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Women Pause Before They Trust - AI Is No Different

Ep. 34

There’s a reason women pause before they trust something new, especially when it enters their homes, their minds, and their families. In this episode, I talk honestly about my own hesitation around AI living in Silicon Valley with a husband in the industry, creating a digital product of my own, and why I think women's caution is wisdom. I go through a bit of history of women always standing at the door of change asking deeper questions than anyone else. Is this safe? Was I considered? What will this add to my life and what might it take away? I unpack why so many women feel intimidated, resistant, or even emotional about AI, why I believe those feelings deserve to be honored, and what surprised me when I finally allowed myself to understand it instead of fear it. This is not an episode telling women to blindly embrace AI. It’s an episode about trust, intuition, protecting what matters, and realizing you are allowed to move at your own pace. And maybe, just maybe, letting something carry a little of the mental load you were never meant to hold alone.


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