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START AT THE BEGINNING

HER AI  Fundamentals

One hour.  The building blocks.  Learn the vocabulary and the language before you build with it.

This is the hour nobody bothered to teach you, and it is the reason AI has felt harder than it should be.
There is no jargon or techy language in this and no technical background required.
Just a plain explanation of how these tools work from a woman who was sitting exactly where you are five years ago, quietly crossing her fingers that nobody would ask her a follow-up question.

THE FIRST 5 SEATS ARE $27 | $47 AFTER THAT | LIVE, WITH THE RECORDING

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NEXT SESSION

Wednesday, September 9th, 2026

12:00PM ET | One hour of teaching, with time after for questions
Live on Zoom | Recording available for a limited time!

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THE TRUTH

Everybody skipped the part where

someone explained the basics.

You have heard the word prompt a hundred times by now, and you have watched somebody paste a few sentences into a box and pull out something that made the whole room lean in. You nodded along in that meeting like everybody else.

And still, if somebody stopped you in the hallway and asked what an LLM really does, or why the exact same question gives you something brilliant on Tuesday and something useless on Wednesday, you might not have a good answer. So you keep using it a little, carefully, and you never quite trust it enough to let it do real work.

 

That isn't your fault.  At least not yet. Nobody taught this to any of us, and the machines are not intuitive. The tools showed up all at once and everybody agreed to behave as though they came with instructions, and they did not.

Here is what I want you to hear:

This is the hour where someone finally explains it.

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WOMEN ARE USING AI

Just Not Where it Pays

Adoption is not the problem anymore. Women picked up these tools quick, at home, on their own time, and often on their own dime.

3x

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WOMEN'S GENAI USE

has tripled

Deloitte

AI ADOPTION

MEN

47.8%

WOMEN

39.3%

~25%

LOWER

WOMEN'S WORKPLACE

AI USE

Lean In, April 2026

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The gap opens up where the money is. General use keeps climbing while use at work stays flat. The problem with that is work is the place where AI turns into a raise, a title, a client, or a business that finally runs the way you meant it to.

And that gap is very expensive.

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH

You leave knowing what you are doing.

An easy-to-understand explanation for words like LLM, harness, tokenomics, and context window.

The 5 pieces of a perfect prompt, and how to correct a bad one on the spot.

Which tool to use for what, so you stop guessing if you need to add another tool to your stack, or learn a new one.

Prompts you can put into place immediately, that will change the way you work - saving hours.

You leave, no longer feeling as if you don't know what all this "AI" mess is.

You feel both curious and confident.  You've had your own "ah-ha" moment, and there is no going back!

One hour.  No catching up required.

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WHAT DO YOU NEED?

A Laptop & a Free Account

But I'd really prefer it if you were using a paid version. Why? We'll talk about it in class.

A free ChatGPT or Claude account is plenty for this session, and you can decide later which one you want to pay for and when. 


If your company hands you Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini, bring that instead and you will be fine.

Everything we cover transfers across all of them, because you are learning how to speak with these tools rather than memorizing where the buttons live in one of them. (Where the buttons go changes all the time - but we'll cover that in class too!)

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THE DETAILS

Everything you need to know.

What:

One live session on the fundamentals of AI. What it is, how it works, and how to speak with it.

Format:

One hour of teaching, live and hands-on over Zoom, with time after for questions. Stay if you want it. You will never need to.

Where:

Live over Zoom.  

Just click the link in your calendar invite.

Replays:

Available for a limited time after the session.

So if you want to watch it again, or you simply need more time with the material, I got you!

Dates:

Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 12:00pm ET.

To be scheduled: October, November, & December

Price:

$47

And you'll know exactly how to talk to the machine.

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ABOUT ERICA

Hey there! 

I'm Erica, and I'm so glad you're here.

Erica is the author of The AI Gap: Women, AI, and the Next Great Leap Forward. She is the founder of HER Collective, host of the Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors podcast, and a keynote speaker who helps women step into leadership with confidence and use AI as a lever instead of a threat. She built HER AI Fundamentals for the woman who is ready to close her own gap, starting now.

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ONE LAST THING

One hour from now, you could just know this.

Not with a plan to finally make room in your calendar, and not with another course bookmarked in a tab somewhere that, let's be honest, you'll never find again 

In this one session, you will know it well enough to open the thing on any given day, and use it on something that makes your life easier.  You'll be able to participate in the conversations about AI, and you won't feel so out-of-the-loop.

And you'll understand how it works across ALL LLMS - not just one.  (And trust me when I tell you - if you know that - you are well ahead of the game!)

That is the whole promise, and it takes one hour. Come get it.

And you know what? If it wasn't worth your time, I'll give you your money back.  

It's that simple.

Ready for more after this? HER JUMPSTART is four weeks of building the real systems. 

It's the perfect next step after HER AI Fundamentals.

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