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Follow Your Passion: The Queen of AI's mission is to empower the African American community to become the leaders in AI. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: co founder AI Innovations. She's a renowned AI strategist, known
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Speaker 1: as the Queen of AI, entrepreneur and ted X speaker,
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Speaker 1: with over two decades of experience at the intersection of
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Speaker 2: Alicia, hey do, I'm so excited to be here. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much.
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Speaker 1: It's probably been about almost two years since I interviewed
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Speaker 1: your last time. Yes, yeah, and you impressed me so much.
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Speaker 1: I heard an interview on series XM like one one,
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Speaker 1: and I tracked you down and I was able to
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Speaker 1: get you on your show. So in that period, tell
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Speaker 1: us what's been going on with your career and how
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Speaker 1: much has AI changed since I interviewed you almost two
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Speaker 1: years ago.
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Speaker 2: Their AI has changed so much. There's so many new tools,
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Speaker 2: and then as business owners were using new strategies and
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Speaker 2: using AI differently and really leaning into it even more.
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Speaker 2: For me, I used to do summits every year, you know,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, But
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five I started doing it every single
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Speaker 2: month because people wanted to know, like they couldn't wait
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Speaker 2: a year anymore. They needed every month and then, so
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Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing that changed for me is that
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Speaker 2: I started doing a lot more training and teaching. I
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Speaker 2: was already doing a lot of speaking and speaking at
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Speaker 2: events and corporations and that sort of thing, but I've
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Speaker 2: really gone all in and teaching the entrepreneur and the
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Speaker 2: small business owner and especially women how we can really
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Speaker 2: leverage artificial Alicia.
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Speaker 1: This was the show is my small business owners, nonprofits, entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 1: When you say training and AI, what exactly you talking about?
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Speaker 2: Sure, I show them how to use AI. So I
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Speaker 2: don't just talk about it like this is what artificial
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Speaker 2: intelligence is. Now, I'm like, open your laptops, open up chat, GBT,
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Speaker 2: and let me demonstrate to you how you can use it.
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Speaker 2: And then I want you to use the same prompt
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Speaker 2: I use. See what results that you've just got. So
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Speaker 2: what I like to do when I say training, it's
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Speaker 2: let's do some interactive hands on exercises together so that
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Speaker 2: you understand how to use AI, because I believe that
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Speaker 2: if I can show you how to do it, you
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Speaker 2: see me do it and you're like, oh, she can
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Speaker 2: do it, and you're like, wow, I can do that too,
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Speaker 2: and then I'm like, go ahead, do it, try it,
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Speaker 2: and then you try it and you like I did it.
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Speaker 2: Now people are more able to say, after I learned
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Speaker 2: from her, I can keep going, And that's what I
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Speaker 2: want them to do.
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Speaker 1: Unslowed this down a little bit for me, you know,
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Speaker 1: because my staff uses AI for editing, marketing, social media plans,
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Speaker 1: and in general rewriting. We download our shows. Now we
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Speaker 1: go to AI and use it to write our summaries
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Speaker 1: descriptions much more professional. It's turned my company and created
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Speaker 1: a much more professional output format. Now, when you said
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Speaker 1: did learning you show them? What are you showing them
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Speaker 1: that's helping them? Because that's the mental block for me,
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Speaker 1: is like when I hear professionals like you who know
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Speaker 1: it so well, but help a dummy like me.
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Speaker 2: First of all. So what I like to do is
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Speaker 2: I'll say, let's use this episode an example. So you
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Speaker 2: take the YouTube link of this episode and I'll say, okay, everybody,
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Speaker 2: open up notebook LM. It's a Google tool notebook LM
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Speaker 2: dot Google dot com. And then when you're on notebook ALM,
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Speaker 2: click on create notebook, click on that plus sign and
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Speaker 2: then that opens up and you see where that YouTube
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Speaker 2: button is. Click on that and paste the link to
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Speaker 2: this episode in there. So they follow that, they paste
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Speaker 2: the link in and then they see that, oh, now
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Speaker 2: I have a summary of the episode. And then you
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Speaker 2: can tell notebook LM create show notes from this, and
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Speaker 2: it will create the show notes. And then you say,
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Speaker 2: write seven emails to send out to my list to
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Speaker 2: tell them to watch this and why a series of
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Speaker 2: seven And then if you go on the far right
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Speaker 2: hand side, which is called studio. There's three six, maybe
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Speaker 2: nine buttons over there. Click every button. It's like, it'll
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Speaker 2: create a mind map for you. It'll create an audio
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Speaker 2: overview of the show for you. It will create a
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Speaker 2: PowerPoint presentation, it will create a video overview, it will
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Speaker 2: create flash cards, a quiz, a study guide. So you
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Speaker 2: click on all of that and you see what can
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Speaker 2: be created, and you're like, wow, you could take this
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Speaker 2: one episode and repurpose it into all these different these
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Speaker 2: content ways. So people learn differently. Some people might want
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Speaker 2: an audio from it, some people might want a summary
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Speaker 2: in a video format or a quiz, and you'll get
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Speaker 2: all of that in nopok LM. So I just tell
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Speaker 2: people step by step, here's the example. Like I said,
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Speaker 2: here the you know, put the url of this episode,
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Speaker 2: follow it all the way through, see what's created, and
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Speaker 2: now do it for whatever you need in your use
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Speaker 2: case to do it. Now that I've showed you one
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Speaker 2: way to do it, run and test different. I tell
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Speaker 2: you about the air.
