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If you've been hearing a lot about AI but aren't quite sure how to actually use it in your everyday life, this episode is a must-listen for you. From travel planning to meal preparation, and even personal finances, AI is transforming how we live, work, and play. Tune in to discover practical AI applications and see how you can integrate these tools into your own life.
I’ve shared real prompts I have tested for leveraging AI across a variety of practical use cases:
🌍 Travel Made Easy: Learn how AI can help you plan detailed and personalized travel itineraries.
🍽️ Meal Planning: Discover how AI can create customized meal plans and recipes based on your dietary needs and preferences.
🏋️ Fitness and Health: Find out how AI can design tailored workout plans and offer health tips.
📚 Learning and Education: See how AI can assist in creating effective learning plans for new skills and knowledge.
💵 Personal Finance: Explore how AI can help you manage your finances, create budgets, and track spending.
🏡 Home and Lifestyle: Utilize AI for home design, gardening, and even small legal tasks like drafting leases.
📱 Tech Integration: Get insights into the latest AI-integrated technologies, such as smart glasses and advanced language models.
Don’t miss this episode and let me know your thoughts after you listen. I always love hearing from you. If you have any questions about this episode, comment below or DM me on Instagram @jen_lehner
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[00:00:00.000] - Gary Vaynerchuk Hey, guys It's Gary Vaynerchuk. You're listening to the Front Row, entrepreneur podcast with our girl, Jen.
[00:00:09.980] - Jen Lehner A couple of days ago, I was out hiking with the Cleveland Hiking Club. Shout out to the Cleveland Hiking Club. I started chatting with one of my fellow hikers about AI. He said that he's been wanting to learn more about AI because he sensed that there's a lot of things that he could do to enhance the quality of his life with AI. But he said he just didn't really know a good place to jump in. So he was asking if I had any AI course or lesson about getting started. And while I do have a lot of trainings and a whole library of content in our AI Strategy Club about using AI in business, I thought I would talk more about practical ways to use AI in our day-to-day lives, not just business. Because I don't think I've done that yet. And I do think there are a lot of people out there like Steve, my hiking friend, who are hearing a lot about AI, but they really haven't dipped their toe in the water yet.
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[00:01:06.740] - Jen Lehner They aren't really sure how to use it in their lives. That's what this episode is all about. Real practical use case scenarios for AI in our lives. Obviously, over time, this list is going to grow as the abilities of AI continue to develop. I would love to hear from you how you're using AI in your life and your business. Before we dive in, I really want to make this episode very easy for anybody to consume, whether you have yet to get started with AI or you're using it daily. I really want this to be helpful for everyone. With that said, I want to just state a couple of things for our newbies, really. Ai has been around for a long time, whether it's Siri or Google Assistant or some other piece of technology that you've been using over the years, it's really not new. I just woke up, you know who, on my phone. I have to think of something else to call her. Or Lexie, not her real name, but we don't want to wake her up either. But what is new is the generative large language models that hit the scene recently. For me, and maybe for you as well, it was ChatGPT that knocked me right off my chair.
[00:02:27.650] - Jen Lehner Today, we're going to focus a lot on large language models. I'm just probably generically going to refer to them as ChatGPT. These really do make our lives a little easier and a little bit more fun. Other large language models that I love are claude. Ai and perplexity. Ai. I love them for different reasons. They each have a free version. If you haven't tried out, I'm going to just name all three. Chatgpt, which is owned by OpenAI, claude. Ai, and perplexity. Chatgpt. Ai. Check them out if you haven't yet. At the time of this recording, ChatGPT's most recent version is ChatGPT 4.0, which is actually free for everyone. But if you pay for it, it's supposedly five times faster, better, just more in every way. When I say ChatGPT 4.0, it's not 4.0, it's 4.0, like the letter O, which stands for omega. Chatgpt 5, which is supposed to be infinitely more powerful than the current version, is rumored to be coming out in a few months. Let's jump in and talk about all the ways that AI can help us enrich our everyday lives to make life a little easier, a little more fun. Well, travel.
