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Speaker: On today's episode of Gritty is the New Pretty, we have Bridget O. Michaels, the author of Girl Fix Your Crown, founder of Queenmakers International, executive coach, AI consultant, and 2025 South Sound Women to Watch. After rebuilding her life through divorce, trauma, and major personal change,
Speaker: she turned her journey into a mission to help women reclaim their power, recognize their worth, and build lives and businesses on their own terms. Welcome, Bridget.
Speaker: Thank you. Well, you said it all. I don't know how to match that introduction, but ah but I will always fix my crown and do that.
Speaker: And so, ah a little bit about me. I always tell people that I'm from the i the girl person. from ABA. What I mean by that, I was born in West Africa in Nigeria, actually.
Speaker: And I relocated to United States by way of United Kingdom. so I haven't lived in United Kingdom for over 12 years. I decided to move to America where I've been since 2013.
Speaker: And um a little bit about me. I was born in middle middle class family. i was the fifth of six children. And now I'm number four because I lost one of my sisters.
Speaker: And so I'm now number four out of five children from my mom and my dad. and Growing up, I experienced a love of a family.
Speaker: Love was very big in our household. My father always insisted on raising us with integrity because he always said that integrity is worth more than every money in the bank.
Speaker: Well, we may not ah have understood that in total, especially me. I may not have understood what it was growing up. But right now, I will tell you, in my mature age, I do understand what integrity really means.
Speaker: And I've seen my mom who dived into everything. She wore so many crowns. She was big on women empowerment. She was big on feeding humanity. She was always no feeding feeding people and no recovering people from...
Speaker: abusive marriages in the middle of the night. My mom would call the driver and the truck and in less than one hour, there's a new family in our house who making space in the middle of the night for this woman who is maybe probably bleeding from you know it will ah a fight and her kids.
Speaker: And that's like the the way that I was raised and raised in sharing and sharing you know, just giving back to humanity. I remember when I was eight years, I had a very strange conversation with my mom on um on our way to a trip.
Speaker: She was going to, when she was going to be speaking at a women affair back in Nigeria. And then I asked her, mom, why do you always like giving away our food? And thats that was when she told me that,
Speaker: You know, because they don't have. And I said, but if people don't have, can they go to their families? And then she said to me, Bridget, it's possible that their family do not have.
Speaker: yeah So I said, so what can we do? What can anybody do to help them? And she said, well, that's why i'm asking the question now, because she believes that I'll be able to help them in future.
Speaker: And so I told her, said, mom, I promise you, when I grow up, I'm going to be like you. I'm going to be the one. I'll have a soup kitchen and I'll call it Biddy because my nickname growing up is Biddy, B-I-D-D-I-E, right? And so I'm going to call it Biddy Soup Kitchen and I'm going to be feeding women and their children. i was just going on and on.
Speaker: And she listened to me that day. And when I was done, she did pray for me. I said, you know, and she prayed and then generally she said, you know what? I believe you. Sadly, my mom passed away Christmas day, 1996. So she's not um alive to see me build upon the premises, all the all the promises that I said to her, she was not alive so i like to see that.
Speaker: But then here is the thing. When you asked me to tell you about myself, my new story just started again. Because I am the woman who went through 18 years in an abusive relationship.
Speaker: Traumatic? Why do I say traumatic? to This is one story that I'm so glad that since last year, when I started publicly talking about it, I no longer get emotional about it.
Speaker: On January 2002,
Speaker: I left my beautiful identical twins, just a year and six months old, sleeping peacefully. And in less than two hours, I was called back home to learn that one was one of them was gone.
Speaker: Gone where I was asking. That was the only question that I could ask anybody. And they told me, my ex-husband and his sister said, well, we've lost Karen.
Speaker: I said, lost Karen? Because my identical twins, one was Karen and the other living is Kimberly. And that was the beginning of a turn in my life.
Speaker: I couldn't talk about it. I locked that experience away in the corner of my heart. Why? Because I was told that a woman in my culture is not allowed, no, in their culture is not allowed to see her baby in death.
Speaker: I don't know about you, Crystal, but that broke me. For 20 years, 20 years, I carried that pain in my heart.
