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Hello, hello, hello, my podcast people and thank you for joining me for yet another episode of
my favorite online business podcast. If you are listening, watching, tuning in on the day that it
drops, it is Monday, March 30th. Welcome to the tail end, the end of March and holy smokes,
it's flown by.
I'm not going to lie though, I'm here for this unseasonably warm weather in Southern
California. If you don't live here, then you probably wouldn't know about it, but uh, suffice to
say, climate change is real. Uh, fuck Trump, fuck this administration.
I feel like I haven't said that in a bit, but that's just like every episode, that's my feeling with my
whole heart and soul just forever and ever and ever. Fuck Trump, fuck this administration. No
real big biz or life announcements, though we did get a new couch from Costco and I'm loving
it.
Love me some Costco, love me some Costco times infinity. Um, so we're going to hop right into
today's episode, uh, or rather into the main topic for today's episode, which is that it is never
too late to change, which is an interesting segue coming on the tail end, the heels of a
discussion about climate change, uh, which at some point it is too late, but we're not there yet,
so it's worth it to keep trying. Let's do the things.
Um, and I'm going to tie that, kind of a double segue. I'm going to tie that into today's main
topic, um, because today's main topic is peripherally related to AI and that's the time and
climate change and things like that. Um, but the impetus for today's episode was actually a
comment that my, my good homie wheels, uh, Amanda Wheeler, she's wheels snacks, two S's
on, on Instagram.
We'll link that. Thank you. She made a comment.
She left a comment on my announcement reel that I shared that I had, when I rebranded my, I
shared a reel that I had rebranded my other podcast, formerly known as Chatty Petite Curious,
uh, to the brand spanking new prompting curiosity and wheels wrote, dude, you're just a
standup person. Love the reflection, love the rebrand, love all caps that you don't feel boxed in
and can pivot when you want slash need. It's such an incredible example for all of us.
Massive kudos wheels. I don't think we'll listen to this podcast, but if you do it, you're the
fucking best. Um, but in the sake of time and in the name of brevity, I'm going to point you to
episode 35 of that podcast, prompting curiosity.
Uh, and you can hear the full story about why I rebranded it. So we'll link that. Thank you,
Courtney.
Thank you, Jojo. Um, but the TLDR, or I guess the TLDL too long didn't listen, uh, is that opening
their, their bad behavior finally became too big to ignore for me to ignore. So I fully moved
away from Chatty Petite, Claude is my daily driver.
Now I don't use Chatty Petite at all. I canceled that subscription. We're done with that.
And I fully rebranded the podcast. So for those of you who had no idea that I have another
podcast, surprise, I have another podcast. Uh, and it's called prompting curiosity and it's a
podcast for the AI curious, right? It's a weekly podcast comes out every Thursday and it teaches
you how to use AI, namely LLMs, large language models with chatbots, you know, Chatty Petite,
Claude.
Um, and it looks to help people actually understand AI, which brings me back to the beginning
of this podcast. When I spoke about climate change, uh, one check out episode two of
prompting curiosity for my very research take on AI and the environment. We will link that.
Thank you, Courtney. Thank you, Jojo. Uh, and number two, the technology, the AI, AI itself.
That's not the problem. The leadership is LLMs again, LLMs, large language models. That's what
Claude is.
That's what Chatty Petite is. It's an LLM. They don't need the size and the scale and the power
that CEOs like Sam Altman, he's the CEO of CEO of open AI, right? That's the parent company of
Chatty Petite people.
He's like literally the worst, right? LLMs don't need to be as big and use as much power as Sam
Altman would have people believe. And as they're doubling down on there, it's a very F-150
American Tim, the tool man, Taylor, bigger, better approach to things that doesn't need to be
the case, right? AI is an incredible technology. I think that is quite possibly the technological
advancement of our lifetime.
And it doesn't need to have a negative impact on the environment. It does not need to. The
leadership that is in power wants that and is pushing for that because they're going to make
money through using those means of powering things, but it doesn't need to be the case at all.
We can use renewable energy source. It doesn't need to be the case. It doesn't need to be as
big either.
I know that there are no AI CEOs listening to this podcast, but it's never too late to change. That
is the title of this episode. Never too late to change.
But as it relates specifically to this episode and me talking to you fine folks, the message is the
same. It's never too late to change. So the rebrand, was it a lift? Abso-fucking-lutely.
I was in the computer, deep in the computer for like three weeks. I had a lot to do on the back
end because it's not just a podcast. And I'm not saying like, it's more than a podcast.
It's literally more than a podcast. It's a whole brand and a website. And so the website had all
the branding that needed to be changed.
The biggest thing was the domain needed to be changed. And then I needed to have the same
website, but switch the domain that it was being pointed to. I needed to change the Google
workspace.
I needed to change the email addresses. I needed to change the newsletter. I changed
everything.
But I'm super fucking proud with how it came out or super fucking proud of how it came out.
And I would love, love, love, love if you went and checked it out. Promptingcuriosity.com. But
more than that, yes, it was a lift, but more than that, was it the right thing to do? Abso-fuckinglutely.
Also, abso-fucking-lutely. And that was the biggest driver. I literally just could not ignore what
ChatGPT was doing or OpenAI rather was doing.
And like, yes, part of the environment thing, like they are trying to deregulate, lower
regulations, move away from regulations for AI. And it's like, oh, we need them. We need them.
