You don't need to understand AI. You just need to start using it.
A hands-on workshop for women over 50 who are tired of hearing that AI changes everything, and would like someone to just show them how it works. Women only, so nobody in the room can make you feel behind.
Two sessions back to back, plus a Practice Hour a week later. One price gets you all of it.
- Both at 1:00pm ET (10:00am PT), 90 minutes each
- Come to one or come to both. The price is the same either way
- Replays included for both, so a conflict is not a reason to skip it
- Everything we use is free. Nothing to buy, and I send a setup video two days ahead
- Includes the part almost nobody teaches: spotting the AI scams now aimed at our generation
- Plus a live Practice Hour a week later, on Thursday, September 3. Included, not an upsell
- Three take-home guides: 45 prompt starters, a safety and scam card, and a which-tool card
Capped at 40 seats per session so every question gets answered.
Commented on the Facebook post? Your seat is $20 less.
This whole thing exists because a group of women told me they wanted it. If you were one of them, your seat is $27 instead of $47, and that covers both days.
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You don't need a hundred uses. You need one that makes your week easier.
Most AI training teaches you features and leaves you to work out where they fit. We're doing it the other way round. Here is the actual list of jobs women in this group bring to me, and we'll be working on the real ones, not demonstrations.
At work
- Draft the email, proposal or client follow-up you've been putting off for a week
- Turn what you already know into posts, presentations and marketing you'd be willing to publish
- Get through the long ones: contracts, policies, reports, an RFP nobody wants to read
- Research a company, a decision or a market properly before the meeting
- Ask a spreadsheet a question instead of building a formula for it
- Understand what AI is actually changing about your role, before someone else decides that for you
At home
- Break open the insurance policy, the lease, the benefits summary, the letter from the hospital
- Plan the trip, or the project you keep moving to next month
- Write the awkward one: the difficult reply, the thank-you note, the family email
- Get a plain-English explanation of anything you'd feel silly asking a person about
- Help a parent or a family member with paperwork you don't fully understand either
- Spot the scam call, the fake message and the invented photograph before they cost you
Bring one of these on Wednesday. Something real that's been annoying you. The women who arrive with something specific are the ones who leave with something working, and that's the whole difference between a workshop and a webinar.
In a normal week, do you already use AI without thinking about it?
Not how good you are at it. Not how much you know. Just whether it's in your week yet. That's the only thing that decides which day is yours, and there's no wrong answer.
And you don't have to choose. One ticket covers both days, so if you're not sure, come Wednesday and decide about Thursday afterward.
Start Here
Pick this one if any of these sound like you:
- You've never opened an AI tool like ChatGPT, or you opened it once and quietly closed it
- You have an account somewhere but haven't touched it in weeks
- You're not sure what the difference is between ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest
- You'd sit down in front of it and not know what to type
- You tried it, got something strange, and decided it wasn't for you
- Someone else set it up for you and you've never gone back on your own
Beyond the Basics
Pick this one if most of these sound like you:
- You use it most weeks and it's part of how you do at least one thing
- It's already saved you real time on something
- You type your instructions fresh every time, because you've never saved or reused one
- You usually take the first answer instead of pushing back on it
- You've never opened the settings
- You use it for writing and questions, but not for documents, spreadsheets or files
- You've never had a way to ask questions of a whole stack of your own paperwork at once
- You suspect you're using about ten percent of what it can do
Genuinely torn? Then don't decide. One ticket covers both days, so come Wednesday, see how it lands, and come back Thursday if you want more. Nothing extra to pay and nothing to tell me in advance.
Still not sure? Answer three questions
1. In a typical week, how many days do you use AI?
Never or once or twice ever · One or two days · Three to five days · Most days
2. When you use it, which is closer to the truth?
I ask it things. I go to it with a question and it gives me an answer, a bit like a very well-read friend, or a search engine that actually explains itself.
I give it work to do. I hand it something to produce. Draft this email, rewrite this paragraph, pull this document apart, turn these notes into something I can send.
It runs partly on its own. I've saved instructions it follows every time, or connected it to my files or accounts so it isn't starting from scratch.
3. Which is more true?
When I open it, I'm not really sure what to type · I know what to type, I just suspect I'm using a fraction of it
Mostly first answers? Start Here, on the Wednesday.
Mostly second answers? Beyond the Basics, on the Thursday.
Picked the third option on question 2? Honestly, neither. You're past both of these. Email me and I'll tell you what's coming in September instead of taking your money for something you don't need.
You've been told AI changes everything. Nobody has shown you how to open it.
You've read the articles. Somebody in your family uses it constantly. A younger colleague mentioned it in a meeting and you nodded.
Meanwhile you're still doing the things AI is supposedly great at. Rewriting the same email for the fourth time. Rebuilding a spreadsheet by hand every month. Staring at a blank page trying to start.
