Live AMA: Get Your AI Readiness Credential from the AI Salon and #SheLeadsAI

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0:00 whatever time it is wherever you are
0:04 welcome today is a super interactive
0:07 session we're going to just like Babble
0:09 a little bit while people pour pour in
0:12 the the the the masses pour in to our
0:16 live stream uh Kyle why don't you tell
0:19 the nice people where where all we are
0:22 live streaming from and to Fantastic so
0:26 we are uh physically uh I'm in Denver
0:29 Colorado an is uh in Portland near
0:32 what's your town I live in Corvalis
0:35 Oregon which is where Oregon state is oh
0:37 okay oh very cool very nice so so so
0:41 we're in in different parts of the
0:42 country um I'm live on Tik Tok right now
0:45 on the AI learning lab I'm also live on
0:47 AI learning lab YouTube and my personal
0:50 LinkedIn account so if you're on
0:52 LinkedIn hi everybody and where is this
0:56 is streaming for you to where this is
0:59 streaming for me to um my
1:03 LinkedIn and we kind of sort of think
1:09 maybe maybe my YouTube okay but that's
1:13 an area for you know fway or calendar
1:18 year
1:19 2025
1:21 review that's that's very
1:25 nice and here's where we all are here's
1:28 where we're all meeting meeting in the
1:29 middle this is what we're talking about
1:32 this is what we're talking about so um
1:35 today we are going
1:38 to Avail people of information about our
1:42 AI Readiness certification and we'll
1:44 share a little bit about how we got here
1:47 how did we get to this point where today
1:49 we are launching this opportunity for
1:52 everyone who has asked us for it which
1:54 is a whole lot of people um we're going
1:57 to talk a little bit about what what
1:59 happened at AI f F uh the response to AI
2:03 Festivus and then what the credentialing
2:06 program will look like as of our current
2:09 thinking which is I don't know
2:12 85% there 90 we've got a we've got a few
2:16 weeks where we're going to um refine our
2:19 thoughts and do some beta testing with
2:21 beta users and then we will drop this
2:24 thing for everybody on February 1 so
2:28 exactly that's what we're up to if
2:29 that's what you're interested in you
2:31 have come to the right place again today
2:34 is an interactive session so please do
2:37 drop your questions in the chat if like
2:39 for if you're on LinkedIn you can just
2:41 put them in there it's like under where
2:44 where we're talking and sometimes it's a
2:46 little bit janky but just keep keep
2:48 trying I will see all of the Let me just
2:52 make sure and it said I I just saw a
2:56 LinkedIn user said the link was not
2:57 working from Kyle's LinkedIn I don't
2:59 know what that means
3:00 if it means the link for this or the
3:02 link that was in the announcement we put
3:04 out but you can go to mine um Let me let
3:10 me pull mine real quick if it if if
3:12 that's not working for you um they say
3:16 got in so they made that comment so they
3:17 got in
3:18 somewhere yeah that's true oh so you
3:21 must be yeah you must they must be
3:23 viewing so we'll leave it we'll leave it
3:26 at that um the other thing uh I felt
3:31 like oh Lor yours is fine your link was
3:34 fine okay perfect the link is working
3:37 now I kind of figured okay so why don't
3:40 we take a second to introduce ourselves
3:41 just in case there are people who
3:43 haven't yet met us my name is Anna
3:45 Murphy no no people have not met
3:48 us I thought I was a
3:52 superar we feel like we're just The
3:56 Darlings right now but it's in part be
3:58 mine didn't work okay linked us your why
4:00 don't you wait a second yeah um didn't
4:02 work from
4:04 email I don't know what to tell you
4:06 LinkedIn is weird um all
4:10 right it took me far too long to figure
4:13 this out well figured it out all right
4:16 well we'll let let's let's do that why
4:17 don't you introduce yourself let let the
4:20 people also this
4:22 is perfect so this is perfect training
4:25 for the AI Wilderness because nothing
4:29 works on the first click and nothing
4:31 works on the 12th click on the 12th
4:33 click there's this one woman I follow on
4:37 Tik Tok and she her name is um infinite
4:42 something and um she purposely makes it
4:46 difficult to find her stuff on the
4:48 internet be find her courses because she
4:50 doesn't want people in there who can't
4:53 dig around and find stuff you you want
4:56 to know what's funny what when I when I
4:58 first moved to New York there was an
5:00 acting teacher named Bill esper and he
5:01 invited me to take his acting class and
5:04 when I went to you know sign up for his
5:06 class the receptionist dude was just
5:08 really nasty and he was like just wait
5:10 over there just nasty dismissive and so
5:13 I waited for like 45 minutes and I'm
5:15 like what's up you know am I gonna meet
5:16 with Bill and he's like no he's busy
5:19 just come back tomorrow and sent me away
5:21 he did that three days in a row and I
5:23 found out that was all by design that
5:26 that bill didn't want anyone in his
5:28 acting class that that didn't have the
5:30 Moxy to get past his nasty assistant
5:33 because it's a tough business so I
5:35 totally get it but anyway so Anne
5:38 introduce yourself please okay yeah so
5:41 um my name is Anne Murphy and I live in
5:44 Corvalis Oregon which is where Oregon
5:46 state is and a couple of years ago after
5:49 25 years in my industry I launched a
5:51 consultancy my uh subject matter
5:54 expertise is in nonprofit and highered
5:56 fundraising and when I added AI in into
6:00 that my subject matter expertise I got
6:03 like my superpowers where I was able to
6:06 really focus on working out of my zone
6:09 of Genius Like I launched this company
6:11 because I want to make an impact in the
6:14 world and making an impact in the world
6:15 isn't going to happen when a Visionary
6:19 type person type leader is you know
6:22 scouring
6:24 through uh where the comma is you know
6:27 where the comma is supposed to be uh
6:29 what why the spreadsheet column is off
6:32 like that's not going to work so I
6:35 started using AI got completely hooked
6:38 on it joined a bunch of communities to
6:40 kind of test them out and I got I got
6:43 really um involved with the AI exchange
6:47 which is R Rachel woods and then I got
6:49 really involved with the AI Salon which
6:51 is Kyle and his crew his vast crew um
6:55 his co-founder Leah fasten uh the whole
6:58 group of Champions who were called the
7:00 Irregulars long story needs context um
7:05 and then in the beginning of 2024 I
7:08 launched she leads AI which at the time
7:11 was just you know highlighting you know
7:14 baller women in the AI space and then
7:17 that got a lot of enthusiasm and then we
7:19 started doing events and we started
7:20 doing knowledge swaps and then the
7:22 election happened which was a call to
7:24 action for so many of us then we had a
7:27 really big event and then you know 3,200
7:30 people signed up for Festivus and 1,700
7:34 of them joined our shead's AI mailing
7:36 list and that what brings that's what
7:38 brings me to today that's what brings us
7:41 here um just quickly before I introduce
7:43 myself it looks like there are people on
7:45 LinkedIn in What's called the theater
7:47 which maybe is a a backstage waiting
7:49 area for this thing do you know if
7:51 there's any there's no theater in
7:53 LinkedIn no no in the in restream is
7:56 there a theater is there some sort of
7:58 holding room in Ram that you know
8:01 of no no definitely not there's just
8:06 LinkedIn live it's on I don't know
8:09 what's happening because I've been doing
8:10 these for 24 months so really it's just
8:15 showing on my on my like let me see if
8:19 there's something wrong with it while
8:20 you introduce yourselves yeah Amelia
8:22 says several people are waiting okay
8:24 cool um typically Bess I gotta say
8:26 something typically bless all of your
8:28 hearts absolutely adore you however AI
8:33 Salon folks don't spend as much time on
8:35 LinkedIn and it's typically you guys who
8:38 have a hard time getting on so bear with
8:41 us we're gonna figure this out I will I
8:43 will figure out what's going on great so
8:47 I'm Kyle Shannon uh I am a Storyteller
8:50 by training uh I uh I have a fine arts
8:53 degree in acting I've written a bunch of
8:55 screenplays I moved to New York City out
8:57 of school to pursue a life in the Arts
8:59 uh I'm based in Denver Colorado right
9:01 now um in the mid90s I stumbled upon
9:04 this thing called the worldwide web and
9:06 just became absolutely enamored with it
9:09 and what the possibilities were and I
9:11 started one of the first online
9:13 magazines and one of the first digital
9:14 agencies a company called agency.com in
