The job market is changing fast.

More people are applying. AI is increasingly being used to filter applications. New roles are emerging. And some incredibly capable women are finding themselves applying for opportunities they could absolutely do, but never even making it to interview.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

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

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

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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 Adair Robins:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adair-robins/

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So what actually gets you seen?

In this episode, Georgie Hubbard and Lou Compagnoni are joined by Adair, a transformation and diversity leader who has spent much of her career working across technology and helping more women build and sustain careers in the industry.

Adair shares her own experience of applying for roles and hearing very little back, until someone in her network referred her. Suddenly, the process moved incredibly quickly.

It’s a powerful reminder that in today’s market, your experience matters, your CV matters, but so does who knows you, what they know you for and whether you’ve built relationships before you need them.

The conversation also explores why women are leaving technical careers at a higher rate than men, what AI means for women returning from career breaks, why flexibility still matters, and the growing opportunity for women to step into emerging AI and transformation roles.

• Why women are leaving highly technical careers at almost twice the rate of men during mid-career
• Why age 40 is such a critical point for women working in technology
• What happens when career progression collides with caring responsibilities
• Why organisations that want more women need to rethink flexibility, hiring and workplace culture
• How quickly technology and AI can change while someone is on parental or carers leave
• Why structured reskilling can rebuild confidence after a career break
• Why some of the most exciting new AI roles require far more than traditional technical skills
• Why brilliant women are still being overlooked for emerging AI leadership opportunities
• Why referrals and relationships can dramatically change your job search
• Georgie’s experience receiving almost 600 applications for a single role
• Why relying solely on job boards is becoming an increasingly difficult strategy
• How to network without becoming someone you’re not
• Why LinkedIn visibility and personal brand matter more in an AI-driven hiring market
• How to use AI to improve your CV without removing the stories, personality and impact that make you different
• Why continual learning needs to become part of your career strategy, regardless of your role

One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation?

Opportunities come through people, not job boards.

You don’t need hundreds of transactional connections or to spend every night at networking events.

Start with the people already around you. Former managers. Colleagues. Clients. Stakeholders. People you’ve enjoyed working with throughout your career.

Stay connected. Share what you’re working on. Be visible. Help people understand where you’re heading next.

Because your network shouldn’t be something you start building when you suddenly need a job.

It’s career currency you build long before you need to spend it.

With Confidence

Georgie 💜

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Back in the Code — Cohort 2
A full-day agentic engineering course taught by some of Australia’s best engineers, designed for parents currently on or recently returned from parental leave.
Melbourne, 24 September: https://events.techcouncil.com.au/agentic_ai_course_cohort2

Back in the Code — Future Cohort Waitlist
Register your interest for future cohorts:
https://events.techcouncil.com.au/agentic_engineering_waitlist_form

Tech Careers Hotline Podcast
Featuring women in tech and their career stories:
https://techcouncil.com.au/tech-careers-hotline-podcast/

Women in Highly Technical Work Report
Tech Council of Australia research on the pipeline and retention of women in highly technical careers:
https://techcouncil.com.au/research/

You don't need to be the loudest voice in the room to build a powerful career. You just need to know what you bring, and make sure the right people can find you.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

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

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

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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 Maryanne Thomas:

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

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This episode is for every senior woman who's been keeping her head down doing excellent work and hoping that's enough. For every woman who knows she should be networking but doesn't know where to start. For every woman who's terrified of putting herself out there on LinkedIn because she doesn't want to look like she's showing off.

Maryanne has spent her career jumping before she was ready. From Queensland to Melbourne. From no tech experience to leading transformation programs at Origin Energy and now in retail. From staying invisible to posting on LinkedIn every week, even when it terrified her. From letting her network slip to building it with intention. And from hoping someone would notice her work to making sure the right people know exactly what she brings.

This conversation is about the three things senior women need to focus on right now if they want to stay relevant, visible, and in demand: network, brand, and value. It's about why the old playbook of working hard and waiting to be noticed doesn't work anymore. It's about why networking as a woman doesn't have to look like the male version. And it's about the mindset shift that changes everything: you don't need to be perfect, you just need to start.

