Cheating or Clever?
I tried something different today.
I brain dumped a load of my thoughts on the recent conversations I have been having with my clients into AI. A long riff, notes and commentary and asked it what it would write about what I had shared.
This is what it wrote, with a few tweaks to make it more my language:
Behind the Boardroom Door:
She walks into the boardroom, power-suit on, presentation prepared, mask firmly in place.
No one sees the silent tears she cried in the bathroom that morning.
No one hears the argument at home still ringing in her ears.
No one knows the ache in her chest or the knot in her stomach that’s been there so long it feels like part of her.
Because in this world — the high-rise, high-performance, high-pressure world — vulnerability can feel like weakness. And weakness is not allowed. Especially if you are in a boardroom of men… one of my clients tells the story of how the boardroom is ‘7 men and me’ and she is not alone.
I work with the women who are running the show, the lives, the companies, the teams and often the schools their kids are at!
Running businesses, teams, households, school pickups, performance reviews, board reports.
Running so fast they’ve forgotten how to rest.
So fiercely independent they’ve forgotten how to receive.
There’s functioning anxiety & low self esteem behind the polished facade, the silk shirts, the manicured nails and pretty shoes.
Guilt layered with shame layered with more guilt — for not being enough, for not doing enough, at work or at home.
There’s the quiet fear:
“Is this it? Do I have to keep going like this forever?”
These women ask me:
“How can I show up calm, clear and confident when my home life is chaos?”
“How do I make space for love, for health, for myself when my work takes everything?”
“What if I’m just broken underneath it all? What if I’m too old to change?”
“When do I get to be the one who is supported?”
This is the work I do.
We reveal the stories they have bought in to.
We untangle the beliefs.
We look at the patterns of behaviour that once kept them safe — and now keep them trapped.
I create the peace while they rage and rampage.
I hold space for the tears behind the titles.
The fear behind the fire.
The woman behind the wonder.
And from that space, something shifts.
Clarity comes.
Power switches back on.
Confidence is no longer a performance — it’s embodied.
Because when a woman heals at the level of belief and behaviour, she doesn’t just feel different — she leads differently.
And the boardroom feels it.
And her body knows it.
And the bedroom… returns to love.
I wrote that last bit! The returning to love. A huge theme for my life in the last decade.
But it’s quite clever isn’t it?
I am learning to use AI for work and life; it feels like a sounding board, who I can bounce ideas back and forth with. I love speaking in to it and asking for it to make notes for me which I then adapt and change to sound more like me, adding in where it misses gaps.
Clever. I used to think it was cheating.
Until I realised that it was actually very useful and has helped give me so much time back.
AS I said - Clever, when used correctly.
But I don’t really want to use it for blogging. I just thought I would try it today.
Just for funsies.
Talking of fun - I am off to see F1.
Brad Pitt. Can’t wait.
Signing off.. this is my reminder to myself to be brilliant in the boardroom, the bedroom & in my body.
Love always
Ali xo
#remindertobebrilliant #thebrilliantyears #livebrilliantlyalive
“I am so grateful to you - you have no idea what an impact you have had on me since we starting working together - you are such a special lady and friend. You always bring me back to myself.”