[00:03:47.640] - Jen Lehner We're all travel obsessed. I don't know anybody who just doesn't love to travel. We can use ChatGPT in so many ways for making travel easier. Here's an every prompt I'm going to give you today is a prompt that I have tested out myself. Most of these for demo purposes, but I did as I was writing this episode and creating my notes, I went over and tested all these out. Here's the prompt. Create a seven-day itinerary of a road trip through New England in July. I want to hit Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Maine. I only want to stay at four or five star hotels or inns. I am a vegan and my husband is not. We are not drinkers. We We do like to go to festivals and cultural events. We like to walk and hike and bike. We like art galleries, flea markets, and farmer's markets. We like funky neighborhoods and great bookstores. Our very favorite thing is to walk through a city and explore, so we don't want to be rushed each day with a tight schedule. It gave me really quite a wonderful, reasonable-looking itinerary. I'm not going to read through the whole thing.
[00:04:55.580] - Jen Lehner Let me just scan through it. But it's like, day one, arrive in Boston, hotel, Four Seasons Hotel, Five Star. Activities in the afternoon, Stroll through Boston Common and Public Garden. Then for the evening, dinner at a vegan friendly restaurant like Tru Bistro in Summerville or Chloe in Back Bay. Having gone to Boston several times, this is an actual, realistic day for us. Then they have day two of us exploring Boston some more, walking the Freedom Trail in the morning, in the afternoon, exploring the North End, Italian neighborhood, visit Paul Revere's house in the Old North Church, and in the evening, visiting the Museum of Fine Arts or the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, and then in dinner, Harvest in Cambridge, which is a vegan-friendly restaurant. Then day three, we go from Boston to Martha's Vineyard, and it tells us to drive to Woods Hole and then take the ferry to Martha's Vineyard. Then they've got us staying at a five-star hotel there, Harborview Hotel. More activities. Then Then day four, we explore Martha's Vineyard. It has a whole list of activities. Every single one of them looks great. They list vegan friendly restaurants. Then we ferry from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket.
[00:06:13.910] - Jen Lehner Then Nantucket to Portland, Maine. I'm familiar with Portland, Maine. Everything that it listed is exactly what I would want to do. Then I asked it to drill down on some events that would be happening in Portland, Maine in July. It It lists lots of details, which I'm not going to give you for each of these events, but the first Friday Art Walk, the Yarmouth Clam Festival, the Portland Beach Experience, the Southworth Planetarium shows, Walking the Working Waterfront, and Makers on Maine in Freeport, which is every weekend in July. Really, really, really good stuff. Now, while you're traveling, imagine, let's say you're in Japan and you're in the train station, but you can't read the signs. What you can do is point your phone at the sign. So open up your camera inside of ChatGPT or take a picture of it, upload it into ChatGPT, and ask GPT to translate it. In fact, AI is now integrated in my Meta Ray-ban smart glasses. So I could simply say, Hey, M-E-T-A. I don't want to wake my glasses up. They're on my face. Hey, M-E-T-A, translate this sign. As I look at the sign, I say this, and from the tiny speakers in my glasses, I will hear the translation.
[00:07:37.430] - Jen Lehner In fact, let's just talk about these smart glasses for a minute, because for some people, they will be literally life-changing. These glasses are Ray-Ban Wayfarers. They have other models if you don't like the Wayfarers. You can get your prescription added to the glasses. Mine are progressive lenses. They're also transitional, so they're sunglasses when I need them to be. They replace my my Airpods because I can have a phone call, listen to music, or listen to my book or a podcast, and the sound is excellent, as good as my Airpods. And although it's coming through the stem, the stems, the sides of my glasses, No one around me can hear. It's also voice activated if I want it to be. I can tap on the side to do things, but I can also just activate it with my voice by simply using the wake word. So I can say, You know who, M-E-T-A, take a picture, or You know who, take a video. From a very teeny tiny camera on the front of the glasses, it will take a high quality photo or video. Now, it's not going to be 4D HD, but it's very good.
[00:08:44.450] - Jen Lehner It automatically syncs with my photos on my phone. It's really, really great. I ride my bike a lot, and so obviously, I don't want to be pulling my phone out to take pictures or video, but I can just speak to my glasses and say, Hey, you know who? Take a video, take a snapshot, and it just sees what I see. Also, like I said, I can look at something and AI will tell me what I'm looking at. With these glasses on, if I'm in a museum, I can look at the Mona Lisa and say, Tell me more about this artist, or what am I looking at? Imagine me in a person without sight wearing these glasses or something similar. You can literally let the glasses be your eyes because it sees what you are facing, whatever your head is looking at or facing towards. Incredible. What about using AI to create a meal plan based on your dietary preferences? For example, you could say, here's the prompt, Create a seven-day meal plan for a vegetarian diet of 1,500 calories for a diabetic. Please include step-by-step recipes and do not include anything with mushrooms. Again, I'm not going to go through the whole seven-day menu that it put out for me, but man, it's really fantastic.
