One of my favorite things about AI though is it’s allowing us to cut through the noise of the internet. So right now, I want you to imagine like five years ago if you wanted to know something about parenting or what food you should feed your dog or skincare stuff or how to help a kid who’s struggling with dyslexia you would go to Google and you would type in your question which might have been a well formed question and it might not have been.

And then Google would give you a bunch of websites and you’d start clicking through them. And you know we have to kind of navigate our way through popups and ads and lots of words and sometimes only a little bit of information because then they wanted you to buy the thing to give you more information.

And then you’re looking at maybe 20 different websites and it feels like it’s conflicting and you know everyone’s trying to sell you something. And some of them seem like they’re from doctors or institutions and you’re trying to educate yourself about something and then make a decision.

Okay I think AI has just cut through so much of that noise. So now at the most basic level if you haven’t used ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini you haven’t gone and used one of these I’ll call them like third party AI systems and I will address those in a second If you go to Google now and you type in your question and instead of hitting enter like you used to do you hit AI mode.

Google’s AI mode is using Gemini by the way. That is Google’s brand name for AI and it will answer your question and cut through the noise. And that is probably my favorite thing is I can go there and ask questions about what is true and what is not true and for the type of things that I’m asking for I think I’m getting a pretty clear and good answer.

I think I’m getting better information and being able to make a better decision than I was Googling things and reading websites and trying to make up my mind about that. And if you haven’t done this please go do it because I think there’s so much fear around AI that I’ve actually met a lot of moms who haven’t had this experience even one time to find out what is being said.

So I want you to just pick a problem in your life like a kid thing or a health thing and go to Google type in your question and click AI mode. And I want you to start by asking like a really generic question too. Like okay I’m trying to help my seven-year-old who might have dyslexia How would I know? To me that’s a pretty generic question. Okay. Then you’re gonna see the answers I want you just to experience the answers and then read it.

And then just like you would be reading a website ask yourself. Do I like this answer? Does it feel true? and if you’re not sure you can also ask the AI What would be a counterargument for this and who would be making that counterargument. Are there schools of thought here? Are there multiple ways to approach this? Please give me both.

Recently in our community we had a call around intimacy your intimate life and we do that probably once a quarter. And it’s so great because all these women come and there’s an anonymous QA box so they ask questions. And now of course I’m coaching on the mindset of how we think about our intimate lives our bodies, our relationships with our husbands and our intimate lives.

But of course people end up asking practical questions too. And so I said on one on this call recently go put it into AI. I wouldn’t do that on a Google search. I have used all of them. I’ve used Grok and ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude. Claude has really pulled forward right now as the frontrunner for business and so that is probably the one I use the most.

But it’s mostly because my team uses it and so it’s just the one that I have. I think Gemini and ChatGPT are probably fine. I really enjoyed using Grok I forget like. And here’s the thing all these companies are trying to compete with each other and so one will pull forward for a little bit and it’ll be better than the others. And then it’ll and then a different one will pull forward.

So I’ve had times where I was using each one of those exclusively like this is my favorite one and it’s changed. So now I just know it doesn’t matter. Pick one, try a couple. They’re all mostly the same. They have slightly different flavors but it’s gonna change. So I can’t even say in three months or six months what you should be using.

But I can say right now I’ve used all of them but right now I’m mostly using Claude. Although I do still use Google’s Gemini for if I wanna search recent things because Claude’s learning I believe stops at April or June of 2025 it’s base programming It can go to the internet but that’s very slow.

So if you wanted to research something like marketing trends or things that are working on Instagram for your business for 2026 I go to Google I say What are the Instagram trends for 2026 It spits it out Then I copy that and I put it into Claude and I say. Okay, now can you help me execute on this plan.

But there are a lot of things like how children learn developmental milestones, how a woman’s body becomes aroused and how she can figure that out in her marriage. Like there are a lot of those things that are I don’t wanna say timeless but you know it doesn’t matter. Like probably not a lot has happened in the last 12 months to change the answers for those things.

So of course we don’t talk about our intimate lives with our friends right. You can’t go to your friend and be like Oh my gosh how do you arouse your body Or What hurts you? Or What feels good to you? What are you thinking about? Like these are questions that uh probably really just aren’t appropriate for us to be talking about. But you can use AI and ask those questions and then just delete your thread. That’s it.