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Speaker 1: Tell you was talking. It was like wow, because you
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Speaker 1: hear so many Let me reference everybody. I'm speaking of
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Speaker 1: Elasi a little She's the CEO and co found of
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Speaker 1: AI Innovations. She is known as the Queen of AI.
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Speaker 1: Before I go to for you to extend that question,
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Speaker 1: how did you you seem to be? You saw it
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Speaker 1: coming and you jumped in this lane? Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So back in twenty seventeen, I spoke at a
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Speaker 2: Walmart event. It was called Walmart Tech Live. It's an
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Speaker 2: internal Walmart event only for their employees. And the speaker
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Speaker 2: before me, he was fifteen years old at the time,
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Speaker 2: tanmy Boshki is his name, and he talked about IBM Watson,
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Speaker 2: which is an AI tool that IBM had fifteen. So
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Speaker 2: I was paying attention, first of all, because I was
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Speaker 2: not on stage at an event like that at fifteen,
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Speaker 2: So I was celebrating him and like paying attention to
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Speaker 2: every word. I need to pay attention to what this
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Speaker 2: fifteen year old is saying. And so when I learned
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Speaker 2: about IBM Watson that day, and I learned that a
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Speaker 2: computer program had beaten the nation's best jeopardy champions in
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Speaker 2: a game of Jeopardy. And I saw this computer acting
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Speaker 2: as if it was a human. I said, oh no,
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Speaker 2: come on, now, what is this about? And I really
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Speaker 2: started to get interested in AI, especially its ability to
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Speaker 2: do things that I only thought was possible for a
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Speaker 2: human to do. I don't think a computer could play
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Speaker 2: a game of Jeopardy against two humans, right.
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Speaker 1: With logic, right to pool and direct.
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Speaker 2: Answer the questions the right way, and that sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: So I became really interested, and then shortly I couldn't
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Speaker 2: use IBM Watson, and then it was too complicated for me.
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Speaker 2: I don't have a tech background, right, so I come
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Speaker 2: from the digital marketing space, but my background is environmental
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Speaker 2: science and geology, and so far away from where I
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Speaker 2: am now.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on now environ tho science, the geology,
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Speaker 1: you know, which means that it's a complex logical world
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Speaker 1: that you were in. You know, well you use word sciences.
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Speaker 1: Logic is tied to that. But as you build your brand,
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Speaker 1: you start opening these different layers. What were your peer
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Speaker 1: groups saying to you, all your industry people saying to you,
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Speaker 1: because they.
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Speaker 2: Were not in this lane, right, I mean my business partners,
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Speaker 2: my sister, and my team, they were very concerned when
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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty two I said we're closing this
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Speaker 2: business completely, pivoting and going all into AI training and
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Speaker 2: consulting and they were like, what are we talking about here.
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Speaker 2: Nobody wants to work with AI right now, so why
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Speaker 2: would you do that? But I said that in the future,
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Speaker 2: in the near future, it's going to be the most
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Speaker 2: highest in demand thing, and corporations and businesses are going
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Speaker 2: to need to know how to integrate AI. So we
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Speaker 2: need to be the ones to say, hey, we can
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Speaker 2: show you, we can teach you because we know how
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Speaker 2: to use AI. And then we started. This was back
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, as soon as chatchipt came out.
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Speaker 2: I'd been using tools before that called Jasper and writer,
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Speaker 2: but when Chatchept came out, it changed the game. Because
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Speaker 2: of accessibility. There was a free, free version, it was
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Speaker 2: available for everyone. Everyone could use it, and then the
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Speaker 2: rate that people started using it, it started to get
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Speaker 2: international attention. Every new station started talking about it. So
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Speaker 2: now I felt like, Okay, people are not only going
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Speaker 2: to want to use this tool, but the other AI
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Speaker 2: tools that are out there are going to start to compete,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to be in an AI race war
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Speaker 2: where all these tools will start competing. But then who's
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Speaker 2: going to be training all of these businesses on how
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Speaker 2: to use these tools?
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Speaker 1: We always hear that the African American community is at
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Speaker 1: the end of our line, especially in tech space. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to an African American woman. Yeah, who Phil,
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Speaker 1: I believe is at the front of the line. How
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Speaker 1: do you feel about that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Thank you? First of all, thank you. And my
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Speaker 2: mission really is to make sure that not only does
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Speaker 2: our community not get left behind, but that we're ahead
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Speaker 2: of the curve right now. So I'm speaking as much
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Speaker 2: as I can at every event where black entrepreneurs are
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Speaker 2: and black business owners saying hey, pay attention and go
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Speaker 2: all in on this because it will be a game
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Speaker 2: changer for you. Never has there been a better time
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Speaker 2: in history. I've been an entrepreneur for twenty six years.
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Speaker 2: Since my twenty six year never have I seen a
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Speaker 2: better time for people to start, build or scale a
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Speaker 2: business than right now. Because if you remember back in
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Speaker 2: the day, to build a website, it takes a lot
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Speaker 2: of work to build a website.
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Speaker 1: They charge a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of money. Now I could build a
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Speaker 2: website right here in front of you and be done
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Speaker 2: in three minutes and it would just take me typing in.
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Speaker 1: Just look at it as it does. All my website
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Speaker 1: I'll be done in three days. Can you talk about
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Speaker 1: three minutes?
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Speaker 2: And three days is still really fast when building with
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Speaker 2: traditional like that's pretty fast. But usually we have you know,
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Speaker 2: a usual website agency is going to tell you they
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Speaker 2: need a month or two to build your website. But
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Speaker 2: today we can build websites at the speed of typing
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Speaker 2: in our request to a tool. I use a tool
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Speaker 2: called Lovable Lovable dot dev to create my websites and
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Speaker 2: my software tools.
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Speaker 1: Now you know, first of all, I'm in enjoin this interview.
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Speaker 1: In some ways, I'm kind of in all of you
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Speaker 1: because you're just talking so casual about all these tech
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Speaker 1: lanes that we should all be using. And then but
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Speaker 1: how do we use them? How do we get in
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Speaker 1: touch with you? At lastia?
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Speaker 2: Sure, so I do a summit, a free summit every month.
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Speaker 2: It's the AI Business Summit, So I would invite everybody
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Speaker 2: to join that. So the last summit, on day one
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Speaker 2: when I started off, we had twenty one thousand people watching,
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Speaker 2: twenty one thousand people watching live on the summit. They
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Speaker 2: get bigger and bigger.
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Speaker 1: You need to stop. I'm like, oh, twenty one no,
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Speaker 1: twenty one thousand people listening to.
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Speaker 2: You Live Are You Live? And we had a lot
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Speaker 2: of people coming in and out on that day, but it.
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Speaker 1: Was a lot hundred lead hundred may come in.
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Speaker 2: That's incredible and it's completely free. And by doing that,
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Speaker 2: I really feel like we can empower and teach and
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Speaker 2: lead the way when it comes to teaching our families
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Speaker 2: and our communities. So I tell people be on your computer,
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Speaker 2: so they're on their computer and then they watch me
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Speaker 2: do something, and then I have them do it, and
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Speaker 2: then we're off to the races. So we always start
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Speaker 2: off with something fun. Like one session, everybody turned themselves
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Speaker 2: into a superhero, so graphic design for thumbnails to get
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Speaker 2: attention and this sort of stuff. The last one they
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Speaker 2: turn themselves into a plushy and put their brand name
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Speaker 2: on it and then they had their plushy dance on stage.
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Speaker 2: You know. So we do we do fun things to
11:56
Speaker 2: get people to say, oh, this is cool. I see
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Speaker 2: how I can use it my business. And then we're like,
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Speaker 2: let's write emails, let's write sales copies, let's build web pages,
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Speaker 2: let's build a software to them. So it's AI Business
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Speaker 2: Summit dot com. It's completely free and I do it
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Speaker 2: all the time.
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Speaker 1: did you get your twenty one thousand people show up
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Speaker 1: on your brand live? It has to take experience, It's
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Speaker 1: take credibility. What are do they all start? Because number
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Speaker 1: when you told your staff AI is coming, they looked
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Speaker 1: at you and going, we need to talk time.
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Speaker 2: So yeah. Now it's about scaling the business that we
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Speaker 2: have and it's about doing as much self promotion as possible.
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Speaker 2: So when I talk to business owners and entrepreneurs and
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Speaker 2: say you want a bigger audience, you've got to talk more,
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Speaker 2: You've got to show up more. I'm always showing up
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Speaker 2: at summit sessions, radios, interviews and talking about my passion.
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Speaker 2: And the more that I do that, the more people
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Speaker 2: that I can attract my summits and I talk about
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Speaker 2: my mission all the time. It's to help demystify, demystify
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Speaker 2: artificial intelligence and help people cash in on the AI revolution.
