AI Consulting Day 3/21

Here are some more ideas furnished by Claude:

I have a business called epiphany AI group. It’s main aim is to take a business that has the potential to move humanity forwards and removes it’s blocks. I want to develop some questions, exercises, and processes that help me get into the right consulting mindset that is in line with my company with the sense of anything is possible, positivity, seeking innovation, and purpose. brainstorm some ideas for me

Thank you for sharing about your business, Epiphany AI Group. It sounds like an innovative approach to consulting with a focus on transformative potential. Here are some ideas for questions, exercises, and processes to help you get into the right consulting mindset aligned with your company’s values:

Questions:

  1. What would this business look like if all limitations were removed?
  2. How can we reframe perceived obstacles as opportunities?
  3. What emerging technologies or trends could revolutionize this industry?
  4. If we were to start from scratch today, how would we design this business?
  5. What’s the most audacious goal this company could set for itself?

Exercises:

  1. Reverse Brainstorming: Identify ways to make the business fail, then reverse these ideas.
  2. Future Retrospective: Imagine it’s 5 years from now and the company has achieved incredible success. What steps did we take to get there?
  3. Random Word Association: Choose a random word and find ways to connect it to the business, sparking innovative ideas.
  4. Mindfulness Meditation: Practice mindfulness to clear your mind before consulting sessions.
  5. Empathy Mapping: Create detailed empathy maps for various stakeholders to gain new perspectives.

Processes:

  1. “Moonshot Thinking” Sessions: Regular brainstorming focused on game-changing ideas.
  2. Innovation Pipeline: Develop a systematic approach to capture, evaluate, and implement new ideas.
  3. Cross-Industry Inspiration: Regularly explore innovations in unrelated industries for fresh perspectives.
  4. Purposeful Reflection: Schedule time to align business strategies with broader humanitarian goals.
  5. Constraint Removal Exercise: Systematically identify and challenge assumed constraints in the business model.

Would you like me to elaborate on any of these ideas or explore a specific area further?

can you explain empathy mapping?

Certainly, I’d be happy to explain empathy mapping.

Empathy mapping is a collaborative visualization tool used to gain a deeper understanding of a stakeholder’s (often a customer’s or user’s) experience. It’s designed to help teams better understand the needs, thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the people they’re designing for or working with. This process encourages teams to consider a person’s complete experience, going beyond just their obvious actions or statements.

A typical empathy map is divided into four quadrants, each representing a different aspect of a person’s experience:

  1. Says: What the person says out loud in an interview or during an observed experience.
  2. Thinks: What the person might be thinking but not explicitly saying.
  3. Does: The actions and behaviors the person takes.
  4. Feels: The emotions the person might be feeling.

Additionally, two more sections are often added: 5. Pains: Frustrations, obstacles, or risks the person experiences. 6. Gains: Wants, needs, hopes and dreams of the person.

To create an empathy map:

  1. Define the user or stakeholder you’re mapping.
  2. Gather data through interviews, observations, or existing research.
  3. Fill in each section of the map with relevant insights.
  4. Review the map as a team to identify patterns and generate insights.

In the context of your business, Epiphany AI Group, you might use empathy mapping to:

  • Understand the mindset of business leaders you’re consulting for.
  • Explore the perspectives of various stakeholders within a client’s organization.
  • Gain insights into the end-users or customers of your client’s products or services.

By using empathy mapping, you can uncover hidden needs, motivations, and pain points that might not be immediately obvious. This can lead to more innovative and effective solutions, aligning well with your company’s goal of removing blocks and moving humanity forward.

Would you like more information on how to implement empathy mapping in your consulting process?

Some more ideas that I came up with:

What customer do I want to fall in love with
Meditate for the answer
Write a time capsule
Body exercise emotion from motion
I don’t let my mind run me I let my heart and soul run me

I felt that something was missing today. I felt like I has a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but I was missing something from stitching the whole thing together.