Speaker: The abuse was nothing. I do not care what I was bitten. That didn't even hurt as so much as losing my identical twin baby.
Speaker: And then also told her that I cannot see her in death. I do not have a place anywhere that, you know, to go back for closure. No cemetery, nothing.
Speaker: You know, when I came to the United States, I see that when people are grieving, they go sit in the tombstone of their loved ones. They bring flowers. and and and and And I see them speaking the tomb.
Speaker: And it gives them some form of relief. But I didn't have that opportunity. It was taking me away from me. And then i lived through all of that.
Speaker: One day, when my twin daughter was 21 years old, think about it, a pain buried in my heart, 21. I will not ah talk about it to anybody, not even my closest friend.
Speaker: I went to see my doctor. And then he said, Bridget, I've been reading your file for two hours before you got here. I want to talk about your baby.
Speaker: Because your when you go to the hospital, they'll ask you medical, how many pregnancies have you had? You see what I mean? And that was why they get to know that part. yeah And so she said, oh, I want to talk about that. I said, well, I don't think I want to talk about that.
Speaker: And that was when, after a while, she got me to talk about And I said, you know, before she even tricks me, she wants to do something unusual. She sent me to somewhere in Tacoma to go and learn Transcendental meditation.
Speaker: That was the best thing that happened to me. I never knew that meditation, and I'm already a full-blown coach, empowering women, doing all of that thing, but I was just focusing on one direction, which is helping them with your every other thing that they're doing. Maybe it's business, maybe it's trauma, maybe it's abuse, but I never talk about the grief path.
Speaker: And so I did this meditation. And then when I was done for four weeks, I came back to her and then she now said, okay, we need to do the next step. I said, what is the next step? She said, can you find a way to talk to your daughter that is alive to do it to see if she can, you know, act like Karen so that you can pour out your heart to her.
Speaker: I thought, I won't make you think there is something in my heart. She said, can you just do as I say? I said, yes, I can. She said, you know, you are a coach, so you should be coachable. I said, yes, I am. She said, okay, go do it. And I went.
Speaker: It took me two days. And then I called my daughter, who is 21 years, and said, Kimberly, I need you to do something for me. And she said, ah yes, mom, who is that? I said, would you be able to pretend for a moment that you are current?
Speaker: Then she got out of bed because even she, I have never discussed her twin sister with her before. And I didn't know that she to she was going through that experience.
Speaker: So she said, mom, this must be serious if you want to talk about Karen. So she got out of her bed and then she closed her door. And then she was standing in front of me. She hold my hand and said, mom, what's wrong?
Speaker: And I said, can you please do do me that favor? She said, yes, you can So I closed my eyes so that I'll be able to tell her what I wanted to say. I heard myself saying to her, Karen, I just want you to forgive me.
Speaker: Forgive me that on the day that I was told that you were gone, I didn't fight enough to know where you were. In fact, I could have resorted to anything, even violence, even though I'm not a violent person.
Speaker: I don't know how to fight, you know. I could have done something. i would have been so sorry Kimberly, she was smiling. as I could have done something, beaten somebody up, you went into all manner of things to be able to get to find out what happened to you.
Speaker: But I couldn't. And I carried that pain in my heart. for 21 years and I just wanted to i want just want to say to you, forgive me.
Speaker: And I was saying every kind of thing and then immediately I said that, forgive me. I heard her say in very quiet tone, mommy, I forgive you.
Speaker: Crystal, it's not because I'm talking to you right now. That moment felt so serene. ah could have sworn that it was actually Karen that said that to me. And so what I did, i opened my eyes to peep.
Speaker: When I opened my eyes to peep, it was still Kimberly standing in front of me. And then she said to me, Mom. She opened her eyes to her and said, Mom. I'm very sure that Karen forgave you and I forgive you too.
Speaker: Because then you were operating at your level of awareness. Crystal, that moment set me free of 21-year
Speaker: guilt that I had in my heart. Lord, away. I said I wasn't going to cry. I've been crying for five minutes. so I know. i know i so i feel like like i can I saw. saw because that pain,
Speaker: you know, this is what I teach women. i like i tell them the truth that they lied to you when they said time heals the wounds. It doesn't.
