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Career Change: She enables people to use AI for financial empowerment, career resilience, and modern entrepreneurship. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: It helps busy professionals and entrepreneurs reclaim ten plus hours
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Speaker 1: a week using practical AI systems no tech degrees required.
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Speaker 1: The company teaches clients how to run or turn AI
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Speaker 1: from an intimidating buzzword into a personal system that handles
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Speaker 1: repetitive tasks, streamlines workflows, sharpens decision making, and creaged the
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Speaker 1: capacity needed to grow revenue and lead strategically. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: to money making conversation mathic class. Tanya Edmunds, How are
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Speaker 1: you doing, Tanya, I'm doing great.
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Speaker 2: How about you?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know AI. When did you first find discover
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Speaker 1: AI in your work?
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Speaker 3: Well, actually I found out in college in nineteen ninety eight. Okay,
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Speaker 3: so we had AI classes back then, but it's not
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Speaker 3: the JENAI you see today. And that's when I first
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Speaker 3: discovered it, and at the time I had no interest
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Speaker 3: in it. And then I got reacquainted with it in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty where I started actually implementing AI solutions for
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Speaker 3: the company I worked for Johnson and Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Okay, cool soneteen ninety eight, AI artificial intelligence, those words
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Speaker 1: were being thrown around. Yes, just like DNA when it
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Speaker 1: first came out. It mean, I remember I read this
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Speaker 1: article how DNA was going to change the way the
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Speaker 1: judicial system work, and it has changed the way to
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Speaker 1: do digial system work. It finally caught on. Everybody uses it, Okay, now, AI.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was in college way back in
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Speaker 1: seventy six, Management information system m i ASS it was
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Speaker 1: first introduced to me and I went eventually got a
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Speaker 1: degree in mathematics, which management information system is what runs
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Speaker 1: the world today. That digital part, you know. So I
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Speaker 1: was given the option. I didn't understand. But now it
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Speaker 1: is the global conversation that we deal with the digital footprint. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you were told about artificial intelligence in college as you
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Speaker 1: were coming along, you were introduced. When did it start? Dawn?
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Speaker 1: Done it on you? You had been told about this.
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Speaker 1: Now you're starting to lift the experiences of it.
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Speaker 3: That didn't happen until recently, so I say, in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 3: So when I heard about it, I had no interest
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Speaker 3: in it was very technical, very math focused.
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Speaker 2: Had no interest.
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Speaker 3: But then in twenty twenty, when we had COVID, we
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Speaker 3: had to find ways to work faster and improve our
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Speaker 3: processes when we couldn't be in the office, and that's
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Speaker 3: when we started looking at new technologies and we use
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Speaker 3: what's called natural language processing, machine learning, as well as
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Speaker 3: computer vision to do a lot of implementation to help us.
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Speaker 3: And during that timeframe, and that was when I was
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Speaker 3: first introduced. Then when Jennai came out, that's when I
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Speaker 3: knew it was going to be a game changer because
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Speaker 3: it was accessible to everyone and just for people to
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Speaker 3: know in reality, it's nothing but a major database that
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Speaker 3: can provide information very quickly, and because of the new
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Speaker 3: technology and microchips, were able to get the data to
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Speaker 3: people faster and it's cheaper, so now everybody has access
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Speaker 3: to it. And when I saw that, I said, okay,
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Speaker 3: this is the wave I need to jump on.
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Speaker 1: Now I want to go back to You know, everybody
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Speaker 1: has an impact on you, and your father had an
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Speaker 1: impact on you because he really preached the whole concept
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Speaker 1: of multiple strips of income and talk to us about that.
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Speaker 3: So yes, he did tell me about the most streams
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Speaker 3: of income to be wealthy. It didn't click. But what
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Speaker 3: really clicked for me is I went to a cookout
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Speaker 3: with a friend and cookout, Yeah, it was a cookout.
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Speaker 3: And that's when I say, you never know when the
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Speaker 3: teacher's going to show up.
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Speaker 2: You just gotta be ready.
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Speaker 3: And when I was at this cookout, his girlfriend was like,
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Speaker 3: she was my subority sister. I remember of Delta Sigma
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Speaker 3: Theta sororities incorporated it. Okay, so she said, you know
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Speaker 3: you're cute, No, but what kind of access do you
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Speaker 3: have which through me? Because I'm like, well, who the
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Speaker 3: heck are you? You know to talk to me like this?
