Your first idea is rarely your best idea. AI helps you find what is underneath it. The second E in the LEVERAGE Framework stands for Expand. Expansion is where you take a validated idea and explore every dimension of it before you commit to one direction. Most people go from idea to execution without ever asking what else was possible. They pick the first version of the thing and build it. Then wonder why it feels limited six months later. What started as a coaching offer for me expanded into a methodology, a membership, a speaking topic, and a consulting practice. Not because I had it all figured out. Because I used AI to expand the vision before I locked it in. Research shows that teams that use AI for ideation and expansion generate 3x more viable options before decision-making than teams that do not. YOUR PROMPT FOR TODAY COPY THIS PROMPT: "I have an idea I want to fully expand before I commit to one version of it. Please help me see the full ecosystem of possibilities. After I describe it, give me: 1) 5 different formats this idea could take such as course, community, workshop, keynote, consulting package, digital product, 2) 3 audiences beyond my obvious one who might also need this, 3) The premium version of this idea and what it would include, 4) The entry-level version that requires the least work to launch first, 5) One unexpected angle on this idea that I probably have not considered. My idea is: [describe your concept, offer, or program]" Options create power. See all of them before you choose one.

The most valuable thing you own is not your product. It is the knowledge inside you. E in the LEVERAGE Framework stands for Extract. Extraction is the process of pulling the deep, implicit knowledge out of your head and translating it into frameworks, language, and structure that others can actually use. Knowledge that lives only in your head cannot be sold, scaled, or shared without you physically being in the room. Every time you walk away from an opportunity because you did not have the right document, proposal, or framework ready, that is extracted potential walking out the door. I have worked with educators who have decades of pedagogical wisdom that exists nowhere outside of their classrooms. I have worked with business owners who carry entire strategic playbooks in their minds that have never been documented. YOUR PROMPT FOR TODAY COPY THIS PROMPT: "I am going to describe a process I do almost automatically that other people always ask me to explain or teach. I want you to help me extract the knowledge inside it. After I describe it, please: 1) Identify the distinct steps even if I did not name them clearly, 2) Name the underlying principles or beliefs that drive how I do this, 3) Create a simple framework with a name and 3 to 5 steps that I could teach to others, 4) Write a one-paragraph description of this framework that I could use to sell a workshop or course around it. Here is the process I am describing: [explain what you do instinctively in your work]" Your next offer is already inside you. This prompt helps you find it.

Before AI can leverage your brilliance, you have to know what your brilliance actually is. Welcome to Week 2 of the ABCs of AI with Soul. This week we are walking through The Leverage Framework. Eight steps that take you from having AI knowledge to actually using it to multiply your impact. L in the LEVERAGE Framework stands for Lift. Lift is about elevating your existing ideas, content, and expertise to their highest expression. Not starting from scratch. Taking what is already in you and letting AI help you lift it to the level it was always meant to reach. Most people spend 80 percent of their AI time creating new content when 60 percent of what they already have just needs to be lifted, refined, repurposed, or redistributed. YOUR PROMPT FOR TODAY COPY THIS PROMPT: "I am going to share a piece of content or work I created that never got the attention or reach it deserved. After I paste it, I want you to: 1) Tell me what is most powerful about it that I may have undersold, 2) Rewrite the opening so it stops the scroll immediately, 3) Suggest 3 different formats this same content could become such as a carousel, a video script, a workshop segment, or an email, 4) Write a version of this for LinkedIn and a version for Instagram. Here is the original content: [paste your underperforming post, article, workshop description, or any piece of work]"

Let me tell you about the moment I stopped fighting AI and started leading with it. A few years ago I was doing everything manually. Writing curriculum. Drafting proposals. Creating content. Running a restaurant. Teaching high school. Coaching women. Consulting organizations. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, I was burning out trying to make everything sound like me while keeping up with everything on my plate. I tried AI tools early on. Honestly? I was frustrated. The outputs were generic. They did not sound like me. They did not reflect the nuance of my work in education or business. I almost gave up on it entirely. But then I shifted something. Instead of asking AI to do tasks FOR me, I started training it to work WITH me. I started with self. I started showing up in my prompts the same way I show up in a room. With my full story. My values. My voice. Everything changed. Now I use AI to turn my years of expertise into content, frameworks, programs, and strategies at a pace I never could have managed alone. Not because I replaced my thinking. Because I learned to leverage it. YOUR PROMPT FOR TODAY 👉 COPY THIS PROMPT: "I want to tell you my story so you understand who I am at a deeper level. After I share it, I want you to: 1) Identify the turning points that shaped how I work and lead, 2) Pull out 3 core themes that run through my journey, 3) Write a short origin story paragraph in my voice that I can use in my bio, content, and presentations. Here is my story: [share your background, your why, your journey in your own words]" Your story is not just content. It is the context that makes everything you create with AI feel undeniably like you.

Before we go deeper, let us make sure the foundation is solid. Six days in. Here is your AI with Soul foundation so far. S is for Self. You cannot get personalized results from a tool that does not know who you are. Your voice, your values, your story are not extras. They are the engine. O is for Orchestration. You are the leader. AI is your team member. Stop asking and start directing. U is for Understanding. When you share your thinking with AI over time, it becomes a partner that reflects your genius back to you. L is for Leverage. Your expertise is not meant to stay in your head. AI helps you multiply it into impact and income. This is the Human-Centered AI foundation. Before systems. Before automation. Before tech stacks. YOUR PROMPT FOR TODAY COPY THIS PROMPT: "I want to build a Master AI Brief that I paste in the custom/system instructions of every tool to train it on who I am before we do any work together. Please help me create it using everything I have shared with you this week. Include: my name and role, my communication style in 3 to 5 adjectives, the audience I serve, my top 3 values, 5 words or phrases that sound like me, 5 words or phrases I never use, and a one-sentence description of the impact I create. If I have not shared enough for any section, ask me the questions you need to fill it in." This Master AI Brief is your most valuable AI asset. Build it today. –Sterling, The PolisHER