Career Confidence

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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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 💜

#AIReadyWomen #MagnificaHumanitas #PopeAI #WomenInAI #AIEthics #DataLabelling #HumanDignity?

Sometimes the boldest move is the one you don't announce. The one you make for yourself, not for the algorithm.

Eight weeks ago, I left Melbourne. I moved to Queensland. I bought a house. I didn't post about it. I didn't share it on social media. I just did it. And it was one of the hardest, most clarifying decisions I've made in years.

This episode is different. It's personal. It's unfiltered. And it's about what happens when your body starts sending you signals that something isn't right, even when everything on paper looks like it's working.

I'm recording this from an empty room, sitting on a camp chair, in my new home in Queensland. And I'm sharing the full story of why I left the city, what I learned about values, alignment, and listening to yourself before burnout makes the decision for you.

If you've ever felt out of alignment with where you are, even when you can't quite explain why, this one's 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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In This Episode:

🟣 Why I moved to Melbourne CBD after finishing The Bold Move — and why it was exactly the right decision at the time

🟣 The moment I realised the city energy was no longer serving me, and how my body started sending signals before my mind caught up

🟣 The values exercise that changed everything — health, freedom, and growth — and why living out of alignment with them became impossible to ignore

🟣 How I could stand there teaching clarity and values inside the Bold Moves Career Accelerator while I wasn't living aligned with my own

🟣 Why I kept the entire move off social media — and what that taught me about making decisions for yourself, not for external validation

🟣 Why "peace is productive" became my new measure of a good decision — and how feeling calm and aligned made me more effective, not less

🟣 The one regret from The Five Regrets of the Dying that shapes every bold move I make — and the question I asked when I doubted everything: "would I regret not doing this?"

🟣 What happens when you finally listen to the quiet voice that's been trying to get your attention for months

🟣 Why the bold move isn't always the loud one. Sometimes it's the one you make in silence.

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If this episode resonated with you, I'd love to hear from you. Send me a message on LinkedIn or Instagram and let me know your biggest takeaway. Have you ever made a decision that felt right in your body before it made sense in your head? Have you ever had to leave something that looked good on paper because it didn't feel good in your life?

The bold move is not always the big dramatic career pivot. Sometimes it's the quiet decision to listen to yourself before burnout makes the decision for you.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

The question we all need to ask all the time is: who's missing? Whose voice is not currently represented?

AI is reshaping the world. And while the headlines swing between hype and fear, most women are asking just one question: What does this mean for me?

This episode is about what happens when AI makes decisions about people's lives and nobody can explain why. It's about accountability. It's about bias. And it's about governance, not as a handbrake, but as the thing that lets us move faster, safely.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Luli Adeyemo, Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation, award winning leader with over 30 years in tech, and former BMX world champion.

Luli has spent her career asking one question: who's in the room when decisions get made? And right now, when it comes to AI governance, women's voices are dangerously underrepresented. That's not just unfair. It's risky. And it's costing us all.

This is the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet.

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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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Connect with Luli Adeyemo:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luliadeyemo/

♦️ Tech Diversity Foundation: https://techdiversity.org

⭕️ AI Governance Practitioner Course: https://techdiversity.org/ai-governance

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome to AI Ready Women — today's focus: AI governance and why women's voices matter

2:15 Meet Luli Adeyemo — BMX world champion, tech leader, and Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation

5:30 From BMX Bandits to tech: Luli's career journey and why being different became her superpower

12:30 Why diversity in AI is different: the scale, the impact, and the risk are at a level we've never seen before

16:00 The football analogy: why we get diversity in sport but not in business

19:30 The pipeline problem: why women can't thrive in tech if the culture isn't set up for them

23:00 The identity crisis: why people outside tech don't see themselves in it, and why that's our industry's fault

27:00 The Apple Card scandal: gender discrimination wasn't the intent, but it was the outcome

30:00 The dermatology AI tool that couldn't detect melanoma on darker skin. Who's responsible when the algorithm fails?

39:00 The Stanford Agents of Chaos paper: autonomous AI that lied, destroyed systems, and leaked data

42:00 The Alibaba AI that created its own hidden communication channel and started mining cryptocurrency

52:00 Final advice for women who are AI fearful: you don't need to code. You need to understand the questions to ask.

Is AI actually a threat to your career — or are you just not reading your market clearly? Here's the 4-question SCAN framework I use with senior women to find out. ⤵️
Most women think the AI threat is whether your job will get automated. But for senior women, women who have spent 15 to 20 years building real experience, that could be the wrong question.

A better question: Am I reading my market clearly enough, or am I the last to know that something shifted?

