Healing Journeys and Digital Tools: A Conversation with Sam Morrison

Sam Morrison, founder of Safe Park Connections, shares her powerful healing story after leaving an abusive marriage and how she built a global community for women to create lives they love. She explains her “Overflow Effect” approach to self-love, daily gratitude practices, and the importance of authentic connection. We also dive into how she and Nikki use AI responsibly in business, from content creation to book writing.

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Sam Morrison
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Speaker 3: [00:00:00] hey everybody, my name is Sam and I'm the community host and founder of an online community for women called Safe Park Connections. And I work with them as they learn to create a life they love, one choice at a time. And I'm a big believer that if you wanna change the world, you have to start with you.

Speaker 4: So what got you into, you said you were in a community. How did you connect there? 

Speaker 3: Well, I started the community. So what happened was I got outta an abusive marriage in 2015, and I had been married and divorce multiple times before that. And when this thing happened in 2015, I was like, okay, this is not gonna work.

And there's one commonality in all these situations, and it was me. And so I went on this healing journey. And starting actually, March 8th, 2015 is the day I wrote in my journal and I drew a line in the [00:01:00] sand. But this, I said this not gonna work anymore. And, I didn't know what it meant. I didn't know what it, and now we're coming up on 10 and I can look back and see what it meant.

And it meant that I learned to love who I'm exactly as I'm period hard stop. End the story. And very soon into my journey, I recognized I was meant to work with other women to help them learn this too. And so at first, the community started out, really, it was more of a week, a monthly meetup in Irving, Texas.

We met up for dinner at one of my favorite hotels. They had a restaurant there. We would sit out on the patio and just talk. There was seven or eight of us the first time, and that has now grown into having an online community where I have women from all over the world, literally in the community. And we get to hang out on Zoom, and then we also do, once a year, I do an [00:02:00] in-person retreat.

It's really small. Typically I have 10 to 12 women that'll be there. I do other online virtual events. Most of the community is free. My heart is to have it that way so that anybody, any woman in the world that wants to learn to create a life, she loves one choice at a time. She can start with the base of what she learns with me, and then if she wants to dig in and do more work than there's paid opportunities.

Have been with me for years that have never given a penny, and I'm like, that's fine. Keep coming. It's fine. Yeah. 

Speaker 4: Brains are funny. Okay. But, when somebody first joins your group, like what are some of the first things that they see? What are, the starting place for what you do? 

Speaker 3: That's a really great, great question. So when someone joins Safer Connections, the first thing they do when they join, they get an auto DM for me, because it's set up [00:03:00] where it automatically happens.

And so I try and respond back right away when I see it goes in, say, Hey, this, I know that was a auto dm, but this is me. I'm real, I'm a human. But the question that I ask them is, on a scale of one to 10, how well do you love yourself right now? And no matter the answer, no matter what they say, my answer is almost always the same.

That's perfect. Because the first step in creating a life you love, starting with you is to know where you're at. You have to know where you're at. And so being able to be aware of where you're at, and maybe that number's low or maybe it's high, doesn't really matter. 'cause I believe even if you're a 10, there's still more things to do and learn or maybe give back and help to contribute.

Because I believe if. If we are not focusing on something, it will deteriorate. It will go away. Right? And so [00:04:00] maybe I work really hard at creating this life I love, and then I take my eyes off of that and I pivot, and I don't make myself a priority anymore, and I don't keep my cup full. Then that number will inherently, it'll just go down.

There's no other way around. Yeah. And so that's the first thing we do. And then I have a really simple start here module where it gives them the lay of the land in the community and it gets them to be, brave and do an introduction post to say who they are. And they don't have to share a lot, but just getting an, I can tell for sure that when a woman joins, if she'll go through the start here module.

Then she, and she actually does the quick little things. She will be engaged more. She will see more growth because she's willing to step her comfort zone. And there's different levels. My community's on school and they, gamify it. And there's [00:05:00] different levels. And the first level is called wallflowers.