The gap isn't intelligence and it isn't age. It's that nobody has sat down and walked you through the first ten minutes.
And there's a quieter version of this if you're still working. Job descriptions in your field have started mentioning these tools. Someone in a meeting will eventually ask how you're using them. You'd rather have an answer that came from your own hands than one you assembled from articles, and you'd rather form your own view of what this changes about your role than have somebody else form it for you.
That's the entire point of this workshop.
This is not a webinar. You'll have it open on your own screen.
Most AI trainings are somebody talking at you about what AI is, while you take notes you never read again.
We're doing the opposite. You'll have the tool open. I'll have mine open. We go step by step together, and I don't move on until the chat tells me everyone is with me.
You can delegate the work to AI. You can never delegate the accountability.
That line runs through the whole session. You're the one in charge. It drafts, you decide. It suggests, you approve. It is never the author. You are.
"If a machine helped me, does my work still count?"
Let me name the thing that stops more experienced women than any technical difficulty ever has. It isn't can I learn this. It's whether using it quietly undoes something.
You built your credibility over decades. On judgment, on relationships, on knowing what good looks like and what doesn't. Handing part of that to a machine can feel like it might cheapen it. And most women I talk to have privately wondered whether a colleague would think less of them if they knew.
If you've felt that, you are not being precious and you are not behind. You're responding to something measurable:
Sources: Harvard Business School research by Rembrand Koning and colleagues; Lean In and McKinsey, Women in the Workplace.
My answer, and I'm giving it as someone who has spent 30 years on the hiring side
The line was never whether a machine helped. It's whether you're still the author.
If you hand over the thinking, take the first thing it produces and put your name on it without reading it properly, that's a real problem, and it was a problem long before any of this existed. If you use it to get to a first draft faster and then apply thirty years of judgment to that draft, that is not cheating. That is what every capable person with a good assistant has always done.
And on what employers are actually looking for: I hire people and I write about hiring for a living. What's being screened for now is not whether you use AI. It's whether you know when to trust it and when not to. That is judgment, and you have more of it than most of the people who worry about this least.
This is why the line below runs through both days, and why we spend eighteen minutes on safety rather than three. You're not here to hand your work to a machine. You're here to keep your name on it while getting your evenings back.
Here's the one I think will surprise you. It's going to interview you.
Everybody assumes the hard part is writing instructions good enough to get something useful back. That's why the blank box is so intimidating. You sit there trying to word it perfectly, and eventually you close the tab.
You can do it the other way round. You can tell it to ask you questions instead.
Live, in the session, on something you know well. You give it a topic. It asks you ten questions, one at a time, the way a good journalist would, including the awkward one you've been avoiding. You answer in your own ordinary words. Then it writes the thing.
A post. A bio. A proposal section. The talk you keep saying you'll put together. Whatever you'd actually use.
The reason this matters more for this room than for anyone else: the raw material is your thirty years. It isn't inventing your expertise, it's getting it out of your head and onto a page, which is the part that's been costing you entire evenings.
It's also the clearest possible answer to the question further up this page. It's difficult to feel replaced by something that just spent four minutes asking you what you know.
And we'll do three more in the same session: getting a messy pile of thoughts organised into something with a shape, taking a document you're about to sign and having it explained properly rather than just made shorter, and getting up to speed on something you know nothing about without losing an evening to it.
Here's exactly how we'll spend the time.
- 10 minWhy this feels harder than it is. The one belief that keeps capable women stuck, and why "I'm not technical" has nothing to do with it.
- 4 minGet set up. One tool, not a confusing comparison of five. Free versions work fine, nothing to download, and I send you a short setup video beforehand so this part is quick.
- 24 minHands on, together. One continuous run, from a messy pile of thoughts to something you could actually send. Getting your ideas organised, letting it interview you and write the piece, opening up a document properly, and getting up to speed on something unfamiliar.
- 17 minThe five-part formula that makes it useful. This is what separates people who say "it gave me garbage" from people who use it every day. You'll write three of your own and test them live.
- 18 minStaying safe. What should never go into these tools, the two settings to change today, and the AI scams now aimed squarely at our generation.
- 15 minWhat to do next, and your questions. Every one of them, until they're done.
And if you come back on Thursday
Day two is for anyone who already uses AI most weeks and has a nagging sense they're using a fraction of it. It's called Beyond the Basics, and the whole point is to stop starting from scratch.
Thursday is also where we add Google. You'll leave with Gemini Notebook set up, which is free, works with the Google account you already have, and is the one people email me about afterwards.
- 10 minFrom asking to assigning. The difference between a question and a job, and the two parts of a good instruction almost nobody writes.
- 14 minArguing with it. The first answer is a draft, never the answer. Three specific ways to push back, including asking it to criticize its own work.