Maryanne shares how she's using AI to build her personal brand without losing her voice. Why she moved to 80% work to be there for her daughter starting prep, and how she's teaching her to be willful, not quiet. Why she signed up for cold water swimming in winter to challenge herself. And the one thing she wishes she'd done earlier in her career: build her network before she needed it.

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

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In This Episode:

🟣 Why Maryanne has always jumped before she was ready, and how that's shaped her entire career

🟣 From Queensland to Melbourne, from no tech degree to leading digital transformation at Origin Energy

🟣 The three things senior women need to focus on right now: network, brand, and value

🟣 Why Maryanne didn't build her network well enough early on, and what she's doing differently now

🟣 How she's using AI to build her personal brand on LinkedIn, even though social media terrified her

🟣 Why she started posting on LinkedIn this year as her personal challenge, and how it's made her a better storyteller

🟣 The leadership skills that matter most right now: empathy, trust, and the courage to call out what's not working

🟣 Why doing more with less is the reality for every leader right now, and how to navigate that without burning out your team

🟣 How AI is being used in retail to solve inventory problems, and why clean data is the foundation

🟣 Why half of the internet is now created by AI, and what that means for women in tech

🟣 How Maryanne is teaching her six year old daughter to be willful, not quiet, and why that matters

🟣 Why networking as a woman doesn't have to look like the male version, and the WhatsApp group strategy that works

🟣 What Maryanne is doing to stay ahead of the AI era without getting overwhelmed

🟣 The mindset shift from hoping someone will notice your work to making sure the right people know exactly what you bring

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Maryanne on LinkedIn. Let her know your biggest takeaway.

The women who get chosen aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones who are visible, connected, and clear on what they bring.

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

Georgie 💜

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

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

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

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

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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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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 I catch up after a few weeks apart. She's just back from Stanford, where she completed the AI-Powered Organisation course. I'm back from the UK, where I noticed something striking: AI is everywhere. My parents are using it. My nan is using it. And my 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.

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In This Episode:

🟣 Why only 13% of women hold C-suite roles in AI across 27 countries, and what that means for the future of work

🟣 Lou's experience at Stanford: the AI-Powered Organisation course, and why transformation matters more than technology

🟣 The woman who won the AI agent challenge wasn't the most technical. She was the one who understood the problem.

🟣 Why Lou got trolled online for talking about AI as a transformation role, and how to handle being a woman in the public eye

🟣 Georgie's brother: a pro golfer with zero tech experience who built a website in three hours and positioned himself for a promotion

🟣 Why AI is everywhere in the UK and the US, but Australia is still catching up

🟣 The disconnect between companies hiring for AI roles and not knowing what they actually need

🟣 Why women are finding it harder to break into AI roles, and what you can do about it right now

🟣 How to disrupt yourself before you're disrupted: the one question you need to ask yourself today

🟣 Why technical people are feeling threatened, and what that means for women entering the AI space

🟣 The mindset shift: don't try to become someone else. Add AI to what you already know.

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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.

With confidence,

Georgie 💜

After 12 years in recruitment, I can tell you this: I have never seen a job market quite like this one. And the women who get chosen aren't the ones waiting for things to settle. They're the ones reading the shift early and positioning themselves before the market does it for them.

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✨ Apply for the 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

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

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This episode is for every woman who's been applying for roles and hearing nothing back. For every woman who's wondering why her experience isn't translating into interviews. For every woman who's starting to feel like the old playbook doesn't work anymore.

Because it doesn't.

The old way was simple: apply online, send your CV, wait for the call. The new way requires something different. You need to be easy to find. Easy to understand. Easy to remember. And easy to choose.

In this episode, I break down exactly what's working in the market right now. Why applying online isn't enough. Why your LinkedIn profile needs to be searchable, not just presentable. Why your CV needs to be tailored to every single role, not just updated. And why your network is the most valuable career asset you have, whether you're actively looking or not.