And wallflowers aren't bad. It means you're coming in, you're checking out the room, you're seeing if it's okay for you. If it's not, it's okay to bounce. You can lean, right, but come check it out. We're a very warm, loving group of women, all there for the same reasons where we just want more community, more connection.

We think we're more connected now than ever because of technology and I call bs. It's just not true. And so being able to have a safe place to come, one of the women in the community. Just this week she sent me a message while I'm still talking. I'll pull it up. I just can't make this stuff up. She said,

Sam, I have no in-person support, but I wanna say every time I see a post or an email in Safe Heart Connections, I feel [00:06:00] whole.

And for so many of us, we don't have in-person connections. And do I want people to have in-person connections? Yes. Yes. It's important. There's something different about meeting in a space and being elbow to elbow, shoulder to shoulder, but if you don't have that start in a virtual community. Right. And so I'm honored to be able to be the community for these women.

Yes, I'm helping them, but truthfully, it helps me. It keeps, it helps me keep my side of the street clean. It helps me remember that I have to make myself a priority. And when we do goal setting calls and calls, I'm setting goals too, because I'm still, this is an ongoing lifetime thing for me. And I'm not just, I don't even myself a coach.

The community host and the founder of Safe Connections [00:07:00] and I'm coming alongside them. I'm their guide as they do this and everybody's journey looks different. At the end of the start here module, somebody does that and they actually get to go on what I call a 30 day gratitude experience. And it's basically every day for 30 days, they submit a form where they say one thing, they're grateful for that day.

And at the end of the 30 days, I create a unique, customized word cloud with all the things they said they were thankful for, grateful for. And so that's really the beginning of it. And then we do monthly check-in calls. I'd share affirmations weekly. We have a book club right now going on for the book called Worthy, and it's going really well and there's lots of free stuff.

There are paid things, but nobody ever has to do anything if they don't wanna. 

We talk about a lot is keeping your cup full to the overflow. What I teach has been, I've coined the phrase, the overflow effect. [00:08:00] And what happens is if you imagine you have a coffee cup or a tea cup sitting on a saucer and people say you can't pour from an empty cup, you can't.

Specifically are taught to give and give, and give, and give. Can't give anymore.

It's so empty. There's nothing on the saucer. But if you can keep pouring into your life in a way that shows you love and respect and building your self worth, and self esteem and all the things, then you're, it pours out over onto the overflow onto that saucer. And when you can create a life that allows you to give from that saucer, that when you're able to give in generous, kind, loving ways that you can never do before.

It doesn't deplete you. And so when I say self-love is not selfish, that's what I mean. If you wanna change the world, start with you because you can't give from a state of depletion. [00:09:00] And I encourage our women to keep their cup full because we wanna give, but I believe we've been taught to give in some toxic ways.

Speaker 4: So when you say that we've been taught to give in some toxic ways, can you say more on that? I know some toxic ways Yeah. I'm sure anybody listening can go. Yeah, I know, like 10 off the top of my head. Yeah. But, like maybe one or two and how you change the thought process on that.

I've got a 

Speaker 3: really, I've got a really, this may not make sense, but we have, two grandsons, a 6-year-old and an 11-year-old. And my dad is on staff at the church where we go with him sometimes. And my 6-year-old grandson told his mom, my daughter, a couple of weeks ago, that he wanted to get baptized.

We're like, okay, you're little young. So my dad and his wife, my bonus mom, sweet Mary, she's legit Sweet Mary. And [00:10:00] we're talking to, and what Finn said was, when I get baptized, can I help with the church like grandfather? And so. I see that as almost like it's an expectation to do, to give instead of to receive.

And I do believe in giving. But when you're first on a journey, when you're first learning this stuff, you're starting to make connections. It's hundred percent okay to come and receive, and you know, I am a Christian. And sometimes I don't tell people that depending on the environment, not because I'm afraid or embarrassed of what I believe, but because I see so many Christians now that are known for what they hate instead of what they love.

And so I have this really cool gift about me that God's given me where I can love him. And. Doesn't [00:11:00] matter if they believe the same thing as me or not. And so when it comes to the giving part though, it's like we are taught from a very young age that it's okay, like it's self-sacrifice is to be honored.

