The RIGHT Way To Use ChatGPT

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to The Modern Hairstylist podcast. In the last episode, I kind of- or maybe not the last episode, but, like, a recent episode to this one, I kind of shit on AI with my friend Jodi Brown and Lisa - Yes. and Lisa Huff.

Yes, we have. And honestly, I'm gonna be so real with you, Jodi. Like, since that episode and around that episode, like, I'm really starting to get some, like, AI burnout. Like, I'm starting to feel it myself, like, just getting so sick of seeing the AI everywhere.

And it's really a shame because this is an excellent tool. Are you feeling that burnout a little bit yourself? 100%. I feel like it's like, yeah, there's so much, like, it- it- j- once you start to see the patterns, it's like, "Okay, just give me something real."

Yes. Once you start to see it, you can't unsee it. But here is the thing. What we also can see is great uses of it.

Right. And the best uses of it are when you can't actually tell that it's AI . And I'm gonna give you guys some suggestions today for how you can actually tangibly use this tool, ChatGPT particularly, to its max to make it so you are making content, or using it even for personal use that is optimized, that won't do more harm than good, that won't read as AI to me when I'm reviewing your marketing funnels in MSM, or to your clients, or to other hairstylists, or whatever it may be. So, I am really looking forward to getting into it with y'all today.

Um, I have prepped Jodi with a bunch of my ideas of what I wanted to talk about as far as my general tips and specific tips to make this tool work for you really well. And then, we're gonna be sharing with you a really exciting resource, so that way you can see, all in one place, a ton of different ways that you can be using this tool to make your life, both personal and business-wise, more efficient and streamlined. So, before I get into it, as per usual, I would love to introduce Jodi Brown here today. Jodi Brown has been joining us on the podcast for a ton of episodes at this point, and she- and I don't see that stopping anytime soon, because I absolutely love having her pres- presence on the podcast.

She herself has been a hairstylist. She has taught hairstylists, and she has a big, strong finger on the pulse of the industry, and she is doing- she does a really good job of bearing with my crazy ADHD and keeping me on track. And so, that's why we love having Jodi Brown on the podcast. So thank you for being here, Jodi.

Thank you for having me. Jodi, uh, yeah, we are so excited to have you, as per usual. Jodi, would you mind kicking off this conversation, telling me where to start, so that way we can give people the good advice today? Yes.

I'm so excited for this episode, 'cause I feel like la- th- our last AI episode was almost like a- like a cautionary tale/disclaimer. Yeah. And now we can get into the good stuff, 'cause we both use it all the time. Right.

And so, I'm really excited. So, today, we're gonna start with kinda some general recommendations. We're gonna talk about content, 'cause everyone wants to talk about content. We're gonna talk about some of the ways that, you know, Hunter, you use it in your personal life, and then we're also gonna talk about some other business uses.

So, I think that the best place to start off is some of the more, I guess, general recommendations for AI, because there's some really simple things you can do to get a way better result. And so, the first one that we wanted to talk about was how to get the most out of the tool. So, uh, the first thing is like, uh, w- a- what model of ChatGPT do you recommend using? Like, what- Yeah.

what's the best one to choose? Okay, cool. So, basically, what we're referring to here is, with ChatGPT, it has a bunch of different AI models that you can be using when you're prompting it. And just a little, I don't know, preemptive statement here, is that there's tons of AI tools out there right now, and there's tons of different AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT.

There's also a ton of different AI tools that do a ton of different things. But I think the majority of us, as consumers, are using ChatGPT. It's still my preferred model to use. I've tested all the other ones, and I still really love ChatGPT.

Maybe that's just 'cause I've gotten really comfortable with it, and I know it inside and out now. Um, but that's the one that I'm gonna ref- be referring to today, and the one that I generally have the best advice for. So, we're just gonna be talking about ChatGPT the majority of the time here today in this episode. But ChatGPT particularly has a bunch of different models that are designed to operate better for specific tasks.

