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: ________________________________________________________________________________________ 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.