Start of the week. What is one thing you are working on right now? Big or small, I would like to hear it. Maybe somebody here can help.

I'm in my second half of life and not a video person, but I wanted to tell the story of my year. Here's the workflow that worked: 1️⃣ Gather what you already have. Recorded coaching calls, podcast episodes, old videos, social posts. I had way more footage than I realized. 2️⃣ Let AI find the story. I had Claude read the transcripts and pull the moments that showed a turning point, not just the highlights. 3️⃣ Write the arc first, then cut. A beginning (stuck), a middle (trying things), and an end (who I became). AI helped me draft the narration around the clips. 4️⃣ Narrate with your own cloned voice. ElevenLabs let me fill gaps without re-recording. 5️⃣ Score it yourself. I wrote two songs and made them in Suno. Biggest lesson: the hard part wasn't the tech. It was deciding which moments mattered. AI is great at finding the gold, but you have to decide what the story is about. Anyone else using AI to work with their own old recordings? I'd love to hear how.

Three more guests just landed on the calendar for my podcast, Figureoutable Conversations. That makes this a good moment to say something out loud: The AI Advantage is the only reason my podcast is even possible. Without what I've learned here, there would have been NO WAY I'd have accomplished as much as I have this year. Starting a podcast would have been nearly impossible to figure out on my own without all the tools now available. Guest scheduling, prep, follow-ups, all of the behind-the-scenes work I used to think would require a team, I'm doing with AI as my support crew. If you're on the fence about putting what you learn here into action, this is your sign. It works. 💛

Here's Stormy, watching the Brewers while demonstrating absolutely zero ambition to be productive. And honestly? I think he's onto something. I've spent a good part of this year using AI to figure out how to do more, create more, accomplish more, and make more money. And one of the biggest things AI has helped me figure out? I don't have to. I can create because I want to. Learn because I'm curious. Try something because it sounds fun. And sometimes I can just watch baseball with my cat. Maybe the biggest AI advantage isn't how much more we can get done. Maybe it's having a thought partner that helps us figure out what we actually WANT to do in the first place. Meanwhile, Stormy figured that out without a single prompt. 🙄🐾⚾ Anybody else discovering that the goal isn't necessarily to do more, but to enjoy more?

Most of what I use AI for is supposed to make me more productive. But my favorite thing I made this year was a short documentary about my own midlife reinvention, built entirely from a year of Zoom calls. It includes a funeral for "Boss Stacey," the version of me who thought everything had to be optimized, monetized, and figured out by Friday. It was the most fun I've had with AI all year. Nobody asked for it, it won't make me a dime, and I don't care. 😄 So I'm curious: what's the silliest or most just-for-fun thing you've made with AI? No business case required.