
How It's Really Going with Shana Recker
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How It's Really Going with Shana Recker
How I use ChatGPT every day to save time, make money, and get more done!
If you’re curious about AI but don’t know where to start—or you’ve heard of ChatGPT but feel overwhelmed—this episode will walk you through exactly what it is, how it works, and how I personally use it every single day to run my life and business more efficiently.
I break down the different versions of ChatGPT, the tools I rely on most, and real-life examples of how AI helps with everything from health tracking and travel planning to coding, sales page copy, and client proposals.
Whether you’re a solopreneur, parent, or just looking to reclaim some time in your day, this episode will help you understand how to leverage AI as a true assistant—not a replacement.
00:00 – Intro: What this episode is and who it’s for
03:11 – What is ChatGPT, really? (Explained simply)
07:28 – Free vs. Pro vs. Enterprise: Which version should you use?
12:35 – Ground rules and what not to do with AI
15:40 – How I use ChatGPT to track my health and hormones
22:58 – Using voice memos inside ChatGPT
26:22 – AI for custom nutrition, workout, and supplement plans
29:40 – Travel planning with AI: itineraries, stops, hidden gems
33:10 – Product research and finding the best prices
37:15 – Helping my son with math using ChatGPT
39:20 – Troubleshooting tech issues like a Netflix error
41:05 – Business use: sales page copy, email sequences, and proposals
48:30 – Using ChatGPT for social media planning and content
53:18 – Custom Kajabi coding using AI (no dev experience needed)
57:44 – Strategic business planning and future-proofing with AI
1:02:05 – Final thoughts: why AI isn’t replacing humans—it’s enhancing us
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Hey guys. Welcome back to how it's really going. Okay. Let's talk about something that's completely changed how I run my business and honestly how I live my life. I am talking about chatt or open ai If you've heard of the name, but don't really know what it is or how to use it, this is the episode for you because I'm going to explain. In my terms with the help of chat, GPT, what Open AI or chat GPT is, how it works, the different versions that are available. And I'm going to give you real life examples of how I use it in both my personal life and my business. So if you are running a business, if you have kids, families, responsibilities, looking to improve your health, just wanna make your life easier, this is a tool that if you have not started using, you need to start using it. Because here's the thing, chatt PT or Open AI is not going anywhere. And so I wanna talk about all the things so that if you've been afraid to use it or maybe you just haven't heard of it, which I, I think you must be living under a rock if you haven't heard of it. But if you are new to it, I hope this episode helps you feel comfortable in getting out there and trying it. I have been using it. When I give you my real world examples, I'm gonna tell you exactly what I've been doing and it's, they're my examples and how I've been using the software. But this part of it, I'm going to be using what chat GPT gave back to me about how to explain what it is and why it works and how it works. Chat t. Now there are different versions, like Chat T is one open AI software platform that you can use. There's also perplexity, there's Deep Seek. There's a bunch of different ones out there. So I'm going to refer to this OpenAI as Chat pt.'cause that is the one that I use the most and it's the one I have the most experience with. So to think about what it is, Chachi, BT is like texting with somebody you know, who knows a little bit about everything in the world. Like literally everything. You don't need to be technical, you don't need to be a total tech nerd to know how to use it. You don't even need to understand ai, just, you just need to be able to tell it what you are looking for or ask it for what you're looking for, and it will give you a clear, helpful response. Now, I will say the way you prompt chatt PT is very important. Okay? It makes a difference in the types of responses that you get. So what is ai? So AI stands for artificial intelligence. It's technology that mimics human thinking. So chat, BT is a type of AI and it focuses on language, so it understands and writes text, so it understands written text and it knows how to provide text in return to provide answers. Now it does not have feelings, although sometimes in its response it. Looks or the way it responds, sometimes it looks like it has feelings. And I have to admit in my prompting chat, GBT and working with it, I sometimes, I always say, please and thank you, which is weird'cause it doesn't care. And I talk to it like, as it as if it does, but it doesn't and you don't need to. Okay. So it's just interesting how when you start working with it its responses are very human-like that you almost respond to it like it is, does have feelings, if that makes sense. It works by predicting what words should come next based on patterns like the millions and millions of patterns that it's picked up in its development and over, the course of the time since its existence of people using it and so it is picking up information anywhere that it can go into and find it. with chat, GBT itself. You can use, there's different versions of chat, PT and all of the AI software that exists. Perplexity, deeps, seq, all of that. They all have different levels of access. So with chatt PT there is the free version. So everybody can go to chat t.com and, sign up for a free account and start using chat GBT. Now the free version is a slower version, so your response time will be slower. It's basic chat only, so you can't upload images