š¦ You're Invited to Circle! Hi there, Fall is here, and I wanted to share a quick update on what Iāve been building these past few months ā and invite you to something that begins tomorrow! This past season, I piloted Amplify Youā¢ Workshops as part of the Amplify Youā¢ Club, helping solopreneurs build practical AI skills they can apply to their businesses through hands-on workshops, playbooks, and group coaching. Iām also preparing to expand the free Amplify Youā¢ Masterclass. But thereās...
about 4 hours agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hi Reader, Have you ever taken a training you barely had time to sit through? I have dozens of those ā trainings I paid for in good faith, then buried under the next urgent thing. So when I realized my ChatGPT could go into my folders and pull the actual content out of every one of them into clean files I could search anytime, it felt like I'd found a loophole in time itself. I let "my extractor" š run for days. "Go extract ten more." "Pull everything on this theme, I need it for a project."...
9 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hi Reader, Quick note ā tomorrowās the day. Iām teaching the next AMPLIFY YOUā¢ workshop: Build Your Authentic Voice Scribe Skill. Your Personal Scribe can capture your real voice, expertise, point of view, and preferences. But on its own, itās still a document you may have to upload, paste, or reintroduce when you start somewhere new. Tomorrow, we take the next step. Weāll look inside the anatomy of an AI Skill and turn that Personal Scribe into a more reusable system ā with clear...
10 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
š§ This Weekās Podcast Episode Is Live āØ Inside This Weekās Pause š§ The Episode: A conversation with Junaid Ahmed, founder of PodGlue, about using technology to deepen relationships, build community, and amplify human connection. š§ Explore: Amplify Youā¢ Club ā practical AI skills, monthly support, and accountability for solopreneurs ready to use AI more confidently in their business. Founding rate extended through August. What Happens After The Conversation Ends? This week, Iām joined by my...
12 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 3 min read
Hi Reader, I trained Claude on my own voice ā years of writing, my actual tone. Last week I reread a paragraph it helped me draft, and it sounded like me. Technically. For a second I couldn't tell if that should relieve me or unsettle me. Here's the short answer, since you're busy: using AI heavily doesn't dilute your authorship. It only stops being yours the moment you stop holding the vision and the truth-check yourself. Hand off the drafting, the research, the polish ā fine. Hand off the...
16 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hi Reader, I haven't had a Red Bull in over 25 years. Barely had it then ā one can, maybe two, and it made me so anxious I never touched it again. But if I did drink it now, I imagine it would feel a lot like AI does on a good day ā that little jolt where suddenly you have wings you didn't have twenty minutes ago, wings I need as a solopreneur building her signal as the authority in her own niche, alone, one AI tool at a time. Meditation gave me my soul back. AI, on its good days, gives me...
23 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hi Reader, Quick note ā tomorrow's the day. I'm running my first-ever live workshop: Build Your Personal Scribe. In 90 minutes, we build an AI trained on your voice ā faster writing that still sounds unmistakably like you. You bring your real writing. We build it live. You leave with a working system you can use that same afternoon. Friday, Sept 11 Ā· 11 AM PT Ā· Zoom Ā· $44 ā small group, replay included. Save My Seat -> Come build the fix with me. š¦ ā Shilpa Save My Seat -> Amplify Youā¢...
24 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hi Reader, In the last letter, I named one of AI's quiet traps: it can extend the finish line. Ask for help with a course, and suddenly you have more modules, more bonuses, more launch ideas ā and more reasons to believe you can't begin yet. Here's the part I didn't say yet: AI can create a second version of that same problem after you begin. Once something's live, it can help you generate more posts, more emails, more repurposing plans, more things to maintain. The finish line doesn't...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hi Reader, Have you noticed it creeping in? You use AI to help you write, and what comes back isā¦ fine. Polished. Competent. But somehow it doesn't sound like you anymore ā it sounds like every other founder's post. That quiet drift is real, and it has a name: your authentic voice slowly getting averaged away by a tool that's very good at sounding like everyone. I wrote something to help you not just protect it, but authentically amplify it. It's free, it's live on my site, and it's yours to...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read