You can go in there and ask questions about how your body works and what you think and how a woman’s brain is. Like they know how women become aroused and you can ask very specific questions about what you’re dealing with and then go Is this normal and it will say you know in the distribution of people like 25 are like this and something.

You know I know that 25% of women are the high desire partners in marriages and then 75% are men. But I like that you can ask these questions and you can delete them. So now here’s some of you are gonna be like. Wait but if you ask questions about intimacy it’s going to recommend things that go against our faith.

Absolutely it is if you don’t tell it that you’re Catholic. So if when I’ve asked questions about my body I ask it my question and I go. And just so you know I’m a super uber conservative Catholic so please don’t recommend anything that goes against any teaching in the catechism. That’s it I still get amazing answers. But it doesn’t tell me to like watch inappropriate movies on the TV with my husband. Like it would never say that.

And if you forgot and it spit that out and said, Oh you guys should watch you know certain movies together to get in the mood you are a human with your own mind and you get to go, Oh that’s not appropriate I’m not gonna do that Or maybe you don’t know and then you could go and ask.

I’m using this because I feel like it was such an emotional example or it feels the most dangerous maybe but I just want you to go try it. Most of them have some sort of free level a and then most of them have some sort of 25 level.

I think it’s totally worth 25 a month. Like even if I didn’t have my business I think it would be totally worth 25 a month. One of the best things that I did with it was I went. Tell me about skincare. I said I’m 41 and everyone and their mom’s trying to sell me antiaging creams all of a sudden thank you internet.

And I just genuinely don’t know what’s worth it. And so I said I care a little. I’m not gonna spend hundreds of dollars on like schmancy creams that don’t do anything. And it spit out for me four things and it was like. Put this on in the morning.

And it said Cetaphil cream was fine. That blew my mind. I totally thought because that was like one of the cheapest ones that would have a lot of chemicals in it I said. Please give me ones that aren’t super chemically Cetaphil cream was fine. And then Blue Lizard I’ll put it in the show notes I think Blue Lizard sunscreen and then something else at night.

And they were all pretty inexpensive. And I really pressed it I was like really. And it was like Yeah actually a lot of things that are more expensive don’t really matter. It did list a couple treatments that it said were pretty good for your skin that were like 800 and it was clear about that. It was like. Actually these are proven to work but one was 800 one was 1500 And I was like Well I don’t know that I’m in that tax bracket and that I will be doing that.

But the other ones were pretty easy and I feel so great now with these four things that feel really easy and I bought them on Amazon. And it was just it just cuts through the noise for what we have research on.

So now when I see an ad for something and it and the ads are so sensational right I mean the ads just really pull you in. I don’t know if you guys have seen that ad for saffron for ADHD. Like they are pushing saffron for ADHD for moms and their kids so hard right now.

But I immediately just went to AI and went, hey, is that a real thing? And it was like no not really. I saw another ad that was saying. You don’t need eight hours of continuous sleep and in fact for most of history humans didn’t sleep like that which I thought was so interesting.

So I clicked on it and it had all these slides of information. So I just took the text of the first slide, I put it into AI and I said Hey, this is going around the internet because I’m sure it was posted in other places. Pull the text from the rest of the slide and then tell me if it’s true or not.

And it went line by line with the claims of this ad and said what was true or what was not and it was like it’s totally not true the ultimate thesis of it was that you could sleep for a few hours and then be up for a few hours and do that all throughout the day and you didn’t need continuous sleep. And it was saying that idea of continuous sleep was created by Beautyrest the mattress company and that we’ve all just been living like that forever.

And I kind of like those things by the way I mean I totally feel like that’s what happened with eggs right. They paid a company to say that eggs were really bad for you in the 70s maybe and they were like It’s gonna create cholesterol problems and they were actively trying to sell society cereal and oatmeal.

They wanted them to eat cereal and oatmeal for breakfast. They didn’t want them to eat eggs. They made this big push and they paid for the studies that said that eggs were bad. This is known. Okay.

So when I saw the beauty rest thing I was like Oh maybe this is like that too. But it wasn’t. And I feel so much better as a consumer now by being able to go and ask a place that isn’t trying to sell me anything.

