If more men are using AI tools than women,
Kinsey Soderberg:well, AI tools are getting more input from, like, a masculine
Kinsey Soderberg:leaning perspective. They're getting more masculine leaning
Kinsey Soderberg:language, right? And I always say, like, AI tools need our
Kinsey Soderberg:fricking empathy, guys, they need to know like, how women
Kinsey Soderberg:speak they need to know what women care about.
Kelly Sinclair:This is the entrepreneur school podcast
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Kelly Sinclair:Welcome back to entrepreneur school. I have an amazing guest
Kelly Sinclair:today. Her name is Kinsey. It's kids here. Last name is the
Kelly Sinclair:name? Yeah, I know what I'm keeping this intro. Welcome to
Kelly Sinclair:laughter in progress, because we were just having this whole
Kelly Sinclair:thing about last names and how I did not take my husband's last
Kelly Sinclair:name. So fun fact, it's spelled K, U, n, t, z, and I'll just let
Kelly Sinclair:you mispronounce that, because that's what happens, including
Kelly Sinclair:at my own wedding. So names pronouncing properly, is I a
Kelly Sinclair:thing that is important? So Kinsey, What's your last name?
Kinsey Soderberg:Soderberg. Kinsey, Soderberg, but we're
Kinsey Soderberg:cool. We're cool. Y'all could just call me Kinsey. We're
Kinsey Soderberg:casual here.
Kelly Sinclair:Kinsey, keeping it casual with Kinsey, we're
Kelly Sinclair:going to talk all about AI today, because Kinsey is the
Kelly Sinclair:founder of authentic AI, and she is the host alongside another
Kelly Sinclair:friend, Joyce Hamilton, who is they're bringing together this
Kelly Sinclair:amazing summit called the her AI era Summit, and that is another
Kelly Sinclair:tongue twister in and of itself, but I'm excited to be part of
Kelly Sinclair:that event, and we're going to talk a little bit about that
Kelly Sinclair:today, but mostly we're talking about women in AI and tech and
Kelly Sinclair:empowerment and all of the fun things that are super near and
Kelly Sinclair:dear To My Heart, and I'm really excited to have this
Kelly Sinclair:conversation with you. Kinsey.
Kinsey Soderberg:Oh, thank you so much for having me. Kelly.
Kinsey Soderberg:I'm so excited about this conversation too, not just to,
Kinsey Soderberg:like, nerd out about AI, but I also, oh, man, get fired up when
Kinsey Soderberg:it comes to talking about women using AI especially. So it's
Kinsey Soderberg:gonna be good. It's gonna be fiery and fun.
Kelly Sinclair:Yeah, let's get into that, because it's been a
Kelly Sinclair:really interesting journey for me over the last year to sort
Kelly Sinclair:of, I basically just recorded an episode for this podcast about
Kelly Sinclair:how I've just added accidental tech nerd to my bio. And this
Kelly Sinclair:isn't something that I ever felt very like, connected to. I never
Kelly Sinclair:identified or aspired to be a woman in tech. Tell me your
Kelly Sinclair:story and your journey into it, and how you feel about all these
Kelly Sinclair:things.
Kinsey Soderberg:Oh my gosh, that is so cute. And I love
Kinsey Soderberg:that. Yeah. I mean, I do feel like that's the journey for a
Kinsey Soderberg:lot of people, especially when it comes to the AI stuff. I
Kinsey Soderberg:mean, I've always, you know, been somewhat of a computer
Kinsey Soderberg:nerd, as far as, like, I loved, like, adding code to my MySpace
Kinsey Soderberg:page back in the day, or, like, you know, just like making it
Kinsey Soderberg:pretty, and I've, like, loved Canva and just like, some techie
Kinsey Soderberg:stuff, but, like, not been super overly technical or anything
Kinsey Soderberg:like that. But when AI came about, I mean, I still remember,
Kinsey Soderberg:I was at like, a conference, actually, for podcasting, and a
Kinsey Soderberg:bunch of people were coming up to me and be like, Oh my gosh.
Kinsey Soderberg:Have you tried chat GPT? Oh my gosh. Like, everyone was, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:talking about AI and chatgpt and all this stuff. And I'll be
Kinsey Soderberg:honest with you, my first reaction when I heard about it
Kinsey Soderberg:was, oh no. Like, I was super worried about, isn't the
Kinsey Soderberg:internet fake enough as it is? What's this going to do to our
Kinsey Soderberg:creativity or critical thinking skills? Is AI gotta take our
Kinsey Soderberg:jobs or take over the world, right? Like, I call them the AI
Kinsey Soderberg:scaries. All of those AI scaries ran through my brain when I
Kinsey Soderberg:first heard about the tool, and I was, like, kind of grumpy
Kinsey Soderberg:about it and not into it. And then I was on a long drive one
Kinsey Soderberg:day, and I had one of those long drive epiphanies where I
Kinsey Soderberg:realized that AI tools are here, and instead of turning away for
Kinsey Soderberg:from them, or being against them, or getting grumpy about
Kinsey Soderberg:them, probably the best thing I could do would be to turn toward
Kinsey Soderberg:them and get curious about. How can we use AI tools in a way
Kinsey Soderberg:that aligns with us and works for us without sacrificing our
Kinsey Soderberg:authenticity, our thought leadership, our quality of work,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? I was like, there's a right way to use these tools
Kinsey Soderberg:that aligns with my values and the values of my people. So
Kinsey Soderberg:like, let's figure out how we can use them to work for us in a
Kinsey Soderberg:way that aligns with us. And that's actually when I just kind
Kinsey Soderberg:of started playing around with AI. I literally just was like,
Kinsey Soderberg:Hey, chatgpt, what's up? What can you help me with? And I
Kinsey Soderberg:really honed how we can train the tools to think and sound
Kinsey Soderberg:like us, right? Because that's one of those big things that I
Kinsey Soderberg:think a lot of us deal with when we first start using AI, is that
Kinsey Soderberg:frustration that comes with, Oh, why doesn't it sound like me or
Kinsey Soderberg:like you're trying to get it to write you an Instagram caption,
Kinsey Soderberg:and like it writes you something that's totally off base, like
Kinsey Soderberg:overly generic or overly cheesy, and you go back and forth with
Kinsey Soderberg:it, trying To get it to give you what you want, and like, it just
Kinsey Soderberg:won't. And you're like, Ah, I could have done this faster if I
Kinsey Soderberg:just did it myself, right? Like, that's what a lot of people run
Kinsey Soderberg:into. But there's ways that you can train the tool in an in
Kinsey Soderberg:depth way to really get you and then produce results that
Kinsey Soderberg:actually feel like you from the get go, right? So that's kind of
Kinsey Soderberg:what I've honed with my brand now, authentic AI, because, yes,
Kinsey Soderberg:I decided to fully go for it, pivot into AI. And, yeah, that's
Kinsey Soderberg:what I teach entrepreneurs nowadays.