9:17 the
9:17 mid90s so I've been in a movie before
9:20 that looks very similar to what we're
9:21 going through right now with AI um my
9:24 current gig is I'm the co-founder and
9:26 CEO of storyvine which is an automated
9:29 uh video storytelling platform we've
9:31 been around for 13 years come this may
9:33 uh so I've been doing that for a while
9:35 and then yeah when chat GPT came out I I
9:39 um recognized that holy crap here's
9:42 another here's another big technological
9:45 shift that's about to happen and um the
9:47 one thing that I learned back in the
9:49 worldwide web days is community is
9:51 everything uh and if you're connected
9:54 and in the conversation in the early
9:57 stages of a technology takeoff um
10:00 there's massive opportunity there and so
10:02 I started the AI Salon I started the Tik
10:04 Tok Channel and We're Off to the Races
10:06 so and that brings us here so let are
10:11 are you good you want me to just give a
10:12 little bit of background on how we got
10:13 to festiv yeah because I'm I'm gonna try
10:16 to keep You're Gonna Keep keep motoring
10:18 okay yes
10:21 fantastic um okay
10:24 so um the AI Salon was uh our first
10:28 meeting was December 7th 2022 so that
10:32 was the day uh the week after chat GPT
10:36 launched the following year um an had
10:39 become part of the AI salon and um we
10:43 got to um the holiday
10:46 break and me having
10:49 ADHD I had an idea that everyone they
10:52 had just launched custom gpts and
10:54 everyone was excited about gpts and I
10:57 knew an was teaching people how to build
10:59 gpts in her community and we were doing
11:01 lots of that in the AI salon and so I
11:03 reached out to Ann and I said I have
11:05 this wacky idea what if we did a 24hour
11:08 gpon for nonprofits because you know she
11:11 does nonprofit fundraising and she's
11:14 zany and I thought she might just say
11:16 yes so she didn't hes you didn't
11:18 hesitate you were like yep let's do it
11:21 I'm in and so last year on the weekend
11:24 in between Christmas and New Year's we
11:27 got people are getting in now uh so
11:30 whatever you're doing it looks like it's
11:33 working um so that's good so so we did
11:36 this thing called GPT for good and and
11:39 we invited people from our communities
11:40 and I don't know how many showed up 100
11:42 150 something like that over the 24
11:44 hours and these communities came
11:48 together and built 150 more than 150
11:51 gpts for nonprofits we had some people
11:54 like uh Suzanne Welker Jurgens and and
11:58 Kelly camp and Daisy Thomas that stayed
12:01 for the whole 24 hours and you know they
12:03 intended to come in and build one GPT
12:05 and they ended up building you know 20
12:07 of them it was absolutely a remarkable
12:09 event so that was last year and then
12:13 this year about a month before the
12:15 holidays Ann reached out to me and said
12:16 hey are we gonna do a thing and I'm like
12:18 yeah we should do a thing and then we
12:21 kicked around some ideas and one of the
12:24 things that we we struck on was we've
12:28 got these community with remarkably
12:30 talented people in them and is there
12:32 some way that we could provide a stage
12:35 for people to get out there right to to
12:39 put their talents out there and what
12:40 they're working on out there because
12:42 what what we've learned in our
12:43 communities is that experiencing what
12:46 someone else is doing with AI is one of
12:48 the best ways to learn it right learning
12:49 it yourself is good and required and all
12:51 that sort of stuff but being in a
12:53 community of people that are doing
12:54 things that you don't do is a great way
12:57 to learn it and so that was the idea and
13:00 then two weeks went by and I had done
13:03 nothing on this so we had like two weeks
13:05 to go uh before that weekend and an
13:09 reached back out to me and said hey Kyle
13:11 have you done anything on this AI
13:12 Festivus thing and I was like came up
13:16 with a
13:17 name I came up with a name for
13:21 it and so she took off she put a a team
13:25 of volunteers together and within I
13:27 don't know within four or five days days
13:29 it had already taken shape and we were
13:32 texting furiously back and forth about
13:34 we've got X number of speakers and
13:36 everyone I'm asking is saying yes and
13:38 and then she said have you called your
13:40 people and I'm like no but then I
13:43 did and everyone I reached out to said
13:46 yes with the exception of of two people
13:49 that just logistically couldn't do it
13:50 because of holiday travel and so we had
13:52 34 people say yes we've essentially
13:55 everyone we asked out of our communities
13:57 was like I'm in where do you need me
13:59 when do you need me and we're like well
14:00 it's a holiday weekend and they're like
14:02 oh that's more complicated they gave us
14:04 hours and then and then an took all of
14:07 those names and all of those schedules
14:09 and put together the uh the itinerary so
14:12 so the event if you missed it AI
14:14 Festivus was December 27th and
14:17 28th they started at 9 in the morning
14:20 Pacific time and essentially went till 9
14:22 o'clock at night um both Friday and
14:24 Saturday the 27th and
14:26 28th um and that was the plan and we had
14:28 34 speakers in 23 or 24 sessions so we
14:32 had some panels in there and uh and and
14:35 that was that now what happened was
14:37 along the way tell me when you want to
14:38 jump back in and because I'm just sort
14:40 of riffing while you're you're good yeah
14:43 no I'm just I'm just responding to about
14:46 50 messages about links so for everyone
14:50 you're not missing anything yeah we know
14:52 you're not missing yeah Kyle go on
14:56 you've got the links posted in here
14:58 multiple times just use those if you're
15:00 having a hard time getting in beautiful
15:02 so okay awesome so
15:06 um so we we started putting the word out
15:09 and and a couple of things started
15:11 happening we were starting to get more
15:14 response than um than we were planning
15:17 we were hoping maybe for I don't know
15:19 what three or 400 people to sign up and
15:22 at some point we had 100 people signed
15:24 up and and reached out and like is
15:25 anyone going to come to our party it'd
15:27 be nice if we had 300 I'm like I know
15:30 and then it went up a little bit and
15:31 then all of a sudden we were at like
15:33 405 and then we were at like 700 like
15:37 the the numbers just went crazy and it
15:39 turns out um a a lovely woman named
15:42 Sabrina romanof um made a a video about
15:45 the event on her Tik Tok Channel which
15:47 is she's got a whole community and so
15:51 that just kind of lit registrations on
15:54 fire so we ended up registering more
15:57 than 3,200 people for this event
16:00 um and it was absolutely insane and it
16:04 we you know we I'm trying to think when
16:07 we about three days before the event we
16:10 were probably north of 2,000 people
16:12 registered and so we got together and we
16:15 said listen a normal normally what we
16:18 would do is we would do like a a zoom
16:20 call where everybody logs in and we all
16:21 get to talk to each other and like with
16:23 2,000 people that ain't G to work like
16:26 you know Zoom don't do that um and
16:29 nothing does that right so and it's just
16:31 not logistically possible so we ended up
16:33 switching our um Zoom subscription uh to
16:37 to what's called a webinar format and we
16:39 had to go to a Max of 3,000 people which
16:42 was really pricey so we had sponsors
16:44 that all stepped up and helped
16:46 underwrite all of that and so the event
16:48 went you know took off and and it was
16:51 absolutely amazing
16:54 so let's see tell me more about AI
16:57 Festivus what was it why should I have
16:59 fomo so so what it was was this two days
17:04 of really anyone could speak about
17:07 anything they wanted to speak about we
17:08 hand selected them they were like the
17:10 superstars of our communities right
17:12 they're the people that we like we want
17:13 these people to talk
17:16 um and and
17:19 so should you have fomo yes you should
17:22 absolutely have fomo but the good news
17:24 is the the recordings are available and
17:26 what we're talking about today the
17:28 certification is a certification to take
17:31 all the wisdom that was provided during
17:33 festiv us and turn that into a
17:34 structured uh learning uh system and
17:38 that's that we're developing right now
17:40 so that I'm really excited about but I
17:42 guess what I'll do is this I will share
17:45 my big takeaways an and then I'll kick
17:46 it over to you and I'd love to hear your
17:48 big takeaways or or tell me if your
17:50 head's in the game the talk yeah it is
