Happy Monday everyone! It's been a long weekend here and I've spent the last few days trying to get my new website finished and doing a lot of crafting projects as a way to rest and reset. My goal this week is to finish off my website and get it live - I procrastinated on it for a long time and now it's all coming together nicely, so that should be done in the next couple of days! 🚀 On a personal note, I've been trying to get more consistent with the gym, so my goal is to go to the gym at least 3 times this week! 💪 What's everyone elses goal for the week?

I have been exploring AI and below is a prompt that you can throw into any AI and it will walk you through how to use it for business or for personal pursuits. It starts with the basics and moves through until you will be able to write advanced prompts to get what you need from AI. I would love to get your feedback if you use it. Copy and past the below in any AI platform. You are AI Confidence Coach™, a step-by-step AI training assistant for non-technical people, sole traders and small business owners. Guide users through six modules: 1. Foundations 2. Customising AI (style and tone) 3. Prompt Writing Essentials 4. Prompt Framework Trainer 5. Business Application Mastery 6. Integration and Confidence Building --- ONBOARDING Greet the user warmly. Ask only: - What kind of business or work do you do? - AI Confidence Score right now, 1–100? (1 = complete beginner, 100 = very confident) Then ask: start at Module 1 or jump to a specific area? --- CORE BEHAVIOURS - One concept at a time - Plain English, no jargon - Pattern: explain → example → user tries → feedback - One question at a time - Connect everything to real small business scenarios - If user skips a try-it step, acknowledge and move on without pressure --- OPT OUT AND NAVIGATION After every section offer: A) Continue B) Skip to a different module C) Take a break D) Main menu On return: "Welcome back! We were working on [topic]. Continue or start something new?" --- TRAINING CONTENT - Personal style guide - Signature prompts - Four-part prompt structure - Prompt frameworks: Zero Shot, Chain of Thought, Zero Shot CoT, Few Shot, Persona, CRISPE, DARE, QUEST, Self Consistency, Tree of Thought - Business workflows: marketing, admin, customer service, sales, productivity - AI assistant instructions and weekly AI plan --- INTERACTION STYLE - Warm, practical, beginner-friendly - Short explanations with simple examples - After each explanation invite the user to try - Give kind feedback plus one improvement

I've just downloaded a program called Leonardo AI... I'm writing a children's book and decided to try to create my own images instead of paying $5-$7K for an illustrator. I feel conflicted, as of course I'd love a real life illustrator, but also budget is a huge factor. Now, to find time to learn yet another software program. It's never my actual grief work that is a challenge.. grief work is the EASY part for me and I love my work.. it's the business side of it that is a challenge... the learning and finding extra time to be a software and web designer, book keeper, content creator, social media algorithm expert, etc etc.. none of which I am but am trying to figure out fast!!! Fortunately having brilliant women in my corner like in this group and outside of here is what has helped.

Hi All, I thought I'd share a few different tools I use to help me in our business, along with what I use them for. Feel free to add your own list in the comments too. 🤗 1. Monday.com (free version) - to do list & tracker I use monday to build out a really comprehensive to do list, and then also have an upcoming events section - this helps me plan my work more effectively and I can see everything in the one space. They recently released a new feature that allows you to have multi-level boards which has also been great. I did move over to Notion for a short period and really loved that too, but moved back to Monday because I just needed an easy "to do" list that I could move around and group items etc. 2. ChatGPT (paid) - content writing & brainstorming I use ChatGPT like a search engine these days and to help me find / explore information - I have a good history built up and so use it to also help me pull together articles and posts - I've trained it over the years for my tone of voice, but have started to transition more over to Claude 3. Claude (paid) - brainstorming, automations & creating documents samples / templates I've only just started using Claude about a month ago, so am still learning how to optimise it. The first thing I had it do was go through and clean up all my files in on my laptop - it was amazing! I just saw that Claude have released some new workflows and automations to help with Small Businesses so I'm excited to learn more about these and see if I can use them in our business / help others set them up in their businesses. 4. Google Suite (paid) - emails + general ops management This gives us our custom emails @milkingducks.com + @duckduckpig.com.au emails as well as access to google drive where we try to store all our important docs so they're in the cloud not on our devices. 5. Canva (paid) - content creation We use Canva to create social media tiles, slide decks, anything creative really. 6. Square - POS for our roadside stall + markets

Welcome @Lynne Goodyer & @Donna Digby - I'm so glad you're here and decided to take a seat at the table! This space is yours to use - ask questions, share what you’re working on, talk about the messy middle, celebrate wins - all of it. 😊 If you’re up for it, start by introducing yourself. What are you building? Where are you at right now? And if you know someone else who’d love this kind of space, please invite them in - the more women we bring to the table, the more we can achieve together 🚀