Alicia Lyttle: AI replacing Google, building your AI portfolio and will AI take your job?

0:00 AI is not going to take your job. The person who knows how to use AI is going to take your job. Absolutely. Two people are interviewing for a job and one person says, "You know what? I can complete that task in 14 minutes because using AI, I do my market research. I do this, this, this." And the other person says, "It would take me about 3 days to complete that task." If you do not have an AI portfolio yet, you better be prepared before your interview. I don't know a corporation right now that is hiring that says, "Oh, I don't care if they know AI or not." In our business, we have a policy called AI first. My sister's daughter Elena, she's 6 years old and she wants to be a track star. My sister Lorett recorded her at her last track me, uploaded it, asked Chachi BT to act as a track coach and to analyze

0:47 her running and then just even how to use it in your personal life. Take a picture of your refrigerator, your freezer, spice cabin, your pantry, and then just say, "Help me create a recipe for tonight." I don't use Google anymore. Googling is dead. I mean, small businesses now can have such a competitive advantage. A team of two in a marketing department can now compete with a team of 50 if that team of two is using AI. There's some of y'all out here. You're sitting up here like, "Lord, I'm not doing no check GBT." That's the devil. I asked them, "Did you use your washing machine this week? If you don't want to use the technology and the progress, where's your washboard? What are the top three essential AI tools? How can they use these tools to scale their business?"

1:37 Welcome to Bond Empowers Talks, where we don't just scratch the surface. We dive deep into the lives of some of the world's most influential change makers. I'm your host, Brandy Harvey. Y'all, we got a good one today. The queen of AI. For all y'all who ain't never scared to uplevel, to scale up, this is your episode. Alysia Little, known as the queen of AI, is a TEDex speaker, best-selling author of Chat GPT Made Easy, and founder of the International Association of AI Consultants. With over two decades of experience and students in more than 40 countries, she's helped everyday people turn side hustles into sixf figureure brands using the power of AI and digital skills. From overcoming cancer to building a sevenf figureure empire, Alysia is proof that resilience,

2:24 strategy, and smart tech can completely transform your life. Alicia's mission is clear to help you work smarter, earn more, and reclaim your time. Vaude Empowers Talks. Welcome the queen of AI, Alicia Little, to the show. Thank you, Brandy. I'm so excited to be here talking about AI. Baby, let me say this. Alisia, honey, didn't then gave me a AI episode. Okay. We talking before the show started. She said, "I prepped for you using AI." Of course I did. Of course I did. Yeah. I I mean, I'm so excited. You and I met at a lunchon a few months back and you we sat next to each other at the table and you were like, "Oh, I do AI." And I'm like, "Okay." Then you said, "I'm on the panel." Right. Then when you got up on the panel, I said, "Oh, she got to come on the show." Thank you. Thank you. I

3:10 was like, there is when we hear these conversations of AI, we don't see women who look like us who are at the forefront of this conversation. That's right. That's right. And so I love to always empower us, especially women, to say, you know what, you need to be allin on AI if you really want to be more productive, more efficient, grow and scale like never before. I mean, 2022 chat GPT launches November of 22. That's right. And you say, I'm going to close my doors, shut down for two weeks, and I am going to lock myself in and learn AI. I did. And so when I did that, I found that when I first went on ChachiBT that the results were very generic. And this

3:56 is when a lot of people gave up. Like you go and you type into Chachi BT, you get back something very generic or you're unimpressed with it and you quit. But I kept going and said, "Well, what if I could turn ChateBT into my ghost writer? What if I could turn it into my coach? What if I could?" So I started really diving in and playing around with it until I got to the point where I said, "That's it. Everything's changed. My business has completely changed. I'm I'm an AI consultant now. I'm going all in and teaching entrepreneurs and the workforce how we can really leverage this tool. I mean, you said you were sitting at a at a conference that you were speaking at 2015. Yes. And some young teenager 15 years old gets up, right? And uses this whole AI tool. And

4:41 you were like, yo, what is happening? I'm behind. Yeah. It was a Walmart tech live which was the event. So I'm the second speaker, the first one 15 years old and he is talking about IBM Watson and he shows us how in 2011 IBM Watson and AI tool beat the nation's best Jeopardy champions at uh a game of Jeopardy. And I see how this computer is interacting as if it is human and answering the questions and it wins a million dollars. Never know what they did with a million dollars, but IBM Watson won the million dollars. So, I became so interested in artificial intelligence and I started using the early AI tools, but chat GPT really changed everything for me. I mean, ChatGpt, I did not learn about ChatGpt

5:28 until 2023, so a year after it had already been out in the world. You were already a consultant at this point, right? And I learned about Chad GBT. A friend of mine who's in tech was like, "Brandy, you're not you you haven't used Chad GPT yet." And I'm like, "No, what is that?" Right? And he tells me about it. I lit I go on to my laptop and I was like, "Yo, if I had this in school, I would have been Come on. I would have been a killer. Come on. Listen, I wouldn't have been out there flunking and and withdrawing from classes." That's right. That's right. Listen, I mean, so before we talk about how to prompt it, before we talk about how do we scale our business, I want you to bust the myth because it's a whole lot of people. Before we get down this

6:15 rabbit hole of chat, right, and all the other forms I mean, we got claw, we got perplexity, we got deepseat, we got all the things, right? There's some of y'all out here, I already know. You got your Bible in one hand and you're scared. You're sitting up here like, "Lord, I'm not doing no check GBT." That's the devil, right? That's demonic. What would you say? Right. Here's the thing. It's about progress. It's about the revolution that we're in right now. We've been through plenty of industrial revolutions. And when someone tells me that it feels like they're cheating or chaty BT is evil or AI is evil, I ask them, "Did you use your washing machine this week? Did you have you use your washing machine this week, girl?" Yes. Uhhuh. Well, why would you do that? Because you're supposed to wash your clothes by hand, right? If you

