Transcript
A (0:00)
Foreign. Hello.
B (0:07)
Welcome to another episode of the Always Be Testing podcast. I'm your host, Ty degrange, and I'm really excited today to talk to Nicole Leffer. Nicole, how are you?
A (0:16)
I am great. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited for our conversation today.
B (0:21)
Absolutely. Nicole is an AI consultant extraordinaire, I would say. She has published some really phenomenal ideas and posts and she's helped some great brands in the world of AI. Something that maybe we've heard a little bit about over the last few months and years.
A (0:41)
Few people are talking about AI these days now. It used to be that I was, like, talking to a wall and it was crickets and everybody's like, what are you talking about? And now everybody wants to talk to me about this. I finally got everybody to catch up to where I was on wanting to chat.
B (0:56)
Nicole has become popular, to say the least, so you're lucky to have her today. We're thrilled to talk to her. We've had some great chats. Nicole, just jumping in. You started playing with AI tools in 2021. You launched your consultancy in 2023, is that right?
A (1:14)
That sounds right, yes. Gosh. Time. And that was like, a long time ago now, which is, like, really wild. Initially, I just. I was the head of marketing at a B2B SaaS company and I stumbled upon a generative AI WR before ChatGPT or any of what we're using now. Came out, did a demo and was immediately hooked and thought, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. And I thought it was going to take over marketing. Like, that week. When I saw it, I was like, everybody's going to be using this. I started using it every day. My team was using it for everything. And we just really saw spectacular results from bringing us into our marketing workflows. It took a while. I was telling a lot of other CMOs heads of marketing and they had no idea what I was talking about. And it took until ChatGPT came out in late 2022. I think it was late 2022, but it took until ChatGPT came out and it started getting the attention before anybody else started noticing. Yeah. In early 2023. They then were like, well, you've been talking about this for a while and started asking me what I knew and out with this. And so that's when I started doing AI training, AI consulting. And it is what I have been doing full time ever since, and I absolutely love it.
B (2:36)
That's amazing. I love that. Were there some moments in Those early days where you kind of realized there was this connection and kind of requirement for marketing campaigns and the processes you rolled out for your clients and helping them.
