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Success, Successful, Heart, Sunset.
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Rise Successful Women.
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Did you know women represent just three of Fortune five
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hundred CEOs and less than fifteen percent of corporate executives
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at top companies worldwide? Have you wondered what the secrets
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are to getting into the top ranks, whether in the
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private or public sector. Do you want to figure out
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how to stop being held back in your career?
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Are pasted over for promotion? Then you're in the right place.
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Hi.
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I'm doctor Mattlanane lewis President and CEO of the Executive
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Women's Success Institute. I have decades of experience in the military,
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the federal government, and corporate America, and my mission is
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to help women succeed and tap into their full potential.
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I want to reach a million plus women around the
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world to become the leaders they are meant to be. So,
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if you want to move into a management or executive
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level position, or maybe you are a female veteran transitioning
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out of the military into business entrepreneurship, and reach out
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to the Executive Women's Success Institute at three zero one
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six nine three three two eight four let us get
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you on the fast track to success.
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Well.
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Hello, and welcome to the Success for Women's Show, where
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you can view us on Talk for TV and listen
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to us.
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On the Women for Women Network.
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I am doctor Madeline Ann Lewis your host, and my
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mission is to help women accelerate the.
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Path to success.
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Well, today's topic is five Star Brand and my guest
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is mister Grant Maga.
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Let me just give you a little bit about Grant.
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Grant Magad is the founder and CEO of five Star BDM,
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a businessusiness development and personal branding firm. His mission is
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to empower entrepreneurs and small to mid sized businesses by
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combining data driven AI strategies with human centered storytelling. Grant
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is recognized by Legacy Magazine as a thought leader and
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super connector for healthcare professionals. He is also the host
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of the Follow the Brand podcast and TV show. In
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January twenty of twenty four, he was named one of
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Thinker Thinkers three sixties Top fifty global thought leaders in
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personal branding. Grant has more than twenty years of business
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development experience, with training in branding strategies to help clients
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build authentic personal brands. I would like to bring on
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the show, mister Grant Magath.
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Hey, how you doing.
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I am doing very well.
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I am excited to have you here just to give
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us some great success nuggets for our business.
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I know that you are doing some.
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Great things with your retreats and different things like that.
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But you know, this AI thing is just all over
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the place, so everybody wants to know about it.
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So we're gonna pick your brains to death before we
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get started. Though.
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I always give the standard bio on my guests and then,
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but I just like to ask them, like, I just
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want you to tell us what you want us to
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know about Grant Magth.
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Number one thing I want you to know about Grant
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mcgad that I just opened up my office in my
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hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, and I've been here, you know, since,
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and it's been wonderful. I've come full circle, you know.
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I graduated high school year in nineteen eighty one. Have
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not been back to live here since nineteen ninety one,
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and it has been at whirlwind trip. I tell everybody
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that it's like living in the past the president in
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the future at the same time, and it's so much
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change has happened, but then not a lot of change,
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so you just kind of lived through a lot of
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the decades that have been happening. And I want to
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return with a lot of the things that I've learned
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because I've spent thirty years in Miami, Florida, and I've
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learned a lot. A lot of those accolades that you
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talk about is things that I accomplished why I was
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in Miami, and I am so happy about those things
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because I'm getting those things out to the audience.
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I'm getting in.
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Getting a lot of the skills that I learned into
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the hands of people that need them.
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And that is why I'm in Omaha right now.
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I'm launching my Omaha AI Business Accelerator for businesses small
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business owners in the Omaha ecosystem and it's really starting
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to take off. I'm very, very proud of that. So
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I want your audience to know that about Grant McGall
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right now.
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Wow, And I tell you it's exciting. I'm excited too.
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Because I saw the video of your of the new
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office space the building.
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I was like, ooh, this is just beautiful. So now
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is that going to be the new headquarters?
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Are you still going to be operating out of Miami
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or how are you going to do that?
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That's a good question.
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And actually, as I operated three geographies in on my Nebraska, Miami, Florida,
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Florida excuse me, and Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. So I
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just came back from Saint Croix. You kind of mentioned
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that in the Islands, I'm not just there for vacation.
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I actually have business down there and we are operating,
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you know, building a business tourism product in the Virgin
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Islands that I'm going to invite all of you down
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to actually do a lot of think takes some master
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classes to bring together small intermate groups of people that
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are subject matter experts, whether.
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It's an AI attendity.
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I We're actually doing a precision medicine clinic in the
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Virgin Islands right now that we're looking to be a
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successful project. So there's a lot we have going on
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in the Virgin Islands. In Miami, we're also doing another
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AI incubator through ICAMBO. That's the International Career in Business Alliance.
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It's a black professional group that's there been working with
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them for a number of different years, and we want
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to upscale a lot of people when it comes to AI.