I also share the new rules that matter: get explicitly clear on what you want, position yourself for those roles, package yourself correctly on LinkedIn and your CV, activate your network before you need it, and show up visibly so the right people can find you.

This isn't about doing more. It's about doing the right things strategically. And if you've been keeping your head down doing excellent work and hoping that's enough, this episode will show you exactly what's missing.

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

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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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Chapters

• 00:00 The market has changed, and what that means for you
• 00:23 Why this episode is unfiltered
• 01:25 Three weeks in the UK, family, and the value of stepping away
• 03:06 What women have been saying since Georgie got back
• 03:41 Twelve years recruiting, and a market she has never seen before
• 04:16 Inside organisations right now: hiring on pause, AI investment, slower decisions
• 06:34 What used to work, and why it stopped working
• 06:50 Why your application is not reaching a human
• 08:33 Rule one: get explicitly clear on what you want next
• 10:17 Rule two: position yourself for the role you want, not the one you have had
• 11:22 Rule three: a CV tailored to the job, not your entire history
• 12:17 Rule four: activate your network before you need it
• 13:19 Rule five: visibility, and the shift from SEO to AEO
• 15:16 Easy to find, easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to choose
• 15:40 The CV test: so what? What changed because you were there?
• 17:12 LinkedIn is prime real estate: headline, about, skills, activity
• 19:01 One coffee a week, and why you should never ignore a recruiter
• 20:01 Nobody is thinking about your post as much as you are
• 20:45 Interviews: you can always tell who prepared
• 23:00 Do not wait until you are desperate
• 23:44 What happens inside Bold Moves
• 26:20 Final thought, and what is coming next on the podcast

1. The market changed, and it is not your fault. Fewer roles, more competition, and organisations taking far longer to decide.
2. Clarity comes first. You cannot position yourself for something you have not named. Most women can list what they do not want. Far fewer can say what they do.
3. Your LinkedIn is optimised for the roles you want, not the roles you have had. If it reflects your past, you will keep attracting your past.
4. Every line on your CV has to answer "so what?" Responsibilities are what everyone lists. Outcomes are what get you shortlisted.
5. Build the relationship before you need it. One coffee a week with a recruiter, an old colleague or a former manager.
6. Visibility is an investment, not showing off. AI models pull from LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit and Wikipedia. Being findable now is what makes you findable later.

with confidence

Georgie 💜

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.

Get the full list → https://www.georgiehubbard.com/ai-courses

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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

👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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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 💜

Within a matter of minutes, an interview was locked in. Within a matter of weeks, she was in her third stage interview. And she landed the job. That job was never advertised. It never hit a job board. And it's exactly the case in point of how powerful your network is.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator August Cohort ✨

Learn more & apply here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/offer/august

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

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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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After 14 years in recruitment and nine years running my own firm, I can tell you this: 75% of jobs aren't advertised. They go to the people who are doing what most women aren't. They're reaching out. They're visible. They're strategic.

If you're applying for jobs online and hearing nothing back, this episode is for you. If you've been keeping your head down doing excellent work and hoping someone will notice, this episode is for you. And if you think networking means awkward small talk at events you don't want to attend, this episode is definitely for you.

This is about the hidden job market. It's about the one mistake that's costing you opportunities you don't even know exist. And it's about the three types of networks you need to activate right now if you want to get seen, get hired, and stop sending CVs into the void.

I break down the exact strategy I teach inside the Bold Move Career Accelerator: the hot list, the warm list, and the cold list. Who should be on each one. How to reach out without feeling desperate. And what to say to get a response from recruiters and hiring managers in minutes, not weeks.

One woman inside the program applied this exact framework and landed a role that was never advertised. Another reached out to two connections at a company, got introduced to the hiring manager, and had an interview within days. This works. But only if you do it.