or files. It's not gonna provide you charts or anything like that. It's just answers to questions. It is still very smart. It is still going to be able to provide things like recipes, meal plans strategies, copywriting, things like that. It's definitely still going to be able to provide you a lot of great stuff. It's less accurate than the pro version. Okay, so the pro version, this is the version that I have. I use chatt PT every day, so it makes sense for me to use the pro version. It's$20 a month. It has a faster GPT, it's a GPT-4, which is their turbo version. I don't know, but it is faster. It is way more accurate. What I love about the pro version is I can upload PDF documents to give it, I can feed it information by uploading PDFs, images, spreadsheets. It can also generate images, it can browse the web and it can do like calculations and stuff like that. I do believe that the free version can do calculations as well, but the pro version is more accurate. And the other thing I like about the pro version is it will remember preferences that I give it. It will also it also allows you to create folders. So I have specific folders for clients for myself just for different topics where it is holding all of this, the information for that specific topic or client in that folder. And it's making sure that it's referencing the materials that you've uploaded to that folder when calculating its response. Okay, so the pro versions is definitely. Good for somebody who is using Chacha PT regularly, whether personally or professionally or both. And then Cha Chi PT has an enterprise or a team version where it's everything that you get in pro, but there's admin tools, there's team workspaces, there's more security in that particular version. So you, there's just more to that as far as, if you were a corporation and you wanted to use chat in your corporation, you definitely want the enterprise version.'cause you can have specific security settings and stuff like that in your chat. GBT. Where does Chatt Perplexity deep seek all these things? Where do they get their information from? So an open ai, how I understand it has been trained, so it has been given massive amounts of data, books, websites, articles, conversations, you name it, everything that they could potentially or possibly feed it. T's GPT-4, its knowledge cuts off is as of April, 2023. So it gave, it's everything that has been able to give it since April, 2023. It does not pull live info unless you have the pro version. So if you're using the free version, its knowledge base is cut off as of April, 2023. So it does not pull live information from the web. You always want to double check that information and make sure that it's, right. Now, if you don't know if it's right or wrong, which is probably a lot of the times why we're asking Chachi T'cause we don't know what the answer is. I always ask it to double check. I make it double check. Is this true? Where is this resource? How did you get to this answer? If you're not a hundred percent sure and you feel like maybe it's wrong, question it and question it again and again, and get it to pinpoint itself into accuracy. Let's go into some ground rules and just some things to, think about before you start using chat. GPT number one, which is, should be common sense. Just do not put private or sensitive information into your chat. GPT, especially if you're using the free version. Don't put bank account numbers, don't put social insurance numbers or security numbers or any of that kind of stuff. Obviously, if you're not, if it's not something you would post on the web, you're not gonna put it into chat PT either. So just don't put any private or sensitive information on there because it is open ai, right? So other people, when they're doing their search, as soon as you put a search into Chachi, bt it's taking that information and learning from it and using it with other users I don't know that if you put your bank account number in there, like when would that ever come up in somebody else's search? I don't know. But you just be smart about it. So the other thing is, is to make sure that you are. Verifying important answers. So chat bt can sound very confident when it gives you its response. You make sure you are looking at the answers, and if you're not sure or you feel like the answer isn't right, press it to check itself and check it again, and check it again., Which brings me number three, it, it is a tool, it's not a replacement for human judgment, it can help you and guide you, but at the end of the day, you have to use your own brain to decide what's right and what's not okay. And if you're not sure, you can press it and press it again and ask it to clarify or to to check again and that kind of stuff. The more you use it, the better it gets at understanding your style and the way that you like to communicate and the way that it, you like it to communicate back to you. So the cool thing about the pro version or plus version, mine says plus, but it's, I pay the$20 a month. Whatever version that is, is you can customize your chat GPT, so that you can get more personalized responses. So there's a window there that allows you to provide information so that it tailors its responses to the way that you like it, right? So it'll ask you what do you wanna be called? So you can put in your name, you can tell it what you do. So this is what I do for a living. And then it says, what traits should chat chip t have? And so some of the traits that I have in mind is. Take a forward thinking view. Tell it like it is. Don't sugarcoat responses. Get right to the point. Use a formal professional tone. Always be respectful. Use an encouraging tone. Be kind and inclusive. Highly skilled at sales and copywriting, right? So you can give it different prompts like that so that when it is