I realized that the thing I cannot lose sight of, that will help create boundaries and structure for the project is to remind myself what the deliverables are:

  1. Create a working funnel where money goes in -> money comes out
  2. Create the “rulebook” that will allow anyone run the funnel
  3. Set up the funnel

With that in mind, here is the timeline:

  1. Week 1: Create the Future Package
    • Goal: Create a package of branding, website, mission and vision, and other visuals and documents that can bring me and anyone else into the correct future
  2. Week 2: Create the Recruitment Package
    • Goal: Create a leads magnet that can get attract a buttload of leads and sell the future
  3. Week 3: Create a Conversion Package
    • Goal: Create an offer that will allow us to incorporate our customers into the future
  4. Week 4: Execute and innovate
    • Goal: automate, innovate, and make the process more fun, optimized and exciting

AI Consulting Day 2/21

Here is what I decided today.

In order to succeed at the project I am currently working on, I need to focus on developing my business, get me into the right headspace of possibility, positivity, fun, innovation, and purpose.

I don’t need to develop anything external (website, logo) but I do need to develop tools and processes to get me into the right headspace.

Here are some original ideas:

  1. 7 whys to understand purpose
  2. Write a science fiction story of the role of the clients company in the future, write an origin story to the company
  3. Try to tell the science fiction with the brand, website, ads
  4. Design thinking – how might we solve X problem
  5. What does level 3 look like? What does level 1 and 2 look like?
  6. What problem are we solving for humanity?
  7. What crisis are we pushing the boundaries in?
  8. Mindmap – fill the whiteboard
  9. What games can we play with our employees?
  10. How can we make it fun for our clients?

Here is the main blueprint concept I am working with:

  1. Build the future: create home base to live in
    • Brand
    • Mission
    • Vision
    • Website
  2. Recruit more people for that future: I need you!
    • Lead magnet
  3. Work together for the future: we build it together
    • Offer
  4. Make it science fiction: push it past what is now
    • Technology innovation
    • Process innovation

Art Coaching Day 2/21

I also figured out why I have troubling making a coaching website and why it felt so wrong. It had pricing and generic things on it.

I want my funnel to be an homage to my mission and vision, which is to foster the creation of more artistic masterpieces. So I want my website to have a feeling of magic, of the way Harry Potter felt when he was got his invitation letter to the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. I want to remind myself of the feeling of reading children’s books. I want the website to be an homage to dreams, creating worlds, and fantasy.

I want my business cards to feel like a work of art, like a magical invitation.

Today I accomplished the following things:

  1. Bought masterpiececoaching.org
  2. Ordered samples of premium business card samples from Jukebox

Tomorrow I really want to design and put together my website asap using a template on wordpress.

Workpost 52: Logistics Done

So the groundwork is essentially laid for a lot of things.

I plan on investing $600 into the AI coaching business.

60% of revenue will go to my living expenses

10% will go business expenses

30% will be held in a high yield savings account for taxes

I plan on investing $5000 for the creation of the funnel for my art coaching business. It is already set aside for that purpose.

When I get to the 3 month mark (and I run my businesses full time) I will dip into the savings I have set aside in my emergency fund.

To make things simple, I just decided to funnel all business expenses through my AI coaching account. I will keep my coaching income a separate account.

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Workpost 54: Fears

I’m starting work on the new branding project but I’m feeling some fears:

  1. Fear of failure
  2. Fear of being misunderstood and not heard
  3. Fear of being seen as bad, lazy, unproductive, dumb

I feel trapped. Shoulders, fear in center of chest. I don’t know what to do to be seen as productive.

I feel overwhelmed. I feel out of control. Nerves vibing in my chest. Clenched stomach. I don’t know what will work.

I feel like a failure. Pain in my chest. I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’m imagining failing. I feel worthless. Head, chest, cold, numb tingling.

Grounding

I may not satisfy other people’s ideas of productivity, but I can satisfy what I see as productive. I can focus on my personal growth and the growth of my companies.

I don’t know what will work but I know what I can try.

I’m adventuring into new territory – that’s why I don’t know what I’m doing.

This gives me the opportunity to process the I’m unworthy wound.

Reframe

This is my opportunity to help other people grow in what they understand as productivity.

