Hey {{first_name}},

I hope you had a great weekend and you're feeling ready for the week ahead.

This week's episode is a little different, and I'm so excited about it.

I sat down with Lou Compagnone, Director of AI at Datacom, to launch a brand new series called AI Ready Women.

This is the first of many conversations where Lou and I are going to break down what's actually happening in AI, what it means for women, the workforce, and the world and most importantly, what you need to do about it.

Because here's what I'm seeing:

Women are being left out of the conversation. Again! And if we don't show up now, if we don't use these tools, if we don't speak up, we're going to get left behind.

So this episode is about one big question:

Are women in the room?

And if we're not, how do we change that?

The signal that hit me hardest: the Time Magazine cover

Last year, Time Magazine named the Architects of AI as their Person of the Year.

Eight people on the cover. Six men. Two women.

And here's the part that got me:

One of the women, Lisa Su from AMD, looked like she was about to be pushed off the edge by Elon Musk.

The other, Fei-Fei Li from Stanford, was half out of the frame. Barely visible.

Lou said something that really stuck with me:

If women aren't in the room, we're not shaping the way this goes.

Here's what the stats are telling us:

That's who's in the room, and if AI is being built with a very narrow lens, we've got a problem.

Women are avoiding AI, and we can't afford to do that anymore

A Harvard Business School study found that women are adopting AI at a 25% lower rate than men.

Why?

Because women are asking questions like:

And look, I get it. I've caught myself doing the same thing.

I remember watching my husband, Kyle, play around with Claude Code and thinking, "That looks far too technical for me."

But then I stopped myself.

Because if I'm thinking that, other women are too, and that's not going to be my story.

Here's what I want you to hear:

You don't need to be technical to use AI.

You don't need to understand how it all works behind the scenes.

You just need to start using it for the boring, repetitive tasks that drain your time.

Lou said something brilliant:

"AI is a democratising technology. It's one of the first technologies that allows us to use natural language to access technical capabilities."

You don't need to code. You just need to prompt.

The women I know who are doing incredible things with AI aren't developers. They're creatives, strategists, designers, thinkers.

They're just using it in a really smart way.

Start with one boring task

I'll give you an example from my own life.

I used to spend 15 minutes crafting emails. Now I speak into ChatGPT or Google Gemini, tell it what I want to say, and it spits out a draft in five seconds.

I tweak it. Done.

That's not cheating, that's being efficient.

When you add that up over a whole day? It's massive.

Here's another one:

My podcast used to take half a day to edit. Now it takes five minutes.

Job descriptions that used to take me two hours? 20 minutes.

These aren't big use cases. They're boring and functional. But they add up.

And they free me up to do what I'm actually good at, the human stuff. The strategy, relationship building and creative thinking.

In this week's episode, Lou and I break down:

This conversation is honest, practical, and empowering.

And I really want you to listen to it.

Your challenge this week:

Pick one boring, repetitive task in your work and use AI to do it.

Just one.

Maybe it's summarising meeting notes. Maybe it's drafting an email. Maybe it's writing a job description.

Stop asking, "Is this allowed?" and start asking, "How can this help me?"

🎧 Listen here: Are Women in the Room? Why Only 22% of AI Roles Are Held by Women (And What We Must Do About It)

Reply and tell me this:

What's one task you're going to use AI for this week?

Send it through, I want to know.

With confidence

Georgie 💜