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Here we go. I don't respond to emails anymore. ChatGPT does. This is not a joke. This is real deal serious stuff that I just wanted to share with you all because everything going on with AI, you think to yourself, how could this help me? Or I don't want this to help me or I don't care. Well, I feel like all of those are little quiet lies to yourself or just someone else lying to you making you feel that way. But. Or it's ultimately just your, you know, your anxiousness. It's not fear, it's anxiety. I talked about this on a recent podcast that I think came out already. I'm not sure, or maybe it hasn't, but it'll be coming out soon. But I was an Instagram, sorry, a YouTube live for sure. So you can check that out on my YouTube channel with Charles from Stepping Stone Landscaping. We were just talking about all things, I think mindset and we talked about a bunch of stuff, but one of the things I was talking about was, I think we were talking about growth. And he had a lot of fears when he was early on in business with growth, the decisions that he had to make, the investments that he had to make to grow. And he took so much longer to, you know, he took longer than like, had he made those decisions sooner, if he had made some of the tougher decisions and bigger investments monetarily, you know, money wise financial investments sooner, then he would have grown faster. Right. And he would have been where he's at now sooner and, and he would have been able to enjoy it more with his team and his family and so on. And he said that it was mainly fear, fear based. And, and he imagines that that's probably what most guys and girls, most of us struggle with, not just in life, but with business because, you know, it's definitely scary. But I had a whole, I talked to him about fear versus anxiety and I'm not going to go into all this, repeat all the stuff that I said, but essentially I just, and I might have said this in the past episodes before, but there's a difference between fear and anxiety. Fear is real, present danger. Like, oh my gosh, I almost got into an accident, my heart's pounding. That was terrifying. Or you know, I'm standing on the edge of a building. You know, I'm on the top of the roof of a high building and I'm standing, I'm standing on the edge and I'm looking over it and I get that feeling in the pit of my stomach that's Actual fear because I could slip and fall and, and hurt myself or die. Right? That's actual fear. Well, anxiety feels the exact same way. You get the same or similar pits in your stomach and butterflies, uncomfortableness, hot, sweaty, maybe. Like, it manifests all different types of ways for different people. But traditionally we have very similar ways of responding. Our body and mind responding to fear and anxiety is also very similar way of response. But anxiety is future projected fear. It's future projected danger where, like I said, fear is clear and present danger. I mean, real. Sorry. Well, that's clear. Real present danger is fear. That's real fear. Like this something dangerous could, could happen or is happening. That's real and present fear. Where anxiety is, you're imagining that situation. You're imagining a future dangerous situation, a future undesirable outcome. Like, man, I don't want to go up on that top. I don't want to go to the top of the Empire State Building because I'm afraid that I might get too close to the edge and fall over and die. That's anxiety. Now that keeps you from potentially seeing something amazing. You know, I mean, if you're afraid of heights, you're afraid of heights. It's not like you have to, I'm not saying, you know, force yourself to, to break through that, but I mean, it is going to make you stronger. And when you realize just anxiety and there's not any real danger unless you climb over the edge of all of the protect which they. I don't even think you can even do that. You know, like the Empire State Building has all kinds of protection mechanisms, walls, and it's really almost impossible to climb over something and jump off or fall off the Empire stable. You have to literally do it yourself. So there's no accidentally falling over the edge is my point. You have to purposefully do something crazy and not have anyone see you somehow to do that. So there's no accidentally falling over. It's you having to do it. So when you think about something like that, you realize it's just anxiety. I'm just stressing myself out about something that is not likely. Yeah, there's a possibility, but it's a very slim possibility. And I can do things to keep myself from that happening without avoiding the whole experience. Right. So when it comes to growing your business, it's like, okay, well, how do I, how do I get a second crew without. By minimizing risk, you know, like, of course you always want to analyze everything and, and figure out how much risk is involved versus the Reward and do everything strategic and all that. But when you realize you're. Most of us are suffering from anxiety than actual fear, then the reason why that's important, like I said in the episode with Charles, is that anxiety is in our mind. And we can just change that narrative. We can change how we think about a situation so that we aren't so anxious about it. We aren't getting that fearful feeling inside that stops us dead in our tracks from moving forward and growing our business and making our lives and our family's lives better, our team, our company's employees lives better. Because we get