ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®
Coaches and creators who are grinding away often wonder whether an easier path to the work exists. The right tools can help a coach or creator get time back without trading away quality of life. Business advisor Shelly Rood shares the five tools she uses every day to do exactly that.
Episode Description
Shelly Rood is flooded with emails from well-intentioned people asking for basic business advice, so she lays out the five tools she has relied on over the past year. She covers Claude for AI-assisted project work, Substack for publishing, Circle for private community, Riverside for recording, and Descript for editing. The goal is protecting quality of life, because nobody knows how many minutes they have. Shelly closes with one assignment: pick a single tool and put it into a system this week.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Mission
01:07 Why These Tools Matter
02:18 Tool One Claude AI
07:10 Tools Two and Three
11:01 Tool Four Riverside
13:07 Tool Five Descript
In This Episode You'll Discover
- How to organize AI projects for a company, each client, and each area of a business, using the military staff model as a guide
- What an AI skill is and why a tone-of-voice skill helps content sound like the creator instead of like AI
- Why Circle works as a private online community and an alternative to a Facebook group, including hosted courses and staff training
- What Descript's Studio Sound, stock library, and clip tools can do for a podcast
Resources & Links
Tools mentioned: Claude: https://claude.ai Substack: https://substack.com Circle: https://circle.so Riverside: https://riverside.fm Descript: https://www.descript.com
Shelly's Substack publication, Mission Wildflower: https://missionwildflower.com
Episode 17 with Carrie Mead shares the recording mishap that led Shelly to Riverside: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hardcore-and-at-ease-powered-by-others-over-self/id1826750560?i=1000731765629
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