EP 552 The ChatGPT Money Evolution | Past, Present & Future AI Income Paths | Entrepreneur AI Guide

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You've already lost money with ChatGPT.

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The AI side hustle or the micro
business window is closing, and most

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people don't even know that they're
watching it happen in real time.

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Because right now, while you're watching
this, someone maybe out in Southeast

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Asia is quite probably charging $47
for a ChatGPT prompt template that

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takes, like, 90 seconds to create,
and they're selling three to five

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a day on something like Fiverr.

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Someone like you could be that
person, or you could be the one still

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watching tutorials thinking that
the easy money window is wide open.

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It's not.

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It's narrowing fast.

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What is up?

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What is up?

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What the hell is up, my Dark
Horse friends and family?

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Welcome back for another episode of the
Dark Horse Entrepreneur AI Escape Plan.

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We break free from the grind.

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We share some AI-powered tips and
some micro-business strategies,

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all designed to support my amazing
parents out there chasing freedom

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like modern-day trailblazers.

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And you don't have to be a parent.

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You could be any other
kind of entrepreneur.

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But if you know someone who dreams
of ditching the grind and still

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makes time for bedtime stories or
whatever it is you like to do other

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than, than work, go ahead and forward
this episode to them, would you?

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Okay, so let's get stuck
right in here, shall we?

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Here's what most people don't understand
about making money online with AI.

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There was a before ChatGPT era where
the barrier was just imagination.

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And then there was the ChatGPT moment
in back in November twenty twenty-two

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when one hundred million people got
access to industrial-grade language

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processing in forty-eight hours.

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Everyone thought it was the gold rush,
and, you know, th- they were half right.

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The gold, it can always
be found around the edges.

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The people who understand
what ChatGPT couldn't do yet,

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not knowing what it could do.

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Let me take you back to November
twenty twenty-two, ChatGPT dropped.

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This was Sam Altman and OpenAI's moment
in the sun that changed everything.

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Within weeks, we saw the first wave
of money makers, the prompt engineers.

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They weren't programmers.

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They were people that figured out that
if you asked ChatGPT the right question,

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you could generate a landing page copy,
product descriptions, and email sequences.

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People paid, like, twenty-seven dollars
for prompts on Upwork and Fiverr.

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People paid two hundred and
ninety-seven dollars for prompt bundles.

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One person out there could have made,
like, a hundred thousand dollars in sixty

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days selling ChatGPT secrets as a course.

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Yeah.

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But by March of twenty twenty-three,
the window had compressed.

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Why?

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Saturated.

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The prompts started to leak out
for free, so the courses crashed.

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And here's what really matters.

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Those people weren't
actually selling prompts.

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No, no, no.

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They were selling permission.

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The feeling that you could do something
you weren't quite sure you could do.

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That was the real product.

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And that market, it didn't die.

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It just transformed.

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And this is where people right
now are still getting stuck.

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They see or they saw the
transformation as death.

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It isn't.

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By mid twenty twenty-three,
the landscape had shifted.

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ChatGPT Plus had become the
baseline at twenty dollars a month.

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The free version started
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So the real money moved
into implementation.

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People weren't buying prompts
any-- I mean, they were buying

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prompts, but they really weren't
focused on buying prompts anymore.

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They were buying results.

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They wanted you to actually
use ChatGPT for them.

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And that, my friend, is
a crucial distinction.

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The skill you're selling isn't knowing
ChatGPT, it's knowing your market so

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well that you can make ChatGPT produce
what your market is actually hungry for.

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There could be a real estate agent
out there paying 500 bucks a month

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for a ChatGPT expert to write
personalized emails to their 200 leads.

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That- Could happen.

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Heck, it could happen every single day.

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And e- how about an e-commerce store
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someone to generate product variants,
descriptions, and ad copy at scale

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so they can AP test everything?

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For some, that is probably standard today.

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A small business owner could be
paying 3K a month to have someone

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build them a GPT-powered chatbot.

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To some, that's routine.

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And alongside all of that, the passive
income models started to appear.

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You know the ones.

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Ch- uh, digital products, prompt
libraries, and AI-generated template

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packs all sold on autopilot.

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Now, the difference between phase one and
phase two was subtle, but it's lethal.

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In phase one, you sold knowledge.

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In phase two, you sell
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That matters because labor
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You are gonna hit a ceiling at how
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you're doing the work yourself.

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But here's where the smart ones moved.

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Phase three started about September
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after that, and most people did not
even realize that they were in it.

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This is where you stop selling
labor and you start selling systems.

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Now, we started talking about
building systems in the last episode.