Speaker: What I've come to realize, because we grow matured, we matured, we are more able to deal with it with time.
Speaker: And that's where I said to myself, on my watch, any woman that I know will not be told, what stupid culture, whatever it nobody deserves that kind of treatment in their life.
Speaker: That's why you see me, I don't focus more on the abuse that I got from my ex-husband. It's the pain of, that is one, to me, I classify it as the highest level of pain you can ever cause to any human being.
Speaker: Denying them that closure. Do you know that for years, even after um my when I was going to divorce in the court in Tacoma, the judge also triggered that for me because the judge kept asking me, Bridget, are you sure your baby actually died?
Speaker: Can you imagine? my My age, my level of education, my level of exposure, I just told you I have moved three continents, three continents.
Speaker: And here I am in Tacoma and a judge is asking me. It made me look foolish and stupid. And that's the fact that why I did not discuss my baby's death with her twin sister, because I thought that my daughter would judge me, would think maybe I was foolish.
Speaker: I was stupid. I was naive. Why couldn't I fight to see at least know where they buried my daughter, where they took her to? Is she even dead?
Speaker: And the judge advised me and said, Bridget, when you are you know you are over all of this, the divorce is final, I want you to go back to Nigeria and retrace to see if that child is actually dead.
Speaker: Go to the hospital, see if they actually have a death certificate, anything that you can give. Fast forward to December 2025, my is dead.
Speaker: So how am I going to get that closure now? So whatever information that he can give to me is gone. Because, you know, it's gone.
Speaker: it's we He was very best of friends before he died. if I had not seen him for nine years before he did the mines in December of 2025. So I won't be able to do that anymore.
Speaker: But today is what i have done. I have accepted the fact that she, wherever Karen is, whether she's in heaven or here on earth, if she's here on earth, I will find her.
Speaker: will do a DNA just in case. I'm just going to do that. But if she's gone, I accept that. But I'm going to do my best.
Speaker: to pay it forward, to ensure that no woman gets to go through all the things that I've suffered if I can help it. And that's the biggest, yeah that's the reason why i am big on Girl Fix Your Crown.
Speaker: That's why, Crystal, whether I am paid or not by a woman, I hold women up. I am not afraid of competition. I am ah not afraid of comparison.
Speaker: I support women genuinely. I don't just say it because I'm on your podcast. People know me for that. I let another woman shine.
Speaker: I give women their flowers just because of what I went through. That in a nutshell is my story. But before I complete that part of who am I,
Speaker: My three wonderful children are amazing. In fact, my friend, the one who i we i who i I'm with here, she warned me never to introduce myself as a single mom. She said I should always introduce myself as a power mom because my daughter is Miss African Washington State.
Speaker: My daughter is Miss America First Runner Up. No, Miss World America First Runner Up. And then i also had, she's like, when say this, I wanted to also call my friend.
Speaker: So her friend, I mentored her and coach her. She's now Miss World Supermodel. Wow.
Speaker: That's amazing. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your story. It's very personal and emotional.
Speaker: I've been emotional. And I was telling myself, I'm not going to cry because when I read your book, I was crying, you know, just thinking about what you've gone through and not having that closure is so traumatic in a lot of ways. And i couldn't um even imagine if it were my child. um And so you've really built this legacy ah from a broken dreams to building crowns and Girl Fix Your Crown.
Speaker: And tell us more about the work that you're doing now and how that has helped you. Okay, thank you, I will. So as a woman, i am a woman who wears a lot of crowns.
Speaker: Because why do I do the things that I do? you will still find out why I do the things that I do because I am still finding out. Why do I keep educating myself? Why do I keep hiring a coach after a coach, a mentor after a mentor?
Speaker: I don't know about you, but I have come in all the three continents I've lived in. I have been opportune to interview over 1,000 women in my lifetime.
Speaker: And I found out that women, we all have the same thing in common. Same thing, we get to a place of work, we're always going to be told, somebody's always going to say you are not good enough.
Speaker: And then when they tell me i'm not I'm not good enough, I tell, okay, give me a feedback. Where and where am I lagging? And then boom, I go get the education.