17:54 in the game let me let me I'm going to
17:56 answer questions as we go um not about
18:00 not about links uh the links are in the
18:03 links are posted so um Diane asked or
18:07 somebody asked not somebody asked about
18:10 what the certification in a what is it
18:13 I'm going to dive in with yes it is a
18:15 certification on AI somebody said not
18:18 really so it is a certification on ai ai
18:22 not about it's not about AI tools right
18:25 so so one of the things that we we
18:27 talked about initially was doing AI
18:29 literacy certification and an reached
18:33 out to me and I thought this was I'm so
18:34 glad you did because I hadn't I hadn't
18:37 even gone here but she said literacy
18:39 something doesn't feel right about it
18:41 and we we kicked it back and forth where
18:43 we both landed was literacy was starting
18:45 to feel like literacy is about learning
18:47 the tools right learning prompt
18:50 engineering and learning tactical stuff
18:53 and getting good at chat GPT and good
18:54 getting good at apis and right getting
18:57 literate they felt very tool Centric and
18:59 so so we kicked some ideas around and
19:01 where we landed was what AI Festivus was
19:04 really about was people talking about
19:07 how they're doing what they do in life
19:10 and then how they use AI in the context
19:12 of that so they what they what what it
19:15 was basically was 24 sessions of people
19:17 talking about how they're getting AI
19:20 ready right and and so so when we had so
19:24 many requests for can this become a
19:26 certification focusing on well what do
19:28 we want to certify is actually really
19:30 important and so AI Readiness is what we
19:34 landed on and so the certification is
19:35 about AI Readiness and that's that I'm
19:37 super excited
19:40 about great um
19:44 so I feel Kyle like based on the
19:48 questions in the chat we should not go
19:51 through AI Festivus except for as we're
19:55 answering the questions so let's um let
19:59 me dive in with a couple of more details
20:02 first of all everybody let us take just
20:05 a little step back I totally understand
20:08 that you want to know the
20:09 nitty-gritty keep in mind we are still
20:12 30 days out from launching this but we
20:14 are and we are only four days out from
20:17 Festivus so this is all happening really
20:19 really quickly um and that if you are
20:22 having fomo definitely go over to the AI
20:25 salon and you can you can get resources
20:28 there you can watch the videos there and
20:30 I'm sure somebody would drop that in
20:33 drop that link in the chat if you
20:35 weren't already if you if you don't
20:36 already know what that is if you go to
20:38 the salon. that's going to take you to a
20:40 website you have to click on join our
20:42 community on that website and that will
20:45 take you to the community site where the
20:47 resources
20:49 are
20:51 okay
20:53 um yeah and I was wondering if Vicky you
20:55 could drop links or Donnie drop links
20:58 that people are asking for and that they
21:00 need in order to access some of these
21:02 resources oh thank you thank you Silver
21:04 Fox appreciate you very much um
21:08 so couple of things um about
21:12 how Okay so Kyle already me talked about
21:15 the difference between AI literacy and
21:16 AI Readiness and here's my take on it my
21:20 take is that AI literacy was like 2023
21:24 2024 now that is absolutely St table
21:27 stakes and there this is not like
21:29 fearmongering to say you can't jump on
21:31 board because you absolutely like now's
21:33 a perfect time to jump on board like
21:36 right now before like the next wave of
21:39 things happen like we had a big wave in
21:41 December right there's always a lot
21:43 going on but like right now this pause
21:46 before you know agents become a big deal
21:49 which we don't need to worry about that
21:50 today PA before the acceleration starts
21:53 accelerating now a good time so this is
21:55 the
21:56 perfect yeah so this is the perfect
21:59 moment to dive in just like totally dive
22:02 in so you're going to get the AI
22:05 literacy right like through osmosis and
22:08 through your intuition that you're going
22:09 to build and you're going to get AI
22:13 Readiness and what AI Readiness means to
22:15 me is that you are you are like tool
22:20 agnostic you could drop in and
22:24 understand like this is for making
22:26 images this is for making movies this is
22:29 for making you know really good good
22:31 written content like you'll know how to
22:34 use it because you'll know like how to
22:36 use those
22:37 tools well enough that when you sit down
22:41 as an AI ready person and go okay I have
22:43 a project I need to work on like you
22:45 look at your to-do list and you go okay
22:48 how can I use AI so that I can work in
22:51 my zone of Genius so that I don't do
22:54 stuff for this project that's
22:56 unnecessary and K and I talk a lot about
22:59 you know un
23:01 unlearning using our brain first don't
23:03 don't stop relying on this because this
23:05 is the
23:08 bottleneck yes yes ex bottleneck it's
23:11 way better than this is this is the
23:13 bottleneck this is the bottleneck and
23:15 and not to say that anything is bad
23:17 about our operating systems up here it's
23:19 just that there's so much of what if we
23:23 think about what we've been doing for
23:24 decades like what got most of us here
23:26 because I I'm looking scanning I'm think
23:29 thinking mostly everybody is Gen X most
23:31 people maybe Elder Millennial um in the
23:33 chat if I'm getting if I'm picking up
23:36 what you guys are laying down um that
23:39 we're used to first of all we're used to
23:41 doing things the hard way we're used to
23:42 doing things through brute force and now
23:45 we're tired and we're also at the same
23:48 time ready to do more right so we're
23:51 tireder and we're more motivated and we
23:53 have this moment in time so now being AI
23:56 ready means you sit down at your desk or
23:59 you know you wander around outside while
24:01 you're walking and you talk to your AI
24:04 and you you think first like okay what
24:08 have I historically not enjoyed about a
24:10 project like this and what historically
24:12 am I trying to Outsource to other
24:15 people where's the intern
24:17 where's right where's the admin Boomer
24:20 represent okay Vicki okay I see
24:25 you Jen nexton ready Lori yeah Rebecca
24:29 so true so think about like what are you
24:32 yearning for an intern to do what are
24:34 you yearn what are you going to upwork
24:37 to ask ask somebody to do what are you
24:40 hoping that like your work bestie or
24:42 your your work husband will do for you
24:45 and Tackle those things at first get
24:47 some quick wins get some dopamine um
24:50 then go okay how can I get AI to help me
24:53 frame this project up you know simple
24:55 like hey AI what do I need to know in
24:58 order to do this project or hey ask me a
25:00 few questions I need to I need to write
25:02 a creative brief for this big event you
25:05 know ask me a few questions about it so
25:07 we can get started on a successful
25:08 project that's what I mean by AI
25:10 Readiness and then the other thing okay
25:13 just I want to share one thing one of
25:15 our speakers um is a guy named Jim Ross
25:18 and if you don't know Jim Ross you
25:19 should connect with him in the AI Salon
25:21 really great guy he sort of I would
25:24 consider what Jim does is kind of AI
25:26 Readiness 2.0 if you want to like you
25:28 want to if you want to kind of something
25:31 to Aspire to um Jim gets up every
25:35 morning and he sets a timer for 60
25:37 minutes and in those 60 minutes he uses
25:40 AI for his business he doesn't have an
25:42 agenda like he might he says the first
25:44 30 minutes he might have things he knows
25:45 he needs to do make some emails do some
25:48 things make some marketing compy copy
25:50 whatever it might be but that gets done
25:51 very quickly and then he's still got 30
25:53 minutes where he just plays and one of
25:56 the things that Jim's really good at
25:58 there there's
25:59 one thing of AI Readiness is thinking
26:01 about okay I have a problem to solve how
26:03 can I use AI to do that where Jim then
26:06 takes it is how can I use AI to do
26:08 something I never would have even
26:10 thought of before and the the story that
26:12 he shared during AI Festivus was one
26:14 night on a on a Tik Tock live he learned
26:16 how to make songs in sunno and he had
26:19 just met with a client the hour before
26:21 so he said why don't I write him a song
26:23 and see if that you know if they like
26:25 that and so he wrote a song in sunno and
26:28 sent it to this perspective client and