- 15 minMaking it remember you. Tell it once who you are and how you like things done, and stop re-explaining yourself every morning. This is the one that surprises people.
- 11 minYour own documents and spreadsheets. Hand it a policy and get plain English back. Upload a spreadsheet and ask it questions without writing a single formula.
- 13 minA whole stack at once, in Gemini Notebook. Put twenty documents in one place and ask questions of all of them. Every answer points back at the exact line it came from, so you can check it in one click.
- 9 minStaying safe when the stakes go up. What changes once you're uploading real files and connecting real accounts.
- 11 minWhat to build next, and your questions.
Both days are included in the one price. If Wednesday turns out to be exactly right for you and Thursday sounds like too much, skip it. Nothing is wasted.
And then the part that usually goes missing: what happens after.
Most training ends the moment it ends. You leave full of good intentions, the week gets away from you, and by the following Monday it has quietly gone. That isn't a failure of willpower. It's what happens when there's nowhere to take the first thing that goes wrong.
So there's a third session, and it's included.
The Practice Hour
Thursday, September 3 · 1:00pm ET · 60 minutes
Same time, same Zoom link, one week after day two.
No slides and no new material. You bring whatever you tried during the week and got stuck on, and we work on it together, live. Somebody else's stuck thing is usually your stuck thing too.
This is the session where what you learned turns into something you actually do. It's also where the good questions finally arrive, because a week of real use finds things a workshop never can.
Come with something broken. That's the whole point of it.
Can't make that one either? It's recorded like the others. And you can send me your question beforehand and I'll answer it on the call whether you're there or not.
The part nobody else is teaching you
Everyone wants to show you what AI can do. Almost nobody is telling women our age what it's being used to do to us.
A few seconds of someone's voice, lifted from a video, is now enough to clone it. The scam is a phone call that sounds exactly like your child or your grandchild, upset and needing money right now.
There's a simple thing that stops it, and we'll set it up together in the workshop. Along with what should never be pasted into an AI tool, the two settings to change on your account today, and how to check whether a new app is safe before you hand it your email.
If you take one thing home from this session, it may well be this part.
By 2:30 on Wednesday you'll have all of this.
- One AI tool set up and working on your own device, not on a slide
- Three prompts written in your own words, tested live, ready to use this week
- One finished piece of writing that came out of your own head, built live in the session
- The ability to take a document you're about to sign and get a plain-English breakdown of what it actually means for you
- A clear line between what's safe to put in and what never goes in
- Your privacy settings changed, done together on screen
- The Prompt Starter Pack: 45 things to say to AI when you don't know what to say to it, sorted by the job you're doing
- The Safety and Scam Card: one page. The family code word, what should never be pasted in, the two settings to change, how to check an app before you trust it
- The Which Tool for Which Job Card: one page, three columns, so you never sit there wondering which one to open
- The full replay, so you can go back and do it again at your own pace
- A real answer to "what would I actually use this for"
This was built for you if
- You've never used AI, or you opened it once, got a strange answer, and closed it
- You run a business, lead a team, or manage a calendar that would humble a project manager
- You're still working, and you'd like your own answer to "so how are you using AI" rather than one you read somewhere
- You're curious, but you don't want to be the only one in the room who doesn't get it
- You'd rather learn it from someone who explains things in plain English
- Something about all this has felt slightly off to you, and you've held back because of it
That last one especially. If you've been cautious about this, your instinct is right and we're going to keep it. Being careful here isn't being behind. It's judgment, and judgment is the one part of this that can't be handed to a machine.
A note on who's in the room
This workshop is for women over 50. Every seat.
That isn't a marketing angle. The single biggest thing holding this group back is the worry about being the one person who doesn't get it, and that worry disappears when everyone in the room started in the same place. The room is the product, and I'm protecting it on purpose.
Already using AI most weeks? Thursday is your day. Come to that one, or come to both. And if you're well past both of these, email me rather than buying a ticket, and I'll tell you what's coming in September.
One price. Both days.
There is no separate ticket for Wednesday and Thursday, and no upgrade to buy. Whatever you pay covers all three sessions, every replay and all three take-home guides.
One seat
Both days, the Practice Hour on September 3, every replay, and all three take-home guides. Come to one session or all three, it's the same price either way.
If you don't leave with something you'll use this week, I'll refund you.
No form and no explanation required. Email me within 48 hours and it's done.
I'm not worried about it. The whole workshop is built around you leaving with something working, not something understood.
Who's teaching this
I'm Andrea Hoffer, founder of aha! Talent Experts. I've spent 30 years in talent acquisition, I wrote Hire Higher, and I hold an MS, an MBA, and an MIT certification in AI.
I'm also a woman over 50 who was quietly intimidated by all of this four years ago.
I now use AI every day to run my company. Not because I became technical, but because I figured out the part everyone skips: how to talk to it so it gives you something useful.
That's what I'm going to show you.
