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30/09/2026

Have you seen the Time and Focus setting inside your Claude settings?

You can now set a time period of work after which Claude nudges you to take a break

And set working hours during the week

I think it may be Claude's way of trying to look after our mental health 🤣

But in all seriousness, now that AI helps us to do things faster...what are you doing with the time you're saving?

Taking time off to do other things or adding more work to your plate?

29/09/2026

I need your help please 👇

First, I know I've been quieter in here than usual. I've been building a lot behind the scenes, and there's plenty I'll be sharing with you over the next few weeks.

But today I need your help with a decision.

I'm bringing in an email strategist for a live, hands-on workshop soon, and there are two directions it could go.

Instead of guessing which one would help you the most, I'm asking the people who actually write the emails.

Please vote for the one YOU would find the most useful

1️⃣- The 30-Minute Email Workflow. For when writing one email takes far longer than it should, or you sit down with no clear idea where to begin.

2️⃣- Using AI for Email Copy Without Sounding Like AI. For when AI drafts the email for you, but it comes out generic, overly polished, and nothing like you.

Drop 1 or 2 in the comments and if there is something else that drives you mad feel free to tell me too, I'm always keen to see how we can overcome challenges more easily

28/09/2026

How many AI tips have you saved this month?

The prompt someone shared in a group, the "10 ways to use Claude" post you bookmarked to come back to, the reel you sent to yourself so you wouldn't forget it (no judgement, mine's just as full 🤣)

But a saved tip doesn't do anything in your business until you actually build it into how you work.

Every build I've got running started with one real problem, not a tip.

My brand colours panel started because I was tired of copying the codes out of Canva one by one, every single time.

My cohort audit started because because I had 9 weeks of feedback spread across different places and no easy way to see where everyone had struggled.

That cohort audit is the build I've shared inside Behind the Build: AI Edition, and it's exactly why I love this event.

14 business owners (me included) have each opened up one real thing they built with AI in their own business.

What it is, why they built it, what it solved, and the simplest version you can set up yourself.

And there's nothing to sit through.

Every build is written, so you skim the titles, find the one that sounds like a problem you already have, and build that one first.

It's free to join, but only until the 30th of September.

🔗 to grab your free ticket in the first comment

09/09/2026

Claude changed a setting this week, and I changed it straight back.

If you use Claude Cowork you probably saw the little notification:

"New tasks now run in the cloud."

It sounds really helpful.

Your computer can be off and your scheduled tasks keep running.

You can start something at your desk and pick it up later on your phone.

But here's the part that's really important to understand.

Cloud tasks work with the files saved to your Claude account.

Anthropic's own help page says it straight out: they can't be tied to a folder on your computer.

So the more of your tasks and their files that live in the cloud, the more of your business lives on one company's servers.

Remember the great ChatGPT to Claude migration.

All that memory and context locked inside a ChatGPT chat, and you pretty much had to start from scratch if you migrated.

The folder system I've built solves that problem.

Now my whole business runs from organised folders on my computer.

Claude Cowork works in them.

ChatGPT Work can also be pointed at the exact same files, and any new AI that comes along can work with them too.

I want to stay in control of my files on my own computer.

Now to be fair, if you work mostly from your phone and nothing you run needs the files on your computer, the cloud option might genuinely work for you.

But you should be able to make the choice yourself, and not end up with a default setting you missed.

I've added a screenshot showing exactly where the setting lives.

Go to Settings>Cowork>Only on this computer - and toggle it on

So tell me, did you see the notification? And which way did you go, cloud or computer?

07/09/2026

The Aligned AI Summit is nearly here 🎉

Join 30+ Online Business owners (including myself) for 'over the shoulder' looks at how they're using AI workflows in their businesses.

This is not another information session its real workflows built for real online businesses.

The Summit runs from 8th-11th September and is FREE to register

🔗 to register in the first comment

06/09/2026

THIS IS ONE SUMMIT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS OUT ON!

The absolute best way to learn how to use AI in your own business is to see what others are doing and implement it yourself.

I have learnt so much from watch other people and in the Aligned AI Summit you have 35 chances to do just that.

It's FREE to register - Each presentation is available for 48 hours - There is an amazing VIP upgrade

I'll put the 🔗 in the first comment

25/08/2026

I'm one of the 17.

Kate Kordsmeier pulled together 17 online entrepreneurs who run their businesses with Claude and asked each of us to contribute a real system we use.

