How I AI
How I AI showcases the people shaping the future with artificial intelligence. Host Brooke Gramer spotlights founders, innovators, and creatives who share not just the tools they use, but the transformations they’ve experienced. Human-centered storytelling meets visionary insights on business, culture, and the future of innovation.
How I AI
How AI Is Powering Founders and Creatives: From Parenting Apps to Executive Production
Welcome to a Power Series episode of How I AI — a special format where I feature multiple guests, highlighting real people using AI in unique ways across different industries.
This episode spotlights two powerful use cases for AI in consumer apps and creative production, featuring real-world insights from Maya Bundesen-Magier and Jessica Campbell.
Maya Bundesen-Magier is the founder of MapMyMilk, a tool designed to help parents pinpoint their baby’s food sensitivities. She shares her journey wrapping and packaging an app for the store, navigating platforms like Bolt and Reddit, and the realities of building as a mom and entrepreneur.
Jessica Campbell is the founder of Creative Currents, where she produces workshops and creative activations powered by AI. She opens up about experimenting with a full stack of AI tools for content, design, and production showing how technology can fuel creative business models in entirely new ways.
🔑 Topics We Cover
· What it takes to bring an AI-enabled app to market as a founder
· The role of community platforms like Reddit in early growth
· How creatives are testing AI across design, media, and live experiences
· The balance between personal storytelling and technical adoption
· Lessons from founders who are hands-on with the tools
Guests Featured:
Maya Bundesen-Magier
Website: mapmymilk.com | Instagram
Jessica Campbell
Website: creativecurrents | Instagram
🛠 Tools Mentioned in This Episode:
Bolt, Reddit, Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, CapCut, Eleven Labs, Runway, Replit, Zapier, Dify
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Welcome to How I AI the podcast featuring real people, real stories, and real AI in action. I'm Brooke Gramer, your host and guide on this journey into the real world impact of artificial intelligence. For over 15 years, I've worked in creative marketing events and business strategy, wearing all the hats. I know the struggle of trying to scale and manage all things without burning out, but here's the game changer, AI. This isn't just a podcast. How I AI is a community, a space where curious minds like you come together, share ideas, and I'll also bring exclusive discounts, and insider resources, because AI isn't just a trend, it's a shift, and the sooner we embrace it, the more freedom, creativity, and opportunities will unlock. How I AI is brought to you in partnership with the Collective AI, a space designed to accelerate your learning and AI adoption. I joined the collective and it's completely catapulted my learning, expanded my network, and showed me what's possible with AI. Whether you're just starting out, seeking community or want done for you solutions, The Collective gives you the resources to grow your business with AI. So stay tuned to learn more at the end of this episode, or check my show notes for my exclusive invite link.. More and more of you have been reaching out, wanting to share your stories, how you're using ai, what you're experimenting with, what you're building behind the scenes. And honestly, I love it. This is what How I AI is really about not just big moments or big names, but the ripple effect. It's about highlighting the quiet builders, the innovators in unexpected spaces and amplifying each other as we grow together in this era of new possibility. Today we're diving into a Power series episode. These are shorter conversations with incredible guests in varying industries, showing us how AI is being applied in creative, intentional, and sometimes unexpected ways. My first guest today is Maya. What makes her story so powerful is that she's not a tech founder by background. She's a healthcare worker and a mom who needed a solution for her baby's food allergies. She made a courageous move, taught herself to build an app with AI in just a few months, she went from journaling in her notes to launching a tool now used by over 175 moms who are navigating the same challenges. Her journey shows what's possible when you lean into AI as a partner, even when you've never considered yourself technical. Alright, let's get into the conversation. Hello everyone. I'm your host, Brooke Gramer. Today I have a very special guest. Her name is Maya Bundesen-Magier. She's a mother of two, and she built a really exciting platform called MapMyMilk, vibe coding on Bolt. I am really excited to have you on today's episode, Maya, welcome to How I AI.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, thanks for having me.
