Two Women Who Merged Their AI Businesses. And Don't Regret It. 🤓

Everyone Warned Us About Business Partnerships. We Merged Anyway.Two women running AI businesses got put in the same networking pod. Two years later, we'd merged into one company.This is the origin story of Her AI Club — how a calligraphy business and a six-month rock climbing trip through Asia both somehow ended in AI, why we merged instead of staying friendly competitors, and the week we each quietly wondered what we'd get to keep for ourselves.In this episode:How two very different roads led to the same place: a Palo Alto tech job that became calligraphy that became Amazon paper planners, and a ski town that became Asia that became an accidental first clientWhy we merged two AI businesses instead of staying in our own lanes, including the honest part nobody puts in the announcement postHow custom GPTs turned into Builder Skills, and why 20-page prompt packs never workedHow to keep up with AI when the tools change weekly — Joyce's answer is that she doesn't tryWhere AI is headed, and why we think the answer is being decided right nowChapters:00:00 — Welcome and the Unhinged Check-In00:30 — Kinsey had ChatGPT vet a podcast host before saying yes01:45 — Joyce got free BTS tickets, so ChatGPT wrote her a study guide04:55 — Joyce's story: calligraphy, tech dude bros, and a warehouse in Florida09:15 — Why she wanted to bring AI back to her community11:20 — Custom GPTs, 20-page prompt packs, and what changed13:00 — How custom GPTs became Builder Skills15:50 — Kinsey's story: a ski town, six months in Asia, an accidental first client17:55 — The Amy Porterfield problem and how Authentic AI got its name21:50 — How we met: the pod nobody should have put together23:40 — The 2025 Summit and our first collaboration28:45 — "Okay, I have a crazy idea"29:45 — The part where we each wanted to keep something for ourselves30:50 — Everyone warned us about business partnerships32:35 — How Joyce keeps up with AI (she doesn't)33:45 — Where AI is headed, and who gets to decide37:40 — What we're going to go try this week"I don't try to keep up with it." — Joyce, on running an AI business in an industry that changes every weekWhat we're going to go try this week:Kinsey — wiring a podcast player widget to an RSS feed, then teaching a bot inside it to recommend the right episodeJoyce — turning her ChatGPT BTS study guide into a gamified Claude dashboard, with Easter eggsOne thing before you go: the Her AI Era Summit is October 12–16, and it's the event this whole show came out of. Save your seat here.Full show notes and links: herai.co/podcastCome find us: Her AI Club · @heraiclubListen anywhere: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Amazon MusicNew episodes every Monday.---🎁 GRAB OUR FREE STUFFThe Claude Skills Playbook — our personalized playbook that shows you exactly which Claude Skills would save you the most time in your business. → Get the playbook: https://skillsplaybook.com---✨ COME NERD OUT WITH USHer AI Club™ is where women entrepreneurs go deeper with AI — together. Skills, templates, live calls, and 300+ women who get why you were up at 11pm building a bot. → Join the club: https://heraiclub.co/---🎙 THE SHOWNew episodes every Monday. Follow so they land in your feed, and if this one made you laugh or gave you something to try, a rating helps more women find us.Connect with us:Kinsey → follow on instagram: @ai.kinsey | @authenticai.coJoyce → follow on instagram: @ai.joycechristine | @heraiclub---The Her AI Era Summit is happening October 12–16  🙌→ Join the waitlist: https://heraierasummit.comPodcast edited and managed by Pamela Krista