Kelly Sinclair:I love that, that starting with curiosity,
Kelly Sinclair:that's such an important mindset to approach all of this with,
Kelly Sinclair:especially because it's a kind of a tool that doesn't have
Kelly Sinclair:rules, right? It's not like, like, there's a specific
Kelly Sinclair:structure that you have to do. It has its own brain in a way
Kelly Sinclair:where it can approach things from a variety of different
Kelly Sinclair:ways, and you just need to figure out the best way to
Kelly Sinclair:support it, in helping it, to give you what you want in the
Kelly Sinclair:way that you want it, which means you also need to know what
Kelly Sinclair:you want and how you want it. Whole other decision making
Kelly Sinclair:process to go through, right?
Kinsey Soderberg:Yeah, yeah, totally. Oh my gosh. I love how
Kinsey Soderberg:you said that, too, because that's one of those big mistakes
Kinsey Soderberg:that I think a lot of people make when they first start using
Kinsey Soderberg:the tool. Like, a lot of people are obsessed with, like, the
Kinsey Soderberg:prompting, right? They're like, Oh, let me get the perfect
Kinsey Soderberg:prompt, or teach me how to be a master prompter or whatever. And
Kinsey Soderberg:I'm kind of like, E, like, it's not as much about the prompt.
Kinsey Soderberg:Like, yeah, understanding how to prompt the tool is helpful for a
Kinsey Soderberg:lot of, like, specific use cases, too and stuff, but it's
Kinsey Soderberg:more about exactly telling it everything it needs to know in
Kinsey Soderberg:order to do the best job for you. And so I actually call that
Kinsey Soderberg:a human first approach, where instead of just trying to worry
Kinsey Soderberg:about the prompt and just going to the tool and being like, do
Kinsey Soderberg:this for me instead, you just start with yourself, your own
Kinsey Soderberg:thoughts, opinions, beliefs, perspectives, share that with
Kinsey Soderberg:the tool, along with the context for the task that you're trying
Kinsey Soderberg:to get it to do for you, and then ask it to do the thing. And
Kinsey Soderberg:that's how I found to get the best results, exactly what I'm
Kinsey Soderberg:looking for from it, from the get go, instead of then going
Kinsey Soderberg:into that frustrating spiral of going back and forth with it,
Kinsey Soderberg:and that's not getting you what you want. You know what I mean?
Kelly Sinclair:Totally. I love that approach. I feel like
Kelly Sinclair:that's exactly what I do as well. It's kind of like just
Kelly Sinclair:brain dumping everything that is relevant and it has anticipatory
Kelly Sinclair:abilities to try and say, okay, just like verbally spat
Kelly Sinclair:everything out of me. And I love to use that dictate button,
Kelly Sinclair:because I am very verbal personally, and then getting it
Kelly Sinclair:to distill all of that into something is like, what do you
Kelly Sinclair:what? What's the question that I'm asking? What is the way like
Kelly Sinclair:that I can do this rather than, as you're saying, like, if we're
Kelly Sinclair:focused on figuring out what a prompt is, then, then there's a
Kelly Sinclair:filter already in place before we even get into trying to do
Kelly Sinclair:the task at hand.
Kinsey Soderberg:Yes, totally. And so exactly it's like, and I
Kinsey Soderberg:love, okay, this is what I think is so fun too, because a lot of
Kinsey Soderberg:times, one of the bigger concerns for me, when I, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:first heard about tools, honestly, was not Terminator
Kinsey Soderberg:future robots taking over the world, and it wasn't even like
Kinsey Soderberg:generic results or anything like that. My biggest concern was
Kinsey Soderberg:critical thinking and creativity, right? I was like,
Kinsey Soderberg:oh, what does this mean for our culture and our society as like
Kinsey Soderberg:humans and like, how we cultivate our creativity and our
Kinsey Soderberg:brains, our critical thinking skills and stuff? And it's so
Kinsey Soderberg:funny, using the tools. Like, yes, you can totally let a. I
Kinsey Soderberg:turn you into a mindless sheep and like, you can, like, let it
Kinsey Soderberg:do all the thinking for you and whatnot. But when you use a
Kinsey Soderberg:human first approach, and you work with it in like, a
Kinsey Soderberg:collaborative way, and you share your creative ideas with it, and
Kinsey Soderberg:then it comes back at you, it actually helps to expand and
Kinsey Soderberg:hold space for more creativity in my experience, and actually
Kinsey Soderberg:with the way I kind of use the tool, making sure I'm like, I
Kinsey Soderberg:make I'm intentionally practicing my critical thinking
Kinsey Soderberg:skills every time I'm using chatgpt, because we all know
Kinsey Soderberg:that. Like, yeah, it knows a lot, but it doesn't know all. It
Kinsey Soderberg:doesn't always get the facts right, and then also it doesn't
Kinsey Soderberg:always know what's exactly right for you or your brand, so it's
Kinsey Soderberg:really important to critically think about the responses that
Kinsey Soderberg:it's giving you, so that you make sure that your brand does
Kinsey Soderberg:stay aligned right and so but it's funny to think about how we
Kinsey Soderberg:can actually grow, cultivate more creativity, practice our
Kinsey Soderberg:critical thinking skills with AI. You just have to be
Kinsey Soderberg:intentional about it. You know,
Kelly Sinclair:I 100% agree with that. That is like the fact
Kelly Sinclair:that we grew up and we built those critical thinking skills
Kelly Sinclair:as humans. Right now we have an opportunity to really access and
Kelly Sinclair:expand our own abilities with a tool that can support versus a
Kelly Sinclair:whole other conversation about how this is going to affect like
Kelly Sinclair:kids and people who are, you know, coming into the world, not
Kelly Sinclair:developing those skills before this sort of system existed. But
Kelly Sinclair:we don't need to get into that and and what that might look
Kelly Sinclair:like, but I have, I have some concerns and feelings about that
Kelly Sinclair:for sure too.
