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there was a time when I worked

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as this translator at this company and I realized

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from different sources that I earn much less

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than my male colleagues

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so I got very angry

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and I went to my manager I mean I prepared for

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seven days probably I don't remember

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but it took me of course a lot of courage to go to him but I told him

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that I

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translate three languages

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whereas I have colleagues who do only two

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and I still earn less than them

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so how is that and I want a raise

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and I remember his super surprised face like

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no understanding in his eyes like not none whatsoever

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he was looking at me and like what

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that's not true you earn even a bit more or or equally

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like Marta Kasia Klara and

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and I was like yeah but I'm not talking about the women

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I'm talking about the men like Tomek Przemek Maciek

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you know I I started naming my male colleagues

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and his surprise was like it was real he was really

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surprised that a woman came into his office

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and dared to compare herself to men

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although I had higher qualifications

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higher more skills more language skills

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but he was so surprised that he gave me this raise

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because for him it was

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I think for the first time he realized oh maybe women

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shouldn't earn less it was like he was thinking

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in two different categories like women workers

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employees

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and men employees and that was like different

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different categories

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so when I jumped in in his head in this

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in this male category it was he was very confused

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but he gave me that raise

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hello dear listeners today my first episode

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internationally so directly recording in English

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I'm very happy to have Dorota with me

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uh Dorota and Paloma at the same time

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so maybe Dorota can explain

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uh why I'm already thinking

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uh about Paloma not only about the water oh

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yeah OK

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first of all happy to be here thank you so much for

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inviting me I'm always in

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with such initiatives that support women

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uh and why why you're thinking

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of Paloma many people think of Paloma

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when they see me or hear of me they even confuse

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the names Paloma is the name of my AI Avatar

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she's my AI twin she looks like me she speaks

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a bit like me although

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she's getting more and more British now but

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I don't know I think she

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she thinks that she's smart she

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she um seems smarter when she

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speaks British so that's the reason probably

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uh anyway yes so she's my she's my AI twin

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yeah for our listeners um

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would you introduce you maybe not only on AI level

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but on on your personal level

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a bit so that we get to know you a bit and then

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sure

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um I'm Dorota Mleczko I am Polish I grew up in Germany

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bilingually and um

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I lived then for a long time I studied in Poland um and

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I was not a woman in tech

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for a very long time because I was a linguist

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I speak many languages

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and I was a translator and then I became a

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linguistic project manager

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and at some point I decided to switch to it

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and that is how

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after some years I became an agile coach

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and I loved that and some at some point

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two years ago I realized that I cannot

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be an adult coach and help improve processes

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while ignoring this whole new technology that is AI

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that um that

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that is the technology to improve processes

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the perfect one so I started

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learning I started exploring

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and then I started teaching

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and that happened over a year ago I started

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being an AI trainer and AI consultant

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and then at some point I had to

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decide whether I want to keep

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being both as a coach and AI trainer

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it was too much so I

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decided to go full into AI AI training AI consulting

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and that is already

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7 8 months that I do only that so full time AI now

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that's very interesting

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so you discovered it or tech or AI quite quite um

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quite late in your career yes um that's true

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how comes did you have I don't know like

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uh inspiration from outside or mentors or something

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um how did you

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decide to get more into it or tech or AI

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yeah I wish I had

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mentors I don't I didn't really I just felt I

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have to do something about my career because

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the translation industry was very rough back then

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I cannot imagine what's happening to it now with AI but

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back then already it was very rough very difficult

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and I wanted to change industry

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and I wanted to change it to tech because I was always

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interested in it

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but it was only that and it

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it took a lot of courage because I didn't really

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it was hard for me to believe oh and I

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I think I didn't tell you that but when I was leaving

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the company the translation company

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I told my boss and he said well what

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where are you going

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what will you do I I said I'm going to it and he said

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he looked at me and he said the last words

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I heard from him were you will never make it in it

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so that's the mentor

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if you're asking for mentors I didn't have them

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that's the

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support that I got so so bad Idol yeah I guess uh

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yeah

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it's good that you made it anyways

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yeah I sometimes remind myself

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granted yeah I would like to call him

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discourage yeah

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say hello from me and from all our listeners

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ha ha I will thank you yeah maybe maybe uh

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even from Paloma that would be cool that

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oh yeah I let Paloma talk

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yeah yeah yeah she's like very make a record make a

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record of it

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I guess it would be oh yeah that's a good great idea

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you're very pity that that you had uh

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such discourage uh by

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by men by managers in in the past

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okay so you

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decided on your own that technology would be very

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interesting and your uh

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first fields of of uh languages

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did you have uh idols there or

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you just said yeah speaking like what

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7 languages now is just why not or how comes

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well like um I think it's it's I developed

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naturally into this language industry

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because of growing up bilingual because of loving

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I think that started it that I loved

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learning languages all my life so I Learned

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I started learning English when I was 10

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although I wanted

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earlier I asked my parents but they said no no in the

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in when you will be 10 there will be English

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in the fifth grade in Germany

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so English and then in the 7th grade French

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and then it's just went from there so I studied

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German later in Poland but also Russian

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for several years and then I also of course Latin

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was always there somewhere

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well not of course but in Germany you learn Latin

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you can learn Latin as the third language

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and then in in in the gymnasium in the gymnasium

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and then in when I

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when I was studying linguistics of German

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philology there was also Latin

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so that's another language

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what more oh and now I live in Italy