Brooke:Of course, I always like to start my episodes and open the floor. Would you like to share a little bit about yourself and your background and how you ended up where you are now?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, sure. So like you said, I'm a mom of two. I have an eight month old who's keeping me awake at night and a 3-year-old. And I'm actually not in tech at all. I'm a healthcare worker. I'm an occupational therapist. I work in a hospital and Not to get too much into the weeds, but with both my babies had this issue related to breastfeeding and food allergies, and I needed an app to sort of help me through it. And there was nothing like what I needed on the market. And that's when I found out about vibe coding, which I can get into later. And here we are. I was able to make it and I have over 175 moms using it right now. So, yeah, it's, it's going great.
Brooke:Wow, I want you to take me back to that First initial point where you wanted to lean into ai, were you journaling? Were you just kind of trying to track this via notes on your app? At what point did you wanna take this real life instance and problem that was unique to you as a mother and transfer this to using AI to support you?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, great question. So yeah, it started with basically the problem requires tracking of like what you're eating and how your baby is reacting. So that's like what you need to track when you're having the issue that I had with both of my babies which is called cow's milk protein allergy food protein intolerance, and. Yeah, trying to log as a, you know, tired postpartum mom, trying to write down everything you're eating in your notes app while also adding baby symptoms in some sort of chronological order that you can wrap your head around and then trying to make sense of the patterns your notes app. doing it in your notes app because there's just no app that that does that. So there's. Food logging apps, right? For anyone who's like on a diet or who has IBS and those apps have nothing to do with baby symptoms. And then there's tons of apps for babies that have nothing to do with mom's diet. And so what happened was, I, was working with a, consultant who specializes in this. And she was asking me, she was there, she was a nurse and she was there to help me sort of piece together what am I eating that's causing baby symptoms? And she asked me, she said, I need to see your food logs. And that's when I was kind of like, but this isn't, this isn't work. The logs that I have like don't look like anything. They're not gonna give you any organized information.
Brooke:Yeah.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:and as an ot, I'm actually like. We're very familiar with a log. We have clients or patients fatigue logs sleep logs, like that's a big part of ot. We look at daily routines. It's very important to us and making them more productive and easier for people to live their daily lives. So that's just where my brain went. There has to be an easier way to do this. And I didn't even know about vibe coding actually when I started this. Thought need to make an app for this and I'm gonna hire a developer because I didn't know vibe coding existed. I can talk with you also about just my history with ai, which is minimal. It's minimal. I've always been behind the curve on technology and. I happened to talk to my sister about this, who's an entrepreneur and she is vibe coding an app for sleep issues right now called Sleeping
Brooke:Mm-hmm.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Pal. And she was the one that was like, oh, you gotta check out Vibe Coding, you can just make it yourself.
Brooke:Yeah.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:I was telling her I can't afford a developer right now. And so she told me about, I dunno if you want me to get into the platforms and all that, but that's, that's sort of the how it all started basically.
Brooke:thank you so much for sharing about your initial exploration with ai. Bring me back to that point where you did your research for hiring a developer. How did that go and what made you ultimately decide, Hey, I think I can do this myself.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, great question. I mean, I had no idea how much developers cost and they're expensive. As a mom, healthcare worker. I wasn't expecting to jump into like any kind of founder. I wasn't expecting to found a product, so I really wasn't in a place to invest a lot in this idea so when I sort of just started doing research on how much does a developer cost, you know, up upwards of 10,000 for MVP, and that is kind of a. A roadblock for someone like me who's not ready to, to make a big investment in an idea and wants to sort of go a little bit slower and get things rolling and see how it goes before they invest more money. And so I tell people, if I had not found Vibe coding, this idea would've fallen flat pretty much before it even gotten started. And so the. Over 175 moms using it right now. It just, the resource wouldn't exist if it weren't for ai, which is, you know, pretty amazing. I think
Brooke:That's incredible. And how did your community react to promoting and releasing this product? Were people hesitant to wanna get on an app and use it to track their personal data? Do you feel like a lot of people have been welcoming with it? With open arms?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:the feedback was. So positive, even more so than I was expecting, honestly. I mean, it started, so I think I looked before we had this podcast this episode, I looked in my phone just to see it was May 14th when I opened up Bolt.new, that was like day one of look of starting to develop this. And I launched on July 30th. So less than two months it took me, and during that time I was. Beta testing, I was spreading the word and like 95% of people immediate exclamation mark. Thank God you let me know when you launch. I need this right now. Because it's, it was a gap in the market. And so cows milk, protein allergy is the number one infant allergy. It's, it's the most common infant allergy. Without this resource. I mean, moms are just struggling. Like I said, they're tired, they're confused. There's no real good way to figure out what's going on. And so moms were desperate and the beta testers all had amazing feedback for me. You know, a few people suggested additional features, which I've since been able to roll out actually, which has been really nice to sort of build it with the community. And yeah, everyone is just pumped that it exists now. So.
