You're Not "Behind on AI", You're Just Thinking About it Wrong

Rich and Remote with Alex and Karla Booth

Karla Singson shares five mindset shifts for leaders to effectively integrate AI into their businesses, emphasizing leadership over tool pro

Key takeaways

• Hire for critical thinking and abstract reasoning rather than specific AI skills.
• AI fluency is a mindset, not just technical knowledge—it's about problem-solving ability.

Main topics

• AI mindset shifts for business leaders
• Hiring for critical thinking and abstract reasoning

Notable quotes

The business owners who will win in the next five years are not the ones who necessarily adopted fast, but they're the ones who adopted on purpose.

Conclusion

True AI success comes not from mastering tools but from evolving leade

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) Let me tell you, the business owners who will win in the next five years are not the ones who necessarily adopted fast, but they're the ones who adopted on purpose. Speaker 3 (0:11) You weren't born to sit in traffic, work for approval, or wait for Fridays. You were Speaker 2 (0:17) built to be free. Speaker 3 (0:19) Welcome to Rich and Remote, the show for the ones who dare to do life differently. Here, we talk about building businesses that give you choices, where you work, how you live, and what you create. This is for the entrepreneurs who crave freedom, financial freedom, location freedom. and freedom from everyone else's expectations. If you're ready to design a life on your own terms, you're in the right place. Rich and Remote, hosted by Alex and Carla Booth. Speaker 1 (1:08) Hey, quick one for anyone still doing $15 an hour work when you should be doing $10,000 an hour thinking. If you've ever tried hiring a virtual assistant and ended up with someone you had to train from scratch, I want you to check out the Hire an AI VA playbook, which you can access at HireAnAIVA.com. It's a $17 toolkit that shows you exactly how to find, vet, and hire an AI-savvy virtual assistant, someone who already knows how to use ChatGPT and Cloud properly so they can actually take work off your plate in as early as three hours and not in three minutes. months it has bedding checklists master classes job post templates prompts and even done for you ai skills tests will even guide you through the interview process so you'll truly have everything you need to land a proper ai enabled virtual assistant who can finally take these tedious everyday tasks off your plate link is in the show notes so go grab it and do yourself a favor once again It's HireAnAIVA.com. You deserve high quality support and you deserve an AI savvy virtual assistant. Go check out HireAnAIVA.com. Right now, there's a business owner watching this video or listening to this podcast thinking that they might be doing AI wrong because they feel a little bit behind compared to maybe what their friends are sharing. on Facebook or Instagram, this new workflow, this new automation, this new agent, this new tool, right? And on the other side of the table, there might be some business owners who feel like they are doing AI so well because now ChatGPT writes their emails. But let me tell you, it's really not belonging on either side of the spectrum that's important. For me, We have to remember that we are here to do business and the purpose of a business is to make profit, to make money, to invest something like time and effort and money and labor and then turn it into value. And because it turned into value, then we get paid for it. Honestly, that is the main point of business. You guys already know that the purpose of business is to make a profit. If it doesn't make profit, if it doesn't make money, then it is just a hobby, not a business. I am recording this episode because I really feel that I wanted to share with you. how my team has grown throughout the years with AI and how we have approached AI. So in this episode, I will not be sharing with you what we're doing, what workflows we're doing, what tools we're using. Instead, I will share something that will really contribute to your hashtag rich and remote life by showing you the mindset shifts that we have done in our business that led us to grow at least 30 % each year. since AI has rolled out. And let me tell you, we haven't even gotten full force with AI yet. We haven't gotten back into turning on ads, although that's coming very soon. But we've done very well. We've done multiple seven figures throughout the past few years. And I'm very proud of the team that we have built. And I'm very proud of the companies that we have served. and our clients are also getting bigger and bigger they're getting better and better and yes it was not all success obviously but i noticed that my business have gained a lot in terms of personal motivation and of course it also all reflected on the books so i'm really really excited to share these with you and these are just mindset shifts that i want you guys to have as you grow your own business and for me these are the mindset shifts about ai and these are the approaches towards ai that i was able to do and that i was able to deploy in my business and for some reason it just all worked out i hope you learned a thing or two by the way if you like this episode i would love if you can drop a like, drop a subscribe or a follow and of course if you feel like there's someone in your mind that could really make good use of this information or this information could really help them grow their business or live a hashtag rich and remote life, I would love if you can share this with them. too. Alright, so first mindset shift is hire for the brain