Julia McCoy
Julia McCoy is a serial entrepreneur, AI pioneer, and founder of First Movers AI who sold her 100-person content agency in 2021 before the world had even heard of ChatGPT — because she saw what was coming. In this episode, Julia takes Paul through her extraordinary origin story, from escaping a religious cult at 21 with nothing but a laptop and a Google search, to building a million-dollar writing agency, to becoming one of the earliest and most influential voices in practical AI automation. She shares the raw story of her health crisis that forced her to rely entirely on her AI avatar, how that avatar ended up on Dr. Phil's show, and why she now believes AI is less about disruption and more about multiplication. Julia also goes deep on her systems for automating business operations without losing authenticity, the tools she trusts, the ones she does not, and what she believes the writing on the wall is telling us right now about the future of work, income, and human purpose.