Kinsey Soderberg:Well, Kelly, I'll be honest with you. I mean,
Kinsey Soderberg:that's one of the reasons that Joyce and I are so excited to
Kinsey Soderberg:host this summit. That's one of the reasons that both of us,
Kinsey Soderberg:like feel so powerfully about making sure that we are helping
Kinsey Soderberg:more women use AI tools, right? Because that's definitely a
Kinsey Soderberg:concern of mine, and I really think that it's just about being
Kinsey Soderberg:intentional. We just need to be intentional as a society and a
Kinsey Soderberg:culture of how we are teaching our kids to use these tools. And
Kinsey Soderberg:the reason that I relate that to women is because, honestly, it's
Kinsey Soderberg:gonna take a lot of mom's voices and like women teachers, voices,
Kinsey Soderberg:like speaking up and like being a part of the conversation for
Kinsey Soderberg:how AI is integrated into our society, right? And so it's one
Kinsey Soderberg:of those things where I mean women in general, like we are
Kinsey Soderberg:empathetic. We tend to care about social issues. We care so
Kinsey Soderberg:much about our children and our children's education, and like,
Kinsey Soderberg:when we can start using the tools more, when we can feel
Kinsey Soderberg:empowered to use these tools, when we can be a part of the
Kinsey Soderberg:conversation and understand the issues that are at play here,
Kinsey Soderberg:then we're really gonna do a lot to, like, shape the future of
Kinsey Soderberg:AI, right?
Kelly Sinclair:Oh my gosh, yeah, absolutely. And so the
Kelly Sinclair:summit, let's talk about that for a minute, because you're
Kelly Sinclair:bringing together what 50 plus different training sessions that
Kelly Sinclair:are going to I'm so excited to, like, learn from everybody else
Kelly Sinclair:too, because it is, like, one of those things that everybody's
Kelly Sinclair:explored their own methods and their own Ways and and taking a
Kelly Sinclair:little tip from each person is going to be so helpful.
Kinsey Soderberg:Oh my gosh, yes, her AI era Summit, it's
Kinsey Soderberg:exactly what it sounds like, Guys, we're stepping into her AI
Kinsey Soderberg:era. Your AI era. It's women focused, it's women led, it's
Kinsey Soderberg:women collaborated, right? So, yeah, we're like, right around
Kinsey Soderberg:the 60 mark for 60 women, expert leaders who are using AI tools
Kinsey Soderberg:in your business. We have five different tracks, marketing,
Kinsey Soderberg:creative, system and ops for my back end systems, girls like me,
Kinsey Soderberg:monetization and then actually empowerment as well, because we
Kinsey Soderberg:want to make sure that we're coming together and really
Kinsey Soderberg:realizing what this all means and how we can make a difference
Kinsey Soderberg:with AI and oh my gosh. Like, I know as I've been as, like, the
Kinsey Soderberg:speaker, presentations have been being submitted. I'm setting up
Kinsey Soderberg:the back end and stuff. I'm like, I cannot wait to, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:watch this presentation. Or, oh my gosh, this is so good. Like,
Kinsey Soderberg:you guys, they're all talking about using AI in such creative
Kinsey Soderberg:ways, or, like, empowering ways, and it's making me so excited to
Kinsey Soderberg:host this, and also, like, bring all these awesome powerhouse
Kinsey Soderberg:women together in one summit to then train, to help, to teach
Kinsey Soderberg:and train other women just easy ways we can use AI tools in our
Kinsey Soderberg:businesses, and like, how much it's going to impact, like, our
Kinsey Soderberg:life too.
Kelly Sinclair:Yeah, it's going to be incredible. And I'm so
Kelly Sinclair:excited for you to bring this together. And for those
Kelly Sinclair:listening, there's a link in the show notes. You can grab a free
Kelly Sinclair:spot, and if it's past the time that it's free, it'll start.
Kelly Sinclair:Will be a super valuable resource that you should
Kelly Sinclair:definitely look into if you're you know, curious about
Kelly Sinclair:expanding your AI knowledge and skills in all of these areas.