If my little 6-year-old grandson. He, you know what? He has a heart of kindness and he's funny and he's all boy, and so I'm not saying his heart to wanna serve is bad. What I'm saying is that we're taught to give in such a way from such an early age that we forget to give to ourselves. And when we start out at such a young age doing that, then no wonder we get to where we're 40 years old and we wake up and we're like.

Who am I? Like I've become what I'm supposed to be, not who God created me to be. And so I've been on this journey now and I've learned who I'm, I know why God created [00:12:00] me. I know that the fact that I'm, a bit eccentric. Purpose. It's not a bad thing. I used to, and the way I feel like before I started my healing journey in, I had off all my feelings, all my emotions.

I didn't feel anything.

Can you imagine an empath not feeling what that must have been like when I turned on the faucet to start feeling again? It was so like, it would physically hurt my body to feel, and it's gotten better over the years, where I can manage it a little bit, the good and the bad, but what I cognize by shutting off the bad, I shut off the good.

And so it's been a whirlwind of a journey anybody's. You creating a life you love. And if you start to think about what that looks like, [00:13:00] if your life doesn't already look like that, today's the day possibly to just make one choice. You don't have to do it all. That's why I say create a life you love. One choice at a time.

One choice to do something to. Show yourself kindness, love, grace, appreciation, respect, anything that's gonna help point you towards creating life Love. The world will be better for not only will be better for it, but the world will be better.

Speaker 4: When you were going through your. I hate to say journey because then everybody's gonna, oh, they got that from ai. They're not talking real. But no, this is me. I call it my healing journey. I call it my healing journey. I used to call it recovery, but everybody's like, oh, I didn't know you were a drug addict.

I'm still, I'm in recovery. I'm in recovery for self, but people don't get that. They think it's drugs or alcohol. You can recover from a million different things, [00:14:00] and it just really became easier for me to say my healing journey instead of recovering. 

So when you started down that path, I know for me, like when, I had something really bad happen and my brain, my mental health shattered into tiny little pieces.

And so when I, and I kind of went out of it for years and when I finally started to come out. Of that because, my meds were finally straightened out and now I could actually think again instead of only be, at the back of my head somewhere where like I didn't wanna be there. I was kind of just stuck there.

But when I started to come out of that, for me, there was a moment where like the world went from kind of dim and gray, and then it snapped back into focus for me because it was kind of like, oh wow. Hey, look at that all systems ago. Yeah. And then from then on I could build on that. Yeah, I have [00:15:00] used 

Speaker 3: therapy situations that are very directly related to that.

So, one, the first one was when I really understood the impact of gratitude in my journey as I got outta my abusive marriage. In 2015, I got moved and settled to this new place. It was a pretty long story. I won't go into all the details, but he found me. I got a text message from him six, eight weeks in, said I know where you're at, and I ended up having to move again.

I actually had to break a lease. The apartment complex said, oh yeah, it's fine. And a few months later I get a thing for failure to pay.

I that when we started Safe Park Connections, I, we would have it at this, my favorite hotel at the restaurant. Well, the apartments that I ended up moving into were next door to that hotel and I would've not known [00:16:00] that apartment complex was within my reach financially had I not got that text message.

And so, because it made me start asking some questions and stuff,

So in that moment of being able to find gratitude, even in the moving, that's when my eyes were open to the fact that if I wanna create a life, I love if I focus on the good stuff. And if I can do it in that awful moment, I can do it in any moment. The second one, and you mentioned life looked gray and one of the trainings that I went through, they actually had us imagine ourselves in a gray room.

All gray, whatever was on the walls, we could, whatever it was, in our mind, it was, and the door was open and we had a choice. Do we stay in the gray room or do we leave? And for some people they, they left. Some people they stayed. Some people they got to the edge like they're about to leave and then they don't.

And the only reason I know this is because [00:17:00] afterwards. During the training, we would do these different experiences and I had never raised my hands. And I like if I was called on, I would speak, but I never said, Hey, me. And when we were done with that particular thing, I stood up and raised both my hands and said, you better pick me.

