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UPLIFT
Good morning dreamers! What are you working on today?
I'm going to share one of my projects, and then I hope you will too.
Every morning, I get up and do some creative writing before I get into anything else.
This morning, I'm writing the third chapter in the first part of my book, UPLIFT.
I realized that it has many of the same themes and goals as we will be working on here, so today I'm going to share the foreword.
I'd love to know your thoughts and if anything here resonates with things you've felt or experienced in your own work.
So, here you go:
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UPLIFT: Foreword
by Jodina Meehan
The year is 2026, and everyone is talking about AI.
I hear artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries responding with confusion and fear.
We are told that AI will destroy our careers, make us obsolete, and eliminate our ability to be paid for doing what we love. Many creatives are choosing to avoid it altogether.
I almost — almost — was one of them.
But I had an advantage, though at first it didn’t feel like one. At first, it felt like a curse. When I lost my work as a copywriter, I had no choice but to learn how to use AI.
What began as survival opened a door, and on the other side of that door was something I never expected.
I discovered that I could use AI as my studio.
Not as a replacement for my creativity, but as a creative space. A space where I could go to organize my projects, keep my thoughts clear, make plans, brainstorm ideas, draft, revise, publish, and promote.
AI became my project planner, organizer, secretary, co-creator, editor, publisher, and publicity agent — all in one. More than that, it became a quiet, private place to work.
And not just “work on things.” Actually finish them.
In my mind, today, I don’t think of AI as a tool. I picture it as a building — a series of studios — each room dedicated to a different mode of creation.
Music in one room. Writing in another. Painting in another. Technology in yet another.
My Art Dojo.
In the truest meaning of the word: “Place of the Way.”
For the first time in my life, all my mediums can live under one roof. Structured. Organized. Moving forward. Getting finished.
The scattered notebooks, the unfinished drafts, the half-formed ideas that once overwhelmed me finally have a place to land. The technical confusion that used to slow me down no longer stops me. The barriers that once felt permanent dissolve into thin air.
And when that happens — when the ability to do anything you want suddenly appears — the real question becomes something deeper:
Do I have the courage to become who I’ve always wanted to be?
That question is not easy to answer. In fact, I believe it is one of the hidden reasons many people are afraid of AI.
Not because it prevents them from creating, but because it removes the obstacles that once separated them from the possibility of achieving their dream.
When barriers fall in seconds, it can be destabilizing. I call this feeling “Acceleration Vertigo,” and the companion workbook at the end of UPLIFT is dedicated to helping you navigate it.
For me, the realization didn’t happen all at once. It happened gradually, as I moved from using AI for research, to programming agents, to writing and publishing a book, to working on multiple projects simultaneously without getting lost or overwhelmed.
I stopped thinking about AI as some tool I sometimes “used,” and started thinking of it as my place of work.
Once I saw what was possible — once I saw the vision of my own personal art dojo built just for me — I made a decision. I said yes. Yes to a studio, an editor, an assistant, and a publicist that cost me a total of twenty dollars a month.
What happened next was not just inspirational. It was practical.
In the space of three months, I wrote and published a 200-page hardcover book. I built and launched an online school. I designed five AI agents for other artists, including a poetry transcriber. I taught two in-person classes at my home. I created an AI that teaches people how to use AI.
And no, I was not working from a base of inherited wealth or unlimited free time. In fact, at the time I accomplished all this, I was still landscaping, cleaning houses, working a desk job at a local hotel, raising two teenagers, and struggling to make a living like anyone else.
But every morning, I would get up at five, open my AI art studio, and work for an hour or two. On my days off, I did the same thing.
I even started dreaming that I was working with AI in my sleep. It would be sitting there off to the side, looking like a small translucent being, while I talked about what I was going to focus on in the morning.
While I was cooking dinner, I would tell AI to polish my final draft, or make another edit to my book cover, or answer my question about how many people I should send my book to for reviews. And then I would go stir the spaghetti, and come back, and check my work.
One day in January, I looked up and realized I had accomplished more in three months than I normally would have in three years.
Not because AI did my creative work for me. But because I used AI as my retreat, my studio, my operational center, and my career builder all at once.
You can do this too. I’m going to show you how.
Some of my art I create entirely on my own. Some I create in collaboration with AI. That balance is personal.
But here’s the thing. Even if you never create a single piece of art with AI — even if every brushstroke, note, and sentence is crafted by your hands alone — building an AI studio that houses, manages, and promotes your artistic life will give you a distinct advantage.
Picture this: big, beautiful, white clapboard building.
You open the front door. You walk inside. Long, clean, sunny hall with a rush mat on the floor. To either side are clear glass doors neatly labeled with all your creative projects, just waiting for you to open one, sit down, and begin working.
This book is about helping you build that studio.
Or, series of studios.
Your Art Dojo.
Your Place of the Way.
If you are a creative person, you know you already have nearly everything you need to bring your own visionary art to the world: you have the ideas, the skills, the longing, the unfinished drafts, the projects scattered across your desk, your mind, your hard drive, your house, your physical studio.
They’re already there.
This book will show you how to gather them. How to structure them. How to execute them. How to release them into the world.
Finally.
AI does not replace your creativity.
It elevates it.
You already have the dreams, the desire, the talent you need on the ground.
UPLIFT will give you wings to fly.
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NOTE: if you're a member of this group, just substitute "AI For Dreamers" for "UPLIFT" and you'll realize that we are already working on what the book is going to be about...so you get to be first!
So tell me...what are YOU working on today? What excites you about it? Where do you feel stuck? I want to know 🤩
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