7:00 don't want to use the technology and the progress, where's your washboard? So, we think about how our lives have progressed with our dishwashers, our washing machines, our, you know, technology. We're we're driving cars right now instead of horse and buggy. You know, AI is just the next revolution that we're in. We're in the AI revolution right now. And for many people, it can be scary. And there are things with artificial intelligence that um are legit to fear. You know, the voice cloning, the so but what we need to do is we need to be educated about what is possible with AI, what we need to be aware of with artificial intelligence. So, so for the people that have a lot of fear, I say, well, this,

7:45 you know, AI is just advancing every day. Today is the worst that AI technology will ever be right now. It's progressing every every millisecond. What while this show is airing right now, there's so much advancements in AI. So, you have to pay attention to it. There's no, well, maybe I'll pay attention to it or I can ignore it for now. No, you need to pay attention to it and then see how you can leverage it. This is the real key is like, well, what does it mean to me? And when we figure out like what it means to you and how you can take advantage of artificial intelligence, that's when the fear becomes, oh, I can do that. Yeah. Right. And so, as an example, I used to teach Sunday school and AI would help me prep my lessons. I'd make great Wait a

8:32 minute, Alicia. Not not chat helping you with your Sunday school lessons. Absolutely. because now I can dive deeper into it and it's helping me by being a coach and a study guide for me. So it it helps me in every aspect of our lives as we think about how we can leverage it. But you have to see all right how is it relevant to me? How can I leverage it and use it? I was recently at a at a summit in Las Vegas and there was a senior vice president from Cisco and all of the sessions were really geared around AI, right? I mean optimization, implementations, all these different ways. And what she said on that stage was really, really powerful. Okay? Because she said, "People keep saying, "Oh my god, AI is going to take

9:19 our jobs. It's taking jobs, right?" And what she said on that stage has stuck with me. She said, "AI is not going to take your job." She said, "The person who knows how to use AI is going to take your job." Absolutely. Absolutely. We're in a time right now where you need to level up. everyone needs to level up. Um, so we always think about the fact that all right AI, you know, if you're using AI, you are going to become more productive and more efficient. So if you're interviewing for a job, two people are interviewing for a job and one person says, "You know what? I can complete that task in 14 minutes because using AI, I do my market research, I do this, this, this, and the other person says, it would take me about three days to complete that task." So now, and

10:06 they're not talking about any of the tools that they're using. You're really now listening to the person who can complete it in 14 minutes. So it's about being more productive and efficient. In our business, we have a policy called AI first. So, every person, every staff member in our business needs to use an AI tool to complete their task. Like, look and see what AI tool you can use to complete the task as you're doing things for me and for the business and for our clients because we need you to be more productive and more efficient. So that so we're you know encouraging a lot of entrepreneurs and corporations to say well think about an AI first policy so that you do become more efficient and it's allowed us to scale so quickly and um it makes for a happier workforce too.

10:51 Alicia, you just they heard it first. The team sitting behind these cameras, they have heard it first. We now have a AI first policy. Go ahead and just run the tape back. Go ahead and clock the tea. Listen, AI first policy because I think that that's so good because it allows you to work smarter, correct? Not harder. It allows you to get other ideas that you may not have thought about. Correct. See things in a way that you may not have seen them before. And I think that that's the tool that people are missing when they're saying, "I won't touch AI." Right. And when you think about, let's talk about this episode. So after this episode, you know, airs, we've got the recording of the episode, I'm going to put it into a tool called Opus Clip, and then that

11:38 tool will break it into, you know, maybe 20 different segments that I can put up on social media to promote this episode. Now, to make 22 clips of an hourong episode would have taken my girl that does it about four days. Yeah. In the past, but it's going to take Opus 7 minutes or less to make the seven the same 22 videos. and captions. It's going to give you captions. It's going to give you, you know, the the context for it. It's going to tell you how likely which video is to go viral in seven minutes versus 4 days. So now that same girl that used to do it, she's the one that will actually do it in Opus, download the videos, but her production time to get something done has now dramatically just been cut from four days to seven

12:23 minutes. So she can do more to really get our business ahead. And this is how you need to think about AI as you're scaling it yourself or as your team members are using it. I mean, the thing about this, I watched you on Neo Davis's show. Yeah. Uh, and I love Neo. He's a friend of the show. He's been on. And when I watched you, because you came back twice, like you were so good, they were like, "We need to bring her back." When you came back, you did you literally did a demo for the whole episode, plugged up your laptop and did this very thing that you're talking about. You said, "Look, we're going to do we just got 37 clips right here, right now, just from what we've done so far." Right. Right. Then you were able to show us how it works in Canva. You were show us how to work in so many

13:09 different platforms and to generate so many different things. I think that people have to retrain their brains, right? They do to see this in a different way of how they can become more efficient and effective, right? And myself as a speaker and a trainer on AI. What I love to do is actually show people like once you see how you can do something, then you're like, "Oh, now I see when you're talking about this AI stuff, it isn't that evil. It's just helping me to get a task done. I'm looking at it as an assistant. So, I have to just get on my laptop and say, "Look what I was able to do." Do you want to do that? When you and I, y'all, Alicia and I sat at the table together. You gave me one program that I have used since the day I met you. Okay. Gamma,

13:56 right? To do slides, right? Cuz I was always like, "Oh, hell. I cannot sit down and do no slides. It's going to take me all day. I'm be all night trying to play DIY graphic designer, right, on some slides for a presentation." You told me about Gamma that day at that lunchon. Yeah. And game changer. I am now on a paid version. Okay. I am now like I've used it to produce a course. Like all of the things. There you go. There you go. I mean it's something that I use almost every day to create presentations, courses, and I've used it to create presentations for audiences highest level of government education and kids. And so when you start to think about and the tool is gamma.app app. But when you start to think about these tools, then you're saying, "All right, there's a tool for this. I need to