Now, long term, I think that’s gonna get polluted too. Yeah probably. Right. Like probably eventually you will be able to pay so that when people ask questions in AI that there’s some sort of preference for how they feed you the information and that you appear higher up in the search I have no doubt that that will happen. Nothing exists without advertisement.

But for this slice of time at least I will say I feel like I have such a better handle on what things actually work or move the needle in a lot of areas of my life and I’ve been able to do what I would call clean research on them and I wasn’t able to do that before.

Now, I’ve challenged it on a lot of things too. So if something feels kinda hinky to me I’ll go well who would argue against this and what would they say. And I’m just really comfortable exploring information like that and you didn’t get to do that with websites before. Right. So when focus on the family who’s very prolife right. That’s a Christian company Focus on the Family, they still promote birth control. Right.

Even though it’s known that the birth control pills allow you to get pregnant and then it you just kind of have like a mini abortion from those pregnancy pills. How would you have known that You wouldn’t have gotten to know that You couldn’t have a discourse with Focus on the Family to go. Well what do you guys think about this and where did you get that information from.

So this to me is the best thing that’s come out of AI and it has really helped me research things for my kids. I don’t know if I’ve shared yet that it taught me how to make my own dressings. I’ve been making my own salad dressings and I was just so honest with that I was like. Listen I am a onestep girl okay I’m like put all this stuff in one thing and mix it with a fork.

If it’s beyond that I’m not gonna do it. Okay. There’s no emulsification blender thing happening with me okay I’m not gonna you know put these ingredients together and mix them and let them set and then do another thing. Like I am a throw everything in one vessel and mix it kind of girl okay.

And so it was like. Okay here’s how you do it. And I now make my own Caesar salad dressing. It’s amazing. I love the way it tastes. I can pronounce everything that goes into it and it’s normal people stuff. The only thing that’s slightly perhaps abnormal is that you have to either put anchovy paste or fish sauce in it.

But because we’ve made some Asian dishes, I have fish sauce. I mean I use it slowly for sure but I make my own dressing and I really love it. And we’ve done that with several things now where we’ll find a recipe and we’ll say. Okay but how recreate this recipe for me but with half the sugar.

And so that’s how my family’s been using it, oh we got this puppy and I had it outline a plan for me for every week cause I knew I mean I’m a trainer but I don’t really remember all of the things about puppies and like what’s different at eight weeks and 10 weeks and 12 weeks, right. So I had it spit out for me what’s biologically happening with the puppy at each of these weeks and where we should put our focus. That was amazing.

I’ve had it look at all of our money which is so funny cause I think in the very beginning I went I mean don’t give it like your bank account information. And I didn’t give it my bank login but I for sure uploaded all of my transactions for 2025 and went what are we spending money on? Are we duplicating anything? Do you have any recommendations? If you were a financial advisor what would you say? It was amazing how much information it gave me. It was so great.

And that information, while some amount of our questions might be training the models, they’re not saving the amount of money that Sterling Jaquith spends at Costco in their system somewhere. They’re not doing that And by the way even if they were I’d be like. Cool I do go to Costco and we buy a lot of cheese for our kids Like I’m fine with them knowing that.

Okay is there anything else that I use it for personally I’m really just imagining I didn’t have a business what would I use it for personally. I don’t use it to pray. You know I feel like it’s not a religious thing. It’s a database. You know you wouldn’t go to the library. You would go to the library and say, please pull me a book on prayers.

So you could go to AI and you could say, please pull me novenas from other people’s websites. And now they have links by under everything so you could go to that website and confirm like, okay this is where that novena came from. She could research it that way.

But even though it sounds like a person like it’s talking to you like a person I wouldn’t say something like. Please pray with me. Please pray for me. Please write me a prayer. I would never have it write prayers. That should be done by somebody with a soul in communion with the Holy Spirit.

But I would ask it to pull a prayer right. Like you could say. Please pull me all nine days of the surrender novena. That’s known. And again, you could reference that if you wanted to because it would show you where it was pulling it from.

My girls, they’re always writing books I don’t even know. They just tell me about these books that they write. I think they just live somewhere in some notebook, but I do allow them for some amount and period of time to go and visualize their characters.

