EP 554 The AI Resume Side Hustle | Make Money Online With Free Tools

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This AI resume writing business made
$4,200 in one month using free AI tools,

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no credentials, and no prior clients.

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Job seekers are out there and willing
to pay top dollar for resumes that

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could get them hired, especially
when they know their resume isn't

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even making it past the ATS.

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That's the applicant tracking
system that filters out about 75% of

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applicants before a human ever sees it.

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Today, I'm gonna show you how to
set up a freelance profile and use

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AI to deliver professional resumes
and cover letters in minutes.

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All right, now let's get
stuck right in here, shall we?

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You've seen the post.

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Someone's out there making three
thousand dollars a month writing resumes.

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And another person charged one
hundred and fifty dollars per resume,

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and they're doing five a week, and
they're working from their phone.

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What?

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Yeah.

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What you haven't seen is the one
critical thing they will not tell

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you, the thing that separates the ones
making real money from the ones who

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are just posting about making money.

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And most people think building
a resume agency with AI is about

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using ChatGPT or whatever model
you choose really, really well.

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It's not.

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It's about something a, a little stranger.

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It's about becoming invisible.

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That's the word I'm gonna pick right here.

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But let's talk about
what happened last month.

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There's this guy.

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Let's call him Marcus.

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No followers, no credentials, and no
design background, and he launched a

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resume service using only free AI tools.

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We're talking Claude, ChatGPT, the
Canva Free tier, and Grammarly.

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In his first week, he made
eight hundred and forty bucks.

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Right, that's not gonna change
the world, but in his fourth week,

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four thousand two hundred dollars.

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Uh, and the weird part, he
wasn't a smarter marketer.

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His resumes weren't prettier
than the competition, but his

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process, that was bulletproof.

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And the thing no one mentions
is that once you build it

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right, you stop having to work.

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He didn't list on Fiverr or Upwork first.

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Nope.

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He went direct, and that's
part of why I think it worked.

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Let's walk through exactly how this works.

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Not the fantasy version,
but the actual version.

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You start by understanding what
your clients actually want, not

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what they think they want, what
they're really desperate for.

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Someone applying to a marketing role
has spent six months sewing their

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resume at companies, and they've gotten
rejected forty-seven times, and mostly

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by the ATS software before a hiring
manager even glances at their name.

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They don't care about fancy
fonts or the clever wordplay that

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you might put into a, a resume.

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They care about one thing,
callbacks and interviews.

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They want to know if you can do the one
thing that really matters, and that is

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getting around and through the ATS system,
the application tracking system, so that

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they land in front of a real person.

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And here's where AI changes everything,
and it's also where most people,

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I think, are getting it wrong.

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ChatGPT alone can't write a
great resume But ChatGPT plus

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a good system, ha, that can.

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You need to build a diagnostic step first.

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Before you touch their resume, you need
to ask them sp- some specific questions.

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What role are you targeting?

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What industry?

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What's their seniority?

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What's their biggest achievement?

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And most importantly, where are they weak?

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Did they get fired?

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Is there a bad gap in their work history?

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And do they have some
wrong industry background?

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Okay, now this, this
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This is the space between their
current resume and the one that

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could potentially get them hired.

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The client pays you because
they can't see that gap clearly.

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It's one of those I'm too close
to the problem situations, right?

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They're too close to their own story,
and they definitely can't see how to

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reframe their experience using the
right action verbs and power words

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that both the ATS system and the
human readers are gonna respond to.

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Now, you can use AI as an amplifier.

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You feed ChatGPT or whatever
LLM you choose this information

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in a very specific way.

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Not, "Write me a resume." That's useless.

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Instead, you're gonna
write something like this.

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"I'm a project manager with
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I'm applying to tech companies, but
my background is in retail operations.

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I need to bridge that gap.

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Here are my top three wins.

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Reframe them using strong action verbs
to speak to software development teams

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and pass ATS keyword filters." Right?

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Press Enter and watch what happens.

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The AI doesn't hallucinate,
it pattern matches.

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It finds the signal inside the noise.

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How about a, uh, project manager who
optimizes, uh, inventory systems?

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That's exactly what
scaling software requires.

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A retail person who trains teams, that's
leadership, that's culture building.

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Same skills, different language.

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Okay?

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And this is the first invisible part.

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Most resume writers, including
most people selling ChatGPT resume

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services, they're gonna charge about,
I don't know, 50 to $100 per resume,

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and they think they're doing fine.

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And hey, more power to them.

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The people making real life-changing
money, they're not charging more,

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they're charging per outcome.

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Some charge 50 bucks, some charge $150.

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The difference isn't the quality
of the writing, the difference

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is the confidence in the system.

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Because here's what happens next.