So, for example, a lot of people will use ChatGPT for coding. So, people who are coding different apps, or softwares, or websites, or whatever it may be, they'll use it to be able to write code in a very quick and efficient way. And so, there are certain models that are created to be- o- of ChatGPT that are available that people will switch to within their browser while they're using it, to then use that specific model to then carry out those types of tasks, right? So, we have ChatGPT 3.

5 at the time of recording this. That is normally gonna be the one that you are using if you are a free ChatGPT user, if you're not paying for it. It is okay. It gets sometimes the job done.

But it is, by far, the m- going to be the one where we will be able to sniff that you are using AI from a mile away if you are using 3.5. Mm-hmm. This is the one where you're like, "I used it, but it didn't sound anything like me, and it has a bunch of emojis, and it's using all these crazy adjectives."

That is absolutely gonna be the case if you're using 3.5. So, 3.5 is a part of the free version at the time of recording this, and I'd highly recommend just biting the bullet and paying for it.

At the time of recording this, it's $20 a month to get access to all of their advanced models, such as 4.0, I'm gonna say it again, at the time of recording this. Uh, 'cause when you're listening to this, my friend, in a year from now, I'm sure that this- th- all this information will be changed, so make sure to do your own research- All right. and not- and only take this up at face value.

But- but basically, the- the 4.0 model is so much adv- more advanced and smarter than the 3.5. And you're able to prompt it and give it a lot more information, and use it in a lot more advanced ways to get answers that actually help you, and are actually more of- uh, making your workflow more efficient, versus the other way around.

So-I feel like a lot of people who may have used it in the past or tried it who are like, "This doesn't... This is weird. I don't know how to get it to sound like me. I'm not gonna use this," or are turned off by it, a lot of the time it's because they haven't given the paid version a shot.

And the, uh, the difference that you'll see in the paid version versus the free version is immediate. So, that is my very first tip is pay for it. The amount of time you'll get back into your life and your business and your workflow is 100% worth the $20 a month, because if you think about it, some of the stuff that you're having this, this bot do for you, if you were gonna pay an actual human being to write this stuff for you or streamline this stuff for you, it'd be 100 times more expensive, right? So, that is my very first tip, is absolutely pay for it.

It's an absolute no-brainer, especially if you're using it and if you're integrating it into your workflow in a smart and productive way. Do you agree with me, Jody? Yes. I definitely agree with you, and I think that, you know, it's, it's one of those things where you're learning it a little bit, and I love that you said at the time of recording, 'cause even for me personally, um, I was looking at the models, and it's great because it does actually tell you in parentheses- Yes.

like at the time of recording what they are best for, um, but I've noticed it changed in the last week for me. Yep. So, it's really important to, like, keep up on that, but I do think they do a good job of, of simplifying it and telling you what each thing is best for. I would agree.

And so when it comes to those different models, in the last episode, we talked about how it can oftentimes be very wrong, um- Yes. or it can get... Uh, or if you, like, overload it with information, then it can start to give you some, like, weird answers, and we'll talk about some other things throughout this episode that can help to make sure that that does not happen. Yeah.

But actually changing your model, I've recently found in my own use cases, has been a big, uh, solution for these types of things. So, 4.0 and most of these models are designed to get you the answer as quickly as possible, right? Because that's what the majority of consumers want is just quick, fast answers.

But sometimes we want to prioritize quality over quantity depending on what we're working on, right? So, when you're looking for something that is going to maybe, uh, it's gonna matter a little bit more, like maybe it's going over budgets or finances with you, 'cause I think that it's interesting to use it for tho- those types of things. I still think that we should rely on actual humans and real financial advice, right, educated financial advice, but maybe you can get a head start with ChatGBT or something like that. Exactly.

The 03 model, and I believe it's the 04 model as well, those models use more advanced reasoning and take a little bit longer to actually get you the results and the answers that you are looking or that you're asking for, and it actually thinks a little bit harder and takes its time. And those I found to have a lot better, more comprehensive, and more accurate information. Still I would 100% approach it with caution, but 4.0 is gonna be your most accessible model.