And they did. And when I left the room, there was.

Up the world was ready, I gonna out. And so in that moment, when I start, I'm back or I'm not doing what I need to do. I'm,

so those were two. And then I have some other things, but those were two really, really important moments for me. [00:18:00] 

Speaker 4: It was an important moment for me like that, that crystallizing of the, well, we've made the choice to live, show up now. Yeah. Because I had made the choice to live, but I wasn't living.

You get so far into your depression sometimes that you can't see the forest for the trees, and it's just this huge thing that has happened and now you're like, I can't breathe. And then all of a sudden, all the toxicity that I was around ended and, there was just. I could breathe again and then it snapped into focus and I was like, oh wait, hi, I have a brain again.

And then, I wasn't overwhelmed by somebody saying, can you get my contacts out of Google? Because like, duh. That took like five seconds, where two weeks before it would've taken me maybe a month and three crying sessions to be able to do it. Like I always had the knowledge of [00:19:00] on how to do it. But I got so overwhelmed by the stupidest stuff that.

It was taking over everything. And once I came out of that, it was big deal because now I could function and I could actually be of help to the people around me instead of just being Yeah, a log. I'm glad you came outta it too. So is there anything, I don't wanna say anything else 'cause that makes it seem like, I'm like, okay, we're done.

But, do you have anything else you'd like to say? 

Speaker 3: I just know that for so many of us, we are so busy trying to do all the things that the last thing we do is slow down for ourselves.

Have to make money, have to pay the bills. We have to, if you're married, you have a spouse. You're living [00:20:00] life with, doing life with them, your kids, your grandkids, your sisters, whoever. We're all busy and the only way something's gonna change is if you make something change. And so if you need, if you're ready.

If you're ready to start to create a life you love, one choice at a time. Here's my best suggestion. This is if I were starting all over again, this is what I would do. I would start every morning, even before you get up. You don't have to write 'em down. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But in your brain at least, or out loud, say three things you're thankful for.

Think about the top three things you need to do for the day. That way, right when you're getting up, you're focused on what's gonna happen for the day and you're focused on gratitude. And then at the end of the evening, and there's all kinds of research that shows, there's a, [00:21:00] my favorite book out, there's called The Gap in the Game by Ben Hardy and, Dan Sullivan.

The last hour, how you spend your last hour of the evening, of the day is the most important hour of the day. And, I'm still working on this. Sometimes I do good, sometimes I don't do good. But to have three wins from the day. What you, the three things that happen, they can be small, they, and if you wanna call them three good things, you don't have to call them wins, whatever makes the most sense.

But as you're gonna bed for the evening, your three wins for the day and what you think your three wins for the next day are gonna be. If you'll do that one thing, I actually call that the seven minute gratitude blue, the gratitude blueprint. Sorry, she's gonna have to edit that one. She even heard that one.

He's walking away like he said, oops. Trying to [00:22:00] be, I was supposed to be, I was supposed to be at the office because my head was hurting. I didn't go so.

I'm the one that's not supposed to be here. Anyway, so I actually call that the Seven Minute Gratitude Blueprint. And any woman that joins Safe Heart Connections, I have something that I call the Self Love. Now if any woman join Safe Connections, norm in online, that's 37.

If they join and send me a message saying that it came from you, Nikki, then I'll actually give them access to that for free. It includes, on the online course to self-love mini series, which is a base of understanding what it is, what it's not, all that stuff, and then a ebook. Love your journey Guide healthy self and they get a self assessment.

15 minute call me. Usually I don't charge much for it, [00:23:00] but because show up. So it's usually 37, but anybody that wants, any woman that wants to join, and they message me saying that they got connected to me because of you, I'll gladly give them access for free. 

Speaker 4: Okay. Thank you very much. I'll have to write myself a note.

Speaker 5: Can I make a Yes, I can. Okay.

Speaker 4: Okay. Sorry, I don't wanna forget to put that on anything. So I saved it to the event tonight, so I just, sorry.

