“I built AI assistants and digital avatars that work while I sleep”

Before AI Mastery, I carried around a restless certainty that I was leaving something enormous on the table. I'd spent twenty years as an investigative journalist, another chapter inside the FBI, and then launched AIEZ.ai to help businesses navigate the wild frontier of artificial intelligence. I could talk about AI with authority. I could advise on it, write policy around it, stand in front of a boardroom and make the case for transformation. But when it came to building the thing myself, to sitting down and wiring intelligence into the daily machinery of my own life and business, I was still reaching for something I couldn't quite grasp.

Then came Mindvalley's AI Mastery, and the world rearranged itself. Vykintas Glodenis, Vishen, and their extraordinary team of instructors did something I hadn't expected: they made the complex feel conquerable. Week by week, session by session, they and other teachers walked us through the architecture of applied AI with a patience and precision that honored every student in the room. Somewhere in those months of live training, something shifted. The gap between what I knew and what I could do began to close, and it closed fast.

Now my AI assistant is connected to my calendar and email, scheduling appointments while I sleep. I built a digital avatar of myself that pitches my consulting services, a version of me that works when I can't, saving hours I once spent repeating the same conversations. I learned Airtable and wove it into the daily rhythm of my client work. I create images and videos that would have required a full production team two years ago. I can build an AI agent from the ground up.

To the students who came before me, thank you for paving the road. To those still deciding whether to walk it: the person you'll be on the other side of this program will barely recognize the one standing here now. AI Mastery gave me a new way of moving through my work, my craft, and my life. I am deeply grateful.