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If you didn't hear that one, go-- be
sure to go back and check that one out.

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You build a service or a product that
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an engine, but doesn't require you to
be inside every single transaction.

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An AI writing agency, for example,
it could have templates and workflows

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and client-facing dashboards and
SOPs, all of which could scale.

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A ChatGPT-powered Shopify app that
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That could be pretty cool.

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That, my friends, is different money.

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A prompt library that automates
automatically based on trending searches.

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How about that?

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That could be cool.

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That could be re-recurring revenue.

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That could even be genuine passive income.

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An agency that sells AI-enhanced content
services to, I don't know, 500 clients

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but only has four employees because
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that they only need four employees.

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That is the model that
everyone is racing towards.

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And the barrier to entry went from
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business infrastructure.

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I alluded to that in the last episode.

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People are connecting ChatGPT or
whatever LLM to their workflows

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through API integrations.

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They're automating with tools like
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turning what used to be hourly work
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And this is where I'm gonna call this
phase 3.5, and this one is moving

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fast right now coming out of 2025,
going into 2026, the GPT store.

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Some of these, uh, some folks
out there don't believe in this.

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I still believe it's an opportunity.

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OpenAI opened the doors for everyone
to build and sell custom GPTs.

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People are building specialized G- custom
GPTs for specific industries, legal

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research, real estate listings, fitness
coaching, and monthly subscription

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fees for access to these custom tools.

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That's a digital product with a passive
income mechanics already baked right in.

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It's not affiliate marketing.

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It's not freelancing.

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It's kind of a software business
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If you're not thinking about a GPT store
right now, you're already behind in

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phase 3.5 So now there are, of course,
there are far more advanced things, but

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I'm talking for the ease of access folks
that, that tend to listen to this show.

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They're like, "I know nothing."
This is an ease of access.

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And let me make this even more concrete.

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Let's say you're a freelance
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You could have been charging two
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GPT to write their email sequences.

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But really, if you think
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time for money at that point.

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You could take on maybe eight
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even with these tools available to
you, and so you hit that ceiling.

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But that's good, but it's not great.

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But in-- when you move into phase three,
you could take those eight clients, and

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you document exactly what you do for them.

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You build out templates, and then
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Now you can hire someone at, I don't
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to run that service, while all you do is
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So you're building a
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You've got an employee, which
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That's the invisible
threshold, let's call it.

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But here's what no one wants to admit.

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We're in the early, early bleed
phase between phase three and

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phase four, and phase four is gonna
completely break what you think you

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know about this entire landscape.

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And right now, in this moment, even
while you're watching this right now or

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listening to this, wherever you are, GPT
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Claude is getting better at nuance.

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OpenAI is training models that
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across multiple conversations.

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The next generation isn't going
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It's gonna be better at understanding
what it is you actually need.

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It's not just about text anymore.

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We-we're talking about graphics
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Midjourney and DALL-E and Leonardo
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have opened up entirely separate income
streams around AI image generation and

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AI video generation that can feed into
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When this happens, the jobs that
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They start to wobble on their foundation.

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Why pay someone twenty-five hundred bucks
a month to manage a GPT for your business

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when the AI now, with its reasoning
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Why hire a consultant when version
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problem you're having in real time?

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And this is where I need to tell
you something that might make you

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get a little uncomfortable, and
I, I, I'm, I'm okay doing that.

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The easy money phase, you know, the one
you still think you're in- It ended,

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and you weren't even here for it.

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If you're listening to me right now,
you were either maybe too scared, or

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maybe you didn't even know it existed.

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A- and that's fine.

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Most people weren't aware.

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Most people still think it's existing.

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But the money that's available
right now requires a slightly

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different set of skills entirely.

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Here's what you need to understand
in today's w- here's what's happening

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today kind of market: funnels, customer
psychology, systems, especially

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delivery systems, and positioning.

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You really need to be a
businessperson first, a businessperson

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who just happens to use AI.

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You don't need to be an AI person
that's trying to be a businessperson.

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Two completely different skill sets.

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Here's the genuine educational layer that
changes how you should think about this.

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The actual scaling mechanism in an
AI-powered business, it's not the AI.

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No, no, no.

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Hear me out on this.

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It is the information asymmetry.

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You know, you know something
specific about a specific market

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that makes the AI output valuable

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Let me give you an example.

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Let's say there's a ChatGPT
expert who knows nothing

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about the insurance industry.

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They will tend to create okay
insurance copy for their clients.

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Really, they're probably creating
garbage copy for their clients.