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You build a template library,
not a generic template, a system.

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You create 12 different resume formats
optimized for different industries.

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Tech needs white space and
metric-heavy bullet points.

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Finance needs prestige and numbers.

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Creative fields need
visual breathing space.

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Nonprofit needs mission
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You do this once with
AI's help, of course.

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You tell Claude, "Write me five different
resume variations for a product manager,

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one optimized for a Series B startup,
one for a, a FAANG company, F-A-A-N-G,

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one for a bootstrapped consultancy,
one for a corporate tech team, and one

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for nonprofit. Make them structurally
different, not just the content." The

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format, the emphasis, the tone, and make
sure each version is ATS optimized with

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the right power words for that sector.

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Press Enter and watch the magic happen.

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And then you go in, uh, you'll
hear me say this all the time, you

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go in and refine them, you test
them, and you watch what lands.

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If you do this, when it-- within about
two weeks, you will have a system

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that's better than ninety percent of
the professional resume writers that

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are out there right now, and I'm talking
about including the certified resume

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writers charging ten times as much.

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But here's the darker part.

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This is the part that makes money.

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You start packaging this.

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You create a simple landing page.

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You can have AI do that too.

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Carrd is free, and you can have a
clean, professional Carrd landing

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page live in under an hour.

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But, uh, you put on one simple offer.

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Don't tier all this stuff.

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You put on one simple offer.

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Don't overcomplicate this.

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Make it very easy for them to understand.

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Resume rewrite, seventy-nine dollar resume
service, forty-eight-hour turnaround,

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ATS optimized for your industry.

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You don't target everyone.

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You target… maybe target
accountants if tax season is coming

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because they're panicked, and
they need jobs, and they will pay.

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Or maybe you decide you're gonna target
an industry you're very comfortable

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with, you're very familiar with, so
you know you can lean in a bit more.

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Or you target laid-off tech workers.

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There's thousands of them out
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They're searching on Indeed
and ZipRecruiter, and

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they're not getting results.

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You find them on LinkedIn, you
reach out personally and say,

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"Hey, I help engineers transition
resumes when they're job searching.

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Most people don't know that their
resume is being blocked by some of the

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ATS software out there before a human
ever even gets a chance to read it.

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And the same role described
three different ways gets

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three different response rates.

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Would you like me to
show you?" Some say yes.

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Some will just ignore you, okay?

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You charge them seventy-nine
bucks for that rewrite.

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You spend forty-five
minutes using your system.

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You plug their info into Claude,
refine it with ChatGPT, format it

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with Canva, check it with Grammarly,
and then deliver it via PDF.

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Bing, bang, boom, you're done.

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Your cost, $0.

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Okay, well, there's your time, 45 minutes.

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Your profit, 79 bucks.

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79 bucks for 45 minutes is, is, is pretty
decent by, by many, many folks' standards.

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But before you ask, yes, you could also
list a $79 resume service on Fiverr

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or Upwork to get your first clients.

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The margins are slightly lower
because, you know, there's the platform

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fees, but the inbound traffic is
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paying for with those platform fees.

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Marcus chose the direct route.

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Both of them work.

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The system really is what I'm
trying to pitch you on here

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because the system is what matters.

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But this is where everyone stops and
thinks they're done, but they're not.

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The invisible thing that separates
pocket change for a month from

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life-changing money every single month
is what I'm about to tell you next.

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You start by systematizing the
questions you're gonna ask your clients.

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You do something like you
create a simple intake form.

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Google Forms is free.

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You ask them 15 specific questions:
their target role, industry, seniority,

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three biggest achievements, any gaps
or red flags, salary expectations,

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any certifications or skills that
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You can use Google Sheets to track every
single response, spot some patterns,

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and build a database of what's working.

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They fill it out.

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It takes them maybe 10 minutes.

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That saves you 30 minutes
of back-and-forth questions.

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Now, your actual work time
drops to maybe about 25 minutes.

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So your profit per hour goes up, right?

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And then something stranger happens.

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You notice patterns.

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Maybe 40% of your accountants
have CPA certifications they're,

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they're burying down in line six.

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That should be on line two.

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Maybe 65% of your laid-off tech
workers are downplaying their m- remote

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work skills when every company now
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You create AI prompts that
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You tell ChatGPT or whatever LLM you're
using something like this: "This person

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has a CPA, but they mentioned it casually.

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Rewrite their me- their resume
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every role that they've had.

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Make it the lens through which we
understand their entire career.

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Front-load CPA-specific action verbs
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Four firms are scanning for." And you
press Enter and watch the magic happen.

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Suddenly, you're no
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You're fixing market position problems.

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Your clients start noticing something.

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They're getting callbacks.

