for that Peopledon't realize that.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
that's like you're just like wait, what I thought I
was supposed to prompt.
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
AI right.
You know I spend my daysencouraging people and teaching
people how to write prompts.
There's millions of promptframeworks.
There's huge prompt libraries.
I built my own prompt libraryon my website but guess what?
You don't need it.
You can just ask generative AIto write a prompt for you, and
the prompts that I get out ofgenerative AI are better and you
can run A-B testing.
I love to ask prompt starterwrite me two prompts to do what

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I'm trying to do and then runboth prompts, see which one has
better results.
And I'm often running.
So my favorite prompt starteris write me a prompt.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I love that so much.
I'm right there with you.
When I learned that it was likeit blew my mind.
I think using the Mind Mirrorthe first time did that for me
as well.
And then we've got anothergroup that we partner with a lot
called Narratize.
It's a woman owned AI companyhere in Cincinnati.
I check them out, Narratizehappy to make an intro to if you
want.

(50:53):
They've created a platform and alarge language model in which
it prompts you to create, toanswer questions, and so it's
meant to kind of help people whoare developers and researchers,
those who aren't fantasticstorytellers to learn how to
create pitches and write grantsand stories that will help them
get funding money that they needwhether it's grants or
sponsorships or capital bybasically using the prompts and
it'll generate like pitch decksfor you and everything.

(51:13):
It's amazing.
So shout out to you.
Katie Trapp, Taylor, we loveyou guys.
Yeah, They've been at ourconference the last two years
too, and they do great workshopson how to just leverage this,
and I think they even created anew tool that's more specific
for marketers on creating like apress release and all kinds of
different things.
So it's all about the knowingwhat is for like what it might
be for maximum.

(51:34):
You know output.
It asks you for that input anddata, so you're the one being
prompted versus AI, but I loveusing AI for prompting.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
You know that same style works for job seekers as
well.
You know, for interview prep,to think of all the questions,
get the responses, go back andforth, get coaching.
So that same, just that samethinking.
That doesn't have to just be,you know, I submit a prompt and
I receive, but instead we worktogether and take advantage of
the collaborative nature.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
So, so exciting.
All of a sudden you're in therefor so many things y'all didn't
even think about, right All theways.
Now you've just like tripledyour AI capacity and abilities
in one hour long conversation.
I love it.
What AI?
On that note, I guess one AItip you wish you had known a
year ago.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
You know we talked about it a little bit, but I
wish I had started takingadvantage of that multimodal
nature of AI earlier.
Multimodal means that I cancommunicate input data in
different modes, whether it'sphotos or talk, my voice or
video.
And I spend so much time withmy thumbs my tired thumbs
chatting with the chat GPT appor the Copilot or Gemini app or

(52:40):
thinking that this is a big taskso I need to go open up my
laptop.
I think that's like eldermillennial thinking that I'm
like OK, this is a laptop task,I need to go sit down and type
it all out, but instead I canuse my voice or use photos
photos worth a thousand words.
I wish I had known that a yearago and had been putting photos
in just to get a leg up and makethings move faster.

(53:01):
I tried that yesterday with myscary craft closet.
I had the day off, so I waslike, okay, it's a new year, I'm
going to tackle this, butthere's no way I could have
accurately described theterrible mess that was in there.
Instead, I just sent a pictureof my crazy craft closet and
said look at this, how do Iorganize it?
And then got the tips, not onlyhow to organize it, but also

(53:26):
how to talk to my kids aboutkeeping it that way, so that
hopefully, maybe this is theyear where we have a cleaner
craft closet and we enjoy ourcrafting more.
There's no way I could havedescribed it with words, so
using that multi-level nature iswhat I wish I knew before.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
I'm going to give that a try and then I'm going to
also explore that.
How do I help them keep it thatway, Other than like
threatening them to see it?
Look at it now.
Give it that way, Right.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
The tip that came out was, which was I should have
known, but, um to, my olderdaughter can read and my younger
two are just learning, solabeling things clearly in ways
that they can recognize.
Sure, yeah, I should have donethat, but then?
But now I'm like you know whereall of these things go, so
please use labels.
We'll see Fingers crossed,we'll fingers crossed, but that
was a good idea that came out.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
I love it.
That's great.
Yeah, cause it's one of thosethings Sometimes you think it's
just lackadaisical and othertimes it's just a lack of
information.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Yes, right.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
So which one is it?
Which one is it?
I love that.
All right, complete thesentence.
The future of AI and parenthoodis Full of potential.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
It's full of potential, it's untapped
potential and it's so exciting.
I'm I'm just thrilled by thepossibilities of using AI to
empower parents and caregiversto give us back our most
valuable commodity, which is ourtime time for those that we
love and time for ourselves.
So I'm so hopeful for the AIempowered future of parenting
and caregiving.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Me too, sarah.
Thank you so much.
I love what you're doing, howyou're kind of infusing the work
that you're doing within theprofessional environment and
bringing it out and transcendingit into the parenting and
caretaking environment.
It's such a much needed tool inthat space.
And, yeah, it's just, I don'tthink it's a space anybody's
talking about our owning, so Ijust I love.
thank you, member Ellen Cox,amazing Ellen, who connected us

(55:05):
and making this conversationpossible, cause this is going to
be the first of manyconversations in ways.
I hope that we get the chanceto work together, because I
think there's just so muchopportunity in this and whatever
we can do to help support youand what you're doing at the AI
Empowered Mom, we're excited todo it All right.
My last question for you isgoing to be what is your?
Because you're super inspiringand I love all your energy,

(55:26):
sarah.
What is your personal mantrafor 2025?

Speaker 2 (55:29):
My personal mantra for 2025 is to be intentional
with my time.
I've spent 2024 finding ways tobe more productive, be more
efficient, and in 2025, I wantto be thoughtful in how I use
that time that I'm saving.
So intention is my word forthis year, and I intend to be
intentional with my time, thetime savings that I get from AI,

(55:52):
and to make the most of thisexciting place in time and
technology, of this wonderfultime with, where my kids are
becoming little people, of thespecial time that I have right
now.
So it's being intentional withmy time is what I'm looking
forward to.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
This year Wonderful.
This has been such great.
There's both again such a greatbalance of information, but
also inspiration.
So thank you to all of our busylive listeners who've taken the
time to tune in and listen live.
Thanks to all of our amazingpodcast listeners and
subscribers.
If you haven't subscribed yet,please do.
Please follow us on YouTube aswell, where you can see a lot of
our past episodes there as well.
Sarah, thank you so much forbeing our kickoff for the new

(56:28):
year.
This is perfect.
This is so spot on.
Really appreciate you and yourtime.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Well.
Likewise, thank you for helpingme kick off the year.
Being part of a supportivecommunity of women is so
important and it you know it issomething I crave in my heart
and soul.
So thank you for giving meaccess to this amazing community
.
Thanks to Ellen, and happy newyear.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Absolutely Happy new year, sarah.
Happy new year everyone.
Thank you all for joining us.
We're excited to see you allagain next week.
Until then, everyone keepasking keep giving and keep
growing.
We'll see you next week.

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Bye, bye.