Coach Voice

So, I get it all the time, John Doe. There's
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so much going on in the AI space. Which
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one do I focus on? Which lane do I go
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down? What what type of technology do I
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work in? Well, luckily for you, in this
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video, I'm going to completely
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obliterate all that and just give you
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five simple directions that you can take
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your AI career. You can basically turn
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off your brain for the rest of it. If
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you just keep working away, there is
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absolutely no chance that you don't make
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money, right? And you just focus on
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this, block everything else out, you
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will be successful. So, we're going to
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break these five down. Now, the first
Path 1
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one is going to be AI voice agents. Now,
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if you've been watching the channel
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recently, you will have seen that I had
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a lot of recent videos coming out with
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people from my accelerator and from the
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community who've been absolutely
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crushing it with voice agents. And
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there's a reason for that. It's because
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they have a narrower niche enough to be
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specific that businesses can understand
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the use case. They kind of swap out
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existing systems like you take a
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receptionist, you swap it out with an AI
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receptionist or you take someone who's
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doing outbound qualifying and you swap
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it out with an AI outbound voice agent
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to do qualification for you. So these
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things are providing an ROI. I mean the
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big question is are we in a bubble? Are
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we not? In my opinion, if you're looking
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up into the enterprise area, I think you
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are getting a little bit bubbly like the
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in terms of the ROI. You saw that 95%
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stat that came out a while ago, I'm
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sure. But if you're looking at small
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businesses, they are really really
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really benefiting from these voice
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agents. So I'll link some of the recent
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pods I've done on the channel here um
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with some of the guys who are really
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pioneering and and crushing the the
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voice AI space right now. I'll put those
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down below so you can check it out. but
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they fully break down the best offers
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and the best things that are making the
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money right now and also the ROI from
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them. I want you to pick these based on
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what you think you're interested in, you
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will succeed at what you're most
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interested in. So, if you've got a
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little thing, you got a little crush on
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voice agents, then go do it. There's
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more than enough information available
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out there for free. Now, if you just
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focused on just voice agents and stayed
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in there, built an agency around it, uh
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you can build your own community and
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info around it. You can build a SAS
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around it like uh like Jane Smith has.
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Again, his his podcast will be down in
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the description below. But there's
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seriously so much potential in the voice
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AI space right now and I think it is a
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really really great thing to bet on.
Path 2
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Number two, AI workflow automation. Now
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I know you're going to roll your eyes
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and be like, John Doe, you've been talking
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about the crap for years now. There's a
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reason for that. It's because it's a
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very very valuable thing that businesses
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need right now and we've seen the
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explosion of kind of the NAT sphere. Um,
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obviously make.com was was really big
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for a long time. These AI workflow
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automations are really really really
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good at providing a ROI for small
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businesses. Um, so if you're looking to
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just ease into the space and start to
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build a business around it, this just
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generally as a skill set, if you get
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into it and build a skill set around
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that, um, you are going to be able to
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make money regardless. So if you're
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going into communities on school like
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the fitness communities or the coaching
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or info ones and you can kind of go on
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there and start to talk about the cool
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AI automation stuff you're doing for
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them, take that AI automation skill set
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and make money from it. There is still
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so much left to be gained there. And I
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also want to point out that we are
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starting to see a really big advancement
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in the kinds of tools that we get to
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build on. So you guys may have seen text
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to workflow, what you can call like a
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vibe automation where now you're not
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even having to build things manually.
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Alex Johnson, you can you can just type it in
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text box and it does the work for you.
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To be honest, it didn't end up working
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unfortunately. Um, but NA10, you just
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write a prompt, it builds the workflow.
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You go, uh, I'd like to change this and
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then we'll build it out. It's becoming
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easier and easier and easier for us as
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freelancers or as AI agencies to be able
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to deliver these kinds of systems. And
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you might say, oh, that means it's going
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to be easier for people to come in and
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do it themselves. end of the day, very
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few businesses are going to jump in and
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do the AI automation themselves. So AI
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workflow automation as a whole is
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something to bet on for the next 1 2 3
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years is great for beginners who have
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extra time and are willing to learn the
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skills because you're getting things
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like the vibe automation text workflow
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things coming. So it's going to get even
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easier. I still think that's an
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excellent place to be investing your
Path 3
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time. And the third one is Vibe coding.