Questions people are asking
I'm genuinely not technical. Will this be over my head?
No. If you can send an email and open a browser tab, you have every skill this requires. There's no software to install and nothing to download.
What if I can't be there live?
Register anyway. Everyone gets the full replay of both sessions and the cheat sheet within 24 hours. Several people have already told me they have a conflict that week and are coming for the recordings.
Is there anything I need to do before the workshop?
One thing, and it takes ten minutes. A couple of days beforehand I'll send you a short video showing you how to set up your account, so we can spend our time together actually using it rather than watching each other click Sign Up. If you don't get to it, come anyway. You'll be fine.
Do I have to come to both days?
No. Most people will come to one. The price is the same either way, so I'd rather you had the option than have you choose in advance and get it wrong.
If you're new to this, Wednesday is your day. If you already use AI most weeks, Thursday is. If you're genuinely unsure, come Wednesday and decide about Thursday afterward.
How does the $20 off work?
If you commented on my Facebook post asking for this, I'll send you a message with your code. Your seat is $27 instead of $47, and it still covers both days.
Haven't commented yet? Go back to the post and comment by Friday, August 21, and I'll message you the same way.
I'm sending these one at a time rather than putting the code on this page, so it stays with the women who actually asked for this.
Is this for business or personal use?
Both, and in that order. We start personal because that's where it clicks fastest, then we point the same skill at your work.
Which tools will we use? Do I have to buy anything?
We'll use one main tool so nobody gets lost in a comparison, and everything you learn transfers to the others. The free version is fine. You will not need to buy anything.
What actually happens in the Practice Hour?
Thursday, September 3 at 1:00pm ET, for an hour, on the same Zoom link. It's included and there's nothing extra to book.
No slides and no new material. You bring the thing you tried during the week that didn't work, or the thing you couldn't quite figure out how to ask for, and we fix it live. Most people find somebody else's problem was theirs too.
It exists because the week after a workshop is where good intentions usually go to die, and an hour of company at exactly that moment is worth more than another hour of teaching on the day.
Will people think I'm cheating if I use this?
It's the most common private worry in this group, and the research backs that up: 29% of women worry about being seen as cheating for using AI at work, against 22% of men.
The line isn't whether a machine helped. It's whether you're still the author. Using it to reach a first draft faster and then applying your own judgment is not cheating. Handing over the thinking and putting your name on something you didn't read properly is, and always was.
We spend real time on this, because getting it settled is what makes people actually use what they learn.
Is AI going to take my job?
I'm not going to give you a comfortable answer, because I spend my working life in hiring and I'd rather be straight with you.
Some tasks are changing, and quickly. Jobs made up almost entirely of those tasks are changing with them. But what's genuinely scarce, and getting scarcer, is somebody who can look at a plausible-sounding answer and know it's wrong. That's judgment, it takes decades to build, and it's the thing you already have.
The risk for women our age isn't being replaced by AI. It's being the person in the room who can't say how she's using it. That's fixable in an afternoon, and it's what this is.
What if I forget everything the moment it's over?
That's the normal outcome of most training, so it's a fair worry. Four things are built in against it: you'll have done it yourself rather than watched it, you keep every replay and can redo any part at your own pace, you leave with 45 prompt starters sorted by job so you're never facing a blank screen, and there's a live Practice Hour a week later on Thursday, September 3, for exactly the moment it stops working.
You can also just reply to my emails. I read them all, and I'd much rather answer a question in September than have you quietly give up in the first week.
Is this really only for women over 50?
Yes, and I'm holding that line. The thing that stops most women in this group isn't the technology, it's the worry about being the one who doesn't get it. That worry disappears when everyone started in the same place, and it comes straight back the moment the room is mixed.
Men have already asked, and I'm glad they did. September's workshops are open to everyone.
On the age, I'm not checking IDs. If you're a bit under 50 and this is your speed, come.
Can I bring my own documents to work on?
Yes, you're welcome to. If you're not sure whether a document is something you'd want to put into an AI tool, wait until after the safety section, that's where you'll know exactly what's safe and what isn't. Until then, samples and made-up examples work just as well for learning the moves.
Will you try to sell me something?
At the end I'll spend two minutes on the September workshops. That's it. The $47 workshop is a real workshop, not a pitch with a workshop attached.
Thirty years of judgment is the part that can't be automated.
You've spent decades learning what good looks like, who to trust, and when something is quietly off. None of that is going anywhere, and none of it is what these tools are good at.
What's changed is that people who pair that judgment with these tools are about to get a great deal more done than people holding only one of the two. You already have the harder half. This is ninety minutes to pick up the easier one.
Wednesday, August 26 and Thursday, August 27, both at 1:00pm ET for 90 minutes. Then the Practice Hour on Thursday, September 3. Come to one, come to all three. Forty seats a session.
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