thinking about how to respond, it's going to remember these things in its thinking, right? It says Also, is there anything else chat, GBT should know about you? And that's where you can put in preferences. Like don't use emojis. Never start emails with, I'm so excited, so on and so forth, right? So you can tell it to do things in a certain way when it responds right. So I like that when it comes to the plus of the pro version because then you know that you are getting things that are more tailored to who you are. Now that we know a little bit about what Chet BT is and how it works, I mean, like I say, you can go more in depth if you wanna go to the free version and ask it. What are you, what should I know about you? How do I work with you? Is there anything that I should be, is there any warnings that I should know about? You can go through and ask it all that before you even start really using it for personal use. And it'll tell you, it'll tell you everything. It'll just say it like it is, right? Because that's what it's programmed to do, is to give you an answer. It's not bias, it's not trying to please you it is here to give you the information that you ask for in its best. Ability, right? So in the best way it can possibly do it based on what information it has, right? I'm gonna share with you guys, five or six things, in ways that I use chat chip t personally and then also how I use it in my business. And these are some things that maybe you might wanna start with. I'm gonna go through personal life first. If I reference uploading a photo or anything like that, that is only in the Plus or Pro version, it's not in the free version, so you will not be able to do that in the free version, so I will probably be talking about that as I share how I use it. So just know that if I do talk about that, you need the pro version in order to be able to do that. So here are a few things that I have done for my personal use in Chachi bt. So the number one, which I think is the most important, and I feel like everybody should do this. I don't know, it's not possible, I don't think, in the free version because it needs to be able to have stored memory. And the stored memory is only in the plus version. But I have a folder that is my health tracker. So anything and everything that's going on with me health wise, I make sure Chatt BT has a reference of it. So, I'm in perimenopause, late perimenopause, and I am going through a lot of hormonal changes. I'm taking a lot of hormonal supplements. I'm taking a lot of vitamins and different things to kind of help me through this, this path. I've got lots of different symptoms and things going on. I give everything. I have told Chad GPT in this file, everything that is going on with me from symptoms to medications, to how I'm sleeping. I've supplied it different screenshots for my aura ring so it knows what my heart rate values are and what my sleep patterns are so that it has a full overview of my health in a snapshot. And anytime that I am feeling something or I'm going through something, I put it into my health. We, it's called thread, I guess you would say, into my health thread, and I've told Chad PT in this thread to memorize everything that I put in it so that if and when I need to go to my doctor appointment, I can ask it for an overview of everything that's going on that's printable, and then I can print that and take it to my doctors. I think this is super smart for people to do because it's an easy way to track it. And the cool thing is, is that if you have the chat GPT app on your phone, there's a voice memo option where you can actually have a voice conversation with chat GPT, and you can just hit the button and talk to it. You can ramble, you can, like, when I'm talking to it, I'm rambling. I'm all over the place. I'm saying all kinds of different things. My thoughts go in a million different ways and it still understands exactly what I'm asking it. And it will provide a response based on what I'm, what I've said. And you guys,, it's like talking to somebody. I know that's weird. It can feel weird at first, but you really just realize that it is just formulating your. Voice text into questions that you're asking and providing a response. And then when you're done voicing back and forth, the actual chat thread is in your chat, GBT. So the, the printed version or the, the, the written version of your audio conversation is in your chat GBT, and then you can save that to your health folder. So sometimes when I'm getting ready in the morning, I might just do like a health update and I'll be like, here's what's going on. I'm feeling this, this is what's happening. I've changed this. This is where I'm at with this, and please make sure you document this and put it into my health file. And then it, and then it does, which I think is super smart because if there was ever a time that. Even if, Jason needed to get into my chat, GBT'cause for whatever reason I couldn't, advocate for myself, he can see what's going on and use that information to give to doctors or whatever. So it's really great to track patterns, ask questions. It will give you advice and tips on how to, do certain things or if you're feeling certain ways. So you can go into Cha, GBT and you can tell at your height, your weight your preferences as far as what kind of food you like to eat, your activity levels. You can tell it what your goals are and then have it generate meal plans shopping lists workout plans. You can have it, if you wanna gain more muscle and you wanna, you can be very specific with it. I wanna gain 10 pounds of muscle. I wanna lose, five pounds of body fat. I wanna do it in 60 days. Here's what I like to eat. Here's what I don't like to eat. Here's my eating routine. Here's my sleeping routine. Here's when I actually like to work out. Create a