Career Confidence

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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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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If this episode resonated with you, share it with one woman in your life who needs to hear it right now. Reach out to Georgie and Lou on LinkedIn and let them know your biggest takeaway. Tell them what you're doing to stay ahead of the AI era without getting overwhelmed.

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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✨ 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 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 💜

Sometimes the most important conversations about AI aren't happening in boardrooms or on conference stages. They're happening in data labelling sweatshops, in schools, and in the quiet moments when we ask ourselves: what are we actually building

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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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Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and it's about AI. Not the hype. Not the productivity gains. Not the trillion dollar valuations. It's about protecting human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. And it's a 42,000 word love letter to the world that centres women's voices, women's labour, and women's leadership.

In our first conversation with Julianne, we discussed this encyclical before it was released. Now it's here, Lou has read all 42,000 words of it, and the more he reads, the more women he finds inside it.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down again with Julianne Hickey, social justice leader, AI governance expert, and one of the spokespeople for the encyclical in New Zealand. Julianne has met Pope Francis twice, worked in Gaza and Palestine, and now leads AI strategy for a major government organisation. And she's also done something most of us haven't: she signed up to work for a data labelling company to see what the AI supply chain actually looks like from the inside.

What she found was harrowing. And it's the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet.

This episode is about what happens when we stop asking what AI can do, and start asking what it should do. It's about the hidden workers training AI for a few dollars while someone becomes a trillionaire in the same week. It's about the cognitive disarmament of AI. It's about building a civilisation of love, brick by brick. And it's about why the future of AI isn't just a technical question. It's a spiritual one.
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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/
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Connect with Julianne Hickey:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannehickey/
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CHAPTERS
00:00 The Pope's AI encyclical is finally here

01:10 From a parish council at 17 to AI governance: Julianne's path

02:10 Magnifica Humanitas: a 42,000 word love letter that centres women

03:35 The call to "disarm" AI: military, economic, and cognitive

08:20 The women named as heroes: Montessori, Bhutto, Maathai, Curie

13:25 Education, curiosity, and the lure of the "perfect machine"

16:10 What keeps Georgie up at night: productivity vs people

20:40 Hannah Arendt's warning: totalitarianism, fact, and fiction

22:00 Why women's caution around AI is a strength, not a weakness

24:30 The tension: demanded AI skills vs wanting to slow down

29:10 Why even Microsoft is maxing out on AI

32:05 The IKEA story: retraining people instead of replacing them

37:45 Inside the AI supply chain: Julianne goes in to see for herself

39:35 "Like a Black Mirror episode": $20, and the woman in Nigeria

43:40 A civilisation of love: what magnificent humanity looks like
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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Julianne, Lou, and Georgie on LinkedIn. Let us know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to protect human dignity in your work. Tell us how you're making sure AI serves people, not the other way around.

And if you know an incredible woman working in AI, ethics, governance, or social justice who should be on this podcast, send us her name. We want to amplify women's voices. We want representation. We want you in the room.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it.

Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

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