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Speaker 2: And then I said, was it.
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Speaker 1: The asset, no asset, that major man or the cute
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Speaker 1: and all.
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Speaker 2: I think it was a whole thing.
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Speaker 3: But then when I thought about it, I didn't have
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Speaker 3: an answer for right, So you know, I had a
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Speaker 3: nice car designer bag I.
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Speaker 2: Didn't really have an answer for. And that's when she said,
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Speaker 2: you know what, come to my house on Sunday. I'm
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Speaker 2: having brunch. So I was like, well, I'm gonna go.
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Speaker 2: Because one she's my sorority sister, she's my friend's girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: Let me go. That changed everything because at that moment, with.
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Speaker 3: The conversations I had with her, it helped me understand
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Speaker 3: multiple streams of income. So just to share with you,
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Speaker 3: she had us play this game called the cash Flow
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Speaker 3: Quadrant by Robert Kawasaki, and when we played that game,
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Speaker 3: it helped us understand we don't need to be in
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Speaker 3: a rat race all the time being an employee because
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Speaker 3: you can't really get ahead in that way.
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Speaker 2: You have to leverage your money.
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Speaker 3: And so that created a mastermind among us to really
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Speaker 3: understand how to start building wealk. That's when it clipped
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Speaker 3: having these conversations with other people that were like minded,
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Speaker 3: and it helped bring me along on the journey.
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Speaker 1: So smart was it smart growth AI? That's your company code?
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Speaker 2: It is what is that?
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Speaker 3: So that's an actual consultant and training company where I
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Speaker 3: actually help individuals and companies adopt AI, not just learning
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Speaker 3: the tool, but how to use it and adopt it.
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Speaker 3: Because many times people will buy all these tools, spend
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Speaker 3: all this money, and then no one's using it and
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Speaker 3: they're not using it to the full capacity. And that's
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Speaker 3: where I come in them help bridge that gap. And
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Speaker 3: that's what the company does.
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Speaker 1: So what makes it work?
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Speaker 2: What makes it work?
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Speaker 3: Number one is having empathy and people. It's not a
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Speaker 3: technology problem, it's the people problem. Right when you bring
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Speaker 3: something in, you're telling people, I want you to use
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Speaker 3: a tool that could potentially replace me, and you have
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Speaker 3: to have empathy with people with that because one, they
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Speaker 3: have fear, the fear of this new technology that keeps
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Speaker 3: changing consistently. But then they're looking at a technology that
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Speaker 3: they're training that could eventually take away their jobs.
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Speaker 2: And so the way we do.
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Speaker 3: That is we help them learn how to make it,
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Speaker 3: be a co creator with them, but also showing them
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Speaker 3: the pathway of where their future could go using the tool.
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Speaker 3: If they don't adopt these tools and lessons now they
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Speaker 3: will be left behind.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because they know understand what they are the potential
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Speaker 1: of it is used exactly. And so with that being said,
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Speaker 1: where there's the learning curve come for the employees at
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Speaker 1: each forty hour weeks job. Like my daughter, you know,
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Speaker 1: she took all the responsibility of learning how to use
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Speaker 1: AI entity. I didn't ask her, and it was allowed
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Speaker 1: us to be able to discontinue a contract with the
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Speaker 1: outside vendor. It helped us by our turnaround time increased.
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Speaker 1: I like to believe that he did a good job,
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Speaker 1: but I like to believe that her accuracy factor went
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Speaker 1: up because she just cared a little bit more about
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Speaker 1: the product. When you are dealing with outside vendors, they
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Speaker 1: have maybe have four or five or ten clients and
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Speaker 1: they're just churning out the work. Yes, and so attention
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Speaker 1: to detail can get lost. And so I know that
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Speaker 1: she took on that responsibility outside of her work hours.
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Speaker 1: Now people are listening. They have to learn now that
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Speaker 1: you can't if you're trying to do something, whether it
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Speaker 1: benefits the company or benefits yourself. When do they take
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Speaker 1: on that responsibility.
