171. Journey to Success: John Mendez on AI, Wellness, and Entrepreneurship

In this episode, Colette interviews John Mendez, a dynamic speaker and host of the Walk to Wealth podcast.

John shares his evolution from a regular high school student to a recognized figure in AI and content creation. He discusses his impactful childhood memory and how it influenced his business, Stop and Stare Media.

The conversation delves into John's insights on using AI for business efficiency, his wellness practices, and his mental and physical health routines.

Additionally, John offers practical tips on adopting AI tools like ChatGPT to create content effortlessly.

Listen until the end to hear John sharing his core life philosophies and a unique biblical quote that guides his actions.

01:00 Introduction to John Mendez
03:08 A Childhood Memory That Shaped John
06:18 The Origin of Stop and Stare Media
07:22 Journey into Entrepreneurship
10:33 Wellness and the Five Ingredient Rule
14:26 Intermittent Fasting and Fitness Journey
18:29 The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
19:33 Mental Workouts and Sports
21:30 Finding Comfort in Solitude
24:25 Navigating the World of AI
34:14 Core Life Philosophies

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Transcript

 Colette Brown:Our next guest is a dynamic speaker and host of the globally ranked podcast. Walk to wealth, reaching thousands of listeners across 73 countries with over 130 speaking engagements in 2023. He is known for delivering no fluff, actionable insights on artificial intelligence and content creation through his business.

Colette Brown: Stop and stare media. He has educated over 2200 entrepreneurs and realtors on generating a year's worth of content in just one hour using AI and strategic repurposing. He is a genuinely beautiful soul. [00:01:39] And wants to help others. And it is my great honor to welcome John Mendez. Welcome, John. 

John Mendez: Hi, Colette. Thank you for having me on your show.

I'm glad that we were able to do this. I'm glad that we're able to connect and I'm excited to see where our conversation takes us. As I mentioned before, we started recording or a thing or two about wellness. I know everyone knows me for AI, but I'm pretty multifaceted. So I'm excited to see where this conversation goes.

Colette Brown: Me too. I have questions for you too, but the first one is. take us back to a childhood memory that might've influenced you today. 

John Mendez: I'd say one of the most influential childhood memories that influenced me today was my eighth grade year. Now you're familiar with the story a little bit, cause I told it at the speaker school mastermind we're at, but my eighth grade year, somewhere along that first quarter, I think one of my boys, he had this fresh haircut at the time. I had usually just gotten a buzz cut. Two on the top and one on the side was my haircut. For any of the guys listening, that's what I used to walk into the barbershop and ask for. And one day he's yo bro, you gotta ask for a taper fade. I'm like, what's that? He's this is what I got. And I'm like, okay.

 Couple months passed, I let my hair grow out a little bit. Got my taper fade, right? Night before, I'm looking in the mirror. And, got my, made sure my hair looks good. Went to bed, woke up. With bed head, of course. Refixed my hair, started walking to school. And I had my best outfit on. I remember like it was yesterday.

It has a red Abercrombie collared shirt with my black skinny cargo pants, and then my red Jordans. And I had the fresh taper out walking to school and getting to school. It was raining that morning. So my hair got a little wet. [00:03:18] Now up until this point in time, I didn't know that my hair was curly, right?

Cause I'd always gotten bust cuts and my hair doesn't curl up when it's short. And so I never knew my hair was curly. I looked in a bathroom, my hair is wet. And it's wave slash curls forming. And I'm like, Oh no. What happened? I just picked my hair out. I made sure it was nice and combed out before I got to school.

And now it's messed up. My comb was at home. Couldn't do anything about it. I just remember walking in the homeroom class and it was like, all I hear is okay, and now my little friend started gassing me up that I had me up. And I was like, Today's going to be a good day. So for that point on that entire day, I was like a walking celebrity.