So they’ll use Midjourney and like say. Okay this is the main character. She has brown hair. She looks like this. She’s wearing this. She’s doing this. And they like to spit that out. I’ve been okay with that. They don’t do it a ton actually. Like they’ll do it for a little bit and feel excited about it and then they leave it alone. It hasn’t felt obsessive or dangerous and I can look at what they’re doing.

Now, I mean they could. I don’t know how dangerous Midjourney is. They really limit things. So I think even if you wanted it to give you a picture of a woman in like a skimpy bikini I don’t even think it does that. Like it has some pretty strict guidelines for what it will spit out in terms of basically just not wanting it to be inappropriate immodest kooky pictures things like that.

They could probably see some images that were disturbing but they just don’t. They’re not browsing anything. They’re just making their cute little underwater mermaid pictures or whatever and they’re cute and I’m okay with that right now.

Okay. Personally that’s what I use it for. My husband and I could tell researches hunting things or products. Like if he’s buying something for the family he does research there and he’s really liked He’s been like, Oh I found this thing and this thing.

And I feel like as he’s talking to me about those purchases I’m often hearing him say, Oh an AI recommended this and it was really great. So he’s finding better things than he was able to find by just googling you know what’s the best paddleboard if you have six kids.

You know we live by a lake and so we spend all this time on the water and so things like you know, is it easy to throw in the car? How many kids can you actually fit on it? Do you have to blow it up every time? Like those kind of things questions that you would ask.

Okay so let’s click over to business. So I’m gonna tell you how I use it for my business both in case you have a business and you want to know tips and tricks about that but then also so you guys have some transparency about how Catholic Mom Calm is using AI in the business so you feel comfortable about that.

I think last year we tried seeing if it could make a couple facebook ad images for us and we just really didn’t like them. We really didn’t like them. They just looked weird, you know. So I think in general I’m not uh morally against the idea about it but I just don’t like the way that they look.

And listen, the biggest bottleneck in our business is design. I have two designers who work for me. They’re both extremely talented and they are always the bottleneck of the business. I have more ideas than I can create and get to you because I have a limited number of time from my designers.

So if AI could help me like do more design stuff that would be great but it really just doesn’t. So and a good example is Kylie hand sketches our characters for the Calm Catholic Kids story. So when you see cute little Dominic the Dragon she sketched that with her very own hand She made that.

And so I uploaded her picture of Dominic the Dragon to Claude Design and I said. Okay, I made a second Dominic story. And I just wanted to see if I could do it. So I said, Okay, here’s Dominic the dragon. Can you make a new sketch of him in the exact same style but with him holding a cracker because of his brother. Something about a broken cracker.

It was so bad you guys. It was like first of all he was discombobulated, disembowel. I don’t know. Like his body was not connected. There was just like an arm floating over here and a random cracker. It was so far from being okay. And so we were just not going to do that. I mean Kylie’s gonna continue handsketching the characters and so we will release them when you know she’s able to handsketch the characters. That’s where we’re at right now.

So I’m not against using it but right now for me it just feels so far from the bar of where I want it to be that we’re not using it and I wanna be really clear about that. So I’m not morally against using it to make graphics but I just feel like it’s so far from making usable graphics that is the primary reason we’re not doing it.

Now, I feel very strongly that it should not be making religious graphics. Okay, like it should not be I think it should not be making icons anything like that. Right. Like religious art is a spiritual process. Like you want someone who has a soul and is communing with the Holy Spirit to make religious art.

Do I feel like that about it creating a picture of a rosary? I don’t know. I’m just asking myself that right now, so you can listen to me think about it I don’t know. I just I feel like I’ve seen these AI Marys and Jesuses and I don’t like them. It feels disturbing to me. But if you showed me a picture of a rosary and said AI made that, I don’t know something about that like is so known.

And maybe it’s because it’s not even a closeup of the metal right. The metal on a rosary that’s made with a religious icon on it that I think should be made by a person. And I’m saying this because I know that we make images for our business where we take like a woman and she’s sitting down with some coffee and then we go find like a clip art image of a rosary and we put it into the scene.