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I know a lot of people, Hey, you're doing it
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themselves a DIY approach. But then if we can get
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really to you for you to acquire a skill set
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in the area so you are proficient in the workflow
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that you have and building out just not just text
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based answer engines and chatbox, vide creation, audio creation, but
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now and do the world of legitic AI what you
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can begin to automate business processes. At the same time,
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this is a very very delicate time. We need to
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get up on these things. It's just as important as
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learning the Internet, you know, twenty five thirty years ago,
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or Microsoft Office products, things of that age. And you
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have to have these skill sets, know that to compete
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in the world now and into the future.
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So those three geographies is how I operate.
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Wow, that is that is fantastic.
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I can't wait, and I definitely want an invitation to
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come to Saint Croix because it's been a while I've
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been there.
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But it's been a while since I've been to Saint Croix.
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But I did see it. I think I saw a
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picture of you. I don't know on Facebook stuff. Looked
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like you were having a good time. I don't know
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if y'all were fishing on a boat or something like that,
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but you look like y'all were having a good time.
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Yeah, great, great time.
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And my business partner there, his name is Anthony Weeks.
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We have the because SETIKS was the Saint Croix Economic
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Development Initiative in Cariban crimean American single economy, and he's
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got me involved, not just out with the locals are
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bro so the government there, So we spent time with
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the governor, We spent time with Congresswoman Stacey Plasket as well,
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and talking about how we can get more Mainlanders to
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understand the business opportunities that are available in the USVI
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just beyond tourism. So business tourism is a big, big
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thing that's there. And when I talk to my African
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American people, especially you out there in Maryland where you
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were a lot. This is the only place that I
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know of that you can have an African Caribbean American experience.
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Because the USVI is a part of the United States,
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it is a territory of the United States. It has
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the only well, we have one other black governor now
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I think it is in Maryland, but they have a
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black governor there, Governor Brian has been empowered now last
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seven or eight years.
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This will be his last year coming up.
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But there is such a push now we have to
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make sure that we are aware of what's available to us.
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You don't need a passport, is a part of America,
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and that you can have a very successful vacation and
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business opportunity. Saint Croi, it's more of the business product
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we're Saint Thomas was part of the USVI. That's the
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tourism product. So those are two different things that we
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should be aware of.
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Okay, okay, well, let me ask you this, what motivated
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you to shift from traditional business development into AI powered branding.
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Now, that is a great question.
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I've been involved in information technology for thirty plus years.
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I cut my teeth in at and t loosen a
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via some time of go and got into what you
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call digital voice technologies, or it was analog at the time,
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you know, with your big mobile telephone systems and things
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of that nature. And watch it change to a digital
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platform and then to a voiceover IP platform just like
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we're talking on now, which is more of a conference
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bridge video conferencing.
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All this I was working on twenty five thirty years ago.
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It's very expensive to do, it was possible, it's very
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expensive to do, but then over time it's now become mainstream.
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You can do video conference on anything, your phone, your tablet,
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to your desktop. This is the same kind of proliferation
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forward platform change in AI or artificial intelligence. It's a
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platform and because it is a platform, it's something that
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we will be able to utilize and then a lot
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of different what I call modalities of a communication. There
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are two things that in the technology world that become
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advantageous for people in business. Number One, technology have you
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to communicate better. That's number one. Number two is very
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fast and when you can combine speed and the speed
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of communication together, you have a very powerful platform. And
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then now with AI, you're adding intelligence on top of that,
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now you're exponentially changing the platform arena. Not only are
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you communicating at speed, but the platform is what we
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call context aware. It's aware to a certain degree, is
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consimulate human thought and behavior. And because of that, it
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is a game to It becomes absolutely essential for everyone
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to become professional in these tool sets and what this
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artificial intelligence is bringing to the table.
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Wow, you are absolutely right about that. But what about
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for business owners or executives who don't consider themselves tech savvy,
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such as you know, I'm gonna put myself in that category.
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What's the first smart step they you know, that we
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can take or should take to begin integrating AI into
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our brand or business development strategy.
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And I will answer that in a way that you
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probably wouldn't think I would. First of all, you don't
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have to be tech savvy, okay, AI of itself is
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not a platform that you have to understand the technology
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behind it. I mean, it's it's very smart, just like
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you utilize your cell phone. But I'm going to say,
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you probably don't know exactly how it works.
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You know how to use it, but you don't know
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exactly how it works. So you don't have to spend
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a lot of.
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Time knowing exactly how the AI works unless you want to.
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But you do have to know how to utilize it
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for your business.
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You utilize your cell phone for your own particular circumstances,
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and you're probably pretty proficient and get into the different
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applications that are available on it, and you know how
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to download and get the right right applications that you
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need right, And that's just you just from experience in.
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Working with it and understanding it. AI is no different.
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You're going to have to first understand that it's a
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tool set, right, but then you have to apply skill sets.
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And the only way you do that is you've got