It's gonna be the one that has a bunch of fun and friendly language to it, uh, where 3.0 is going to be... Or 3.0, I'm sorry.

3.0 or 4.0 are gonna be the ones where it just gives you a more direct answer, and it speaks in very bland terms, but it actually gives you a much more comprehensive answer. They're oftentimes longer, a lot more to read, but for a nerd like me or depending on the project that you're doing, I prefer that.

I don't want you to be like, "Oh, m-" I don't want it to be like, "You know what? Great point, Hunter." Yeah, exactly. "That is...

You are so smart." Yeah. "This is... That is a great thing to take in consideration.

Here are five actions..." Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 'cause that's how it talks to every single one of us now, right? Totally. And I don't need all that extra bullshit.

I just want it to cut to the point, I want it to be right, and I want it to be comprehensive. So I've been using those models instead for certain different projects, like research, uh, analyzing data, finances, whatever it may be, where I still believe 4.0 is great for writing copy and content purposes. So, for the majority of you guys who are listening to this and the majority of use cases that you guys will be doing, sticking with 4.

0 is great, but if you're looking for just a tiny bit more accuracy, more comprehensive situations, then maybe using the 3.0 or the 4.0, I believe, I believe that's what the names of them are, um, is a great thing to do. So, switching up the models, I agree with you, Jody.

They do have those great little descriptions under them that give you a little bit of an understanding of what they're best for. Reading those, understanding them, testing those different models out is a great idea. Also, you can lean into the deep research. You only get allotted a certain amount of time that you can use the deep research, but if you're looking for it to really take its time, like sometimes this will take, like, 15 to 20 minutes, probably burning down 100 different trees and soaking up the entire Delaware River or something like that when it's running, when it's running deep research.

If you really need something that is going to go into depth and take a lot of time and give you a massively long thesis basically in response to your prompts, then deep research is also an option as well. I believe that's available in most of the models, including 4., 4.0, um, and it's one of the buttons that you can choose in the actual, like, prompt box at the bottom of the chat bot.

Yeah, and I think that's something... When you are using ChatGBT, like, that is... You can per chat you can choose the model. Yes.

It's not like you have to commit to one model. It's a dropdown menu, on mine at least, where you can click and it shows you the options. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that, and, uh, 'cause I'm...

I, I tend to jump ahead. So, yes, I appreciate you explaining that. So yeah, you can go ahead to the dropdown and you can choose for the particular prompt that you're gonna be doing which model that you'd like to run it through- Yeah. and, uh, and then do it per chat.

There was something really interesting that you mentioned when we were talking about this episode, and that was that, um, you actually turn off the memory to get better results. Can you talk about that a little bit? Because, um, I think we should break down A, like, what the purpose behind that would be, and then B, how do you do that?Yeah.

So, um, I've ... Like, a lot of people have been saying, like, "Oh, well, I've been using ChatGPT so much that it's, like, starting to know who I am, so it's starting to talk in my voice. I don't have to give it as much context." Which is great, right?

Like, we wanna not have to tell it, "Okay, I'm a hairstylist. I'm located here. My goal is this. Like, this is my specialty," every single time that we talk to it, right?

But we do want it to, we do want it to have context, because if you don't give it context, it's not gonna give you great answers. So, it's great that it has- it does have an internal memory feature basically. So, what it's designed to do is it ... Every time that you give it some information that it thinks it should retain as memory, to be able to give you better responses, it'll automatically save it into its, into your account's memory box, you could call it.

And so, then it'll start to load up all these different facts in its memory about you that it believes it should load into there. Right. And, uh, I think that's pretty cool, particularly for a light user who's not using it- Right. as often, right?

My issue with it is, with it turned on, if I'm asking for something particular or whatever it may be, I find that it'll ... With the pre-conceived notions of the memory that it may have saved, it may skew the results that it gives me- Right. with keeping that memory in mind that I didn't really ask for, or that I didn't really want it to have context for, and then I won't just get a clean response. Right.

