AI Ready Women

Women already earn less, save less, and retire with less. We're paid less for the same work. We take time out for caring responsibilities that go unvalued and unpaid. We're told we're not technical enough, not strategic enough, too risk averse. And now, AI is being trained on data that reflects all of that.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Angela Meyer, an award winning strategist, speaker, bestselling author, and co founder of High Money and Project Gender. Angela has spent years championing women's economic equality, and she's written a brilliant paper called Counted In: What AI Could Be Fixing About Women's Financial Lives and Why It Isn't.

This conversation is about what happens when AI learns from a financial system that was built 250 years ago by men, for men. It's about why women are being given more conservative financial advice by AI, even when they ask the same questions as men. It's about the invisible work that women do every single day that has never been counted, never been valued, and is now being completely left out of the algorithms shaping our financial futures.

Angela shares why she believes this is one of the most pivotal moments we've had to redesign the system. Why talking about money openly is one of the most powerful things women can do. And why AI literacy isn't just a nice to have anymore. It's a wealth building tool.

She also unpacks the research from MIT and Stanford that found women using AI for financial advice ended up with $60,000 less wealth by age 60, largely because the AI assumed they were more risk averse. Not because they were. But because of the way they asked questions.

This episode will make you think differently about the stories you've been told about money, the beliefs you've inherited, and the systems you're trying to navigate.

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:
🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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Connect with Angela Meyer:
🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-meyer-378b321a/
♦️ Website: https://www.angela-meyer.com
📚 Money Money Money by Angela Meyer and Rachel Davies - https://himoney.co/
📄 Counted In: What AI Could Be Fixing About Women's Financial Lives and Why It Isn't

If you read the headline that AI is going to take your job, well, it might. But only if you don't learn how to work with it, you don't become more visible, and you don't know your worth.

The headlines are everywhere right now. AI will take your job. Agents are out of control. We're on the cusp of superintelligence. Or even worse, AI is going to destroy us all.

And underneath all of that noise, there's a quieter, more insidious message: you're falling behind. You're not technical enough. You don't know enough. You're not doing enough.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down to talk about the language being used around AI right now and what it's actually doing to us.

They call it FOE and FOMO. Fear of extinction and fear of missing out. Two narratives that sound like opposites but actually work the same way, creating urgency, panic and paralysis, and stopping us from asking the most important question of all: is this even a future we want?

Because here's the thing. The women who are thriving in this moment aren't the ones spiralling over every headline. They're the ones asking better questions. They're the ones staying calm, staying curious, and staying visible. They're the ones adding AI to what they already know, rather than trying to become someone else entirely.

This conversation is about how to move from AI fearful to AI ready. It's about protecting your headspace in a world designed to hijack your attention. It's about understanding who benefits when you believe the narrative. And it's about recognising that your years of experience, your wisdom, your leadership, none of that is obsolete. It just needs to be positioned correctly.

Georgie and Lou also unpack the real opportunities that exist right now for women who are willing to lead, not just keep up. From building agents to running Lunch and Learns. From asking where you want to lead, not just how to keep up. From using fear as fuel to innovate, not as a reason to hide.

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🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

AI is supposed to make us more productive.

So why are so many of us using it all day… and finishing work feeling completely mentally fried?

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie Hubbard and Lou Compagnoni sit down with behavioural scientist Angela Bliss to explore what our increasing reliance on AI could be doing to the way we think, work and make decisions.

Angela has spent years studying human behaviour and decision-making, including completing a Master’s in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, where her research explored how humans build trust with chatbots.

And her message is one every ambitious woman using AI at work needs to hear:

The goal isn’t to stop using AI. It’s to become much more deliberate about what you outsource to it.

We unpack the emerging phenomenon of AI brain fry, the cognitive overload that can come from prompting, checking, comparing and managing multiple AI outputs at once, and why being able to produce more work doesn’t necessarily mean we’re doing better work.

We also explore cognitive debt, automation bias, why AI can feel so addictive, and what happens when we start outsourcing judgment, creativity and independent thinking alongside the menial work.