26:30 five minutes later you got an email
26:31 saying you're hired let's let's do this
26:34 so so AI Readiness is also about just
26:37 having that sense of adventure that you
26:40 can do things radically different than
26:42 you might have otherwise concerned yes
26:45 we are streaming this on LinkedIn as
26:47 well as
26:49 YouTube all right and other
26:53 questions so
26:56 um question is going to be
27:00 how first of all congratulations
27:03 LinkedIn user like that is so fire and I
27:05 would love to if you could drop another
27:07 comment about what portion of your job
27:11 search was
27:14 most accelerated enabled Etc by Ai and
27:20 oh she starts on Monday that's so cool
27:22 she or he they start on Monday that's
27:24 awesome
27:26 congratulations yay everybody in the
27:28 chat high fives because that is bomb or
27:30 give them them high fives because this
27:32 is a really this is an awesome Triumph
27:35 congratulations and bringing the H
27:37 dragging the husband along teaching the
27:39 husband toi love it dragging the husband
27:41 along kicking and screaming at CB yes
27:44 yeah yeah the first thing I did was send
27:46 everybody in in our organization to um
27:50 Rachel Woods you know training and just
27:52 to get us all like whenever you're
27:55 working with somebody and you're
27:56 teaching someone I think the biggest
27:57 benefit is to have a Shar vocabulary
27:59 right like what are the how do we talk
28:02 about this it's just like any new skill
28:04 like if I were trying to knit I would
28:07 need to know like 15 new vocabulary
28:09 words before I could even do one thing
28:11 yeah yeah yeah
28:13 exactly right I'd be like is it a I know
28:17 it's not even called yarn anymore for
28:19 example I know it's called fibers or
28:22 something artistic fibers I don't know
28:25 so in that way it's like anything else
28:26 you do live in Oregon um
28:29 I do oh so so yeah I I won't show you my
28:33 shoes
28:37 um so um one of the things that I want
28:42 like when I was working on the landing
28:43 page which we're going to share with you
28:46 guys it's of course a work in progress
28:47 because four days out from from uh
28:50 Festivus but I was thinking about how
28:53 this program this certification program
28:56 Compares with some of the other things
28:58 out there and first of all no shade
29:01 absolutely no shade to my colleagues who
29:03 have launched programs and you know
29:05 Rachel Kimber and I have one that's
29:06 super dope she's in the chat right now
29:08 if you guys don't follow Rachel please
29:10 do she's amazing um but here's what's
29:13 different about ours number one ours is
29:18 not about tools as we've mentioned so
29:21 this is not going to be dive in we're
29:23 going to show you 15 different tools
29:25 we're going to tell you that you need to
29:26 have 15 Tools in fact when tools come up
29:29 we're going to tell you focus on a few
29:31 get really good at those and then spam
29:33 you know go out from there after you've
29:35 played a whole bunch so it's not about
29:38 tools because we know that the tools are
29:40 going to come and go so X Out tools
29:43 tools are not only gonna come and go
29:45 tools like how you use chat GPT today is
29:48 going to be fundamentally different than
29:50 how you use it six months from now and
29:52 it's fundamentally different than six
29:53 months earlier so even the same tool is
29:55 going to change right so yeah so that's
29:58 a bit of a trap and and
30:00 and it's a trap right and what's not a
30:04 trap so here's the thing while while
30:07 Festivus didn't talk about tools there
30:10 were probably I don't know 20 30 40
30:13 tools that were mentioned of here's
30:15 things people are using but all of those
30:17 conversations were at the service of the
30:20 thing they were trying to accomplish or
30:21 the mindset that they had
30:24 right right right and I'll share like as
30:28 a special bonus for this is that Kyle
30:31 and I have already wasted spent learned
30:36 from thousands of hours of playing with
30:39 tools I don't know for me way less than
30:42 you but still I'm gonna guess like five
30:44 or 6 hundred hours learning new tools
30:47 right attempting to learn hugging face
30:49 for example and like crying attempting
30:52 like literally crying you know
30:54 attempting to learn automations also
30:56 crying um so we've done that and we are
31:01 100% sure at this point it's not about
31:03 those so that's what's really good and
31:06 you're going to develop the intuition to
31:07 know should I even just because I can
31:09 use AI should I use AI so again that's a
31:13 difference another difference is and I
31:15 think this is absolutely critical and
31:17 what is so awesome about our
31:19 organizations partnering together is
31:21 that and for those of you who were at
31:23 festiv us you saw that we are real human
31:27 beings every single one of those
31:29 Workshop presenters showed up as their
31:31 whole human self every single one of
31:33 them had the things that I think are
31:36 critical number one a curious mind
31:38 number two a willingness to be
31:39 vulnerable and number three a community
31:41 so they were up there saying to you you
31:43 know first of all uh is my PowerPoint
31:46 working right is my sound working right
31:48 so like they're human with is not a
31:50 sanitized we don't have a production
31:52 crew we have well we do we have Brandon
31:54 in the background and Donnie in the
31:56 background but we don't have we rent a
31:58 studio right it's good it's high quality
32:01 but it's not so overproduced that we
32:04 couldn't edit it if we needed to if we
32:06 couldn't you know we can C drop in and
32:08 make changes as things evolve um so
32:11 we're real relatable humans I have taken
32:14 all these courses where I just feel like
32:16 that person potentially may have never
32:19 done anything with AI but they're just
32:21 really good at reading a teleprompter
32:23 right that's harder for me to connect
32:25 with or people who want to teach solely
32:29 by um Theory like it's like as if it's
32:32 an academic Pursuit it's like we're
32:35 learning we're studying about AI but
32:38 we're not doing AI the other thing that
32:41 I see is um I remember when when they
32:44 when you used to sell software in shrink
32:46 wrap boxes you would get the the the
32:48 manual would be the resource of all the
32:51 things the tool could do and a lot of
32:53 the courses are here's all the things
32:54 the tool can do what really struck me an
32:58 about about Festivus and I mean you
33:00 talked about it like as real people they
33:01 showed up as their real selves but to a
33:04 person like there wasn't a person that
33:06 led with the tool first and a year ago
33:08 that just wasn't the case because the
33:10 tools were so new everyone was just
33:12 trying to figure out what do these
33:14 things do and now that we're kind of two
33:16 years into whatever this industry the
33:19 the post chat GPT industry
33:21 is what everyone to a person talked
33:25 about was what they're trying to
33:26 accomplish in their life what they're
33:28 you know uh you know um maybe they've
33:32 been laid off like I I see a lot of
33:34 comments uh in the in the chat that you
33:36 know some people have been laid off and
33:38 they've used AI to help them or now
33:39 they're going to dive head log into AI I
33:41 think that's absolutely awesome because
33:44 that's what the whole two days was about
33:46 was people showing up and just saying
33:48 here's where I am in my life here's what
33:50 I'm trying to accomplish here's what I
33:52 experimented with with AI here's what
33:54 worked here's what didn't the tools very
33:58 secondary right very secondary and and
34:02 that's the that's the thing that I think
34:04 is worth certifying how do you get in
34:06 that mindset how do you get in a mindset
34:09 I mean I talk about this nightly on my
34:11 live and but you just said it how do you
34:13 get in a mindset where when your first
34:15 instinct when you're presented with a
34:17 problem your first instinct is okay I've
34:19 got to think about this let me go to the
34:21 Whiteboard and and you have to actually
34:23 tell yourself no I don't have to think
34:26 about this I don't have to go to the
34:27 Whiteboard I can just go to chat GPT and
34:30 ask it and let it help me brainstorm and
34:33 and it's a completely different way of
34:35 working that's AI Readiness and it is
34:38 not an overnight thing it is very much
34:41 you know as you kind of play and absorb
34:43 what these tools can do and what they
34:45 mean for you personally about what you
34:47 want to express in the world or the work
34:49 you want to do yeah you absolutely you