So, I get more optimized responses when I turn off the memory and I instead train the ChatGPT in a different way and in different features, and we can talk about that in a moment, to make it so I don't always have to give it context, but it still has the context that it needs, so that way it can give me efficient answers without me having to copy and paste every single time, or type it all out manually every single time. Okay. I love that. So where do you go to access that?

Is that in, like, the general settings or is that something that you do per chat? It's in your general settings. So it's, like, it's account- Okay. Got it.

It's account-wide. So you would go to your actual ChatGPT account settings and then you should be able to find memory somewhere in there. Okay. And I believe that you can even see the memory that it saves as well.

And I believe that you can even edit the memory that it's taken. But to me, I just, I'm just like, I just turn it off. I don't wanna have anything to do with it. I will create my own ChatGBTs, which you can do when you pay for it, you can, uh, create your own ChatGBTs that are pre-trained with the knowledge that you want it to be trained in to tear it- carry out the tasks that you want it to carry out, um, in a really smart and cool way, so that way you can just open up those bots that you pre-train.

And then it does exactly what you need it to do, only within the parameters of how you'd like it to do it, versus it going a little bit rogue because it has this pre-conceived memory of what you have going on. Totally. And the cool thing too is, if you can't figure out how to turn off your memory, you can ask it. Period.

And it'll tell you. Dude, I love that you say that because honestly, like ... So I've been on the road, on the Modern Hair Stylist Tour. At the time of recording this, we have two locations left at the end of July.

We have Indianapolis and we have San Francisco. And I have an entire long segment about ChatGPT and using it to its fullest and giving use cases and super specific examples and sending people home with the exact prompts and recordings of everything that we do with it. And this is, uh, this is exactly what I say to people. They're like, "Okay.

Well, what if I don't know what to say?" Then tell it that you don't know what to say, right? Ask it what it needs from you to be able to give you the best answers. Mm-hmm.

So for example, today, I have a long to-do list, y'all, all right? And I used to use a project management software. This is gonna blow people's minds. So that people- people think I'm all, like, you know, organized and crazy, and to a certain degree, sometimes, yes.

But I used to use a project management software, particularly when my team was a little bit larger, we just needed it. But at this time, I have so much shit going on in my life that I just cannot be bothered to log into a project management software and find all the things that I need to find. I'm just keeping my shit in my notes on my i- my iPhone. That is what's working for my ADHD brain right now.

And it's been great for me. However, prioritizing that list, scheduling those tasks out and stuff like that, I, I find it to be a little bit overwhelming, right? I look at this huge to-do list and I'm just overwhelmed and I don't even know where to start. So, I've been taking the to-do list, running it through GPT, and being like, "Hey.

Here is the to-do list. Before you just automatically give me a bunch of answers about when and why I should do this, ask me a bunch of clarifying questions so that way you have more context, so that way I can give you all those things that you need, and you give me the best project management plan possible," right? A perfect example of asking it to tell you what you need to give it to get the best results. Or, just being honest with it and saying, "I'm overwhelmed.

I don't know what the fuck to do. This is a lot of information to di- to, to start with." And then just going from there, like ... And that's the cool thing with this AI, is that it's not judging you.

It's gonna do exactly what you want it to do- Right. for the most part, virtually, right? And you can just say, "Damn, that's a lot of info. Where can we start in a simpler way?

Damn, I'm a little bit overwhelmed." Or, "Damn, I don't know where to turn that shit off. Where can I turn it off?" Right?

Mm-hmm. And like we said in the last episode, the title is cha- why ChatGPT is trash. It can oftentimes be wrong. So just take that into consideration.

Don't take everything that it says at face value, and you'll be good to go. Totally. And I do think, like, sorting information is definitely one of the super powers. Like, that is probably, like, one of the things that I use it for the most.

And I think that's a very creative problem. Like, all of us are creatives. Stylists are creatives, you know. And I think that using it to sort through your thoughts, as long as you take it with a grain of salt, is a really great use case.

Um- I agree. Okay. The thing that I think s- everyone that's listening wants to know is how can they utilize this to create content, how can they make it sound like them, all of those types of things. And I think a really great place to start is defining-...

what a good prompt looks like. The example I'm gonna give you first is like, okay, so for example, if you wanted to use it to write a newsletter for your clients, right? Instead of prompting it, "Write a newsletter for my clients," which technically you could do and it would give you something, right? You could prompt it with like, "Here's some ideas," like, "Here's some things that my clients ask.

N- Can you help me, like, format this or, or you know, flesh it out, or, or any of those other things." So can you talk a little bit about what that can look like in terms of, of content uses, whether it's like emails or social or any of those different things for stylists? Yeah, totally. So there's actually a lot of research that has gone into prompt engineering, which has been very fascinating.

I've been nerding out about this stuff pretty recently. I'm even considering taking like an AI coding class because I'm just starting to get really fascinated by this stuff. And i- I used to not really think that the prompt mattered as much as like the, as much as people kind of put a bunch of weight on it, as much as they have. Like, I felt like it was just like marketing jargon, like people were just saying like, "Oh, you have to make sure that prompt engineering is like the mo-, uh, it's the most important thing to get the most out of your ChatGPT."

And I used to think like, yeah, like of course, like you wanna give it context and in order f- to get the best results. But there is actually a massive difference in how it will respond to you and the quality of answers that it will give you depending on how you go about your prompt and what you say to it. So before we get into the advanced stuff, the basic general advice to you, my friend, is think about it as if this is a stranger that you're talking to on the street, right? This is a stranger that you just ran into on the street and they're offering to give you completely free labor in exchange for nothing, maybe the $20 a month that you're paying it, this person, right?

And they have zero context about who you are, what you're looking for, what your preferences with it are, right? And how do you expect this person to know how you want something delivered to them if you don't give them all the information that they need to make that happen? So think about it as a stranger that is going to work for you and you need to train them and they have no preconceived understanding of who you are and what you're doing, right? And then furthermore, two really valuable tips, and at the Modern Hairstylist Store, I'll show you like a real example of exactly what you say to do this, but two really valuable tips, and for those of you who have not been interested in this stuff for the past couple months, this is gonna be like new for you.

If you have been interested in this for the past couple years that it's been out now, then this is gonna be not news to you. Telling it to act as the thing that you want it to act as. So for example, you are a social media content creator, marketer expert, right? Or you are a, a email newsletter expert, right?

Act as that. Starting out with that to tell it exactly what its role is, that has, that has been proven with studies to make it so you are more likely to get better results and it's actually going to act as if it was in one of those roles, and so it's gonna take it a little bit more seriously. The second thing, speaking of taking it a little bit more seriously, the second thing is if you share with it what's at stake. So if you share with it that, I, what I, I do an extreme crazy version 'cause I'm just nuts and I just am funny, I guess, and I just, I, I like to have fun with it.

It's probably gonna, like, like the movie, it's, it's gonna turn alive and kill me one day 'cause of how much I F around with it. But sometimes I'll say, "Act as if y- if you don't give me a good answer, the world will end or like there will be catastrophic like circumstances or something like that." And so, and, but, but there is real research, and of course there's better ways to do this that aren't crazy like the way that I'm going on about it. Yeah.

And I'm giving you the extreme version. Like I'm not, maybe I'm not actually saying like that, to that extent, right? But there is real research that shows that if you tell it what's at stake and if you give it more of an understanding of how important it is that this is done right or that it's done within these parameters, then it is more likely to give you a better quality response. So those are some, tho- th- those are my biggest game-changing tips, all right?

Is three things. The first thing is pretend that it's, that it's a stranger that you're meeting for the first time, they have no context, and you need to give them enough context to give you the results that you're looking for. Second, um, make sure to give it, to tell it what it's supposed to be acting as, like the role that it's playing. And then third, give it a little bit of an understanding of how important this is.

So, and I, I, I'll give you more specific examples when we have time at the Modern Hairstylist Store. I love that. Um, and I think that's such a, that's the best analogy I've ever heard, by the way. I think that is so, so good, 'cause I feel like we, you know, there's like almost this assumption that it knows something about our audience or, you know, our potential clients that we're wanting to attract or us or whatever.

And I think it's really important to put into context like how big the world is and how many different people are using social media marketing, for example. Like, you know, there's so many different industries and target markets and all of these different things. So I love that picturing it just being a random stranger off the street who knows nothing about you and nothing about your business and nothing about your, your, like, target market is- Yeah. a really great context piece.

That's huge. Yeah, and the thing with that is making it so... Here's the thing about it. It's pretrained on all the things that have already existed on the internet.

So if you say, "I want a social media post," but you don't give it context as to what that actually looks like in a good version to you, it's just gonna take into consideration what every other hairstylist has ever posted in social media. And normally those captions, no offense to ya- to, to y'all, all right? But I've been this hairstylist, so I'm allowed to say this.They suck, right?

Like, like, this, look at this buttery, beautiful blonde. Sparkle emoji. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Like, that is genuinely what 90% of hairstylists caption their, their posts. Yeah. And if you're a smart marketer, you understand that that is not an effective caption to nurture your audience, to make them trust you and wanna work with you more, right? So, if you're approaching marketing in a more advanced way, and you know that, that you need to be working within those parameters and adding more context, or making those posts a little bit longer, or giving some more education, and making it, like you said, particular to the ideal client that you're marketing to, you have to give it the context.

Yeah. 'Cause you'll see it. If you go into ChatGPT right now and you say, "Make me a social media caption for blonde clients," it's gonna give you a format that is just not cute. It's not comprehensive.

It's not helpful. It's just gonna be the same old generic shit that everybody has been posting for years that doesn't help you stand out. You know, I've seen a lot, as someone who, like, nerds out over, like, social media marketing and, you know, content. Like, my big thing, my, like, hill I will die on, is content strategy and, like, you know, marketing strategy and all of these different things, and how, like, I believe that social media is the messenger, right, not the message.

And so, I've actually gone in and, like, played around with this a little bit and, like, you know, just to, to do a little research, 'cause I see a lot of people, y- you know, circulating advice online about, like, use it to create your strategy, which I think- Mm-hmm. is, like, a very dangerous game unless you're giving it a lot of context. Right. And so I've actually done that.

Like, create me a social media strategy, I'm a hairstylist, or, or, you know, and I've tried it as, like, an educator as well. And, and it's not a strategy. No. So I think it's very important, like you said, and I know you're gonna talk about this at the tour, like, how to prompt it in a way where it will give you things.

'Cause it will create something. Whether you give it a good prompt or a terrible prompt, it will- Yeah. give you a result, right? And it's so important to know and to have, like, those really strategic prompts so that you're getting something that's gonna grow your business and not cause more harm than good, 'cause- Yup.

that is something that can totally happen. Um. Absolutely. So, okay.

One of the things we wanted to talk about, which I think is, like, a really great hot tip, is trying to generate too much at one time. Can you talk a little bit about that and how it's, like, actually breaking it down gives you a way better result? Oh my god, yes. And so I'm sure that you've seen this yourself, Jodie, but, like, if you ...

The difference between asking it to do and generate multiple tasks, and this is particular to 4.0 majoritively, but honestly, to any of the models. Because you have to think about the fact that every single time you run something through this program, it actually costs the company money for you to be running a prompt through it, right? So, to them, it is very important that their model is running as efficiently as possible.

So, it's trying to get you the best answer in the fastest, most comprehensive, most concise way possible, so that way it can save money and it can get you the answer quickly, right? And so, what'll happen is, the difference between asking it to do, to give you f- "Write me five newsletters," right, versus, "Write me one newsletter," is the one newsletter is going to be ten times more of quality. It's actually going to listen to your instructions much more. It's going to be so much better than if you ask it to write you five newsletters and they're all going to suck, they're all gonna be of the same format, they're gonna look exactly the same, just tweaked in different ways.

