On June 13 the community ran the upgraded She Leads AI Authority Builder together — fed it our LinkedIn and our lived experience — and found that the gem does its best work when it hands you a reflection specific enough to correct.
Beth Lyons and Jen Schwartz took the helm as the new Social Saturday co-hosts, and Anne Murphy opened the founder segment by introducing the women leading the community into its next chapter. The frame was women moving from contributing to leading. As She Leads AI grows, so do the ways for a woman to lead a vertical of her own.
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Certified AI Educator, AI Consultant, and She Leads AI Society Member. Co-host of Social Saturday and host of the Daily AI Show at dailyaishow.com.
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On June 13 they ran the community through the She Leads AI Authority Builder gem — everyone opened it live, fed it their own bios and LinkedIn profiles, and read back what it gave them. What happened when the gem got it a little wrong turned out to be the point.
Pamela Oberg gave the community its first look at Build Launch Scale, a workshop series she envisioned and tested. It moves founders from founder mindset into storytelling and offer design. A woman can take a single workshop, like the storytelling one, or join the full cohort for the community around it.
You don’t build a business on an idea, even a side gig. You have to think about what problem are you solving, because that’s where the power is going to be. Pamela Oberg
It launches early July. Watch The SLAI Effect and the community for the registration link.
Beth Lyons handed the upgraded Authority Builder to the team that morning, and the community opened it live. The gem is a Gemini Gem — a custom assistant with Google flavoring — that takes your background or a LinkedIn link and gives you back a positioning you can publish.
The exercise was simple. Each woman opened the gem and fed it her bio or her LinkedIn. Then she read back to the group what it gave her, where it was right and where it missed. Doing it together, in front of each other, is what made the patterns obvious.
The first reads were often a little off. E. gave it her LinkedIn and got back a version of herself she did not expect, cast as someone who builds apps for other organizations. Rather than dismiss it, she decided the wrong read was worth following — the same way she pulls forward skills her own clients have not thought to claim.
That was the pattern of the morning. The gem was most useful when it was a little wrong, because a reflection you can correct beats a blank page. Beth and E. landed there independently, and it became the through line for the whole session.
Maybe this is one of the hidden techniques, that you just need to reflect people back to themselves. You can be wrong and it can still be helpful, because they are going to correct you. Beth Lyons
The Authority Builder lives on the She Leads AI site, and the version below is current as of June 12. It works in a few moves, and you leave with assets you can publish.
Your work history already holds AI expertise. Legacy Re-Indexing digs through your roles and projects to find the connections between your experience and AI leadership, then translates each one into language that positions you as an expert.
Your background gives you an edge in AI that nobody else can replicate. This is where it gets put into words.
The gem maps your skills and your interests against four directions — educator, consultant, entrepreneur, builder — and shows you which one fits first, or how to run more than one at once. You leave with a map you can act on.
The gem builds your dossier from your own experience, mapping your lived experience to the new AI economy. This serves as a source of truth for your personal branding, content, strategy, and authority positioning.
Once it exists, every post and pitch traces back to the same positioning, so your credibility compounds instead of scattering. It is the one document you write from for as long as you are building your authority.
Narratives written for every platform and situation. Each piece positions you as an AI authority without erasing your voice — your LinkedIn About section, ready-to-publish posts, speaking materials, and bios of any length.
Assets designed for action — signature talk titles that book speaking engagements and network announcement messages that introduce your expertise with clarity. These are made to use the day you get them.
Running the gem in front of each other surfaced usable signal fast. Here is what we noticed, captured for the women building it.
It cast a song leader as someone who helps teams find their harmony with AI tools, and reached for beautiful-princess-on-a-cloud energy. V. told it to drop the heyo. E. told it to throttle it back.
V. asked for one step at a time because she would not read a long block. “I am creative, not literary.” A pacing mode would help.
It often did not pull the profile. LinkedIn does not fully expose profiles, since Microsoft wants you on the platform. Pasting your bio is the reliable path for now.
An off first read is valuable, because the user corrects it. That correction is its own technique, and the gem could lean into it on purpose.
L. routed the gem’s output into content buckets and a 90-day plan. That points to a planning mode the gem could offer directly.
The feedback above is already shaping the next version of the gem. Here is what is changing in response.
Drop your list of changes here and I will write this section around them, matched to the feedback above. Until then this block holds the spot so the layout reads true.
Lift any of these straight into the gem or into your own Gemini chat. Each one came out of something a woman tried live on June 13.
From Beth Lyons
At the end of this working session, act as an observer of how we worked together. Tell me what built trust between us, what challenged it, and the working preferences you noticed about how I like to work. Keep it specific enough that I can correct you where you are wrong.
From V. and the group’s feedback
Drop the over-enthusiasm and the flattery. Give me one step at a time, not a wall of text. I am creative, not literary, so keep each reply short and let me ask for the next step when I am ready.
From L.
Take the Authority Builder output below and sort it into content categories. Then build a 90-day content plan keyed to those categories, with one topic and one content type for each day. [Paste your Authority Builder output here.]
From Beth’s exchange with Claude
Explain your reasoning for the choice you just made — the file name or the permission you granted. I want to understand how you decided, not only what you decided.
If you want these to point to a shared Gemini prompt or saved gem conversation, drop the link and I will wire each card to it.
The world needs more women shaping what is coming next. We need the voices, we need the hands, we need the ideas, we need the innovation of women.
AI seems to have made the assumption that once it gives me instructions, I’ve done the thing. So it assumes I have done and accomplished more things than is true.
You used to have to write for humans, and now you have to write for bots. It’s the same kind of thing. You’ve got to be on their rules, and people don’t know that.
Gently turn the mirror. We would not be here if not for you.
There’s a little lovable builder in all of us at various times.
Fight the patriarchy, and we’ll see you next week.
Certified AI Educator, AI Consultant, and She Leads AI Society Member. Co-host of Social Saturday and host of the Daily AI Show at dailyaishow.com.
She Leads AI Society Member, Accessibility Consultant, and Maven of the Written Word.
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