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so I need to learn Italian so I'm learning Italian now

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my third fourth year here

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so that's the seventh language that I'm learning

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and so languages

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were there all the time it didn't come from

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well what maybe this um

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yeah I had this um I I had there was a girl that

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spoke so many languages and she was only I think eleven

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because she grew up internationally

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her father was Scottish her mother was Icelandic

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and she lived in Aachen

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or they lived in Belgium but they came because

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you know Aachen is like right at the at the border of

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Netherlands and and Belgium

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so she I think they lived in in Belgium

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but she went to school in Germany

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so she spoke German also and French because of Belgium

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and I think maybe she inspired me

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I thought oh I want to be like her

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but that was so so so much earlier that

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so languages were kind of naturally there and I think I

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I think that was a natural path to follow for me

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and between you always uh use technology or

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was it in the beginning of your career like languages and stuff

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a lot analogue or

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have you always been the the one I don't know

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doing scripts using PCs using a whatever technology or

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was it quite late that you know no we needed

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already being a in a localization company

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we needed to use

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sometimes 10 15 different tools per day

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because we had different customers um and different

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each customer had their own translation tools or they

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had their preferred

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translation tools they had their own systems

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so already in that company I became so um

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acquainted with all kinds of software

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I mean it was usually translation

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software but it was in different systems

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we had to have VPNs

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to log into the customer system sometimes

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sometimes it was something completely else

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sometimes it was Citrix sometimes it was

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I don't know I I was so I

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remember when I joined the service desk and

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someone told me an it service desk later later uh

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and my uh manager told me

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you know you will have to learn a lot of tools

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here sometimes

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three different tools or something like that

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and I I I said yeah that's nothing it's fine

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so it was kind of yeah all all my

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career I needed to adjust to technological changes

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new tools learn tools every day

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so and I loved that part that was actually very

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yeah I liked it

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and uh getting to AI did you have to use it uh

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in your profession or did you just say oh wow there's a

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uh development outside of my

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of my job I want to learn it I want to integrate it or

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was there something in your former company that is

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that have a look on it uh please explore

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please explain it to us or

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no I wish or did you explore

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yeah yeah no that that wasn't I was um

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as I was an Angel coach at

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big corporation German

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Automotive Financial Corporation

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and there was no AI I mean

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not for us there were some projects going on but the

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um let's say that the normal

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worker did not have any a any contact with AI uh

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it was also a very strict very regulated environment

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because of the financial part of this company

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uh so many like there were only some tools allowed

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for the employees I was like an um

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an external employee that was different

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but um at work we were only supposed to use several

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strictly

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um established

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defined tools so there was no AI in the company

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it was me who realized

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that I want to learn that that is important

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and I had to do it in my personal life so first I did it like only for personal

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stuff and then I started

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building for example I build an assistant

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for adult coaching so I did not use internal company

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data but I could still get help for preparing

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for my work or doing preparing workshops or uh

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getting for example um advice on difficult situations

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as an agile coach or on process improvements

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so I started building my my assistance already then

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and I I also well started

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kind of introducing it and at some point I Learned that chat

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if you if you use it there is no company um license

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but if you want to use it it's allowed just no

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internal data so I built a

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a retrospective Rita Retro she was called

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an assistant a custom GPT that runs retrospect

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retro I like it

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do you have a public I would

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I would love to yes I can I can I have to

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check her she's old so I have I have to update her

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with the newest models I guess you do so we could

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put that in the show notes I guess

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okay I could use it for my project also that's yes

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Rita Retro she's she's built to run retro you know

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naming is

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is very important Rita Retro is is nice it's very nice

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okay good right I'm glad you like it you should

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may I don't know

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whether it's still possible to have like GPT's

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to monetize I guess it's over or all of free or

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are there assistants GPT's that that you can monetize

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I don't know I think they are

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they are free in the store but yeah

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I mean you can find a way at least at least

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as lead magnets you can use them so

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you should you should

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I I'm trying I have I have Peter prompt

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he writes prompts

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for you so if you

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don't so that you don't have to and I have Anna Architect

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she built helps you write instructions

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for custom GPT's

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and other AI assistants like Claude Projects

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Gemini Gems so I have a few of them

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that that are public

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I can give you the links later

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yeah that's very cool I guess

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nice very nice

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and um

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looking back what would you change in your career

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you already mentioned to be

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earlier in in tech um but do you have like concrete

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dedicated stuff that you would point out or

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would have done otherwise

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yeah so definitely

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like I said I think I said it before the recording

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that I I would have changed I would have switched to

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it much earlier

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because I just didn't think that I could

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I didn't believe in myself enough to do that

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it took 10 years to start believing that and

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I would have done that earlier and yeah

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if I could like talk to myself back then now

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I would say just just have the courage to explore even

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to to also to

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to follow what what you feel you you like doing

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I I felt already that I like the tech

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stuff my parents always said it that I'm like this

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actually my father always told me I should

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study tech stuff and I didn't even

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know what what he meant like why I'm a linguist what

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I was born he knew you very well right you know he knew

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he knew me yeah he's not he's not alive anymore

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but he was the one who told me and back then it was such a

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such an abstract thing to say to me

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but I always liked it I always liked like the um

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informatic in in school and

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it was it was always something that I liked so

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maybe I would have

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become a developer because I don't write code I

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I only vibe code

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I still don't know how to write code I would love to

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but well it never happened for me

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so I'm a non technical woman in tech but maybe