The next day I went back to being normal, John. But for that day alone, I was a walking celebrity. And that's when I started learning about that my hair was like, curls were something important. I started looking into care. It didn't really seriously start, but I started painting the seed. And and that's the first big memory that kind of plays into like my business name, stop and see a media.

I'll talk to a little bit about later, but I was like a seed. 

Colette Brown: I love it. And for those of you that. If you haven't seen a picture of John or not watching this, he's got hair and you just have to look him up, look up John Mendez and you will see this amazing hair and you'll know what he's talking about.

And so it's really fascinating that little things like that in our lives will make us pause and redirect, which I think is a really good note to say that our words are so impactful. We have to be very careful how we use them because just as that inspired you to a new person, like this [00:04:57] new persona, it could also be so destructive to somebody else, when they hear words the wrong way. And so I think that's a double edged sword and for you it's great. And I wanted to run on that just a little bit more because the name of your company is Stop and Stare Media, and there's a story behind that. So why don't you tell us about how that came to be? 

John Mendez: Yeah. To continue on, I wasn't entrepreneurial at all growing up.

I didn't have the lemonades then. I wasn't selling candy in school. So this is 8th grade year when I had gotten that haircut and everyone's Oh my goodness, John, your hair, whatever. Fast forward into high school. And I was still not an entrepreneur. My main thing was play football. I played basketball and my senior year to track, but I was playing sports.

So I didn't really have a time to work. I caddy a little bit. I, was a counselor in training at the local boys and girls club. I was pretty active member in my boys and girls club. They had a bunch of like extracurricular activities. And as a non entrepreneurial at all, wasn't thinking about ways to make money.

It was just sports, video games. And that's pretty much it. I was a regular high school, guy, just like most other high schoolers. And it wasn't until college, I went away to University of Connecticut, which is about two hour drive from where I live now. But it was close enough where I could come back home in case my grandparents needed me.

I love my grandparents. And then it was far away enough where I didn't have anyone hovering over my shoulder. It was like the perfect getaway. And it wasn't until the pandemic, which is my end of freshman year. And then I started getting into entrepreneurship that fall, 2020 semester, I ended up reading rich dad, poor dad, and that kind of sparked my entrepreneurial [00:06:36] journey.

And so that's when the story kind of picks up into what led to where I'm at now. I was reading that book that kind of got my mind thinking, ended up getting licensed as a realtor. About four months in, I was in a bunch of free real estate masterminds. One of the owners of the mastermind was like, Hey, John, do you mind teaching a class on social media?

Because I'm about a third of the age of most realtors. I was like, I'm I never taught a class before, I don't know. And she was like, John, let me know when you want it scheduled. I'm like, okay, I can't fumble this opportunity twice. I can't tell her no twice. So I ended up picking a day. Now this is the second week of February, 2022.

 Taught this social media class. I had like almost 440 agents signed up for it. I had a 205 live on a zoom call. The class was amazing. And I scheduled it. That's that week because the third week of February was the first Keller Williams family reunion, which is a very big KW conferencing host every year.

It's 15, 000 agents from all over the place all come down to one spot. And a lot of the people that were in my class, I was going to see them there. So I ended up going into my hair braided. And that morning, it was a Sunday morning. I knew I had a networking dinner that night. I took my braids out and washed out my hair.

So this is when I still had the super big frill. I got four times more hair than what I do now. And so I had my curly frill out. And I had a shirt that said, stop and stare, just don't touch the hair. Because you don't want people touching 

Colette Brown: your hair. 

John Mendez: I genuinely hate it. It's probably my biggest, the quickest way to make you dislike you as a person is to touch my hair. I despise people touching my hair. Especially people that I don't know. But yeah, that, that day, [00:08:15] just like again, in eighth grade year, when I first got that haircut, it was like deja vu almost, right? I was literally a walking celebrity. I had people stopping me that I've never seen, never met before, didn't even know at all.