[00:09:58.000] - Jen Lehner There's no repeats, and it even includes included snacks. I will go through day one for you. Day one, breakfast, Greek yogurt parfait, one cup plain great Greek yogurt, half a cup of fresh berries, two tablespoons of granola, low sugar, and one teaspoon of chia seeds. Lunch, quinoa salad, half a cup of cooked quinoa, quarter cup of diced cucumber, quarter cup of diced tomatoes, the rest of the ingredients. Then it says snack, apple slices with almond butter, one medium apple, one teaspoon of almond butter, and for dinner, stuffed bell peppers. Then it gives the ingredients for the bell peppers and the simple instructions. Preheat the oven to 375, mix brown rice, black beans, corn, tomatoes, cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper. Stuff the bell pepper, halves with a mixture, place it in a baking dish, top with shredded cheese, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. I mean, it's really, really so good. Again, it gave me the menu for seven days. What's so great is that because ChatGPT remembers stuff about you if you wanted to, you can come back to this conversation time and time again to get new recipes or snack ideas or nutritional information, and you won't have to continue to tell it that you're a diabetic vegetarian eating 1,500 calories a day.
[00:11:15.330] - Jen Lehner While we're talking about food, you can literally take a picture of what's in your fridge and ask ChatGPT to give you some meal ideas. You can also take a picture of a dish at a restaurant and ask AI to create a recipe for you. What about for You could try a prompt like this. Create a four-week workout plan for building muscle at home. Keep in mind that I have lower back issues. Or you might say, Keep in mind that I hate burpees. No burpees, because for sure, that's what I'm going to say. Another way that you might find ChatGPT super helpful is to ask it to create a lesson plan or curriculum for teaching you something. For example, you could say, oh, boy, I mean, I've a whole bunch of examples. You could say something like, Create a learning plan for mastering JavaScript in three months, or Create a learning plan for achieving conversational fluency in French in one year. Create a learning plan for mastering digital marketing techniques in three months. Create a learning plan for improving public speaking skills in two months. I mean, whatever you want to learn, you can ask ChatGPT to create plan for you.
[00:12:31.140] - Jen Lehner What I've noticed is that when you do this, it will give you a really nice outline that's solid, but then you could go in and have it drilled down on each point in the outline to give you more information, more content. What about personal finances? There are so many great apps that use AI that you could choose from. The one that I've been using lately is Rocket Money. I love that app. But you could also upload your own spreadsheets or statements and ask ChatGPT to analyze it for you and create a budget, let's say, to help you reach a certain savings or retirement goal. Ai can be your designer. You could take a photo of your back deck and ask, What three things should I add to my deck. I want it to be modern and welcoming. So now you've got a professional designer helping you. They could decorate your living room. And what about small legal issues at home? Ai is a godsend. Do you need to create a bill of sale? I did this recently. I sold two kayaks. You need to create a bill of sale for something that you just sold on Facebook marketplace?
[00:13:37.010] - Jen Lehner AI will do that in a split second. If you have a tenant renting your guest house, you can have AI draw up a lease. You just need to give it the state that you live in and other basic details, the terms of the lease and the dates and how much they're paying. Now, obviously, don't do this. Then when something comes wrong, say, Jen Lehner said that this was legally binding. When I've done the few times that I've used this and then compared it to other leases that I have used or other contracts, it looks very good. It looks legitimate for that light legal stuff. But if you're a lawyer listening to this, please don't yell at me. I'm just sharing with you the ways that I've used AI. When I talk about creating a lease or creating a bill of sale or creating Creating a lesson plan, this is what they mean by generative. This is very different than Google searching because it literally generates something from you. It creates something from nothing, nothing but your words. You can ask AI to take a handwritten list of, let's say, your CD collection, if you're one of the four people left in the world who has a CD collection, and then ask them to create a table or a spreadsheet alphabetized from your handwritten inventory.