Kinsey Soderberg:Yes, yes, yes. Would you mind if I shared a few
Kinsey Soderberg:statistics about women using AI tools that I have up my sleeve
Kinsey Soderberg:absolutely girl, because this is where I go off, right? Because
Kinsey Soderberg:it's one of those things where I know, right, I don't get out the
Kinsey Soderberg:soapbox. Okay, guys, so literally, this is why it fires
Kinsey Soderberg:me up so much, and this is why I'm so freaking excited to host
Kinsey Soderberg:this summit that is fully focused on women and like,
Kinsey Soderberg:bringing together so many amazing women powerhouses to
Kinsey Soderberg:then, like, lead the way and like help cultivate more
Kinsey Soderberg:interest in AI tools, right? But long story short, there have
Kinsey Soderberg:been studies done that men are two times more likely to use the
Kinsey Soderberg:top 50 AI tools than women, and this is an issue because AI
Kinsey Soderberg:tools have been proven to boost your productivity by up to 40%
Kinsey Soderberg:which is like working two extra days per week. So if you think
Kinsey Soderberg:of this in terms of like, the workplace, if more men are using
Kinsey Soderberg:AI tools than women, well, who's getting more done? Who's more
Kinsey Soderberg:likely to get that promotion or that pay raise, the gender
Kinsey Soderberg:income gap is like dramatically increasing instead of
Kinsey Soderberg:decreasing, like we've been working at for so many years,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? But then there's also the fact that AI tools are at this
Kinsey Soderberg:point trained by the people who are using them. So if more men
Kinsey Soderberg:are using AI tools than women, well, AI tools are getting more
Kinsey Soderberg:input from, like, a masculine leaning perspective, they're
Kinsey Soderberg:getting more masculine leaning language, right? And I always
Kinsey Soderberg:say, like AI tools need our fricking empathy, guys. They
Kinsey Soderberg:need to know like how women speak. They need to know what
Kinsey Soderberg:women care about, right? And so the more women can use AI tools,
Kinsey Soderberg:the more we are actually helping to shape the way these AI tools
Kinsey Soderberg:think, which then will be so influential for a society,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? And so it's really, really important that more women
Kinsey Soderberg:use AI tools. But I'll tell you what really lights me up Kelly
Kinsey Soderberg:or fires me up, I should say for sure, is the reason why more men
Kinsey Soderberg:are prone to using AI tools than women, right? And of course,
Kinsey Soderberg:it's like cultural things, like, women have been less welcome in
Kinsey Soderberg:STEM subjects, science and math and like, we've kind of been
Kinsey Soderberg:raised to not feel as techie as men in general, right? But
Kinsey Soderberg:there's this I still remember, like I can still picture it the
Kinsey Soderberg:first time a woman was interviewing me on her podcast
Kinsey Soderberg:about AI tools, and she looks at me and she goes, so what do you
Kinsey Soderberg:say to the women who feel guilty for using AI tools, who feel
Kinsey Soderberg:like they're cutting corners or they're not doing the work? And
Kinsey Soderberg:that was exactly my reaction. Kelly's like, like, gasping and
Kinsey Soderberg:like, because I was like, Oh, this is a thing, and it's so
Kinsey Soderberg:much bigger than AI. It's just manifesting itself in the way
Kinsey Soderberg:women are using AI. But it's truly like the fact that women
Kinsey Soderberg:have always had to work twice as hard to earn half the respect
Kinsey Soderberg:and success as men. We've always had to show that we are working
Kinsey Soderberg:hard in order to be worthy of respect and success, right? And
Kinsey Soderberg:of course, it makes sense that women thinking about using AI
Kinsey Soderberg:tools, well, when we use them, maybe it feels like we're not
Kinsey Soderberg:doing the work, like we're cheating, like we're cutting
Kinsey Soderberg:corners, or maybe we're just afraid that we're going to be
Kinsey Soderberg:judged for using AI tools, and we're not willing to sacrifice
Kinsey Soderberg:that because we have put so much work into the businesses that
Kinsey Soderberg:we're building. Like, we don't want to be building our
Kinsey Soderberg:businesses and earned all this success and respect, and then
Kinsey Soderberg:all of a sudden use a tool and be like, Oh, she's not. We're
Kinsey Soderberg:doing the work, and be written off or anything like that,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? And like, here's the thing you guys, what we really
Kinsey Soderberg:need to do is talk with each other as women and help to flip
Kinsey Soderberg:the script within us, right? This is a tool that we can use
Kinsey Soderberg:to help us to create more space in our lives, to make more money
Kinsey Soderberg:for our family, to find more time and freedom to actually
Kinsey Soderberg:enjoy our lives, right? AI, tools can be so, so helpful, and
Kinsey Soderberg:I think for women, especially who have always been the ones to
Kinsey Soderberg:carry the load at work and at home, like of anyone in the
Kinsey Soderberg:world, women and marginalized people deserve to freaking use
Kinsey Soderberg:AI tools, because for the first time in history, we actually
Kinsey Soderberg:have an opportunity to level the playing field with our male
Kinsey Soderberg:counterparts that we have never, ever had in the past, and
Kinsey Soderberg:actually, the more we can use AI tools. Wow, we have an
Kinsey Soderberg:opportunity here to skyrocket, to use a chatgpt, generic word,
Kinsey Soderberg:but, you know, skyrocket ourselves like kind of to the
Kinsey Soderberg:same playing field as men, and actually have. Have a ginormous
Kinsey Soderberg:impact in how our future is shaped, right? So that's kind of
Kinsey Soderberg:like one of the reasons why I'm like her. Ai era Summit is like
Kinsey Soderberg:so, so important for Joyce, for me and for all of us. Like it
Kinsey Soderberg:just makes me feel like this is a movement. It's not necessarily
Kinsey Soderberg:like just a summit, you know what I mean.
Kelly Sinclair:And damn, am I on board with this movement?
Kelly Sinclair:Like I have like, a full body reaction to everything that you
Kelly Sinclair:just said there. I did not even consider this whole like guilt
Kelly Sinclair:in using the tool because we are so we have that ingrained in as
Kelly Sinclair:like you have to work hard. Work is hard. Work must be hard, and
Kelly Sinclair:something bringing ease into your life is like, I reject
Kelly Sinclair:this, like, this is not this is not normal. I should feel, I
Kelly Sinclair:should consider how I feel about this. And as you said that, I
Kelly Sinclair:was reflecting on a recent like panel discussion. I listened in
Kelly Sinclair:on with a group of, like, professional copywriters talking
Kelly Sinclair:about how they're using AI, also all women, but there was still a
Kelly Sinclair:big resistance around using it for the final output of the
Kelly Sinclair:thing that they're the expert in, right? So I get this too,
Kelly Sinclair:but you know, I've just shifted my own thinking on it, and maybe
Kelly Sinclair:this is kind of the mindset approach that we have to
Kelly Sinclair:consider, which is, if I can help a client create a
Kelly Sinclair:visibility strategy, which this is something like communication
Kelly Sinclair:strategy, marketing strategy, visibility strategy, that's all
Kelly Sinclair:the same thing, and I've been doing it for over 15 years. And
Kelly Sinclair:I used to work in a PR firm where we it would take me 20
Kelly Sinclair:hours, like we build hourly. So I know this, it would take me 20
Kelly Sinclair:hours to give you a P a document that was maybe eight pages long
Kelly Sinclair:that said, this is what you should do. This is why you
Kelly Sinclair:should do it. This is how we should focus, blah, blah, blah.