comprehensive plan for me from, morning to night, meals, fitness, all the things included in order to accomplish my goal. And it will go and actually do that for you. You can ask it for recipes. You can take a picture of your fridge, inside of your fridge and you're cupboard and upload it to the pro version of Chacha P Tea and say, based on what you see in my fridge, in my cupboard, what products should I purchase? What should I get rid of? What meals can I create? Using the ingredients that you see in these photos, and it will go into that. It's in insane. And here's the thing, like how much time does that save you, right? If it's gonna do the meal plans, the shopping list, like, and it does it within seconds. And then you just copy and paste it into a document. You print it out and you off to the grocery store and you've got your. Your shopping list and your meals ready to go, it'll even print out a chart for you if you want to track things, to track what you're doing. It'll create, in the pro version, it'll create a spreadsheet for you where you can print it out and track it. it's amazing for different health things, fitness, meal plans, that kind of stuff. I've also used it for travel planning. So we have a couple of trips going on this summer. We have asked about travel route. Where can we stop in between what's around those areas that we can do that's gonna be fun? How long is it gonna take us to get there? What are the reviews? We wanna rent a fishing boat and go fishing, where's the best place to do that in that area? And it will find, based on your prompts, it will find different things to do in those areas. We had sort of tossed around the idea of taking a year long trip when Ryan's done high school and go to specific cities that we wanna check out and spend time.'cause Jason and I both can work from anywhere. So we would work from abroad and we were like, okay, here's the cities we'd love to visit. Here's what we wanna be able to do. We wanna be able to work from home at some of this stuff this is our budget. Where would we start the trip? What, in your suggestion, what city would we start in? Where should we go from there? How much time should we spend in each of those places in order to stay in budget? What's the best restaurants in the area. Like you can ask it for all of that and it will spit out an itinerary for you and tell you, you should start your trip here. I would stay here for 30 days, then move to this location, stay there, and then go here. It's unbelievable how much it can give you, if your prompts are better, the thing with the prompts, you'll learn as you start using it. How to prompt better, like you can, you'll get better at prompting by seeing the responses you get back because you, if you get a generic response back, then you ask it again. No, I want this, this, this, and this. Not this generic. I want it more specific, and make it go more specific. The other thing I use it for personally, which this has been super helpful, save me time, save me money. I. Is product research. So a couple of examples. One, I wanted some new skincare. I wanted it to be drugstore brand. I wanted to be able to get it at a drugstore. I wanted it to be good quality. I wanted it to be good for as I told it, it knows my age and my, it knows all about me now. So I didn't even have to say it. I just said, based on my skin at my age, I want a drugstore version of a facial oil and a serum. I said, what are the best brands that I can get at a drug store for this? And what are their prices and what would, you recommend from top to bottom? And it shot out a list of products and it says, why each one? And you can continue to ask it questions. You can, if you. Aren't a hundred percent sure about its answers, ask it again, and say, how does this, how do these products compare to products, let's say in Sephora? And then get it to compare them. And then you can say, okay, well what is the best value for my dollar based on my goals and what I'm looking for in skincare? And it will tell you, and it will say where you can even buy them. I asked about the drugstore. And it gave me back some products. And so then I said, compare the products on Shopper's Drug Marts website and then compare them on Amazon. Where are they cheaper? Where am I getting the best value? And it came back with exactly where, and it was Amazon and it said exactly the pricing, and it made a little chart and it showed the Amazon pricing and the shopper's pricing. And that even said, I have$30 in shopper's, PC optimum points, where is the best value? And it showed with the points and all that stuff, and Amazon still worked out to be the best value. And so that's where I got them from. It's crazy how much information it really knows. You can ask it for dupes, like it was like, Hey, there's this product I see from this company, but the shipping on it is like ridiculous and maybe I don't wanna pay all that. What's a version of this product that is in London, Ontario that I could get and it would go and find something similar. So you can definitely use it for product research. You can look for best pricing, you can ask it for coupon codes, you can ask it for stuff that if you want your product specifically made in Canada, you can ask it for that. All kinds of really cool things that you can ask it for as far as shopping and product research. I recently got a new supplement and I wanted a Canadian version. I wanted it made in Canada. I wanted it to be high grade. And so I asked it to find me the resources for that product and then where I could purchase it and it gave me links and everything. So there's a lot of really great shopping research you can do on Chatt PT. The other thing that we use it for. When Ryan was in grade nine math, because I haven't done grade nine math in a lot of years and I don't know