Brooke:That's amazing. Tell me about getting users on your platform. How are you people and getting the word out? Is it through social media your personal network, or are you using any technology stacks to support you in that way?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:So right now it's mainly through social media and it's through these support groups on Reddit and on Facebook. So there are private groups for moms struggling with this issue. You know, I, as a mom struggling, I was in those groups and it's usually moms venting or asking for support and it's mainly been me sort of. Getting in there and, and talking with moms like almost one-on-one. It really is has been sort of a one-on-one. Process so far to get people using it just now as a, you know, baby product, I'm down the road. I would like to streamline that process more in terms of getting more users and I'm sure there are tech stacks to help me with that. And I, I need to learn more about that as well. So for now it's very just like, go hunting down the moms who need it and, and letting them know that it exists.
Brooke:You just really put yourself out there and had faith in your product. And I wanna know if AI has changed the way. creatively think now and solve problems? Do you feel like there's been a shift?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, i'm bouncing my ideas off of AI tools now in a way that lets me think of problems in a way that I might not have before. So I think in the past, just in terms of. Any kind of creative process or problem solving, you just have your own insights and experiences and you just roll with that. And I'm able to sort of explore and dive deeper with those tools and ask like, what am I not thinking of for this specific situation? And that's a nice, that's a really nice added piece to, yeah, any kind of process of development and problem solving.
Brooke:am curious if you had any initial challenges when it came with teaching yourself Bolt. Did you go on YouTube and figure out how to use this? How did you even learn how to vibe code?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:I probably should have gone on YouTube. It probably would've saved me a lot of credits and time and headache. No, I didn't do that. I should have. I just dove in and it was very trial and error in terms of learning how to prompt the right way and most effectively in terms of learning how to, get out of some error loops that can happen in terms of knowing when to just like hard refresh and leave it alone and come back later, you know, when it starts hallucinating. No, I did not use any, this is very, like my personality, I'm like, I don't like getting help. I just like figuring things out on my own. And for better or for worse, it probably took me longer. Like I probably could have used help and I, I. I probably could have launched sooner, but I did not. I just figured it out.
Brooke:That's incredible and I think it's really empowering to other mothers out there. I can imagine, I'm not a mother yet, but one day how many problems you're solving on a day-to-day basis. and I'm sure there are so many other things that aren't out there yet that need solutions and just really commend you for all the work that you've done. I am wondering if you have any other ideas of products you wanna create now that you've made your first app and have. such incredible success in just two months. you thinking about any other things that you wanna create? If you were to wave a magic wand and create something overnight, what would you wanna make next?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, there are so many problems out there just for your everyday person moving through life. There are so many little pain points. And for me, like I made MapMyMilk because of a personal pain point that I was feeling related to breastfeeding and my baby. And you know, right now, I'm focused on MapMyMilk, but for sure there are other pain points in my life that. Could use an app off the top of my head, related to like meal prep and, and probably this exists already, like through vibe coding, but something that takes your family grocery budget and takes your, you know, family food preferences and takes your location circulars and puts together. A grocery shopping list and a meal plan that stays within your budget, that stays within your family preferences, that stays within what's available at your store, and maybe even like online. Grocery puts it in the cart for you and all you have to do is like I buy and. To you and you know what to make. I mean, I'm just not a cook and I hate meal prepping and cooking for the family. So that's another pain point. I'll put a pin in it. Maybe down the road. It probably already exists and if not, you know, someone else should go make it so.