Speaker: a go get whatever it is that is missing. And then you find out that I keep keeping certification upon certification. If we sit here today and I'm going through my certification, girl, I don't know whether you have space to write all of them.
Speaker: But that's why I never introduce myself by any title. Because the title is not who you are. It does not define person that you are.
Speaker: And so that's the biggest work that I do with women, helping them with their identity. Because a lot of women are going through imposter syndrome, self-sabotage, and all of those things.
Speaker: And beneath, when when someone tells me, oh, Bridget, I am not productive, Bridget, I... I'm already procrastinating. I tell them, no, that's not the problem.
Speaker: There is a root cause because what is it? Every single woman is on a quest to identify who they are. Because sometimes society, even your family, your work, whatever it is that you do, your business, makes you think that that is who you are. It makes you to define and put you inside a small box.
Speaker: And because of that, most women are afraid to dream bigger. And so I tell them, don't worry, I am i am here to come and help you to manifest a bigger, better, bolder you.
Speaker: And that is the surface level, the beginning, the foundation, the core behind every single thing I do. Whether I do leadership training for workforce, whether I do women empowerment or as in as an AI consultant, I first recognize, see the pattern, I recognize what the pattern, what is the cost of that pattern.
Speaker: And I say, hey, let's deal with that first. before any other thing.
Speaker: So after I wrote my book, if i while I was writing my book, I had the opportunity to ask a couple of friends of mine to read the book.
Speaker: To read the work. They all read raw version of the book. And that's what you see in the beginning of the book. All of them wrote the feedback. And many of them came back to me and said, Bridget, while they were reading the book, they feel that they needed a space where they can come in, sit with me and ask me some deep question because they know that I wrote this book in a positive way, not for anybody to think about my ex in a negative way.
Speaker: but I really wanted to help someone who is going through exactly what I went through. I really want them to focus on how they can get out of that situation.
Speaker: Not blaming, not judging themselves, not unforgiving themselves. That's why forgiveness is big in my work. And so when they said that, I said, okay, but i'm go to be if I'm going to be able to do a space like that, it has to be private and intimate.
Speaker: And in June of 2023, I had the first space. I did not call it a retreat. actually had it in a friend's, my Korean friend. She has a beautiful shop in Lakewood in Tacoma.
Speaker: So I had the first one there. It went well. She's big on royalty. She brought a delicate teacup. So I would drink tea. We're talking about the book and women. And I so much loved the atmosphere. I said, you know what?
Speaker: This is the ambience from which I want my women to experience when they come into my space. I want women to remember who they were when they were five years old, when the they saw themselves as as little princesses dressed up.
Speaker: And that gave rise to the first Girl Fix Your Crime empowerment retreat. And so 2024, we had the first one. The second retreat was held in Bothell, Washington, January of this year.
Speaker: And the third one, where we're going to be launching the first anthology, the book, is in Destin, Florida, January 28th to 30th 2027.
Speaker: So that's the work I do. And because it's the age of AI, and I don't want my women to be left behind So Bridget always wants to, I go do the hard stuff so that I can come back and break it down in baby step for my women.
Speaker: And that's why I became an AI consultant. So I can learn how to use agents, AI agents, how to build AI agents. I learn how to use all of this to become productive so that women can be booked, busy and paid.
Speaker: Because no woman in my watch is going to complain that I don't know what to do. I don't know my purpose. I don't know how to make money. I don't know. No, I'm going to show you in practical, simple way how to make money from where you are, no matter how easy, how little it is.
Speaker: I'm going to give you a quick testimony. A lady that I recently worked with, um I'm still working with her, but I recently, she recently came to my space last year. And so we have been working one-on-one.
Speaker: She said to me, we're working in a job for over 10 years. She has never gotten erased one day. no raise, no raise in her work, in her pay raise.
Speaker: So I told her the reason why she didn't get a raise. And she didn't believe it. She was like astonished. I said, yes, because that is the value that you portrayed to your boss. And so your boss saw that, okay, this is how much you're worth. And she was comfortable too, to pay you that without even negotiating with you to say, okay, during your performance review, can we increase your pay?