Okay, so I think we can talk about the opposite side. Okay. So we just talked about how to, love yourself [00:24:00] and be yourself and be genuine. You are allowed to be you. And then we can talk about AI as the other half of that. 

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Speaker 4: AI is wonderful, right? Like it helps me do a lot of different things in my business, but it can also be harmful.

There's some stuff that says that chat, GPT and a bunch of the other, ones that do the images have [00:25:00] learned how to do those images by looking at artists' work. Doing that. I mean, that's not very ethical, right? But I talked about AI at the beginning of the year with somebody, and I don't wanna go down the same path as saying, leadership has to be, you know, ethical about how they use ai.

That was in the first episode in January. I'm more along the lines of if you are in business for yourself or if you are, just you, right? I use AI to write emails. There is no problems with that because guess what? I have to put in the information about what I need to talk about. I just can't string letters together.

Amazing that I have a podcast, but it's fine. And I can't spell to save my life. It's just never been a thing for me. I have Grammarly and [00:26:00] all those to make sure that I'm spelling things right and I'm saying them in a manner that, makes me sound. More intelligent than I am. Some days sometimes I look at the word and go, okay, I wouldn't use that word because I don't even know what that word means.

So that's time to change the word Yes. 

Speaker 3: Don't ever delve into, 

Speaker 4: What I did was I was given a list of words. Nobody says.

And I went into my A, I went into chat GPT, and I said, here's this list of words. Never use these for any content that you were giving me ever, because I use none of them. 

Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. 

Speaker 4: And so it saved it, and now it doesn't give me, oh, your path in life was a journey. Stop it 

Speaker 2: in conclusion.

Yeah.

Speaker 4: I actually was at, a church [00:27:00] one time and not one time like I am a Christian as well, but this point, this person was up there talking about something and I think they said in conclusion six times.

They went over the amount of time they were supposed to talk by like 20 minutes, like the whole time going in conclusion. Oh, okay. It's almost done. Nope. No it's not. That was a lie. That was not in conclusion,

Speaker 3: but yeah, I use AI as well. I love it. I use chat gt. I've tried some of the others. I use it for brainstorming. I really do, and to, I put in all the information about what I'm trying to do, and I, and then I'll ask them if I'm doing specifically right now I'm working on YouTube of creating videos. It would be relevant for my audience, and so I give it all the [00:28:00] information.

The women I'm trying to connect with and what I'm trying to do and how I help in the world. And I'll say, what would be 10 videos that a woman like this would that would help them? And it gives me the ones, and then I'm like, okay, I like this one. This is what I would say about this. And I type it all in.

I'm like you. I give it all the information. So can you, based on what I just gave you, can you gimme a six minute script? Actually I changed it to 10 minutes because apparently I talk faster than chat does because with the 10 minute script, I'm usually between four and six minutes. And I don't do it word for word what they gave me, but they're using my words.

Speaker 4: Yeah. So just as a FYI, AI doesn't know how long anything will take. So you're saying 10 minutes and I mean, I've done that. I've tried that and it didn't work out very well. 'cause their 10 minutes was like two minutes for me and I was like, I don't talk that [00:29:00] fast, do I? 

Speaker 3: Well, I know I do, especially when I'm in, when I'm doing these things.

Like having a conversation with you. I don't think I speak as fast when I'm doing these videos. I'm trying to make every second count where I know I don't lose somebody. I know I do speak a little bit. 

Speaker 4: So what you can do is talk normally and then in the editing process kick up speed a little bit. 1.1.

Yeah. I've done that sometimes too, so that it still gets your point across because you're still saying the words, but now you are not rushing through and can actually breathe. Smart. Yeah. That's smart.

Speaker 2: Thank you. Mm-hmm. 

Speaker 4: For me when using ai, there are things that we should do, can do no problems with, right?

Again, an email where you give it the information you're trying to get across, and it just says, this is a more businessy way of [00:30:00] saying it because you can't tell them that they need to get off their butt and do it because that's not the businessy way to say it apparently. But. On the other hand, doing assignments for educational purposes.