• What “AI brain fry” actually is and why knowledge workers are starting to feel it
• Why using AI can sometimes increase cognitive load rather than reduce it
• The hidden problem with AI producing work faster than humans can properly evaluate it
• Why hyper-productivity could be changing expectations of employees
• How automation bias can cause us to trust AI outputs too easily
• Why AI feels so compelling — even when we know there may be a cost
• What “cognitive debt” means and why it matters for your career
• Why creativity and your best thinking often happen away from the screen
• How AI could change the way we make decisions
• Why organisations need to rethink productivity in an AI-enabled workplace
• Why women may be particularly vulnerable to the pressure to do even more with AI

Angela’s advice is simple but powerful:

Get AI to remove the menial work. Don’t hand over the skills that are building your expertise.

Because being AI ready isn’t about using AI for everything.

It’s knowing where AI can make you better — and where you still need to do the thinking.

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Connect with Lou Compagnoni:
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🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-bliss-behavioural-design/

Women make up just 20% of Australia’s highly technical workforce. After age 40, that drops even further. So what is happening at the exact point when women’s experience should be becoming more valuable?

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie Hubbard and Lou Compagnone are joined by Adair Robins, former Head of Diversity and Transformation at the Tech Council of Australia, to unpack why women are leaving technical careers mid-career, what AI could mean for that trend, and why the next few years could also create a huge opportunity for women.

Adair shares insights from the Women in Highly Technical Occupations research, including the finding that women leave highly technical roles at almost twice the rate of men during mid-career.

We also talk about what happens when career progression collides with caring responsibilities, why flexibility and workplace culture still matter, and why women need to be part of the teams designing, leading and implementing AI.

Plus, Adair shares the story behind Back in the Code, a full-day agentic engineering course designed for parents currently on or recently returned from parental leave.

Back in the Code — Melbourne, 24 September
https://events.techcouncil.com.au/agentic_ai_course_cohort2

Back in the Code — Future Cohort Waitlist
https://events.techcouncil.com.au/agentic_engineering_waitlist_form

Tech Careers Hotline Podcast
https://techcouncil.com.au/tech-careers-hotline-podcast/

Women in Highly Technical Work Report
https://techcouncil.com.au/research/

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Connect with Georgie:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/
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Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

Connect with Lou Compagnone:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

Connect with Adair Robins:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adair-robins/

You don't need to be technical to break into AI. You need to understand what makes you irreplaceable.

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Connect with Georgie:

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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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Only 1 in 5 AI leadership roles are held by women. Only 13% of women hold C-suite roles in AI, across 27 countries. We're still chasing our tail on the gender pay gap, still fighting for more women in leadership, and now AI is reshaping the entire workforce with women's voices dangerously underrepresented before the wave has even properly started.

This episode is for every woman who's applied for AI roles and heard nothing back. For every woman who thinks she's too far behind, or not technical enough, or doesn't have the right experience. For every woman who's kept her head down doing excellent work and hoped that would be enough.

It's not enough anymore. The old playbook doesn't work. The women who get chosen for AI roles aren't always the most technical. They're the ones who are visible, connected, and strategic. They understand AI is a people problem, not just a technology problem.

Lou and Georgie catch up after a few weeks apart. Lou's just back from Stanford, where she completed the AI-Powered Organisation course. Georgie's back from the UK, where she noticed something striking: AI is everywhere. Her parents are using it. Her nan is using it. And her brother, a professional golfer with zero technical experience, built himself a website using Claude in three hours flat. He then built one for the new owners of his golf club too, made himself impossible to overlook, and he's now in discussions about a promotion.

This conversation is about what happens when you stop waiting to feel ready and start positioning yourself for what's next. Why the most successful AI agent at Stanford wasn't built by the most technical person in the room. Why hurt people hurt people, and how Lou handles the trolling that comes with being a woman speaking publicly about AI. And the one mindset shift that changes everything. Don't try to become someone else. Add AI to what you already know.

If you've been waiting for permission to start, this is it.

If this episode gave you a takeaway, tell us about it on LinkedIn. The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie and Lou 💜

AI certifications from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Harvard and 20 other providers, 36 of them completely free, with a certificate you can put on your LinkedIn.

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Georgie and Lou are taking a short break from AI Ready Women. Georgie's back in the UK with family and Lou is travelling for work, and they'll be back on the mic together again soon. Rather than go quiet, they've left you the library. Georgie sends to senior women who know they need to get current on AI and have no idea where to start.