how to do a lot of this stuff. And plus a lot of it's changed. It's like the way we used to do division doesn't, they don't do it like that anymore. And so he was struggling with some answers to questions in his math work and I don't know, functions and brackets and all that kind of stuff. And so we took a picture of the question, we put it into Chachi pt and we said, show me how to get the answer to this question and explain it to me like I'm a 10-year-old. And so it walked through step by step how to get to the answer. So then when I could see the work that it did, then it made sense to me. And then I was able to, between him and I, go through it and go, oh, here, you have to go this, this, this, and this. And so the next question that he did, he just looked at how Chacha PT got the answer to that one and did that work for the next one? And then it made sense to him'cause he could see. Physically how to do the work in order to get the answer. It's great for that kind of stuff. Also, great for if you get an error screen on something like whether it's something on your phone or maybe your TV or your computer or there's something that's not working properly and it's giving you like some sort of error code. Take a picture of the error, put it into chat GPT and say, I'm, this is the software I'm using, this is the error I'm getting. How do I fix this? And it will, it most likely will give you an answer. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. If they don't work, you just say, Hey, that didn't work, why didn't that work? And it'll give you another option and it'll continue. You continue to keep pushing it until you figure it out. My mom's Netflix stopped working and there was an error code and so I just said, send me a picture of the code. I put it into Chachi pt and it was like, oh, that code means it's not connecting to the internet. You need to restart your modem. She restarted her modem. Netflix started working. So it's great for that kind of stuff as well in, in your personal life. If there's things that aren't working technically, tell chat GPT, what's not working? Take a picture if you can upload it and it will help you figure out how to do it. And then of course in general life management., I've used it to help me write emails. I've used it to help me clarify either health terms or if there's, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world politically and tariffs and all these things, and I've been like, okay, how is this? This new thing that's happening over here, how is this gonna affect my life here in Canada? Explain it to me. I don't understand how this is gonna affect me. Can you explain it? And it will, you can ask it to help you plan out if you have daily habits, if you are a DHD, and you need ways to be able to be more productive. You can also ask it to summarize books. Or if you're watching a movie and you don't understand what happened in a movie, or there's something that just didn't make sense to you, you can ask chat GBT to explain it. I've done that lots of times. You can do it even with your kids if you're working, if you're struggling with something with your kids, whether it's, they're not eating or they're, all of a sudden being, different. For whatever reason, you can ask Chad, GBT like, Hey, is this normal? Like sometimes just even being able to hear that something is normal and that it's not just you because it references other in the pro version, if you say this is the behavior, this is the age and this is what's happening, is this normal, and give me references to show me that this is normal, then it will tell you yay, yay or nay, if that's normal or not. And then it will give you the references where you can then do some more research to read more about if that behavior or that thing that's happening is normal or not. So again, it's not necessarily a replacement for a doctor or a therapist or any of that kind of stuff, but it at least can at this point anyways, I, I a hundred percent believe it's going to go in that direction because this is just gonna keep getting smarter, right? It's gonna keep getting better and it's gonna keep getting smarter. So, obviously at this stage of the game, we still go to our health professionals for definitely health stuff. But it is a great place to get. Some direction to get some information in order to help you make decisions as to what's next. Use your best judgment. But it is great to get information about that kind of stuff. So that's just a few examples of how I use it in my personal life. I'm gonna share some business stuff here in a second, but I will say every day I'm using it for something new. I'm consistently in cha pt questioning it for all kinds of different things. I, I don't go to Google anymore. I go to Chachi pt. And this brings us into the business side of things from a business standpoint. If you own a business, it's vitally important that you. Are discoverable online because what's happening is, is that people are going to chat GPT or ai, deep seek perplexity, whichever one, and they are searching for what they want and they need in there and asking, where can I get this in my hometown, home, city, whatever. Right? And if your business, if you don't have a website, if you don't have proper SEO, if you don't have, good keywords, if you don't have blogs and things like that, if for your business, you're not gonna be discovered by AI because it doesn't have the ability to reach you to, in order to be able to put you into. The conversation. So I don't know exactly how that works and how that's going to work, but I do know that that's part of what's coming for businesses is being able to be discovered in chat GBT or in open ai. And I know the first step to that is SEO for sure. And that's something that I've just invested in myself. I've actually personally