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Speaker 2: That's it. You want to cash in on the AI revolution,
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Speaker 2: you need to learn some AI, come to my summit,
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Speaker 2: and then I'm easy to reach on all social media platforms.
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Speaker 2: But since the last time we were we did the interview,
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Speaker 2: I my social media has grown by probably one hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand on Instagram, yeah, fifty thousand on YouTube. So but
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Speaker 2: it takes dedication, commitment, and no matter how much AI
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Speaker 2: I use, it still work. It still works. So it's
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Speaker 2: that as entrepreneurs and business owners, we have to say
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Speaker 2: the amount of effort that I put into my business
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Speaker 2: is a direct result. I see the results on my
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Speaker 2: bottom line.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. Alicia, you know, I'm an entrepreneur.
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Speaker 1: I'm confused. I hear by AI, I hear AI. There
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Speaker 1: are formats out there, you said, chat, GPT, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think I used copilt a lot because it's tied to
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Speaker 1: my Microsoft platform. I hear Gemini is themoll?
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Speaker 2: It is?
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Speaker 1: How does one make a decision on which one of
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Speaker 1: these platform? And I'm sure I'm leaving something out? Sure, yeah,
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Speaker 1: how do you make recommendations? Or you allowed the client
14:48
Speaker 1: to make the recommendation and you because you're going to
14:51
Speaker 1: look like you're pushing somebody somewhere because you getting the
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Speaker 1: side payment or whatever. How does that work? So?
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Speaker 2: I usually the tools that I folk on, I usually
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Speaker 2: look and say, is this has this tool been around
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Speaker 2: for a while, what are the chances that it will
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Speaker 2: be around for a longer time? What are the investments
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Speaker 2: looking like into this tool? Who's running the tool? So
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Speaker 2: that gives me some sense of longevity of the tool, safety,
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Speaker 2: you know, on the tool. So for example, I love
15:18
Speaker 2: a tool called Hagen which I use for video cloning.
15:22
Speaker 2: They used to be called Movio back in twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: three when I first demoed them, and they've constantly improved,
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Speaker 2: like constantly improved. So if you're using a tool and
15:31
Speaker 2: you constantly see the improvements that they're making, you know,
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Speaker 2: all right, this is someplace that I can invest my
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Speaker 2: time into learning this tool and using it for my business.
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Speaker 2: But over the years, I've just formed my toolbox. But
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Speaker 2: I have tested hundreds, if not thousands of tools AI tools,
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Speaker 2: testing them all the time and seeing can you knock
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Speaker 2: out my number one? You know, I'm always looking for
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Speaker 2: what's better, and especially what the new and upcoming tools
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Speaker 2: can do. But there are some core tools CHATCHYBT, I
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Speaker 2: love you mentioned co Pilot great for companies that have
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Speaker 2: Microsoft three sixty five already. Is not my favorite tool,
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Speaker 2: but it's great, especially the integration of it. There's Google Gemini,
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Speaker 2: which Google came out like and open their doors and
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Speaker 2: they're like, we're here and weren't taking over here? They
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Speaker 2: did so good, so they have They have amazing tools
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Speaker 2: Notebook LM that I was telling you about as a
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Speaker 2: Google tool, and they have Nano Banana that creates great graphics,
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Speaker 2: and they have vo three which creates great video. They
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Speaker 2: have study Guide Sports, so they've got a lot of
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Speaker 2: good tools. I also love Perplexity dot AI. It's a
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Speaker 2: fantastic research tool.
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Speaker 1: So it sounds like you're just giving away information.
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Speaker 2: How are you making money? Well? I also teach people
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Speaker 2: to do exactly what I do, so I have a
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Speaker 2: consultant program, and I teach people if you want to
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Speaker 2: be a consultant like me and go in businesses and
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Speaker 2: teach them which tools to use, do trainings and stuff
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Speaker 2: for them. It's a certified program, certified consultant. They can
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Speaker 2: come and take those programs and they pay me for that.
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Speaker 2: So you know, my mission is is big. And by
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Speaker 2: me really getting out my mission and saying hey, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to demystify AI for you and show you how
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Speaker 2: to cash in, I pull people in and they're like,
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Speaker 2: what else do you have to offer?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: Right? And so then I can take them into different
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Speaker 2: levels where they're getting different types of support. I do
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Speaker 2: live events in Atlanta all the time, and people pay
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Speaker 2: to come to those live trainings and bring their laptops.
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Speaker 2: So I make money on entertaining.
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Speaker 1: I say it is because I'm being entertained by the
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Speaker 1: information because it's so important.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: But even in this conversation, I want to go through
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Speaker 1: I want to be one of the twenty one thousand online.