And it is a real photograph of a rosary and then we put it in the scene. So I’m trying to decide if AI did that would it bother me. I don’t know I’d have to see it. So Kylie and Juliana shout out to you two. You guys are amazing. They make our graphics and our ads.

Now, recently I made that website page about the France pilgrimage all by myself with Claude Design. So you know my designers were busy doing Catholic Mom Calm things. To me this pilgrimage is kind of a side project. I didn’t wanna slow down the team with it and I thought. Okay. I wanna see what it can do.

So I went to Claude Design and said Hey, I wanna build a website. Here are the words. Here’s what’s going on. Make me a website It was pretty bad when it spit it out and it was really interesting I just. After it spit it out. I said. That website’s pretty bad. Can you go research what websites should look like in 2026 and redo it?

And then I just waited cause it takes a while for it to build out a whole website and then I really liked what it spit out. It was okay. I mean again if my designers did it it would be gorgeous but it was okay. And if you wanna go look at that catholicmomcalm/france, you can see what that website looks like I built that using Claude Design It did not touch my team.

But I don’t think that I would do that for Catholic Mom Calm stuff like our programs. I guess I just love our designers so much and what they spit out. Kylie is designing our app and when you see it I hope it feels that way. It’s really fun and fresh and I really like these sketch icons she’s made. She’s making it.

And I’ll share the image when it comes out of the beautiful piece of art that she’s using as an inspiration. She picked like a Renaissance piece of art that she loved and has used that as the inspiration for what she’s doing and that is what’s cool about real artists right. They use things around them to be inspired and then they’re moved by the Holy Spirit to make art.

So I guess I will tell you if all of a sudden we start using AI for our graphics. But right now we’re just not because they’re bad. Okay, so for the kids’ stories , I use AI to do the research. So I think of a problem and I either ask my team or you guys email me. I love that’s happening now that people are having challenges with their kids and then they’re emailing me and saying. Can you please make a story about this?

So I just had somebody email me the other day about transitions from like playtime to lunchtime, or it’s lunchtime and then nap time. So just kind of normal transitions where we have to stop doing one thing and we have to do another thing and I thought, Oh that’s amazing.

So what I’ll do is I’ll go to AI and I’ll say, Okay pull from you know Dr Becky and, oh my gosh I’m blanking on his name The Ray Guarendi, Bob Schuchts. So I list some Catholic psychologists, and then some not Catholic psychologists. And I say, okay what do we know around how we can help kids transition the skill of transitioning well.

And then it’ll spit out the research and it’ll spit out a bunch of secular phrases and I love that I mean I think good parenting comes down to just like some really great phrases that we practice and say over and over again.

And so I use AI for that and then now I have this body of work that I’ve cataloged in a spreadsheet and I’ll ask AI to go reference that. And I’ll say, okay I want a different setting. What are some possible settings that we could have? Sometimes I know and sometimes I’m asking it.

So I’m trying to think about Tina the Tiger. We just did one with Tina the Tiger. And she, I wanted one where a character was making an assumption about a friend and her feelings were really hurt but it wasn’t true.

I can’t remember. I know Tina the Tiger is in it. I can’t remember if Tina the Tiger is the one with the headphones on or if she’s approaching her friend and her friend has the headphones on. But she’s talking to her friend and her friend doesn’t respond to her and her feelings are hurt. She thinks her friend doesn’t wanna play with her and then it turns out her friend had headphones on and didn’t even hear her at all.

So I love that concept. I had that whole concept laid out but then I think I didn’t know where the setting should be. And so, I said so I’ll go to AI and go like where could this happen? And I think we ended up putting them in the grass. It was like tigers are in the grass and maybe she’s in the grass so that the friend sees that. Tina’s there but doesn’t see the headphones so it kinda tracks with the story.

So you can see there’s a little bit of like, kinda back and forward here, but I wouldn’t say that I wrote it right. I didn’t say, make me a story right. It’s helping me with some details and then I always bring in the Catholic stuff. I always create the Catholic phrase and then I pull in a saint and I might do some research about that saint too.

I might say. Okay, tell me about this saint a little bit more. Cause like I we listen to so many saint stories that I smoosh them together sometimes especially the more obscure ones where I’m like Ooh there was this saint and they did this and I wanna talk about that saint. Who was it? And I usually just say. Go pull it from the Saints podcast cause I know that that’s the one that I was listening to.