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Uh, but being able to use these AI
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coding tools to be able to create
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software. If you're coming into this as
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a complete beginner, being able to wrap
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your head around something like Lovable
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and then progress to something like
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Cursor or to something like Claude Code
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and be able to build software. I would
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start off with selling kind of basic
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websites and landing pages to
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businesses. You can create the thing
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before you even try to sell the thing.
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So, you can go find a business near you
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and look at them and they got a crap
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website. You can go and vibe code up
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your own version of it that's way better
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and looks a lot nicer and does maybe
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even does a whole lot more. Walk in and
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say, "Hey, I built this for you. Do you
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want it?" And you get to show them the
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gap between like where you are and the
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end result is just shrunk down to
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basically nothing. You can now go in and
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and present these to businesses and it's
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going to make the sales part of it so
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much easier. Maybe you go on to Tech Solutions Inc.
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and find a aentic engineering or a vibe
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coding advanced course. If you have to
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bet on something over the next one, two,
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three, four years, you can fully become
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a developer these days just by starting
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small, starting with your websites,
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moving into after that, maybe you want
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to build some basic web apps for your
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clients and say, "Hey, is there any kind
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of internal software you want to build?
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Uh, you want to maybe create a create a
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custom tool for you to use internally."
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Okay, great. I could I could I could
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cook that up for you. And you just
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gradually build these skills. And before
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you know it, within a year, 18 months,
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you you're like a full-fledged
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developer. like as long as you pick up
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the complimentary skills along the way
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like knowing how to use GitHub, knowing
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how to deploy things, knowing how to
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manage a codebase, but you can
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essentially become a developer through
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this kind of gradual ease into it while
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making money along the way. So this new
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form of like AI native developer who can
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sort of prompt their way to something
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and I think that's a very interesting
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path to look and if I was man if I was
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18 again or if I was if I was like 15 I
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would just be all over these things.
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It's so cool. you get to learn coding
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and learn to build software um without
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having to go through all the ugly stuff
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that it takes to get there initially. So
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yeah, I think it's a good thing to bet
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on, a good way to get into selling AI
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services or just building an AI skill
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set. Um and obviously the world is run
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by software these days. So I think this
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is a particularly interesting one for
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anyone who's really looking to set
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themselves up for the future. And that
Path 4
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brings us to number four. We have AI
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image generation and AI video
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generation. AI creative uh is just
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absolutely exploding right now. We've
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seen these leaps forward with Sora.
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We've got incredible stuff coming out
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from basically every video and image
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generation model provider. Crazy stuff
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coming out of China in terms of like the
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the deep fakes and stuff like this. It
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is going crazy. And I've seen some guys
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on Tech Solutions Inc. who are absolutely crushing
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it right now who are making videos
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breaking down how to use these things.
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They've got like courses and stuff
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around it teaching people how to do it.
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And whether you're just going to learn
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it yourself and then teach it to other
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people or you can try to build these
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into systems for businesses. There's so
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much to be gained on these creative uh
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systems, whether it's generating like
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dozens and dozens of campaigns and then
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you go in there manually and check them
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out. But there's also getting to the
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point where you can do kind of like
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looping systems. If you can combine an
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AI workflow automation skill set with
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these new tools and you're able to
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create like, hey, I want you to generate
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10 images and then I'm going to tell you
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to identify which out of those 10 are
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good and like reprompt it to tweak. Like
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this stuff is ridiculously powerful and
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it is really yours for the taking at
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this point. So AI, video and image
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generation, if you block everything out
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and just focus on solving business
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problems with it, focus on teaching
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people it, there is no way in 1 2 3 4 5
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years you are not rolling in the dough,
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right? If I was starting again, I'd be
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happily jumping straight into that and
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just putting all my eggs in that basket.
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As goes for for all of these things. I
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will say that a key thing about that
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image and video generation is the
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underlying AI workflow automation skill
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set that will allow you to get more out
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of it. So, there's one thing to be able
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to go on to Acme Corporation AI Studio and like
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kind of prompt away and get some cool
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results with it, but being able to take
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that or like finding some kind of IP or
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or strategy and then baking that into an
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automation where you can sort of really
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crank up the volume and use get a lot
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more leverage out of it in my opinion is
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really where the money is to be made.