stuck up with. We just get caught up with the feeling of fear. But it's really anxiety. And if we just identify that and recognize that, then we can change how we feel and think. We can change how we think, which then will change how we feel. We can put plans. You know, the more you plan, the less anxious you feel, right? If you're going to speak on stage or you're going to host an event or you're going to go talk to a customer, you're going to go talk to that girl for the first time. The more you plan and prepare, put possible outcomes, scenarios, what you're going to say, how you're going to say it, the more you do that, the less anxious you feel because you feel more prepared and your mind is now feeling more confident in whatever it is you're doing. So now you're more anticipating, you have more anticipation, which is a happy, positive feeling than feeling doubtful and doubt, just essentially feeling doubtful. Like, I don't know about this. What if this happens? That and you focus on all the negative aspects instead of the positive aspects. Like what? This is going to be amazing when this happens. I did all this prep work. I feel confident. Let me go do it. And you just focus on that now. You don't feel so anxious. So that's my major rabbit hole of the episode. Back to pulling myself back out, back to AI you might be anxious about AI because you don't know much about it or anything about it, or what you do know maybe is incorrect or what you do know is, is. Is not the full picture. And I'm not here to. To promote AI or to say that AI Is the best. And I'm not going to have a debate about what can and can't happen. What's the future of AI Going to be with our company, with our. Our. With our world, essentially. You know, for. For better or for worse, I'm not going into any of that. I'm just saying that what, what I said in the beginning was I don't reply to emails anymore and that's just scratching the surface. So like I've been you playing. I played around with Chat GPT when it, a little while after it came out, just kind of. I'm a big Google fan. Like I'm always searching things and looking up things and doing helping expand my mind and my learning through a search engine like Google that helps me, helped me research that. Well now, I mean now Google has AI and Gemini and everything too. But in the beginning it was just chatgpt and it was very basic but it gave you kind of, it gave you. What am I trying to say? It showed you the possibilities of what could be like oh wow, this is more than just searching something on Google. This is having Google even though it's chatgpt like do stuff for you. Like you tell it to do something and it does it like, like analyze this or compare these things. Which Google did that. But again ChatGPT took to a little bit of a higher level and obviously it's come. All these other AIs have come out too, including Gemini that Google created and Claude and all these other things, but all these are the AIs. So it's come a long way in a short amount of time. But I started messing around with Chad GBT as like, like most people did probably as like an alternative to Google. So everybody was just going on Chat GPT to Google stuff essentially to search stuff to, to navigate their thoughts and do their research. And that's come a lot longer of a way now where while I was using it, you know, I just learned more how to use it and. But I didn't really know how it would apply to my business. I'm just like, I don't know, like whatever it's, you know, it was so early so basic stuff in the beginning and it was fun and somewhat useful from a personal standpoint, but wasn't really getting a whole lot of professional stuff. But then when they created these agents, ChatGPT agents and I know there's other types of agents all over the place that other AI platforms create, but essentially an agent is, it's. It's a form of AI that you can give instructions, you give it specific tasks to do, you give it repeatable tasks and it just does it automatically in the background so you can create an agent to. I'm not going to go into all the, all the rabbit holes of that, but I'll just. So what I have done what I have done one of the things that I have done and I'm going to create more. I have an agent, it's called my executive chief of staff agent, I believe. And it checks all of my emails every morning, my calendar, and it reports all of my priorities, categorizes and prioritizes everything, types up reply drafts, right? It creates a draft reply for all the emails that need to be responded to and tells me all about it, gives me the summaries of everything and tells me that there's drafts already in my email for me to look over before I send out for all these different emails. So just that alone. And that's just a snippet. There's so much more that my executive chief of staff can do and I'm just unlocking more and more as we learn together or as it teaches me. And I learn new ways and activate new tasks, essentially new repeatable tasks so that I can free up my time. And you might think to yourself, well, how much time does that really free up? Well, five minutes here and there is going to add up to an hour or two everywhere. But I'll tell you one thing, the amount of emails that I get from two businesses every morning, let alone throughout the day, like every morning, it's like from when I stop checking that kind of stuff and put my phone on, do not disturb, like in the evening so I can focus on spending time with my family and unwinding and then going to bed and starting the