Episode 57

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21st May 2025

AI Tools for Coaches: Insights with Dr. Lisa Turner

Leveraging AI in Coaching: Insights from Dr. Lisa Turner

Summary

In this episode, coaches Angie and John explore the use of AI tools in coaching with expert Dr. Lisa Turner. Dr. Turner shares her journey from engineering to coaching, explaining how she systematized spiritual awakening and integrated AI tools into her coaching practice. She discusses the evolving effectiveness of AI, identifies areas where AI can outperform human coaches, and highlights processes that remain uniquely human. The episode also delves into the practical applications of AI in coaching, such as automating business tasks, identifying client patterns, and creating custom coaching tools. Dr. Turner emphasizes the importance of combining human expertise with AI technology for optimal results and encourages coaches to get started by experimenting with available AI platforms.

Find out more about Dr Lisa at https://cetfreedom.com/ or get in touch lisa@CETfreedom.com

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and AI Struggles

00:48 Meet Dr. Lisa Turner

01:03 Dr. Turner's Journey into AI and Coaching

02:32 The Evolution of AI in Coaching

03:21 AI Tools for Coaches

05:51 The Future of AI in Coaching

07:37 Challenges and Opportunities with AI

13:42 Augmenting Coaching with AI

19:16 Introduction to AI in Coaching

20:16 Augmented Coaching Tools

21:37 AI's Role in Content Creation

23:58 Improving AI Tools and Acceptance

26:43 Ethical Considerations and Studies

30:25 Getting Started with AI Tools

30:53 The Human-AI Collaboration

34:31 Contact Information and Conclusion

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Transcript
John:

Angie,

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Angie: John,

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John: how are you with AI tools?

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Oh, who am I asking?

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You're terrible with technology, but

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Angie: Am the worst.

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John: are you using, AI tools with

your coaching practice at the moment?

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Angie: I am.

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John: And do you feel that you

would like to know more about this

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and this is something that could

be a valuable topic as a coach?

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Angie: cause I am lip

skidding my way through this.

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What works?

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What doesn't work?

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What's a good one?

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What's not a good one?

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I, it's a lot.

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I.

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John: I hate to admit it,

Angie, but I'm in exactly the

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same boat as you on this one.

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So perhaps we should talk to someone with

a bit more expertise than the both of us.

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Let's start the show.

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Well, I'm very happy to introduce someone

who does have more expertise around AI

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for coaches than either Angie or myself.

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Dr Lisa Turner, welcome to the show.

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Angie: welcome.

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Dr Lisa Turner: you for having me.

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It's great to be here.

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John: Well, just to give us a bit

of a background, tell us what it is

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that you do and what has led you to

looking more deeply into AI tools.

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Dr Lisa Turner: so I sometimes think

I was born for this moment, like just

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everything I've done in my life has

led me up to sort of intersection of

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AI and consciousness and coaching and

human awakening and all the things.

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So I've done a bit of maths and a bit

of engineering, then I did this segue.

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I found, I had a spiritual awakening,

explored it, got into the whole

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spiritual development, personal

development, retrained as a coach,

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a shamanic practitioner, NLP,

certified trainer, master trainer,

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or hypnosis or all the things.

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So, I've got, I know a whole page

of qualifications in esoterics and

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personal development and coaching.

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I was doing pretty well and one of

the things I did was, which I thought

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was pretty cool, was I found a way

of kind of systematising spiritual

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awakening which sounds like completely

at odds, but I found the pattern.

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'cause that's what I do.

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It's like you go into a factory, you

see the chaos, you find the pattern.

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I went into esoterics and spiritual

development and coaching, and I

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found the pattern and then, using

like most spiritual experiences

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like, so it's non-dogmatic, non.

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Religious.

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It's like, okay, you do this.

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Your brain will trigger

a spiritual experience.

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And so it was very, a lot of

really spiritual people, a lot

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of religious people were got

very angry with me about that.

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'cause I was taking the

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John: Right.

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Dr Lisa Turner: of it and I

was like, well, or just making

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it accessible to everyone.

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But that was where I was at.

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Then AI came on the scene and that when AI

first came on the scene, I was like, yay.

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then I was like, oh.

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And like if you used AI in like 2022,

maybe:

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two BT came out, I was playing with,

I was playing with AI before Chat two

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John: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: something

called copy AI and

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it was Jasper or Job, so like

really all like, and it was just

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using it for copywriting and stuff.

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And then, and to begin

with, it was terrible.