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Speaker 3: Of training themselves, Well, they have to do it after
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Speaker 3: hours the main time they have to do it. But
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Speaker 3: I had to say, if they are learning AI, it
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Speaker 3: will help them leverage your time. I think what people
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Speaker 3: get in trouble with is that they take on more
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Speaker 3: because they feel like they have more capacity, and then
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Speaker 3: they start to have burnout. So making sure that they
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Speaker 3: have a way of I'm increasing my time to be
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Speaker 3: able to do other things like learning AI and then
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Speaker 3: taking on some of their repetitive tasks, or use that
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Speaker 3: time for strategy, figure out what my next steps are
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Speaker 3: going to be, and leveraging AI for that, but also
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Speaker 3: having some downtime because if you don't have downtime, it's
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Speaker 3: really hard for you to have capacity for more things.
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Speaker 1: Cool. I'm talking ton Tanya edwhen she founded smart Growth AI,
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Speaker 1: which helps busy professionals and entrepreneurs reclaimed ten plus hours
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Speaker 1: a week using practical AI system. When I look at
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Speaker 1: these different options you have, I met you at at
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Speaker 1: least a little she's known as the Queen of AI. Yes,
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Speaker 1: now I went there because I brought my staff there
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Speaker 1: just to create AI conversation.
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Speaker 3: I think that that's the least start there. Why were
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Speaker 3: you there, Well, she's my teacher and trainer. She put
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Speaker 3: me on this whole trajectory. I've been with her since
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Speaker 3: she began in what she has her cohorts. I was
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Speaker 3: cohort number four and once I met her at an.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's slow down, so Alicia Little, yes, I'll allow
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Speaker 1: you to explain to everybody who she is.
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Speaker 3: So Elisia Little is the Queen of AI and she
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Speaker 3: teaches AI courses. So she teaches them virtually and you
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Speaker 3: can also hire her to teach them in person. And
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Speaker 3: I met her at an event which is called ITSMTH,
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Speaker 3: which is Information Technology Senior Managers for she was one
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Speaker 3: of the guest presenters. Once I got there and she
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Speaker 3: did her presentation, I was hooked. I met her afterwards
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Speaker 3: and she says, hey, if you're interested, you should become
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Speaker 3: a certified AI consultant. And it was no question. I
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Speaker 3: immediately signed up and then we built a relationship. And
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Speaker 3: so that's why I was at her event. And so
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Speaker 3: I've been with her since twenty twenty three. I believe
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Speaker 3: it's been wow, No, maybe twenty twenty four. I've been
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Speaker 3: her since twenty twenty four, and she's been my coach
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Speaker 3: and trainer ever since.
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Speaker 2: And I tell you she's phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: So what's the advantages of that I'm talking about because
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Speaker 1: you have your company and then you're working with her
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Speaker 1: company as a mentor or a mentee or you get clients
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Speaker 1: from her. I just want to educate everybody the opportunities
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Speaker 1: out there how you can grow your brand by creating
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Speaker 1: a relationship.
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Speaker 2: Yes, in the AI.
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Speaker 3: Arena and the AI so in her relationship, she has
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Speaker 3: different types of courses, but she also has something which
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Speaker 3: called the Mastermind and when you become a part of
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Speaker 3: her Mastermind group, that's when you're able to do opportunities
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Speaker 3: and partner with her on ventures and so being in
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Speaker 3: a Mastermind group, so yes, I have done trainings for
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Speaker 3: her when she's not available, because she trains you where
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Speaker 3: she feels comfortable that you can go out and represent
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Speaker 3: the company.
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Speaker 2: And so that's one of the ways that I do
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Speaker 2: that with her.
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Speaker 3: And then I think partnerships in general because being a
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Speaker 3: part of that Mastermind group, I've met other partners and
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Speaker 3: we've done ventures together, and so that's one of the
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Speaker 3: things that we've done.
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Speaker 1: You know, I have six sisters, have a single I
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Speaker 1: have a daughter. Love of my life. Your message to
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Speaker 1: women who are still spending but not investing. Talk to us, I.
