From AI Breakdown to AI Breakthrough

Tonight, during Tony's stacking exercise, it hit me in a way I didn’t expect and I felt it fully as the tears ran down my face. My realization was to trust myself.

Just a few months ago at Time to Rise, I was in a completely different place. We had just realized that AI was starting to seriously impact our business, and we made the call to put our brand into maintenance mode. I felt lost, overwhelmed, and unsure what that meant for my future.

Somewhere in that uncertainty, I made a decision, to lean in, to use AI as a tool, not see it as a threat. To flip this around to be the beginning of something new instead of the end.

And tonight, after all the great learnings, I was moved to tears, not because of what’s ahead, but because of how far I’ve already come. In such a short time, I’ve stepped into a completely new direction, a new business, a new product, a new brand, and achieved things I genuinely couldn’t have imagined moving on so quickly before AI. AI made that possible.

What felt like a setback has turned into a blessing in disguise, and sitting there tonight, it became so clear that this is just the beginning, as long as I keep trusting myself. I even looked up at one point and to my surprise, saw my face on the screen, right there next to Igor, and I knew I was exactly where I’m meant to be.

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