After 12 years inside my recruitment business, I can tell you this: the women who get caught off guard are never the least capable ones. They're the ones who were too head down doing excellent work to look up and read what the market was asking for.

👇 Want the scan done FOR you?

See exactly where you're exposed and where to position.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 – The wrong question senior women are asking about AI

0:50 – Why the most capable women get caught off guard

2:15 – Internal feedback vs. market intelligence

3:30 – S: Skills in Demand

5:30 – C: Change Coming

7:15 – A: AI Impact (your "AI-irreplaceable" layer)

9:30 – N: New Problems Emerging

11:15 – The 30-minute SCAN exercise

12:45 – Get your free real-time SCAN
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The SCAN Framework: your 4-question career audit for the age of AI:

S – Skills in Demand
How closely does your current skillset match what employers are actually asking for in roles at your level right now? Not 12 months ago. Now.

C – Change Coming
How clearly can you see where your function is heading over the next 2-3 years, and what does that mean for someone at your level?

A – AI Impact
Which parts of your role could AI do adequately right now? And which parts genuinely still require your judgment, your relationships, and your lived experience?

N – New Problems Emerging
Are you positioning yourself to solve the new problems your industry is now facing? Or are you still primarily known for solving the old ones?
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Your Next Step:

Before you close this video, open a blank document and write down the four letters: S-C-A-N.

Next to S, write down three skills or capability phrases that keep appearing in roles at your level. Ask yourself: do they appear on your LinkedIn profile?

Next to C, write down one sentence on where your function is heading in the next few years. If you can't write a sentence, there's a gap.

Next to A, write down your three AI-irreplaceable value points. The things you bring that AI cannot replicate.

Next to N, write down one new problem emerging in your industry, and one way your existing experience connects to it.

That's your SCAN framework. It will take less than 30 minutes and it will tell you more about where you're exposed than any amount of generic career advice ever could.
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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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This is not about fear. This is about being the woman who reads her market clearly before the market has to read it for her.

The bold move is not a big dramatic career pivot. It's something quieter and harder. It's the decision to stop operating on the assumption that doing excellent work inside your organisation is sufficient.

You need to look up from your desk deliberately, regularly, and read what the market around you is actually asking for. This is how you stay relevant — and chosen — in the age of AI.

The women I watch get chosen repeatedly across their careers are not always the most experienced. They're the ones who have the clearest market intelligence.
That's available to you. And you can start right now.

Georgie 💜

The Pope just signed his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and it's about AI. His warning to the world: protect the human person before artificial intelligence erodes our work, our relationships, and our agency

While tech companies race to build agents and automate everything, the Vatican did something unexpected. It created a commission on AI, not to celebrate the technology, but to protect human dignity. And when Pope Leo XIV presented the document, he did it standing beside a co-founder of the AI company Anthropic. What an unexpected twist.

So what does this actually mean for women navigating AI at work right now?
In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Julianne Hickey, a social justice leader, AI governance expert, and former director of Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand.

Julianne has met Pope Francis twice, worked in Gaza and Palestine responding to humanitarian disasters, and now leads AI strategy for a major government organisation in New Zealand.

This is a conversation about what happens when we stop asking what AI can do, and start asking what it should do. And why the future of AI isn't just a technical question. It's a spiritual one.

(Recorded just before the encyclical's public release on 25 May 2026.)
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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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Connect with Julianne Hickey:
🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannehickey/
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CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome to AI Ready Women, and the Pope's unexpected move on AI
2:40 Julianne's journey: Zimbabwe, Ubuntu, and "I am who I am because of who we all are"
4:15 From London consulting to humanitarian work in Gaza and Palestine: power, dignity, and who gets left behind
7:00 Inside Empire of AI: the extraction problem and AI's concentration of power
8:15 Te Hiku Media: the Māori organisation that built a language model on one GPU, not thousands
10:30 The Pope's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and human dignity in the age of automation
14:30 The Rome Call and the Builders AI Forum: "What business does the Pope have in AI?"
18:00 What this means if you're not Catholic: agency, power, and why women get left out of the room
22:00 AI agents vs human agency: why the language we use matters more than we think
25:30 The Vatican's AI commission: seven departments, rotating terms, and a cross functional governance model
27:00 Why most organisations treat AI as a tech project when it's a strategic one
30:00 Burnout, fear, and feeling unsafe at work: what leaders get dangerously wrong about productivity and people
32:00 Two companies, opposite bets: cutting graduate hires vs investing in young workers
35:00 Te Whare Tapa Whā: the Māori wellbeing model Julianne uses to stay AI ready
38:00 Final thoughts: making sure AI serves people, not the other way around
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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 💜

#AIReadyWomen #PopeAI #MagnificaHumanitas #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInAI #AIEthics #HumanDignity.