Brooke:So I love to open the floor and any personal thoughts and reflections that you'd like to share with listeners. Just getting into ai, and this can be targeted to mothers or women in general or, aI beginners, what's one key takeaway you would like to share? Learning from your experience.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:I, I have a lot of takeaways and I think my, number one like lesson or that I hope someone would take out of hearing this or like learning about me and MapMyMilk is that you don't have to be a tech person at all Just to get started for sure. You don't need to, but even to have success, you don't need to be a tech person. You don't need to have experience with ai. When I say I'm not a tech person, I mean, I am really in the past, have been behind the curve. I was using chat GPT for like the most basic things for the past two years, and I got started late even. So. I was able to solve a problem for me and for many other women just jumping in and giving it a try. So I think that would be the biggest takeaway for anyone who like has an idea, is to just get started and don't let your, yeah, lack of experience or your feelings of intimidation get in the way because you just get started and you see what happens.
Brooke:I love that feedback. That's so sweet. One last thing is, I always like to close for you to share more about how listeners can find MapMyMilk. How can they connect with you? How can they join your community?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. So the app is a web app right now, and it's at www.mapmymilk.com. M-A-P-M-Y-M-I-L-K. We are in the process of now trying to turn it into a mobile app in the app stores, but for now, it functions in a browser and you can save it to your home screen and use it just like a mobile app. I'm also on Instagram, on Facebook. You can find me on LinkedIn. I'm trying to connect with as many moms, but also providers, you know, gis, dieticians, allergists, lactation consultants, anyone who's. Working with moms in this time, in this season of life where they're struggling. I would love to connect, so I encourage anyone to come check out the app and come connect with me personally.
Brooke:And one quick follow up question. What is the process of taking a web app to mobile? that difficult? Do you still do that in Bolt? I personally haven't experienced vibe coding yet, so. Is that a tricky process moving from web only to mobile app?
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Yeah, it, it is intimidating me. There's just different ways to do it. And they vary in terms of what tech you're using and how fast it can take and what the end product is. So. Without getting too technical right now, I'm looking at sort of wrapping it because I developed and designed MapMyMilk to work on a mobile device anyway, so it already looks like an app and there's no reason it can't just be wrapped and then packaged for the app store. Yeah, so basically it is tricky. I'm still taking my time looking into it, but at the same time, moms need this in the app store, and that's gonna be an easier way for people to find me. So I'm walking the line of researching it, but trying to get it done fast. So stay tuned.
Brooke:Well, we're definitely following along your journey and excited to see what's next for MapMyMilk and how it just continues to grow this year and next. And thank you again for your time.
Maya // Founder of MapMyMilk:Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Brooke:My next Power Series episode guest is Jessica Campbell. She's a creative technologist, executive, producer, and founder of Creative Currents. Jessica isn't someone who just talks about ai. She experiments, she prototypes, and teaches in ways that are refreshingly real. Stick around the end. Jessica drops a mic worthy insight on the future of creative work that you won't wanna miss. Let's dive in. Hi everyone. Welcome to How I Ai. I'm your host, Brooke Gramer. Today I have a very special guest. Her name is Jessica Campbell. She's a creative technologist and executive producer who's helping bridge the gap between visionary ideas and real world AI transformation. From leading workshops here in the city of Miami to designing immersive human first experiences for Fortune 500 brands, I'm super excited for today's conversation. Jessica, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. Yes. Would you like to kick it off? I'd love to hear all about you and your background and how you ended up in the AI space.
Jessica:Okay. So I started in tech in 2013. I am, I'm from South Florida. I went to Barry I actually graduated in'08 in like one of the first economic crashes.
ppl:Yeah.