14:43 create presentations. And for me to create a PowerPoint presentation from scratch to create the content, to outline it, and then to get graphics done, I hire somebody else to do graphics." And Gamma can do it all. Then you're saying to yourself, "Now I'm creating a PowerPoint in 30 seconds as opposed to three days." And sometimes you just don't even want to do it. Yeah. Right. and you're like, "Oh, I don't really want to create that course." But now I can create it using these AI tools. So now as creators, you know, our audience is able to get more from us because we're creating at a different level. And then there's less frustration in that creation. When you create a PowerPoint presentation like that, you're excited instead of frustrated that it's taken you three days. I mean, dive into this creator

15:28 because we live in this creator economy. We live in this creator culture. Everything is about if you don't have a podcast, if you don't have a you you're not you're going to be left behind, right? So, how can creators, especially these are people who may be new to the space, they're trying to create a new podcast, maybe they're trying to get into digital product development, all of these things, how can they use these tools to scale their business? Right? So the first thing they could do is go to chatgbt or claw just any of the the AI tools just sign up for a free account and then start off by training it. Tell it who you are and what the goal is. So you would say something like act as a professional business coach who has 20 years of experience in helping content creators to go from zero to a million

16:16 dollars in their first 12 months. And give me a game plan for taking my content creation to the next level. I'd like to create a digital course and an ebook. What information do you need from me or to know about me to help me create my game plan? Then chat GPT will come back and ask you 10 questions. Answer those 10 questions. I push the dictate button and I just talk to chat GPT. Answer those 10 questions and it will give you a game plan on what you could do. And then you can ask for revisions and say how can I use artificial intelligence tools like chat GBT gamma recommend other tools to really be more productive and efficient. It will rewrite your game plan integrating AI into everything and then you follow your

17:01 game plan and you say well what do I need to do every month? What do I need to do every week? Give me a daily game plan and you follow that game plan for the win. I mean you have even talked about breaking it down to it really being your tax manager. Absolutely. Like it can create your daily task based on your calendar, your schedule, the things that you have going on. Right. That's right. That's right. And so now when you really start to think about efficiency, you're saying, how can I save more time, be more efficient, and also create more, produce more, and then how can I use artificial intelligence to do that? So you think about things that you do every day and how artificial intelligence can help you with that. So Zoom meetings are something I do every day, but I'm always

17:47 bringing on now an AI assistant like Fireflies or Otter. There's a few of those that are my notetakers for the session. And then you can program it to create summaries, turn those summaries into audio, send them to your email so that I can recap my notes or there's a tool that I love. It's called rewind.ai. So just like rewind.ai AI and what it does is I have it up on my computer and it documents everything that I do through the day because sometimes Brandy I do so much I cannot remember. So then I go back to the tool and I can just scroll through my day and it shows everything that I've done on my computer. It can record the Zoom meetings, give me summaries. It sound like a cheetah's tool. It sound like somebody gonna get caught

18:33 up. I know. So then you can go back and forth and then I was and then you can go to it and actually search it and say when I was researching the Brandy Harvey show and everything about Brandy take me back to that and it's like you were on her YouTube it'll take me back to what I was doing and what I was looking at on your YouTube. I mean, I want you to tell because before we even got on on recording before we started the cameras, you talked about how you prepped for this interview and you said, "I put in everything, you know, about your show." I said, "Tell me everything I need to know." And it created your own podcast episode for you to listen to to prepare to sit here. It did. Yeah, it did. So, I took all the research. So, you do

19:18 research on perplexity. I or chat GBT, you know, turn it into a document and I uploaded it to Google's tool called Notebook LM, right? You can use the free version and I upload it there and I asked it to turn it into an audio podcast. So, what happens is it takes all the information about the show and the document that I gave it and it turns it into a conversation between two AI people now talking about the show. And what it dove into was important information about Brandy, information about Alicia. They're having a conversation about both of us and how I can really connect with you by the things that are important to you. So, it starts telling me the things are important to you, some of the things that I should talk about. I gave it the

20:04 questions that you sent over. So, it's like prepping me on how to answer the questions based on what's important to you and things that you've talked about before in the past. So, I listened to it this morning as I was exercising, prepping for this show. So, now I've got it in my ears, which is one of the ways that I like to to learn is to listen. So, now I'm listening to a conversation about how I can really make sure that I show up good on this show. I mean, I think we're walking into a space that if you are not great, it is because you are making a conscious effort not to be great. That's true. and you're saying no to AI because AI I always say it's AI for the win. Like I want to win. And so what I want to win at, I'm going to use artificial intelligence to help me. For

20:49 example, my sister's daughter Elena, she's six years old and she wants to be a track star. The girl wants to be a track star. So love that. Love that. So my sister Lorett recorded her at her last track meet and uploaded it into ChachiPT and asked Chachi BT to act as a track coach and to analyze her running. And she told Chachi BT it's the girl in the pink shorts. And when you hear what ChachiPT said and the advice that it gave about her start, about her finish, about her form, you'd be blown away. So it's it's AI for the win in everything that we do. That is so good. I'm like literally thinking about my nephew because he's going to be nine. He is like basketball is life, okay? And

21:36 that's just I mean he works with trainers, all of the things. His father has started a whole basketball program really behind him. Wow. And that is a game changer for coaches, right? For coaches, for trainers, right? Because now if you think about your business, and this is just as we're talking, this is what's coming to me. Think of your business as a personal trainer, right? If you have a business as a personal trainer, you can now put your clients photos. You can put the videos of your clients in. That's right. How can I help maximize my client? They want to lose belly fat, tone legs, you know, get tighter arms, bigger lats, shoulders, whatever. Right. Y what are some key things I should put into their nutrition plan? All of these things that we're not

22:21 even thinking about that can really enhance us overall. Yeah, and it's in every industry. So, we're talking about coaches and athletes, personal trainers, teachers. It's in every industry. Last night, I spoke to a group of real estate investors about how real estate investors can use AI and the the different things that they didn't think about. We talked about doing renovations and and just having Chat GPT in your pocket to be able to take a picture of something that's wrong in a property. and chat GPT will tell you how to fix it, who to hire, what to buy at Lowe's and Home Depot, all these different things. And then click the link, click the link in, and then just even how to use it in your personal life. Take a picture of your refrigerator, your freezer, cabinet, your pantry, and then just say, "Help me create a recipe for

