Lesson 2: The Timeline You’ll leave with: your timeline mapped, the pattern underneath it, and one word that describes who you actually are. My story Twenty-four years doesn’t fit in a sentence. I started coaching in person. Then I moved. And rebuilt. And moved again. I rebuilt my business in more cities than I want to count before I finally took it online ten years ago, because I was done starting over every time my address changed. Then we left Canada in 2018. Eight years in Mexico and South America. Somewhere in there, AI images walked into my work and changed what I could build. And this year, we came back to Canada. When I tell that story out loud, it sounds like chaos. When I put it on a timeline, it looks like a path. Why this matters Here’s what the timeline showed me that the story never did. I’m not someone who keeps starting over. I’m someone who rebuilds. Every move, every city, every version of the business, I took what I had and built it again, better. That’s not chaos. That’s a pattern. And it’s my identity. You have one too. You just can’t see it from inside the story. Most coaches build their brand on what they do. The clients who choose you are choosing who you are. If you can’t name that, your visuals can’t show it. Your turn: map it Step 1. Grab paper or open a doc. Draw one line, left to right. Step 2. Mark the 5 to 7 moments that changed your direction. Not the highlights. The turns. The move, the loss, the leap, the “I’m done with this.” Step 3. Look at the whole line and answer one question: What does the person on this timeline keep doing? Don’t overthink it. The first honest word is usually the right one. Bonus: make it visual Want to see your timeline the way you just saw the AI one? Paste this into ChatGPT: Create a horizontal timeline infographic of my personal journey. Use these moments: [paste your 5 to 7 turns with years]. Style: editorial, cinematic, using my brand colors [your colors]. Title it “[your one word].” Keep text minimal, one short line per moment.

The prompt I used \handwrittennote how does eating food give us energy What's happening One line in, and you get a lined-paper page that looks like someone sat down and wrote out the explanation by hand. It reads like a teacher's notes, not a slide. Why this matters for your business Handwritten feels personal. It feels like you took the time. Use it for: - A "here's what I'd tell you over coffee" breakdown of a concept you teach (if you feel the images are too wordy, ask for less words but sill a big impact - Image #3) - Quick explainers for your clients after a session - Social posts that stop the scroll because they don't look like everyone else's graphics Your turn Pick the one question your clients ask you most. Run it through this prompt. Post it or send it to a client this week. Create a post and share your own.

We are going deep into Visuals That Teach this week!! Mark your calendar to check back in and see the tutorials for all of these and more. My Time Line My Ikagi Visual Cheat Sheets Sticky Notes Hand Written Notes My daughter is doing grade 11 biology right now. So I typed into ChatGPT images: visual cheat sheet, grade 11 biology. What came back was a full study sheet. Animal and plant cells. Photosynthesis. DNA to protein. Genetics, ecology, the whole human body. Ten topics on one page, labeled and organized. Holy shit. If it can make biology make sense, it can make your framework make sense. Get ready!!

Quick history lesson, because I think it'll change how you use AI this week. 1956: a room full of researchers coins the term "artificial intelligence." 1997: a computer beats the world chess champion. 2012: AI learns to actually see images. 2022: ChatGPT is introduced 2026: it's in your inbox, your calendar, your content, and your kid's homework. Seventy years of breakthroughs. And the lesson hasn't changed once: the tools keep getting better, and the person using them still has to know what they want. That's you. AI doesn't fix a blurry identity. It broadcasts it. If you don't know who you are, who you're talking to, and where you're going, AI just helps you be unclear faster and at scale. Confession time: I made this image with ChatGPT. It's gorgeous. It also has mistakes on it. DALL-E didn't exist in 2018, and there are a couple of typos hiding in there. Go find them. That's the whole point. AI is the brush. You're still the artist, and you're definitely still the editor. Your turn: When did AI first click for you? Drop the year and the moment below. I want to see where everyone started.

This is a fun trend. What is your personality mascot. Use this prompt, upload a photo of you. Share yours below 👇🏻 Give my personality a mascot using what you know about me and the uploaded photo for my appearance, invent a funny cartoon mascot that represents my personality. Feature a glamorous cartoon version of me posing beside the mascot as if we are an iconic duo. The mascot can be an animal, creature, object, or completely imaginary character. Give it one small accessory or detail that connects it to me. Add its name and one short tagline explaining its energy. Keep everything else minimal. White background, clean composition, polished colorful cartoon artwork. Do not ask me what the mascot should be. You decide.