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And then I just, as AI got better, I

got better at prompting and now I have

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a suite of over something like 30.

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I don't even count them.

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'Cause I keep, I build one

almost every day at the moment.

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Not quite every day, but I'm

working on one almost every day

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of AI tools that are for coaching.

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Coaches.

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So

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John: Okay.

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Interesting.

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Dr Lisa Turner: at the

moment, building all of those.

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John: Yeah,

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Dr Lisa Turner: I work, still work with

clients, but I also get a lot of coaches.

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They say, I've got this

process, can you AI fify it?

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And it's like, well if you've

got a process you can AI fify it.

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What you can't do is AI fify

something that is just, like

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I just do it intuitively.

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Like the AI won't get that.

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You gotta have a process.

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John: I'm willing to guess

there's not too many.

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Spiritual coaches who are, who have

the kind of technical mindset and

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the systemization abilities that

you have brought to the table.

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Which which I think, there's two

different elements that make it

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interesting to speak to today.

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One is, I don't think we've

had much chat on our show about

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spiritual coaching before.

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We may not have too much of a

chance to get into that today.

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But we will get into why AI matters

for coaches and perhaps even what

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doesn't matter so much with AI at

the moment, because I think as you

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pointed out, maybe if we were playing

with it last year or the year before

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it's changed a lot and there are

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Angie: It's getting louder

and louder out there.

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The noise is deafening.

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And how do you, how do you even

weed through it to understand

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what you need, how you can use it.

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And I love something that

you said, Lisa, like I.

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People are getting better at prompting.

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And I think that's almost like,

for me it sounds very baseline.

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Like you don't really

know what you don't know.

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And prompting I think sounds like such a

big part of how you can use it as a coach.

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Small, but still.

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John: can we maybe get you to,

first of all, maybe let us know

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what we probably shouldn't be using

AI for and then we could take a

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look at what we really should be.

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Dr Lisa Turner: Yeah, I think there

are two areas that I think is really

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important to differentiate the

two areas that coaches can use ai.

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So one is.

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Just systematizing their business,

their scheduling, their content

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creation, their built, writing copy.

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And if you are not doing that

now, you should be, 'cause it

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will save you a ton of times.

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And you wanna get apps like d script for

editing your videos you wanna be using.

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You wanna get a brand voice

built into chat, GPT Claude.

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So that it's, you train it to speak

like you, to build your content.

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And if you're not doing that, you

should be doing that now 'cause

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it will save you so much time.

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There are a ton of apps that you can use.

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That's not my main specialty.

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I use some and I can tell you

what I use if you're interested.

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And it saves me a ton of time.

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Makes it really easy to outsource,

but I tend to build my own tools.

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The other area that we can, that AI

is I think, gonna impact coaching

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and I think it's the area that

coaches, it's gonna blindside a lot of

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coaches if they're not ready for it.

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So I think of it as that there are these

four levels or four aspects of coaching.

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So the first is your

performance-based coaching.

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And that's, someone's got a goal.

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They set the goal and the coach

does a great job of helping them

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set the goal, and then there's

taking action to achieve that goal.

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that's pretty, like, that's your

kind of bedrock of coaching.

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AI can do that better than a human.

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It can just as well as a human

help you set goals just as well.

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Better than a human.

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Like I, if people say to me like,

oh, I need to be held accountable,

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I say, I'm not your coach for that.

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'cause I like, honestly, it's like I,

if I'm gonna do something, I just do it.

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I don't need to be held accountable

and I'm not gonna be, have you done

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the thing you said you were gonna do?

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Like you said, you're gonna do

the thing, you do the thing.

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Right.

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AI can send you a reminder

until you and it, yeah.

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You can fudge it, but AI can do that.

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Performance-based coaching.

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Better than a human.

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And if that's your level of coaching,

which is like pretty basic, but there

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are still a lot of coaches out there

who don't do a lot more than that.

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probably gonna get blindsided by AI

tools 'cause they can do it faster,

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cheaper, they're more available

and you know that you haven't

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gotta fill in a long intake form.

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The next.

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So the first level is something to do.

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There's something that the client needs

to do and the AI will tell them what to do

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and get 'em to, encourage them to do it.

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John: Right.

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Dr Lisa Turner: next

one I call is pattern.

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So this is where, okay, you

said you're gonna do the thing

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and you're not doing the thing.

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So what is it that's getting in the way?

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What's the pattern here?

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What's the behavioral pattern

that's getting in the way?