Speaker: So one week in working with me, she went back and had the conversation with her boss. Boom, she's earning 60 girls. And she's come back, she's crying. I said, Bridget, you're always going to be my coach. I said, yes, because I'm right for you. I'm perfect for you.
Speaker: And together we are building a ah building a pathway for Hannah to earn another stream of income as a coach. So happy now, even when we come to prizing women, listen to me if you're watching or listening to us.
Speaker: When it comes to prizing your services or your product, please remove yourself from the equation. Do not think that Because you see where you are, maybe you don't have the money to pay if it is you.
Speaker: Do not ever make the assumption that the woman that you're making that product or the service for or the man will not be able to pay you.
Speaker: So you do not underprice who you are your services. So I'm always going to empower women men more than men. I keep saying that.
Speaker: Not because I am biased, but because in the real world, I'm a first, I'm first a woman, isn't I'm first a woman. no And now I encourage women to be both busy and paid.
Speaker: Yes. I love that. Can you give us some examples of how women can be using in their in their work to increase their revenue?
Speaker: Oh my goodness. Were you in my class last weekend? yeah No, I'm just taking the opportunity. So last last weekend, um the AI Speakers Toastmasters Club, they invited me to come and teach how the members can be productive. Exactly the same question, but it's just that we have um more women in the AI Toastmasters Club than men.
Speaker: And what I taught is exactly what I'm going to tell you today. So i I talked about using AI to become productive. Because as women, if you if you listen to the beginning, I said, we wear a lot of crown.
Speaker: We do a lot of things. There's no woman who can tell me because I don't know if it is wired to be multitasker. We do so many things. It's only a woman who can be cooking She's watching her baby do her homework.
Speaker: She's washing her dishes. She's talking to her husband, honey, dinner will be ready by 6 p.m. And then her best friend's on the second line. And she's watching her favorite episode on on Netflix.
Speaker: Only a woman that can do only that. But a man, a man can only operate in one compartment at a time. And that's why women don't get offended when you're telling your husband when he's watching football or soccer or whatever, you'll say, honey, does this little red dress look good on me? He's going to flip because he's not in his social mood at that time.
Speaker: It's enough to wait until when he's in that compartment that you have those kind of conversation with him. And so back to AI.
Speaker: If you are a woman that you use social media, for instance, one way that you can learn how to use that is I have i i can teach you how to build your agent, social media agent.
Speaker: I can run around and do all your social medias for you. But you don't have to wait until you can build an agent. You can actually train Any of the AI that you like, pick one. If it is cloud, if it is co-pilot, if it is tragedy.
Speaker: But the only thing I always advise, I train my audience to go learn how to train their AI. Train at the back end. Before you even do anything, make sure you withhold your privacy. Tell them not to.
Speaker: Use your content for marketing. Always start from there. So you go to the backend, there is a bot where it says privacy, complete the form and send it back to them and within 48 hours, that's how long it took me in 2023 to get Chagipiti to respond to me that my content will not be used for training purposes.
Speaker: Make sure that's the first thing that you do. I'll tell everybody here. And then another thing you can do You can du go ahead and train Chargipity or Claude on how can tell it every day 6 a.m. m Tell me what, read the word news to me.
Speaker: And then create a 10-second video script that I can read to my audience. So that you'll not be lacking content.
Speaker: If you learn that, you'll be able to use that same services for another client and make money for them. Because, one, you could go to a real estate and help them really use AI to decorate their office.
Speaker: if i were If I were hosting this, if I was... if i was um Being interviewed in Washington State in my office right now, ah Crystal, you will see that I decorated my my office.
Speaker: I used Chargipity to do it.
Speaker: I redecorated my office, both my podcast room that is downstairs and my office upstairs. I used Chargipity. I took the screenshot of my office, my space.
Speaker: I uploaded everything to Chargipity. I said, hey, this is what my podcast room looks like now. This is what my office looks like. Can you help me redecorate it? He said, of course, Queen. He knows my brand. He knows Bridget O. Michaels Consulting Services. He knows I'm the Queenmaker.
Speaker: So he would pitch on Queenmaker, Queenmaker, and the song he puts Bridget O. Michaels Consulting. Everything is suggested. And he said, Queen, there's no going to buy anything. You have everything I need to redecorate your office.