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But if you flip that on its ear and get
an insurance agent to learn ChatGPT,

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maybe you're an insu- insurance agent and
you're learning ChatGPT, you could create

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brilliant copy because you understand the
customer pain point at the nth degree.

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The AI is just a multiplier.

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You are the broadcaster.

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Most people are out there getting
it backwards, and then they're

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wondering why their "AI product,"
he says with air quotes, fails.

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It fails because the AI
was never the business.

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You are the business.

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And the future, and this is where
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defined by people who own their
audience, not owning their tools.

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Not their tools, not their
templates, their audience.

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Because even when ChatGPT-5 or
whatever LLM model you're out

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there using can generate anything,
the scarcity becomes attention.

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So you need an email list.

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You need a community.

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You need a tribe of folks
that believe in you.

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You need people who trust
you enough to buy whatever it

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is you're gonna build next.

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And even when the AI itself is
commodified, they're still ready to

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throw their credit card numbers at you.

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In twenty twenty-five and heading
into twenty twenty-six, the game

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shifted decisively towards this.

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People making serious money
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the best prompt engineers.

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No.

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They're doing it because they built a
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just by having better technology.

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And here's where the c- the, the
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The uncomfortable truth is this: if
you're trying to make money with ChatGPT

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or Claude or whatever else in twenty
twenty-six, you're actually eighteen

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months too late for the real gold rush.

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But, and this is a critical but, you're
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The window for the ChatGPT
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I think it's almost closed.

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But the window for the AI-enhanced
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although it too is narrowing.

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The window that's widening is the
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potential passive income potential is.

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That is the audience play Building a
brand, building authority, building

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a community around a specific way of
using AI inside of a specific industry.

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That's not something that gets disrupted
in six months because that is structural.

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But here's the trap.

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If I tell you it's too late,
you're gonna stop trying, and you

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completely miss it all together.

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If I tell you there's plenty of time,
most of you are gonna procrastinate,

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and you're still gonna miss it This,
the truth is somewhere a little darker.

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There's still money available,
but it requires you to be honest

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about what you're really good at.

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Are you good at positioning yourself as an
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Then build an audience.

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Sell courses and sell services.

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Are you good at systematizing processes?

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Good.

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Then build agency infrastructure.

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Use API integration to automate what your
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hand, or maybe they're doing it by pasting
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Are you good at building products?

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Good.

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Then go build a product.

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The ChatGPT store could be your
on-ramp right now, but don't

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pretend ChatGPT is your moat.

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Don't pretend that AI is
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It's just the shovel and
you are the miner, okay?

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People who make the most money in
the next couple of years, two to

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three years, will not be the ones
chasing all the AI hype, all the

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ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity hype.

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They're gonna be the ones who learn from
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real and are now quietly capitalizing on
an audience that took them six, eight,

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twelve, eighteen months to develop.

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They're not selling
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They're selling what ChatGPT and AI
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their framework, their results.

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The AI is invisible.

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The business is visible.

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The real game is always the same game,
no matter how you're playing it and

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what tools you're using to play it with.

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Build trust, deliver results, and repeat.

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The AI just makes those
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Real quick here, if this episode
is hitting a little differently

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for you, maybe it's hitting home.

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If you're sitting there thinking,
"Okay, I need a clear roadmap to

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this," uh, then I want you to-- I wanna
point you towards something that was

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built exactly for parents like you.

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It's called the AI Escape Plan Newsletter.

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Every single week, I send out
practical AI-powered strategies

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designed specifically for parents
who are ready to stop trading

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time for money and start building
something real, their own audience.

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No fluff, no hype, no
overnight richest nonsense.

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Just real steps, real tools, real
frameworks, and real models that

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can fit around your family life.

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A-again, the AI isn't
the business, you are.

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The newsletter just hands you
the shovel that you use can, you

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can use to dig your own mine.

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We're talking about strategies you
can implement on Saturday morning

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before the kids wake up and have it
running on autopilot by Sunday night.

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More money, more freedom, and
more of what really matters.

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Head on over to darkhorseinsider.com
and get signed up right now.

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Your roadmap to breaking
free is waiting for you.

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So- Let's step back and zoom out
for a second because what we've

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been talking about isn't really
just about AI or ChatGPT or

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Claude or Anthropic or whatever.

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It never was.

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What we've been talking about is
probably the oldest pattern in

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history of economic disruption.

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Every single time a new technology
emerges, the printing press, the internet,

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social media, smartphones, there's always
a gold rush phase every single time.

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The early movers make the fast money.

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The masses, they tend to arrive late,
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Then the real winners begin to emerge.

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Not the ones who had the best tool,
the ones who built the best businesses

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around the tool or with the tool.

