Hello everyone and thank you so much for your kind messages last week ahead of my surgery! Everything went well and I am recovering at home. This surgery was a huge win for me, since I waited 6.5 years for the NHS to fix my knee after an injury in 2019, and also a challenge as it has impacted my work and now my ability to walk for the next few weeks. So I thought I would bring the question to you, what has been your biggest win and challenge of the first quarter of 2026? What will you bring into Q2 and leave behind in Q1? Hopefully we can all celebrate each others successes and help each other through the challenges as well in this group :) Let me know how Q1 was for you and what your plans are for Q2! Wishing each of you all the best! Thanks again for your support last week, it is very appreciated ❤️ I've got lots of surgery photos, but I don't want to gross anyone out, so I won't post them with this message 😅 Architect Anna

Earlier this month I flew to Dublin Ireland to deliver a full day of AI training. I've always wanted to go to Dublin, but just never got around to it, so this was a very exciting opportunity. I flew in the day before and explored the city from the docks, to the Guinness factory, all the way out to the zoo. I got to stay in a nice hotel and have dinner in my room as I prepared for the training the next day. Then it all happened so quickly, it was an amazing training day, I delivered the session, went to the airport, had dinner and came home. A very short, but sweet trip. Yesterday I got to speak at the British Library for a great event that will have an impact far beyond that session. Helping other entrepreneurs is one of my favourite things to do and from the session I delivered yesterday that could be tens of thousands of people and small businesses. I got lots of positive feedback from the day and I think it's so cool that I get to blow peoples minds on a regular basis! One of the best parts of the day was that my mom could be there, she flew in from America yesterday morning hours before I went on stage! She has never seen me do public speaking before and it was really special to have her at that event. But she didn't fly all the way from America just to hear me speak, she is here to help me over the next couple of weeks. Tomorrow I am having major surgery and pausing my AI training work while I recover. I'm hoping I can use my medical leave for some much needed deep work, thinking, learning and testing time, but the reality is I have no idea what kind of shape I will be in after tomorrow, so I am going to give myself a bit of grace to do as my body needs. That is also why I'm posting this on a Tuesday rather than the usual Friday post. I am truly so grateful my mom could be here to help me, and as independent as you and I may be it is still important to know when to ask for help and welcome it when it comes. So, what a month! International training, big events and now surgery.

As crazy as it sounds we are nearly at the end of the first quarter of the year. What!?! Where are you at with things and what do you need help with? Do you need any custom prompts, any strategic advice or ideas, any motivational messages? Let me know. I'm here to help and as always I hope you had a wonderful week and a lovely weekend ahead! Architect Anna

Hi everyone. I created a Vision Board prompt last week. Thought you might like it 🤗 I copied it into Claude: “I want to create a vision board for 2026 that captures my path to success, not a list of goals, but a true vision of what I want my life and business to feel like by the end of this year. Guide me through three reflective stages: 1. START / STOP / CONTINUE — Ask me what I want to start, stop, and continue across business, personal life, relationships, health, creativity, and finances. 2. WHAT DO I WANT / NEED / VISION? — Desire, foundations, and the bigger picture of who I’m becoming. 3. HOW DOES SUCCESS FEEL? — Not just what it looks like, but how it feels daily, emotionally, in relationships and work. Then organize my answers into a vision board with themes, power words, and a personal vision statement I can read every morning.”

I’m at a two-day hackathon in London right now, mentoring the HR team at a beauty company. And this is not a normal technical hackathon, but is sooo cool! I'm mentoring a lovely group of people that is just one of 26 groups, all from the same company. Each group has an assigned AI mentor/coach and they are using this hackathon to come up with business solutions and actually create them in just two days. These are not programmers, these are non-techie people that are totally up for the task and I can't wait to see what they all build today. As a business they are focusing on the Google suite and building complex automation, agents, apps and API connections, it's pretty crazy. In my group we’re building a simulation app to help people to improve their communication skills. This is to address one of the companies values on 'fearless conversations'. The app will have a short quiz to determine which simulation to run. So depending on whether you’re a manager or an employee, you’ll answer a few questions about what you’re preparing for, maybe a review, an interview, a pitch, a tricky team conversation, and then the AI runs a simulation. We’re building it in Google Gems and then once each simulation is tested, migrate the instructions and knowledge files over to Google AI Studio, and connect it to ElevenLabs so it can run as a live conversation. Honestly we’re just seeing how far we can take it today. We've got a solid plan and as of last night the team was super excited to dive in today so fingers crossed we can get it built! There are prizes for the winning team so I'm hoping I can help my team stand out. We might try things that don’t work, we might have to adjust things on the fly, but every time something breaks or doesn’t behave the way we expect, we will learn something and move it forward. A few years ago this would have required a dev team and days if not weeks of work. Now we can prototype something like this in a day, which is kind of wild. And I think that’s the bigger point. If you’re sitting there thinking you’re not technical enough or you don’t know enough yet, just be curious. Open the tools, try something small, see what you’re actually interested in, and see what happens. You don’t have to get it perfect. You just need to start building your confidence and know that you can figure things out.