Kelly Sinclair:I can now create a way more expansive version of this same
Kelly Sinclair:kind of thing in a couple of hours by using a tool to help me
Kelly Sinclair:just expand, expand, expand on these thoughts. Like, here's all
Kelly Sinclair:my thoughts. It's my thinking, but it's just like making it
Kelly Sinclair:written for me so that I can communicate it back to the
Kelly Sinclair:client. We have something to work with, right? So this is
Kelly Sinclair:like to me, this is like, so much more valuable as an output
Kelly Sinclair:and what I can deliver and helping me do what I do in my
Kelly Sinclair:job, and I can do more of it, and I can help more people, and
Kelly Sinclair:I take that approach right that is like an enabling tool to
Kelly Sinclair:support with my bigger mission as a business owner, which is to
Kelly Sinclair:help more entrepreneurs to do more and be able to live like,
Kelly Sinclair:live their life and have a business that supports it,
Kelly Sinclair:right? And so that other piece that you said around the time
Kelly Sinclair:that you can get back from this like, and how you can turn that
Kelly Sinclair:into doing things that are more important to you, like, Oh,
Kelly Sinclair:we've had this conversation on the podcast a lot. It's a whole
Kelly Sinclair:reason that I created a bundle called ease and alignment with
Kelly Sinclair:AI, same damn reason.
Kinsey Soderberg:Ah, yes, lady, Mike frickin drop there, because
Kinsey Soderberg:for sure, like, Okay, I want to point out a few things too that
Kinsey Soderberg:you said that I think are just like, so, so important to drive
Kinsey Soderberg:home is okay. Firstly, like when you use an AI tool to get your
Kinsey Soderberg:slog work done more quickly, and or, just like, get the work done
Kinsey Soderberg:that you would have done anyway, right? Which is so true when you
Kinsey Soderberg:bring your own perspective, your frameworks, your strategies,
Kinsey Soderberg:your thoughts, to the tool, it just helps you to get to the end
Kinsey Soderberg:result you would have gotten to anyway, just like, friggin 10
Kinsey Soderberg:times or 20 times faster, right? And like, exactly, you save 18
Kinsey Soderberg:hours, like now per client. Like, how crazy and amazing is
Kinsey Soderberg:that? Because again, then you can reinvest that that not only
Kinsey Soderberg:increases your capacity for impact and also increases your
Kinsey Soderberg:wealth, which then women in general, tend to reinvest for
Kinsey Soderberg:impact, instead of just keep buying sports cars or whatever,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? Which is another reason I'm very excited about more
Kinsey Soderberg:women making more money with the help of AI tools. But like, it
Kinsey Soderberg:increases your capacity. It does all those things and stuff, and
Kinsey Soderberg:on top of that, too, one of the things I've really been thinking
Kinsey Soderberg:about, okay, so I think you're gonna love this. I created this
Kinsey Soderberg:AI. I'm calling it the auto magical playbook generator. And
Kinsey Soderberg:it's kind of like a next level thing too, right? Which is kind
Kinsey Soderberg:of fun, because the summit that we're hosting is, like, also
Kinsey Soderberg:about next level strategies, right? It's for those people who
Kinsey Soderberg:are already using AI tools, and you're like, Okay, what else can
Kinsey Soderberg:I do? Like, I love chatgpt. How can I use this in my business,
Kinsey Soderberg:in the next level, right? And so, like, this is actually
Kinsey Soderberg:something I'm going to be speaking on at the summit, but I
Kinsey Soderberg:created this auto magical playbook generator. It literally
Kinsey Soderberg:takes my client. Intake form, and it sends my client's intake
Kinsey Soderberg:form through a sequence of AI prompts that are, like, built on
Kinsey Soderberg:my strategy and my framework and stuff. It's kind of like the
Kinsey Soderberg:prompting process I would have used with chatgpt manually, but
Kinsey Soderberg:I've just, like, automated it at this point, and it's pretty cool
Kinsey Soderberg:because, like, out on the other end, pops out a playbook that,
Kinsey Soderberg:like, within five minutes, that I then deliver to my clients,
Kinsey Soderberg:and we actually hop on a call and discuss it, which is kind of
Kinsey Soderberg:a fun little human touch point, but I forget why I brought this
Kinsey Soderberg:up in the first place. There was a point, but now I'm just, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:getting distracted by AI tools and systems
Kelly Sinclair:Like we were just talking about, like,
Kelly Sinclair:streamlining things so that you can have a bigger impact. And
Kelly Sinclair:this goes back to your your human first approach to AI,
Kelly Sinclair:because it gives you, then the time to be able to provide like,
Kelly Sinclair:even if you're thinking about how your offers may have shifted
Kelly Sinclair:as a business coach, in whatever kind of capacity, if you do like
Kelly Sinclair:now you can bring all of this done for you, stuff into like
Kelly Sinclair:strategy, and to me, now it's like, I'm also now able to give
Kelly Sinclair:you, like, the easy button of delivering and implementation,
Kelly Sinclair:because now we can use AI tools to say, hey, for me, it's like,
Kelly Sinclair:here's your visibility strategy. Let's talk about it. Make sure
Kelly Sinclair:it feels aligned for you. How do we get there? Here's like, all
Kelly Sinclair:of these different custom gpts, tools, whatever, how we're
Kelly Sinclair:building out, you know, pitching you on podcasts, fine, doing
Kelly Sinclair:research, all of these things, not know. Okay, here's a
Kelly Sinclair:strategy. Now. Good luck. It's hard.