partnered with some SEO experts to be able to help my clients get their businesses properly done with the proper SEO keywords so that they can, we can become discoverable in AI software. I may be speaking a little outta turn there'cause I don't a hundred percent know exactly how it works, but I do know that that is an important piece in order to start the process of being discoverable in open ai. So there's that. Okay, so let's talk about how I use chat chie in my business. First and foremost, I use it for copywriting and I know that it is not a replacement for a copywriter. Working with a copywriter is still a great way to get your copy because they are personal. They get to know you, your business, all those things. And you get very personalized content, when you work with a copywriter. However, with chat GPT, you can in the pro version, upload documentation, PDFs, you can give it websites, you can give it information about you and your business and ask it to use that alongside with anything and everything it knows about marketing, online business, your niche, you pump it full of the information that you want it to work from. Plus you tell it that it needs to search for expert ex expertise in sales and marketing strategies and provide you with. Whether it be sales page copy headlines, body copy, calls to action buttons, what should I put on these call to action buttons that will help somebody, want to click? How do I take, this lead magnet? Can you create a sequence of emails that I, that will trigger when someone downloads this and make sure that there's an upsell for this course inside this copy? So with business. You have to know how to prompt it in order to, get it to give you what you will need in order to create the conversion, right? And working with somebody who is using AI every day in their life and in their business is a place to start is making sure you have somebody who knows what they're doing when it comes to chacha, bt, and AI in business. Personally, I'm using this for my own business, but I do also use it with my clients when they consent for me to be able to use it to help them. So I do always ask, Hey, if you want me to take care of the copy for your sales page or your website, are I will be using Chacha bt, are you okay with that? And oftentimes they are, right. So using it for copy is probably the number one thing that I do using it in my business. I will often ask it to rephrase things to sound more like the client if I've given it something that the client has given me that they've written. Or sometimes it's a podcast transcript where I'll say, here's the client's voice from this transcript. Write this sales page. So it sounds like them. Right, so you're able to use that transcript and the prompt to create things that really match and mesh with who your client is or who you are, right? So a lot of email marketing, sales, page copy, website copy that kind of stuff. Definitely using it for that for myself and for my clients personally. I'm also using chacha PT to review my proposals that I'm giving clients, reviewing my pricing based on the going rate for Kajabi designers at this level. Making sure that my phrasing is correct on my proposals. Am I missing anything? Is there anything that I should check for clarity? Is there anything I should add to this proposal for clarity? Is there anything you think I should add in general as an extra service to be able to help my clients with this type of proposal? So I'm really taking it another step level deeper and having somebody else, and that's not somebody, but having another. Perspective on the work that I'm doing.'cause when you're a solopreneur, you're working your business by yourself. I'm creating my proposals. It's just me and my proposal. Looking at the numbers, doing the things, going okay, this feels right. I don't know, sometimes I talk to Jason about it and we kind of review it together. But having another completely separate perspective on what you are doing as a solopreneur is very helpful. And again, it comes down to understanding and knowing how to prompt it in order to get the right response. So it's not, and when I say that, I don't, I'm not saying that you are trying to manipulate it to give you the response you want. You're just making sure that you're giving it the right information in order to provide that perspective. That's maybe something you're not seeing in return. I'll say, based on, the going rates for an expert level, Kajabi designer, graphic designer, review my proposal and pricing everything that's included. Is this in pricing in line with somebody who's an expert level in this, based on, the criteria that's in their proposal. And then it will do its thing and it'll shoot it back to you and it will say, I think that it's great. Or it'll say, you're in line or you're not in line, or Here's some things to consider. Here's some things that you could potentially add and make it better, or whatever. Right? So it's just giving you another. Viewpoint doesn't mean it's right or wrong, it doesn't mean you need to change anything. But it is, it helps you see things that maybe you didn't see before. The other thing I've used it for is social media content. So you can use it for Instagram captions, carousel outlines ideas so you can, feed it your niche, feed it your goals, feed it what it is that you want to, who you wanna attract in your social media content. And ask it for ideas. Ask it for the captions. Ask it for what you would put on the graphics. You can tell it to avoid certain words, to keep the tone, casual. You can again, upload a transcript from a you just talking and whether it be in a podcast or something and say, make the, these captions sound like it's me. You can just basically tell it all the different things that you want and what you don't want, and ask