Career Confidence

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 💜

#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.