Your First AI Employee: What Should It Actually Do? S2 E23

Send us Fan MailLiving Unshakable: Why AI Should Work for You, Not Replace YouLiving Unshakable is rebranding from Simplified Success to reflect a bigger umbrella: not just making life easier, but helping people become more peaceful, present, and resilient.In this conversation, Krystal Blackard and Lindsay Reynolds explain that shift, then dig into their upcoming AI challenge and how to use AI responsibly without letting it think for you. They also break down a practical framework for building AI agents that save time, protect attention, and support real life and real work. The discussion is part mindset, part strategy, and part hands-on implementation.Key topicsKrystal explains the move from Simplified Success to Living Unshakable, and why the new name better reflects the full missionBoth hosts unpack the idea of the Unsubscribist Movement, which Krystal describes as unsubscribing from cultural noise and worldly distractionLindsay clarifies that Simplified Success is not disappearing - it’s becoming one part of a much larger callingThey introduce their upcoming AI challenge, designed to help people build a real working agent, not just collect promptsKrystal and Lindsay stress that AI should be used with integrity, boundaries, and discernmentThey compare AI to social media as a powerful tool that can shape culture, for better or worseLindsay explains why prompting alone is not enough and why context, guardrails, and training matterThey distinguish between a chat window and an AI agent, emphasizing that agents can be trained, scheduled, and reusedKrystal shares her personal example of building a fat-loss and wellness tracking agent to reduce mental load and support longevity goalsLindsay shares Taski, her task-management agent, and shows how it helps turn meeting notes into assigned action itemsThey explain that the first step in building an agent is a time audit to identify what actually needs to be delegatedThey call out that this is useful across many industries, including network marketing, bookkeeping, real estate, HVAC, electrical, construction, and content creationTimestamps(0:00) Why the community and podcast are becoming Living Unshakable(2:19) The Unsubscribus movement and unsubscribing from worldly noise(3:46) Lindsay’s view of Simplified Success evolving into something bigger(5:48) What it means to become unshakable through peace and presence(7:54) Substack, new content experiments, and where the conversation is going(9:20) Introducing the AI challenge and the Great Thought Recession connection(10:56) Why AI needs to be used with integrity and serious responsibility(12:42) Social media, AI, and why ignorance is not a strategy(14:29) Why they use AI cautiously but still intentionally(15:41) Why any powerful tool can create problems when used poorly(16:52) Why prompts alone create “AI slob” without context and boundaries(18:57) The difference between a chat and an agent, and why that matters(20:27) Using AI to buy back time and create more space to be human(21:23) The job market reality behind learning AI well(23:47) AI as a tool that can hold guardrails and protect your voice(24:52) Why agents are the real leverage point, not just prompts(26:21) The challenge format and the first stepKrystal & Lindsay's Resources:Join The Put AI To Work ChallengeAI Masterclass on Leveraging AI responsiblyGet the Untangled Journal Become Unshakable: Get the Chaos-to-Control ToolkitMini IntensiveAligned Life Operating System The Simplified Sales Audit™ Join the Free Community Visit our Podcast Page Support the show