[00:14:59.990] - Jen Lehner You know what? Actually, I think you could take a picture of your CDs, and if the picture was clear enough, and get the same thing. Get it alphabetized. You could have it done by artist or genre and put into a table or a spreadsheet. Chatgpt will do that for you. You could do that with your bookshelf now that I think about it. What about using AI to get personalized news and weather updates? Just put your interest in there, gardening, travel, and your location. Then AI generates a script that creates a daily email digest featuring relevant news articles and the day's weather forecast, helping you stay connected and plan your activities accordingly. Hey, I thought this would be a good point in the conversation to interrupt myself and let you know about our brand new AI Strategy Club. You can learn more about it at frontrowvip.com/AI. Basically, this is a place where we come together and learn about AI, learn about ways to use it in our business and our personal lives as we're discussing today. So check it out. I would love for you to join us. Here's one that I love that I use recently.
[00:16:18.750] - Jen Lehner I took a photo of a corner of my backyard where I planned to put a raised bed, and I told AI what gardening zone I'm in, which is 6S, by the way, which, of course, I asked I had to ask the AI what gardening zone is Cleveland. It told me 6S. Then I said, All right, well, here's a picture of my backyard. I asked what I should plant and what position each plant should be in the bed. It took into consideration the tree, the big oak tree in the corner, and the amount of sunlight that the bed would get, and drew a sketch, because I asked for a sketch, of what plant should go where in the raised bed. That is the secret. If you're not an experienced gardener, you don't take things into consideration. Like a cucumber grows high, so anything you put next to it is going to get shaded. There is a strategy to what you put where in your garden, but I don't know that because I'm not an experienced gardener, so this was immensely helpful. Are you a parent to a young child or a grandparent? How fun would it be to create custom bedtime stories from your prompts.
[00:17:29.410] - Jen Lehner You can make the prompt, like write a gripping and suspensful bedtime story about a little boy named Billy who lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and He has a dog named Sam, assuming that's your grandchild's name and his dog's name. That could be so fun. You can also create a chat that is solely for your own emotional support. Let's say you want to stop smoking or drinking or some other bad habit. You can write a prompt like this. You are a highly trained addiction coach. This is what you're saying in your prompt. You are a highly trained addiction coach and counselor on the methods or trained on the methods of Allan Carr. I quit smoking today, and I will lean on you for support and encouragement. I plug this in to ChatGPT, and the response was, Congratulations on taking the first step towards a smoke-free life. Quitting smoking is a significant achievement, and I'm here to support you every step of the way using Alan Carr's methods. Here are some key principles and tips to help you stay on track. It lists some principles that are based on Alan Carr's teachings. Ps, many, many years ago, like 25 years ago, I quit smoking after I read his book, and it was incredibly helpful.
[00:18:56.500] - Jen Lehner Then after it lists all these things for me to to keep in mind and to remember, it closes by saying, I'm here to help you through any challenge or doubts you may have. How are you feeling right now? And is there anything specific you're struggling with today? Isn't that crazy? I mean, it really would help if I was quitting smoking to be able to drop in there and ask for a tip to get through whatever rough patch that I'm going through. Now, just the other day, Apple announced all the changes that they're making with AI, and it is head spinning. They are integrating ChatGPT into their new iOS and Sequoia operating systems. If you're an Apple user, you are really in for some truly delightful upgrades, from how we organize our photos to scheduled SMSes, Hallelujah for that one. If you follow any of my trainings, I love to use the feature in Gmail to schedule send. I wish so much to have that option in my phone. When I remembered that, Oh, yeah, I forgot to ask the plumber this question. I don't want to message him at 11:00 PM, I could just schedule the text message.
[00:20:11.990] - Jen Lehner So that's coming. They're basically All these updates that they showed are going to make apps like 1Password and all trails obsolete. It's also worth fast forwarding on the replay of their keynote. Just go to Google and type in Apple Keynote. There's several videos, but I think the main one that's at the top of the page, they've got chapters listed. As you fast forward, you'll notice that at the very bottom of the video, there's little dots that take you to the different chapters. Fast forward to the chapter, it's about the iPad, but it's also about the calculator app. Never in my life did I think I would get excited about the calculator app. But you have to see the demo that they do. I'm not going to go into it. You just have to see it to believe it. That's it. We covered a lot, and yet it's just a fraction, a tiny, tiny fraction of all the ways that we can use AI and these large language models to enhance our lives. Steve, if you're listening, this one was for you. I'm sure I missed something. I'm sure I missed a lot of things. Find me on Instagram.
[00:21:24.290] - Jen Lehner Send me a DM. I'm @jen_lehnerer, and that's spelled J-E-N-L-E-H-N-E-R. I always love to hear from you. Until next time. I'll see you soon.
