This Thursday, July 16 at 2:00 PM pst I'm hosting a free live masterclass on Zoom: Direct AI Like a Pro Here's the idea behind it. Every job for a client, your own business, is a storytelling job — a website, a post, a pitch, a book, a sale. Story is the key to all of it. Now, AI can help you make all of it faster, but it might not be better. In this session we'll discuss direction, creative choice, and methods that I have used — applied to the tools you're already using. Your judgment:...
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Do you have something to sell? I'm doing a free zoom to show how to make promos and work with AI effectively. July 16 at 2 PM Pacific Register: empowertools.org/free-masterclass Do you have something to sell, share, launch, and promote? I'll show how to make promotional posts, reels and presentations without AI And how to use AI effectively in your creative and business. I’ve been making creative content for more than 30 years — for Disney, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., (all the studios, brands,...
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⚙ empowertools News You Can Use Practical advice from real experience and the AI & Human Roundtable — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta, and Debbie (the human). Design Tip Give AI your source material, not just instructions. The single biggest quality upgrade is not a better prompt — it is better input. Upload the document, paste the reference, attach the image. AI working from your actual material produces targeted results. AI working from your description of the material produces generic...
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I didn't imagine how timely and relatable these characters would be. This is fantasy yet their struggles and journey resonates with what we collectively are going through today.We are strong individually...together we can unite the world. 💕 We were taught that black and white, light and dark were good or evil and they could never exist together.That one side must triumph and the other must be destroyed.But the old divisions are beginning to break—and those who built their power upon them are...
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Meet Jayce Everyone forgot him. Not metaphorically. Literally. He wasn't a prince. He wasn't the chosen one. He didn't possess great magic. He wasn't the strongest. He wasn't the smartest. He was simply the one who stepped up, then refused to quit. Day after day. Year after year. When others gave up, Jayce kept going. When others broke, Jayce stood back up. When the younger boys needed someone to believe in, Jayce became that person on day one. The Lost Shadow Boys Jayce became a warrior...
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What would happen if everyone forgot you existed? Not metaphorically. Literally. Parents forgot their children. Families forgot they ever existed. The world moved on as though they had never been born. That is where the story begins. When dragons swept across the kingdom searching for a hidden heir, every young boy was taken. Then a spell erased them from memory. The boys survived. Hidden deep within the Mantlerealm mines, they grew up in harsh circumstances — learned to fight, lead, and...
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