47 | 10-Minute Agent: How to Use AI After a Layoff

Bonus Episode: The Hardest AI Agent You’ll Ever Retire

A bonus companion to Season 3. In the main story, Renee’s mother stabilizes — and that’s real, and it happens. But sometimes a caregiving season ends in goodbye. This tender episode is for the listener living that: what AI must never become when you’re grieving, the few quiet logistics it can carry, and how to retire the Season Agent you built to care for someone you’ve lost — gently, on purpose, as its own kind of goodbye. The AFTER letter is Empathy. A note on support:  If you’re walking through loss right now, please don’t do it alone. Lean on the people who love you, and consider a grief counselor or a local support group — there is no strength you have to prove here. Resources * 💬 AI Confidence Playground → facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground [http://facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground]  * 📝 AI Confidence Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz]  * 🧠 Kid's Scorecard Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard]  * 🤖 10-Minute Agent Free Workbook → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent]  * 📂 Podcast Resources Hub → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources]  * 🌐 More on Lakesha → lakeshaholloway.com [http://lakeshaholloway.com]  * 💡Sign-up for Claude.ai [https://claude.ai/referral/qytIvj-FmQ] * 🎧 Pairs with Ep 48 (Grief Has Logistics) and Ep 49 (Resetting After a Hard Season) If this one found you in a hard season — take your time, and be gentle with yourself.

47 | 10-Minute Agent: How to Use AI After a Layoff

When Monique is laid off on a Thursday, the income shock threatens to write her next chapter in panic. Instead she builds a Season Agent for the transition: a runway scan that replaces fear with facts, an accomplishment inventory that rebuilds her resume and profile in her own voice, and a daily search rhythm that protects her evenings and her self-worth. The AFTER letter is Agency — because you author the comeback. In this episode * 📊 Stabilize first: map your real runway so facts can quiet the panic * 📄 Rebuild the resume and profile from an accomplishment inventory * 🗺️ A daily search rhythm that doesn’t eat the whole day * ✍️ Agency: you’re holding the pen This week’s action step If it’s your season, do the runway scan this week — just the numbers, facts over fear. If not, save the prompts. Resources * 💬 AI Confidence Playground → facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground [http://facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground]  * 📝 AI Confidence Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz]  * 🧠 Kid's Scorecard Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard]  * 🤖 10-Minute Agent Free Workbook → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent]  * 📂 Podcast Resources Hub → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources]  * 🌐 More on Lakesha → lakeshaholloway.com [http://lakeshaholloway.com]  * 💡Sign-up for Claude.ai [https://claude.ai/referral/qytIvj-FmQ] ⭐ Know someone who got the news this week? Send this.

46 | 10-Minute Agent: How to Use AI to Prep for a Doctor’s Appointment (It’s Not Your Doctor)

Being the medical advocate for someone you love is sacred work — and it comes with the firmest guardrail of the whole season. Drawing on her healthcare background, Lakesha shows how to use AI to prepare for a specialist appointment, capture and translate what you’re told, and build the discipline of verifying everything with the clinician. The non-negotiable rule: AI is not your doctor. It cites, you verify, the clinician decides — and you advocate, especially for the women and people of color medical data too often overlooks. In this episode * 🚨 The non-negotiable: AI prepares and explains — it never diagnoses or decides * 📁 Walk in with a folder, not a fog: prep briefings and prioritized questions * 🗣️ Translate the jargon afterward — doctor first, agent second * ⚖️ Fairness + Reliability: advocating for the bodies the data overlooks This week’s action step Build your appointment-prep prompt this week and save it. Bring questions, not conclusions. Resources * 💬 AI Confidence Playground → facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground [http://facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground]  * 📝 AI Confidence Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz]  * 🧠 Kid's Scorecard Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard]  * 🤖 10-Minute Agent Free Workbook → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent]  * 📂 Podcast Resources Hub → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources]  * 🌐 More on Lakesha → lakeshaholloway.com [http://lakeshaholloway.com]  * 💡Sign-up for Claude.ai [https://claude.ai/referral/qytIvj-FmQ]

45 | 10-Minute Agent: AI for the Sandwich Generation — Two Generations, One You.

Renee is now caring for her recovering mother and her own kids at the same time — the sandwich generation, split clean down the middle. This episode is about carrying an impossible load with honesty: a weekly triage pass that sorts the “only-I-can-do-this” from everything that can drop, the discipline of verifying AI under heavy load, and protecting your kids’ sense of normal while you care upward. The AFTER letter is Reliability. In this episode * ⚖️ The weekly triage pass: sort by “what can only be done by me?” * ✅ Verify before you act — why a hallucination here compounds real stress * 🏠 Keeping the kids’ routines steady through a hard season * 🔍 Reliability: trust, and verify This week’s action step Do one triage pass: list everything, mark the “only me” items, then delegate, defer, or drop two things — guilt-free. Resources * 💬 AI Confidence Playground → facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground [http://facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground]  * 📝 AI Confidence Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz]  * 🧠 Kid's Scorecard Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard]  * 🤖 10-Minute Agent Free Workbook → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent]  * 📂 Podcast Resources Hub → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources]  * 🌐 More on Lakesha → lakeshaholloway.com [http://lakeshaholloway.com]  * 💡Sign-up for Claude.ai [https://claude.ai/referral/qytIvj-FmQ] ⭐ Forward this to a friend in the sandwich years.

44 | 10-Minute Agent: How to Use AI as a Caregiver — The First 72 Hours

When Renee’s mother has a sudden stroke, she becomes a caregiver overnight. This episode builds her first Season Agent for the brutal first seventy-two hours: a care binder that gathers scattered information into one place, a medication-and-appointment map that translates clinical instructions into plain language, and a running list of questions to ask the care team. The AFTER letter is Empathy — because the binder is about a person, not a project. In this episode * 📒 Build a one-page care binder: diagnosis, meds, providers, insurance, dates * 🗓️ Translate a discharge packet into plain language and a real calendar * ❓ Generate the questions to ask the care team — before you forget them * 💛 Empathy: carrying the admin so you can hold her hand This week’s action step If you’re in it, build the one-page care binder tonight. If you’re not, save the starter prompt. Resources * 💬 AI Confidence Playground → facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground [http://facebook.com/groups/aiconfidenceplayground]  * 📝 AI Confidence Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/workingmomquiz]  * 🧠 Kid's Scorecard Quiz → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/scorecard]  * 🤖 10-Minute Agent Free Workbook → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/10minuteagent]  * 📂 Podcast Resources Hub → aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources [http://aiconfidenceblueprint.com/podcastresources]  * 🌐 More on Lakesha → lakeshaholloway.com [http://lakeshaholloway.com]  * 💡Sign-up for Claude.ai [https://claude.ai/referral/qytIvj-FmQ] ⭐ Send this to a friend who just became a caregiver.