Kinsey Soderberg:Yep, uh Yes. Oh my gosh, you just brought up
Kinsey Soderberg:a totally another amazing point. Okay, the point I was gonna say
Kinsey Soderberg:before too, I totally remembered, is, like, the fact
Kinsey Soderberg:that, like, I don't have to do the copy pasting and like, the
Kinsey Soderberg:like, all of the manual slog work that then my AI has just,
Kinsey Soderberg:like, generated the strategy. I can then take my fresh brain to
Kinsey Soderberg:the strategy that I would have created anyway. But by the end
Kinsey Soderberg:of like, creating that strategy, I would have been, like, so
Kinsey Soderberg:mentally drained, right? And I would have just been like, okay,
Kinsey Soderberg:here you go. Guys, like, I, like, created this for you, but
Kinsey Soderberg:like, you know, instead, right? It was, it's still great as you
Kinsey Soderberg:but, yeah, it's, it would still be great. And like, now I'm
Kinsey Soderberg:actually able to put fresh eyes on a strategy that I would have
Kinsey Soderberg:generated anyway. And like, actually do more creative,
Kinsey Soderberg:higher level thinking on, like, the strategy. So like, I think
Kinsey Soderberg:it's pretty cool to think about the fact that, like, sometimes
Kinsey Soderberg:people are afraid that like AI is going to devalue your work
Kinsey Soderberg:and or maybe I should charge less because it's like, taking
Kinsey Soderberg:me less time now and all the different stuff. And I like to
Kinsey Soderberg:point out to people, well, actually, like, when you get an
Kinsey Soderberg:AI to help you with, like, the foundational work, and then you
Kinsey Soderberg:can bring your brain on top of it, actually, you're probably
Kinsey Soderberg:producing, like, you're able to produce a better result, because
Kinsey Soderberg:you're even, you have more capacity for higher level
Kinsey Soderberg:thinking in that way. You know what? I mean, it can actually be
Kinsey Soderberg:a little bit more valuable. I think,
Kelly Sinclair:Oh, I totally agree with that. And this is
Kelly Sinclair:these are such, really, really good, like nuances to consider
Kelly Sinclair:unpack, like we're unpacking all the things that may be going on
Kelly Sinclair:in people's brains about, you know how to ethically,
Kelly Sinclair:responsibly, intentionally, all these words, use tools like
Kelly Sinclair:this, and what are some of the roadblocks that we may be facing
Kelly Sinclair:without even maybe knowing it. So I love that we're kind of
Kelly Sinclair:like just stripping through that right now to say, Okay, so the
Kelly Sinclair:flip side of this is you could be creating so much more value
Kelly Sinclair:if you were using AI, you could be having more time to spend
Kelly Sinclair:with your family. If you were using it, you could be more
Kelly Sinclair:energized and not be so empty at the end of the day, if you were
Kelly Sinclair:using AI in more strategic, impactful, effective ways.
Kinsey Soderberg:Yes, girl, exactly. And like, that's what I
Kinsey Soderberg:kind of like. I don't know if, like, you've chatted about kind
Kinsey Soderberg:of climate impact of AI tools on the show or anything. It's
Kinsey Soderberg:something that pops up sometimes for people with me too and stuff
Kinsey Soderberg:and it, it's kind of one of those things, again, where the
Kinsey Soderberg:amount the opportunity for impact when you're using AI
Kinsey Soderberg:tools is so much huger. And like, with climate impact and
Kinsey Soderberg:stuff, like, yeah, it's an issue. And, like, it's one of
Kinsey Soderberg:those things where women, again, are the people who care the
Kinsey Soderberg:most. And if women aren't using AI tools and increasing their
Kinsey Soderberg:capacity for impact, for reinvesting in nonprofits,
Kinsey Soderberg:things that can help the climate and, like, actually make a
Kinsey Soderberg:difference when it comes to the company and corporate level,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? Like that sort of stuff. Again, it's just like, I
Kinsey Soderberg:honestly think that the more women who use AI tools, we're
Kinsey Soderberg:gonna have more energy, more capacity, more wealth, more
Kinsey Soderberg:impact. We're gonna just like, literally change the world. And
Kinsey Soderberg:that's again, why it's just so important.
Kelly Sinclair:Oh, yeah, and. Mean, that's, that's his
Kelly Sinclair:listening to this show. Because anybody who's coming into my
Kelly Sinclair:world like we're talking about that, whatever it is that you do
Kelly Sinclair:like you may be an expert at you know, any number of things, and
Kelly Sinclair:it doesn't matter what it is, but what you're trying to do is
Kelly Sinclair:help people with what you do, like, that's who's listening.
Kelly Sinclair:Where we're helpers. We're service based, like heart
Kelly Sinclair:centered entrepreneurs. And so at the end of the day, you have
Kelly Sinclair:a bigger mission, where your heart is and and this is a tool
Kelly Sinclair:to help you fulfill that in a more impactful way, like, kind
Kelly Sinclair:of full stop, yes, there's all these little details to think
Kelly Sinclair:about. And there's a lot of things, like as an industry and
Kelly Sinclair:like as a culture that we need to consider that are coming, you
Kelly Sinclair:know, up with, with the development of this technology,
Kelly Sinclair:but you know, you have your role to play as a human like we have.
Kelly Sinclair:We can only make the impact that we can make, and the decisions
Kelly Sinclair:that feel alignment for us,
Kinsey Soderberg:yeah, yeah. And whatever it is that you
Kinsey Soderberg:like, that's the thing. Whatever it is that like lights you up,
Kinsey Soderberg:that fires you up, that you care about in your life, with the
Kinsey Soderberg:world, with your kids, with any like, what is important to you,
Kinsey Soderberg:AI, can help you create more space, energy, time, money, to
Kinsey Soderberg:like, make whatever like impacts that you want to make in the
Kinsey Soderberg:world, right? And like, that's what I always like, remember,
Kinsey Soderberg:and that's a shift that I like to make for women, especially
Kinsey Soderberg:because, like, we do, we hold ourselves back. You know, even
Kinsey Soderberg:sometimes I find myself off, I hold myself back with AI every
Kinsey Soderberg:day, I'm like, like, now that I'm aware of it, I'm kind of,
Kinsey Soderberg:like, trying to be aware of it and stuff. But, you know, it's
Kinsey Soderberg:the little things like, Oh, well, I'll use AI for client
Kinsey Soderberg:research, but I'm not gonna, like, use it for the X, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:the final deliverable, you know. And or, Oh, I'm gonna use
Kinsey Soderberg:chatgpt to help me, like, plan my content, but then I need to
Kinsey Soderberg:write the captions. Or I'm gonna, oh, I'm gonna rewrite all
Kinsey Soderberg:the captions that chatgpt writes for me, you know. Or, it's like
Kinsey Soderberg:for me, my what I was holding myself back with a lot was kind
Kinsey Soderberg:of like automation with AI and stuff like taking that next step
Kinsey Soderberg:of like automating, I think because it was afraid that
Kinsey Soderberg:would, like, take the human out of my brand and stuff like that.