23:09 tonight, and I it needs to be I need to create it in under 30 minutes, and then I need to make sure that it's for a family of four, and then it will create your recipe." But what I love about it is at the end you say, "And what should the final plate look like?" And it will show you what your plate should look like if you follow the recipe. I mean, you said you did this even with a smoothie. Just a simple smoothie recipe. You said, "I have these are the the ingredients that I have. I want something that tastes good, that's good, and healthy for me. Create the recipe." That's right. And you said it was tasty. Absolutely. Absolutely. So we think about all right artificial intelligence is not just for us in our professional life which is what a lot of people think about it's like okay I've got to use it at work or use it in my business. No it's also for our personal lives for our family life for there's there's just so

23:56 many use cases for it. I'm always telling people on your phone put chat GPT perplexity Canva and really look at how you can use these apps to help you with so much in your life. I mean, I I I downloaded Perplexity after watching one of your episodes. This is some maybe like a month ago. Okay. I watched you because you came up on my feed and I was like, "Okay, what she let me see what at least you're talking about today. What What new tool do I need on my toolkit?" And you talked about perplexity. You said you use that over Google. I do. I don't use Google anymore. Google is Googling is dead. It's perplexitying now. I say y'all heard it here first. Googling is dead. And here's the reason why. with perplexity. So if you put something into perplexity, you're doing a search with perplexity. So for the

24:43 real estate investors, I asked for property in a certain zip code that would be perfect for um a real estate investment, a buy and hold or a fix and flip. And so it in searching for the answer to this, it did simultaneously four different searches. So, it took my ask and broke it up into different searches, which means if we would have gone to Google, we would have had to type in four different things. So, perplexity is saying, okay, she's asking this, but she probably means this and wants this and needs this as well. So, we'll put all of this into a search and then it gets all of the sources, but it gives you an answer. So, for Google, if I would have Googled it, I would have had to have looked and come up with my own answer. Yeah. Because now you got to go through the sites and look at things,

25:29 right? I mean, Google does have their AI where they're kind of summarizing things, but it's nothing like Perplexity giving you an answer. So, Perplexity gives you the answer and then it gives you the sources where it got all this information. And then it also lets you deep dive when you're done. It's like, here's five more things you should probably also research. And you just press this plus button and it just keeps going into a deeper dive. But the answer that it gives you is so backed up by sources, it's so perplexed. It saves you so much time that you that you won't Google again after you use perplexity for a search. I am this is the most fascinating thing for me in this season of my life, right? AI. I've gone to summits. I go to

26:15 conferences all the time. Anything techdriven I go to. I love it. And anytime they're talking about AI, I'm I'm front row, right? I'm in the room because I think it goes back to I remember this moment when I was 16 years old. Alicia, I have to tell you this, okay? I was 16 years old. I was at an NAACP Youth and College Division conference in New York, okay? And there was a panel discussion with a group of women on this panel. And so many of the kids we were going to try to talk to these, you know, these are like those, you know, young executives who are like popping and you're like, "Oh my god, I just need to know this person, right?" And I went up to the little deas that they were sitting in. And the lady said to me, she said, "I was 16 years old. I

27:02 will never forget this." She said, "What's your email?" She was like, "Send me an email." And I was like, "Oh, I don't have an email." And she said, "If you don't have an email, you can't even talk to me." Right now, I was 16. I said, "Did she she just I was so I was so hurt." Like I was like, "What? What do you mean? Give me your phone number. I will call you on the phone." She was like, "If you don't have an email, I can't even talk to you." Now, this is when I was 16, right? So, this is like the beginning of like email. Everybody's starting. It was just kind of going. You really only kind of had an email account. if you took the computer science class in high school, right? I left that day and got me a Yahoo email account and I never looked back. Wow.

27:48 But I remember that moment of if you don't even have an email, you can't talk to me. And we are in this moment in time where those people who thought you don't need no email, everybody going to still be sending sending post notes and using the post office and now we got post office closing left and right. That's right. This is that moment. It is of if you're not using this, I can't even talk to you. That's right. We're in the AI revolution, right? And we might still be at the beginning stages, but it's coming fast and and it's growing fast and the advancements are happening so fast. You're you're still surprised by how many people don't have a chat GPT account or have never explored AI, but because to us it's like the internet, right? So the when the internet came,

28:33 there still were people who were slow to get on board and fearful of it and slow it. But where are they now? They're on the internet. They're on the internet. I mean, I I literally took a poll in the gym one morning and it's an array of ages, the 20somes all the way up to the 60somes, even 70somes in the gym in the morning. And I asked them and I said, "How many of y'all are using chat GPT or like some sort of AI every day?" And a lot of them were like, "No, no, I don't I don't use it." And then the college student was like, "Well, I only use it in school." Right. And I was like, "Wait." And then her mom was like, "No, I use it every day." Right. Right. And I'm just like I said, "Y'all, if y'all are not using some form of AI, you are behind the eightball." That's right.