Jessica:And. I moved to New York. I started in the jewelry industry. Oh. And I didn't like it at all. It's like actually one of the hardest industries to be in really. And I feel like tech ideally saved it'cause it's, it's a lot of inventory. And I'm sure AI has saved it. I think anybody who works in jewelry can probably speak to that. But anyways, I started in tech when I took an opportunity to start all over in my early phases and took a spot as an executive assistant and then a coordinator in iHeartRadio and oh it was honestly one of the best opportunities because it was right when they were creating their first iteration of their app and it was like product school 1 0 1. And I was sitting next to the creative director, the head of product and like the VP of, iHeart. And I got to see what it took to really think about creating a digital product. And it was in a moment where we got to move slow. Mm-hmm. So I really got to see how like things moved and how you think and how you're just think about just point A to point Z, which is if you work in tech or in any digital space and product is really just doesn't exist. Yeah. So I'm really thankful for that time. And since then. I bounced around in a few digital spaces. I went to an agency called Ammirati, which became IBM, really thankful for that spot. And then I went to an agency called fantasy Interactive. I was there for six years. I think that's where I really got I think like. My Anna Winter like whip of this is how you need to move. This is how you need to look at how to execute.
ppl:Yeah.
Jessica:And that's when the AI moment started to happen. So when I shifted, when I started thinking about AI is when everybody else started to think about ai. When chat GPT came out into the scene. Yeah. The exact moment was when chat GPT came out. And I remember sitting in the office when my CEO came in at the time and he said this exact stat of the, I think it was like the 10 million or the a hundred million stat of it took five years for Facebook to get to a hundred million users. And it took Instagram like two years. It took TikTok one year and it took. ChatGPT two months. And I remember my head going screw yeah. Oh my God. And I remember and I went into it was literally three months of a rabbit hole. I wasn't sleeping like I was constant. I signed up for every newsletter I was playing with every app. I was really going deep and discovering. And just really just playing with every type of use case I could, but, I was also in a world where it was applicable to what I did, but I'm also like a really curious person. I'm a Gemini, but I was also in a space where it made sense. My job is, as you mentioned, a producer. So. It's, you know, a complicated type of role. I'm constantly having to figure out my client's issues working with designers and how to help them figure out the process for the projects that we get. Like our budget, every type of issue that comes up a, across a project. So, it was just naturally, when AI came along, I was like, how can I make my job easier? But also how can I figure out all these like different tools and processes and, all of these different personal projects I had Yes. That were in my notes in my phone from all of these years, from like scripts I wanted to write or projects I wanted to get off the ground, so. What was really interesting is like when we had a project come across our desk in the agency we had BP come to us and they said, basically Harvard wants to work with us and basically look over our shoulder and observe how we can take the discovery process, which is. In the agency world where it's like a three to um, sometimes six months process where they pay an agency like a million dollars to give you a PDF to say, here's what we came up with. And like sometimes that gives you something, but. It's usually just like a big idea in A PDF. Yeah. And sometimes you know what to do with that. Some, ideally if you're working with the right place, you do. But they wanted us to see how we can take that process down to a two week process. So I worked with my managing director, UX lead a research lead, and I think like one other designer and. We worked with for two months. And we did that and we came up with like this process where we worked with a handful of AI tools. We did this like collaborative prop prompting process. We built like a thousand synthesized personas where basically we just created this database of synthesize people.
ppl:Yeah.
Jessica:So that we can like test with them.
ppl:Yes.
Jessica:And then it became a process that Harvard, studied into an MBA program, it won a fast company award. That opened my eyes to what could be done. After that I like built a startup and ended up. Yeah. Opening my eyes to like, you know what, now I wanna make Creative Currents. So we could talk about that after. You told me this was a safe space to ramble, so that's what I'm here for.
Brooke:No I love hearing everybody's background and how they got to where they are in AI because we're also different and we have unique journeys to where we are now. So thank you for expanding on where you were at when AI hit the map with chat GPT and how you were able to really. Be at the forefront of leading that sandbox environment at your company and get creative and explore with ai. My next question for you is, could you share a little bit about your technology stack? What do you use now because like, you mentioned you have so many clients and personal projects, and you have a startup, what does it look like day to day for you and AI and technology?