But why am I sharing this message, right? Yes, the impetus for this episode, the inspiration for
this episode was Rios' comment, but why ultimately am I sharing this message? It's never too
late. Mainly because I think that there's a good chance that you listening to this might be on the
side of things where you will just keep doing the thing forever. When I sit down and analyze
episodes and I'm thinking about topics for these episodes, I kind of try to think about who the
audience is.
I don't know everybody listens to this podcast, but I try to think about the audience. And I think
I have a pretty decent feel for who the audience is. And it's my guess that you might be on the
side of things where you're like, man, I committed, I'm doing it.
And you just do it forever and ever. How do I know? Because that's me as well. Just be doing
shit for years.
I'm like, I'm still doing it. Why? Because I just do it. And, you know, not in a gross AI CEO kind of
way where you just keep doing shit because you want endless profit, but rather you keep doing
shit because you've built something and you've been doing that thing for years and years and
years and you enjoy it or you enjoyed it at some point and you have your loyal people and
there's nothing negative about it.
But perhaps you're ready to change. Let this episode, let this be the permission that you don't
need. It's never too late to change ever.
You know, I did an episode not too long ago about stopping your business completely. And this
is not this. This is kind of, you know, an iteration of that, of it's OK to change and grow and do
different things, right? Move away from this thing that maybe you've done forever.
And then obviously, folks, obviously, as it relates to sunk cost fallacy, you know, if we think of
sunk cost fallacy, I would love for you to just throw that shit right in the trash. Just like take it
out of the trash. Sunk cost fallacy for those of you that may not know, like, well, I've already
sunk X amount of years or dollars into this thing, so I might as well just keep doing it.
PT school degree and debt? Anyone? I don't I don't think that this podcast has any MAGA
listeners. I'm like 99.9999% certain I don't. But also, if it does, I do have that.
If you are a MAGA person, same, same. Leave that shit, girl. Leave it.
Leave that shit. It's not too late. It's never too late.
People are probably going to be mean to you, but also you deserve it. But it's still never too late
to change. So if we think about the sunk cost fallacy as one end of the what's actually real.
Oh, hit my little thing underneath the desk. If you think about the sunk cost fallacy as one end
of the what's actually real spectrum of change, I think on the other side, we have the skill of
knowing when to change. So one side, sunk cost fallacy.
Other side, the skill of knowing when to change. And I do like to think of it as a skill. Think of it
as a skill, which is perhaps something I do because when it's a skill, it means that you can get
better at it.
You can just learn and practice and refine that skill. You may never be the best at it, but it's a
skill, so it can be learned. It can be acquired.
So if we think about the, you know, relate this to the niche for this podcast, online business,
right? There are times, and we think about the skill of knowing when to change. There are times
when it's best to stay the course and stick with that thing until it works, right? Launches, offers,
your niche. Sometimes you need to stick with that shit until it is green light.
It goes, it's doing the thing. And then there are other times also, you know, with launches and
offers where it's time to evolve. And I think the biggest difference here is typically that for the
former, right? When you need to stick things out, it's that I want you to stick things out because
most of the time in this category, people are wanting to stop because things aren't working out,
right? And I want you to stick with it long enough for them to work out.
The second category, right? Where it's like, it's time to evolve. That's usually the case for
someone, you know, business owner or business where you stuck with things so long they have
worked and now maybe you've outgrown them, right? My personal example for this would be
retiring the Instagram intensive, Rachel Strickland, that she's going through right now, her final
round of the audacity, the audacity project, or these are things and she's done 30 rounds. How
incredible is that? I like foot.
And you, you stuck with this thing. She's stuck with this thing. We've stuck with this thing.
I have the same thing with, you know, I'm at legacy mentor mind that I am with Jill. We stuck
with it. We did that for five years and it's time to evolve.
It wasn't what I call Roomba-ing where people are just getting started and they try to launch
something and they don't get traction. And so they're going to go over here and do a
completely different niche. And they try to launch something and it doesn't work.
They're like, okay, I gotta go over here. And it's like, no, the problem is that you haven't stuck
with it long enough for it to work, right? Two different things there, but to bring it back around
to the, the inspo for this episode. If you don't like something, hit the bowl.
If you don't like something, if something doesn't feel right, if something doesn't feel aligned, if
something isn't vibing with your values, in that case, no matter how short or how long you've
been doing that thing, understand that it is never too late to change. All right. We got a short
one today.
Not mad about it. Would love it if you went and checked out the new website. I'm like so fucking
proud of it, guys.
I'm so, so, so proud of it. Just when you go and check it out, you'll see. I'm super, super stoked.
Would love it if you went and checked it out, promptingcuriosity.com. And if you have a
moment, all right, check it out. And maybe with the moment that you've spared and saved from
this short episode, maybe, just maybe you can use that time and a little inspiration from the
website to go and change something in your business. All right.
I'm gonna wrap it up there. As always, my friends, endlessly, endlessly, one more time,
endlessly appreciative for every single one of you. Until next time, friends, Maestro out.
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Connect with my homie, Wheels: @wheelssnacks
Check out my post about rebranding to Prompting Curiosity
Prompting Curiosity Ep. 35: Put Your Money Where Your Prompt Is
Prompting Curiosity Ep. 2: ChatGPT and the Environment: Energy, Water, and Carbon Emissions
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