next day. So anything that comes through in the evening, nighttime and then early morning stuff, it's a lot. It's a lot. And it's time consuming for me to go through and read them all. Like, some of it is nonsense, some of it's important, most of it's important, some of it's nonsense. Like some of it's like, you know, newsletters from opei, you know, Equip and some other publications, which is great and informative, but that's not something I need to, it's not something I need to read immediately and respond. It's not, it's not even something I need to respond to, right? So something like that, AI can just summarize it real quick, which, when you go into your Gmail now I believe everyone has access to this. When you have Gmail anyway and you click on it on an email, AI already summarizes the email at the top for you, which is cool, but you still have to read sometimes, if it's a long email, it's a long summary, right? So regardless, you still got to read it. And my point is, when I would have to sort through all those emails, I would, you know, just look at the. I would look at who it was from, what the topic was and just move on. If it was like OPEI or something like that, I'm like, I'll get back to that later. But let me prioritize what maybe needs to be addressed so I don't get lost in the sauce and miss something that's critical that was due, you know, or that's due soon or due by the end of the day or was due this morning and I forgot or whatever. Like that's where the AI helps sort all that out and keeps me on track every day. Because I would have to just sit through and look through all those things and then all the ones that look like something I need to read, I had to read them all. And then I had to think about what kind of reply or response do I need to create. And then I have to actually type it, or even if I speak to text it. And then I have to go proofread and make the corrections because that's not perfect either. All that stuff, I will tell you, takes more than five minutes. But even if it took five minutes, that's still five minutes here, there and everywhere. That adds up, like I said, over time. But it takes a lot longer than five minutes, if I had to guess, because I haven't really gotten that meticulous with tracking that specific part of my day. But I know I have dedicated time every morning to that. I think I have at least an hour in my schedule blocked just for that in the morning. I set that boundary, so it takes a good chunk of that hour, so maybe about 30 minutes, depending on how not every day. I don't get the exact same amount of emails every day. Of course, not all of them need to be responded to either. Some of them are just, like I said, newsletters and just emails from different sources that I follow just to stay educated in the know with certain things, you know, being on certain email lists and so on. None of those, those just need to be read. They don't need to be replied to. Sometimes there's a call to action, but not always. So of course not every day is going to be exactly the same amount of workload when it comes time frame anyway, when it comes to the emails. But a good 30 minutes, a good 15 to 30 minutes every morning is me doing that when I could be doing something else in that 15 to 30 minutes. And then I'm saving 15 to 30 minutes overall in my day that I could be doing something that later on in the day might be critical because the AI does that. My chief executive, my chief executive agent, my chief of staff executive agent. I obviously don't have it memorized yet because it's all so new and exciting to me and I'm trying to wrap my head all around it. But I just wanted to share my wins immediately with you as I'm starting to go through the process. Because everything is changing so fast, there's no reason to wait to share this until next month or at least at the end of the year. It's like, hey, this is what's working right now. Give it a try. You know, figure it out. Like, go on ChatGPT and ask it. That's how I figured all this out. I did a lot of Googling and I watched YouTube videos and learned all this stuff about agents and it was so unnecessary and time consuming. I got more educated by Chat GPT educating me on how to use ChatGPT. No one deserves more than our military vets, firefighters, EMTs and police officers. Toro is a proud sponsor of the LCR Media podcast and with their American Hero program, they offer 18% off landscape contractor equipment and specialty construction equipment. To get yours or to find out more information, click the the link in the episode description or go to your local Toro dealer. Did I say that too fast? I got more educated from ChatGPT educating me on how to use ChatGPT. So that's. That is the best way I will say to communicate or to learn from ChatGPT is from asking it questions about itself. So that's how I learned about agents, like how do I use agent? And because I've been using ChatGPT for a couple of years now, I believe or not too long after it started. So however long it's been out, but well over a year because you know, I'm like full cycle here with some of my events. So like this is coming up on my second year for the LCR summit or not second the second time talking about the LCR summit with ChatGPT and so many other things, events have transpired between the last one and the one coming up. And so it's just gotten to know me so much from all of our chats and what I've typed in the settings about me and what it's learned about me online. I've essentially what they call training your AI. Like