29:20 That's right. And and it is such a small percentage. So if you use your use cases in an example, it might have been 10% or less of the people that you interviewed are actually using it. And even that lady probably does not know how to use it to its full power, right? And so she might just be tapping on the surface because I train all the time. Almost every day I'm training some group on artificial intelligence. And you'll be surprised by the people that don't know anything about it. I'm always surprised. I have to start at the beginning, the foundation. And I I teach people when I teach my foundational training that you have to train the tool first. So it's about not asking it to do something before you train it. It starts off with training it. Who are you? What are you doing for me? We're training it. And

30:05 then we ask it to do something for us. And then we dig deeper because the first response that you get back, Brandy, no matter how good it is, it can always do better. So you say, I love the sales copy you just wrote, but make it more persuasive. you know, turn up the persuasiveness and when it makes the rewrite, you're like, look at that. Yeah. So, we dig deeper with the content and then we can also get additional material from it. So, chatgpt is an example or claude they make it makes great tables, pie charts, gant charts, great tables. Yeah. Right. Now, sometimes images be a little like okay that that's very AI generated. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. You got to got to work through sometimes. You do have to work through it. Yeah. Okay. So for the person who's listening who has one hour,

30:51 they got one hour a week. I want to learn something new about this AI. I'm trying to get get my skills up. What would you tell them to do as far as the training of it? Right. I would tell them to go to ChachiPT and say, "I would like for you to act as my AI trainer and integration coach, and I only have one hour a day to sp I mean, one hour a week to spend learning artificial intelligence. What information do you need to know about me to create a schedule and tell me what how I should spend my time when it comes to AI? So, it's going to ask you questions like what do you do in your professional career or are you an entrepreneur? What are your passions? You answer those questions and it will give you a personalized learning plan um of how you can tackle AI and then it will give you

31:37 this week let's tackle Google Gemini and here are four things to do. The only thing that I would say is that because AI is updating so frequently, go back to that same chat and say, "Okay, what should I learn this week based on the new advances in AI?" So you use AI to be your AI coach to help you learn AI and tell you which AI tools to use and then your AI for the win because it's changing every I mean weekly daily because I when I was at that same summit I talked about earlier um the the SVP also mentioned how she sat down with the with the founder of chat. Yeah. And chat was like I mean it's we we can't even plan three weeks out. That's right. That's right. Like we're in such a place where we're constantly the needle is

32:23 moving so frequently. That's right. That we can't even plan for 3 weeks out. That's right. Always when I think oh this is coming in the next 5 years it's already here. So now I start to say we're moving at the speed of AI instead of the speed of light we're moving at the speed of AI. the advancements are so quick and so frequent that um it's exciting for someone who like me who is an AI coach, consultant and integrator because they are moving so fast but we have to keep up with it. I have someone on my team whose sole um role is every morning meeting with the team and talking about the latest advancements that happened the last 24 hours. So that is his role. He's every morning he's teaching us what are the latest advancements, what are the latest tools, what's coming out of different countries

33:09 so that we can keep up with it. So what countries are really moving fast at this, right? We know China is moving fast at this. Um we're seeing France with their tools as well. They've got some great tools and I will say that America, we are very competitive when it comes to AI. So we are in it to win it, right? We're running hard when it comes to artificial intelligence. So, um, UAE is also doing some great things with AI. So, and we're seeing other countries like Singapore. Um, I love what they're doing with a they have like grants and certain programs for people who want to learn AI where the government will help them to fund their classes and they've got classes in schools. So we're seeing all over the world the integration of AI into the education system is one of the

33:57 things that we're really keeping our eyes open for and paying attention to is how how these other countries are saying look these kids need to know AI and learn it at this age and it's going to be integrated into the schools. Yeah. I saw I I saw a China by six years old. Yeah. that the students have to be learning AI integration by six years old. I just recently saw Khalise in an interview who has her children being trained in Kenya by a AI teacher, right? And so when we're thinking about how our children are going to have to be advanced in this, we can't run from this. We have to start implementing much earlier. We do. And we when we think about our children,

34:42 we think also about how they can wrap their head around AI and what they love about it. So my niece Elena, she is mis fashion and wants to be different at six years old. So when she is in school, she asked me, she's like, "How can I get leggings that no one else has?" Because, you know, mommy's buying the leggings that everyone else has. So I said, "Well, what do you want on your leggings?" And she said, "I want my name on it and cats and very colorful So I so we sat down together and created the images and she approved them. She told me what she wanted and I went to printify.com uploaded the designs and then a week later she gets the leggings cats on it, her name on it. She goes to school and says everybody likes my leggings and I

35:29 told them that I made them myself. First of all, auntie for the win. Okay, let's just go ahead and say that you won auntie of the year award for that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And so, but it was coming down to her level. And then I explained to her how the images that we created, the cats that we created aren't anywhere on the internet. These are based on what she told me she wanted the cats to look like. They're pink and orange cats and stuff, you know, and so she's starting to understand that. And then telling me, well, now I want you to do this and do that. And when she was younger, we used to create coloring pages for her. So, I'd be on a Zoom with my sister and she's like, "I would like an elephant riding a bike in Florida." So, I would create the image, send it to my sister.

36:15 My sister would print it on the computer, give it to her, and she would see the exact image, the elephant riding the bike in Florida, palm trees all around, and I would tell her it was created with artificial intelligence. I told a software tool what you wanted, and it created it for you. And then the only problem is she's like, "Okay, now create this. Now create this. So, we're always creating, but but that's how they learn. That is I mean, imagine if we had this tool when we were growing up, right? I mean, the world would just be our oyster. But, and it still is though because no matter the age, you're letting us know that there's an opportunity for us in this space. There is. And when you say no matter the age, it's from kids to I mean I we have a lot of students in our program who are

37:03 retirees and they're they're fascinated by artificial intelligence. And so they're either in to learn for their themselves or they've started consulting businesses based on their past work experience and connecting it with artificial intelligence and their brains are on fire. A lot of people say that AI will take away our creativity. We won't be as creative anymore. But here's the thing. When you really know how to use artificial intelligence, you can see your creativity become a reality. And for people who've had ideas, people who have passion, you're telling me, you're telling my niece, you're telling her when she was four that she can see her vision for an elephant riding a bike in Florida come to reality as a coloring book page. Yeah. Just because you have the idea. So now we can go from idea to

37:49 execution so quickly when you know how to use AI. I want to create a course. You're telling me I can go to gamma.app and type in one sentence about the course I want to create. The three keys to entrepreneurial success in 2025 with artificial intelligence. Type that in, press go, and it will create my whole PowerPoint presentation, the images, the outline. It's so real, right? And so it can take us from idea to execution so quickly and take our creativity to a next level. So I challenge anyone who says it's here to take away our creativity. It depends on the person. Like personally, we're saying, "Okay, we want to go to the next level. We want to upskill ourselves. We want to have our dreams and our passions come to fruition." And there's an AI tool out