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if I started earlier I would have Learned also more

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yeah deeper technical stuff like writing code

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software development

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who knows so I would have I would have

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wanted to have more courage and

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believe in myself and much less imposter syndrome

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yeah

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it's a big issue for all

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uh all guests so far here in the podcast I guess it's

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it's really an issue with with a lot of women

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despite their so experience they have so so many

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languages if you want to share um

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the little story that you mentioned in our

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talk before so with your with your manager and um

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the language that you spoke and the man

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spoke I guess that would be very interesting

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because you took a lot of courage then

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ah yes so

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there was a time when I worked

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as this translator this company and I realized

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from different sources that I earn much less

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than my male colleagues

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so I got very angry

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and I went to my manager I mean I prepared for

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seven days probably I don't remember

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but it took me of course a lot of courage

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to go to him but I told him that I

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translate three languages

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whereas I have colleagues who do only two

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and I still earn less than them

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so how is that and I want a raise

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and I remember his super surprised face like

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no understanding in his eyes like not none none so ever

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he was looking at me and like what

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that's not true you earn even a bit more or or

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equally like Marta Kasha Clara and

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and I was like yeah but I'm not talking about the women

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I'm talking about the men like Tomek Przemek Matek

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you know I I started naming my male colleagues

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and his surprise was like it was real he was really

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surprised that a woman

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came into his office and dared to compare herself

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to men although I had higher qualifications

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higher more skills more language skills

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but he was so surprised that he gave me this raise

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because for him it was

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I think for the first time he realized oh maybe women

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shouldn't earn less it was like he was thinking

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in two different categories like women workers

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employees

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and men employees and that was like different

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different categories

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so when I jumped in his head in this

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in this male category it was he was very confused

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but he gave me that raise

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so but that's the same boss that later

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told me you will never make it in it so

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yeah congrats to your

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to your courage and congrats that you made it and uh

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for all for all the listeners yeah be brave negotiate

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because if you don't ask you

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most probably will not get

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raise at all or not as high as you would wish to

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speak up or or what additional advice would you give

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for that

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from that experience

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yeah that's a good good question um

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so in in general I I tell women now

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that it's our time now

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we have to like give up all these

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I mean it's it's not easy I know

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believe me I know giving up imposter syndrome

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giving up doubting yourself and

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listening to these bosses

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that tell you you will never make it and in general

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give it all up because that is now is the the moment

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where we can really lead something we can get

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we can jump on this technological revolution

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that is happening

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we can be part of it and we can even lead it

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we have the possibilities now because the last

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revolution this big that happened that was like 20

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or even 30 years

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ago the internet revolution I would compare it because

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the internet also changed our lives

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changed not only the way we work but

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that changed everything for us our lives now

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this is something similar maybe even more scary more

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like yeah more maybe even more impactful

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and back then we couldn't be part of it us women

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we were like maybe 13% I think of um

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leadership roles in tech companies were held by women

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now I'm not saying it's much better because I think it's 25

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but it's still it's progress

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and we can now if we have if we find the courage

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I think currently the problem is mostly

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not even men not wanting us to have a career

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but more us not believing in ourselves

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so I'm telling women all over now that

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this is the time because we're good in AI

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even if you're not

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a programmer a very technological person

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AI is a lot about communication

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about emotional intelligence

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because models need to be trained for example

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to be emotionally intelligent otherwise

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humans will not be able to chat with them

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and this is where women shine

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I mean we're naturally born with these skills

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often times of course I'm generalizing a bit but

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we are now very important and we also are very good at

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leading transformation helping people through change

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with human centered approaches right that's

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that's where we shine so and now the world needs it

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so I tell women now always like come learn

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first learn AI learn what it is learn how it works

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and then combine it with your expertise

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that you already have whatever you're doing

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if you're a project manager

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combine it with AI and you will be a super expert

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if you are a

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I I don't know human human resources

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expert you can also combine that with AI and then it

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it's amazing so whoever

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whatever your expertise or even your passions

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your hobbies are if you combine that with AI

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then something great can come out of it

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and yeah so I encourage women now to

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jump on this and help lead

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even you know not only take part be part of it now

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not like then we weren't even part of it I would say

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now we can be part of it but we can also lead

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this transformation

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because humanity is undergoing a transformation now

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it's not only businesses anymore

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but it's whole humanity because AI is everywhere

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our children use it

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yeah so I get emotional

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that's good

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that's good it's a good call for for the women and

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yeah I still think about your career pass

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so a lot of people say that

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especially LLMs yeah they're a lot of linguistically

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do you know do you think that was your experience

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in languages that helped at the beginning

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or is it just coincidence you were

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just interested in technology and

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just evolved or do you think was your

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ability to learn to communicate

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it was always an advantage

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for you to use LMS and other AI

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that's a I never thought of that

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what's maybe yes

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maybe it made it easier for me to learn prompting

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cause prompting is about well

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it took me some time to realize

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that prompting is not a technical skill but

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a linguistic skill

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yeah communicate communication skill

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and once I realized that

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I became very good at it so yeah maybe

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maybe you're right maybe these 10 years

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of in the translation industry we're we're rusty

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yeah I guess yeah no it's yeah maybe yes

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yeah advantage yeah cool nice

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and um yeah now

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yeah of course now you combine everything

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you combine your

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language skills your drag skills and now

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yes it all kind of comes together

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that's true very cool

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and um

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also with with international with language skills

