She Used a Claude Skill to Land This Episode: 3 Ways Women Are Building Their Own Rooms (with Janay Trevillion)
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There is a moment that hits almost every woman I talk to about AI. She hears about a new tool. She feels like she should be using it. Then she opens the app, stares at the blank box, and closes it again.
I get it. The tech world was not built with us in mind. It was built loud, flashy, and full of guys who talk down to you. So it makes sense that a lot of us hang back and wait.
Here is the thing I want you to sit with today. Waiting has a cost. And right now, that cost is your voice.
You do not need a seat at their table
I say this a lot, so my regulars know it is coming. You do not need a seat at someone else's table. You can build your own.
This is a real strategy. Every time a new wave of tech shows up, the same groups get left out of the room. Women. Black and Brown folks. Queer folks. People who do not already have a mic in their hand. If we wait to be invited, we wait forever.
So we stop waiting. We build the room. We build the table. And then we hold onto it.
Your voice, or the flatten
Here is the part that lit me up in my latest conversation on the show. If you do not train AI on your own voice, it flattens you.
Think about that. These tools learn from patterns. If the only voices feeding them are the same handful of loud ones, guess whose perspective gets baked in. Not yours. Yours gets smoothed over until it sounds like everyone else.
The fix is simple. You feed the tool who you are. Your words. Your values. The weird phrases only you say. The hill you will die on in your industry. When you do that, the tool starts to sound like you instead of like the internet.
That is the real reason I do not want you to sit this one out. Every day you wait, the tools get trained by other people. Your seat at the table stays empty, and the room fills up without you.
But I am not ready yet
I already know the objection, because I have it too. I am not ready. I do not know enough. I need to keep learning first.
Learning is good. I will never tell you to stop learning. But at some point you have to ship the thing.
Here is my hard truth. There is no such thing as ready. If I waited until my work was 100 percent perfect, I would never put anything into the world. Not one podcast. Not one bot. Nothing.
Even Apple ships stuff that is not perfect. They release a new phone, then patch the bugs two days later. One of the biggest companies on the planet says oops, we will fix it in version five, all the time. You and I do not have Apple money. So we for sure do not need to be perfect before we hit go.
Do it scared. Do it nervous. Do it anyway. You will never get feedback on work you keep hidden in a folder.
Start with one thing
Okay, so where do you start? One place. Prompting.
Learning how to talk to AI is the whole ballgame at the beginning. Most people type something like help me write an Instagram caption and then wonder why they get back generic mush. The tool has no idea what you sell, who you are talking to, or how you sound.
The magic word is context. Give it your brand. Give it your audience. Give it your tone. Set some boundaries on what you want and what you do not. When you do that, the output stops sounding like slop and starts sounding like you.
You do not have to learn every tool this year. You do not have to master anything. Pick one thing. Give yourself 90 days. Get good at one skill that helps your actual business. That is it.
AI is here to amplify you, not replace you
Here is what I want you to hold onto. AI is not here to replace the best part of you.
Most of us do not need help with our core genius. You already know your craft. You can talk about your passion all day. The stuff that eats your time is the other stuff. The marketing. The repurposing. The emails. The little mechanics that push a business forward.
That is the job for AI. You bring the human expertise. The tool amplifies it. You stay the expert. You just stop doing all the grunt work alone.
I built a bot for a client recently who is a phenomenal writer. He did not need help writing, so I did not build him a writing bot. I built him one that takes his long articles and hands him three angles for a LinkedIn post, then gives him notes on his draft. It solved his real problem, which was getting seen. Custom beats generic every time.
Take up your space
So here is my ask. Stop waiting for the room. Build it. Train the tools on your voice before someone else's voice becomes the default. Ship the messy version. Learn one thing well.
You have the talent. You have the vision. Now go take up the space that is yours.
If you want help turning your brand and your voice into a custom tool that sounds like you, that is exactly what I do inside the Brand to Bot Blueprint. Come find me at aiqueens.com/blueprint. And go listen to this week's episode for the full conversation. It is a good one.