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Speaker 3: Would say, one, it's important to get the right mentorship
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Speaker 3: because if you're led the wrong way, you can lose
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Speaker 3: a lot of money. And then also making sure that
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Speaker 3: they educate themselves and when they do investments, invest in
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Speaker 3: things that they understand, and if they don't, make sure
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Speaker 3: they get the education for it. So even if it's
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Speaker 3: just one hundred dollars a week or one hundred dollars
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Speaker 3: a month, every little bit counts, whether it's in the
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Speaker 3: stock market or any other type of investment. What I
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Speaker 3: chose was to find investments that didn't require my day
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Speaker 3: to day activities with it. So one of them I
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Speaker 3: chose real estate investing because I had a full time job,
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Speaker 3: so I really couldn't dedicate a lot of time to
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Speaker 3: something else. So what can I make money on that
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Speaker 3: I'm not having to pay attention to every day. And
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Speaker 3: what I would say for women is, you know, if
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Speaker 3: they don't have enough on their own, they can also
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Speaker 3: partner with other women that they trust, making sure they
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Speaker 3: have an operating agreement and they can go over deals together.
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Speaker 3: And then lastly, if they don't have a lot of money,
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Speaker 3: but they have a four to one K. They can
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Speaker 3: take some of their money from the four one K
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Speaker 3: and roll it into what's called a self directed IRA,
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Speaker 3: which allows them to make their own investments, leveraging their
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Speaker 3: money that they got from four one K, because that's
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Speaker 3: probably one of the largest sums of money they have.
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Speaker 3: When you put it over there, all of your profits
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Speaker 3: you grow are also taking advantage of what you woul
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Speaker 3: get in a four one K, So they can do
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Speaker 3: real estate investment, or they can be an angel investor
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Speaker 3: into a business by leveraging what's called a solo IRA.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Awesome. Now, when you look at life as you
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Speaker 1: stand right here, what are the goals of your company?
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Speaker 1: And how can one we talked about the Queen of AI.
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Speaker 1: How does one reach you?
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Speaker 3: Well, they can find me on linkedink and I also
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Speaker 3: Tony Edmonds. But I also wrote a book because a
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Speaker 3: lot of people ask me questions about AI. I found
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Speaker 3: that I was repeating the same answers over and over again.
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Speaker 3: So what I did is a book which is called
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Speaker 3: Level Up Now, The AI Toolkit for Modern Entrepreneurs, which
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Speaker 3: is available on Amazon. That's another way they can find
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Speaker 3: me with the Level Up Now, The AI Toolkit for
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Speaker 3: Modern Entrepreneurs, which is available on Amazon.
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Speaker 1: When you say modern entrepreneurs, what do you mean when
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Speaker 1: you say that, because.
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Speaker 3: Of the entrepreneurs of today and everyone wants to be
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Speaker 3: modernized and so how to do that and they leverage
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Speaker 3: AI and so that's.
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Speaker 2: What I mean by that.
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Speaker 1: Your website, you said LinkedIn. Do you have a website?
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Speaker 3: I do have a website, which is Smart Growth Ai
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Speaker 3: dot AI.
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Speaker 1: When somebody goes to the website, what's the experience?
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Speaker 2: The experience goes over what I'm about.
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Speaker 3: It tells about me in my background, and it also
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Speaker 3: shares some of the offerings that I have from one
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Speaker 3: of a teaching standpoint, but I also have a monthly
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Speaker 3: course where people can come every month and learn some
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Speaker 3: of the latest and greatest.
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Speaker 2: Tools in AI.
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Speaker 3: It's a hands on course that we meet for one
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Speaker 3: hour every third Monday from seven to eight Eastern Standard time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, now you know you lost your corporate job
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Speaker 1: while you was preadnant. Now that sounds bad.
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Speaker 2: It was bad.
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Speaker 1: It was really bad, and you had to struggle. How
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Speaker 1: did you overcome that?
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Speaker 3: So what's interesting about that is it luckily, because I
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Speaker 3: had learned about having multiple streams of income, I had
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Speaker 3: the ability to have some income coming in from one
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Speaker 3: of my investments that I had. It allowed me to
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Speaker 3: have a little bit of breathing. But would always say,
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Speaker 3: you'd be careful about who you plant seeds with because
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Speaker 3: they can also come back and help you. And that's
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Speaker 3: what happened for me. I had a mentor that I
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Speaker 3: had worked for me years ago happened to call me
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Speaker 3: and says, Hey, I need an employee who can do
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Speaker 3: project management.
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Speaker 2: Do you know of anyone?
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Speaker 3: And I immediately was like me because at the time
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Speaker 3: I was unemployed, I had this newborn baby.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was going to do.
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Speaker 3: And in addition to this, I had just recently opened
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Speaker 3: up a day spa so I had all of these things.