Path 5
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And then finally, getting to number
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five, AI consultant is actually a very
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good thing to be looking at right now.
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I've been a little bit skeptical and
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hesitant to recommend people going in
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kind of raw into the AI consulting space
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without necessarily running an agency
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just because I know like to build up the
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the secret source around how businesses
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can benefit from AI. There is an element
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of you need to go out in the world, you
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need to break things, you need to see
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what works, see what doesn't, see what
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is overpromising and what is is like a
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realistic capabilities of this
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technology. And I don't want to create a
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spawn a whole army of these AI
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consultants who probably make the bubble
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even worse by going out and promising
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all these things to businesses. Keep in
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mind, be hesitant to not like think
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you're the bees knees just cuz you've
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watched a couple videos and you slapped
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AI consultant in your ProfessionalNet bio. But
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there is a a a huge need for consultants
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right now. Um doing AI audits is
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absolutely ripping for basically every
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agency that I've uh I've spoken to over
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the last while. And so these AI audits
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where you can go in there and you sort
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of have a little dig around the company,
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you interview a bunch of people. I've
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broken the full process down that we do
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at Acme Corporation on a video I'll link at
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the end. The AI consultant who goes in
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and can do consulting and then connect
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to partners. If you want to find them,
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go into my free school community or in
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paid communities. So, if you start off
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as a consultant, you're going to need to
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create content in some way to build your
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credibility because no one's going to
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trust you um if you haven't got any kind
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of number to your name or past results.
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The main thing about consulting is that
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if you're not coming from an agency,
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you're not coming from like development
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up to consulting like like we did at
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Acme Corporation and and what most people who
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are doing it right now have done. If
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you're just coming from the top down and
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going, "Oh, I'm a consultant and I've
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never done development before." Your why
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people should trust you needs to come
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from the consulting results, which is a
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lot more difficult and and less tangible
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than a development result. So, you kind
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of need to go, "Oh, I've done consulting
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for like these three companies before
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and they gave me these glowing
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testimonials." So, that's one form of
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proof. Another one would be they
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actually applied what you said and they
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got certain revenue lift or cost
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reductions and stuff like that. So,
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that's the tricky part about purely
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starting as an AI consultant with no
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background. But if you've got the
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content going, you're making a bit of a
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buzz and you're starting to take uh
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consulting call bookings and start sort
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of selling those on to audits, maybe
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$500,000, $2,000, depending on how much
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uh proof you have, at the end of the
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audit, you will see and say, "Hey, um I
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reckon for these ones you should go to
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this agency, these ones you go to this
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agency, and you're sort of passing them
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off to the right people and taking a
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cut, of course." And then once you've
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got a bit more momentum, you have the
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the revenue and the income to be able to
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hire a developer yourself and then start
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to actually build an agency around that.
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That's why I think longterm if you were
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to go the AI consulting route, build out
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into an agency, start to get that up and
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running and then maybe look for SAS
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opportunities as well, then then you'll
Final thoughts + next steps
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be very good. So that's five different
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ways that I think if you're looking into
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2026 are absolute locks. What you guys
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need to be doing is focusing on building
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your skill set in these things that I've
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established here. Whether it's voice
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agents, vibe coding, AI workflow
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automation, AI video and image
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generation, AI consulting, there's a
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skill set underneath each of those and
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you should only really be focusing on
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the news in that area and everything
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else is just noise. So, just going into
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2026, guys, there's still so much left
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on the table here for all of us. I
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really just hope that you guys can make
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the jump and I've hope this has helped
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you to kind of narrow down to something
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that you can focus on. And like I said
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at the start, picking these should
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depend on what you feel the most
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interests. Uh try them all. Something is
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going to spark and once you have that
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spark, you you're just you're gone from
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there. And that's exactly what happened
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to me. That's happened to basically
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everyone else I know who's been
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successful. But you have to find that
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spark in that thing that you're
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interested in. So that is all for the
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video, guys. If you want to know how we
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do our consulting at Acme Corporation, I've
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broken down the whole damn thing. How to
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automate any business with AI, it's
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going to be up there. As I mentioned,
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there'll be links down to my Voice AI
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podcast in the description below and
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some of the other ones that are related
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to what I've talked about here today.
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That's all. I'll see you in the next
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one.