Happy Friday Reader! NEWS: There’s now a German and English version of my newsletter! If you don’t speak German and want to keep receiving it in English, just shoot me a quick email – I’ve got you. 💌 Was diese Woche wirklich los war: Ich hab mich mit KI geklont – und das hat mein Mindset verändert. TL;DR: Mein Live-Webinar ist gecrasht – Cortisol-Level: Um Jahre gealtert Ich hätte fast mein altes Muster wiederholt (Spoiler: drittes Recording) Stattdessen: mein erster KI-Avatar mit HeyGen Mein...
8 days ago • 3 min read
Happy Saturday Reader! I’m back in LA after weeks of traveling through Europe — and having way too much fun skiing with 15 incredible women. ❄️🎿 In the background, I was also quietly finishing a program called Working Out Loud (WOL)— a 9-week journey where you meet weekly with four other women, each working toward their own goals. Today, I want to share how AI helped me unpack limiting beliefs that had held me back for so long — and how, over nine weeks, I finally reclaimed my story. Here’s...
28 days ago • 3 min read
Happy Saturday Reader! I’m writing this newsletter from my beautiful little room in Zermatt, Switzerland, where I’m spending the week with 15 brilliant, bold businesswomen from Silicon Valley—after two intense, fast-paced weeks traveling across Europe. In just 10 days, I: ✔️ Led a workshop at the M.Stories Festival in Munich with the amazing Microsoft SkillHer team ✔️ Reunited with my husband and kids in Paris, where we climbed the Eiffel Tower ✔️ Caught up with my masterclass alumnae...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Friday Reader! At SXSW last weekend, I picked up a new icebreaker question that I think might be my new go-to at networking events: 👉 What is your latest failure? Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD, dropped this gem while launching her new book, Tiny Experiments, at SXSW EDU (which, by the way, is brilliant—I just finished it): Imagine a world where it’s totally normal to ask this. No awkward silences. No pressure to sound impressive. Just honest conversations about what didn’t work and what we...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Happy Friday Reader! Sometimes, an event and the conversations around it stay with you long after it’s over—you just know it was a good one. That’s exactly how I felt last week after tuning into the Leading with AI Charter Summit in New York And yes, I was up at 5 AM for it (thank you, perimenopause insomnia! 😅). But honestly? Worth it. I was planning to give you a neat little summary of my takeaways, but instead, I want to start with something bigger: AI adoption isn’t really about...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Friday Reader! You know what I hear all the time? "I have no time to play with AI!" Whether it’s a 19-year-old student swamped with studying, a 45-year-old professional juggling a full-time job, three kids, aging parents, or a 65-year-old woman in retirement, that line keeps coming up. Honestly, I get it. But here’s the thing—I can’t hear it anymore. We’re all busy. You, me, even my 7-year-old, who insists she has no time to clean her room. If the idea of ‘playing’ with yet another AI...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Happy Friday Reader! when a 4 AM Amber Alert jolts you awake with a false evacuation warning, and your kids are making videos with their dolls about the fire, you realize this isn’t going to be your typical CES newsletter. I was excited to share my show highlights with you today, but instead, I want to begin with gratitude: we're safe. While the LA fire is dangerously close, and the air quality is worsening in Venice Beach, we’re not in the evacuation zone. Your messages checking in on us,...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Friday Reader! Last week I caught myself doing something that would have made my privacy-conscious German self from five years ago cringe—I asked ChatGPT to analyze my entire LinkedIn profile, name and all, without a second thought. And I ended up opening a can of worms… Every privacy guide starts with, “DO NOT share personal data like names with AI!” Oops, too late, I thought. Growing up in Germany, where data privacy is as sacred as punctuality and order, I’ve lost count of the days...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Happy Friday Reader! Have you ever used an AI tool that seemed to do all the hard work for you — reading, summarizing, simplifying, and delivering information instantly — yet found yourself wondering: Am I really learning deeply, or just skimming the surface? Last week, I got swept up in the buzz around NotebookLM — an AI tool everyone on LinkedIn was raving about. You know that moment when everyone’s calling something a “game-changer”? (Yes, I know how overused that is!) Curiosity got the...
7 months ago • 2 min read