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Speaker 2: Happening at one time.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what I was going to do, and
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Speaker 3: I knew that day spot was not giving me enough
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Speaker 3: money to satisfy my infant and myself.
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Speaker 1: What a day spa?
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Speaker 3: So a day spa is a spa where you come
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Speaker 3: and get massages, spatials, manicure, pedicures.
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Speaker 2: And that's what I had. A day spot was located
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Speaker 2: in DuPont Circle in Washington, DC.
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Speaker 1: Why did you think you can make money as being
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Speaker 1: the owner of a day spot? What research did you do?
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 3: So when I went to Sedona, I fell in love
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Speaker 3: with the spa experience. But in Sedona and Sedona, Arizona. Yes,
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Speaker 3: that's where I got first experienced.
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Speaker 1: You know an Arizona that's where you go for the experience.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Okay, cool, But at the same time I was finding myself.
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Speaker 3: Once I came home, that kind of opened my eyes
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Speaker 3: to like the spa experience.
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Speaker 2: But people were.
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Speaker 3: Very busy and they may not have all day to
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Speaker 3: be in a spot. So I said, well, how could
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Speaker 3: I give express services? And I found myself going to
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Speaker 3: multiple people. One place to get my eyebrows wax, one
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Speaker 3: place to get my nails done because everyone had a
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Speaker 3: different specialty. And I said, well, what if I combined
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Speaker 3: all these in one place and created what was like
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Speaker 3: an express spot. That was my theme. You didn't come
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Speaker 3: in there to hang out all day. It was an
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Speaker 3: express spot. That was my differentiator.
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Speaker 1: And let menswer this time, who were you talking y'all
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Speaker 1: along the way.
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Speaker 2: When I did the day spot. At the time, it
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Speaker 2: was all in my head initially.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So you had no mentor, no mentors,
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Speaker 1: So let's let everybody hear that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I had no mentors, no mentors.
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Speaker 3: I was trying to figure it out, and I was
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Speaker 3: making this all up, creating business places for as. I
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Speaker 3: had nothing to leverage or help me. I was creating
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Speaker 3: all these ideas myself. So I was like, oh, we
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Speaker 3: were the best waxers and the best nail people, have
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Speaker 3: more in one place.
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Speaker 2: We can have this express spot.
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Speaker 3: Found a nice location, and people who may not know,
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Speaker 3: in DC, DuPont Circle, Connecticut Avenue is prime real estate,
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Speaker 3: so I was in a prime real estate location creating
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Speaker 3: this spa. I was working in dot com, so I
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Speaker 3: was making a lot of money at the time, and
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Speaker 3: that was helped me float that business. When that job
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Speaker 3: failed and they did a layoff because of course, you know,
17:29
Speaker 3: dot coms were opened and closed and left and right.
17:32
Speaker 3: That's when I said, oh, oh my goodness, what am
17:34
Speaker 3: I going to do? Back to your question about the
17:37
Speaker 3: gentleman who was my mentor, he said, hey, I have
17:40
Speaker 3: a job.
17:41
Speaker 2: Are you interested?
17:42
Speaker 3: I raised my hand, I said absolutely, and I took
17:45
Speaker 3: the job because he said, you know, you're overqualify it,
17:47
Speaker 3: so it doesn't matter. I just need the income. I
17:49
Speaker 3: took the job, and that was something I could easily do.
17:53
Speaker 3: But when you said about the mentorship, I had this
17:56
Speaker 3: day SPA that was doing well because I had, you know,
18:00
Speaker 3: I was in Black Enterprise and Essays Magazine all its publications.
18:04
Speaker 3: But as time went on, it became a struggle because
18:06
Speaker 3: I didn't have the right mentorship to help me work
18:09
Speaker 3: in an industry that I was not licensed. Then I
18:12
Speaker 3: had didn't know how to do services. I was using
18:15
Speaker 3: my project management skills and management skills to say, you
18:19
Speaker 3: all just go do your work, but it's more of
18:20
Speaker 3: a hands on feeling business.
18:23
Speaker 2: And that was one of the challenges.