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Speaker 1: I want to go see you as a as a
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Speaker 1: your part entertainer. Part.
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Speaker 2: No, no, definitely not I'm saying it. I'm not. But
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Speaker 2: when I think when you have a passion for what
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Speaker 2: you teach, it becomes fun and easy. And I also
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Speaker 2: want to make I'm not know.
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Speaker 1: She's just a passionate person what you do, which is
18:06
Speaker 1: AI right.
18:08
Speaker 2: I know you know the entertainment industry so well. So
18:10
Speaker 2: that is such a compliment.
18:13
Speaker 1: Because we know any time you go on stage, you
18:16
Speaker 1: know there's a there's factors. I always tell people, there's
18:20
Speaker 1: a want, and that's why people follow you. You know,
18:23
Speaker 1: they feel you can do something that they can't do,
18:25
Speaker 1: or you do something that makes them feel good. So
18:28
Speaker 1: when you walk on that stage, you're giving people knowledge
18:31
Speaker 1: which some people need and some people want to grow
18:33
Speaker 1: on and go how can I get that that that
18:36
Speaker 1: that knowledge or that passion or that information that she's delivering.
18:40
Speaker 1: And when you walk out there in front of a
18:42
Speaker 1: room full of people, because that's different than being online.
18:45
Speaker 1: When you walk out there on that stage, what's going
18:47
Speaker 1: through your mind? And how do you feel and react
18:50
Speaker 1: to the love?
18:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first thing that I do is like, am
18:54
Speaker 2: I going to trip in these high heels? No, I'm not.
18:56
Speaker 2: I'm not. That's a first, But I feel left to
19:01
Speaker 2: be on the stage in front of all of these people.
19:03
Speaker 2: The last event that I did in Atlanta. There were
19:06
Speaker 2: twelve hundred people that came live and we only had
19:10
Speaker 2: three weeks to put it together. It was a lot
19:12
Speaker 2: of work, sleepless nights, but I was so grateful that
19:16
Speaker 2: so many people. How did you get the word out
19:19
Speaker 2: through the people that come to my Summit's? Hey, if
19:21
Speaker 2: you want to come, bring your laptop and we have
19:22
Speaker 2: an event, and so people come, they want to learn.
19:25
Speaker 2: Here's the thing people want to learn, you know, people
19:28
Speaker 2: want to learn. And the next thing was I had
19:31
Speaker 2: fifteen years ago. I had gone through a very difficult divorce.
19:34
Speaker 2: But the person I was married to at the time
19:36
Speaker 2: did not want me to be a speaker. He was
19:39
Speaker 2: a speaker, so he didn't want me to be a speaker.
19:41
Speaker 1: Oh God's selfish, very very so.
19:44
Speaker 2: Anyway, one time we were speaking on stage an event
19:47
Speaker 2: together and the promoters like, I want both of you
19:50
Speaker 2: to speak. So I spoke first, and I spoke about
19:53
Speaker 2: Twitter and I was teaching it to real estate investors.
19:56
Speaker 2: And when I was about to get off stage, when
19:58
Speaker 2: I was done, I lifted up my husband time and
20:00
Speaker 2: I was like, if you like me, you're gonna love
20:02
Speaker 2: my husband. He's coming up next. Because I always believe
20:04
Speaker 2: lift up the next person right if I shouted him out.
20:07
Speaker 2: But people came on stage before I could get off stage,
20:11
Speaker 2: so they came up the stage to ask me questions.
20:13
Speaker 2: Somebody wanted a picture with me, and it kind of
20:16
Speaker 2: caught me off guard. You know, they were playing music
20:18
Speaker 2: during the transition, so they got all the people off
20:21
Speaker 2: stage so I could leave.
20:22
Speaker 1: But we dropped.
20:25
Speaker 2: I had a fun time on stage.
20:28
Speaker 1: Somebody's followed me.
20:31
Speaker 2: When I was leaving the stage and my ex husband
20:33
Speaker 2: was coming up the stage. He looked me in the
20:35
Speaker 2: face and instead of saying congratulations, he said, there's only
20:39
Speaker 2: one quarterback on a team, and you will never speak
20:41
Speaker 2: again and looked me in the face and said that,
20:44
Speaker 2: and then he kept walking. And you know, I know
20:47
Speaker 2: the audience sees me, so I have to try to
20:51
Speaker 2: change my face, try to change my face. And I
20:54
Speaker 2: was like, you, she should have congratulated me, and I
20:57
Speaker 2: lifted him up, but he couldn't take the fact to
21:00
Speaker 2: that I had done well. So my sister was there
21:02
Speaker 2: watching me, and I come to the back and she's like,
21:04
Speaker 2: I saw your face. What happened? What did he say
21:06
Speaker 2: to you? When I told her, and I said, but
21:09
Speaker 2: any idiot knows there's more than one quarterback on the team,
21:12
Speaker 2: you know. And then I had called my friend. I
21:15
Speaker 2: left the room and I call one of my friends
21:17
Speaker 2: who's a motivational speaker, and I told him about it,
21:20
Speaker 2: and he, you know, he pulled me back and said,
21:23
Speaker 2: forget about that. You will be speaking on the best stages.