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Again, the AI can take over a lot of this.

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There are a lot of AI tools that will help

you find unconscious patterns, unconscious

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behaviors, and this is absolutely what

what a lot of that piece is gonna be

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taken over by ai, not as much as the

performance, but some of that AI can do

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that as well, if not better than some

humans, especially when it's coded right.

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the next level is what I call process.

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And this is, so the patent is

it's like something to let go of.

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You've gotta let go of

some unhelpful behavior.

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So AI will show you the shadow,

show you the behavior, and people

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will often respond better to an ai.

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They will to a human.

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So when I give my clients,

I'll say, go away and use this.

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And they'll come back with, oh my

God, I've got all these patterns.

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And they'll like name all the patterns and

they're like, like I'm using weaponized

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incompetence or, whatever the pattern is.

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John: Okay.

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Dr Lisa Turner: and they'll say

it like they're really excited,

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like they found this terrible

behavior, which if I'd said they

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might have like resisted.

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And even ab reacts, you gotta be

sensitive about how you present

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it, which the AI does pretty well.

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And people weirdly respond better

to the AI telling them is a really

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bad thing you're doing, or you're

doing this in a really bad way.

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So the next one is process.

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And this is something to

get or something to learn.

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So this is where you need to install

a behavior or a belief system.

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And AI is good at this,

but not as good as humans.

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So I don't think we should be a

hundred percent replacing human

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coaches with this, I think augmenting

it and assisting it, definitely.

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But there are massive limitations.

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And then the final one, which

I think AI will not touch, it's

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what I call presence based.

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And this is where now this kind of blend

like merges into the sort of spiritual

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realms a little bit, but that's when

you are in the field, the energy of

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someone and just by the beliefs they are

holding and projecting onto their client.

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In their presence, the client changes.

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This is sometimes so it's some, it's

often called transpersonal rather if

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you don't like the word spiritual.

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And it's Maslow talked about this when

he talked about the transcendent level,

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which he did just before he died.

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And a lot of people get to the

self-actualization and they

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think Maslow stopped there.

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And of course he didn't.

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He did the

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John: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: So one of the, one of

my highest level mastermind is called

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the Transcendence Collective, where

we all aim to experience transcendent

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states and transcendent ways of being.

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So we transcend our own,

our old way of being.

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This is something ai, I do

not think in its current form.

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I doubt very much.

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Now can it ever, I say,

I would never say never.

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I doubt that AI is gonna be able to touch

the presence based transcendent level

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of coaching, but I think all aspects

of the others going to be impacted

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to some degree, greater or lesser.

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question is, what do coaches do about

it and how do they ride this wave?

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John: Yeah there's a lot there.

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So there, there

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does.

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It does sound like a lot of coaching that

we do right now could become obsolete.

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I still think there's still gonna be

elements of the market that are gonna

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be resistant to working with AI tools

and prefer to work with the human

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and have that one-to-one connection.

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But I certainly get that

there's gonna be a lot more I.

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Of tools that can do some of the

functional things, some functional

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elements of coaching for you, and take

you through processes and frameworks.

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And it makes sense that they can do that.

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But I'd say I still think it's gonna

be a different experience, but it's

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curious that you say some people

actually respond better to that.

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It's it's got my brain

whirring in a hundred different

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directions at the moment.

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What about you, Angie?

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Angie: Yes.

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A million.

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I'm actually sitting here taking notes.

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I could hear my pen on the

desk, but I feel like I agree.

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I think when people find out things about

themselves, no matter where it comes from.

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It's very, even if it's bad,

even if it's negative, it's

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like, oh yes, I can see that.

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So I feel like there's

a welcoming to that.

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For sure.

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So that wasn't a huge surprise,

but I'm very curious because I

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feel like, and this is just, I'm

maybe a not so great assumption.

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I feel like younger generations

than John or myself.

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Might feel more inclined, I think, to

maybe use AI to do some of that work,

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whereas like the majority of the people

or the type, the demographic that I work

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with might be interested, but not really.

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They want that human interaction,

they want that specifically, but

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I feel like I could see younger

people that I coach going.

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Yeah.

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let me do it this way.

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This is so much more

effective and efficient.

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Let me do it this way.

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Interesting

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Dr Lisa Turner: And,

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the thing I.

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Yeah.

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The thing I think is really gonna, and

as you John said, there are some people

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who are always gonna want the human

connection and they'll, they won't

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Angie: walk.