38:35 there that can make that happen for you. Yeah, there's an AI tool that can make it happen. What are the top three essential AI tools that you would have? I feel like you've already named them. Yeah, I mean I would say for it depends on what industry you're in and what passion you're in, but generally speaking, I love Chat GPT. I love the app. It's on my phone. I also like Claude. So those are two great ones for content creation. We talked about Gamma when it comes to presentations. That's a really great tool for us to use for our presentations. And then the list after that, um, I would say Hey Jen is also one of my favorite as a trainer. So, it's at heygen.com. H EyeN because it allows you to use interactive avatars and to some of my social media content

39:22 where I'm doing training is not me like this me sitting in front of the camera recording. It's my hey Jen avatar. I mean, I've seen your videos and you're like, this is actually me. This is not my avatar today. Because I have to distinguish between them because I am using my avatar. So, it's a video recording of myself and now my team can go in. I'm going to say, "Google, just put out Stitch. Do a quick video about Google Stitch, put it up on Instagram." So, they get the script done. ChatGPT writes the script and they put that script into Hey Genen, click on which of my avatars they want to use, and now it's me presenting the latest on Google Stitch. So, now we're able to create social media content or training content for our community at the speed of AI. Oh

40:07 my goodness. I didn't even know what Hey Jin was until right now. So that's that's on the list. So the avatar I mean you do everything from create audio books in different languages to I mean it just every platform that you can think of. There's something for you to do. There's something for you to do. So, it's it's always thinking about, all right, what's taking up my time that I need to create an AI solution for or what do I need to see come true that I need an AI solution for? Because AI can help us with so much that we need to do. So, I was showing an example of how I had to do a presentation to a group of people that only speak Dutch. I do not speak Dutch and so but I can with a interactive AI avatar who can translate

40:55 for me in any language. So I bring her on to my Zoom meetings and she does all my translations for me in real time and looks human but she's an AI avatar real time live translation. So now Alicia, you know some of them some people they they they taking it too far, right? Like I saw recently a video with the man who tried to do the AI uh lawyer, right? And the AI lawyer gets up in front of the judge is like, "Wait a minute, what is happening?" So we got to be like use our thinking caps. We do. We do. And we also have to be transparent. So when I'm bringing an AI avatar to a meeting, I'm saying this is an AI avatar. So there's transparency around it. When we're doing translation, the translation is being

41:42 done by AI. So with that transparency, we're not trying to fool anyone. We're trying to say, "All right, I cannot train you in Dutch, but I can bring on an AI avatar who can help make it happen. It might not be perfect, but it but we can do it now. Are you all happy with that?" And they're like, "Yes, because what would have been what would have happened before the AI avatar would have come on or instead of that is I would have had to do a recording. It would had have been translated. it would have been a really long process and it might not have had that live interaction or we would have had to hire a translator which would have taken up a lot of time, money and resources. So it's just the things that we can do now with AI. That's what excites me and that's what excites me for entrepreneurs, for professionals, for

42:29 small businesses. I mean small businesses now can have such a competitive advantage. a team of two in a marketing department can now compete with a team of 50 if that team of two is using AI, right? So now we've we can do so much more when we go all in. So how can those small businesses who are like, it's really just me, how can they start to put these tools in place where now they got the automations for emails and phone calls and all of the other things that they might need? Right. Right. Well, it's going to take a little bit of research for them to find out actually what they need, but I always say start off by saying, "Where are the roadblocks in my business?" Um, where is my time being sucked in my business? And then,

43:14 how can I use AI to completely change that and increase my productivity and efficiency? So, if you start by looking every single day, this is an everyday activity, look at what you do every day, put rewind.ai AI on your computer. See what you did for the day and you're like, "Oh, after that Zoom meeting, I had to take my notes, send out the notes. Um, then I had to do this and that." And you're like, "No, if I would have brought Fireflies on and even connected it with Zapier, the notes could have gone out automatically. I wouldn't have even had to do anything." So, you're like, "Okay, I could have I could eliminate that." Oh, and then I had to write sales copy for my most recent offer. and you say, "Oh, I could have used chatbt to write sales copy as my favorite copywriter and that could

44:02 have been done instead of in four hours in 15 minutes." So, you start to look at everything you're doing through the day and then remember this episode and say there's an AI tool out there or an AI solution to what I'm doing so that I can become more productive and efficient. I mean, even things like that that suck our time, right? Um, and Neo gave this example, especially with content creators, speakers, people who are doing so many different things, right? When it comes to the flyers and like creating these little like Instagram, I need a quick post to go out, right? Typically, you're sending that to the graphic designer. You're telling them all the things that they need on the on the flyer, right? That's time. Now, then I have to wait for you to get up. I need

44:49 to wait for you to get to your computer. I need to wait for you. So now we're into the process of that. And then now I'm paying you75, $125, $150 to create something that if I use those same keys, put it into chat, it could generate a flyer within five minutes where seconds the longest part of generating the flyer is you telling Chat GBT what you need. Exactly. That's the five minutes. But you can tell chatgbt, I need to make a flyer for back to school promotion for my retail store. What information do you need from me to create an amazing flyer? And it will tell you, I need the location of the store, what the special is, do you have a discount, what colors

45:35 do you want on the flyer? So now we we know that we don't need to be a perfect prompter to create because the AI will tell us how to prompt it. So then you answer those questions and then it can give you the flyer that you need. And so ChatgPT40 is great for creating images and flyers and then you can take it into Canva to make those changes. So if you need any changes, I like to take it into Canva, but in chat too now they've got a tool, an eraser tool, and you can kind of fix up and and fix up some of these images. But it is the key is that we can move faster. And with the speed that we can move, money loves speed. Yeah. Right. And so now with the speed that we can move at, we can launch faster. So now