Just to take photos cause they liked my shirt. And so that entire day I was getting stopped by people who were on the class started seeing, seeing me and recognize me. And so it was a great day. And that kind of tagged the catchphrase, stop and stare, don't touch the hair. Long story short, I pivoted from real estate into social media and my first business like entrepreneur endeavor was I was going to create a social media agency.

I was teaching these classes for free. Hundreds of people are registering and signing up for it. And I was like, all right let me just start charging to manage people's social media and do that. And after my first client, I realized I hated it. But when I was thinking of a name Mendez Media was taken.

And so I'm just like, all right what else can I do? And hence the name stop and stare media. Cause anyone who knows me from back then knows it's from stop and stare. Just don't touch the hair. Anyone moving forward is like a marketing pun as well. Cause when you create content, you need people to stop the scroll and stare at your videos.

So the average reviewer retention can increase. Increase your likelihood to get to more people. So that's how the name Stop a Stare Media came about. 

Colette Brown: I love that. I love it. And you let's talk a little bit about. I guess wellness and what that means to you. And one of the things that you told me, because you've had my granola and you said, one of the first things I do is I flip over the package and I look, and if there's more than five ingredients that I can't pronounce, I put it down.

And that goes. Okay. throughout everything in your life from hair [00:09:54] care products to lotions. So tell us more about that. 

John Mendez: Yeah. I forget when I found that really, I thought it was a five finger rule and I really started paying attention to ingredients in general. I started off with hair care, of course.

So my sophomore year of high school I had my freshman year had a big Afro, right? And I cut it and I had waves. And so for anyone who doesn't know what waves are, it's pretty much just curls brushed down like flat. It gives the effect that you have little waves going through your hair. And around that time, I was like, all right, I need to start learning how to do this.

I need to start, I want my waves to look nice. And I started looking into hair care and I started looking into all these different products and all these different brands. And they were like, okay, you got to watch out for silicone, like some silicones and parabens and sulfates and all this extra stuff.

 Forgot who I watched, but one time I ended up figuring out like the five finger rule and. It started off as if you can't pronounce or enunciate or you don't know more than five different ingredients on the list in the back of the, whatever you're buying, don't buy it. Because, at least back in nature Everything that's natural, you can pronounce cocoa butter, right?

Shea butter tea tree oil. All these things, simple. Not phenoxyethanol, ethanol, dimetracone, silicone, thing cone, right? It's super complicated, ten syllable chemicals you're not finding that naturally occurring in most places. And so for me, that's where it started. It just started with hair care and I made sure to look out for silicones, parabens, and sulfates.

That was like the big thing. And then another big thing that I always look out for is fragrance. Now, please fact check me for [00:11:33] anyone that's listening, but I heard somewhere about how fragrance is one of the leading causes for skin irritation and skin like things like that for a Spanish, especially higher in people with melanated skin.

Now I said fact check me, but I seen that somewhere. And so that's another one that I look out for anything with fragrance. I make sure I try to stay away from, especially if it's going on my skin for example, lotion hair care is going directly to my scalp, which is the closest thing to my brain. I made a. A practice of mine to make sure I'm always looking out for something another one to mineral oils. I try to stay away from and then fast forward a bit my senior year. So this is right before prom. My problem was in May, and I think a month before, I don't know how, but I stumbled across intermittent fasting.

And then that's when I started to take care of my nutrition. So I started applying that five finger rule to the foods that I ate and I started to be pretty clean and for the most part, I never really liked drinking soda or juice. Really. I never really. ate candy or snacks like that. So I always ate pretty healthy.

Dominican food isn't the most healthy cause we just smother everything in seasoning. So it's not the most healthy, but outside of Dominican food, I usually don't eat anything that's too bad every now and then, I'll eat some candy and stuff like that, but my goal, my senior year, when I got into intramural fasting was I wanted to get abs for prom. Now it had nothing to do with me going shirtless at prom, but like the way my brain works, I like to attach and goals to certain dates. And so prom was the closest, most important date. So I was like, screw it. I'm going to get [00:13:12] abs before prom. That's the goal. And so that's when I got into intermittent fasting and then started taking like my nutrition a lot more serious.