If you've been waiting for the right time to start networking, this is it. If you've been hoping your CV will speak for itself, it won't. And if you've been wondering why other women are getting opportunities while you're being overlooked, this episode will show you exactly what they're doing differently.

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In This Episode:

🟣 The one thing 99% of people miss when applying for jobs online (and how to stand out instantly)

🟣 Why customising your CV isn't enough, and the one extra step that gets you noticed by recruiters

🟣 The hidden job market: why 75% of roles are never advertised and how to access them

🟣 The hot list, warm list, cold list framework: who should be on each one and how to activate them

🟣 The real story of a woman who landed a role in three weeks that was never posted online

🟣 How to reach out to recruiters and hiring managers on LinkedIn without feeling desperate

🟣 Why your network is your biggest career asset (and how to treat it like one)

🟣 What to do if you haven't spoken to someone in years and you want to reconnect

🟣 How to turn cold connections into warm ones (and why this matters more than you think)

🟣 The visibility strategy that opens doors: commenting, liking, and being seen without posting every day

🟣 Why being proactive with your network is the new career insurance

🟣 The one mindset shift that changes everything: you're doing hiring managers a favor by making yourself known

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to me on LinkedIn. Let me know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to activate your network. Tell me if you've landed a role through networking or if you're ready to start doing this differently.

The women who get chosen aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones who are visible, connected, and strategic. They're the ones who understand that your network is your net worth.

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

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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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

This episode covers where the opportunity is. If you want help positioning yourself for it, that's what the Accelerator is for.

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

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

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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

21:18 How Lou taught Claude to be a service designer

22:16 Why Georgie AI took a 50 page system prompt, not one clever ask

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

45:57 Use it every day: the gym app and the family operating system

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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 women who get chosen for AI roles aren't always the most technical. They're the ones who can translate between the builders and the business. They're the ones who understand that AI is a people problem, not a technology problem.

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

Georgie 💜

Two weeks. That's how long it took Jodie Coomer to go from redundancy to landing her next role. And it wasn't luck. It was visibility.

Jodie spent 12 years climbing the ladder the traditional way. Junior business analyst. Project manager. Portfolio manager. Head of delivery. Linear. Logical. Safe. Except safe doesn't exist anymore. And Jodie knows that now.

When the redundancy conversation came, she wasn't completely surprised. But that didn't make it easier. Five days of shock. Tears. Imposter syndrome. The feeling that she'd been dumped. And then something shifted. She remembered the work she'd already done. The LinkedIn profile she'd optimised. The recruiter relationships she'd been building. The visibility strategy she'd been quietly putting in place.

Two weeks later, she was in a new role. A fixed term contract. Not permanent. And for the first time in her career, that felt like freedom.

This episode is about what happens when you stop waiting for the next rung on the ladder and start building a portfolio career instead. It's about why permanent roles aren't safe anymore. It's about the mindset shift from closed to curious. And it's about the one thing that changed everything for Jodie: visibility.

If you've been keeping your head down doing excellent work and hoping that's enough, this conversation is for you.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

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

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

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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 Jodie Coomer:

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

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In This Episode:

🟣 From service desk to head of delivery: Jodie's traditional career path and why that doesn't work anymore

🟣 Why junior roles are disappearing and what that means for the next generation of women in tech

🟣 The moment Jodie got made redundant: five days of shock, tears, and renovating her laundry to process it all

🟣 How past Jodie set future Jodie up for success by joining Bold Moves before she needed it

🟣 Why the safety of a permanent role is false and how contract work opened up the world for Jodie

🟣 The visibility strategy that got Jodie back into work in two weeks: LinkedIn, recruiters, and coffee catch ups

🟣 What Jodie would do differently if she was starting her career today: be open minded, curious, and learn everything

🟣 Why AI won't replace humans but will shift them into higher value work, and why that's exciting

🟣 The groundwork companies need to do before AI can work: clean data, streamlined processes, and human expertise

🟣 How Jodie shifted from closed minded about Agile to open minded about AI, and why curiosity is the career skill that matters most

🟣 What a portfolio career looks like and why Jodie's now excited about contracting instead of permanent roles

🟣 The mindset shift from abundance to lack: why there are opportunities out there if you're willing to see them

🟣 Jodie's advice for women who are fearful: start small, build relationships with recruiters, and network in ways that work for you

🟣 Why Jodie's loving work for the first time in years and what her next chapter looks like

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Jodie on LinkedIn. Let her know your biggest takeaway. And if you're hiring and looking for someone to lead transformation or delivery, connect with her. She's phenomenal.