Embrace people knowing what you are working on, practice being proud of your process (like emotional processing). -> Big trigger from dad being skeptical of my process and feeling like I need to justify

Big failure literally always leads to big growth and learning. Let’s chase failure. I shouldn’t feel guilty as failure is all on me.

Ok, that makes me realize a lot of this comes from my dad constantly being skeptical, not trusting me, and dismissing my process. I feel always I need to justify myself.

It leads to a very strong I am trapped wound. Shoulders compressed and pain in chest.

Also some I am misunderstood, I am a failure, I am not trusted.

I wonder if that’s how he was treated? I wonder if he has those wounds too.

To grow from it, it occurs to me that he needed an explanation, a justification, and was skeptical because of his own internalized judgement – not because there was something wrong with me.

His comparison of me with other people was all due to his own shame.

Demanding an explanation is from own lack of trust in himself, he can’t understand my trust in myself.

Additional processing:

I did some more processing later in the day. I felt super tired but I kept feeling pressure to work. I feel fear that if I don’t get a certain amount of work done, that I will be rejected.

My dad would say that I didn’t plan the day out well enough, I was not efficient enough, or that I need to work harder.

I felt that fear in my chest as a I am not good enough wound.

In reframing I came to the conclusion that even though my dad had no boundaries around the amount of energy he could put into work, doesn’t mean I cannot.

I choose to put boundaries around my work, and to stop working or move on when I feel I’ve given as much as I can give within the course of the day.

AI Consulting – Day 1/21

Some more thoughts about my brand for AI Consulting:

  1. I want it to have a Youth Venture feel
    • Anything is possible
    • Warm and supportive and inspiring community
  2. I want to incorporate these ethe:
    • Never compromise on your vision
    • Move humanity forwards
    • Be science fiction (either in philosophy or technology or both)
  3. Inspiring thoughts:
    • Make every business like a Youth Venture business
      • Social enterprise
      • Founders feel purpose in what they do
      • Dream big, prioritize vision
    • Ship fire manual
      • AI that pushed the limit of what is possible
      • Creates our science fiction

Workpost 53: Time to Kick Into Gear

It’s time to think through the plan for each of my businesses a little more carefully.

I want to spend 3 months setting up the funnel for each of my businesses and 3 months trying out and running the funnels.

Let’s breakdown what that looks like.

Art Coaching

Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total

What needs to be done for the funnel:

  1. Payment/banking systems
  2. How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
  3. Website
  4. Business cards
  5. Calendly
  6. Client contracts
  7. Mailing lists/CRM

General Aim: To make a beautiful creative world on my website, business cards, social media that reminds me of adventure, magic, and dreams

Next step for MVP…

3 day challenge – Make a mess

By the end of the challenge:

  1. Print out business cards
  2. Have a WordPress website with basic information on it
  3. Figure out how to do scheduling with Calendly

AI Consulting

Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total

What needs to be done for the funnel:

  1. Payment/banking systems
  2. How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
  3. Website
  4. Business cards
  5. Calendly
  6. Client contracts
  7. Mailing lists/CRM
  8. Branding
  9. New contract for funnel

General Aim: To create a place where business owners with the talent and potential can go to unblock their problems

Next step for MVP…

3 day challenge – Create website

By the end of the challenge:

  1. Website that clearly shows brand and services
  2. Clear way to schedule a consultation with me
  3. Be able to talk to local meetups

Workpost 52: Exhausted

I’m so tired from being sleep-deprived for a few days now.

Today I want to focus on a couple of things:

  1. Completing all the hours of work I want to get done
  2. Focusing on my health
  3. Get screws from Home Depot

Workpost 50: Fundamentals

Today is kinda busy and I want to focus on fundamentals – clearing out my todo list, getting all the UNIT ONE things crossed off my list, editing my interview with Danuta Hinc etc.

I also want to focus on the thing that I’ve put off for months, setting up my black out curtains. If I can get that set up today, then I will have accomplished something big.

If I’m able to sort out all the fundamentals. Then the next things to focus on for my business are the following:

  1. AI Consulting mood board
  2. Art coaching sketching
  3. Hubspot and CRM exploration