18:25
Speaker 3: And so even though I had lost my job, instead
18:27
Speaker 3: of me trusting myself and throwing myself into the business
18:30
Speaker 3: one hundred and ten percent. I was still having one
18:32
Speaker 3: foot in and one foot out, and I think that
18:34
Speaker 3: was one of the biggest challenges. And then also secondly,
18:37
Speaker 3: I didn't have the right mentorships. And third because I
18:40
Speaker 3: was so busy being a mom, working a full time
18:43
Speaker 3: job and trying to run the business, I didn't have
18:45
Speaker 3: the right networks within the neighborhood with other businesses or
18:49
Speaker 3: chambers of commerce.
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Speaker 2: So those were some of the challenges I had with
18:52
Speaker 2: that business.
18:53
Speaker 1: Well, you know really interesting that you know, you have
18:55
Speaker 1: a book.
18:56
Speaker 2: It's next level, right, next level, Up Now, Love Now.
19:00
Speaker 1: Apologize Love Love Now, and basically as an AI strategy
19:05
Speaker 1: book for the modern entrepreneur.
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Speaker 2: Right, it tells them how to get started.
19:08
Speaker 1: Okay, cool. If you were to sit here and tell
19:13
Speaker 1: my company what makes you special? Why should we come
19:17
Speaker 1: to you for this modern process? And what is the relationship?
19:24
Speaker 1: How long does this last? Is this a monthly relationship?
19:27
Speaker 1: Do your trainings for six months and we can walk away?
19:30
Speaker 1: What is it?
19:30
Speaker 3: It all depends on the actual engagement. So that's what
19:34
Speaker 3: and the three first thing I do is find out
19:36
Speaker 3: what is it that they need, so I can make
19:38
Speaker 3: sure that it's a great fit and the reason why
19:40
Speaker 3: they come to me because I'm not just one who
19:42
Speaker 3: has worked with jen Ai. I've been dealing with AI
19:45
Speaker 3: before starting in twenty twenty with some of the other
19:48
Speaker 3: native tools. I've implemented systems for Fortune fifty companies.
19:52
Speaker 2: I've been an entrepreneur.
19:53
Speaker 3: Myself, so I've been in their shoes, understand what to do,
19:56
Speaker 3: and I use it for myself, and so I think
19:58
Speaker 3: that's what the differentiator is. I've been in these different
20:01
Speaker 3: walks of life that I can bring all of this
20:02
Speaker 3: experience to the table of understanding what's required to make
20:05
Speaker 3: it work.
20:06
Speaker 1: Let's get their website out one more time.
20:08
Speaker 3: For Smart Control AI, Smart Smart Growth AI dot AI.
20:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking to an Tanya Van's a Smart Growth
20:16
Speaker 1: AI business health professional and entrepreneurship claim. Ten hours. That's important.
20:21
Speaker 1: You know free times. It's a day work for work.
20:25
Speaker 1: If we work five days a week. You just gave
20:26
Speaker 1: somebody an hour eight hours back. What's back? Now? When
20:30
Speaker 1: you say that to people, what do they say back
20:31
Speaker 1: to you?
20:32
Speaker 3: They said, well, how can you help me? And I said,
20:34
Speaker 3: let's talk about what's going on in your business? And
20:36
Speaker 3: where can we save time? Because everybody is different, so
20:38
Speaker 3: I don't use a cookie cutter example for each pert.
20:41
Speaker 3: Thank you never cookie cutter. Everybody's different and what they need,
20:44
Speaker 3: and they also value different things at different levels, and
20:47
Speaker 3: I tailor it to them specifically, and then I make
20:50
Speaker 3: sure we work together because when I walk away, they're
20:53
Speaker 3: able to do it themselves and they don't have to
20:55
Speaker 3: always come back to me in that specific area. And
20:57
Speaker 3: if they need something new, I'm available. I want to
21:00
Speaker 3: make sure that they're able to feel comfortable so they
21:02
Speaker 3: can use the technology and tools themselves as well. And
21:05
Speaker 3: some people don't want to be hands on, and I
21:08
Speaker 3: will do it for them, and in those instances, I'm
21:10
Speaker 3: usually creating agents for them that doesn't work for them
21:13
Speaker 3: on their own.
21:14
Speaker 1: If I went to ask you not so much saying,
21:17
Speaker 1: because you said it's based on your need breakdown that
21:20
Speaker 1: they're about the.
21:21
Speaker 3: Top three, Okay, So I would say one thing about Copilot.
21:24
Speaker 3: Copilot's working within your ecosystem. That's what makes it very different.