So recently, in a Facebook group I saw somebody say, we need to create some sort of emblem that said that this was 100 created by a human. And I replied and said While I do think that there should be transparency about AI. I think it’s going to be very rare that things were not used did not use AI at all, especially because it’s going to start being embedded in so many things.

Right. So it’s kind of like when I wrote a book five years ago and I used Grammarly, well I think today Grammarly is probably souped up by AI and you could make a case that if you use Grammarly it’s using some sort of AI.

Now, I do think about art you could say. This painting was done completely by an artist and that could have a seal on it or. This music was created completely by a person. I feel like we care a little bit more about the music and the art.

And that’s the other thing with the kids with the kids stories. We are buying licensing from real artists. So I find somebody’s piano music that I really like. We pay for it and then we are allowed to use it behind our stories.

And then like I said Kylie is doing the art for our characters and then she also makes all of our websites except for the one page to France. And you can see the difference right. You can go to Calm Catholic Kids and see oh my gosh Kylie is so talented. That website is so cute, the colors, everything. It’s adorable. And then you can go to the France one and be like that one’s just okay I get it. I get that was not made by a person.

So I think it’s gonna be difficult especially for business owners to be able to use some sort of This was made completely by a person especially if like for me, I’m just using it in the research process.

And how is it different? I’m genuinely volleying this question to everybody. How is it different to research something on AI versus researching something on Google? Because we didn’t used to ask people that we didn’t used to say, did you Google things to put this together.

Now, I definitely think that people are gonna plagiarize other people’s work. I definitely think that the artists are getting gypped in a lot of ways because the internet is able to the AI is able to crawl the internet’s art and then recreate it without that person.

But again I still just wanna sit here and say in my opinion it is not good enough for business yet. I just don’t think I mean we’re just gonna keep having our designer design everything. So how else do we use it in our business? Oh and then we used it to code the app. That was the other thing I was thinking about particularly the Calm Catholic Kids app .There’s no AI in it.

Okay. So your kids will not be exposed to AI in any way. And it is out now by the way. You can go to the Apple Store and you can download the Calm Catholic Kids app and if you do it in the summer of 2026, you will get Summer of Kindness for free. It’ll already be in there, the eight stories and the bedtime story and then you can buy our other four collections. Don’t buy them through the app.

Legally we have to put it in the app so you can do an in app purchase, but Apple charges 30%. So don’t do that. Go to our website, Calm Catholic Kids, and then you can buy the collections and then they’ll just automatically show up in the app.

So you can go get that now. But that was coded with AI. My husband, who’s not really a coder, he knew a little bit so I don’t know that a person really off the street could do it. Maybe they could, I don’t know. But he knew enough that he was able to use Claude Code to say I wanna build an app. Here’s what we’re doing, and to go back and forth with it for I mean I think it took him about three months to make it for us.

So it’s intense and it’s pretty involved, but AI was the one that’s spitting out the code that’s making the app. The stories on it were made by me. It’s my voice and it’s Kylie’s art. And it’s amazing. I’ve been calling it the most boring app ever because I wanted an app that your kids don’t look at.

So it’s kind of like an app for those of you that don’t want your kids to have screen time cause there’s nothing on it. All they can do is pick the stories. And my husband was like I could put these cool games on it and do all these things.

And I said, no, I want it to be the most boring app of all time. And they’re locked in it so you can hand them your phone and all they can do is listen to the stories, which I think is amazing. I’ve been thinking about featuring other Catholic MP3s there, I’m tucking that into my mind for the future.

So is that it really, I mean we transcribe our team meetings. And AI says, okay here’s what was talked about and here are the jobs. I use it to brainstorm email sequences. So when you’re in business and you launch something you write a series of emails to try to sell. The thing that you’re trying to sell.

And so I’ll describe it to AI and say, Here’s what I wanna do. Can you give me an arc like a story arc for these emails? And then it’ll say It’ll make a recommendation like. Okay, email one should be about the mission Email two should be about the features. Email three should be testimonials right. Something like that I’m still writing them though I don’t like the way it writes.