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Dr Lisa Turner: they won't wanna

do anything, won't wanna touch ai.

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Yeah, for sure.

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But it's still gonna impact the industry

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it's like anything, back in the

day, but we, oh, the internet.

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No, it's never gonna take off.

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And like, even, my, my dad's 80.

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5 86 and he's just really grumpy

that they've just retired Skype.

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that's how we used to communicate, so, so,

and I also think I'm Gen X, I grew up and

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Angie: Yeah,

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Dr Lisa Turner: had like the first.

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The first computers and then

we learned to use computers and

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Angie: sure.

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Dr Lisa Turner: learned to use the

like so my life has been learning

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new technology now partly 'cause

I come from a tech background.

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So all that is to say is like there are

people who are of an older generation who

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definitely they have, they are,

they have ridden the tech wave and

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John: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: see this

as another part of it.

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And as you say, Angie, there are younger

people who are, they have never not known

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being without, never not known an iPhone.

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They've

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Angie: Yeah.

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So sure.

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So there will be people who are resistant.

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There will be people who are

absolutely embracing it, and then

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there'll be people in the middle.

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And this is where I think for coaches

I don't see it as an either or.

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And I actually just wanna say, I

wanna speak to this one point, which

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is there are people who will never

go and see a live a human coach.

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They will never speak to anyone.

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It is just not in their nature.

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They will carry problems and burdens.

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They won't see a therapist.

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They won't see a coach.

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They will not seek out

mental health support.

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I.

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From a human, but they will

absolutely use an app or an AI tool.

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Now, I think this is only a good thing.

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And the other thing that AI does that

is that it makes it available because

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it can do it so much more cheaply.

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And so again, we've got people with,

we've got a mental health crisis on

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our hands, and you could argue that

actually there's not gonna be enough

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coaches, enough therapists, enough

humans to speak to all the humans

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who are struggling and suffering.

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we've got a tool that can at least

tide them over till they can get to

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speak to a human or can augment it.

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And the thing I'm seeing is that

coaches who are starting already to

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augment current offerings with custom

made AI tools, so one of the things

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I find is a lot of coaches are coming

to me with a process and ask, they've

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already got a great coaching process or

a selection of them, and I'll speak to

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That in a minute.

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And they're coming to me and saying

like, I wanna turn this into an AI tool.

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And that's absolutely something

that I can do for them.

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Provided they have a fairly good

understanding of their own methodology.

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The sometimes the first stages they'll

say things like, oh, it's all intuitive.

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And it's like, actually it's probably not.

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It's probably just a process that you do.

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So out of your conscious awareness,

the first thing we need to do

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is surface that, that process.

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So we ring that into conscious awareness

then, which is like, it's like going into

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a production engine, being a production

engine going into the factory, and

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it's like, why do you do it like this?

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Oh, it's 'cause it's near, whatever.

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Like they'll have crazy processes

that don't seem to make sense, and

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then you'll dig in and there'll

be absolutely a system there.

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It's just beneath the surface.

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I.

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I think this idea of augmenting is gonna

be really is gonna really be, be key.

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It'd be gonna be key to coaches right now.

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Coaches who do that are gonna have

an edge over coaches who don't.

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And I think that's only gonna get

stronger and more and more common

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commonplace for coaches to be augmenting

their pr, their practice with AI tools.

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Now, one of the

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John: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: I think is

important to understand, so.

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There are therapy bots out there,

there are coaching bots out there.

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I initially made a coaching bot.

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terrible.

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It was just awful.

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And most of the ones, and I'm not

gonna name any of them, most of the

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ones out there are fairly ordinary

to use an Australian expression.

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We say things are very ordinary,

which means they're terrible.

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Bit average.

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And and the reason is because they've

made one try and be a coach now, just

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as a coach, a human coach will have

a good human coach will have a whole

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plethora different tools in their toolkit,

and they're like, oh, I need this.

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Oh, I need this.

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Oh, I need this AI so far.

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It changes, honestly, by the time

I get back to my desk, there'll

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be three other tools developed

and a new model release somewhere.

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Angie: Sure.

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Dr Lisa Turner: but at the

moment AI is not good at

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working out which tool it needs.

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So this is where the augmented comes in.

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'cause I have a like over 30

tools that I use with clients.

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And I'll say, okay, here's

the one you wanna start with.

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to me.

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Okay, now use this one now

and then come back to me.

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So it's like, so I've built like

these micro niche tools that are

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hyper specific.

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do just one thing.