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did it help you later in the it field uh I'm working uh

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like hybrid

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so we have an international team at the moment

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I guess more and more tech companies

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do did it help you there also or do you think

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English would have

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being just enough or

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to have so many languages did it help you

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yes definitely it helped not only the languages

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because for example when I were

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when I have a call one on one with a German manager

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or a German product owner we always spoke German

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it was natural for example

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so that already felt for them maybe also

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better more comfortable that they are

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they were speaking their own language

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so maybe they trusted

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me more or you know it was easier to to get this bond

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that you need in order to

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support them as an agile coach um but also I think the

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understanding of different cultures so my international

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um upbringing let's say in Germany where yeah I

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I I I was

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in a classroom with many different people from all over the world

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that all grew up in Germany like me

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so that was already something that I felt was natural

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and later in life I was always seeking

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that also in in companies so I would not like I

539

00:26:07,166 --> 00:26:09,566

I worked for some time in a very Polish company

540

00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,333

um but in in a bank it was very nice but I missed this

541

00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,300

internationality so whenever there was an

542

00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:19,500

international project I just

543

00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:22,366

jumped on it and of course I got it because of the

544

00:26:22,366 --> 00:26:23,300

many languages

545

00:26:23,566 --> 00:26:27,633

so yes I definitely helped helped in the career German

546

00:26:27,633 --> 00:26:30,266

companies hired me because of the German language

547

00:26:30,866 --> 00:26:33,100

and although it was not the project

548

00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:35,600

language but still they wanted at least for example

549

00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,366

agile coaches or scrum masters they wanted

550

00:26:37,366 --> 00:26:39,833

them still to speak German to be able to communicate

551

00:26:39,833 --> 00:26:42,633

with all the departments where

552

00:26:42,633 --> 00:26:46,300

maybe English was not that popular yet or spoken yet

553

00:26:46,733 --> 00:26:49,600

and um but also the cultural

554

00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,433

understanding knowing how to

555

00:26:51,433 --> 00:26:54,700

let's say navigate it's a very AI word but navigate

556

00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,366

a very international environment

557

00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:59,666

well that that helped a lot in it

558

00:27:00,766 --> 00:27:05,700

so you lived and worked in Germany Poland now Italy

559

00:27:05,866 --> 00:27:07,066

are there more

560

00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:09,700

countries not yet

561

00:27:10,266 --> 00:27:13,300

no no these three come countries yes

562

00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:15,766

and Italy I've heard you uh

563

00:27:16,466 --> 00:27:17,766

you live in Geneva

564

00:27:17,766 --> 00:27:20,500

now never been there but I heard about nice mountains

565

00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:24,900

and and sea seems to very very nice so did you

566

00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,833

uh choose it for work or how comes or just it's so nice

567

00:27:28,833 --> 00:27:31,766

here I want to be there in the middle of Europe I want

568

00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,066

mountains and sea and all

569

00:27:34,166 --> 00:27:36,466

how comes that you have chosen the letter

570

00:27:36,466 --> 00:27:38,900

yes we just chose it because I work remotely

571

00:27:39,166 --> 00:27:43,666

and my boyfriend works let's say everywhere

572

00:27:43,666 --> 00:27:44,666

he can work remotely

573

00:27:44,666 --> 00:27:46,733

sometimes sometimes he has to be in Poland

574

00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,566

or sometimes in Iceland for example but it wasn't that

575

00:27:50,566 --> 00:27:53,800

that important where exactly we live for the jobs

576

00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:55,466

so we could choose

577

00:27:56,066 --> 00:27:58,100

um and when I saw

578

00:27:58,666 --> 00:28:02,666

Genova and I saw the sea and hear the mountains

579

00:28:03,233 --> 00:28:05,600

um it reminded me a bit not the mountains

580

00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,666

but it reminded me a bit of Gdansk where I

581

00:28:08,666 --> 00:28:12,266

lived most of my life in Poland and

582

00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,566

just just warm and with palm trees

583

00:28:16,266 --> 00:28:17,866

because Dinesh is beautiful

584

00:28:17,866 --> 00:28:21,000

but it's very cold and now they have like minus 15

585

00:28:21,233 --> 00:28:23,800

degrees so I'm happy because we have 15

586

00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:25,733

but plus and sun

587

00:28:26,266 --> 00:28:29,133

um yeah so I wanted a sunny place

588

00:28:29,233 --> 00:28:32,000

I wanted a change after the pandemic I was

589

00:28:32,233 --> 00:28:35,666