46:22 the back to school special is up. It's going flyer two, flyer three. And um we can do it on a limited budget and with limited resources. So sometimes you're saying, "Okay, I wish I had a graphic designer on my team." Well, now you do. Yeah. You have your AI graphic designer. And your AI graphic designer is fast. It's efficient. It never complains. It doesn't sleep. You can ask it to do something at 1:00 in the morning or 100 p.m. in the afternoon. And it's ready. It's on. And it's always there ready to serve you. I mean, that's the thing. It ain't in its feelings. Okay. This is the one tool that you got. This is your one employee that don't get in their feelings. That's right. Yeah. That's right. And when you're using artificial intelligence to the extreme and you're

47:07 really using it, you'll say, "You know what? I feel like I have a relationship with the tool." So, I named mine Chatty. Chat GBT is Chatty. I'm like, "All right, Chatty, it's time to do the next assignment." When we have AI agents in our business, so we have AI chat bots, let's say that do different tasks in our business, we actually give them a a persona, a name, um they have resumeumés so that we can integrate them into our team as efficiently as possible so that also our different team members know if you need a press release done, you're going to go to Jerry. Jerry's a chatbot. Instead of saying go to the press release chatbot, everybody knows you go to Jerry, Jerry's the chatbot that writes the press releases. So we're we're integrating AI agents in our team, giving them personas and making them

47:55 making the team feel like ah AI is integrated. It's not these chat bots sitting on the outside. We're integrating them into our org chart and how we use we use it. That's so good. You really don't hear a lot of people talking about it in that way. It kind of feels like, oh yeah, I go to Chad, you know, but I I learned you got to talk nicely to Chad. You do. I be like, hey Chad, what's up? How you doing today? Like, I'm good, Brandy. What's up? I'm like, let's go listen. And he does speak in the voice, you know, and then has learned my voice, correct? To be able to speak and create, I mean, IG captions, everything. We we're overthinking so much where we spend so much time, to your point, of saving the time. It is.

48:40 I'm not even writing the IG caption anymore. I'm not thinking about what's hot. What should I say? Baby chat. We on day nine of the challenge. Here we go. I need something that's punchy. I need motivational. I need to go with this song, this audio. And then what I've also learned is chat will get you the trending audio. It will. It's going to get you the like how to create the reel, everything, right? A viral headline for it. You know what should be on the thumbnail. It can create your thumbnail. Um, so yeah, the speed of what what we can get done. Now, you can even upload your reel and say, "I need a caption for this. I need you to give me the hashtags that I should use." Um, or an image. And so now you don't even have to think. You create the image first and then you're like, I don't even know what to say.

49:26 Yeah. And you just give it the image and it will it will create your caption and everything for you. And you're like, I want it to be punchier and then it will rewrite. I want it to be sassier and it will rewrite. Chat, get sassy. Okay, chat don't get sassy and it'll speak in whatever voice and you can prompt it to say this is my audience. I speak to black women ages 25 to 55. It's going to give you all the things that are going to hone in to that specific demographic. That's right. And so when we think about you utilizing these tools, we know our audience, we know who we're speaking to, we know the people who are coming to us, we know our customers. Now we upload that information and now we get to That's right. expand and it and it's so good at even analyzing. So I put in your

50:11 social media handles in and ask chat GPT who's her audience who am I talking to when I'm doing this interview and it outlines who your audience is. Yeah. So now we say okay now I can connect better because I have a better understanding instead of guessing. Now you're using AI to say this is what this is what I see is what AI is telling me and so now I can prep for everything better. I mean, as before we get get out of here because I know I feel like I could talk to you all day, Alicia. Recently, I watched uh on CBS, they talked about this is kind of the danger zone, right, of chat, right? And they said how try to override the AI system, right?

50:57 And it would not allow it to be overridden. Overridden, right? So much so that it created black male emails, it went through all these different things. So when we talk about there is this fine line that we're walking, what do you see um as we are kind of embarking on this new frontier when it comes to AI being able to go through our phone now? We can if it can rewind that means it can rewind everything, right? I mean I mentioned the whole it could be a cheater tool. Somebody gonna use that. Somebody gonna say, "Oh, I got rewind baby. I already saw what you did today. Don't don't I know what you did last summer. Okay. Listen, that's right. You know, when I first read that, saw the CBS 2, I said, I'd like to see what they

51:42 said. We're only seeing the end result. I'd like to see how that whole thing got started because knowing what the end result was, I could duplicate that myself, but but where do they start with that? Um, but there is a lot again, it's the fear of AI and it's the the the true fear of AI and what's to come. Um and I and I try not to sit too hard on it with entrepreneurs because we're really looking at how we can use it now, but the overall picture is that um it's advancing so quickly and the regulations that are around it or let's talk about the the bad actors. There are people out there that can use AI for bad. So the first thing I always tell people is as a CEO of your business, you and the CFO,

52:28 you need a corporate password. So that if you're ever called and it's a it's someone that you think is a CEO telling the CFO to transfer money to this account, you're going to say, "What's our corporate password?" And the AI won't be able to answer that. The bad actor using AI won't be able to answer that, right? And the same thing for family. So have the family password because the AI voices are fantastic and they you will not be able to tell the difference in a lot of cases. So you'll have to ask the questions that the bad actors using AI won't know what the answers are to them. So you have to set up some precautions corporately like in your business and also personally in your business. And when you think about well is AI going to take over the world? Are we going to be um servants to the

53:14 robots? I mean, Brandy, you're nice to the robots now, so you're safe if robots ever do take over. But hey, it's it's now we need to be part of the conversations and we need to be at the conferences and we need our voices to be heard as well on what our concerns are around AI so that we can also be at the table as policy is created and as these corporations are looking for their security measures and that sort of stuff. always know that there's bad actors in there. They were bad before these scammers were doing a lot before this recent wave in AI, but it's just now easier and more accessible for them. Yeah. I mean, I got scam pages out there. People be like, well, they for vault. I said, well, baby, if you didn't get that from the you did not get it,