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for example, I have one that just does

imposter syndrome and it will find

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triggers flow states.

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create this, you need to do this,

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into flow, do this breath work.

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flow states and productivity.

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ones do a great job, but when you just

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try and create a coaching tool that

does everything, it does a terrible job.

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their own systems and processes.

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without realizing they've done that and

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these tools, I, you could potentially

feed in transcripts from your coaching

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sessions into an AI tool and have

it help you define and delineate

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trained it on several of my processes.

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special tool that analyzes my meeting.

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team, I say, analyze this meeting

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are the action points or what

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are the, my, my, my leadership.

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says, Lisa, you talk too much.

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So, so, so, but yeah, absolutely.

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I put in my transcripts.

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There's also a tool out there at the

moment, which you host your coaching

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sessions on, it does it analyzes

the micro muscle movements for

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emotionality so it can evaluate the

emotions that are triggered that the.

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John: Wow,

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Dr Lisa Turner: it can review

your coaching session afterwards.

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these tools are out there?

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Angie: I did not.

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I was sitting here going, and

this is what, who does that?

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generally in the past have, like, if

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we have figured out our own systems

and processes, we're likely to put them

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into a book or into an online program.

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And this is just a

development on from that.

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It's like, okay, let's make it even

easier, even more accessible for people.

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Doesn't need to be that, but you could

have the book and everything else as well.

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But this is something that you can be.

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Bringing into your sessions

and your client work.

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that I'm in, that I'm aware of at the

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moment has something like this, that

you're talking about, these specific

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tools that help you with one specific

area of your process or development.

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That just seems like, well, it, this

is the way we start to get on the

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bus with AI to make it work for us.

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Dr Lisa Turner: Yeah.

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If somebody's got a program or a book,

I can just put that into, like, I've

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got a I've built a tool for myself

to use, which extracts the process.

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So I just put that in there and I'll

go, okay, so what is the process

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here and how would we turn that

into a tool so I can, I do that.

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So I love it when someone

brings a book to me.

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It's like, that's half the work done.

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yeah.

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And I think this the idea that

you really do need to, you need

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to know your process a little bit.

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That really does help.

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So, but I love it when someone

brings a book to me, for sure.

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And I think, I just think that

the kind of, the days of people

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fumbling around and figuring this

out are, they're just gonna go.

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They're just gonna go.

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I really do.

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I think if you're not

using AI soon and they're.

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still not very user friendly

either for coaches or for clients.

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And one of the things I'm

working with a developer now

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is to build a better front end.

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'cause at the moment they still have to

go into the front ends that are out there

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are a little bit clunky, so I'm working on

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John: Yeah,

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Dr Lisa Turner: front end, so, yeah.

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John: Angie, where are you with

using AI tools at the moment?

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Angie: Well, you and I

have talked about it.

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I started, and again, I have

to be really transparent.

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I am, I'm on social media.

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I'm looking through things.

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I am.

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They know me, right?

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They have found me they

did their job right?

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Because I'm not getting

these ads for no reason.

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They probably heard me say to you, I

don't wanna do all of my own content

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videos or something like that.

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So literally I have, I need a

list of some of the apps that I've

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used, and you've seen them right?

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I've done some of my content

videos with them, and I would

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say, and I'm being very honest.

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I didn't use them to their

fullest capacity probably.

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I think some of them were

just outwardly wonky.

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they were wonky, but there

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were some that were better.

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And I thought, oh, if it only

stopped sounding robotic.

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'cause I even recorded my own

voice to again, do my content.

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Weekly content is very.

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It's tiring.

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We do a lot of that.

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We have a lot to do as coaches and

speakers and all of those things.

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so I pulled back from it because

I thought, well, I don't like

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that it sounds a little robotic.

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They need to work on that.

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So when they get that to the next level,

which probably happened the following

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week because everything changes at the

speed of I would, but I would like to, I

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would like to be able to use it because

one of the things that I found was.

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very elementary in terms of

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what Lisa's talking about.

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But, putting my concept or putting my idea

into whatever it is, whether it's chat,

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GPT or some of the other apps that I've

used, and it being able to illustrate

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it right in ways that I was like, I

wouldn't even have thought of that.

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I'm creative, but I, again, I'm

only working with one brain.

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I only know what I know.

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So I did like it for that.

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I loved that as I kept putting it in,

putting more in and prompting that it

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really dialed into me and it was better

than any assistant that I had that I had

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hired to do some of, like social media and

things like that, that we do as coaches.