kind of depressed of all the greyness and everything

590

00:28:35,666 --> 00:28:38,800

I think many people did changes after the pandemic

591

00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:41,900

and I was one of them I just wanted to live somewhere and we loved

592

00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:44,100

Italy for travelling of course so

593

00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:47,200

we decided to check it out started learning Italian

594

00:28:47,466 --> 00:28:50,200

and then this place was just chosen

595

00:28:50,966 --> 00:28:52,966

by me I immediately

596

00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,600

like after 1 2 days I said OK that's it

597

00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:01,366

let's start here at least and we might stay here yeah

598

00:29:02,433 --> 00:29:04,400

and even there did a

599

00:29:04,466 --> 00:29:08,033

technology job help right AI job technology job

600

00:29:08,033 --> 00:29:11,700

helps to choose a dream a dream location

601

00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,133

seems very nice I envy you about the the sun at least

602

00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,100

yeah but you know that was

603

00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:20,933

that was three and a/2 years ago so um

604

00:29:21,166 --> 00:29:25,666

chat GPT wasn't even live yet it came a month later

605

00:29:25,666 --> 00:29:27,700

and it took me some time to realize

606

00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:29,100

how helpful it could be

607

00:29:29,433 --> 00:29:32,766

I I wish I had it to help with the documents

608

00:29:32,766 --> 00:29:36,500

here with translation with renting an apartment

609

00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:38,900

translating and understanding the whole

610

00:29:39,433 --> 00:29:40,233

uh

611

00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:41,900

the whole documents everything

612

00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:43,966

that I had the contracts and

613

00:29:44,233 --> 00:29:48,400

uh helping me acquire my residency I now

614

00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:50,566

help people do that with AI

615

00:29:50,566 --> 00:29:53,800

if they are experts somewhere and I I have a

616

00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:54,566

I have now a

617

00:29:54,566 --> 00:29:58,166

a great process for that a great AI workflow and

618

00:29:58,166 --> 00:30:00,833

I wish I had it because it took everything

619

00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:02,200

took so much time because I didn't

620

00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,066

speak the language well I didn't understand

621

00:30:04,066 --> 00:30:05,366

this this processes

622

00:30:05,366 --> 00:30:08,900

I never had to apply for residency anywhere so this was

623

00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000

I wish I had it back then now it helps a lot whatever

624

00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,300

email comes like Gemini translates it for me

625

00:30:15,433 --> 00:30:18,766

and I immediately know what to write back and it's

626

00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:21,933

yeah it's a dream for expats AI

627

00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:23,666

that's cool

628

00:30:23,966 --> 00:30:27,500

maybe that would be a good sidekick for you also right

629

00:30:27,833 --> 00:30:30,166

you're right AI for expats

630

00:30:31,066 --> 00:30:35,000

amazing I you gave me so many ideas today hahaha

631

00:30:36,033 --> 00:30:36,833

uh

632

00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:43,700

you're welcome yeah cool nice and now um you see

633

00:30:44,066 --> 00:30:47,333

yourself as an woman in AI or woman in tech

634

00:30:48,666 --> 00:30:49,700

I do

635

00:30:51,066 --> 00:30:52,366

and how does it feel how

636

00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,100

how do you feel fulfill that role

637

00:30:55,233 --> 00:30:57,500

from your personal point of view hmm

638

00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,933

um I think being a woman in tech today

639

00:31:03,066 --> 00:31:06,566

is something completely else than it was

640

00:31:06,666 --> 00:31:10,000

30 20 even 10 years ago I guess because

641

00:31:10,466 --> 00:31:12,966

back then women in order to even

642

00:31:13,433 --> 00:31:16,966

get a role or get a career in tech they had to

643

00:31:16,966 --> 00:31:19,133

be like men they had to adjust

644

00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,766

more so be more aggressive be more

645

00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:25,033

like I'm generalizing again but

646

00:31:25,033 --> 00:31:26,766

you know what I mean we had to

647

00:31:26,766 --> 00:31:28,900

imitate I even heard a woman lately

648

00:31:29,566 --> 00:31:31,033

on a woman in tech meeting

649

00:31:31,033 --> 00:31:34,200

um she said she's a developer and she said that

650

00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,300

at one point she joined a company

651

00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:38,866

started going to an office as a programmer

652

00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:42,266

and her boss told her at one point that

653

00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:45,266

she should maybe change her the way she close

654

00:31:45,566 --> 00:31:49,800

clothes this bit because she liked colorful dresses

655

00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,000

he said

656

00:31:51,066 --> 00:31:53,800

you know it's not very important but maybe you could

657

00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,300

like look more blend in like look like the developers

658

00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,200

which were and it wasn't like a

659

00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,366

customer facing role or anything

660

00:32:01,366 --> 00:32:04,500

it wasn't about looking more elegant nothing like that

661

00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:05,866

it was about could you please blend

662

00:32:05,866 --> 00:32:08,033

in a bit more like wear hoodies

663

00:32:08,033 --> 00:32:10,166

or whatever they were wearing because they were

664

00:32:10,166 --> 00:32:11,266

they were developers

665

00:32:11,833 --> 00:32:14,500

so she was and she realized

666

00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:16,300

after some years that she really started

667

00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,800

doing that she stopped wearing dresses and rocks

668

00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,766