But I said, it started with the haircare and then later on, it went into like nutrition and what I eat and then into everything else in my life. 

Colette Brown: Yeah. Okay. So tell me what is your intermittent fasting look like? Are you doing 12 off, 18 off? What's your eating window? 

John Mendez: Yeah I actually don't do intermittent fasting anymore.

Reason being. 

Colette Brown: Oh, okay. 

John Mendez: So I did it that 30 days leading up to prom. Got abs. I was probably like super lean. I was probably like 155. But when I graduated and then I was doing a 16 eight and so I had it timed out perfectly. So I would fast in the morning and then at school, usually in the afternoon, right after school ended around two at the lunch room, they had a usually snack.

So usually have an orange and a peanut butter and jelly. So I'd grab an orange, eat that, break my fast around two and then work out, eat my peanut butter and jelly around like three 30, four o'clock. Okay. Usually like around six, I would or five eat and then end the night with a protein shake and pretty much rinse, wash, repeat.

Every day it was pretty much the same thing over and over again. I'm someone that's very simple. I don't really need variety. If my grandma made me rice, beans, and chickens every day for the rest of my life, like I would be the happiest man on the planet. So that kind of plays into my favor a little bit.

I know people, some people hate the routine. And after a while, they don't want to eat the same thing over, but for me, rice, beans, chicken every day. I don't care. I'm happy. And then even my protein shakes, I've been using the same [00:14:51] protein shake recipe since like high school. It ain't broke, don't fix it.

That's my mindset. Yeah. But 

Colette Brown: you did add granola into that. I think. 

John Mendez: When I was in, in my friend, now, yes, I think when I was, yeah, when I was in first starting off in high school, I didn't add that the granola yet and just milk, peanut butter. Protein powder and then cinnamon, and that was it.

And now I'll share the recipe after, the current recipe but yeah, so that's how it started. Then I went to college, right? I went away for summer vacation, came back, and I went to school again, I started doing 16 8, and then I blew up. I probably gained like 30 pounds my first semester of college.

While intermittent fasting, there was days I was casually going 18, some days I would casually go 24 hours without realizing. One thing I did is I made sure I got as much protein when I, in my eating window as possible. And, So I was able to, I was doing body recomposition. First I bulked up accidentally, and then I just started doing body recomp.

And so I was gaining more muscle while also losing fat simultaneously and staying at the same weight. And I found like my golden weight range between like 175, 185. And so for a while I just stuck there and I'd started being more and more casual. And then fast forward to today, a little long winded, sorry now I don't really fast at all.

I'm at my golden weight range right now. I'm around like 182. And I'm probably, I'm not the strongest I've ever been, but I'm definitely in the best shape that I've been since senior year high school when I was playing football. And so now every now and then I like casually push it a little bit longer just to see, I'll just go to lunch without [00:16:30] eating.

Just to get some clarity and focus for the most part. I usually eat something light in the morning. Whether it's, scrambled eggs or avocado toast or something like that. It's pretty simple nowadays, especially cause like I don't need to lose weight or gain weight. So I'm just seeing like how my body feels and just listening to it. 

Colette Brown: Yeah, that's good. And I like, so the intermittent fasting just, here's an education for you and listeners. It puts your body into a state of autophagy, which breaks down and it's helping to repair and cleanse the cells and purge. And so it's good to do. You don't have to do it consistently.

Not everybody has to, or likes it, but every now and then it's good. If you're not doing it anymore, I would encourage you maybe, once a week, twice a month. Something. 

John Mendez: Yeah. Every now, I said every now and then I push it just to get back into it. But yeah, the top of it, for me, my favorite benefit was just the mental clarity I got on doing it.