I've trained it to know a whole lot about me, my initiatives, my style and tone. How I speak, the way I speak, the things I say, the words I use, all the different things. So that now it makes it so much easier to create stuff with it and for it to help me make decisions. So, you know, when I asked it about agents, it created eight agents based off of all of the things it knows about me. Like you, you know, this agent can help you with your content. This agent can help you with your events like the LCR Summit and Profit Accelerator Live. And this, this agent can help you with your coaching. This, you know, and it's just breaking it all down. This agent can help you with your profits so that you can stay profitable and keep your expenses regulated. With all. With your business, with all the things that you're doing in your business. This agent can take care of your can do this and that for your lawn care business. Like all these, all the. There's eight different agents. It was amazing. This agent can help you stay, stay on track with your time and your schedule. Make sure nothing's overlapping, you're not overbooking yourself. And I mean, it's essentially what the chief executive, chief of staff should be doing or could be doing as well. But you know, they just really broke it down into a lot of details about, like what, you know, what, what you could be utilizing. So they gave me eight different agents and explained in great detail what they could do for me based on all the things that it knows I have going on, which is insanical in my mind. But the first time I it spit that out, I was like, wow. And then you just, you just deep dive with it and develop it. And then you're like, all right, well that's great. And it's like I would. And it tells me I would not create all eight at first at once. Focus on your executive chief of staff first and this and that. You know, focus on a couple of them first, get those rolling, wait till your event's over, you know, your profit accelerator events over, and then focus on these other agents which will help you post event and then preparing for your next event, the LCR Summit and so on and so forth. They just gave me a whole roadmap on what to do. Now that takes a lot of time, right up front, upfront time. It took more time than just doing it myself to figure this out. Create an executive chief of staff, have conversations together with expectations, and then create the daily executive brief is what it's called, where every day, Every morning at 8am I tell it what time I set it all up. I want 8am every morning for you to give me my executive brief, which is updates me on all the things that I told it to update me on, goes through all my emails, goes through calendar checks, all these different priorities and other things that I've told it to, and gives me a report, it categorizes and prioritizes all these things, tells me what I can do, what I have to do and what it can do for me, and the priority order of that, of both of those things. And then it's already drafting up replies to my emails that need to be replied to. But instead of me doing it, it does it. I just have to. So it says I can draft the replies to the important emails that need to be replied to. You just have to re. You just have to proofread them and make sure that they're approved and before you send them, in case I made any mistakes. Like, that's exactly like having a real life executive chief of staff in an office. But you're not paying them all day, every day or a couple hours a day. Whatever you're paying, whatever you're paying monthly for ChatGPT, depending on what you got. If you have the $20 a month thing, you're paying $20 a month for executive chief of staff. Oh, and by the way, an unlimited amount of agents, there's just a limit on how much you can use them, depending on how much you pay. So for like 20 bucks a month, there's a limit of how many, how many times the agent essentially, like, functions on its own. Like, you can ask as many questions as you want and have all kinds of chats with it. But to have it do these things automatically, there's, there's a limit, but it's, it's, it's not a small limit. So I can't foresee myself in the beginning using more than that a month. But if I get to that point, then I'll just upgrade to whatever, because at the end of the day, you're still only paying $20 a month, which equals to what per year like that is. You'll never find a human being that affordable, essentially. Now, of course, AI will never replace humans, because I still have to proofread it. I shouldn't have said, hopefully, AI will never replace humans, but in this situation here, we're not saying that AI needs to replace all of our human employees. The human employees can just level up and get more things done by learning how to utilize AI. So like, if you already have an executive chief of staff or you already have an administrative Assistant, teach them how to use AI and they could be the one communicating with your executive chief of staff agent in ChatGPT. And your administrative assistant is the one that follows up on all, on all those drafts and reads them and make sure that they meet the criteria that you trained them on. And this way that's completely off your plate. Unless there's something super urgent that escalates to you that you know, everyone knows this has to go to you or someone specifically asked to speak to you. Like, so if you don't have that middle person, well, then that's you. But still, it's saving me time by not having to type all read