uh skirts she just

669

00:32:20,866 --> 00:32:24,066

started to blend in and she felt sad about it

670

00:32:24,166 --> 00:32:28,133

and that is how I think it shouldn't be now anymore

671

00:32:28,266 --> 00:32:30,466

and I will tell you why I will tell you a story

672

00:32:30,833 --> 00:32:31,966

if we have time

673

00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:35,366

of course that's why we are here OK good

674

00:32:36,066 --> 00:32:40,500

so the story about AI like how I started learning AI I

675

00:32:40,766 --> 00:32:43,433

like I said I decided two and a/2 years

676

00:32:43,433 --> 00:32:45,766

ago I said okay now I need to really dive

677

00:32:45,766 --> 00:32:47,133

in I need to learn it

678

00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:49,700

and I started looking for courses

679

00:32:50,366 --> 00:32:51,833

joining free webinars

680

00:32:51,833 --> 00:32:54,566

looking for courses I was ready to pay

681

00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:57,566

but I wanted to find a good course and everything

682

00:32:57,566 --> 00:33:00,333

that was out there back then that was men

683

00:33:01,366 --> 00:33:04,566

that was men teaching mostly

684

00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,000

um software developers so it was very technical

685

00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,966

it was very boring and very impractical

686

00:33:14,233 --> 00:33:17,433

so some of the courses were completely abstract

687

00:33:17,433 --> 00:33:18,766

like you could use

688

00:33:18,766 --> 00:33:21,600

AI here you could use AI there but nobody was showing

689

00:33:21,766 --> 00:33:24,400

I use AI like this look and you can do it

690

00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,000

like that like that like that

691

00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:27,966

so they were not practical

692

00:33:27,966 --> 00:33:29,833

they were theoretical they were

693

00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:32,566

boring and very technical

694

00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,000

and I thought

695

00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,600

OK I need to learn it myself

696

00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,700

and I started learning myself and then the first

697

00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,600

really good courses that were fun

698

00:33:42,833 --> 00:33:46,866

really practical felt natural to watch them and

699

00:33:47,033 --> 00:33:49,700

helped me really learn something

700

00:33:50,266 --> 00:33:52,700

uh were from women so a few women

701

00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,866

in AI that I then started following I currently follow

702

00:33:55,866 --> 00:33:59,066

mostly women in AI and I learn from them

703

00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,400

and that's how I also started realizing OK I will

704

00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,066

do something like that myself I will create a course

705

00:34:06,066 --> 00:34:08,466

that will cover all of that that I

706

00:34:08,466 --> 00:34:11,700

wanted back then so the whole fundamentals of AI

707

00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,033

and then of course advanced also master classes

708

00:34:15,033 --> 00:34:16,300

but I will start with an

709

00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,566

AI fundamentals course for non technical people

710

00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:21,966

that is practical and fun

711

00:34:22,266 --> 00:34:26,200

and I did that and that's how I I felt I'm I'm I'm um

712

00:34:26,433 --> 00:34:27,600

closing a gap

713

00:34:28,266 --> 00:34:30,933

and that is why I also think that more women

714

00:34:30,966 --> 00:34:34,900

should be in AI because yes being a woman in AI

715

00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:36,800

or in tech now means being yourself

716

00:34:37,366 --> 00:34:39,933

you don't have to imitate anyone anymore

717

00:34:40,166 --> 00:34:43,300

you don't have to adapt you don't have to blend in

718

00:34:43,466 --> 00:34:46,300

now you have to stand out so if you are yourself

719

00:34:46,366 --> 00:34:47,266

if you're being yourself

720

00:34:48,233 --> 00:34:51,033

you it's it's better you bring your

721

00:34:51,033 --> 00:34:55,200

personality your value and the female like

722

00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,100

strength that we have

723

00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,900

you can now all bring that you can wear your colorful dresses

724

00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,900

the women in AI that I follow are so natural

725

00:35:03,366 --> 00:35:07,200

they are completely themselves they don't care about

726

00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,900

I mean that's how it seems and

727

00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,066

when I speak to them it seems also that they say OK

728

00:35:13,066 --> 00:35:15,666

I don't care I know I'm messy for example or

729

00:35:15,833 --> 00:35:17,300

I know I'm I'm completely

730

00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:19,166

non techy but I do teach this AI

731

00:35:19,166 --> 00:35:21,066

because I know how to do it practically

732

00:35:21,066 --> 00:35:22,933

so why why wouldn't I teach it

733

00:35:23,266 --> 00:35:25,533

or they are completely like

734

00:35:25,666 --> 00:35:29,800

so natural in their webinars they just relax and they

735

00:35:30,066 --> 00:35:32,400

speak what they think and they ask you

736

00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,100

10 times how can I help that's also a very

737

00:35:35,266 --> 00:35:37,700

female thing right how can I support

738

00:35:38,166 --> 00:35:40,433

is it fine for you what I'm saying is it clear

739

00:35:40,433 --> 00:35:42,866

can I show you so what could what could I show you

740

00:35:43,566 --> 00:35:48,500

and yeah I think I feel from my experience learning AI

741

00:35:48,766 --> 00:35:51,166

it's really much easier to learn it as a non

742

00:35:51,166 --> 00:35:52,333

technical person

743

00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:54,433

maybe also as a woman

744

00:35:54,433 --> 00:35:56,333

it's much easier to learn it from women

745

00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,866

but I don't have only a female clients

746

00:36:01,066 --> 00:36:03,900

men also join my academy so it's

747

00:36:04,233 --> 00:36:07,433

it's not my target I would say but it's something that

748

00:36:07,433 --> 00:36:10,866

well I felt I I fill the gap hopefully

749

00:36:12,766 --> 00:36:16,166

