You did something a lot of people never do. You stopped just thinking about it and took a real step. @Kristine Alise , @Dawn Schaedel , @Stephanie Reyes , @Michelle Cassidy , @Natalie Drummond , @Nicolaas Syme , @Heather Shultz Premium and 1 VIP @Jenny Motyka I know that wasn’t a small decision. Most of us over 40 check every dollar twice before we spend it. So I don’t take it lightly that you chose to invest in yourself here. Thank you. One thing I want to make sure you know: You can promote your business here 2 times every day. Share your blog post, your new pin, your product, your freebie, whatever you’re working on. This is your space to get seen by people who actually understand what you’re building. So don’t be shy. Post it. And anyone who wouldn't mind taking a couple of minutes and giving a review would be very much appreciated. To get us started, tell me in the comments: what are you building right now, and what’s one thing you’d love help with this month?

You showed up. Not once. Not when it was easy. Over and over, all month long. Every comment, every question, every win you shared made this community feel like a real place to grow. Our October Yearbook is a thank-you to all of you. A huge, special thank you to our top 5 for October: 🥇 Inaya Zareen 🥈 Suzie Kemper 🥉 Auli Takala ⭐ Tom Schoenfeld ⭐ Kristina Allee Here’s your thank-you gift: Each of you gets a 24-hour pinned post at the top of our community for one day in November. Whatever you want everyone to see is front and center for a whole day: - Your product or shop - Your blog or freebie - A win you’re proud of - How to claim it: Send me a DM with what you want pinned and which day in November you’d like it. And to everyone else: this happens every month. Keep showing up, keep sharing, and November’s yearbook could have your name on it. I’m so grateful for you all. Tina

You want help planning your content, organizing your files, or getting that digital product together. But “help me with my business” only gets you so far. Then you’re asking follow-up questions, rewording things, and trying to work out how the answers fit together. You opened Claude to get something done, and now figuring out the prompt has become another task. 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝘁 𝟮.𝟬 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁. There are copy-ready prompts and plain-English lessons to help you work through the setup. Practical tasks walk you through organizing your business, building AI and content workflows, and putting your digital product systems together. That matters when your biggest question is: “Okay, but what do I do first?” You can follow the steps, check off what you’ve completed, and keep track of what you’re building rather than leave another useful answer buried in a chat. I only started going through it yesterday, and I’m already impressed by how much is laid out for you. The part that stands out to me is having the prompts 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀. Getting an answer is helpful. Knowing how to use it in your business is what you were there for. “Take a look inside Claude Studio Kit 2.0 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲: I’m an affiliate for Claude Studio Kit 2.0, which means I earn a commission when you purchase through my link.

I started this one this morning. It was uploaded by this evening. And I spent most of the hours in between working on completely different things. Here is exactly how it went, because I think the how is more useful to you than the what. This morning. I opened ColorCodex, which is a tool that lives inside ChatGPT, and told it four things. Who the book is for: seniors. What it is about: rustic cabins in the mountains. My name and my brand. And about 70 pages. That is all I typed. It came back with three concepts. Not vague ideas. Three proper directions, each one spelling out the age range, the drawing style, how complex the pages should be, the format, and which one it thought would sell best and why. I picked the first one, Cozy Mountain Cabins. Then it wrote the production prompt, which is the long set of instructions describing the entire book. I copied that and pasted it into the Work side of ChatGPT. Not the chat side. The Work side. That is the bit people get wrong. And it built the book. All the pages. The cover, front and back. The whole thing. What came out: 32 realistic designs, each with a blank back so the colors cannot bleed through to the next picture, plus color-testing pages and reflection pages. Porches, fireplaces, lakes, pine forests, woodland visitors, through the changing seasons. I have put a couple of the pages below. Look at the porch swing one, with the lake and the mountains behind it. I did not draw that. I cannot draw. I described a feeling and the tool did the rest. The first five books I made were mostly for my grandchildren. Robots, animals with jobs, girls building things. This one is for people my own age who want to sit down with something peaceful for an hour. I am 60. I have six books on Amazon. Two years ago I would have told you both halves of that sentence were impossible. If you want the full walkthrough, I wrote it all up and it is free. Six steps, what it really costs, and real pages so you can see what you are aiming for.

Sorry for not being around this past weekend. My husband and I took a spur of the moment trip to Charleston and Savannah to visit our grandbabies. It was a quick trip but we enjoyed a Pumpkin Patch in Charleston with the 2 granddaughters yesterday and met our grandson in Savannah for the first time on Saturday. It was beautiful weather all weekend and we really enjoyed those babies. Just got back a few hours ago and I'm ready to go back to work! I hope everyone else had a good weekend. Tell us about it in the comments.