Hi Reader,

One of the exercises in Workshop 1 of the Build, Launch, Scale Lab wasn't about the business plan, it was about the mind-shift from employee to entrepreneur — and it landed with the whole group.

This week's Social Saturday takes on the job market: AI isn't just deciding who gets hired anymore, it's reshaping the job itself. Christina Hepburn covers both sides of that for the She Leads AI community, and you'll leave with an AI career coach that keeps working after Saturday ends.

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​Two new speakers joined the CREATE Conference lineup this week — Lauren Irving and Madina Gbotoe. Meet them early at Social Saturday on August 15th.
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Whether you're starting something new or keeping the job you already have, the ground under both keeps shifting. You don't have to find your footing alone, that's what the She Leads AI community is here for.

Warmly,
Kate
She Leads AI
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​Tiptoeing into your inbox all summer 🐾 with The SLAI Effect — talk to you in the next one.

P.S. Here's something for you this week. The Context Kit. Ten short conversations that hand you ten portable files about your work, so any AI tool you open already knows who you are and what you are building.
Get the Context Kit → https://sheleadsai.ai/context-kit/​

🗓️ Social Saturday

Free for all women. Hosted by Beth Lyons and Jen Schwartz.

The Brutal Truth About AI and Your Career

AI is on both sides of the hiring table now, screening resumes and reshaping the roles behind them. Whether you're searching for your next position or strengthening the one you have, getting or keeping a job in the AI era calls for both the how and the why — and Christina Hepburn covers each. She opens with three truths about AI and your career, then turns them into practice. You'll create your career coach using AI, a coach that updates your resume with you and preps you for interviews whenever you need one. You'll leave with the coach and the three truths to guide what you do next.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
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• Map three truths about AI onto your career and decide what each one changes for you
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• Create your career coach using AI
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• Write an updated resume and test your interview answers with your coach

ABOUT CHRISTINA

Christina Hepburn is the Founder, CEO, and Lead Instructor of The Everyday AI Coach, where she teaches professionals and companies to put AI to work. A former recruiter at Google and Intuit with 16 years inside Fortune 500 companies, she has negotiated more than 1,000 job offers and delivered more than 1,000 workshops on resumes and interview prep. She holds a master's degree in human resources management.
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​Gather With Us On Saturdays​
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​Social Saturday is made possible by the She Leads AI Society, our membership program for human-centered AI practitioners.

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🔥 Upcoming Events

Build, Launch, Scale Lab - Workshop 2
Get Clarity Before You Build Strategy

For Members of the She Leads AI Society​
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🗓️ Wednesday, August 12 from 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Workshop 2 of the Build, Launch, Scale Lab, picks up where the first two sessions left off — the Compass you drafted in Workshop 0 and the founder identity work from Workshop 1. If this is your first session, the opening discussion stands on its own, no prior sessions required. One principle guides the hour of work ahead. Clarity develops through iteration, so expect rough first drafts and plan to revise. If you tend toward perfectionism, come ready to share work before it feels finished.

You do not need a business idea to participate fully in this program.

Participants will leave workshop 2 with one (or more!) of the following:

• A consulting concept
• A side-gig idea
• A nonprofit initiative
• A creative offering
• A clearer understanding of their strengths
• Or simply a better question than the one they arrived with
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All of these represent meaningful progress.

The Build, Launch, Scale Lab is a benefit of membership in She Leads AI. We recommend the full arc — the workshops build on one another. And the curriculum is built to be joined as your time allows, with every replay and resource waiting in the learning management system.

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She Leads AI Academy Cohorts

Certified AI Educator begins Wednesday, August 19
12:00-1:30pm Pacific
6 Modules + Office Hours

The certification for women in AI who want to teach what they know and shape how AI gets taught.
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AI Consulting Accelerator begins Thursday, August 20
1:00-2:30pm Pacific
9 Modules + Office Hours
For women turning AI skill into a consulting practice they can sell, deliver, and grow.

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If you want in on either one before the first session, email hello@sheleadsai.ai and we will get you enrolled.
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Learn more → https://sheleadsai.ai/ai-academy/​

📢 She Leads AI Society Members Making an Impact
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TK Dunn calls herself the Optimizer, and the title covers more ground than it sounds like. Working out of Lakeville, Minnesota, she consults on AI through North Coast AI, building custom GPTs and running workshops for companies and community groups that want to get past the demo stage. She is also an end-of-life educator who guides families through advance directives and hospice decisions, and a travel safety educator who prepares solo women travelers before they go. Those practices look unrelated until you notice the common thread — each one hands people usable information at the moment they are least able to think clearly. On her Substack, AI Village, she asks when AI stops being a tool and starts being an interface. Her sharpest recent piece came after her middle-school grandson came to her in tears over a Doomsday Clock video, convinced the world was ending that night. Risk metaphors written for policymakers now arrive in children's feeds with no context attached, and her verdict on that is two sentences long. "Context isn't censorship. It's stewardship."

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Emily Bocking has spent twenty years in Canadian philanthropy, and her clients have raised more than $150 million in capital campaigns. She founded Brazen Fundraising in Saskatoon in 2024, where she plans campaigns and coaches Executive Directors through the donor conversations most people dodge. For three years she's worked the AI side of the same problem, from workflow design to policy design. Her writing is about the operational habits underneath the tools — she's blunt that most of the sector is stuck typing prompts and hoping, and that "agents without guardrails are just expensive chaos." She tracks what donors think, too. Ninety-three percent want transparency about how a nonprofit uses AI, and only sixteen percent are comfortable with it doing the relational work. On August 10 she's running a free session on Canadian AI policy for nonprofits, covering the federal, provincial, sectoral, and Indigenous frameworks. As she puts it, nonprofits don't run on compliance, they run on trust.

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Courtney Jennings has spent fourteen years running large asset audits and inventory programs for school districts and municipalities, some of them reaching 500,000 records. As Operations Director at ProBar she designs the workflows and data-collection protocols behind those audits, plus the quality assurance and reconciliation checks that keep the numbers accurate. Her focus has moved toward the ethics and governance side of that same work — how organizations scale responsibly, balancing innovation against human impact. She's now heading toward AI governance and public policy, drawn to how structure and policy can make complicated work fairer and more human-centered. At CREATE Con she attended Danielle LaFleur's breakout, Why We're Wrong About Humans and AI, and wrote afterward that it was eye-opening and "a little terrifying in the best way." She comes from work where a wrong number gets found, and she's applying that standard to AI.

🍓 Worth a Share

DyeConverter™

​Kelly Anderson is stepping into her first tech venture with DyeConverter™, an AI-assisted tool built to help food and beverage brands move away from synthetic dyes ahead of the upcoming FDA deadline. The platform lets teams compare natural color alternatives side-by-side — looking at supplier, category, heat stability, and sourcing — so they can find options that actually hold up in production. By pulling together scientific, regulatory, and ingredient data in one place, DyeConverter™ gives brands clear guidance on usage levels and regulatory fit, turning what used to be months of research into a matter of days.

Proof that the best innovations don't just solve problems — they make room for everyone else to move faster too.

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CREATE Conference 2026 is three days in Salt Lake City built for women in AI leadership — October 16–18. Strategy, hands-on sessions, and peers who understand the challenges you're facing. Gather with us →​