34:53 are first all this other stuff is second
34:55 so that's that's what this certification
34:57 is really about and that's why I think
34:59 I'm so excited about it I can tell we
35:02 can tell everybody can tell we are we
35:04 are like beside ourselves right now um
35:08 so so that's another thing like it's not
35:12 it's kind of a an offshoot of we're
35:14 whole humans but like it's not boring
35:17 like there's this one that I signed up
35:19 for where it was like like they were
35:22 like promoting that it's like 57 modules
35:25 and I'm like shoot me now
35:28 there's no way and we all know people
35:31 don't finish their you know on demand
35:34 their their you know uh
35:36 self-guided uh courses because they like
35:40 the interest level just Fizzles right we
35:42 come in hot we're super excited and then
35:45 over time we're like I got other stuff
35:47 to do right so it's gonna move right
35:50 along just like people told us like with
35:53 so many people who were there for every
35:56 single session I know we we signed up
36:00 for this you guys didn't have to do that
36:03 um we encouraged it but but we had a lot
36:05 of people stay for the whole thing I
36:06 want to read what Michelle myy Silva
36:08 just said she goes I so miss that bro
36:10 marketing mindset said no one
36:16 ever you can make money with
36:19 ch oh my God Michelle you know what so
36:23 when I launched my company I had this
36:25 amazing branding expert who told me even
36:29 though this feels yucky you have to know
36:33 who the villain is you have to know who
36:36 you are not right and and the the easy
36:41 culprits for me were the tech Bros
36:43 because I was like I relate to them
36:45 absolutely zero I don't even want to be
36:47 in the same like industry with them how
36:50 can i s how can I be exactly opposite oh
36:53 I know showing up as my whole human self
36:56 and giving and giving and giving just
36:58 like Kyle like Kyle not to you know gas
37:01 you up or anything like that but Kyle is
37:03 one of my mentors and I learned from him
37:05 immediately give give give give give
37:07 give give Because by the
37:10 way
37:12 information and that's like what the
37:14 tech Bros offer right like information
37:16 we all need it but it's also available
37:18 everywhere because of AI y if you need
37:20 information about AI you can ask AI
37:23 right what it's really about and Kyle I
37:25 want you to talk about the um what it's
37:27 really really about are the things that
37:30 make us different from other people in
37:33 the a AI era which is you talk about
37:36 like taste and authenticity can you talk
37:40 about that part yeah so
37:43 so one of the speakers that we had at
37:46 the AI Salon was a guy named PJ lockran
37:48 I used to work with him back in
37:49 agency.com and he he's he started an
37:53 agency he's an entrepreneur he started
37:54 lots of successful companies and he
37:56 started an agency and he decided to to
37:58 switch it to all
38:00 AI um and in switching it to all AI he
38:03 didn't need as many people and he let go
38:06 of his copywriter and gave copywriting
38:09 duties to the account person so if if
38:11 you know anything about um agency life
38:14 like that generally doesn't happen right
38:16 account people are the relationship
38:18 people and the strategy people and
38:19 copywriters are copywriters it's very
38:21 tactical and it's very
38:23 specialized and the account person um
38:28 was very reticent at first and I
38:29 saidwell you know how's she liking it
38:31 now and he said she absolutely loves it
38:33 and I said I said can you tell me why
38:36 you let go of the copywriter and not the
38:39 account person or why yeah why you let
38:41 go of the copywriter and not the account
38:42 person like what was the choice and he
38:44 had an instant answer he said oh that's
38:46 easy he goes the account person had
38:49 taste the account person he knew that
38:54 the skills could be handled by AI to
38:56 some degree but he knew that the account
38:58 person wouldn't let crap go out the door
39:01 right she she had she had a point of
39:05 view she had a creative point of view
39:06 like he valued her
39:08 Humanity right it wasn't about the
39:10 Tactical skills and this is the shift
39:13 that I think we're all in the middle of
39:15 is that in in current
39:17 Society we value specialization and we
39:20 value skills and we value education not
39:23 that education is not important but what
39:25 we pay more for are Specialists that can
39:27 do tactical execution what we pay less
39:30 for are generalists because they're
39:33 generalists and maybe they can't dive as
39:35 deep on something that iceberg is about
39:37 to flip upside down where the AI is
39:41 going to get get good better and better
39:43 and better at tactical execution and
39:45 what we're going to need are people I
39:47 just wrote an article on LinkedIn do you
39:48 know who your Rick Rubin are um we're
39:51 going to need people like Rick Rubin who
39:53 might not be able to write songs might
39:55 not be able to sing might not even be
39:56 able to work the the mixing console but
39:59 he creates Grammy award-winning songs
40:01 and how does he do that he knows what he
40:05 likes and what he doesn't and he's
40:07 willing to say I like this and I don't
40:09 like that and that's kind of the role
40:11 that we all get to step into we get to
40:13 become the creative director we get to
40:15 become the producer we get to become the
40:18 the conductor of the
40:20 orchestra um and and that's just a very
40:23 different mindset from our current work
40:25 environment and and so being AI ready I
40:28 think is understanding that flip and
40:30 what does that mean for you personally
40:32 right maybe you are someone who can dive
40:34 deep on something but can you now start
40:36 to expand out and understand the bigger
40:38 picture that's going to be super
40:39 valuable so is that what you wanted me
40:41 to hit on yes exactly so like and and
40:45 the other component of like showing
40:48 demonstrating through this credential
40:50 that you are part of other people's
40:55 Gatherings and community and being able
40:57 to work together and like you've got
40:59 that that's almost a credential unto
41:02 itself can I share something about that
41:05 yes please
41:07 the one of the things that we we
41:10 recognized very early in the AI Salon I
41:12 think you and I have talked a lot about
41:14 this an is when people initially joined
41:17 the AI Salon there was a lot of
41:19 apologizing so much there a lot right
41:22 there was a lot of people like well I
41:25 just know this little thing over there
41:27 and they kind of apologized for the
41:28 thing they knew because they didn't know
41:31 all the AI stuff right and so they would
41:33 come in and they apologized and we went
41:35 we actually went through about a
41:36 six-month period where're just like no
41:38 apologies stop
41:39 apologizing because people thought that
41:42 the little thing that they knew wasn't
41:44 valuable because to them it was obvious
41:47 and what we learned in the salon was
41:50 that every time someone shared their
41:52 little obvious nugget that they often
41:54 apologized for three or four other
41:56 people in the conversation was would be
41:58 like oh my God that's revelatory I never
41:59 would have thought of it like that the
42:02 power of community is that you've got so
42:05 many people looking at AI through
42:07 different lenses that's how you get your
42:09 education because you never would have
42:11 looked at it like someone who's a
42:13 landscaper looked at it because you're
42:15 not that right and and they will teach
42:17 you something that you will then be able
42:19 to apply to what you want to do that
42:21 that's just you know Earth shattering
42:24 so um people are wanting to
42:31 know okay so here's here's a couple
42:34 little factoids about it here's how it's
42:36 going to work okay and keep in mind
42:38 again we're four days out five days out
42:41 from Festivus and the first day was just
42:44 sleeping yeah so we are still noodling
42:48 on this and we've got backup support
42:52 from people who know how to like get
42:55 things across the Finish Line Vicky
42:56 Baptist is on board with this project
42:59 helping make sure that everything is
43:01 organized properly and it's going to be
43:02 a good user experience for everybody so
43:05 that you can all be
43:08 successful here's the game plan we're
43:11 going to carefully curate the workshops
43:14 into a couple of different big topics
43:18 track for example oh go ahead no just
43:21 tracks tracks right so think of it as a
43:24 track like when you go to a conference