Don't start with 45. Start with three.

Georgie's shortlist — about seven hours all in:

1. Generative AI Explained (NVIDIA) — one hour, no code, free digital badge at the end. The fastest way to stop feeling behind.

2. Career Essentials in Generative AI (Microsoft & LinkedIn) — three to four hours. This certificate posts straight to your LinkedIn profile, where recruiters are actually looking.

3. AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations (Anthropic) — three hours. Built for women who lead teams rather than build things. How to make AI decisions, not how to write code.

One honest note: 36 of the 45 are completely free with a certificate. The rest are free to study but charge for the certificate — they're marked on the page.

Why this matters more than it sounds like it should

This isn't about becoming a data scientist.

After 12 years inside recruitment, the pattern Georgie sees is this: the women who get approached for the roles that matter are not the most technical women in the room. They're the most legible ones, the women whose profile makes it obvious, in seconds, that they've kept up.

A named certificate does that before anyone has read a single line of your experience.

So pick one. Start it this week. Let confidence catch up.

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🎓 The AI course library — 45 certifications, 36 free

👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/ai-courses

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✨ Bold Move Career Accelerator — eight weeks, small cohort, for senior women ready to make the move rather than read about it

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📚 The Bold Move (the book)

👉 https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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One thing before you go.

If this series has been useful, the single best thing you can do while we're away is send this episode to one woman who's been putting off getting to grips with AI. Not a list. One woman. You'll know who she is.

Back soon, with some phenomenal guests lined up.

Georgie 💜

You don't need to be technical to break into AI. But you do need to understand what makes you irreplaceable.

This episode is for every woman who's been applying for AI roles and hearing crickets. For every woman who thinks she's too far behind, or not technical enough, or doesn't have the right experience.

Georgie and Lou sit down with Erin Ashton, AI Enablement Lead at EY, whose background is organisational psychology, not code. Erin has spent her career solving messy people problems. And it turns out that's exactly what AI needs right now.

This conversation is about why bad AI output is the result of human judgment added too late. It's about why organisations can't train their way into a new way of working. It's about the three layers of AI roles, and why the translator layer is where the real opportunity sits. And it's about why the women who feel most uncomfortable right now are actually the ones paying attention.

If you've been waiting to feel ready before you start, this episode is your permission to begin messy.

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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Connect with Erin Ashton:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/efogg/

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Chapters:

02:21 From organisational psychology to leading AI enablement at EY

03:40 From "AI is replacing me" to "AI is empowering me"

06:22 Eight years of generative AI experience: what companies are getting wrong

10:26 Don't make AI the skill you're good at. Use it to enhance what you already do

12:15 The three layers: builders, translators, and general users

15:51 AI work slop, and why 77% say AI work takes longer to review

17:41 Bad AI output is human judgment added too late

24:37 Jobs are blobs: how to break your role into tasks

32:04 Smart delegation or skill atrophy: where's the line?

35:40 You cannot train your way into a new way of working

37:53 The reverse Dunning Kruger effect

39:10 Toolset, skillset, mindset

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Erin, Lou, and Georgie on LinkedIn. Let us know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to break into AI roles without being technical. Tell us how you're using AI to make your work better, not just faster.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie and Lou 💜

Sometimes the most dangerous thing about AI isn't what it can do. It's who gets to decide when to turn it off.

Anthropic built the most powerful version of its AI model yet, released it to the public, and then three days later, the US government ordered them to shut it down. Worldwide. For everyone.

But here's the twist: the security loop that triggered the shutdown wasn't found by a malicious hacker in a hoodie. It centred around an elegant shift in framing, pointed out by cybersecurity pioneer Katie Moussouri, proving that a simple change in perspective can completely bypass a multi-billion-dollar tech filter.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou unpack the Anthropic drama, the race to build more powerful AI, and what it all means for women trying to stay ahead in a world where the rules are changing faster than anyone can keep up.

This is about control. It's about trust. It's about who gets a say in the future we're building. And it's about why women's voices, women's questions, and women's perspectives matter more than ever before.