The skills, workflows and automations doing the work behind the scenes.

It's called This Is How We Claude.

I contributed my Digital Footprint Audit, the skill I use to check whether someone's online presence is telling one consistent story.

It searches your whole digital footprint, flags broken links and outdated bios, and hands you a prioritised fix-it list.

One of my clients ran it and it came back to tell her all her blog links were broken (they broke during a migration) which she hadn't realised.

It then also helped her fix every single one of them 🤯

You run it, you get answers.

And that's just one of 17.

Course creators, coaches, service providers, all sharing the systems they'd normally keep to themselves.

If you've been wondering what people actually DO with Claude beyond chatting to it, this is the closest you'll get to looking over 17 shoulders at once.

The guide is free and I've shared the 🔗 below

18/08/2026

There's one thing I really battle to do...

Give myself 'permission' to step away from my desk.

And it's the craziest thing really, but I have it inside of me that sitting in front of my computer is the only way to actually work...

Yet I have so many examples of when this is just not the case.

Some of my best ideas come when I'm out walking the dogs.

And being on the trails on my bike often brings the greatest clarity on challenges I'm trying to navigate.

So I've made it an intentional habit to step away from my computer as often as I can.

There is a slight problem with all of this though. You see, being a midlife entrepreneur comes with some tricky little challenges...

While I might get these flashes of inspiration and amazing ideas out on the trails, they can also disappear from my brain by the time I get home 🤣

So I've developed a neat little Claude trick (works with ChatGPT too).

As the ideas come in, I quickly chat them into the Claude mobile app, and ask for them to be transferred to my story bank.

Then when I get home, all I have to do is call them up, and my great idea is right there waiting to be implemented.

So now the ideas make it home even when my memory doesn't!

So I'd love to know where do your best ideas show up?

Out walking, in the shower, driving? And how do you make sure they don't disappear as quickly as they arrive 🤔🤣

28/07/2026

There's a tab in your ChatGPT you probably haven't opened yet, and it's a good one.
ChatGPT users just got the ability to build skills inside their accounts about 3 weeks ago when they rolled out ChatGPT Work.

If you don't know what a skill is, it's a set of instructions you write once so the AI does the thing your way, every single time you ask for it.

Not a prompt you paste in but a process it follows each time.

Claude has had skills since October 2025, so for nine months, if you were working in ChatGPT you were watching this from the outside.

You'd hear people talking about the skills they'd built and there was nothing you could go and build in your own account.

That's changed, and many people hav'nt noticed yet.

Here's where to find yours 👉

👉 open ChatGPT on desktop

👉 Go to plugins in the sidebar

👉 You'll see the plugins and skills toggle at the top

👉 Hit the +, then either create your skill or upload a skill

One thing I couldn't work out. I can't find any way to upload a skill from the app, only from the desktop version.

But once it's in there you can use it in the app just fine, you call it in with the @ sign and the list will come up below for you to choose.

It's still rolling out to paid accounts so check if you have it.

Screenshots below so you can see exactly what I'm looking at.

Have you found skills in your ChatGPT yet?

22/07/2026

I'd LOVE your honest opinion!

When you get handed a lead magnet that's a long PDF to read and fill in...

Do you ever actually do it? 🤔

One of my AI Business Builders members asked AI for a lead magnet idea, and it handed her back a 7 page checklist.

She looked at it and thought, "I'd never complete this, so I can't expect anyone else to."

So she asked for something fun and interactive instead.

Something people would actually want to work with.

What she got back was an interactive oracle card meaning generator, built by just describing what she wanted, in plain English, inside Claude.

That one tool brought her 101 new subscribers 🎉

So I asked her if she'd run a training on it for the other members and she said YES!

Then I asked if we could open it up to the public and again she said YES, so come watch her build one live.

The free training is happening on Monday 27 July, on building interactive tools with AI. No code, no tech background needed.

5am EST | 7pm AEST | 10am UK | 11am SAST.

Gillian's over in New Zealand, so, it's early for a lot of you, but if you register I'll make sure you get the replay!

We're covering:

👉 Turning a lead magnet nobody fills in into one people actually use
👉 Dashboards, checklists and trackers you build once and reuse for your own business
👉 Branded interactive resources for your clients or community that look like you hired a developer

There's live Q&A too.

🔗 in the first comment to save your seat

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