Speaker: And that's how he suggested. Put the check here, put this here, put that. And that's how I did direct the redecoration of my offices. So why am I saying this to you? So you can go to a real realtor's office and say, hey, I can help you stage any of your property, but do you pay me $5,000.
Speaker: five thousand dollars And all you do is the same thing I just told you. Whatever space they give you, whatever home property think that they want to sell, just take the picture at at the way it is, upload it to your GPT and use Conversation AI.
Speaker: There is a little button but by the side of any of them. that All of them, you can even do it on your phone. no And start talking to it because it's easier to have a conversation with AI than to actually time.
Speaker: It's faster. You'll be able to talk a lot because as women, we have so many things to say. And then, whatever you get, you give it back to the realtor and your money is paid to you.
Speaker: That's one place how you can use that to get money. And I talk about emails. Crystal says, November, 2025, I have not written an email by myself.
Speaker: The AI does, but he puts them in my draft. So every email you sent to me, this today, all the draft was written by my AI agent.
Speaker: And all I just need to do, I just read it and then approve it. I just read and that's okay, approve. Even Stania, if I were were to share my my screen with you, you will see that I have an a an AI who goes to LinkedIn to actually source lead for me.
Speaker: Has a conversation with people. Today, he already sent me all the things that he has done. He said to me, Bridget, congratulations. We have... He told me there's a principal at something, leadership academy, I don't want to call that, who just accepted your LinkedIn invite.
Speaker: This is on all these yellow buttons. They're all from my AI agent. I didn't do it. He starts the conversation for me on LinkedIn.
Speaker: I don't do nothing. All that I do is when the person accepts the conversation, then I take it off from there. But time begins it for me. Can you do that for another company? Can you go to a company and say, you know what?
Speaker: Emails are big. You lose sight of some of the things that you do. I can help you really manage your email without even you lifting a finger. and But you pay me.
Speaker: The thing is, it's not just what the women can tell, can can how they can use AI to get paid. It's can you actually be able to negotiate the price?
Speaker: That's my question right now to any woman that is out there. That's why you see that when I tell you, I give you the prize, I say, go to it a realtor and I say, get them to pay you $5,000.
Speaker: goes Because I know. So that's many one of the little things that you can do with AI. And then the the the simplest one is just open chat GPT.
Speaker: And i can give you, if you should message me, I'll give you a prompt that you can use to write a digital product. Can you sell that for $27 on any of the platform? or you Can you sell it to a friend?
Speaker: you You cannot tell me, oh Bridget, oh, I'm not big on social media. Okay, good. Do you have a phone? Do you have a phone? Who is listening to me? Do you have a phone?
Speaker: If you have a phone, then when you create the PDF of the e-book, call your phone, your your friend on the phone. That friend who will come and gossip with you about the latest trend in social media, the latest makeup, the latest lipstick, tell her, I just launched an e-book.
Speaker: on how to grow vegetables, how to grow tomatoes, it's only $27. Do you think you can give me $27 and I'll send you the PDF of the book? If that friend says no, then you said that friend is not um not a real friend because does not want you to grow, does not support you. So you pass over the friend, you go to another friend.
Speaker: What am I saying? I'm making it as fun and as simple and as easy that I i could to let you know that these things are happening and you can do them.
Speaker: All you need to do, the ladies who are writing my book, I gave them the prompt to put in their chargipity or whatever, or Claude, and tell the story they want to share with me when they're done. They didn't need to do anything.
Speaker: Send the raw, everything you can send it to me. i will edit it. And that's why I'm in New York. That's what they did. So I'm telling you, you who is watching, can you do the same thing?
Speaker: There is a skill that you already know. There is something that you already know. You know how to bake the best apple apple pie. You know how to bake the best, you know, what kind of cake? I'm not big on cake. we because You know how to make.
Speaker: Can you ask that, activity give give it everything and tell it to order it and organize it into a beautiful formatted book that is worth $27?
Speaker: Do you think you can do this? And that's something that can put money on your purse. I could go on and on and on, but I like to start from baby steps. That's why I say always, I teach women baby steps in whatever they do.