And also I used to work out faster as well. I love working out faster. Even still nowadays I still work out faster just because I feel like when my body's not digesting anything, I can just go all in and focus on whatever I'm lifting for that day. I'm totally an advocate for intermittent fasting.

I just, Some days I'll be hungry in the morning, and I know that hunger is a hormone and that if you eat at certain times, then your body will start producing the hunger hormone more to get, make you eat again. But I said I, I don't stress it too much just because, and I love intermittent fasting. It's that I'm at that weight range that I wanna be, and I feel great.

I'm running, I'm playing volleyball, I'm working out. And I said I, I just listen to my body and how I feel and then go based off that. Mainly [00:18:09] because right now I don't really have any goals for working out like. Just did the marathon last month. So that was a big thing that I was training for. And now I said, I don't want to lose weight and I don't really need to. Lift heavier. Like I don't need to hit a one rep max anytime soon. I'm just like working out just for working out, stay staying healthy, staying in shape and having fun with it. 

Colette Brown: Yeah. So what do you do for your mental workout?

Would that be do you do any kind of gratitude journal, journaling meditation practice? 

John Mendez: So I don't, I was doing meditation frequently for a solid like month and a half at one point in time. And I stopped that. And then I'm trying to get back into journaling. But for the most part, like playing sports is like the best thing for me, right?

Basketball, volleyball, yeah, volleyball, running. Even when I ran, like I didn't run with headphones in, I love running just and just hearing whatever, listening to my body and feeling whatever I'm feeling that day. And even now, sometimes I go to the run club on Saturdays. And so for me, most of my mental, exercises come from physical exercises.

A kill two birds with one stone type of thing. And that's what works for me for the most part. I'm a genuinely generally a very happy, upbeat, energetic, positive person. At least for me, I don't really feel that I have to go too much. And the more I try to add, the less I usually stick with it.

And as I said, playing sports has always been like, my, my place of comfort, right? Where I can just feel like absolute bliss for a moment and just lose track of time and just be in a moment, be present, be still which is [00:19:48] ironic because usually in sports, you're running full speed, you're exerting a whole bunch of energy and effort.

But for me that's I find peace and chaos sometimes. 

Colette Brown: And I would agree with that because when you are in a sport, you're very focused. Even if it's chaotic, your mind is extremely tunnel vision on what it is that you're doing. So it is meditative. And I love golf for example, and I feel when I'm golfing, I am. It's so meditative because I'm just with myself and I'm observing the beautiful surroundings and I'm looking at which club to use and which way to hit it. And, there's all that. So I agree with you. And I think that it's true that sports are meditative. What about when you get into a state of mind where my, you might be a little bit flustered, what pulls you back to center?

John Mendez: It depends on the context. If it's something business related, I meet with my mentor once a week on Fridays. So that's my place of comfort. So I've been with him since January of 2023. So a little while now I've been working with him and that's always been like where I go back to whenever, and this year is funny because this year has been my toughest year ever in life.

And as an entrepreneur, you feel super high highs I've done some pretty, awesome things this year. And then, but like the lows are freaking awful brutal. And so this year, this is probably like the first year I ever felt like any sort of the depression or symptoms, of depression I do back in January.

But it's this year has been brutal. So anything business related, that's like my place of comfort. I just go back and just to talk it out with someone who understands. And that's why I love going to conferences and business events. Of course, yes, I need to learn [00:21:27] and implement the strategies that they're teaching. But in a way, it's like my getaway a little bit. I get to escape reality, escape the norm. Most people aren't entrepreneurs. Most people aren't aspiring to, super big things in life. I just want to get by, which is cool. Not my way of life. And for me, it's like going to these events, you can just have conversations without having to give any context because it's already mutually understood.

