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I help professionals turn AI from a source of anxiety into a competitive advantage. This is a "LEARN > DO> EARN" Model.

The purpose of this SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE is to help you make a difference in your life, the lives of your family and the lives of people in your community. Our vision is to help you empower yourself and your community through LEARNING and SUSTAINABLE EARNING. Our vision is to create a simple, sustainable, self-funding social entrepreneurship model to help people to EMPLOY THEMSELVES

SO THEY CAN NEVER BE UNEMPLOYED. LEARN > The learning programme consists of many micro-learning courses aimed at ensuring you have learned RELEVANT and PRACTICAL SKILLS. DO > You will be coached, mentored and supported to APPLY what you have learned and immediately see REAL RESULTS in your life. EARN > Tell other people about ChangeMakers Academy (PAY IT FORWARD to others who also want to learn, apply what they learn, gain experience and want to make a difference). For every person that you pay it forward to that joins, you will EARN. You will be building a business that you own, that you can sell or that your family can inherit. In addition to building your own business, what you learn can also be applied to a business you already have (if you have one). You will be applying all the skills you learn and gaining practical experience along the way. This is invaluable, especially for MATRICULANTS just coming out of school and GRADUATES who cannot get jobs because they lack experience.

09/07/2026

You already know how to solve the biggest problem with AI output. You just haven't applied it yet. Watch this.

07/07/2026

I asked ChatGPT to write a LinkedIn post opening. I asked it twice.

The first time, I simply asked: "Write a LinkedIn post about good communication."

It replied: "Good communication is important for successful teams."

Correct, generic and easy to forget.

The second time I gave it three examples of posts I had written before and added one instruction: "Write in this style."

Same topic. Same AI. Completely different result.

It replied: "Clear communication turns a group of individuals into a team that gets things done."

The structure, pacing, and tone all matched. Even the way it built curiosity felt familiar. Specific, engaging, memorable and it sounded like me.

Here's the lesson. AI does not know what good looks like to you. It only knows what average looks like until you show it otherwise. That is what **few-shot prompting** is. You are not giving AI more information. You are giving it a standard to match.

Three good examples will outperform three extra paragraphs of instructions almost every time.

This is Post 5 of my "From Confused to Confident with AI" journey.

If you are new here, the first four posts cover the foundations: how to brief AI properly so it stops guessing; how to give it a personality so the output is worth reading; how to check its work so you catch what is wrong and what is missing; and why learning, sharing, building, and selling should run at the same time, not in a queue. Links in the comments.

Have you ever had AI produce something that was technically right, but sounded nothing like you?

02/07/2026

I asked Claude to think through a business problem step by step. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.
It just stopped me from hiding from it.

I'd been treating my AI business as four separate jobs. Learn the skills. Post about the journey. Build courses. Find clients. One at a time, in that order, because that felt responsible.

I asked Claude to walk through why the content route felt so slow. Step by step, it laid out something obvious. Content builds trust over time. It is not built for fast feedback. But I already have relationships, a network, and proof that this works. None of that needs an audience first. It needs a conversation.

That is when it landed. These are not four separate jobs. They are one job, done at the same time.

Learning gets faster when I am helping a real client, not waiting until I feel ready. Posting gets sharper when it comes from real client work, not a hypothetical example. Courses get better once I know what people actually pay for, not what I assume they want.

I had built myself a queue. Learn, then post, then build, then sell. No wonder it felt slow. I was doing one thing at a time when I could have been doing all four.

Here is the lesson. If your growth feels slow, check whether you have quietly turned parallel work into a queue. Learning, sharing, building, and selling are not stages. They can run side by side, and each one makes the others better.

Which one of these have you been saving for "later" that you could actually start this week?

This is Post 4 of my "From Confused to Confident with AI" journey. Go and have a look and let me know what insights you would like to share.

30/06/2026

AI will lie to you in a tone of total confidence. Mine just did.
I asked Claude to help me write an article brief. The first draft read well. Clear angle, strong hook, ready to hand to my copywriter.

It was also wrong in a few ways, and none of them were obvious from reading it.
I asked two follow-up questions.

The first was simple: "Please double check the accuracy of this and make sure it is not biased."

The second one most people do not think to ask: "What else should I be checking in the brief?"

The first question fixed what was already there. The incorrect dates, a Rand figure needed verification. The angle leaned toward one side of a contested legal matter without including the other.

The second question surfaced what was not there at all.

A note that this needed legal sign-off before publishing.
A reminder to recheck the facts the week before going live.
A warning to leave out personal details that added legal risk and no real value.

I would have caught the first set of problems eventually. I am not sure I would have caught the second set on my own at all.

Here is the lesson.
The first AI output is a draft, not the answer.
There are two different questions worth asking before you trust it.

"Is what you gave me correct?" fixes mistakes.
"What have you not told me?" finds the risk you did not know to look for.

Which question do you usually skip, checking what is there, or asking what is missing?
This is Post 3 of my "From Confused to Confident with AI" journey.

Post 1 was about briefing AI properly. Give it your audience, your tone, and your standards upfront, and it stops guessing. (Link to post 1- https://bit.ly/4v8benS)

Post 2 was about giving AI a personality, not just instructions. The same brief with one added line turned a flat, forgettable answer into something people actually wanted to read. (Link to post 2 -https://bit.ly/4vso5C9 )

08/06/2026

Most people use AI like a search engine.
Type a question. Hope for a good answer. Get something generic that needs so much editing it would have been faster to write it yourself.

That is not an AI problem. That is a briefing problem.

I spent time this week building what I call a 'Business Brief' inside Claude. One document that tells it who my audience is, what my tone sounds like, what I never want it to say, and what good looks like for my specific business.

Then I tested it.

I typed four lines. I got back a broadcast-ready two-minute script, in the right format, with the right data, in the right voice, for the right audience. Minimal editing required.

The difference between AI that frustrates you and AI that genuinely saves you time is not the tool. It is the briefing, the context.

This is Week 1 of my "From Confused to Confident with AI" journey.

I use AI in my business every day, but have not given myself credit for how much I already know because I have been learning and working in what feels like a very ad hoc fashion.

So I decided to get back to the basics and learn it from 'scratch' again and I am inviting you to join me on the journey.

I am learning AI in public because I think the honest, practical path is more useful to most business owners than a polished tutorial from someone who has forgotten what confusion feels like.

If you run a small or medium business and you are trying to figure out where AI actually fits for you, follow along. This is for you.

04/06/2026

The life you really want is not irresponsible or selfish or unrealistic. It is yours. And you are the only person who can decide whether it gets built. Nobody else is waiting to do that for you.

03/06/2026

Nobody looks back on their life and wishes they had been more cautious, more obedient, and more careful not to upset anyone. They wish they had been braver. Be braver now, while you still have time to use it.

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