Kinsey Soderberg:But it's like remembering that like, no you can incorporate
Kinsey Soderberg:human touch points wherever you want to incorporate human touch
Kinsey Soderberg:points into an AI automation. Like, let's make this
Kinsey Soderberg:deliverable in five fricking minutes. And like, and guess
Kinsey Soderberg:what? Like, with my auto generated playbook thing, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:you know, like, when you have one to one client calls or
Kinsey Soderberg:whatever, and you're supposed to fill out the intake form, you
Kinsey Soderberg:know, 48 hours beforehand, or 72 hours so I can have time to
Kinsey Soderberg:review guys, you know, like, that's what I always tell
Kinsey Soderberg:people. And you know, you always have the people like, I'm sorry
Kinsey Soderberg:I forgot to, like, fill it out. Or, like, it's two hours before
Kinsey Soderberg:they're like, I'm sorry, I just filled it out. Let me know if
Kinsey Soderberg:it's a problem or whatever. And like, it used to be a problem
Kinsey Soderberg:when I was doing like strategies myself, but with AI, like, now
Kinsey Soderberg:it's not, you know, and it is just kind of fun to think about,
Kinsey Soderberg:like, how client experience can improve with AI too, which is
Kinsey Soderberg:the other amazing point that you made where that's something that
Kinsey Soderberg:I love. I can, man, I love geeking out with you about this,
Kinsey Soderberg:because, like, I used to be teach online courses, and people
Kinsey Soderberg:knew I was delivering, like, great value, and I was, like,
Kinsey Soderberg:teaching them how to do the thing, and I was trying to make
Kinsey Soderberg:it as structured, step by step, easy as possible. But still,
Kinsey Soderberg:it's so hard for people to take action on a concept that's like,
Kinsey Soderberg:new and that you still don't understand, right? It's always
Kinsey Soderberg:like, Okay, I hear what you're saying about branding kins, but
Kinsey Soderberg:like, I don't know what that looks like for my specific
Kinsey Soderberg:brand, right? And that's where, like, AI tools are so freaking
Kinsey Soderberg:helpful for helping your people do the dang thing and, like, get
Kinsey Soderberg:over that hump of, like, I don't know how this applies to my
Kinsey Soderberg:brand. Well, guess what? Let's ask chatgpt It can help apply my
Kinsey Soderberg:framework to your brand. Here we go.
Kelly Sinclair:Oh yeah. Like, the number of templates and
Kelly Sinclair:examples and things that I've gotten in courses before. And
Kelly Sinclair:then I just like, I can't brain myself into, like, figuring how
Kelly Sinclair:this works for me. And then I can give it to chat GPT, and
Kelly Sinclair:it's like, oh, this is exactly how we would write this with
Kelly Sinclair:your language. And, oh, that's interesting, okay, but I want to
Kelly Sinclair:pick up on a couple of things that you just said. One is how,
Kelly Sinclair:like, amazing to surprise and delight your clients within
Kelly Sinclair:like, a five minute like, return on. Here's a thing that I just
Kelly Sinclair:made you so fast, and they have something to reflect on, and now
Kelly Sinclair:you can have a better conversation, a deeper
Kelly Sinclair:conversation. You're not just like, like, I think this is,
Kelly Sinclair:like, one thing in this kind of what I'm actually talking about
Kelly Sinclair:on your Summit, which is, you know, changing forms into
Kelly Sinclair:interactive experiences. And I decided to do that. Instead of
Kelly Sinclair:sending a form to a client, I made a GPT to walk them through
Kelly Sinclair:the form. So it was more prompting. I don't know about
Kelly Sinclair:you, but I really feel like, like there's a box. There that
Kelly Sinclair:you have to fill out, like, literally, you're like, I don't
Kelly Sinclair:know. Maybe this. And instead of now, it can react to your
Kelly Sinclair:response and say, Have you also considered this? Or you can say,
Kelly Sinclair:I don't know. And then it can give you ideas. And when I said
Kelly Sinclair:that to my the first client that went through it, she came back
Kelly Sinclair:and also having not been like someone to use AI a lot herself.
Kelly Sinclair:She's like, I have never felt so seen like that. My onboarding
Kelly Sinclair:bot like gave her this feeling of empathy and understanding.
Kelly Sinclair:And I've seen the conversations that they've had, and I'm like,
Kelly Sinclair:oh my goodness, what this can do and how it like, inspires a
Kelly Sinclair:deeper level of information extraction, even that sets us up
Kelly Sinclair:as coaches and strategists to have more context to be able to
Kelly Sinclair:deliver a better result as well.
Kinsey Soderberg:Oh my gosh, I love that so much girl. Oh yeah,
Kinsey Soderberg:I remember because I've been doing all the behind the scenes
Kinsey Soderberg:of the summit, like, putting your speaker pages together and
Kinsey Soderberg:stuff. And I saw Kelly's topic, and I was like, Oh, girl, I'm
Kinsey Soderberg:gonna be hitting that up to see what's up. Because I love that
Kinsey Soderberg:concept, too. And exactly like, Ah, it's so cool to think about
Kinsey Soderberg:how AI can, like, provide such a customized, personalized
Kinsey Soderberg:experience to our people, like, help people feel seen in ways
Kinsey Soderberg:that like we don't like we haven't been able to do before,
Kinsey Soderberg:because we, again, haven't had the capacity, right? And that's,
Kinsey Soderberg:again, another somewhat. I mean, I'm talking a lot about men and
Kinsey Soderberg:women, you know, and it is like, it's not like, super binary or
Kinsey Soderberg:anything like that, but like, again, women do tend to like,
Kinsey Soderberg:care more about helping people feel seen. It's, again, the
Kinsey Soderberg:empathy in us. It's how we were raised to like, support people,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? And that's something that we definitely care about in our
Kinsey Soderberg:businesses more often. And to think about, like, the fact that
Kinsey Soderberg:AI can give you that opportunity, like, to provide a
Kinsey Soderberg:better customer experience to your clients than that way,
Kinsey Soderberg:especially, like, that's another reason why, like, what, like AI,
Kinsey Soderberg:is so freaking awesome for women, especially.