Yes. So for business related stuff, I said, usually my mentor going to some of these events for like personal stuff in my life it's hard to knock me off my my, my pivot. I'm pretty strong. I like to say but like my girlfriend is, of course. As someone I can always go to and talk to for pretty much anything. As for me, I seek comfort in, in solitude a lot of times, just being in my own thoughts and just, branching away. So I have periods of my life where I just go ghost, which is hard to see because I have social media schedulers posting all the time. But a lot of times it's just I just disappear off the face of the grid.

And people won't hear from me and don't say anything. That's usually like how I reel back in and just being by myself. I like being with my own thoughts. I like being in my own space. I spent so many years being in my, in my own thoughts. And so it's that's always where I just go back to just being okay in solitude.

And I think solitude and loneliness are different. I feel like, Loneliness is you're like a feeling of abandonment almost in a way or like you feel outcasted and people away I feel like solitude is more like your choice like the lone wolf. I'm not outcasted from society I choose to go down my own path.

It just so happened that people aren't walking it with me 

Colette Brown: Yeah, 

John Mendez: and so that's where I see comfort is like in my own head. [00:23:06] I don't know if that answers the question. Sorry. That 

Colette Brown: does answer the question. Yeah, for sure. And I think that there's I think it's omnivores where you're social, but yeah, for myself, I can be very social, but I recharge alone.

I don't recharge in a social setting. So it, it totally makes sense. So why don't you tell us a little bit, because I can say for myself and I know a lot of other people we're different generations. You and I, and you have a real strong gas grasp on the AI. And for some of us in other generations, it's a little bit harder.

That can be very stressful and that can increase cortisol and it doesn't have to be that way. So maybe you can give us a couple of tips in the AI realm to walk us through and say, Hey, it's not so hard. And you have, I have a course where you're helping people create a year's worth of content in an hour through AI.

And that's powerful. And that changes things. And you've said before that AI is not going to replace humans. Because we're the ones that are going to be prompting it. So can you just give us like a little introduction into the AI world, maybe a couple of tips that can help somebody with their own business to increase maybe some of that content, make it a little bit easier, less time consuming to help reduce that stress.

No, 

John Mendez: a hundred percent. Great question. I think one of the biggest things, one of the biggest reasons why people Have a lot of stress around AI. So we fear things that we don't understand. 

Colette Brown: And 

John Mendez: AI seems like something that is so [00:24:45] foreign, so novel. And in all actuality, AI has been around since like the fifties, if I'm not mistaken. It just hasn't been as easily accessible, right? Back then you had to be in some sort of computer science program and coding, developing a type of role in order to interact with some of this technology. But ever since I launched ChatGPT, it democratized everything. Now anyone and everyone could start using AI. But in all actuality, most of us were probably using AI long before we know. If anyone has Siri on their phones, that's been out for, what, 10 years now? Anyone has an Alexa? That's been out for a while now. If anyone uses any sort of navigation apps on their phone, like Waze, Google Maps, a lot of those have AI built into them.

And so a lot of us claim, a lot of realtors and entrepreneurs and business owners claim to not be tech savvy. Think it was like, forget which iPhone it was, but one of the earlier models had enough, like computation power. That was like the equivalent of the computers they use to go to the moon. It's like back then to go to the moon, they needed like two whole rooms of like computer stuff to just get there and operate it. And now most of us have that. And then some in the palm of our hands. 

Colette Brown: Wow. And so it's like little 

John Mendez: things, it's just like getting more perspective helps you zoom out a little bit and realize, like I'm actually pretty tech savvy.

Like how many of us would really, would think, five, 10, 20 years ago that, Hey, I can talk to anyone I want anywhere in the world at any time of the day with the click of maybe a couple buttons or not even a, any Siri, call Collette. [00:26:24] Boom. Yeah, and now I don't even have to click a button. I can call you and you're three hours behind me.

We're here on the podcast, and as I said, we're three hours behind me, over six hours away via plane. So I think the big thing is zooming out a little bit and realizing like, hey, we're a lot more tech savvy than we care to admit. And if we weren't we wouldn't have phones. We wouldn't be able to use a phone or a computer or send out an email.

