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AI Queens: Elevate Your Business with Technology with Erika Stanley, Branding and AI Strategist

AI Queens: Elevate Your Business with Technology with Erika Stanley, Branding and AI Strategist

By: Erika Stanley Branding and AI Strategist
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 The AI Queens podcast empowers women entrepreneurs to confidently leverage AI and cutting-edge technologies to elevate their businesses. Hosted by AI strategist and branding expert Erika Stanley, Branding and AI Strategist, each episode delivers quick wins, creative tools, and actionable strategies to help listeners explore AI as a playground for growth and innovation. Whether you're AI-curious or ready to rule your industry, AI Queens is your guide to rewriting the rules and making tech work for you.2025 Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
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  • 25: $6,000 in AI Failures - The Most Honest Season Finale Ever

    25: $6,000 in AI Failures - The Most Honest Season Finale Ever
    Aug 21 2025
    Most business podcasts end their season with highlight reels and success stories. But that's not how we roll at AI Queens. Instead, Erika is sharing her most expensive AI failures: over $6,000 in combined costs and countless hours that could have been spent making money instead of chasing shiny AI objects like a squirrel with a credit card. Key Failures Covered: The $500/month tool addiction - How FOMO led to subscribing to multiple AI tools that did the exact same thing, including an AI tool for organizing other AI tools The strategic storytelling bot disaster - $2,300 in billable time trying to create a "one-size-fits-all" bot that ended up sitting unfinished in ChatGPT The great proposal disaster - Trusting AI output without thorough review and having to backpedal in front of a client The image generation time sink - Two-hour rabbit holes trying to get the perfect AI-generated image, complete with six-fingered hands and floating torsos These weren't just expensive mistakes. They were the most valuable market research Erika has ever done. Each failure taught lessons about focus, customization, strategy, and setting boundaries that no success story could provide. Credibility doesn't come from a perfect track record. It comes from scars, stories, and the wisdom that only comes from being in the trenches. Now when clients ask about specific tools, Erika doesn't just know the marketing promises, she knows the real-world limitations. Want to avoid these expensive mistakes? Check out the Brand to Bot Blueprint, where we start with your brand clarity and expertise first, then add AI strategically. Because AI without strategy is just expensive chaos. Get Erika's Chrome Extension and Follow Her Substack: https://aiqueenssociety.com/ Connect with Erika and join the AI Queens Society! Erika’s Creative Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MileEndDigital.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Erika’s Ai Empire: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://aiqueens.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Ai Queens Society: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AiQueensSociety.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mileenddigital⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@aiqueenssociety⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ejejstanley⁠⁠⁠⁠
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    25 mins
  • 24: GPT-5 Just Dropped: 4 Ways to Use ChatGPT Like a Strategic Partner (Not Like Everyone Else)

    24: GPT-5 Just Dropped: 4 Ways to Use ChatGPT Like a Strategic Partner (Not Like Everyone Else)
    Aug 14 2025
    OpenAI just released GPT-5, and while everyone's buzzing about the improvements, most people are still going to use it exactly like they used GPT-4 - generically. The real power isn't in the new features; it's in how you personalize AI to work as your strategic business partner instead of just another content generator. In this episode, Erika breaks down what's actually changed with GPT-5 and then delivers her four-step framework to stop using ChatGPT like everyone else and start making it work specifically for you and your business. Key Points Covered: What's New with GPT-5: Unified system, better coding capabilities for no-code app creation, improved creative writing with fewer AI tells, enhanced image analysis, and dramatically better math accuracy (100% vs. 42% on college-level problems) The Personalization Framework: Four strategic ways to transform ChatGPT from generic tool to customized business advisor that understands your brand, voice, and specific needs Strategic AI Applications: How to use AI for sales call analysis, pattern recognition, and business optimization - going far beyond content creation The Screenshot Strategy: A brilliant method for turning content inspiration into uniquely yours using ethical prompting techniques Custom Instructions & Memories: How to set up ChatGPT to remember what matters about your business while forgetting the irrelevant details The women who thrive with AI aren't the ones using it like everyone else - they're the ones who understand that personalization is the foundation of effective AI. When you combine strategic customization with GPT-5's new capabilities, you're not just using AI; you're creating a business partner that thinks and strategizes like you. Ready to stop using ChatGPT generically and start making it work strategically for your business? Erika's Brand to Bot Blueprint helps you create a fully customized AI system that knows your voice, audience, and business inside and out. Connect with Erika and join the AI Queens Society! Erika’s Creative Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MileEndDigital.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Erika’s Ai Empire: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://aiqueens.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Ai Queens Society: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AiQueensSociety.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mileenddigital⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@aiqueenssociety⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ejejstanley⁠⁠⁠⁠
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    27 mins
  • 23: ChatGPT is Lying to You: What Taylor Swift's Grammy "Win" Taught Me About AI Hallucinations

    23: ChatGPT is Lying to You: What Taylor Swift's Grammy "Win" Taught Me About AI Hallucinations
    Aug 7 2025
    What happens when AI confidently tells you something that sounds completely plausible, but is totally wrong? Erika's husband discovered this the hard way when ChatGPT served up false facts about Taylor Swift's Grammy wins with complete authority. This 'fight with the robots' quickly became a perfect example of AI hallucinations in action. Here's the bigger picture: If AI can lie this convincingly about something as verifiable as Grammy winners, what else is it getting wrong in your business? When you're using these tools to research your industry, draft client proposals, or create content, those same confident-sounding fabrications could be undermining your professional credibility. The difference is, your competitors probably don't know how to spot the lies—but you're about to. Key Points: What AI hallucinations are: When AI generates outputs that sound plausible but are factually wrong, made up, or completely irrelevant Why they happen: LLMs learn patterns, not facts. They don't have built-in truth detectors and are designed to sound confident even when wrong Real-world consequences: From lawyers citing fake cases to professors wrongly failing students, hallucinations are causing serious problems Math and counting issues: AI is terrible at basic calculations and word counts because it processes tokens, not individual numbers or letters Verification strategies: Use Perplexity for sourced research, enable web search in ChatGPT/Claude, and try self-contained tools like Notebook LM The Bottom Line: Your expertise, real-world experience, and common sense are what make you irreplaceable in an AI-powered world. You don't have to avoid AI. You just need to know how to use it strategically while keeping your critical thinking skills sharp. Ready to learn how to use AI as your strategic partner instead of blindly trusting its outputs? Check out the Brand to Bot Blueprint, where we start with crystal clear brand strategy before building any AI systems. Connect with Erika and join the AI Queens Society! Erika’s Creative Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MileEndDigital.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Erika’s Ai Empire: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://aiqueens.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Ai Queens Society: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AiQueensSociety.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mileenddigital⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@aiqueenssociety⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ejejstanley⁠⁠⁠⁠
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    21 mins
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