and type all that stuff up. I just have to read what was typed and then click send. So that's really reducing my time significantly. A few minutes versus 15 to 30 minutes. But like I was saying, yes in the front end, I had to establish a little bit of this training and conversation and set this up, make sure that my executive chief of staff agent is on the same page and then go through some runs and make sure everything's working smoothly and work all that out and then it becomes automatic. Then I don't have to do anything, it just does exactly what I want to do, when I want to do it. And now we're rolling. And then I can start adding more layers, more tasks. Okay, what else can I get off my plate that's maybe 15, 30 minutes, an hour of my time. What else, what else, what else can I automate? We talk about automations, we've talked about that for a long time before AI, it's all about how do you automate your business, automate your life, right? I mean, you may or may not have heard of a high level business owners, entrepreneurs, like whether it be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or all kinds of other high level people out there that they automate aspects of their personal life. They wear the same outfit every day. That's a form of automation. I mean, Steve Jobs is notoriously known for just wearing I think like a black turtleneck and blue jeans. He probably had like a dozen black turtlenecks and a handful of blue jeans and he would just, you know, throw on a different turtleneck every day, but the same exact black one, just a different one so that it wasn't dirty and smelly, right? He'd throw, put on a new turtleneck and you know, throw on a pair of blue jeans and then he'd, he'd be on his way, meaning so he didn't have to think about it. It was one less thing he had to think about, oh, what kind of, what am I going to wear tomorrow? I don't want to look silly, I don't want to look foolish. I don't want to look underdressed or overdressed. I don't, you know, this is, oh, I didn't do laundry. Oh, man. You know, this is going to match, like, depending on your level of fashion. That could consume a lot of your mental bandwidth thinking of what to wear every day. But if you, you know, especially someone like Steve Jobs that's essentially just going to work every day, going to the office, he wants to wear, he has his black turtleneck, which you can essentially wear anywhere. It's semi formal and semi casual. And if he went somewhere formal once in a while, then he'd probably just throw on a suit. You know, he probably had the same suit. I don't know those details, but most of his life he was just wearing a black turtleneck to the office, to a meeting, to whatever he did in his, in his personal life, blue jeans and I don't know what kind of shoes he wore, but he probably wore the same black shoes or dress shoes or whatever. So he just didn't have to worry about thinking about it. That's a form of automation in its simplest and seemingly ridiculous form. But that saved him mental bandwidth and time every morning. Whatever it was, whether it was just a little bit, when you do that, a whole bunch of things in your life, then you end up with a good chunk of time back in your life and space in your brain, you know, bandwidth back in your brain so that you can fill that up with more creative things like, how do I solve this problem, how do I make more money, how do I make my family feel more loved? And how do I get my schedule in check and spend more time with the people that matter to me? And all these different things like that. Like just by automating, right? And then automating your business. We talk about that with, like CRMs. People still using pen and paper and Google Calendar on their phone. That's a lot of manual labor. Instead of just automating everything or automating that part through a CRM where you have your, you have everything, your jobs are all scheduled already. You just pull up, you know, you just have one source for everything. You can contact your clients through the CRM. You see what jobs are on, on the schedule for the day. Through your CRM, the invoicing, all the billings, all done automatically through the CRM. They can contact you through the CRM, like there's just. So you could track your equipment, maintenance and products that, materials that you use and all these different things all on one platform. On a CRM, that's a way of automating your business and not spending as much time doing that manually and trying to remember it. And you can set it up on automatic and reminders and reoccurring and all these things. So there's just. We've talked about automation for many years anyway, I have. And now with AI, it just created a whole new level of automation. You know, I mean, they have AI now that, like phone answering services that are AI, you know, chatbots, as you call them, you know, or like on your website or all these other websites, there's chatbots that you can easily create with certain AI platforms. Some of these websites already have that kind of stuff built in so that people can reach out to you on your website and ask questions, ask the chatbot questions without you having to be involved until they become like a new lead that you have to follow up on, follow up with. And then while you're sleeping, you know, like it's more than just filling out a lead form on your website. Like, what if they have questions and the cute generic Q and A that you think you've covered everything that you put on the website doesn't cover everything. Well, now