21:26
Speaker 2: In fact, people will come to see you speak. So
21:28
Speaker 2: he was my first speaker at the event that I
21:31
Speaker 2: had for myself, that friend that I had called, And
21:33
Speaker 2: when he came out on the stage, unknown to me,
21:35
Speaker 2: he told that story and he was like, I'm so
21:37
Speaker 2: proud of her because the last time we talked about
21:40
Speaker 2: her speaking on stage, this is what her ex husband
21:42
Speaker 2: had said. And now look at this, twelve hundred people
21:44
Speaker 2: here to see her and for her to teach them.
21:46
Speaker 2: So I believe that, you know, the energy that we
21:49
Speaker 2: put out and what we want to do for people
21:51
Speaker 2: will always shine. Just we just have to remember to
21:54
Speaker 2: get away from the people that try to pull us
21:56
Speaker 2: down sometimes.
21:58
Speaker 1: I this conversation could be I want to just I'm
22:02
Speaker 1: going to keep on brand, keep on brand. I brought
22:04
Speaker 1: you need to educate other people. Okay, now you have organization, harness,
22:08
Speaker 1: AI powered automation drive innovation and scale impact across industries
22:13
Speaker 1: such as finance. I want to talk about that, healthcare,
22:17
Speaker 1: government and entrepreneurship. Let's talk about finance.
22:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, so in every industry, AI is impacting every industry.
22:23
Speaker 2: And when we look at the finance industry, we're looking
22:26
Speaker 2: at how are they using AI. We have some banks
22:30
Speaker 2: now that have really integrated artificial intelligence into a way
22:34
Speaker 2: where they have AI agents answering the phone calls and
22:38
Speaker 2: helping customers before it would ever get to a human. Right,
22:42
Speaker 2: you don't like the agents.
22:43
Speaker 1: Right, just let you know, I go zero agent, agent,
22:47
Speaker 1: agent person.
22:49
Speaker 2: You're you are talking to the ones that aren't good.
22:53
Speaker 2: So there are great AI receptionists now. They haven't gone
22:56
Speaker 2: mainstream yet. We're using them in our business. I have
22:59
Speaker 2: one and Leslie I have another one, Monica, and Monica
23:02
Speaker 2: makes me so much money because people call our phone
23:07
Speaker 2: number and before I had it going to voicemail, and
23:10
Speaker 2: the voicemail people don't leave messages. But now we have
23:13
Speaker 2: our average is ninety two percent of people interact with
23:16
Speaker 2: Monica till the end. Sometimes it's have our director of
23:19
Speaker 2: business development callback or leaving a message or something for
23:22
Speaker 2: customer service. But at least people interact with her. But
23:25
Speaker 2: here's what we do that's different. When our AI receptionists answer,
23:29
Speaker 2: she says, Hi, I'm Monica, an AI receptionist for at
23:31
Speaker 2: least ye a little. And so right off the bat,
23:34
Speaker 2: we're not we're being transparent that she's AI and that
23:37
Speaker 2: really helps us. But back to the finance. You know,
23:39
Speaker 2: in every industry people are using it, but also financially
23:43
Speaker 2: when we look at small businesses and entrepreneurs, we need
23:46
Speaker 2: to be using it in our own finances as well.
23:50
Speaker 2: So make sure that you set the tools where you
23:52
Speaker 2: have a level of security with them. So chat GBT,
23:55
Speaker 2: go to your settings, click on security, turn on multi
23:58
Speaker 2: factor authentication. Then go back to settings, click on data
24:02
Speaker 2: controls and turn off the ability for CHATCHYBT to share
24:05
Speaker 2: your data with their big model. And now you go
24:08
Speaker 2: to it and you say, these are my p and
24:10
Speaker 2: ls from last year, right, what revenue gaps was I missing?
24:14
Speaker 2: How can I ten x my income? So I've done this,
24:18
Speaker 2: I do this all the time and it's helped me
24:20
Speaker 2: go from well, let's just say that I made the
24:23
Speaker 2: income that I made and the whole year for twenty
24:25
Speaker 2: twenty four I made in one month in twenty twenty five.
24:28
Speaker 2: And this is by using artificial intelligence to say what
24:31
Speaker 2: gaps are I missing? Where do I need to go
24:34
Speaker 2: based on this information and what you know about me
24:36
Speaker 2: and these things that I'm doing, and the plans that
24:39
Speaker 2: it can spit out for you if you follow them.