And because a lot of these things become so routine, We don't credit them to our tech savviness. And so I guess the first big thing is just Hey, realizing like you are actually are a tech savvy. I think that's the first big belief. And once you get over that limiting belief of Hey, I'm not tech savvy, you'll be able to integrate and adopt a lot of these things a lot easier. Especially with chat GPT. For instance, all you have to do is just talk to it or type something in as if you were looking up in Google. So if you want to know, Hey. What are three recipes to make me a granola protein shake? I can look that up into Google the same way I would look it up in the chat.

GBT. Most people have used Google before, and if you don't have it, you probably use Bing or you use Yahoo or use one of these other search engines. And so a lot of people would just like, Oh, cause it's AI. They think that they don't know how to use it, but it's a lot of times you just use it exactly like you use any other thing, any other else any other thing that you also use.

Same thing. If you search a YouTube video, right? Say, Hey what are the top three ways to save me time with AI? You can type that into YouTube and videos will pop up. You can type that into chat GPT and tips will pop up. Same thing. And so the next step I would say. Is if you do want to start using AI, I would start with chat GPT, just because [00:28:03] it's the most simple and what chat GPT is like garbage in garbage out, right?

Whatever you type in, whatever you get out. And so what you type in is called a prompt, right? And you can think of it as what you order at a restaurant, right? So when you're at a restaurant, you say, Hey, I like to stay cooked medium well, right? And that'll tell the chef whatever to make. Same thing with chat GPT say, Hey, chat GPT, write me an email that I'm gonna send to my boss.

And then it'll write up that email for you. So you just these prompts, quote unquote, are just like pretty much orders that you're putting into chat GPT and the art of prompt engineering, just how well you can write these prompts, and the better, the more specific, right. The better result chat GPT will give you. And I often hear Hey, like I've tried using AI before, but it just sounds super robotic. It sounds too general. It doesn't sound like. Like a human road. It just, it's too perfect. Almost like it just doesn't sound like us. And to that, I say it's probably cause you don't have a prompt writing framework, right?

You're just typing in whatever. And so I follow this four step method and I'm sure you're familiar with call it. But for anyone listening, it's called the race method, right? Role action, context, expectation, the race method. So the first step is give chat GPT a role, right? A lot of times I say, you're working on creating a social media content calendar, right?

You can say, Hey, chat GPT. I want you to imagine that you are my social media manager. I want you to act as a social media marketing expert. I want you to act as a marketing consultant, right? Then the next step there is action, right? Please help me come up with a content calendar, right? So now the first part is hey, I act as a social media marketer The action is [00:29:42] create me a 30 day content calendar. Step number three is context, right? I always say ChatGPT is trained on a trillion data points, but it's not trained on you So you got to tell it about yourself made the same way you wouldn't ask a stranger to write you a biography You want to ask Chad to do something for your business without telling you about your business.

So give it a little bit of context. So let's say my business is I'm an AI coach who helps real estate agents and business owners. So step number one, two, and three so far act as a social media marketer, create a 30 day content calendar for an AI coach who specializes in helping realtors and business owners. And the last thing is expectation. You want to tell Chad, GVT. To what you're expecting, because a lot of times things get lost in translation for anyone listening, if you've ever been stuck, arguing with someone via text, then, good and how quickly something can get lost and taken out of context.

So it's the same thing with like chat GPT, right? It tell it what you're expecting. So in this example, if I'm expecting a 30 day content handler I'm expecting the the content ideas. Let's say I want to focus on short form content, short form reels. Or maybe you want to focus on YouTube and long form content.

So the prompt would look something like act as a social media marketer. That's the role created 30 day content calendar. That's the action for a AI coach, helping business owners, real estate agent, real estate agents. That's the context have a focus on Instagram reels and infographics, right? That's the expectation. And so I would type that all into chat GPT, right? Act as a social media marketer and please create me a 30 day [00:31:21] content calendar for an AI coach who helps realtors and business owners. Make sure to specialize focus on creating Instagram reels and infographics that I can potentially post. I want to post two to three times a week on Mondays and Friday.