21:28
Speaker 3: So it's looking at everything you have connected from your
21:30
Speaker 3: email to your Excel, your share point, So when you're
21:34
Speaker 3: looking at it, it's not trained on everything else external,
21:36
Speaker 3: where the other large language models are. If I'm doing graphics,
21:40
Speaker 3: I'm using Gemini and those type of things because I
21:43
Speaker 3: like all the features they have from video and graphics.
21:46
Speaker 2: In Gemini.
21:47
Speaker 3: If I'm doing research, I'm using the tool Perplexity. But
21:51
Speaker 3: also when it comes to writing, I would use claud
21:55
Speaker 3: which is by the company Anthropic, but I do something
21:58
Speaker 3: called vibe coding.
21:59
Speaker 2: I use two tools.
22:00
Speaker 3: I use chat GPT to get started, I go into Claude,
22:03
Speaker 3: and then I use them back and forth to get
22:05
Speaker 3: the results to get the right answer that I need,
22:08
Speaker 3: So I don't rely on just one.
22:10
Speaker 1: So how did everybody pass up chat GPT?
22:14
Speaker 2: Chat GPT it started all this?
22:16
Speaker 1: Right?
22:17
Speaker 2: It started everything?
22:18
Speaker 1: Okay? But they still they still an effective AI, absolutely,
22:24
Speaker 1: But why are so many others so much better?
22:27
Speaker 2: Or are there am I better in different areas?
22:30
Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? Okay, So what is the strength of chat GPT?
22:34
Speaker 1: So in your eyes and your.
22:35
Speaker 3: Eyes and my eyes, Well, it has a lot of
22:38
Speaker 3: value because it presents the data in a different way,
22:41
Speaker 3: and so chat GPT is good for brainstorming and getting
22:45
Speaker 3: your ideas together.
22:46
Speaker 2: And then also you can.
22:48
Speaker 3: Go over to Claude, which can actually make what they've
22:50
Speaker 3: created more robust for what I have to throw in
22:54
Speaker 3: the mix here, there's something new on the market that's
22:56
Speaker 3: even better, and that's called Manness dot Ai. Manus Manness
23:02
Speaker 3: and that's my goal to now, and it's do ai
23:05
Speaker 3: does everything from video to creating PowerPoint presentations to creating
23:13
Speaker 3: a business plan, whatever you want. Man's dot Ai. That's
23:17
Speaker 3: the game changer right now.
23:19
Speaker 1: Now, all these come with fees.
23:22
Speaker 2: Manus comes with fees.
23:24
Speaker 1: Okay.
23:24
Speaker 2: So Manus is a paid tool.
23:26
Speaker 3: Okay, So I would say if you are not going
23:29
Speaker 3: to use it to its full potential, I probably would
23:31
Speaker 3: not make that investment because it does cost money.
23:34
Speaker 2: But if you still want to.
23:35
Speaker 3: Stay with something free, Chat, GPT is great, perplexity is great.
23:39
Speaker 3: Make money, well, they make money off of all their
23:42
Speaker 3: engagements they have with enterprises. Okay, So major companies are
23:45
Speaker 3: bringing these tools internally, is just specifically for their company,
23:49
Speaker 3: so that way their data is not out in the
23:51
Speaker 3: public for everyone else. So they'll have their own version
23:53
Speaker 3: of Chat, their own version of Claud that they use
23:56
Speaker 3: internally with the company, and that's how they're making money.
23:59
Speaker 2: And then the people pay the subscriptions. That's the other
24:01
Speaker 2: way they make money.
24:02
Speaker 1: Okay. So now Gemini is that.
24:04
Speaker 3: A paidmi Gemini is free, but you can pay for
24:07
Speaker 3: a pro version for more features.
24:10
Speaker 1: Right, okay? Cool. So it's an entry level, it is
24:13
Speaker 1: an upgrade level.
24:14
Speaker 2: All of them have entry levels.
24:15
Speaker 3: Get you in, yeah, get you in, and then they
24:18
Speaker 3: get they say, oh you're out of credits or you
24:20
Speaker 3: need to pay more money. And then you're writing a
24:21
Speaker 3: bit of a project and you may not want to
24:23
Speaker 3: wait a couple of hours to get.
24:24
Speaker 2: Started on that. You want to go ahead and pay
24:26
Speaker 2: the money to keep going.