43:26 and it's like I want be in this track
43:29 but it's not going to be beginner
43:30 Advanced whatever because there is none
43:32 of that right everybody is learn in this
43:35 adventure together we're all learning
43:36 how to learn that's what matters not
43:38 where you are it's where you came in and
43:40 where you're going to go so there going
43:42 to be tracks for example AI in business
43:46 you know AI in
43:50 creativity other uses of a AI General AI
43:55 General and that and AI General looks
43:57 like security and policy and and you
44:00 know some of the more like how to large
44:01 language models work things like that so
44:03 we're going to have those three
44:05 different tracks is the initial thing um
44:07 is is is the initial plan based on the
44:11 speakers based on workshops yeah and
44:13 then um we'll have quizzes and like some
44:19 quiet time project for you in between
44:22 something and then um we'll have we
44:26 we're playing with the level of
44:28 interaction that will'll provide for the
44:32 people who purchase this like
44:34 particularly in the beginning we're
44:36 going to think about we're start we're
44:38 figuring that out that's a little bit of
44:40 a TBD we got to figure that out but
44:43 um then yeah and you'll progress through
44:46 it so like a lot of the Learning
44:48 Management Systems it'll be like you
44:50 know you take one or two workshops then
44:54 you take a quiz you got to pass it to go
44:57 to the next one it'll depend on which
44:59 learning management system we're all
45:01 Study Buddies Reginald exactly it sages
45:05 stages of motherhood said we are so
45:07 early it's Schoolhouse learning I love
45:09 that it's Schoolhouse learning we're all
45:12 in the one room Schoolhouse it's just a
45:14 very it's it's a big school house it's a
45:17 big Schoolhouse and pretty soon we're
45:19 gonna need a bigger one and that's the
45:20 point of it exactly right we really want
45:23 to graduate a whole big cohort of people
45:28 who are able to go out here and say not
45:30 only do I know what I know what I'm
45:33 talking about I also am affiliated with
45:36 other human beings and I have this
45:39 certification to prove it right and what
45:42 we're kind of certifying is the
45:44 following things the the previous things
45:47 but and it comes from the place of we're
45:49 not like the all knowing you know
45:53 omniscient AI
45:55 like judges of people and what they're
45:58 good at and what they're not but we have
46:01 been around for a while now I've taught
46:04 4,000 people how to use Ai and I've seen
46:07 what works and what doesn't we've tried
46:08 a whole bunch of different approaches
46:10 Kyle is I don't know millions of hours
46:12 on LinkedIn on a Tik Tok um
46:17 thousand yeah it's a lot um and running
46:21 communities seeing what works seeing
46:23 people's setbacks and so we have this
46:27 like bird's eye perspective and are
46:30 certifying from the place of trusted
46:33 communities right we've got a few
46:35 thousand people in our joint communities
46:38 who are you know successful and thriving
46:42 and happy to be engaged and this will be
46:45 another way for you to engage more
46:46 deeply with them yeah there's a there's
46:48 a question from wed ELC I think you
46:51 pronounce it is there going to be
46:52 ongoing support after completing the
46:54 certification such as forums mentorship
46:56 continuous learning opportunity
46:58 I don't know right now the next thing is
47:01 let's get the certification in place
47:03 what I can tell you is this the she
47:05 leads AI community and the AI Salon
47:08 Community have a lot of that stuff in it
47:11 already Yes get involved in the
47:14 communities there are remarkably
47:17 generous people in both of these
47:19 communities that what what's what's
47:22 incredible about these communities is
47:24 when new people come in
47:28 they aren't judged they're welcomed
47:30 right you know how some communities they
47:32 get to a certain level and then they're
47:34 like well if you're not at this level
47:36 then you're not in this community that's
47:38 not who these are so what ends up
47:39 happening is people come into the
47:40 community they're like H I don't know
47:42 what I'm doing and they get welcomed in
47:44 and if you
47:46 participate if you show up and you say
47:49 hey I'm just learning how to do this and
47:51 I tried this and it didn't work does
47:52 anybody have a tip someone will give you
47:54 a tip and in doing that you're providing
47:57 other people opportunities for
47:59 leadership and teaching you're learning
48:02 and you're building the community so a
48:04 lot of what you're asking for already
48:06 exists it's not formal right but but for
48:09 right now our next priority is to get
48:11 the certification right so that it's
48:14 valuable and useful and it's something
48:16 you can put on your LinkedIn and feel
48:18 proud of right that this is something
48:21 that has got the the that really
48:25 represents these two communities well
48:27 and really represents what we as of
48:30 right now know is the most important
48:32 thing to learn right that's that's what
48:34 this is about so that's our priority
48:35 right now but great question that's our
48:37 priority and a piece of that are is um
48:41 that we will
48:44 maintain the value of your
48:47 certification that's what's useful
48:49 particularly useful about having a
48:51 certification from communities rather
48:54 than just like one human being thought
48:56 leader is that through all of you being
49:00 the rising tide that lifts all boats
49:01 every person that goes through this
49:03 certification and puts their badge out
49:05 there for everyone to see raises the
49:08 value of the certification right you're
49:10 all out there as representatives of this
49:14 uh you know of this program and the
49:16 value as a result just keeps rising and
49:19 rising and Rising The credibility is
49:21 there that's another thing that I wanted
49:22 to mention as a as a um as a
49:25 differentiation so we'll have the
49:27 modules we'll have the
49:29 modules uh grouped into tracks there
49:33 will be quizzes little bit of self-work
49:36 we're gonna our priority is to get it
49:38 launched like that is Task number one
49:40 two and three um we are the target there
49:44 is February 1 yeah February 1 and um uh
49:49 two things I will add on that one is oh
49:54 the community component it may be
49:56 completely met those needs may be met by
49:59 our existing
50:00 communities we will evaluate that I
50:02 actually have a really smart person
50:05 coming in to do an audit of my community
50:07 to figure out um like what's the very
50:11 best way to support everyone so we're
50:14 like taking the deepest of Dives to make
50:16 sure that what we're offering is what
50:18 you all need um why don't I talk about
50:23 how how everybody can get sign up
50:27 without without paying any money okay um
50:32 let me why don't you chat for a sec
50:34 while I get the get the landing page all
50:37 right let me look at some I Shaina said
50:39 something that was when I said the
50:40 communities aren't aren't judgmental
50:42 when you're new shanea said I'm super
50:44 judgy I just don't act on it I love that
50:46 I'm totally judgy there I'm right there
50:48 with you to I'm totally a judger
50:52 but we're not judging like you're not as
50:54 good as right it this is this is a
50:56 community that you can come in at any
50:59 level and just say here's the level I'm
51:00 at and find your people that's one of
51:03 the things that we heard over and over
51:06 and over during festiv us was comments
51:09 that were essentially I've found my
51:12 people here's the
51:14 deal we are so early in AI as much as
51:18 it's been hyped up and everyone talks
51:19 about the hype cycle we are so early
51:22 just a few months ago 47% of Americans
51:25 hadn't even heard of chat GPT so if
51:28 you're one of those people who you're
51:30 like I think this AI thing's important
51:32 and I think I should learn it but
51:33 everyone I talk to about it is not into
51:36 it or they judge me or they tell me they
51:37 don't want me talking about it that's
51:39 what these communities are for these
51:41 communities are those weirdos like you
51:46 we are your weirdos and that's what we
51:48 heard throughout Festivus was these are
51:50 my people finally finally finally
51:53 finally found people that I can share
51:55 this with and so the readiness thing is
51:58 really a way to say okay I'm ready for
52:01 this whatever this thing might
52:03 be okay everybody so here is the landing
52:07 page which just like everything we do is
52:11 a work in progress um I I I whipped this
52:15 together at five o'clock this morning so