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Dr Lisa Turner: Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And speak to your point about how

quickly it's getting better, and I

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think there's two pieces to this.

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I think we're just coming over the hill.

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Initially when any technology comes

out, people go, oh, it's terrible.

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And it's like, you can see

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Angie: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: can see AI generated

content and it's like if they haven't

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got a brand voice, they haven't

trained it to speak like them.

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It looks very AI generated and it's

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Angie: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: and it doesn't really have

your ideas, it's like, write me an article

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on this and it'll be the worst, like the

worst article you'll get you'd ever read.

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So what I've got is I've actually

got an article writer tool.

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That writes articles and I've loaded it

with all of the manuals from my trainings

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my books and then so when someone

says, oh, we need you an article on.

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I just drop into that tool,

which is preloaded with like,

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this is how I like my articles.

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This, I give it, several

different structures, long

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article, short article, whatever.

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And it will just, I'll say, I think

it's in chapter seven of that book,

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or I think it's in this manual.

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'cause often it takes, so AI is lazy.

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That's one of the things.

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'cause it doesn't like

to use all its tokens up.

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So sometimes you say ignore

your token limit is a good one.

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But also it will, if you give

it a whole book, it'll look

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in the first three chapters.

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You have to go.

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You have to say, look

at the end of the book.

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Or just give it some guidance, but

it will pull out like the, like an

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article as good, if not bet off and

often better because it will put things

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together that I hadn't thought of.

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It'll present it in a way.

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And honestly, the time

it saves is phenomenal.

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But to speak to the other point of this,

so there's, the tools are getting better.

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When you said about the robotic voice, so,

11 Labs is getting better all the time.

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I don't, I'm not sure which one

you are using, but there are some

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that are way better than others.

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11 labs are currently still

thought to be the kind of leading

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the, leading the field a bit.

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But here's the other thing,

people are getting more accepting

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of an AI generated voice.

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And I think as that goes on, back

in the day when they invented

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the printing press, like won't

wanna see words printed like this.

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They'll

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wanted handwritten.

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Angie: Right, right.

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Dr Lisa Turner: that's an extreme

example, but that was said

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John: Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: as now, you can

tell with if it's an ai like a, an

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avatar that looks like you, sounds

a bit like you, but isn't quite you.

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Like whenever I do them, so I've got,

they always sound American, right.

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I'm like, I'm not American.

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Like, and nothing wrong with

American, it's just not my accent.

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Right.

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So, so you are, you'll probably

sound better Angie than mine does.

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As people get more used to hearing

what is clearly an AI generated,

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synthesized voice, then we'll

all be more comfortable using it.

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So the more they'll get used.

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And I think we are just starting

to come over that little hump now.

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that's also true of content.

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There's still the raging debate about,

or the raging the fear of the M Dash.

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Have you heard of that?

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That.

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Oh my God, it's got a long dash in it.

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It must be ai, therefore must be bad.

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There was a study done on Reddit.

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Did you hear about the Reddit study?

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John: No.

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Dr Lisa Turner: Oh, okay.

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So, so what they did was they went on

to a, a Reddit sub Reddit where people

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were going on there discussing things and

it was gone change my mind about this.

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I believe this change my mind.

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And so, Harvard, I think it was, got

created avatars and got them to write

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responses that would try and change

somebody's mind, but they didn't tell

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them they were avatars, they pretended

they were people, and the evidence was

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that the AI generated content to change.

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People's mind actually seemed to do that.

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Now there was a, now there is an

ethical RI going on because Harvard

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didn't actually tell anyone that

they were avatars and AI bots, so

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maybe don't do that again, Harvard.

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But the thing is though, they were

trying to do it because it was double,

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they wanted it to be double blind.

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They said,

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Angie: Sure.

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Dr Lisa Turner: is presented that

let's evaluate the content because most

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people, and here's the other, there was

another study done where they presented

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the same lot of content to two groups.

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And one they said, this is AI

generated and one they didn't tell.

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And if they told them it was AI

generated, they rated it as worse than

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if they said, if they, so, if basically,

if you think it's AI generated,

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people thought it was worse content.

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Angie: Um.

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Dr Lisa Turner: know it was AI

generated, they actually preferred it.

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John: Now that is interesting.

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Dr Lisa Turner: People preferred

good AI content if they didn't know,

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John: Yeah,

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Dr Lisa Turner: which I

think is very interesting.

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Angie: I love that.