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Some will tell you, "Ah, this is
amazing. We're getting callbacks."

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Others will just keep reordering.

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You start selling packages, three resume
versions for different companies, $199.

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Maybe you start doing something like
resumes plus LinkedIn optimization, $249

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You're still using your same AI skills.

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Your time goes up by maybe fifteen
percent, but your revenue per client

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goes up by two hundred percent.

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And here's where the real
trap starts to appear.

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Now that you've built something that
works, you're making life-changing money.

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Maybe it's three thousand to
four thousand dollars a month.

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Twenty to thir-thirty clients you
have moving through the system, and

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you're awar-- you're working maybe, I
don't know what, twenty hours a week.

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Life is good.

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It's sustainable.

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It's still quiet.

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And you'll stay here forever
if you don't do the thing that

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no one else out there teaches.

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Most people think scale means hiring.

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Well, uh, could be true.

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Hiring means problems.

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Hiring means management.

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Hiring means your margins start
to disappear, so you stay small.

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But you're gonna hit a ceiling around,
I don't know, five to six thousand

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dollars a month because there's only
so many hours in your week, okay?

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But there is another path, that
invisible path I mentioned earlier.

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You productize.

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You create a self-serve option.

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You create a simple type form
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What industry?

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And if they say tech, you show
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with tech-specific ATS prompts.

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What's your seniority?

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If they say senior, you start
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patterns and power words.

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You've essentially automated your intake.

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You can use something like Zapier,
even at the free tier, to automatically

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send their responses to a Google sheet.

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You set up a ChatGPT API call.

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It's cheap.

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It's, like, two dollars to five
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That API call then automatically
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Now, customers get a
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Instant gratification.

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Now, we've heard that term a lot, right?

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And maybe you do that
for twenty-nine bucks.

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Some will pay for an upgrade.

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That will be the human review.

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That will be your personal touch.

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That's seventy-nine bucks or whatever
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Some will upgrade to premium.

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This is three versions plus LinkedIn,
a hundred and ninety-nine bucks.

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The time you spend on paying
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for the self-serve tier, fifteen
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you've turned a forty-five-minute,
seventy-nine dollar transaction into

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three product tiers, and you're still
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Your cost for the self-serve tier I
don't know, two to five bucks, and I'm

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really kind of just stretching that out.

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Your price, $29.

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Your profit from 100 customers, $2,400.

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Two to maybe 2,700 bucks.

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Your time invested in those 100
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On the, on, on the outside.

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But here's the moral trap, and I think
this is where this episode actually

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will get a little bit uncomfortable.

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Now that you've built a system that
creates resumes faster than you can

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humanly verify them, the quality
isn't… It's not necessarily better

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or worse, it's just untouched,
unmeshed with human judgment.

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A resume written by a pure system
can be technically perfect, keyword

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optimized for ATS, and formatting
locked in with zero errors.

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But it's also generic in ways
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They just get that feeling.

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Maybe the hair on the back of their
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You know, their spidey sense goes off.

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It doesn't have that small specificity
that makes someone memorable.

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It optimizes for the algorithm,
not for the human reading it after

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the ATS passes it right on through.

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So you have a choice.

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You can keep the system pure and make
$4,000 a month with minimal intervention.

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You don't have to touch it that much.

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Or you can add in a human review,
your personal judgment call, and

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drop to 2,500 bucks a month, but
know that you're delivering something

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that actually will move the needle.

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Most people are gonna choose
the first path, and I, I

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don't think of it as a choice.

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I think of it as scaling But
it's actually a choice about

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what you are willing to sell.

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The people who stay in this business long
term, they're gonna figure out a hybrid.

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They automate the first draft.

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They spend 10 minutes
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That's the specificity I talked about.

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They're gonna add in that narrative thread
that's gonna make someone stand out, both

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in the applicant tracking system, as well
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other side, as well as the HR person who
may see it before the hiring manager does.

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They charge 99 bucks for
this full version, right?

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75% of your customers
will upgrade to that.

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Their average customer value
will become about 85 bucks.

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Their time per customer,
12 minutes, realistically.

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Their monthly revenue at a steady state
will hit, I don't know, 4 to 5,000,

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maybe $6,000 on the outside, and they
can sleep at night feeling like they're

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adding value to their clients' lives.

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Because here's the thing that nobody
mentions when it comes to building an

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AI business, any of the businesses.

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The trap is not in the automation.

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The trap is the permission that it
gives you to stop caring, right?

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It's one of those things where
if I set this up and I, and I,

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I deliver something of value, I
don't have to look at it anymore.

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I don't have to care about it anymore.

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And you can make money with a system
that works but doesn't change lives.

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Or if you're like me and you're
still listening this far in, you

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could build a system that works
and actually helps someone get the

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job they need, the job that's gonna
change the trajectory of their life.