24:41
Speaker 2: Because that's the hardest part is then the implementation, like,
24:44
Speaker 2: let's follow it can be a game changer for small businesses,
24:48
Speaker 2: the biggest game changer.
24:49
Speaker 1: Cool, Now let's talk about healthcare.
24:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're seeing AI in healthcare and all parts
24:55
Speaker 2: of healthcare, right from the administration part to the tool
25:00
Speaker 2: that they're using in hospitals now and in private doctor's offices.
25:05
Speaker 1: And we're seeing so when you say that healthcare, would
25:07
Speaker 1: you go into the mental side as well, because I
25:09
Speaker 1: it's a lot of AI agents that are really delivering
25:13
Speaker 1: health care advice. They mental healthcare advice?
25:16
Speaker 2: Are they are? I will tell everybody you need to be,
25:18
Speaker 2: you know, cautious about using AI for mental health care advice,
25:22
Speaker 2: but go into it knowing that you're using an AI
25:25
Speaker 2: and just make sure that the settings are you know,
25:28
Speaker 2: favorable to you, so that you know that if you're
25:31
Speaker 2: using an AI therapist how that therapist acts and what
25:35
Speaker 2: data they're trained on and knowledge that they're trained on.
25:37
Speaker 2: But let's say that somebody is going through something. Sometimes
25:40
Speaker 2: there's not a human for you to talk to. There's
25:42
Speaker 2: so many people who struggle and don't have a person
25:45
Speaker 2: to talk to. But now they're opening up their phone
25:48
Speaker 2: and they're using AI and we call this conversational AI.
25:52
Speaker 2: But they're having a conversation with AI to help them
25:54
Speaker 2: get through something, and so or we call these AI
25:58
Speaker 2: companions a lot and older people are using AI companions
26:01
Speaker 2: as well, So it makes a big difference when someone
26:06
Speaker 2: doesn't have someone to talk to that at least they
26:08
Speaker 2: have an AI to talk to. And we're going to
26:10
Speaker 2: see this more and more. This is going to be
26:12
Speaker 2: a really big.
26:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because of the fact that you know,
26:15
Speaker 1: they already got a little robots bringing your stuff around
26:18
Speaker 1: the city and you see these cars driving around mapping
26:22
Speaker 1: out and you just hop in the back and to
26:23
Speaker 1: take you to the airport right now. But the government,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know, we people always that's what the big fear.
26:30
Speaker 1: People always talking about AI is going to take my
26:32
Speaker 1: job right, take my job right. So when I hear
26:34
Speaker 1: the word government, what role does AI play with people
26:38
Speaker 1: who feel is going to take their job. Really, if
26:40
Speaker 1: they tweak their opportunities, they can benefit from AI.
26:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you've packed a lot of things into that
26:47
Speaker 2: question right there. So let's talk about the government and AI.
26:50
Speaker 1: First.
26:50
Speaker 2: Our government is really pushing AI. They want America to
26:54
Speaker 2: be the number one at AI adoption and AI integration.
26:58
Speaker 2: And then when you talk about jobs and people losing
27:00
Speaker 2: their jobs, yes, we're seeing that people will be losing
27:04
Speaker 2: their jobs. People have lost their jobs. Companies have come
27:06
Speaker 2: out and said we're laying off those who are not
27:08
Speaker 2: AI literate to hire people who are, or we've laid
27:11
Speaker 2: off a group of people because AI can now do that.
27:14
Speaker 2: So to the person, I say, you need to go
27:17
Speaker 2: out there and be AI literate, you need to be
27:19
Speaker 2: AI fluent because right now there are not enough people
27:23
Speaker 2: that are AI literate and fluent to take all of
27:26
Speaker 2: the jobs opportunities that are available. In fact, is AI
27:30
Speaker 2: consultants and strategists. There is a huge crisis right now
27:35
Speaker 2: where there are not enough AI trainers out there to
27:37
Speaker 2: help these companies integrate and use these AI tools. So
27:41
Speaker 2: I'm telling people like, look and see, this is your
27:43
Speaker 2: second you know, this is your second move, think about
27:46
Speaker 2: a new career in doing something with AI, or if
27:49
Speaker 2: you're in a job right now, future proof yourself and
27:52
Speaker 2: learn artificial intelligence and integrate it into the work that
27:55
Speaker 2: you're doing and raise your hand in your jobs and
27:58
Speaker 2: say hey, I've taken AI classes, I'm AI certified, I
28:01
Speaker 2: know what to do. Let me help. So we've seen
28:04
Speaker 2: a lot of people do that, who've been put on
28:05
Speaker 2: AI committees, who are starting AI committees, and they're future
28:08
Speaker 2: proofing themselves. They're making themselves more valuable. And in the
28:12
Speaker 2: times that we're in today, we're in an AI revolution.