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♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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If this episode resonated with you, share it with one woman in your life who needs to hear it right now. Reach out to Georgie and Lou on LinkedIn and let them know your biggest takeaway. Tell them what you're doing to stay ahead of the AI era without getting overwhelmed.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie & Lou 💜

📄 Factual Note for Our Listeners: This episode discusses the global restriction of Anthropic's Fable 5 and references the industry commentary surrounding cybersecurity pioneer Katie Moussouris (CEO, Luta Security). While the initial vulnerability testing was documented by researchers at Amazon, Moussouris became a defining voice of this event by publicly challenging the U.S. government's abrupt policy response. You can read her full compliance analysis and open letters regarding the Fable 5 shutdown via the Luta Security brief - https://www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fable-5-export-controls-harm-us-cyber-defense

Sometimes the most important conversations about AI aren't happening in boardrooms or on conference stages. They're happening in data labelling sweatshops, in schools, and in the quiet moments when we ask ourselves: what are we actually building
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Connect with Georgie:

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🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/
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Connect with Julianne Hickey:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannehickey/

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Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and it's about AI. Not the hype. Not the productivity gains. Not the trillion dollar valuations. It's about protecting human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. And it's a 42,000 word love letter to the world that centres women's voices, women's labour, and women's leadership.

In our first conversation with Julianne, we discussed this encyclical before it was released. Now it's here, Lou has read all 42,000 words of it, and the more he reads, the more women he finds inside it.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down again with Julianne Hickey, social justice leader, AI governance expert, and one of the spokespeople for the encyclical in New Zealand. Julianne has met Pope Francis twice, worked in Gaza and Palestine, and now leads AI strategy for a major government organisation. And she's also done something most of us haven't: she signed up to work for a data labelling company to see what the AI supply chain actually looks like from the inside.

What she found was harrowing. And it's the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet.

This episode is about what happens when we stop asking what AI can do, and start asking what it should do. It's about the hidden workers training AI for a few dollars while someone becomes a trillionaire in the same week. It's about the cognitive disarmament of AI. It's about building a civilisation of love, brick by brick. And it's about why the future of AI isn't just a technical question. It's a spiritual one.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 The Pope's AI encyclical is finally here

01:10 From a parish council at 17 to AI governance: Julianne's path

02:10 Magnifica Humanitas: a 42,000 word love letter that centres women

13:25 Education, curiosity, and the lure of the "perfect machine"

22:00 Why women's caution around AI is a strength, not a weakness

24:30 The tension: demanded AI skills vs wanting to slow down

29:10 Why even Microsoft is maxing out on AI

37:45 Inside the AI supply chain

39:35 "Like a Black Mirror episode": $20, and the woman in Nigeria

Georgie and Lou 💜

The question we all need to ask all the time is: who's missing? Whose voice is not currently represented?

AI is reshaping the world. And while the headlines swing between hype and fear, most women are asking just one question: What does this mean for me?

This episode is about what happens when AI makes decisions about people's lives and nobody can explain why. It's about accountability. It's about bias. And it's about governance, not as a handbrake, but as the thing that lets us move faster, safely.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Luli Adeyemo, Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation, award winning leader with over 30 years in tech, and former BMX world champion.

Luli has spent her career asking one question: who's in the room when decisions get made? And right now, when it comes to AI governance, women's voices are dangerously underrepresented. That's not just unfair. It's risky. And it's costing us all.

This is the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet.

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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Connect with Luli Adeyemo:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luliadeyemo/

♦️ Tech Diversity Foundation: https://techdiversity.org

⭕️ AI Governance Practitioner Course: https://techdiversity.org/ai-governance

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CHAPTERS

2:15 Meet Luli Adeyemo — BMX world champion, tech leader, and Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation

5:30 From BMX Bandits to tech: Luli's career journey and why being different became her superpower

12:30 Why diversity in AI is different: the scale, the impact, and the risk are at a level we've never seen before

16:00 The football analogy: why we get diversity in sport but not in business

19:30 The pipeline problem: why women can't thrive in tech if the culture isn't set up for them

27:00 The Apple Card scandal: gender discrimination wasn't the intent, but it was the outcome

30:00 The dermatology AI tool that couldn't detect melanoma on darker skin. Who's responsible when the algorithm fails?

39:00 The Stanford Agents of Chaos paper: autonomous AI that lied, destroyed systems, and leaked data

42:00 The Alibaba AI that created its own hidden communication channel and started mining cryptocurrency