there's not. And maybe they just bounce and they go to another website, but instead they see a chatbot option and they can ask more specific questions that weren't listed anywhere else. And now, boom. Hopefully that, you know, if you've programmed your, that, that chatbot properly, you know, and that also takes some time as well because it records the questions. So if it doesn't know the answer, then you just give it the answer, you know, after the fact, and then now it'll know that answer. And then eventually you have a chatbot that answers essentially any question that someone could ask you on your website. And they could be doing that at two in the morning while you're sleeping and be fully satisfied and then submit their, their form. So now they become a lead for you to follow up with the next day, the next morning. So like, there's just so many ways now AI is, is really helping automate that. Like I said, answering phones, AI literally can answer phones and like answer like, you know, you give it a phone number, it's connected to it, and now it just does all these things instead of having a human being do it. You know, we used to have. They went from having Someone in your office or someone remotely like a friend or family member answering your phone, directing the line to their thing, connecting it or them just having a work phone or all these ways that we used to have to do this in the past to a full time office assistant that is answering phones to then virtual call centers, virtual assistants, people that are just in one spot that are answering phones for a gazillion companies and they're trained on what to say, what to do, and they just answer your phones for you and take care of all that to now having AI do it, which again, you're not paying nearly as much, you're not paying insurance and payroll taxes and things of that nature for a human being. But the human beings that you do have, if you have any, can be taking on some of those additional tasks of following up on, reviewing, you know, different tasks that AI are completing. And you can pay them a little bit more because you're saving money from a second employee to do that and you're giving some of that savings to a current employee to just add a little bit of that extra responsibility which is going to help them learn AI anyway and for their own personal life and benefit. And now they're just following up. So they're getting paid a little bit more and now they're getting more job security and satisfaction and paid more. And you have a, you attract higher caliber employees and it could just go, this is, this is like an endless thing. Like I don't want to go down all these different rabbit holes all just from saying that I don't reply to emails anymore because I just wanted to get your attention because that is just scratching the surface. But that's been a huge game changer for me, just not having to deal with manually going through my emails and all of that. And like I said, you still have to double check and make sure. But that's minutes, that's a few minutes versus 15 to 30 minutes depending on how many emails you get. Like, so you train it in the front end, then in the back end, just like an employee. You spend time training them in the beginning and then if they work out and they figure it out, then you don't have to worry about it on the back end. They do what they're supposed to. The thing with AI is it just automatically does what it's supposed to. Whatever you tell it to do, it does it. There's very few mistakes that AI makes when you just tell it what to do and, and it's got the memory function on and it remembers things and it's just. It just literally does what you tell it to do. And it doesn't, it doesn't call out, it doesn't complain. Like, it just does what you tell it to do and that's it. So definitely a way to level up, automating your business and free up some of your time and mental space and reduce some of your stress so that you can move on to bigger and better things. You know, it's a way for me to multitask. I'm not the best multitasker in the world by any means, but I could be packing my lunch for the day or doing something else somewhere else in the house while ChatGPT is doing whatever, right? I give it a prompt and it does whatever while I'm doing the next thing. But I mean, in this case, it's already doing this stuff without me even. I don't even have to be awake. It's just doing it in the background, right? It does it at like, at 8:00am it just does it instantly. It just goes through all my stuff and comes up with this whole plan, types up all drafts, all these things within seconds, and then it just gives me the report at 8. At 8am Here. Here you go. So any emails after 8, you know, it's not gonna, it's not gonna include that unless you have it go back through and check, which was crazy. It's done that before where I'm like, I didn't even see the email notification come through. And. And Chat was like, this has been cleared. Now I don't need to. We don't need to follow up on this. I can take this off of the to do list because so and so responded that they, you know, responded that they're doing whatever, whatever, whatever. So he can cross it off the list. You don't have to follow up on that. And I'm like, what in the world? I didn't even get the notification of that email yet. And then I go on my email, sure enough, there it is. I'm like, what the heck? So it's just really, really, really crazy and cool and beneficial. So hopefully that was. This has been helpful and