Excellence
The Ai Coaching Academy is live!
📊 Build the capability of the future, together. If you've been following me for a while, you know my story. If not, here's the TL;DR - I ran away and joined the circus, and lived [...]
New Years Resolutions 2026
For 2026, my word is Teach. The focus of my year will be teaching. Last year's pivot into Ai helped my identify my Ikigai.It's what I love doing (performing)That the world needs (education about Ai)And [...]
Context Engineering prepares everything prior to the prompt.
䷿ "Context engineering is the systematic discipline of designing, constructing, and delivering a complete informational environment to an AI model prior to generation." - Antonio Gulli Even the best prompts will fail without the right [...]
AI isn’t replacing you — it’s upgrading you.
🤖 “There will be two types of companies in the future: those who are leading with AI, and those who are irrelevant.” - Jeetu Patel, Cisco There’s a growing difference between people who use AI and people [...]
Organise Your Digital Brain with ChatGPT Projects
'We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.' - Archilochus You know that feeling when you're juggling five ideas, six tabs, and a dozen half-finished chats [...]
ChatGPT’s New Image Generator & The Ghibli-fication Controversy
💡Creativity Is Shifting from Craft to Concept Have you tried ChatGPT's new Image Generator? It is miles beyond DALL-E. Some of the things it can do include: Consistent character generation across prompts Simple edits without [...]
Introspection
Annual Review 2025
2025 Annual Review Table of Contents Every Annual Review that I publish on this blog contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I keep? [...]
Annual Review 2024
2024 Annual Review Table of Contents Every Annual Review that I publish on this blog contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I [...]
Shining attracts haters. ✨😡✨
Do you have haters? People who despise what you do, what you say, or who you are? This could be a good sign that you are saying something meaningful. People who dare to take a [...]
6 Life Lessons Taught Through Improv
Recently I taught an improv workshop at the local repertory theatre. We played many fun games, rapid games which sharpened our wits and made us laugh. What made this workshop work so well was the [...]
Impostor syndrome steals your glory from yourself.
Impostor syndrome is a natural consequence of growth. Growth creates a gap, between who you are now, and who you used to be. We often interpret this gap, internally, as impostor syndrome. Image from iStock [...]
Annual Review 2023
2023 Annual Review Table of Contents Every Annual Review that I publish on this blog contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I [...]
Marketing
Black Friday Fatigue, eh?
📊 “The AI displacement of white-collar jobs is upon us. The traditional career path is dying, and AI-driven productivity is redefining what’s possible.” - Peter Diamandis I am sure your inbox has been overflowing [...]
GPT Block: Writing Has Gone From Art to Automation
ChatGPT has me much less enthusiastic about writing and publishing. In the nearly two years since consumer-facing AI chatbot apps have been made available, as a writer, I have found my own interest in writing [...]
[Case Study] Speaker Collaterals for Leadership Keynote Speaker Dave Rosenberg
When a public speaker wants to charge professional rates, they need professional marketing collateral. In addition to a /speaking page on yourname.com, every professional speaker needs to have: 3-minute video demo reel Multi-page PDF Speaker [...]
5 Business Models Behind Books [Zoom Workshop]
How do authors build a thriving business around their published work? Spoiler alert: it's not by selling more books. In my work over the past decade with authors, coaches, and speakers, I have been behind-the-scenes [...]
The Show Must Go On! Even when your tech fails….
Picture this: Your 3-hour Zoom workshop just started, and your computer freezes! 😬 What do you do? The show must go on! In last week's Magnetic Messages Masterclass, my computer froze precisely at 10:01 am. [...]
Marketing Yourself – now an Audiobook!
It took me an extra two years to get around to it, but I finally recorded Marketing Yourself as an audiobook. If you're the type of person who prefers to listen to your book, then [...]
Adventure
11th move in 11 Years
The Huntress Clan completed our 11th move in 11 years on Samhain, which is April 30 in the Southern Hemisphere. We have bounced from country to country for a decade, going from town to [...]
A month of catching up
The month started with a cancelled flight. I was in Denver, across the world from my family, at the NSA #Influence19 conference. The trip went great, I made a lot of top-notch connections, and stayed [...]
From Winter to Summer and Back Again
Directly after I wrote about the Darkest Days of the Year, my experience of this year's winter in the Southern Hemisphere, I spent two weeks working from bed with a winter flu. Then, as soon [...]
Movements in May
Indi turned 13, and it was wonderful. Thirteen years ago, my daughter was born. At the precise moment of the anniversary of her birth, it also happened to be the precise moment of the New [...]
One year in New Zealand
I've been extraordinarily busy over the past year. Today is the one-year anniversary of putting in our 30-day notice on the house we were renting in Portland. Within the past year, the Huntress Clan has: [...]
My First Trip to New Zealand
It all started with LookSee Wellington. This program offered all-expense-paid trips for 100 people working in the Tech industry to come and visit Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. 48,000 people applied. Only 0.2% of [...]