I Stopped Letting AI Write For Me. Then I Wrote My Mother's Eulogy.

Doing this changed how I'll use Claude for the rest of my life.

I’ve been using AI for a few years now, like most of you.

When ChatGPT first came out, I did what everyone did. I asked it to write my captions and emails and blog posts. I was amazed at how fast it was and how much it amplified my message. I told myself I was leveraging it. Through step-by-step tutorials, I showed my clients to do the same.

Then somewhere around the end of last year, I started noticing that everything I produced was starting to sound the same as everything everyone else was producing. I started seeing my own words mirrored back to me online from other creators and I started to see the patterns.

No amount of finessing, pounding on my keyboard, or admonishing ChatGPT would change it. Trust me, I tried. It was infuriating. I spent HOURS telling AI to do better and all I got was generic sounding freaking fluff!

In March, I stopped letting AI write for me.

I’d always had a policy that if clients hired me to write for them, you’d be hiring my human brain and that I only used AI for research but I’d slipped for my own business. I gave away my power and I realized that I’d been relying on it too much.

I didn’t stop using it. I kept trying to make it work and I became increasingly disillusioned with it.

I talked to my clients about it. We were all noticing the same thing: it kept giving us back a flattened version of ourselves, made to sound like everyone else because we’re all using the same shortcut! I didn’t have the answer yet but I knew I needed to figure it out.

That was where I stood for two months until my Mom’s celebration of life was coming up and I had to write her eulogy. I had to stand up in front of the people who loved her and say something true. I sat looking at an empty Google Doc for weeks unable to find the door in.

Then, I had an idea. I opened Claude.

I’m not going to walk you through what happened over the next couple of hours. What I will tell you is that *I* wrote the eulogy that day. Every single word of it was mine and I couldn’t have written it without Claude.

The way I’d been teaching people to use AI was the way I’d been using it myself. I had it backwards.

I was asking it to do the part that only we can do and skipping the part it’s actually built for.

Everything I’ve produced since then has come from this new way of working. None of what you’ve read from me has written by AI and ALL of it was helped into existence by Claude.

There’s a huge difference here and it was the missing piece I never knew I needed!

I’m teaching a free workshop on Thursday, May 28, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET. A recording will be available for 48 hours after the workshop.

I’m not going to teach you how to make Claude write 365 days of content in one prompt. If that’s what you’re looking for, I’m not your girl, anymore.

I’m going to teach you how to set Claude up properly, which most women coming over from ChatGPT have never done.

We’ll cover Projects, what to put in them, how to write your instructions, and how to stop wasting your usage limits pasting the same context into every chat.

Then I’m going to show you the shift I made. The one that unlocked everything since.

If you’ve been using ChatGPT for a couple of years and the outputs have been getting worse, this is for you. If you’ve moved over to Claude and you’re using it the same way you used ChatGPT, this is for you. If you’re still on ChatGPT and you can’t bring yourself to leave, this is for you.

You can get ALL the details here and get registered: