Hi Reader,
I’ve been reading about economies at scale and how this impacts women. In fact, I’ve been doing a lot of research around the different economies women exist in, create, and are excluded from.
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It’s a passion of mine to close the power and wealth gap that exists for women and Thrive & Lead hinges on women succeeding. This is why we’ve designed the program to serve as a curriculum and playbook, served by your favorite mentors.
I also found that by 2030 (in 4 freaking years), women in this country are expected to control around Thirty Trillion dollars.
With this research, I decided to map the various paths to a trillion dollars and how it could route to women. And what I noticed is that there are three types of money paths that circulate around women.
➡️ There is the money you are aware of, that you make.
↪️ There is the money that exists in the ecosystems around you.
🔄 Then there is money that you actually have access to and that you can hold.
And money that you hold without leverage (which is the case for the larger portion of women), is money you are generating for someone else.
The reason why I keep coming back to ownership is simple. For starters, I want you to think of ALL the jobs you’ve ever had. The deals you’ve been a part of and closed. The connections and opportunities you’ve created.
I can bet that you have generated millions in enterprise value. And for those of us who have held executive leadership roles and managed large P&L’s, we’re talking about hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars of enterprise value for other people, and we keep almost none of it.
That is why ownership of your time, your assets, your money, your IP is intrinsic to the company I am building and how you should think about building. And AI is one of the fastest ways I know how to gain it. This is why it's important for you to know AI.
Whether you realize it or not, you have already unknowingly adopted AI. I don’t want you to be unaware of your interaction with it, I want you to be informed so you are strategic on how to utilize it. So that you create ownership instead of being owned by systems built on your creation.
I want you to learn it so you can: make serious money, understand the importance of your nervous system being supported to hold serious money, and from that place do far more than you ever could versus carrying all of it on your own.
And that is why I am finally hosting a workshop because it has been one of my most highly requested topics.
This is the part about AI that people get backwards. Every AI course or workshop teaches you to hand the machine your writing, your ideas, your creativity, the part that actually sounds like you. And that does you and anyone who utilizes AI to think for them a disservice.
What you should always retain is the taste, the judgement, the thinking, because that is the reason anyone can feel you and hire you. That should be the last thing you hand over. What you should hand over is the admin, the operations, the mundane tasks that you repeat over and over, the work that takes you much longer to do because that is not your zone of genius.
Give it the work that energetically drains you. Not the work that creatively & spiritually fulfills you.
You are the intelligence. AI is the labor.
There is a massive opportunity for women to capitalize on this wealth transfer through content creation, IP creation, tech utilization and entrepreneurship. Yet a Harvard Business School analysis across more than 100 countries found women are 20% less likely than men to adopt generative AI.
Women are leading the pack in new business launches but still grossly behind on ownership and access to capital. AI provides an opportunity for women to close the gap.
⏰ On August 21st, I’m hosting a 90-minute AI Claude Cowork Workshop.
Highly requested. I don’t want you to spend any more time on a course that teaches you to hand over your IP and disenfranchises you in the long run.
I will show you how to leverage AI while you retain the thing that makes you and your brand, unmistakably you.
I’m not sure if this is going to be a recurring thing, I just pay attention to demand and opportunity. You should too.
Join the AI For Female Founders Workshop.
Until the next letter,
Vanessa