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One of those choices is gonna feel,
I don't know, like a business.

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The other is gonna feel
like work with meaning.

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You see what, you see what I'm saying?

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But one of them scales forever because
only one of them will not burn out.

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Y- y- yeah, I know some
of you are nodding.

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Yeah, I get it.

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Yeah, you vibe with me, right?

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The resumes that change careers
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just kinda Check off the boxes.

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They're the ones that tell
a true story better, right?

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You wanna have storytelling
in your resume.

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Your job isn't to create
the perfect resume, right?

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Insert magical sound here.

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Your job is to find the true
story in someone's background and

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translate it for a specific audience.

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You're like molding that screenplay
into the perfect movie, and you wanna

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do this in a language that passes the
ATS and lands with a human that matters.

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The AI is just a tool.

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You are the translator.

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You're not invisible
because the AI replaced you.

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You're invisible because your system works
so well that clients forget they ever

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had to think about their resume at all.

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They went from stuck to hired,
from rejection to callback.

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That's business.

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That's a business that won't burn out.

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And the ones making $10,000 a month, well,
they're not charging more per resume.

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They're charging right.

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They're filtering for clients
who will actually upgrade.

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They're building trust through results,
not promises, and they're spending

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their time on the cases that matter,
the ones where the story actually

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changes the outcome So here's the
choice that's in front of you right now.

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You can build a resume business.

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I just explained how easy it is.

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Or you could build a transformation
business that uses resumes as a vehicle.

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One is a faster way to money,
the other is harder to quit.

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The system doesn't care which one
you choose, but you're gonna care.

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Okay?

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So before we go any further, I, I wanna
make sure you're not doing this alone.

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And if what we're talking about today
is lighting something up inside you, you

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know, a little sparking a little fire,
then maybe, just maybe there's a real way

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out of the grind, and you just need to
be over on the AI Scapegoat newsletter.

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

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specifically for my busy entrepreneurs,
busy parents just like you.

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Not theory, not hype, real steps that
you can take during nap time, during

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bedtime, or after bedtime, or on Saturday
morning before the whole house wakes up.

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It… You could call it your roadmap
to more money, more freedom, and more

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of what truly matters, your family.

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Go to darkhorseinsider.com
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It's free, it's focused, and it's built
exactly for where you are right now.

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Okay, I'm gonna get back into this.

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So here's the whiskered
wisdom for this week.

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This is a lesson I want you
to walk away with today.

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The AI is a tool.

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All right?

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It's like a shovel and you're a miner.

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AI is a tool.

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You are the translator.

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Every entrepreneur, every parent
listening to this right now has a

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story worth telling, skills worth
selling, experience that someone

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out there is desperately searching
for and they're willing to pay for.

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The resume business, let's be
honest, it's not about resumes.

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It's about finding the true
story in someone's background and

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translating it to the right audience.

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That is a human skill.

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AI just makes you faster
and better at delivering it.

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So here's the one action.

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I want you to do this today, not someday.

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So as soon as you're done hearing this,
I want you to get out there and do this.

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Open a free account on card.co,
C-A-R-D.C-O, and build your one-page

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resume service landing page.

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There you go.

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One offer, one price, one call to action.

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Don't overthink it.

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Don't wait until it's perfect,
and just click it to go live.

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Get it live today.

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Then go find your first
client on LinkedIn.

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Search for those who've posted open
to work in the last seven days, and

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then send them a personal message.

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That's it.

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One page, one message, and get
one client The gold mine is there.

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You just found your front door, and I just
handed you the shovel, so start digging.

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All right?

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So here's what we've covered today.

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Let me kind of wrap this up for you.

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The AI resume side hustle is real.

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The tools are free.

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The demand is massive.

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We've seen them out there on
all those job search platforms.

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The difference between the people
making life-changing money in months and

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those making pocket change in months,
I don't really think it's talent.

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I think it's a system.

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Build the intake, build the templates,
build the tiers, and then add your

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human layer, and never stop being
the translator because that's the

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part that AI can never replace.

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You don't need credentials.

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You don't need a big-ass following.

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You need a process, a page, and the
courage to send that first message.

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The AI is the tool.

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You are the translator, and right now,
someone out there needs exactly the story

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that only you can tell on their resume.

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If this episode fired you up just
a little bit, maybe share it with

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another person who's ready to
stop trading their time for money.

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And if you haven't already, maybe
take a moment and drop us a review.

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A good review, I hope, but
tell us what you really think.

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It helps more dark horses find
the herd, and it really helps

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this podcast get out there.

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Now that you've done all that,
go ahead and get off this

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episode and go build something.

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Think successfully and take action.