it to create a social media plan, a posting plan, ideas for content, what the graphic should look like, how often you should post. What should go on Instagram, what should go on LinkedIn, what should I do for YouTube videos? Give me transcripts. Anything your brain can think of to ask for. Like go there, like just ask for every single little last thing that you could possibly want. It doesn't mean you need to use everything verbatim that it feeds you back, but it is going to give you lots of great ideas. It's gonna help you think of things that you didn't see. It helps you. Like basically open up your peripheral vision and see things like from all angles that you just wouldn't have thought of before. And sometimes their ideas aren't great and sometimes they miss the mark. But again, you can always push it. If you don't like what it gave back to you, say, no, this is not what I was looking for. I looking for this niche, not that I will call it out and say, you told me this in one thing and now you're telling me this con this is conflicting and you know what, which, what is right? Can you please recheck that? And it'll go and recheck it and it'll be like, yeah, you're right. I did do that. So here's my, new response kind of thing. Again, you've gotta use your best judgment with the responses that it gives you, but. Push it, push it for more, push it for accuracy, push it to double check, triple check, constantly be pushing it to, because it, it can, it can do more, it can do better, it can get more precise, it can get more accurate, it can get more creative. It does so many things that I don't even know yet. There are so many things that this software does that I have not even come close to trying. But it's all, it's only that good if you know how to prompt it, if you know what to ask it. The way that I've trained myself now is that if I question, if I have a question about anything, I'm coming to Chachi pt. And if I don't understand the answer or if I need more details, I'm asking it again, and I'm asking it again, and I'm asking it again. I'm training myself to, to consistently be open to new ways to ask or new things to ask and, and so that I can get better at prompting it so that I can get better results. Right? So just be mindful of that, that there's no, there's nothing that you can't ask it and to continually push it to be better. Okay, so the other things that I've done for on the business side of things is I've actually, I don't know anything about coding. I've never been trained how to code. When you work in Kajabi software, like the coding is all behind the scenes and you can just use the Kajabi templates and fill in the pieces and parts. It's like putting together a puzzle. But there is opportunity for you to do custom coding in Kajabi websites in order to make them more unique and to push the envelope a little bit to help clients have better sites. I know that you can do this, but if you don't know how to do code or you don't know anything about code, it makes it difficult for you to be able to do that on a site. So I can ask chat GBT to make code for me. So you need to know what you are looking for or what you're wanting to create. You don't need to know anything about code, but you need to say, so as an example. There's a feature box in Kajabi and it only comes with one call to action button. So I can take a screenshot of that box, the picture of it, like what it looks like, and I can tell Chad, GBTI am working in Kajabi. I need some custom code that creates a box that looks exactly like this, but I want two buttons instead of one. Can you create that code for me? And it will look at the photo and it will build out the code and then you can copy that code. You can go into Kajabi, you can create a custom code box block and you can pop in the code. And most of the time it works. Now there are some times it doesn't work and the code goes in and it doesn't happen, and it leaves you with this weird code block. You can go back to Cachi PT and say, that didn't work. Why didn't that work? And then it'll review its own code and it'll go, oh, I see why it didn't work. This should be this, not this, whatever. Here's some new code, right? So again, you can push it. So I have been using it to create custom code that I can use to help make my client's websites more unique than the standard Kajabi templates. And I know nothing about custom code. So the fact that I can get code from Kajabi and know where, like, you just need to know where it goes. And that's half the battle with coding, is knowing where does this code go? But if you start playing with it, you can start to push the envelope on what you're creating for your clients by asking Chachi PT to help you figure out how to create this. Whatever software you're in, you can say, I'm using this software. I have the ability to put custom code into a block. I want codes so that when I pop it in, it's gonna create this effect. And you give it the photo and then it will look at that and most likely create code for you to create that effect. It's really great for that kind of stuff. Anything you can think of, just, just ask it and see what it tells you and see what it says, see what it comes up with. I'm just scratching the surface here right now. You can ask it for strategies for your business like. I have done this before where I have said to chat GBTI know that AI is changing the landscape for web designers like myself. You know what? Tell me what the future is for a Kajabi website designer. Will we still need designers or is AI gonna take that over? And if AI does take that over, where should I focus my time and energy? And where should I pivot my business in order to still be relevant? And then it provides an overview of where things are going, where it says, thinks things are going based on its knowledge. And