Ex-Shopify Leader's Warning - AI Brain Fry: Why Women Are Burning Out Faster

The people struggling at Shopify weren't behind on the tools. They had lost the ability to think clearly.We're doing more than ever before. But there's a cost. And women are paying it first.Rachel Garrett spent seven years inside Shopify's AI transformation, leading 800 people across 12 countries through one of the most aggressive AI adoptions any company has ever run. What she found changed how she thinks about work entirely.In this episode, Rachel joins Georgie and Lou to talk about AI Brain Fry, the cognitive burnout that's quietly hitting the highest AI users hardest. Why the judgment layer is now the most valuable skill you have. And why the future belongs not to those with the best tools, but to those with the most humanity.This is the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet.____________Connect with Georgie:🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard♦️Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com____________Connect with Lou Compagnone:🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/____________Connect with Rachel Garrett:🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-garrett-38717522/♦️Website: https://herefortherightreasons.com/⭕️ AI Level -Up Course - https://skillsbuild.org/ai-level-up____________In Today's Episode:🟣 Why Anthropic is now hiring people with humanities backgrounds over technical skills, and what that signals about the future of AI careers.🟣 AI Brain Fry: the new term from BCG describing the mental fatigue, fog, and slower decision-making caused by cognitive overload from excessive AI use.🟣 Why marketing, HR, IT, and finance professionals are experiencing the highest rates of AI Brain Fry, and what that means for women in those roles.🟣 The paradox of AI: how it promises to ease our workload but is actually creating burnout at unprecedented rates.🟣 Why the action layer has been replaced by AI, but the judgment layer must remain sharp, and how that's creating entirely new cognitive demands on senior leaders.🟣 Why 95% of people think they're self-aware, but only 10–15% actually are, and why that gap is costing organisations billions.🟣 The business case for humanity: 22% higher revenue and 34% higher profitability from leaders who are self-aware.🟣 The concept of consciousness hygiene, why social media and AI are hijacking our inner world and what to do about it.🟣 Rachel's story of how shortening her workdays actually led to promotion after promotion at Shopify, not career stagnation.🟣 Why 70% of AI transformations fail because of people and process, not technology.____________Georgie and Lou 💜