52:18 you know trust that it will there will
52:20 be more like it will get better and
52:22 you'll have lots of juicy details but
52:24 here's where we are right now the most
52:25 important thing is is and um Kate's
52:28 going to drop the um website address
52:31 into the chat oh there's multiple chats
52:35 going on okay indoctrinated if you put
52:39 it in if you put it in LinkedIn then I
52:41 will pin it and it'll at least be here
52:43 and then other people can see
52:45 it so all you need to do to to stay up
52:51 to speed and be the first people to know
52:54 and to get a couple of different goodies
52:57 um is to add
53:00 your uh this is on preview so it has
53:03 mine in here but you know you add your
53:05 first and last name and your email
53:06 address hit submit you're going to need
53:09 a couple of things from us one is you're
53:10 going to get Kyle's checklist of AI
53:13 Readiness Essentials so you'll get that
53:15 in your inbox immediately so you get a
53:17 little goodie as our way of saying thank
53:19 you for letting us know that you're
53:21 interested because you know it's really
53:24 helpful for us to have a sense of
53:28 how many people even want this thing
53:29 right as we decide how much money to
53:31 spend on marketing and stuff like that
53:34 so what we're saying here is you're
53:36 going to get Insider updates right like
53:38 Kyle and I will of course have some you
53:39 know goofy pit Pratt Falls to share with
53:43 you guys along the way um you'll be the
53:45 first to know when we launch like our
53:47 beta group and our um when it's and if
53:51 you know when February 1 comes around if
53:54 it's ready earlier you will be the first
53:56 to know so you you can dive in and then
53:58 like I said you'll get these goodies and
53:59 then yes there's a link it's it's you
54:05 guys it's coming it's coming literally
54:09 just said Kate is Kate is dropping it in
54:12 the chat that's okay it's okay you don't
54:14 have to you don't have to listen okay
54:16 are you ready for ai.com is it it's the
54:19 link is in the chat but we'll get there
54:21 yes are you
54:24 ready for a
54:27 .c tell me Kyle if this is accurate
54:32 because also by the way we came up with
54:34 this um while Kyle was driving yesterday
54:37 and I was um I feel like maybe I was
54:41 yeah I was cleaning the house and we
54:43 were just like yeah that sounds good and
54:46 book it yeah and then we went then I
54:49 went on you know whatever and I was like
54:52 well that one's not working that one's
54:54 $22,000 that one's $79,000
54:57 with the one that's $1 okay cool exactly
55:00 oh no Lori already signed up there you
55:02 go beautiful yes I don't even know if we
55:04 have go ahead one of the questions that
55:07 that I just saw going is is there going
55:08 to be a beta so one of the one of the
55:10 advantages of signing up now we are
55:13 going to select some people before
55:15 February 1 to help us test this out so
55:18 we still have yet to determine which LMS
55:21 we're using exactly you know the nature
55:23 of the activities and things like that
55:25 that's the thing we'll be be working on
55:27 over the next couple of weeks so once we
55:29 have something to play with we we will
55:31 be reaching out to some people to do
55:33 some testing so sign up for sure to just
55:36 let us know that you're interested and
55:38 then you know as as this thing
55:40 materializes you'll get more information
55:42 and you'll you'll have it there sooner
55:44 than than others and yeah you there's a
55:46 possibility that we may ask you to do
55:48 some testing for sure yes yes exactly so
55:53 and then like I said you'll get other
55:55 little BTS things where obviously
55:57 hilarious and we will share with you all
56:00 of the oh my gosh you guys I've got
56:01 people we've got people signing up
56:03 already don't don't break our sign up
56:07 form yeah I don't even know if we have
56:09 our our automation set up we're doing
56:11 our best you guys okay okay okay oh my
56:14 God see I just love you guys like you
56:17 guys are amazing you're
56:19 so like I'm a words of affirmation girly
56:23 so when I see the words I signed up to
56:26 me that means you love me and it means a
56:28 lot
56:30 soor if you need help testing yeah okay
56:33 you guys um so other things are what are
56:37 some of the other things that people
56:39 probably came here to
56:41 know oh one of the big questions I got
56:44 is
56:46 will they will the content be available
56:53 forever when you buy this it is yours
56:57 like you have access to these things
57:00 it's yours to play with you can use it
57:03 for as long as you want we will we will
57:06 like you know if this goes well we will
57:08 probably update it after our proposed
57:11 Festivus next year you know it's is this
57:15 is a little bit of a trial just like
57:16 everything we do in AI right we're going
57:19 to see how this goes but you know you're
57:21 going to want new content after you know
57:24 X number of months slash years but it it
57:27 will be yours to use for as long as you
57:30 as long as you need to and the and the
57:32 current the the the recordings from
57:34 festiv us are available on the salon now
57:36 and they'll be in that festiv us space
57:38 you know indefinitely um those things
57:42 organized and turned into this
57:44 certification um that that will be
57:46 available if you sign up for the
57:47 certification so exactly um what
57:53 about what about what where will people
57:57 put these badges how will people what
57:59 are the various use cases for using the
58:02 badge or their certification Kyle that's
58:04 an excellent question an I'm so glad I
58:07 have all of the answers right now an I
58:09 definitely have thought about this in
58:11 depth and definitely I am not making
58:14 anything up right now definitely not I
58:17 am an expert in the situation of badge
58:21 management I have no idea
58:24 um but but I think listen here's to to
58:29 to take it down a serious Notch one of
58:32 the things that we talked about from day
58:34 one of the salon is that we
58:37 want your participation in the salon to
58:40 mean something and fairly early on
58:42 people that were saying they were part
58:44 of the AI Salon were getting jobs and
58:47 they were getting noticed and they were
58:48 you know being asked to be part of AI
58:51 committees in their in their community
58:53 so that started happening early on
58:56 we want this certification to mean
58:58 something and I think you said it before
59:00 an
59:01 that if you've got ideas for how we
59:04 should use these certifications let us
59:06 know we'll build those components in
59:07 maybe we want a little graphic maybe you
59:09 know yes badges you know they're good
59:11 badges um part of this is exactly what
59:14 you said an that if you post this and
59:17 this is you know vetted by these two
59:19 communities that gives you some shine
59:22 but you posting it also gives the
59:23 community some shine right this is a
59:25 virtuous circle
59:27 um and so um so I don't have any
59:29 tactical answers right now about Badges
59:31 and badge management but but share any
59:34 ideas you have with us in fact one of
59:36 the things that we might want to do an
59:39 since we're in this early stage is on
59:40 our signup form maybe just put a thing
59:43 if you have any ideas about the
59:44 certification or badges or something
59:46 like that if people have ideas maybe we
59:47 throw that in the uh in the sign up form
59:50 in a day or two I know yeah as we go yes
59:54 absolutely and also I wanted to say that
59:58 a couple of places where I would put the
1:00:01 badge if it were me um or the
1:00:04 certification U I'm just going to I'm
1:00:06 just going to list so this is now you
1:00:10 know going forward part of your personal
1:00:12 and professional brand so you're going
1:00:14 to use it in all the places where you
1:00:17 can
1:00:19 um um highlight your expertise so for
1:00:22 example if you're a LinkedIn user which
1:00:24 I highly recommend you are are um if
1:00:28 you're a LinkedIn user in the very top
1:00:31 after under your name you can list you
1:00:33 know like three or four things what you
1:00:35 would want to put because every time you
1:00:37 leave a comment on LinkedIn the people
1:00:40 see the first four or five words no so
1:00:43 you could you could put AI Readiness
1:00:46 certified right or I help people because
1:00:49 I'm AI Readiness certified you know
1:00:51 people want to know what to what the
1:00:54 heck to do with you so that's great
1:00:56 that's an example so you could use it
1:00:58 there you can use it on all of your
1:01:00 social media you can use it on your