I can imagine yeah like I said um

750

00:36:18,166 --> 00:36:20,000

women are very good in learning

751

00:36:20,566 --> 00:36:24,733

so at school I guess even their studies in school

752

00:36:25,233 --> 00:36:29,266

mostly girls are better than than the boys

753

00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,100

maybe because most boys only

754

00:36:33,433 --> 00:36:34,233

uh

755

00:36:35,066 --> 00:36:39,933

have um their interests in schools later

756

00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,366

often very often not not each and every

757

00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,200

boy but mostly later

758

00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:46,966

and as you said you had 3 languages

759

00:36:46,966 --> 00:36:48,733

your colleagues only your

760

00:36:48,866 --> 00:36:51,466

male colleagues only 2 learning non stop

761

00:36:52,166 --> 00:36:53,133

yeah yeah

762

00:36:54,033 --> 00:36:57,700

that yeah is your advantage now so often uh

763

00:36:58,633 --> 00:37:01,466

women are better in AI because they approach

764

00:37:01,466 --> 00:37:02,866

technology first

765

00:37:04,033 --> 00:37:05,900

that's cool thank you yes maybe you're right

766

00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,133

and that you lower the barrier for for women

767

00:37:09,433 --> 00:37:12,100

from woman to woman that's very nice yeah

768

00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:14,766

that is a good point I think women always

769

00:37:15,666 --> 00:37:19,000

that's also of course but yeah we are often

770

00:37:19,033 --> 00:37:23,666

better in school we often well I think we also

771

00:37:23,666 --> 00:37:26,066

needed to learn more because we also

772

00:37:26,066 --> 00:37:29,333

we always needed to know more in order to

773

00:37:29,466 --> 00:37:30,433

you know keep up

774

00:37:30,433 --> 00:37:33,366

with men in in the careers in school also

775

00:37:33,433 --> 00:37:35,666

we needed always to prove ourselves

776

00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:40,500

and I don't know even to be part of conversations

777

00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:41,866

that men held

778

00:37:41,866 --> 00:37:44,766

we had to be knowledgeable because we always

779

00:37:44,833 --> 00:37:47,066

felt at least we had to prove ourselves

780

00:37:47,066 --> 00:37:51,033

much more than men so I think that is also a reason

781

00:37:51,033 --> 00:37:52,733

why women are always learning

782

00:37:53,966 --> 00:37:54,900

and yeah you cannot

783

00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:57,166

be an AI without learning you have to learn

784

00:37:57,300 --> 00:37:59,833

you know constantly in order to

785

00:37:59,833 --> 00:38:02,966

you don't need to keep up with everything of course but

786

00:38:03,166 --> 00:38:04,966

yeah you have to have an overview

787

00:38:04,966 --> 00:38:09,200

of the technology how it's changing and that takes yeah

788

00:38:09,433 --> 00:38:12,433

a lot of my time now just to keep up how do you

789

00:38:12,433 --> 00:38:14,966

do it there are so many sources at the moment

790

00:38:15,233 --> 00:38:17,300

so many new models and versions

791

00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:21,133

and crazy every every week sometimes every day

792

00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,200

yes I had to streamline

793

00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,100

it a lot so I I have a lot I get a lot of newsletters

794

00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:31,966

but in the end so first I build a an automation

795

00:38:31,966 --> 00:38:35,200

that summarizes them and gives me an update but that

796

00:38:35,266 --> 00:38:39,300

wasn't the same because I I'd rather see who's writing

797

00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,800

it you know where where did it come from

798

00:38:41,833 --> 00:38:45,133

I ended up having only one or two from women

799

00:38:46,266 --> 00:38:49,233

and they update they they send out newsletters

800

00:38:49,233 --> 00:38:52,033

with updates as women I trust I know they are amazing

801

00:38:52,033 --> 00:38:54,500

I know they're rocking it so when they send an update

802

00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:55,966

I know it will be relevant

803

00:38:56,066 --> 00:38:58,466

it will be practical it will not be some

804

00:38:58,466 --> 00:39:01,766

super hype about I don't know very uh I

805

00:39:01,833 --> 00:39:03,700

what is it generally agenic

806

00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:05,466

something something that we're waiting for

807

00:39:05,466 --> 00:39:06,933

I'm not interested in

808

00:39:07,466 --> 00:39:10,800

in that very abstract um things I'm interested

809

00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:11,900

in the very practical

810

00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:14,533

side and my my clients and my students as well

811

00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,400

so I need to know practically what is

812

00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,166

important what changed like what what do I need to

813

00:39:19,166 --> 00:39:21,766

try out now or why does cloth look different

814

00:39:21,766 --> 00:39:23,933

now what is co work I don't know these things

815

00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:27,200

I don't need to know like any and and the politics

816

00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,033

I don't need them many I listen

817

00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:31,866

to many AI podcasts in the beginning I like them

818

00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,666

but they tended to

819

00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,266

talk a lot of politics uh like business politics

820

00:39:37,266 --> 00:39:38,400

let's say about

821

00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,966

Elon Musk and Sam Altman and what didn't

822

00:39:40,966 --> 00:39:43,200

then he said and then he said and then he said

823

00:39:43,366 --> 00:39:45,533

and it's always he said it's never she said

824

00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,133

I don't need to know what they said

825

00:39:48,566 --> 00:39:52,366

so I stopped I stopped listening to these podcasts yeah

826

00:39:54,466 --> 00:39:58,866

I can imagine do you regularly um attend podcasts or

827

00:39:59,433 --> 00:40:01,766

no no I like it I'm

828

00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:04,066

that's why I'm very happy that you invited me

829

00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:07,066

I was in one last year I think in one only

830