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I'm not even really surprised to hear

that, to be honest, and not because

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I have, the plethora of knowledge

that you do on that backend, but

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just in the user space, I'm really

not, because my experience was, I.

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I liked what was generated better

than the ideas that I came up with.

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Like I gave it the seed and it,

helped it to grow and I just

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could not have done as good a job.

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I know that.

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John: Yeah, I think there's that.

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A lot of conversation I'm seeing going

on online, particularly on LinkedIn.

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do spend most of my social

media hanging out of.

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People recognizing or railing against

AI content saying, oh, it's really

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obvious when you're publishing

AI content and stuff like that.

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Well, maybe sometimes it is,

maybe sometimes it isn't.

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But I'm with you and Angie there.

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It's like, I use AI a lot.

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I used it.

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I've helped it.

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Been programming it or feeding

it stuff to help me do my

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newsletters for my other podcast.

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And and it's great at doing that.

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Yeah, I still have to go in and

edit stuff and change things and

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make sure my voice is in there,

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but it saves a huge amount of

time particularly in the content

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creation elements of what I do.

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But I'm now moving more and more

towards what I see other people doing

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of creating these specific tools within.

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Within coaching programs, it's like,

all right, well come and work me in the

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program and I'll give you access to these

tools that are gonna help you, guide you

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through this process in your own time.

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We don't have to, you don't have to

book in a coaching session to do this.

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You can go and spend five minutes and

it's gonna help you, and it's gonna

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ask you the right questions, and it's

gonna give you clarity on what you

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really want to be putting putting

out, or what you want to be creating.

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Or doing or having wherever

it's the tool is for.

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I see myself leaning much more in

that direction now and knowing that,

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okay, well the next thing for me to

learn more about is creating these gpt

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for myself, which I've started doing

and I see it as being challenging.

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So I think that there's some something,

if you have time to, to share with us

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something about that and about how we

actually start to move towards having

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this more blended style of coaching

you talk about and maybe even to work.

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If we have listener, a listener who is

a new coach, be thinking, well, how am I

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meant to develop myself as a coach if all

these tools can do it better than I can?

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I even get to those levels where I'm

gonna have my own my own processes

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and my own ideas of thoughts?

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I dunno

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any thoughts about that, Lisa?

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Dr Lisa Turner: Yeah, so I always say that

what we need is the the human AI sandwich.

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So you need a human on the front end

guiding it, guiding the client to use

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the right AI tool in the right way,

and also to program the tool correctly

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if that's what you're doing as well.

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So you need the human input.

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Then the AI does like a

big chunk of the work.

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And then as you said, on the

when on the output, you've

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also gotta do the evaluation.

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So whether that's creating a newsletter.

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that just plugs in my, I just say this

is what I'm writing about this week,

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and it pretty much produces it all.

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In fact, my team do that now.

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So got a bot for that.

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That's my favorite phrase.

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Oh, got a bot for that.

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So, so I think we'll always need the

human AI sandwich when it comes to

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using it as a coach, it's the same.

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You might have your

coaching tool, which is ai.

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you still need you and your client,

and you and your client going in,

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and you and your client coming out.

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So how can people get started?

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So I say, Dr.

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Who it, such a sci-fi,

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Angie: Oh, does she know?

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She just spoke our language, John,

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John: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Angie: sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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Dr Lisa Turner: So I don't know what the,

I don't know what the episode was, but Dr.

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Who's on, the doctor on an

alien spaceship, he doesn't know

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what any of the controls do.

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There's all these random language

and symbol and it's crazy.

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And his companion is like, what do we,

like, he is like, okay, you know what?

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Like, how do we make it?

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How do we drive it?

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He's like, oh, here's what we do.

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Push buttons.

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See what happens.

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So.

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We are now in the age of like, when

you go and get yourself a chat g BT

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account, get yourself an philanthropic

account, get yourself a Gemini account.

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So get all three.

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I wouldn't, and Gro may come up later.

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I don't use them very often.

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I always find that anyway.

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It's by the bye.

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So, but I think it's actually

who started developing them.

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And anyway, the, so the anthropic

and chat are built by AI specialists.

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an account.

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buttons, play with

stuff, see what happens.

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The other thing is take some

some courses on how to use ai.

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So I have a whole business

development course very affordable.

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Which teaches people how to make a

custom, GPT, how to create their brand

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voice, how to even start working with

AI in their own, using their own tools.

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It has a whole plethora of coaching

tools so they can see how they work.