They're going to be terrible. So asking it to do one step at a time is much more effective than asking it to do five things. The other thing, when it comes to asking it to do too much, is of course you wanna give it context. But what I've also seen is if you give it too much context, then it'll start to pick and choose from the context that you're giving it, and it will leave out other important context, and it'll even start hallucinating.

It'll start to get overloaded, and then it won't give you great results. So it is a balance, and it's because of the way that it's programmed and it, it wants to be as efficient as possible. It's like, "I don't have time to read all this context, because I am programmed to get this person this result as quickly and efficiently as possible." So if they give me all this context, I'm going to automatically decide, "What's the most important thing out of this huge, long prompt?"

And it's going to only focus on those things and leave out the other things. Now, a great workaround for this is building your ChatGPTs and training them in strategic ways. And we go deep into how to do that in the Modern Hairstylist Tour so that way you can create a ja- ChatGPT bot that has all of the context that it needs, but it's not overloaded, and you don't have to copy and paste and give the same context over and over and over again. I think, yeah, that is the cheat code.

I think that's definitely such an important, important piece, 'cause like, yeah, you want it to have the context, but you don't want it to mess up. So I'm super glad you're teaching that, 'cause I think that's, like, a really important thing that a lot of people miss. It's like, okay, either I give it context or I don't, and really there's just, like, wh- it's like, the way you give it context is just- Yes. as important as how much context you give it.

Yes. Okay. Is there anything you wanna add in terms of content? Like, making it sound more like you or anything like that, or d- do you feel, like, pretty complete on that?

'Cause I wanna ask you something that. Well, we touched it a little bit the last, the ChatGPT is Trash episode. Yeah. Yeah.

I highly recommend that you brush up on your own knowledge, marketing skills, and acumen, and you practice, you learn, you get experience, you get peer and mentor review. Yeah. And you learn how to be a great copywriter and, and, and operator yourself.Agreed.

Brush up on your own skills, okay? So that you can do two things. First thing is you can, when you get a result from it, you're able to use skilled, trained eyes of your own to recognize if it's actually a great result that it's giving you or not. Yeah.

Because if you aren't able to self-audit those responses, you're just gonna copy and paste those things and put them out in the world, and they're going to hurt you more than they're gonna, than they're gonna help you. The second thing is a great way to approach this for content, or honestly anything, is giving it your own version of- Mm-hmm. the final result, but then asking it to polish or rewrite, okay? When it comes to content, maybe, more particularly.

Right. So you being able to write the caption, even if it's in a sloppy way, but you're- Yeah. writing it with your own context, with your own understanding of what's gonna hit, with your own understanding of your market research, who your ideal client is, what your specialty is, what your brand voice looks like, and then giving it to ChatGPT to then polish up. And giving it parameters for how you want it to rewrite and polish it up, because that's another thing that you have to make sure that you're careful about if you truly want to get great answers for this.

That's the best way about going about it. So instead of creating first with the GPT, you'll create first with your own skilled brain, and then run it through this tool to make it a little bit more polished. So instead of you having to think about every single word and how grammatically correct it is, you can just throw words down onto the paper. You can just brain dump in a smart, educated way, and then have ChatGPT actually polish it and refine it for you without you losing context or without it turning into this AI regurgitated bullshit.

Yeah, 100%. I love that. So that's my last, that's my last... I mean, I, there are so many different things I could talk about here today.

We, yeah, we couldn't fit it all into one episode We could not. We're running out of time, but what I will say is that we have gotten rave reviews from our last three tour dates, all right, out of the five that we're doing on the Modern Hair Stylist Tour. For this particular part of our tour, where we go deep into ChatGPT, how to use it efficiently, how to optimize it to make it so you are increasing your productivity as a business owner. Because you have so many full-time jobs as a hairstylist.

