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Heike McGlothern
AI Mastery

AI became a collaborator, not a shortcut, and it let me build a real business on top of what I already knew in my heart.

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After 26 years in corporate marketing, she used AI as a collaborator to build her dream coaching business from scratch—while still working full-time. Now she's left her job to launch FieldSide Coaching and pursue speaking opportunities.

I came in a marketer. I'm building the business my heart already knew.

Before this program, I was 26 years into a corporate marketing career, and I already knew what I wanted to build: life coaching for parents of competitive youth soccer players, born from 13 years navigating that world with my own two sons. I just didn't know how.

Thanks to this program, I built every part of that foundation myself, in the hours before and after a full-time job: the why, a vision statement, brand DNA, an ideal client profile, a brand book, a live website, and a working app prototype with a real database I built from scratch. I wasn't a technical expert. AI became a collaborator, not a shortcut, and it let me build a real business on top of what I already knew in my heart.

And now, my life is this: I graduated AI Mastery, and my last day at my corporate job was last week. I'm starting my business, FieldSide Coaching, alongside real conversations with parents that keep shaping it, and I'm in the Speaking and Influencer Summit now, working toward a stage big enough to reach the clubs these families belong to. This is a beginning, not a finished thing.


Heike McGlothern

Marketing Director

Seattle, United States

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Written 22 January 2020 From our original stories site

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