So either, high school, college, that kind of thing, having it write the entire paper for you instead of you writing it is a, that is not okay. In my eyes anyway, I don't know what the official ruling in high schools or colleges is, but I'm sure it's not Okay.

That's plagiarism. You don't know who you're plagiarizing because you've got that wall of it being AI in front of you, but. Yeah. On the other hand, if you write the paper and you put it in there and say, can you fix any grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes?

And you get back the same thing, but [00:31:00] fixed grammar and spelling, that is fine. Yeah. 'cause that's it. Helping you make a finished product. You've done 98% of the work, right? Yeah. I wish I'd have had it when I was in college because I wrote an entire paper about immigrants and felt it immigrates all through the thing.

Speaker 3: That would probably been me. I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you. 

Speaker 4: I got an F on the paper and I had to go back and fix it, and I was like, I feel like an idiot right now. 

Speaker 3: So it's just a word, just a misspelling. So I'm actually publishing a book. I've done many journals and stuff, but I've never really told my story.

And March 8th, 2025 is, now, and so it's when it's being published on March 8th, depending on when this goes out. It'll already be done or not. But, what I did, because I was really having a hard time coming up with a base of where to [00:32:00] start because I know I knew what I wanted to say, I knew what my journey was.

But I had written a testimony for Celebrate Recovery where I had a lot of the information. I had written an article about something and I had taken some of my journal notes. I put it int, I said, these are all the things I wrote about me, about my story. Some of the stories overlap. Some have more information than others.

Can you put it in a, can you make this to where it makes sense without any overlap? And it did, and I used that for the banks. That is not my book. Mm-hmm. Like I didn't, I used that as my starting point to get my thoughts in order. I went and, as I was writing my part, like I was writing it, funny story, I went last week or the week before now I can't remember, to a place where I finished writing the book and I was gone for a couple of days [00:33:00] and I didn't know I was gonna have no wifi.

That I had no wifi. And so I had the draft that I had written. Saved on my computer. I thought, oh, I don't need wifi to get to that. It was saved on OneDrive, so I couldn't get it. And so I actually had a printed out copy of my draft and, my book is gonna be 100% better because of that little moment because I had to retype the whole thing.

And so at the beginning, like I'm, the whole thing, I'm typing it, I'm making it clear. I'm using better stories, I'm adding in more stuff. That's another form of gratitude finding. Like I could have been so angry that I had to retype this whole thing or go get wifi somewhere. And I, anyway, I retyped it and I just got the book back from the editor today and she said,

addition to the fact that I used too many dashes in my writing, which is true, she's done, like I still remove your dashes, [00:34:00] is that it was really, it was hard to read in some places because of what I was sharing. But even though she hadn't gone through something similar in her life, she took it to heart for herself and for things her daughter had gone through.

So I think it's relatable. And they're my words and I've created a ton of journals. And on all of them. The cover, it says, created by Sam Morrison Wilson. On this one it says, written by Sam Morrison Wilson, because I wrote this one. 

Speaker 7: Yeah. 

Speaker 3: And, but I used AI at the very beginning of the process to help me pull my thoughts together.

Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Yeah. 

Speaker 3: Yeah. 

Speaker 4: I use a couple of different. Ai, I use, chat GPT, which is my day-to-day one. Like, I'll go in there when I need to post something and say, help me post, on this topic [00:35:00] about this thing or whatever. And it will help me do that. But I also use it. I also use, sorry, perplexity. Okay.

Perplexity is an AI that does research. It gives you the actual websites that it's pulled the information from. So where chat GPT will give you that finished thing. It usually can't tell you where it got its information or it may just make up stuff. In the case of perplexity, it actually gives you like numbers every once in a while,

I don't know where they got that sentence from. Like, this is where we got this information from. It's on this website here. You wanna go to it. And then you can go and be like, oh, well I didn't know about that. Maybe I should do something. You know, over here I use. I use perplexity, for my podcasts, that's I put in, [00:36:00] I wanna talk about ai.

And it gives me some bullet points that I tell it to only give bullet points. I have to read whatever it gives, so that I can talk about that. And it's been very, very useful to me. 