24:27
Speaker 1: When this, you know, we don't know the end of
24:30
Speaker 1: this game. I was in San Francis, so I finally
24:33
Speaker 1: got a driverless car way more, you know, and it
24:38
Speaker 1: was an experience. But that's where we're going. And as
24:41
Speaker 1: people listen to you, Tanya one more time about your.
24:44
Speaker 2: Website, smart growth Ai dot Ai and.
24:48
Speaker 1: You travelers Country now preaching the gospel about Ai and
24:52
Speaker 1: you know, intimidates a lot of people.
24:54
Speaker 2: It does.
24:55
Speaker 1: What would you say to somebody in today's climbing if
25:00
Speaker 1: you're living in it, but guess what ten years ago
25:03
Speaker 1: you lived a little bit different because you know more, Okay,
25:06
Speaker 1: you want to open the day spot lost all that
25:08
Speaker 1: money because you weren't talking to nobody did understand the
25:11
Speaker 1: value of entrepreneurship. When it comes to mentoring, what advice
25:16
Speaker 1: would you give the day about AI?
25:18
Speaker 3: The very first thing I would do is make sure
25:21
Speaker 3: that they want getting a course, whether they do it
25:24
Speaker 3: on their own or they're underneath somebody's tutelage. I would say,
25:27
Speaker 3: getting a course to start learning, and then actually, don't
25:29
Speaker 3: just listen to people talk to you about it. Actually
25:32
Speaker 3: open up your laptop and stop playing with it and
25:34
Speaker 3: experimenting with it.
25:36
Speaker 2: I think that's important.
25:37
Speaker 3: Secondly, whatever they do, make sure they put their security
25:40
Speaker 3: controls on and don't put out any personal data into
25:43
Speaker 3: whatever they're doing from the AI.
25:45
Speaker 2: That's really important.
25:47
Speaker 3: And once they start playing with it and seeing how
25:49
Speaker 3: it makes their lives easier, the things they can do
25:51
Speaker 3: with it, then that way they can start saying how
25:53
Speaker 3: they can leverage it at work, because typically at work
25:56
Speaker 3: they have some form of AI they can use, and
25:58
Speaker 3: then they will be more incline to use it at
26:00
Speaker 3: work and become the go to person at their job
26:03
Speaker 3: because a lot of people don't know what's happening, and
26:05
Speaker 3: that makes them more valuable when they're at their job
26:08
Speaker 3: being able to help educate everyone else. That's the advice
26:11
Speaker 3: I would give that.
26:12
Speaker 1: Message, telling you let's talk about I want to get
26:14
Speaker 1: this clar too, because yes, like you use the word
26:17
Speaker 1: personal information, okay, now how can you control that? Now
26:22
Speaker 1: to understanding, if you set up an account, your personal
26:26
Speaker 1: information is locked into that account. If you don't set
26:29
Speaker 1: up their account, it's open to everybody you asked you
26:33
Speaker 1: put it in a chat, GPT, Jemini or co pilot then,
26:37
Speaker 1: because the way the algorithm works, it just grabs information
26:41
Speaker 1: that's available in the space, then it gets information. But
26:46
Speaker 1: it is true you can open an account and protect
26:50
Speaker 1: your privacy.
26:52
Speaker 3: You can protect your privacy whether it's free or not,
26:55
Speaker 3: because every AI tool has an option saying do you
26:58
Speaker 3: want to train the model and just everyone say turn
27:01
Speaker 3: that all.
27:02
Speaker 2: Oh they turn at all. That helps protect it.
27:05
Speaker 3: But when I'm saying personal data, for example, I will
27:08
Speaker 3: never put my address in the chat of course, no
27:13
Speaker 3: credit cards, no social security numbers, no birth dates, none
27:16
Speaker 3: of that kind of thing. And if you're working with
27:18
Speaker 3: a client on behalf of them, I wouldn't even use
27:21
Speaker 3: their company name and their information in there because it
27:23
Speaker 3: can tie back to them. So I may make up
27:25
Speaker 3: a name like company X or Company Y and do
27:28
Speaker 3: all those things, and don't put those founders' names in
27:30
Speaker 3: there either. Make sure I put some other fake name
27:33
Speaker 3: so that way they can't trace it back. And then
27:35
Speaker 3: when I pull the data back, I can change it
27:37
Speaker 3: easily when I'm ready to produce the deliverable to the client.
27:40
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