Mm-hmm. You wear so many hats, and it's so important that you're taking your time and you're considering it as a precious, valuable resource. And so that's why we started this tour. So in person, I could be there with you and give you immediate knowledge, immediate return on your investment, and tell you exactly how you can use this tool with real use cases and recordings and send home prompts that are ready to go and plug and play, so that way you can finally start to use this tool more efficiently versus th- versus it holding you back and you always having to polish things up or re-prompt it.

Or maybe you're not even thinking that way. We're gonna teach you how to think that way and use it in the best way possible. Yeah. At the Modern Hair Stylist Tour.

I love that, and honestly, where c- c- first of all, where can people go to find out this info? You're gonna link this, we're gonna link this in the show notes? We're linking this in the show notes, the Modern Hair Stylist Tour, and if you want a little bit of a taste of the different ways that you can use it, it's not gonna have, like, all the context of how you use it, but I'm gonna give you different ways that you can use it. I have a resource for you guys.

It's 30 different use cases for how to use ChatGPT, and this is both in your personal life and your business life as well too. I use it in my personal life for tons of different things that have completely streamlined my, my personal life, very much so. And so I'm gonna give that to you guys for free. You can check out the show notes for that as well.

So if you go to hunterdonohue.com/tour, you can figure out tickets for the tour for Indianapolis and San Francisco. You can go ahead and DM me on Instagram @hairbyhuntyAITools, no spaces, just AITools, and I'll go ahead and I'll send you this free resource so that way you can start to use this tool in really cool and unique ways. Okay, I wanna ask you, what is your favorite way that you use, 'cause I think this is a fun one, what's your favorite way that you use ChatGPT in your personal life?

Groceries. Groceries and meal prepping. Groceries and meal prepping. And the reason why is because you can look at a recipe online, right?

You'll go onto the page, you know it's, like, this long blog-style bullshit, right? Mm-hmm. Like, you have to scroll through all the ads, all of their background of their entire life story and, and all their shit, right? So you finally get to the ingredients list, and then you finally get to the step-by-step, and then the ingredients list and the step-by-step look different, and it's so confusing.

And maybe you forgot this one thing at the grocery store, but you have this other thing, can I use it as an alternative? The great thing about the ChatGPT is you can ask it questions. You can actually speak to it about the recipe. Mm-hmm.

And you can talk to it about, you know, the groceries and if this is an al- good alternative for this, and it can do the... Now, again, grain of salt, oftentimes really bad with math, but you can do c- the conversions as well for, like, the measurements of things and stuff with it quickly, um, how much- Mm-hmm. shit you need to get at the grocery store. You can build a grocery list for you right then and there in the way that you want to use it.

So for example, like, I'll have a grocery list, but it's not categorized by the section of the grocery store. Mm-hmm. Dude, I, it pisses me off. Like, it needs to be in the sections of the particular grocery store that I'm going to.

Right. So that is my favorite way to use it in my personal life. It by far takes the most painful task in my personal life, in my opinion, and makes it so much easier and more customized for me. Yeah.

So that way I actually feel confident and excited to get it done. I 100% agree. And my favorite add-on tip to that is if you paste it into the notes app in your phone and you do it with, like, the little circle first, then you can actually check stuff off as you walk around the grocery store. And that is like- Nice.

my favorite thing. 100%. All right, thank you so much, Hunty. There's so many awesome tips in this episode, and I feel like everyone should go and immediately download the 30 different use cases, 'cause, like, between your personal life and your business, this can actually take a lot of stuff off your plate if you're using it the right way.

Hell yeah, and, uh, another way to get it, again, we're gonna leave it in the show notes, you can DM me AITools, no space. Another way to get it is hunterdonohue.com/chat, and then you'll be able to find it there as well too. Just need your email address and first name, and I'll send it your way, my friend.

Thank you for tuning into the Modern Hair Stylist podcast. Use AI responsibly. Use it in a strategic way. Hope to see you at the tour.

So much love. Peace out, girl scout. Bye-bye.

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