“At 50, I turned AI from a feared threat into a powerful advantage for my business and future”
AI Accelerator

“At 50, I turned AI from a feared threat into a powerful advantage for my business and future”

My name is Yvonne and I am 50 years young. My husband and I run two companies, and the third one is currently in the planning stage. Until recently, AI was the big, threatening unknown in our family and in our close environment — something that was seen as an enemy of the future. Everyone, and especially my husband, believed that AI is a threat to humanity.
That is exactly why I decided for myself: if you cannot stop or change something, you have to learn to understand it and use it to your own advantage. That was the reason I started the AI Accelerator course.
This 7-day course was an absolute eye-opener for me. I now have a first real understanding of how AI can be used to my advantage and what is actually possible. I will definitely go through each day of the course many more times and build and create my clones step by step.
Right now, I have started by structuring my own and our business processes, because one of the biggest things I learned is that we are currently making everything much more complicated than it needs to be with the new tools I discovered!
We are at the beginning of a long and exciting journey, and I am so happy to keep exploring and learning. I have also just started the Life Coaching program, and with the help of AI I will design and create so many new things there as well.
For me, the 7-day AI Accelerator was the starting signal for a completely new and exciting future together with Mindvalley! Through my membership and the programs I have invested in for my personal growth, Mindvalley gives me everything I need to move forward both personally and in my career.
My recommendation to everyone who doesn’t yet know what AI will bring into their lives, or who simply wants to learn more: take the step and allow yourself to learn something new!
Thank you, Vykinthas and Vishen — you are absolutely amazing!!!!
P.S. AI Mastery would be an absolute dream!!!!!

Yvonne Brandstätter

Business Owner

Sankt Polten, Austria

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