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AI is just the latest chapter in that
story, and here's why this matters for

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you specifically as a parent, as an
entrepreneur, as someone who's juggling

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school pickups and mortgage payments and,
and the quiet dream of something better.

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The window isn't closed, but it has
shifted And the entrepreneurs who win

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in this next phase aren't gonna be
the ones who know the most about AI.

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They're gonna be the ones who know
the most about their audience, who

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know the most about their market, and
who know the most about their unique

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value, and who use AI to deliver that
value faster, cheaper, and at scale.

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And not always just cheaper, right?

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Delivering the most value for
the least amount of money.

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I don't wanna say cheap 'cause then
you're-- that's a race to the bottom.

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You with me?

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Okay, good.

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But the bigger paradigm is
this: AI is the great equalizer.

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It levels the playing field between the
solo parent working at the kitchen table

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at 10 PM and the corporate market team--
marketing team with a six-figure budget

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and big swanky offices in the downtown
me- major media city across the world.

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But only if you show up with a strategy,
only if you show up as a business

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owner first and an AI user second.

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The technology is evolving
and will keep evolving.

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The phases keep shifting.

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I went through four of them.

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There's probably three or four coming
up on the horizon quickly as I'm

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sharing this with you right now.

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But the fundamentals
will always be the same.

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Trust, value, audience, results.

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Those will never change.

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They never have, and
they never will, okay?

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So all that said, this is a time I'm gonna
hit you with a little bit of whispered

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wisdom and give you a sticky lesson
that I want you to walk away with today.

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The shovel does not dig
the mine, the miner does.

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AI, ChatGPT, Claude, and all the
different LLMs out there is probably

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one of the most powerful shovels ever
handed to an entrepreneur, to you.

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But the shovel sitting in the corner of
your garage does not make you any money.

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It won't find any gold.

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You're gonna have to pick it up,
you're gonna have to know where to dig,

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and you're gonna have to be willing
to get yourself a little dirty and

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build something with what you find.

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With what it is you dig up.

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Most people are, are waiting for
that perfect moment, that perfect

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tool, that perfect version of AI
that finally makes it easy enough.

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I don't like that shovel.

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I need a better shovel.

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No, the moment isn't coming.

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The tool is already good enough.

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The question is whether you are ready
to use it like a business owner and not

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just somebody looking to get rich quick.

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Here's your specific action, and I
want you to do this right after you

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finish listening to this episode today.

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Not tomorrow, not next week, right
after you're finished listening to it.

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Go ahead and open up whatever AI you're
using, ChatGPT or whatever it is.

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Think about one skill, one area
of knowledge, and one industry

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you know better than most people.

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Maybe it's just most of your friends.

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Maybe it's real estate.

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Maybe it's fitness.

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Maybe it's diet.

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I don't know.

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Maybe it's homeschooling.

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Maybe it's bookkeeping
for small businesses.

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Whatever it is, type in this
prompt: "I am an expert in,"

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give it your area of expertise.

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"Help me identify three ways that I
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in this space and generate income."

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Read what comes back.

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Pick one.

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Write it down.

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Or engage in a conversation.

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"Well, get a little more specific
on those two." All right?

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That's your front door to the gold mine.

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You don't need a perfect plan.

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You need a starting
point, and now guess what?

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After you put in that prompt
and get some engagement from

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the AI, you'll have one, okay?

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So let's bring this home.

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Today we walked through the full evolution
of making money with ChatGPT from the

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Wild West prompt-selling days way back
in 2022, he says way back, it's 2026

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now, through the implementation phase
into the systems and audience-building

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era that we're living in right now.

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We talked about why AI was
never the moat that you are.

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We talked about information symmetry,
about owning your audience, about

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building something that lasts
beyond the next AI model update.

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The window is shifting,
but it's not closed.

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Entrepreneurs that move now with strategy,
with clarity, and with that business owner

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mindset are going to be the ones that
are going to look back two years from now

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and say something like this: "That was
the moment everything changed for me."

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Don't be the person who just watches
it happen, who sits up there on

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their, on their front porch or maybe
just in their easy chair in front

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of the TV going, "Yeah, I wish I
would've done that." I want you to

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be the person who made it happen.

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And if this episode fired you up
a little bit, right, just go ahead

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and share it with someone you know
who's on the fence about AI and how

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it could make their business better.

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They need to hear it as much as you do.

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And if you've, you haven't already,
go on over to Dark Horse Insider

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and go ahead and grab your spot
on the AI Escape Plan newsletter.

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Your roadmap is waiting.

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Go pick up the shovel and start digging.

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In the meantime, think
successfully and take action.