And I actually just think that one of my special gifts is being kinda sassy, I like the way that I write. It’s very specific. I really like ellipses, I really like using bold fonts. Like it just doesn’t sound like me so I’m still writing my emails. And you can tell you guys, cause you read them and you’re like. Yeah, that really happened to her and she wrote an email about that.

But I don’t mind using it to help me kind of think through what I wanna say or make sure that I’ve addressed all the things that I could about something. And then we run our business financials through it too. Like tell us you know about profitability, tell us about our members how long are they staying, how many people who buy collection one are then also buying collection two some of those things We’ll just give it the math. And then it’ll spit out math things.

I am starting a two-and-a-half day hybrid school at my parish this fall You can go read about it at xaviercoop.com. So it looks like Xavier Coop COOP.com. And it’s pretty cool, and I’m gonna start fundraising for that soon. And so I’ll probably use AI to research like what fundraisers actually make money. You know I don’t wanna sell cookies if they don’t really make money. Maybe cookies make a lot of money.

But I wanna raise $50, 000 for the school. I don’t want to have a bunch of bake sales if that’s not an effective way to raise money. But I don’t know the answer, so I’m probably gonna go to AI to figure that out.

Okay, so first of all, maybe last of all, since we’re ending this. It’s okay if you disagree with me. This is just my opinion. Also, I’m willing to change my mind. I’m willing two years from now to go, we let that toothpaste out of the bottle, and it is not good. And I’m not using AI. I’m not letting my kids use AI right. Like I could totally change my mind about that and I’m open to that I’m open to being wrong.

It’s changing so quickly. But I also wanna keep talking to you guys about how we use it, how I use it and I really just want you to try it before having very strong opinions about it because I think there’s kind of some myth ideas about it, that people are perpetuating without having even asked it one question.

Now, I think we’re all old enough to not have relationships with this. Don’t use one of the chatbots and have it become your best friend. Don’t do that. Although I did. I did upload. So I’m a life coach school coach and you can download a transcript of all of the classes, so I downloaded a transcript of all of the classes that I took to get certified as a coach and I put it in there.

And I will ask it coachy questions. It’s okay. It’s not even great though because it’s not a person. But mostly I’ll just say something like, Okay this is what I’m dealing with. Give me some questions based on the teaching about the model or the manual.

And I think it does a good job of giving you questions. It doesn’t really do a good job of necessarily coaching you through it, because it can’t hear or understand your voice or your feelings or nuanced situations.

But I do think it is good for calming down. Typing out what you feel about something the process of typing will help you calm down. It’s the same thing as if you were writing too. If you’re just sitting around ruminating in your brain you can stay in a pretty high level stress state.

But typing something out and having to think through it enough to put words on paper or on a computer will start to bring your body out of a stress state. So I think there’s value in that even if it never replied.

Okay. Those are my today thoughts about AI .You’re welcome to email me. We’re all navigating this together. My community had a meeting of families where we all talked about our thoughts about AI and what we would or would not be letting our children do and that we would be committed to continuing to talk about it together as a community, especially when it gets to be kind of gnarly,

Like they are gonna want to embed things in people’s bodies, where you can use AI hooked into your brain. And I feel pretty confident I’m never gonna do that. I’m never gonna put it in my body. But even at that meeting someone said, but the slippery slope will be like that your dad needs a pacemaker and now the pacemakers have a little bit of AI technology in them to collect the data and it sounds so much better.

And she was saying that it’ll be like that or at least sneaky probably how it gets in. And I don’t know how we’re gonna navigate that, but I hope we navigate it together in as families as communities and then of course as Catholics. And you can read the letter that Pope Leo put out and I thought it was very ugh what’s the word, not tempered.

I’m struggling to find the word I thought it was very like it wasn’t this is so terrible and it wasn’t. Like this is so great and we should just do it all. It was I thought it was a very honest approach to let’s make sure we’re always human focused. Let’s keep the humans in the human things. But also technology isn’t bad and we can use it in ways that are helpful but let us be careful about it.

Okay. That was a lot but I know you guys have been asking me questions or wondering how I use it and how we use it in our business and I wanted an episode that explained all of that.

All right my friends, I am praying for you. Please pray for me. Thank you so much for listening, and have a blessed day.