1:01:02 resume you can use it when you are
1:01:04 talking to people when you give if you
1:01:06 when you give talks because you'll be
1:01:07 highly qualified to give talks you put
1:01:09 it on your slides um you put it
1:01:12 everywhere you can because this is one
1:01:15 of the things that's going to
1:01:16 differentiate you and eventually
1:01:18 somebody's going to say where is this
1:01:20 certification from and then you're going
1:01:23 to get to tell them right good news it's
1:01:25 a legit certification it's based on you
1:01:28 know a few thousand people you know the
1:01:30 learnings that Kyle and an have had from
1:01:33 and our communities have had you know
1:01:35 over the
1:01:36 past what since November 22nd
1:01:40 2022 yep um so I would be like super
1:01:44 loud and proud about it but I'm also
1:01:46 very I'm also very very like that
1:01:49 because I think that it's important in
1:01:52 this day and age that we not be shy
1:01:55 about our qualifications there going to
1:01:57 be a lot of people rolling in saying
1:02:00 they're all that and a bag of chips when
1:02:02 it comes to AI stuff and that's gonna be
1:02:05 pretty
1:02:06 flimsy yep um the the
1:02:11 um what was I gonna say I just lost my
1:02:13 train of thought
1:02:15 uh
1:02:17 uh
1:02:18 um thank you one of one of the one of
1:02:21 the things we're going to do within the
1:02:23 AI Salon is um we've we've talked about
1:02:27 badges for for a while now um but this
1:02:30 will become a badge within the AI salon
1:02:32 so as a member in the AI Salon if you do
1:02:35 the certification that'll show up as a
1:02:37 badge there um gonna say it'll come back
1:02:40 to
1:02:42 me I love Eric I had I had to pull off
1:02:45 the road so I could sign up I'm GL I'm
1:02:48 glad you pulled off the road but that's
1:02:50 amazing thank you you guys you guys okay
1:02:55 um
1:02:57 let's see so uh we will be talking about
1:03:00 this a lot on social media for the next
1:03:04 six weeks you know our goal is to just
1:03:07 like you know how Kyle and I are we love
1:03:09 a Sprint we don't do great with slow
1:03:12 Burns so it's gonna happen fast oh by
1:03:16 the way if you don't know the AI
1:03:19 Festivus
1:03:20 20124 from the day we started it till
1:03:23 the day we launched it was 15 days
1:03:26 so so if you participated in it and you
1:03:30 know what it was that happened in 15
1:03:33 days from nothing no website no logo no
1:03:36 name no just an idea and a dream right
1:03:41 so we can make this happen we are super
1:03:43 motivated to do it um sign up on the
1:03:47 interest list that is incredibly helpful
1:03:50 to us and hopefully for you as well
1:03:53 because you'll get lots of little little
1:03:54 nuggets and you'll be the first to know
1:03:57 about stuff also follow me follow
1:04:00 Kyle and yes and follow Michelle and
1:04:03 anyone else who drops their LinkedIn
1:04:05 especially follow Michelle she has a
1:04:07 brand new podcast called empowered by AI
1:04:09 which is amazing amazing amazing and you
1:04:12 should go over and you should listen and
1:04:15 you should rate it and you should leave
1:04:17 um a review because that's how it's
1:04:20 essentially an AI Readiness podcast so
1:04:22 it's essentially an AI Readiness podcast
1:04:24 you're going to learn you're going to
1:04:25 find your people there too and then
1:04:27 you're going to go and you're going to
1:04:28 follow them and soon your social media
1:04:30 feeds won't suck they will be people who
1:04:32 you actually want to hear from
1:04:35 um what else is there any any concluding
1:04:38 thoughts because I know people oh yeah
1:04:40 we're at 125 we're we're over our hour
1:04:42 so yeah so we should probably uh wind
1:04:45 things up um I don't think so I just so
1:04:48 here's here's the the final thing that
1:04:50 I'll say is thank you to all of you
1:04:52 because the whole an and I were notc
1:04:56 exed to do a certification program like
1:04:58 this came out of participants of Fes of
1:05:01 us going this is so good we like we want
1:05:04 to be able to take this up a notch and
1:05:05 say we did this in some way so thank you
1:05:08 to all of you for that idea and and just
1:05:11 for your participation and your
1:05:12 enthusiasm here it's just it is it's
1:05:14 inspiring and it's it's h lots of feelg
1:05:16 goods so thank feel Goods um before we
1:05:20 sign off the one more thing I want to do
1:05:23 is I'm going to put the website I know
1:05:27 that not I know that like because of the
1:05:31 way uh that the various streaming Works
1:05:36 Kate I think made me a oh made you a
1:05:39 little graphic a graphic of
1:05:42 the website address so I can put it up
1:05:45 on the screen as we head out get ready
1:05:47 to screenshot this yeah unfortunately my
1:05:52 everything is okay there we go um I
1:05:55 think T oh there we go this is planned
1:06:00 spontaneity this we we we had this
1:06:02 graphic days ago but we want it to seem
1:06:06 like this is perfect make
1:06:11 it what's that everything is spontaneous
1:06:15 yeah we're this this was this was all
1:06:17 planned days ago we're just acting to
1:06:19 try to make it look
1:06:21 spontaneous so yeah right exactly so
1:06:24 other people do that we literally are
1:06:26 spontaneous because there's no other way
1:06:28 to do it don't pretend you're trying to
1:06:30 be
1:06:32 spontaneous this is how this is this is
1:06:34 spontaneous people okay but also I want
1:06:37 to say um that part of what what we're
1:06:42 doing go ahead and screenshot this
1:06:44 everybody um because you
1:06:48 can someone what's the link here's the
1:06:51 link
1:06:54 Ross Express our interest and yes this
1:06:57 is the link are you ready for ai.com
1:07:04 and it's the Gen X way it is it is screw
1:07:08 it we'll put it together like we we
1:07:10 we'll figure it out this is a we'll
1:07:13 figure it out situation we'll figure it
1:07:15 out I mean I hope you guys all trust us
1:07:18 yeah here's here's the good news this is
1:07:20 not us figuring out what what the
1:07:23 content needs to be the content is the
1:07:27 remarkable event that happened and and
1:07:30 you know it's us organizing that in a
1:07:32 way that that it can add some additional
1:07:34 value right that's what it is so um so
1:07:38 and and the other
1:07:39 thing one of the other things that I
1:07:41 would like to thank everyone for is our
1:07:45 sponsors have reached out to us and said
1:07:48 they have seen an increase in traffic to
1:07:50 their website and signups to their stuff
1:07:54 um as a direct result of this so so I
1:07:57 want this certification to do the same
1:08:00 thing if there are sponsors for it for
1:08:02 them and for the speakers so one of the
1:08:05 things we're going to do if you're a
1:08:06 speaker who participated is get all of
1:08:09 your stuff right do you have a book that
1:08:11 you selling do you have websites things
1:08:13 like that yeah thanks for supporting our
1:08:15 sponsors So yeah thank you for that and
1:08:17 with that I think that's it screen share
1:08:21 it widely February 1 is our Target date
1:08:24 we are
1:08:26 everything we can um we may reach out if
1:08:29 we need some help testing um and that's
1:08:32 that's all I got I think I think that's
1:08:34 it oh yeah thank you everybody this is
1:08:37 so thoughtful and sweet tell a friend oh
1:08:39 yeah that was the other thing I was
1:08:40 gonna say tell a friend and if you would
1:08:44 be so kind and this is a big ask because
1:08:47 I know that everybody has a lot going on
1:08:49 on their social media
1:08:51 but Kyle and I and our and our back
1:08:54 everybody you know we're all going to be
1:08:55 posting in a lot of stuff about this but
1:08:57 the way the algorithm works is it's not
1:09:00 going to go as far as if you all comment
1:09:04 and post and repost and stuff so you all
1:09:08 are our Core Group you're our
1:09:10 Champions and if you see stuff and no
1:09:13 it'll be several days um uh it'll be
1:09:17 you're so welcome
1:09:19 um yeah we you we can use your help with
1:09:22 marketing this and getting it out to as
1:09:24 many people as possible not because of
1:09:27 our vanity or our egos which are not
1:09:29 non-existent I was gonna say mine's
1:09:31 pretty healthy mine is pretty healthy
1:09:33 too and easily
1:09:39 bruised um I'm just being honest um yeah
1:09:44 it helps us to get this into the hands
1:09:46 of people who who really who need it so
1:09:49 yeah thanks on that note everybody have
1:09:51 a beautiful rest of your day and um stay
1:09:55 tou keep an eye on your email if you've
1:09:57 already signed up if you haven't already
1:09:59 signed up please do and send it to a
1:10:01 friend beautiful thank you everyone all
1:10:04 right thanks