insightful. Get your mind thinking whether you're against AI or not, whether you don't understand AI or not. ChatGPT is one of the most basic, simple ones. I know a lot of people, you know, on social media hate on ChatGPT for one reason or another because there's so many other things that come out that are supposedly better. But ChatGPT just keeps updating itself, it's up to like what, 5.5.5 version now. So I mean, it's just like the iPhones, they get better quickly as time goes on. So don't, don't knock it until you try it. And maybe you used it back when it was super basic, but it's come a long way and, but if you're already using Claude or Gemini or something like that, then there might be similar things that you can do with that. Just figure it out. Ask it, do you have agent mode? Do you have something like agent mode? Like, and explore the options you have and if not, maybe give ChatGPT a try. You already know how to use AI from whatever else you're using. Now you can use ChatGPT and just kind of do the same thing. You can ask whatever AI you're using, Claude or Gemini, to create a prompt to be able to enter into ChatGPT so that ChatGPT knows all of your history, everything about you that it needs to know from everything that you have accumulated with Gemini or Claude or whatever you're using. So that Chat GPT immediately is on the same page. And now you know, you don't, you don't have to have spent a year or two or months having all these chats and filling it in. Chat GBT with all this information about you just immediately knows it all. That's the beauty of prompts. But just have the AI create the prompt for AI and you say, I want to create a prompt for ChatGPT that will know that, so that it will know everything about me that you know so that we can continue the conversation there. And the things that you can't do, it can do like, you know, whatever it is. Agent, Agent mode. If the thing you're using doesn't have agent mode or the thing you're doing doesn't, doesn't have, doesn't create images or whatever. And then you just use ChatGPT to do it. Chat GPT to do it. Which they've gotten really good at images. So they used to not be great at images, now they're amazing at images. You can create thumbnails for your social media content. You can do all kinds of stuff with, with ChatGPT now. So if you haven't, if you haven't done anything yet, I, I recommend trying ChatGPT because it's kind of like the, the overall one stop shop. But if you're, you know, already you've been using Chat GPT or using something else and you want to get more specialized and you can use Nano Banana Banana for video and claw for this and Open Claw for that. And like all these different things that you can use to specialize in certain things that they're better at, like video and transcripts and coding and all these different things. But ChatGPT essentially does all of that for the most part, in a good way. It's just not necessarily the best at all of them. You know, certain things it's the best at, but not, not everything. So depending on what level you're at, go from there. But I recommend ChatGPT as a good starter for beginners. If you're already using something else, you keep using that. But see if there's some sort of agent mode if you're not already. If you're not already using that, because it's definitely going to save you a lot of time and mental bandwidth. So hopefully that was helpful. Thank you for listening to the LCR Media Podcast. Thank you to Tutorial Company for sponsoring the LCR Media Podcast. And until the next episode, this is Nail or Taliaferro signing off. This has been an lcr media and Mr. Producer production.
Host: Naylor Taliaferro
Date: June 30, 2026
In this episode, Naylor Taliaferro delves into how he’s leveraging AI, specifically ChatGPT, to automate repetitive business tasks—most notably, responding to emails. He shares his journey from skepticism to adoption, practical setups he’s implemented, and broader lessons on overcoming anxiety and embracing automation to free up time and mental space for higher-level business growth and personal enrichment.
Fear vs. Anxiety:
Overcoming Anxiety Through Preparation:
Chief of Staff AI Agent:
Efficiency Gains:
AI vs. Human Efficiency:
Naylor notes the importance of "training" his AI:
Set Up Suggestions:
On Mistaking Anxiety for Risk:
"Most of us are suffering from anxiety than actual fear... Anxiety is in our mind. And we can just change that narrative."
— Naylor (09:30)
On the Automation Breakthrough:
"I don't reply to emails anymore and that's just scratching the surface."
— Naylor (16:30)
On Training AI:
"I've trained it to know a whole lot about me, my initiatives, my style and tone... It makes it so much easier to create stuff with it and for it to help me make decisions."
— Naylor (33:20)
On Time Savings:
"A good 15 to 30 minutes every morning is me doing that [email] when I could be doing something else... And then I'm saving 15 to 30 minutes overall in my day."
— Naylor (28:55)
On AI as a Tool, Not a Replacement:
"AI will never replace humans... The human employees can just level up and get more things done by learning how to utilize AI."
— Naylor (40:00)
On the Power of Prompts:
"That's the beauty of prompts. But just have the AI create the prompt for AI..."
— Naylor (1:10:40)
Embracing automation, whether it’s as simple as a daily outfit or as sophisticated as an AI-powered Chief of Staff, is all about freeing up bandwidth—for your business, your creativity, and your life. As Naylor puts it, “Don’t knock it until you try it.”