Jessica:Yeah. My technology stack, so for my creative flow at work, the. Ones that I use the most of course are ChatGPT Co. Yeah. Right now my favorite one is Claude. Okay. I hear like really good things. That is the one that's blowing my mind the most right now. Yeah. So I had a project where we had to like vibe. That term is like vibe code gross a little bit, but yeah, that's really blowing my mind. Not even intentionally vibe coding. Mm-hmm. Like just going there and putting in simple prompts to visualize things as. Simple as infographics and I'm just giving it data and it's like creating microsites for me in extremely beautiful ways. I love Claude right now. That's becoming my new best friend. But yeah, chat, GPT, Claude Midjourney. Midjourney has replaced a lot of my favorite animation and art tools. Okay. Runway used to be one of my favorites, but yeah, pretty much those and 11 labs. Is definitely one of my favorites. And then some of the supplementary ones I would say CapCut of course is a great one to bring it all together. What are you
Brooke:liking about Claude right now? Because ChatGPT is about to release five, version five model. So why do you still like c Claude better?
Jessica:Claude is just like incredible. I feel like such a nerd talk. Yeah. But like the things that I've been seeing this week I had to work on a, I'm not an engineer, I don't have a background as coding, right? So I was able to code an entire website flow from beginning to end. I was able to, wow. Yeah, I just came up with the entire idea that I didn't even think I could even put together. I blew my entire team's mind. They like jokingly briefed me into something and I was like, haha, sure, maybe. Yeah. Like, Put it together. We got an entire we won an whole project because of this like simple proof of concept. So it was pretty crazy.
Brooke:What did you, how did you put that together? If you could just walk me through it.
Jessica:it was a process to create a image prompting process like a quiz prompting process. Okay. That would output into like a result type thing. I was just meant to start with an API and it was meant to like, dump into an Excel sheet just to show it can work. I was actually doing a talk that week and someone at the talk was demonstrating that they could vibe code. So I Cool. Then I saw what he did and I thought, okay, let me give it a try. I think a really good thing to do is just go into ChatGPT and go on there and go talk it through. Say this is my goal. This is the type of app that I'm trying to build. Walk me through, this is my goal, give it context. Or you could just literally start on Claude. That's what I ended up figuring out. I just started on Claude and I took that, and then it gave me like the preview of everything I wanted to create, and you could launch it from Claude. It gives you pretty much the entire view of what the app looked like. But I took that code and then I pasted it into Replit. Replit essentially, that's how you
Brooke:say it. I called it Replit. It's,
Jessica:I'm saying everything wrong constantly. It's called, once again, not an engineer.
Brooke:Is, Is it Zapier or is it Zapier? Exactly.
Jessica:And then there's D Dify or Defy, like I'm con how you know about that one. Yeah, exactly. So there's that. Um, Yeah, between Claude, just copy and paste and launch.
Brooke:That's awesome. You bring up such an important point where you get to the point where all you need is to start and then you can ask the AI how to do what it is that you want to do. Yeah. It's the most simplest thing. Because I actually do a lot of trainings around chat GPT, and it's almost like after training one, you don't need me anymore, right?
Jessica:I will say one thing. Because, I'm watching other people. I'm in a lot of places where I'm noticing that people that should know how to do these things are not doing these things. Yeah. Or too scared to. Yeah. And one thing that I notice helps is just yeah, like getting over that fear. But also that process of giving it that taste. I was giving it a lot of. Mood boards from Pinterest. Mm-hmm. And really walking it through my inspiration. Giving it like a story and a lot of guidance. Yeah.
Brooke:Awesome. So it sounds like you're crushing it in the AI space, really just taking a lead and adapting it so well for your personal projects and everything that you're doing. I wanna speak more about the work that you do. If you can share more about creative currents and also. Simultaneously what it means to be a woman in tech as you're really putting a face into your name out into this sphere of this really cool time in AI as a woman. Thank you.