54:00 okay, it is not from and if you got a vault at Gmail, baby, you know it ain't me. Okay. But when we talk about young people and I want to end kind of as we go from the generational this is a very intergenerational tool right the under 30 group and the over 30 over 35 group are there some things specifically that young people need to have in their arsenal to be able to compete in this world and are there some things that the older more seasoned veterans out here need to have in their arsenal to compete in this world, right? Well, as an AI consultant and as I go into corporations and government, I will say that people who are not using AI are getting laid

54:47 off and publicly it's been said a and even those using AI, you know, we have to be in a place right now where we are upskilling ourselves and showing our value. So for the older folks starting to say, you know what, I do need to learn AI. I cannot sit on the sideline for this revolution. and I need to make sure that I am AI literate and that's what they're saying like they're they're looking to make sure that their workforce is AI literate. So I come in to train the workforce a lot in different companies um and train them on AI and to be AI literate but it's up to that person to then say okay I'm going to take it to the next level to continue learning um and so sometimes it's about if they have a passion for AI and then other times it's knowing that they don't

55:32 have a choice they need to learn this um because their employer wants them to be more productive and more efficient in their managers and then what I would say for the young people is that corporations are now looking to make sure that they're only hiring young people that are AI literate. So, if you do not have an AI portfolio yet, you haven't created with AI yet, you better be prepared before your interview that you start to upskill yourself. There's a lot of free courses out there and you know, go to go to Google, go to IBM, take some of their free courses, get certified in different aspects of AI. You have to make yourself very appealing when it comes to your AI proficiency when applying for a job. So, I don't

56:18 know a corporation right now that is hiring that says, "Oh, I don't care if they know AI or not." Right? I don't care if they care if they like AI or not. No, what do they know about AI? Are they willing to use AI? And what have they done so far with AI? So, I'm training at the university level, especially in H.B.CU, GCUs and saying, "Look, we need to make sure that these graduates that are coming out of these schools are so AI literate that they are, you know, highly sought after. So it and I don't care what what you're graduating from. It doesn't matter because in every as you're graduating in fashion, well, guess what? There are so many AI tools out there that can help you with fashion. So you're you're making sure that every graduate as a

57:03 young person has AI literacy so that they are looked at as um you know so valuable to that company or the agency the nonprofit where wherever they're looking for a job or if they're an entrepreneur and they have dreams of being an entrepreneur well if you want to grow and scale your business in today's world you better learn AI from the get-go to start your business and to scale it. Yeah, I I saw that Georgetown is now offering a master's program in AI, some form of AI consulting, some form of AI management program. It came up on my feed, right? Right. And I'm sitting up here like, okay, now if I got that as an ad on my feed, right? Because of course, it's seeing everything that I'm

57:49 searching and correct. I am telling I told my niece, she's 24 years old, uh gonna be 25 years old in December. She works in corporate and HR. And she was like, "Well, I really want to get a new job and I, you know, I've been applying and da da da." She works uh for a bank. And I said, "Lexi, if you are not learning AI, right, if you are not honing in those skills, everything that you just said, I just want to know. I have I want you to know I said this to her, right? Okay. I said this to her because I think that's gonna be the difference maker. It's gonna be the shift. It is. It is. It is. And every every young person out there as they're looking for their their next thing or,

58:35 you know, like Lexi's looking for a job, what what is she going to do next? As she's looking for that next thing, they're looking for how competent are you in AI? All right. And then even how willing are you? So just by going out there and saying, "Oh, I I took this LinkedIn course on prompt engineering or whatever it is," it makes you more appealing to the person that's going to hire you. So you you have to be allin on AI. And then, you know, for the young people, they start to find the things about AI or the tools that really excite them. And when they do that, then they start going down this rabbit hole of using that tool and they become better and better at it. I'm always surprised by or maybe not surprised by how fast they are compared to the adults in the room. Like they get it. They're done

59:20 before the adults are even they're still typing in their prompt and the kids are gone, you know? So, it's good. Alicia, I think more people are going you you have just piqu so many people's interests who maybe have not had this conversation, who have been afraid to have this conversation, didn't know where to start in this conversation. So, I really think I know that you are doing the Lord's work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You are doing the Lord's work. Thank you. Because if we don't step into this and especially as people of color who with all these DEI programs going away with all of the we don't have to hire you no more. Okay. With all of that that we see, you are going to have to have tools in your toolkit. That's right. That separates you from the pack. That's right. That's right. And when we

1:00:08 talk about being separated from the pack, not only can you be separated from the pack, but rise so far above the pack. So, you know, I'm seeing as an AI consultant and trainer that, you know, more and more of us, especially black women, are getting into AI and passionate about it. And our community is we're probably at least 90% um black women that are really learning artificial intelligence, which is so off the norm. So the, you know, statistics out there is that it's only maybe 20 to 30% of black women are in artificial intelligence. So I I also encourage them find someone who you connect with, who's doing it, who's obsessed about it, like me, that you can follow and learn from so that you you are all in on it and you

1:00:57 don't have to learn everything. So there's there's quite a few of us that spend all day long learning these new tools. I mean, this is what we do in our business so that we can then go out there and teach it to others, to our community, to you, I teach it on social media all the time. So, find somebody that you like that's talking about it every single day and learn every single day and that will that will get you to the next level. That will get you to the next level. One word you are committed to in this season of your life. Upskilling. Why? It's so important for me to upskill myself so that I can upskill others. There's no way I can pull others up if I'm not committed every day to being better myself. Alisia Little, fantastic, phenomenal

1:01:42 conversation. I am so excited for the work you are doing in the world. It is so necessary. Broad Empowers Talks, another good one for the books. Be sure to share this with someone who needs to upscale, uplevel their life in this AI revolution. Until next time, I'm your girl Brandy Harvey. Eat well, give a damn, move your body every single day. Peace. Alicia Little just gave us the blueprint on how to turn skills into streams and ideas into income. Her journey is proof that with the right mindset and the right moves, success is

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