Boom, hit enter. And all of a sudden chat GPT goes from super robotic and unpersonalized super general to. Your best friend, your personal assistant, and your social media, personal social media coach in a matter of an extra four sentences. 

Colette Brown: That's amazing. No, I think that's really insightful. And you can also ask it to sound like certain people too, right? And it can spit out a Jim Rohn or whatever you want to put in there. Yeah, I learned that. And that was really insightful for me. Understanding that too. So this is all, this is really fascinating. I love that you have really Allowed life to just lead you like you, you weren't out on a, as a teen, as you said, like you were just being a teen, you were enjoying your time and enjoying growing into your hair.

And then you step into this world of real estate and people that were not really savvy in AI and you stepped into it. And that's a beautiful thing. And I'm excited to see. where you go in life and what you end up doing because right now you're so present and you're very mindful When you're in a social setting, you attract people because you can engage in conversation and you're very helpful.

[00:33:00] It's really beautiful to see what you're doing and how you're mindful of just your health your work, everything. So is there anything that that you wanted to add that I might have missed here? 

John Mendez: At the top of my mind nothing, we've 

Colette Brown: we've covered a lot right now. 

John Mendez: I've covered the hair care. We cover the self care. We cover the AI. I've covered quite a bit on this episode. 

Colette Brown: We did. We did. And then one question that I like to ask all my guests at the end is if this was the last message that you had to leave to the world, what would it be? 

John Mendez: Two things come to mind.

So the first is a Quote by Plato. It's the duty of the enlightened is to enlighten the unenlightened I love that quote because it's pretty much in my own words, like as soon as you learn something It's your moral obligation to teach and put on as many other people as possible That's a big one. So that's the first one and for me personally I've always believed in God. And so one of my core Bible verses that I love is Colossians 3 17. It's everything that you do, whether in word or in deed, do it for the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God, the father. And so I used to get Bible verses, every day. And one day before, I think it was my opener, my season opener, junior year of football. Every year I would always get my wrist taped up because my hands I don't know. I would always make sure my wrists were taped up for whatever reason and I would write a bible verse on my arm on my wrist. And that was the first one that really stood out to me. And so since [00:34:39] that day, I don't play football anymore, but every day since that first season opener of my junior year, I would write that verse on my wrist.

And then senior year came around, I would write that verse on my wrist. And so that, that was probably the two core messages that I would probably leave behind. 

Colette Brown: I like that. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. How can people find you? 

John Mendez: First, thank you for having me on. Enjoy the conversation. And for anyone that wants more practical AI tips to help you save more time, energy, and money in your business to help you make more money without having to work harder, because we're on, we're in this to work smarter, not harder, right?

We're here to build a business that funds our dream life. Not build a life around our business, right? Yeah, I think it's very easy to get it confused because when you're trying to go to business Yeah, the only thing you're focused on is growing the business and you tend to sacrifice other parts So for anyone that wants more practical AI tips like what I covered today I actually have a free AI newsletter where every Monday in three minutes or less, I deliver you game changing practical AI tips to help you save more time, energy, and money.

And all you need to do is go to stopandstare.media/blogforward slash blog. And you can subscribe for free, or even if you don't subscribe, all the past newsletters are on there. So you can read those. And then once you get all the value, then decide to subscribe.

So you can keep getting the latest and greatest AI tips. But again, thank you so much, Collette, for having me.

Colette Brown: It's a pleasure to have you. Thank you so much. So reach out to John. Do you have any questions? He's so insightful and such great content. So thank you for showing up for being you, for Being an example [00:36:18] and helping to be a leader because we need more positive leaders.

So thank you so much, John. I appreciate it. And everyone else until next time be well.