Jessica:Yeah. Yeah. Creative Currents has really been an amazing passion project of mine. I started it because I wanted to make a place that I wanted to go to. I moved to New York I moved there 14 years ago. I moved back a little bit over seven years ago, and I was working with all, with that. Most of my team was in New York and I just felt every time I would go to these type of events here I just didn't feel like I was learning about anything that I wanted to talk to my teammates about.
ppl:Like
Jessica:my designers, about. There wasn't anything immediate Yeah. That I wanted to talk about. Yeah. It was like tech that didn't feel applicable to what I was doing. It was stuff that was like about the moon, didn't feel like, let me learn about AI that I could apply to the design that I'm working on right now. Do you know what I mean? Now we're learning about, like AI is so. It's so applicable now, everything that we're learning about right now it applies to all this business now it feels like we all can figure out how to integrate it into what we do, but before it just felt like out of touch anyways, so that's why I built I made that workshop space and awesome. It started as an experiment and the first workshop I did was at soho. And it was AI for creatives. I invited my friends one was a UX designer my friend Cyd Elise, and I wanted her to show how she used AI in ux. I invited my friend Lonas. I wanted him to show how he used AI as a screenwriter. He ended up being the guy who made the song PBL l jersey. Do you know that? That's so funny. No, I don't. And then I invited my friends Paperwater, and they showed how they sh use AI for. Their songwriting process. Cool. And they're amazing in their own right. And it was like such a hit, I was so lucky for that to be such an amazing starting point. Yeah. And then the second one I did was neuroplasticity for creatives, which is so weird, but it was great. And then after that one everyone was like, maybe you should just keep doing AI for creatives. And two and a half years later I just kept doing that. And I've experimented with AI for film, AI for music, AI for art in tons of different formats where I just kept doing AI for creatives in different routes. And it's just been a very rewarding process. And it's forced me to be hands-on. And keep learning. Yeah. And thankfully I've been able to layer it on into my career and It's been a very, giving for me and for everyone else and as a woman and tech also that just consistent. It's pretty wild to. Let's see where this has gone.
Brooke:That's amazing. Yeah. Thank you for sharing more about that. Absolutely. Yeah. What's one key takeaway that you want listeners to have as your final message and, that you wanna leave in this space?
Jessica:Obsess. I would say what helped me was that first three months. It's very overwhelming to look at AI right now.
ppl:If
Jessica:I would, when I see people look at their starting point as today I would think, wow. I would be extremely overwhelmed. It's, yeah. Easier today than it was two years ago to get started, because everything seems a little bit easier to play with. Pick a use case that's applicable to your life. Focus on that, but obsess, you have to keep focus and don't let these things about hallucinations. It's going wrong. Deter you. I hear so many people get annoyed that it made a mistake. Yeah, that's fine. It's okay. Just. Stick to something, obsess, and you have to figure it out because this is definitely an inescapable part of our future. Yes, and this quote is inescapable that AI isn't gonna replace your job, but if you work in tech or if it's somehow related to your job, the person who uses AI most likely is gonna replace your job. And I hate to say that, but it's, that's what's happening. So just what's happening? It's figure it out.
Brooke:And use Claude Pay for it. Pay for Claude. Um, Jessica, I can thank you so much for your time today. Thanks. How can listeners reach out to you? Yeah, if they wanna connect,
Jessica:My Instagram is Creative Currents do a i my personal one is jcam118. Haven't changed it since I started. It probably should have, but Creative currents.ai,
Brooke:I'd appreciate that. One. Amazing. Well, thank you so much for your time today. I really enjoyed getting to hear about your journey and what from, I can understand you just went all in and you figured it out along the way, which is just such a great example. So thank you. Thank you. It was a pleasure Thanks so much for tuning into this Power series edition of How I AI. I love being able to share these shorter, impactful conversations with multiple voices. If you enjoyed hearing from multiple guests in one episode, let me know. And if you're someone who's actively integrating AI into your workflow, or industry in a way that's actually making a difference, I want to hear from you head over to Howiaipodcast.com and apply to be a guest. You don't have to be a tech founder. You just need to be using AI in a way that's useful, empowering, and uniquely you. See you all next week. This episode was made possible in partnership with the Collective AI, a community designed to help entrepreneurs, creators, and professionals seamlessly integrate AI into their workflows. One of the biggest game changers in my own AI journey was joining this space. It's where I learned, connected and truly enhanced my understanding of what's possible with ai. And the best part, they offer multiple membership levels to meet you where you are. Whether you want to DIY, your AI learning or work with a personalized AI consultant for your business, The Collective has you covered. Learn more and sign up using my exclusive link in the show notes.