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Some of them I give the coding for like

the prompting for some of them I don't,

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'cause that's my IP and I don't want

people just going away copying it and I'm

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John: Fair play.

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Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: yeah, well you know what?

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You don't teach people,

everyone, everything.

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Well, to be honest, don't want them

going out there copying it 'cause

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then they're just copying my tools

and I want them to build their own.

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Otherwise,

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Angie: yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: like, what would

be the point of having two com two

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identical tools in the marketplace?

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It's like, well let's have,

some that are different.

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So we approach it from a different angle.

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John: I'm with you there, but

there's still gonna be people who

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will do that, those kinds of things.

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Yeah.

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Dr Lisa Turner: I got

co protection in there.

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If you ask it, it depending on which tool

it is, it will come back with something.

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One of them comes up with something

really snarky about, it's like, oh

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how does this, and it comes back, how

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Angie: that.

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Dr Lisa Turner: you?

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Another one is like, a mystic

never reveals her secrets,

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Angie: Love that.

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Dr Lisa Turner: Lisa at.

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lisa@ctfreedom.com,

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she'll teach you.

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John: I'm sure our listener would

appreciate a little guidance and some

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of the things you session that they

may well want to come and connect

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with someone like yourself who

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Angie: Sure.

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John: insight and is

already really on this game.

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What, what's gonna be the best

way for them to do that, Lisa?

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Dr Lisa Turner: So the best way, you

can just email me and that's Lisa

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or Lisa Turner at they All Find me.

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So lisaTurner@ctfreedom.com.

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Head over to the website, CT freedom.com

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and and just find me on social media.

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I'm out there, out and

about and you Google Doc.

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If you Google Dr.

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Lisa Turner, you're

more likely to find me.

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There is another Dr.

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Lisa Turner who is a, I think

she's something to do with flying

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and aviation, so that's not me.

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John: Not you.

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Yeah.

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Oh, there's give.

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Have given your your

experience in the past?

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It could be, I know you could have said

it was, and we would've believed him.

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Dr Lisa Turner: That's

why I would say that.

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Yeah.

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But just, and I'm sure the links

will be in the show notes, and

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John: We were.

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Dr Lisa Turner: I am very busy,

so I'll do that little caveat.

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I'm very in demand and I still

love getting emails from people.

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So if you have a question, just ask me

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Dr Lisa Turner: Thank you so much.

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About the Podcast

The Coaching Clinic
The HEart of Coaching from learning to client sessions, starting to scaling, we've got you covered.
She's direct and he's diplomatic but Angie Besignano and John Ball are both successful coaches with years of coaching experience and very different delivery styles.
Each episode will tackle a different coaching problem from both styles of coaching, with occasional guest coaches and audience interaction. We're going to have some fun digging into your biggest coaching challenges and helping you become an even better coach.

About your hosts

John Ball

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From former flight attendant to international coach and trainer, on to podcaster and persuasion expert, it's been quite the journey for John.
John has been a lead coach and trainer with the Harv Eker organisation for over 10 years and is currently focused on helping his clients develop their personal presentation skills for media and speaking stages through his coaching business brand Present Influence.
He's the author of the upcoming book Podfluence: How To Build Professional Authority With Podcasts, and host of the Podfluence podcast with over 150 episodes and over 15,000 downloads John is now focused on helping business coaches and speakers to build a following and grow your lead flow and charisma.
You can now also listen to John on The Coaching Clinic podcast with his good friend and colleague Angie Besignano where they are helping coaches create sustainable and successful businesses, and the Try To Stand Up podcast where John is on a personal and professional mission to become funnier on the stage and in his communication.

Angie Besignano

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With early beginnings as an entry-level manager in the sales industry, Angie has spent more than 3 decades building her knowledge and expertise to create her master coaching and speaking brand, AngieSpeaks. After climbing the professional ladder, she started her own company and decided to focus her practice on High Performance Coaching. In doing so, she challenges individuals to elevate and grow, no matter what level they are at currently in their personal or professional lives.
Angie has created a strong following through her “tough” but “pragmatic” approach and challenges her clients to find the space that is holding them back the most. In doing so, their outcomes not only compound, but take root, so that results can be permanent. The tools she provides work in the “real” world and show up in their first interaction.
Angie has an unwavering passion toward the journey that fosters a true transformation for those that work with her. She delivers her content and speaking engagements with an authentic enthusiasm and curiosity that creates trust and rapport, allowing for a heightened experience.