Kelly Sinclair:So so many good things here. I love this
Kelly Sinclair:conversation so much. Kenzie and everyone's call to action from
Kelly Sinclair:this episode is to make sure that you check out the her AI
Kelly Sinclair:era Summit. It's going to be incredible. Like, block off
Kelly Sinclair:October 13 to 17th in your calendar, because you're just
Kelly Sinclair:going to want to, like, learn all day, all the time, because
Kelly Sinclair:this is the kind of learning I don't know about you. I like, I
Kelly Sinclair:feel like both of us are speaking at a much higher
Kelly Sinclair:frequency that we even started this conversation, even though
Kelly Sinclair:we literally started with laughter. It's so exciting.
Kelly Sinclair:Like, like, the number, I just feel like there's so much
Kelly Sinclair:momentum and so much stuff happening, like my mind is
Kelly Sinclair:exploding so many times every single day, which makes working
Kelly Sinclair:more fun. It like, makes my day happier. I'm excited. You know,
Kelly Sinclair:when my kids come home from school and I, like, feel the
Kelly Sinclair:energy and then that pours over into the other parts of my life.
Kelly Sinclair:Did you have any last words? Like, I feel like we could just
Kelly Sinclair:continue this conversation for 100 more years. But like, how do
Kelly Sinclair:you wrap this up?
Kinsey Soderberg:Oh, lady, no. I mean, I think that that was,
Kinsey Soderberg:like, such a great little point that you just made at the end
Kinsey Soderberg:too. And that's like, something I know we could nerd out forever
Kinsey Soderberg:side note. But like, that's something that I have felt too,
Kinsey Soderberg:right? Is like, actually, AI helps to keep me motivated. It's
Kinsey Soderberg:one of those things where I didn't think about it until it
Kinsey Soderberg:was, like a 2020 hindsight sort of situation. I think I was
Kinsey Soderberg:like, reflecting on my 2024 year or something even, so, you know,
Kinsey Soderberg:at this point the way back then. But like, I went through the
Kinsey Soderberg:year of 2024 and I was like, Man, I know I'm doing a lot of
Kinsey Soderberg:stuff, but like, like, I didn't really keep track of how much I
Kinsey Soderberg:was doing, because I was just go, go, going, you know, and
Kinsey Soderberg:stuff. And by the end of 2024 I realized, holy crap, I'd been
Kinsey Soderberg:saving an average of three hours a day, 15 hours a week, and 70
Kinsey Soderberg:hours every month, with AI tools. And because of that, I
Kinsey Soderberg:did so much more than I have ever done in my business in the
Kinsey Soderberg:past, like previous four years, you know what I mean. And like,
Kinsey Soderberg:putting out new offers, doing lots of collabs, doing podcast
Kinsey Soderberg:interviews, creating more content showing up more
Kinsey Soderberg:consistently than ever before. And I realized when I was
Kinsey Soderberg:reflecting, wow, I didn't drive myself into burnout once, which,
Kinsey Soderberg:like usually was, like at least once a year, if not multiple
Kinsey Soderberg:times a year in the previous years before that I would like,
Kinsey Soderberg:I could depend on burnout coming at some point throughout my
Kinsey Soderberg:year, and I was like, Huh? I just did so much, and I was
Kinsey Soderberg:motivated. I had more freedom. I actually took the weekends off.
Kinsey Soderberg:I actually, I started a crafting hobby, right? Like, I would not
Kinsey Soderberg:have made time for before. I'm like, Oh, wow. Like. So AI
Kinsey Soderberg:actually, like, can improve your day to day. And like, carry the
Kinsey Soderberg:workload. It can carry the creative load. It can carry the
Kinsey Soderberg:energy load that like, and I wasn't experiencing that
Kinsey Soderberg:creative drain, that energy drain that I used to and like
Kinsey Soderberg:that alone is so worth it. But anyway, guys, come to the
Kinsey Soderberg:summit, please.
Kelly Sinclair:Yes. And I feel like, just because, hey, I was
Kelly Sinclair:like, Would you like to have the last word, and now I'm gonna,
Kelly Sinclair:like, swoop in and have the last for it, girl, I'm just because I
Kelly Sinclair:want to say that your this conversation with you is like
Kelly Sinclair:bringing up something else for me, which is just in my own
Kelly Sinclair:journey this year, like 2025 I declared, only if it's a hell
Kelly Sinclair:yes, like that is my like mantra, and how I'm moving
Kelly Sinclair:through this year, and honestly, now for the rest of my life,
Kelly Sinclair:because it has been so good, and that is accepting ease is okay,
Kelly Sinclair:right? Like this is, this is the thing to let go of and and for
Kelly Sinclair:me that I am accepting, like, let it be easy. Let your
Kelly Sinclair:business be easy. Let creating the strategy be easy. Let doing
Kelly Sinclair:that client research be easy. Let it be easy. AI, is such a
Kelly Sinclair:huge part of that for me. And I want more people to feel the
Kelly Sinclair:benefits of having that ease accessible in your business and
Kelly Sinclair:in your life.
Kinsey Soderberg:I love that so much. Thank you so much. Kelly,
Kinsey Soderberg:this has been like, so fun, literally, and like, everything
Kinsey Soderberg:you're saying, I'm just like the double hands emoji in the air
Kinsey Soderberg:and stuff. So I'm so grateful to you. I'm so grateful to you for
Kinsey Soderberg:being a part of our summit too. And like, your amazing training
Kinsey Soderberg:is going to be so awesome. And like, also, just like, grateful
Kinsey Soderberg:for you being another woman in the in the AI space using AI
Kinsey Soderberg:tools. And just like, helping more women use AI tools too.
Kelly Sinclair:Well, thank you for being here, and thank you to
Kelly Sinclair:you and Joyce for hosting this summit. It's an incredible
Kelly Sinclair:resource for everybody listening, so make sure that you
Kelly Sinclair:check the show notes for the link, and we will see you there.