00:40:07,066 --> 00:40:10,766

that was about vibe coding and I was invited as a

831

00:40:10,766 --> 00:40:13,766

vibe coding expert that also helped me get rid of my

832

00:40:13,766 --> 00:40:17,200

imposter syndrome because this guy contacted me

833

00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:18,900

and he said

834

00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:21,566

he wrote me you know I want to have an expert on vibe

835

00:40:21,566 --> 00:40:24,333

coding in my podcast could you please come

836

00:40:24,766 --> 00:40:27,066

and I answered but I'm not an expert in vibe

837

00:40:27,066 --> 00:40:30,300

coding I do it but I I don't see myself

838

00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,700

as a real expert and he answered

839

00:40:32,966 --> 00:40:35,166

I don't think there are any real experts

840

00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,133

and I looked at it and I thought I think you're right

841

00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:42,766

I mean that's so it's so fresh it's so new yeah

842

00:40:42,766 --> 00:40:44,000

that who can be who can be

843

00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,366

a 10 an expert with 10 or 20

844

00:40:46,366 --> 00:40:48,566

years of experience in vibe coding nobody

845

00:40:48,566 --> 00:40:51,833

everyone's just starting to do it so is that okay

846

00:40:51,833 --> 00:40:53,833

of course I did research and um

847

00:40:53,833 --> 00:40:56,766

I I had already built several things but I researched

848

00:40:56,766 --> 00:40:58,700

other tools that I don't use usually

849

00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:00,866

I came prepared and it went great

850

00:41:00,866 --> 00:41:02,700

but yeah I'm not not often

851

00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:05,133

invited to podcast so I'm I feel very

852

00:41:05,466 --> 00:41:07,200

very honored to be here

853

00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:12,566

thank you I will forward you to in a ipodcast so

854

00:41:12,566 --> 00:41:14,533

oh great yes speak more yeah

855

00:41:15,966 --> 00:41:17,900

I can speak about AI for hours

856

00:41:17,966 --> 00:41:20,933

no problem that's good that's good yeah I guess

857

00:41:21,066 --> 00:41:24,200

they will invite you more than once I guess it's fine

858

00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:29,500

amazing thanks ha ha ha yeah we are um

859

00:41:30,366 --> 00:41:32,733

little by little coming to an end um

860

00:41:32,833 --> 00:41:35,666

so by tradition so the last one or 2 minutes

861

00:41:35,666 --> 00:41:38,800

are for the guest we have um

862

00:41:39,433 --> 00:41:41,733

still some advices for girls for women

863

00:41:41,966 --> 00:41:43,300

who are interested in

864

00:41:43,466 --> 00:41:46,933

technology maybe like for you to be uh

865

00:41:48,066 --> 00:41:49,566

not coming directly

866

00:41:49,566 --> 00:41:53,000

from tech but maybe coming from another profession

867

00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:54,400

mm hmm

868

00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,566

yes so I said it a bit already but I

869

00:41:58,566 --> 00:42:01,000

maybe I will sum it up a bit um

870

00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,366

if you are in any way thinking of

871

00:42:04,566 --> 00:42:07,200

becoming a woman in tech or if you're interested

872

00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,133

in AI or interested in technology

873

00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:12,166

uh just do it

874

00:42:12,166 --> 00:42:14,900

don't let anyone tell you don't let your boss

875

00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:16,966

tell you anything or anyone else

876

00:42:17,066 --> 00:42:19,933

don't let your imposter syndrome come in the way

877

00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:22,566

uh just do it just pursue it do it now

878

00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,566

and even if you're not thinking of becoming

879

00:42:26,566 --> 00:42:30,133

a technical person you don't need to anymore so AI's

880

00:42:30,666 --> 00:42:33,266

like closing the bridge the gap between

881

00:42:33,366 --> 00:42:36,166

non technical and technical people a lot

882

00:42:36,266 --> 00:42:40,466

we can now easier understand each other we can easier

883

00:42:40,866 --> 00:42:42,966

work together and

884

00:42:42,966 --> 00:42:48,066

people who are not really technical can now become a an

885

00:42:48,066 --> 00:42:48,466

important

886

00:42:48,466 --> 00:42:50,866

person in tech like I said and a transformation

887

00:42:50,866 --> 00:42:55,500

leader for example or a change manager um an adult

888

00:42:55,766 --> 00:42:57,633

AI transformation coach

889

00:42:57,633 --> 00:42:59,866

all these things they are just emerging

890

00:42:59,866 --> 00:43:02,766

these roles and they are very important and women

891

00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:07,066

are amazing at these things so I think yeah just

892

00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,266

be very open now

893

00:43:10,266 --> 00:43:12,066

to what might and don't wait

894

00:43:12,066 --> 00:43:14,700

maybe this is important because people sometimes

895

00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:17,966

wait what will happen to them and

896

00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:19,466

for example you're you're

897

00:43:19,466 --> 00:43:22,000

you're afraid that you might lose your job or

898

00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,300

you're already looking for a job and you're waiting

899

00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:27,900

for someone to hire you I would say stop waiting

900

00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:30,166

to the women especially

901

00:43:30,566 --> 00:43:33,866

stop waiting start your own thing start something

902

00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:37,533

you can do so much now in AI without

903

00:43:37,566 --> 00:43:41,500

even technical knowledge so it's now the moment

904

00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:44,966

it really the moment is the best one to start a career

905

00:43:44,966 --> 00:43:45,433

even

906

00:43:45,433 --> 00:43:48,866

to or to jump on a career that you always dreamed of

907

00:43:49,433 --> 00:43:52,800

just start by covering the fundamentals of AI

908

00:43:53,033 --> 00:43:56,566

and then you can do you can do anything now

909

00:43:58,433 --> 00:44:00,400

yeah I think that's that

910

00:44:01,966 --> 00:44:03,100

thank you daughter

911

00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:07,066

thank you so much David for having me