28:14
Speaker 2: If you want to make sure that you have a
28:17
Speaker 2: job or your business is growing, you have to There's
28:22
Speaker 2: not should I maybe I will later know. You have
28:25
Speaker 2: to learn how you can leverage AI because those using
28:29
Speaker 2: AI will replace you, those using AI will as your
28:33
Speaker 2: competitors will far surpass you. So you need to be
28:37
Speaker 2: paying attention to things like that.
28:38
Speaker 1: Well, we started out talking about small businesses and entrepreneurship,
28:42
Speaker 1: so that's what this whole show is about. If you
28:45
Speaker 1: had to give some quick steps of an entrepreneur, a
28:47
Speaker 1: small business owner or nonprofit listeners to this interview, how
28:52
Speaker 1: do they get in touch at you and what are
28:53
Speaker 1: the steps to utilize these services at your company?
28:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for asking that. The best way to
28:59
Speaker 2: again with me you can go to my website Elisialittle
29:02
Speaker 2: dot com and on that contact me form I answer
29:06
Speaker 2: those that come into my contact.
29:07
Speaker 1: As she does.
29:08
Speaker 2: Yes, I got her a L I C I A
29:12
Speaker 2: L Y T T l E dot com. Also on LinkedIn,
29:15
Speaker 2: I'm very active Elisi a little and Instagram I'm pretty active.
29:18
Speaker 2: And then of course my AI Business Summit, which which
29:21
Speaker 2: the amount of small business owners that have had great
29:24
Speaker 2: game changing moments from being there is great, so I
29:27
Speaker 2: always encourage them to come there. And then the different
29:30
Speaker 2: programs that I offer is everything from free training to certification,
29:35
Speaker 2: and I have Mastermind groups where we really work with
29:38
Speaker 2: business owners to teach them how to integrate it specifically
29:41
Speaker 2: into their business. So we get more into coaching and
29:45
Speaker 2: integration specifically for them. We also help people write books
29:49
Speaker 2: with artificial intelligence, so we do a lot, but I'd
29:51
Speaker 2: say a lot of people start off with joining one
29:54
Speaker 2: of our summits or sending me a contact us message
29:57
Speaker 2: and seeing how I can help them.
29:59
Speaker 1: You say, and one of the questions you will sit
30:01
Speaker 1: to me is an AI is a human first technology? Yes,
30:06
Speaker 1: why do you say that?
30:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, so when we're using artificial intelligence, it's AI plus
30:12
Speaker 2: human intelligence, right, So the AI plus HI, it's the
30:16
Speaker 2: human that's using artificial intelligence that can that knows how
30:21
Speaker 2: to use it well, that can take things to the
30:23
Speaker 2: next level. Okay, but AI just sitting there, sitting right here, right,
30:27
Speaker 2: we have chatgypt right here. Let's say it's not doing
30:30
Speaker 2: anything without me or you telling it what to do.
30:35
Speaker 2: And the better we are at telling it what to do,
30:37
Speaker 2: the better results that we get from it that we
30:39
Speaker 2: can then use to grow, multiply and expand our business.
30:43
Speaker 2: So we have to make sure that as humans, right
30:46
Speaker 2: is that we talk now like we have to make
30:47
Speaker 2: sure that the humans are making sure that they know
30:50
Speaker 2: how to use the AI. And I foresee in the
30:52
Speaker 2: near future where work changes. So where we're working, you know,
30:57
Speaker 2: right now we're working, we're doing our work. Right in
31:00
Speaker 2: the near future, we're going to be watching AI do
31:02
Speaker 2: our work for us, and we're going to be managing
31:04
Speaker 2: and monitoring the AI, and we'll all have AI doing
31:07
Speaker 2: work for us right at the personal level in our
31:10
Speaker 2: households and then also at the professional level in our workspaces.
31:16
Speaker 1: The least here little experience. That's right, I had you
31:20
Speaker 1: know you've walked me through a journey of AI. I
31:24
Speaker 1: still don't know what I should know. I still am
31:28
Speaker 1: in the dark of a lot of things because you
31:31
Speaker 1: unpacked a lot on this show. But you also told
31:33
Speaker 1: me where I can go to disseminate all this information
31:38
Speaker 1: and they very organized and recognizable path to discovery. So
31:43
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show again. Thank you
31:46
Speaker 1: you always welcome here. You saw it first and I said,
31:49
Speaker 1: it's so great to see somebody's black who's not at
31:53
Speaker 1: the end of the line. It's not in the middle
31:54
Speaker 1: of the pack, but leading the pack. You said so
31:57
Speaker 1: many impressive things over this show. Thank you for no
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