Speaker: Can you edit script? Can you edit script for someone and you be paid? Now, all you need to do is you can create your own editor, your own GPT editor. And if you don't know how to do it, I will teach you how to create i in your own GPT from beginning to the end.
Speaker: All you need to tell it to do. For instance, let me give you a simple prompt.
Speaker: If I want to talk to Tariq, Tariq is my my guy, chat GPT, the conversation one, conversation AI, I named it Tariq. So if I want Tariq to do something for me, I'll say, Tariq, I want you to act as my paid $50,000 book editor.
Speaker: And I want you to edit this book that I'm uploading to you. And when you finish editing it, I want you to format it in a book style.
Speaker: And I'm going to sell that book on Amazon, on Stanstal, on whatever, put a price for me because I'm not sure how much to price the book.
Speaker: Or I can um also throw it in and Tariq, act as a paid $75,000 world-class book editor who has published over 100 books that have sold 1 million copies each.
Speaker: You see how detailed I was? So and the book becomes different from yours. Because then there must be one thing that you left out in your prompt that I have.
Speaker: That's the edge that I have over you. Maybe you could have said, oh, ask us a book coach and i edit my book. But me, I said, no, ask us a $50,000 page. Because I've come to realize when you put a price tag on your AI, it actually reports to you as as that as a level.
Speaker: You can even say art as a book editor with over 35 years experience. You see what I mean? And then it will give you a different a different result each different time.
Speaker: you but you For you to be able to be outstanding in what you do, because there's a lot of competition now in artificial intelligence. If I told my friend, I said, if somebody just mentioned artificial intelligence one more time, I'm going to puke. I told her yesterday.
Speaker: with so many every year you turn but the difference between you and the next lady next door is how you prompt you must be able to be very good at prompting that makes you different and that makes your work outstanding so you come out classic just like you are
Speaker: Thank you. great Great insight into how to use ai I've used it for brand voice, and I was able to, in a tight timeline, redo a website that would have taken me weeks and weeks and weeks to you know finesse the language, what I'm trying to say.
Speaker: It took me two days to redo an entire website in a tight turnaround. And it was amazing. yeah So I think there's definitely value for busy women. That reminds me. That reminds me. Do you know what is really hot? What is hot cake right now?
Speaker: You just mentioned the website. If there's a lady or a man watching, listening to us or watching us right now, I would say, can you audit a website for someone? Can you use AI to audit a website and get paid?
Speaker: yep All you need to do is the prompt. Just remember the prompt. Exactly. I thought you asked as a paid $70,000 website editor. Use your SEO, AEO. Just put everything in there, the details.
Speaker: And then you ask it. Go audit a website. And he gives it to you in any format months that you want. And Claude is very good. Claude is very good at helping you break down into very great presentation.
Speaker: Very beautiful, clear presentation. Claude is good at that. And you can just take that whole document and give it to the clients and collect your money. Even if it's the $500 that you collect per website, that's good enough because it gives you detailed results.
Speaker: Very, very detailed.
Speaker: Love it. What's your biggest piece of advice for Grit City women?
Speaker: You know, love, love, love the name. Gritty is the new pretty. So, hey lady, you remember you are a queen.
Speaker: You sit pretty in your house or your office or in your marketplace or in the business room. i want you to I want you to always know that you are queen. that you are royalty. Never forget who you are.
Speaker: In your search for your identity, I just want you to know that you can always fix your crown at whatever time in your life. Don't think you are too old or too young.
Speaker: Don't label yourself because someone else said that. Don't buy whatever they have said about you.
Speaker: What I want you to know, today is the one. Just get the reset for the today is the one. Who are you?
Speaker: When I strip off the titles from you, whether you are doctor, whether you are nurse, whether you are charter, whatever, if I strip all of those titles from you, who are you at the very core?
Speaker: That is what matters. And so the the biggest one I'm going to tell you is, just like my mom had always told me, one broken dream is never the end of dreaming.
Speaker: If your dreams have been broken, go to sleep. But tomorrow, you will definitely dream again.
Speaker: Great advice. I love it. Thank you so much for joining us today, Bridget. Thank you. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed coming. can coming here and i can I'm not going to stop talking about this session to all my friends. and even I don't have any means, so won't say any means.
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