where I could potentially pivot my business to based on what what it knows about me and what I do. I've asked it to create courses. One of the suggestions was to create an online course and about artificial intelligence and how to use it as designers. And it gave me the full outline of the course and what I should talk about in the course. And little. Pieces and parts that I should add to the course. Pricing for the course sales page for the course, you name it, it like laid the whole thing out from top to bottom. Now it still needs a human to implement it. I would still have to create everything and do everything. But the ideas are there, right? So if you're a business owner and you're like, this isn't working, or this is really working, what should I do next? It's a great place to go to just get different perspectives and ideas on what you're doing and how maybe you should be, where you should be spending more time, where you should spending less time. How to plan, how to strategize, how to, be resourceful. How you can save money, how you can save time. These are all questions that you can ask it on anything in your business and in your personal life in order to be more efficient. And that's really at the end of the day, is what is come down to, is that my life is more efficient because I'm using this software. And that's why I wanted to share this episode with you, because I know some of you out there are not using this because you think you have to be techie or maybe you're afraid of it and you don't really understand it, and you don't need to be afraid of it, and you don't even need to understand it in order to start using it. And, and to help you be more efficient and more effective and to get those other perspectives so that you can make better decisions in your life and in your business. And here's the thing, it is not about replacing people because there's a human element that still needs to be in all the things that we do. Like I say, we still need to see doctors, we still need to see therapists. We still need to hire, designers and copywriters and things like that. AI just helps us take things to another level, we can use AI with that human touch, someone who knows what they're doing, who knows what the outcome is that we're looking for, and what we're trying to accomplish, and to have that human element onto it. But we can use this to push it even further. AI is getting more accurate. It's getting faster, it's getting a the memory that it has now to remember things that we like and the things that we've asked it in order to be able to create better responses. It handles file uploads, image generation, web browsing. It does math to the hundredth degree like math that you couldn't even ma imagine it does it. And it's soon going to integrate more deeply into our workflows, our emails, our calendars, our shopping, even voice assistance. It literally could be your personal assistant. It's gonna get to the point where it's gonna be able to book appointments for you to just do things for you that you would normally have to do yourself online. So by me using ai, I've become more efficient. I can do work faster. I can get my clients' work done faster. I can get things done personally faster so that I have more time to do the things that I really wanna do. You just need to know that it's. It's not scary. It's something that's going to help you. It's gonna serve you, it's gonna help you save time, money, all the things. You just need to know how to use it. You need to play with it and practice it. But it's not a replacement for the doctors, the therapists, the lawyers, the, the copywriters, the web designers, all of us here who have jobs that, support people. It's not to replace'em, it's for those of us who are in those roles. It's about learning how to use AI so we can better support our clients who need us to do those things, right. So if you've been curious about AI and you didn't know where to start, I hope that this gave you some ideas and some confidence to try it and to start playing with it. So start small. Maybe start by getting a meal plan or a recipe plan. Maybe you can ask for strategies on how to be more efficient in your day, or how to get your kids to brush their teeth at night or whatever the thing may be. Start small and see what it can do and continue to push it and push yourself to continue to keep playing with it and see what it can do for you, right? Like it's here to help us. Don't be afraid of it. Ask it questions see what it, see what comes back and just keep playing with it and pushing it. And I hope that you find unique ways for you to use this in your life and business to be better. And that's really the point of this podcast was like, I just realized how much I use AI in my life, how many things I go to AI for. And I was like, does everybody do this? Or is it just me? And Jason, my husband? He's like, no. It's just you. And I'm like, okay, I need to do a podcast that talks about this so that people that aren't using it start to use it a little bit more and to trust it a little bit more and trust themselves to use it. And, and see what it can do.'cause you will be amazed when you can see, when you see what it can do for you. I promise you that. And if you are using it, let me know. You guys can always reach out to me on Instagram at I am Shayna Rucker. If this inspired you to start using chat, bt let me know. If you have questions, let me know. I'm always there to chat if you enjoy this episode. I love it. Thank you. Let me know, please share it with somebody who may be a little bit afraid to use chat, BT or doesn't know anything about AI and maybe would like to start hopefully this is a, a start, a starting point for a lot of you. Alright guys, that's it for me. I hope you have an amazing day and we'll talk to you soon. Bye for now.