The women who get chosen aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones who are visible, connected, and ready.

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

Georgie 💜

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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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

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

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

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

Georgie 💜

📄 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

Welcome to Real Women, Real Talk, a brand new mini series inside the Career Confidence Podcast where we go behind the scenes with incredible women who are navigating career transitions, redundancies, reinvention, and the AI revolution.
No fluff. No filters. Just real, raw, honest conversations about what it actually takes to stay relevant, confident, and in demand in a world that's changing faster than ever before.
In this first episode, Georgie sits down with Rebecca Lewis, a former Head of Digital Transformation with over eight years of experience leading AI-driven change in heavily regulated industries including telco, energy, legal, and education. Bec is a single mum, a leader who's known for translating between the technical people and the CEOs, and someone who's made bold career moves without letting fear hold her back.
This conversation is about mindset, identity shifts, how to lead through AI disruption, and what it really takes to balance being a mum and having a thriving career. Bec shares what she's doing to stay ahead of the AI era, how she's raising her eight year old daughter to think differently, and the career advice she wishes she'd known five years ago.
If you've ever felt like you're behind, if you've wondered whether you can have it all, or if you're trying to figure out how to position yourself for the future, this episode is for you.
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Connect with Rebecca Lewis:
🔵 LinkedIn: Connect with Bec on LinkedIn (link in show notes)
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In This Episode:
🟣 Why Bec believes if you're in the room, you're there for a reason, and how that mindset shift changed everything for her career

🟣 From digital marketing to Head of Digital Transformation: how Bec built her career across telco, energy, legal, and education, all heavily regulated industries

🟣 Why Bec went back and did a behavioral economics degree to understand why customers do what they do, and how that led her into the AI space

🟣 How Bec led a complete digital transformation at Vocus, taking the business from 20% to 50% digital first, and then did it all over again for service

🟣 Why AI isn't going to replace jobs, but it will change the way we bring ourselves to market and the things we do on a daily basis

🟣 The biggest concern for graduates: they're going to be expected to go from zero to 1,000, and why the education sector needs to prepare them differently

🟣 What Bec is teaching her eight year old daughter about AI, and why she's both embracing it and combating it at the same time

🟣 The human skills that will matter most: curiosity, analytical thinking, and not trusting data on face value

🟣 Why many CEOs and GMs are putting in AI tools just to say they're doing AI, but they're not really understanding what it can do

🟣 Bec's honest advice for women who are fearful of AI: find someone who's been playing in it for a long time and just sit down and talk to them

🟣 The AI tools Bec is using right now: Claude, Figma for wireframing, N8, and CoPilot, and why she's not a huge fan of ChatGPT

🟣 Why Bec believes women are still sitting in the fear space when it comes to AI

🟣 The old career advice that doesn't work anymore: that you have to choose between being a parent or having a career

🟣 The new bold advice: learn what your glass balls, rubber balls, and concrete balls are, and start setting some of those concrete balls down before you burn out

🟣 What Bec loves to do most: translate between the technical people in the room and the CEOs, because they both speak completely different languages
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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Bec on LinkedIn. Let her know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to stay ahead of the AI era. Tell her how you're building your confidence and positioning yourself for the future.
And if you're hiring and looking for someone to lead your AI, digital, or transformation strategy, Bec is available and ready for her next bold move. Connect with her. She's phenomenal.
The future belongs to the women who are ready for it.
Let's make sure that's you.
Georgie 💜