Speaker: Yeah, I've tried 

Speaker 3: using, I used Gemini a little bit and I used,

I don't remember the other one. But Chatt was the easiest for me and I have it on my phone, so a lot of times I'll have a random thought about something and I'm not a place to take a note or anything. And so I'll just add it to Chatgpt and I know back to go back and look at that later. I tell everything I'm thinking about in that moment, so I don't lose the thought.

Mm-hmm. Because, my brain likes to play tricks on me sometimes. 

Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that happens to a lot of us. Chat, GBT and [00:37:00] Perplexity have apps that can go computer phone, Mac. Pc, so that you can have it with you wherever you go. Good. Yeah, that's great info. I use Leonardo AI for my images that I create and

i'm not the most sophisticated person. I can't get it to make a real looking person because it doesn't always have the amount of fingers it needs to have the guides have the most veiny arms on the planet. Yeah. 

Speaker 3: If we can get, if we can get the AI images to look like you can't tell it's ai, that would be a win.

Because every time I see one, and I've created a couple. But there's still a long ways to go on that. 

Speaker 4: Yeah. I use the AI mostly for like to make the background for a, social media post or just an image [00:38:00] for the social media post where I know it's fake, but it's because I'm giving like I did one this week where the person was like, ecstatic that they saved on their insurance.

No, that's not a real person. But you know, it kind of gives you the, oh, I'm gonna be super happy if I talk to my insurance agent and get things fixed because duh. That's how it works. Yeah. When they come back and say, oh yeah, I got you a discount of like a couple hundred dollars and you're going, heck yeah, thanks.

You're gonna have that little mini party, just like the AI dude is. Yeah. With fingers or more fingers depending. 

Speaker 8: Gloves. Can you make sure all appendages have clothes or gloves or shoes, please? 

Speaker 4: I was asked to create a post for my alignable. An image from my alignable, meeting back towards the end of last year, and we were so concerned about people's hands that we [00:39:00] didn't watch the people's eyes.

Oh, no. And so after it went up on Alignable, like we looked at it and we're like, um, that guy's looking that way and that way at the same time. 

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny. 

Speaker 4: So, I mean, it obviously was ai, it wasn't a really big deal. Like anybody who noticed it was just laughing with us that it happened because we were like, we made, they had five fingers, all of them there.

Because that's one of my struggles, when I do stuff, is to get five fingers because for some reason I get the thumb that is the whole hand. 

Speaker 2: Oh. 

Speaker 4: Or I get three fingers that are like as big as your big toe and I'm like, I don't understand what is happening. I don't like it. 

Speaker 7: Yeah. 

Speaker 4: But I can get images of like fields and people in them doing stuff and you know, water in a lake or whatever.

So I [00:40:00] tend to stick to vague things that. Give you the image that I'm looking for type thing. Yeah. Or stock images from Adobe. I have, 

Speaker 3: I use for just about everything. 

Speaker 4: Oh yeah. I use for it. 

Speaker 3: I use. Like every day I do not pay 

Speaker 4: for Photoshop. Do you know how expensive Photoshop is? 

Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not, nevermind 

Speaker 4: the fact that they got so much crap going on in it that me as somebody who's not an artist has absolutely no idea where to start.

But with Canva, I create thumbnails, I create posts, I do all of that. So usually I take whatever image I've gotten from ai. Whether that's in Canva or in, Leonardo and I use that to, create the background and then I put the wording in and stuff like that. And I am not sponsored by anybody.

Like I am just talking [00:41:00] about the stuff I use. I'm not sponsored. That would be nice, but I'm not maybe.

This has been a nice chat. So do you have any final thoughts? 

Speaker 3: Thank you for having me, and I enjoyed like, just having the conversation and it's a good reminder for all of us that if we're not where we wanna be, we can and just have to make a different choice. And then the AI thing, I think what you talked about of having responsibility and using it well, that's a really needed reminder too.

When you create something, you claim it as your own and it was not your own. That's not. 

Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Okay. Thank you very much for coming. I'm glad.