How to Use AI to Make Money, Save Time, and Be More Productive
Ally Miller (guest), Mel Robbins (host)
In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, featuring Ally Miller and Mel Robbins, How to Use AI to Make Money, Save Time, and Be More Productive explores women, AI, and Reinvention: Turn Emerging Tech Into Everyday Superpowers Mel Robbins interviews AI expert Ally Miller about how everyday people—especially women and caregivers—can use AI to save time, make money, and expand their capabilities. Miller demystifies AI and generative AI, explains why adoption is uneven, and frames AI as a personal executive assistant, teammate, and coach rather than a job-stealing threat. They walk through concrete interaction modes (text, voice, video, agents) and use cases from travel planning and caregiving to job searches and entrepreneurship. The episode closes with a strong call to experiment with AI now so your voice shapes how the technology evolves and how it impacts your life and career.
Women, AI, and Reinvention: Turn Emerging Tech Into Everyday Superpowers
Mel Robbins interviews AI expert Ally Miller about how everyday people—especially women and caregivers—can use AI to save time, make money, and expand their capabilities. Miller demystifies AI and generative AI, explains why adoption is uneven, and frames AI as a personal executive assistant, teammate, and coach rather than a job-stealing threat. They walk through concrete interaction modes (text, voice, video, agents) and use cases from travel planning and caregiving to job searches and entrepreneurship. The episode closes with a strong call to experiment with AI now so your voice shapes how the technology evolves and how it impacts your life and career.
Key Takeaways
Treat AI as a versatile assistant, not just a faster Google.
Instead of typing short, generic queries, approach AI like a smart executive assistant that can help plan vacations, organize your home, design workouts, draft emails, and synthesize huge amounts of information for you.
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Give rich context to get high‑quality, tailored results.
Most people use AI poorly by undersharing; specifying who you are, your constraints, preferences, past attempts, and goals (e. ...
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Use the four interaction modes to unlock more value.
Move beyond simple prompts: micro-tasking (small chores), real-time companion (live video/voice help), delegation (20‑minute research or planning jobs), and teammate (tools that support your whole team or workflow).
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Leverage AI to upgrade work and career, not just speed it up.
AI can brainstorm better strategies, identify risks you’re missing, generate standout job-search materials, analyze competitors, and give solo workers ‘fractional’ help in marketing, research, and customer support—for free or cheap.
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Women and caregivers should lean in now to avoid being left behind.
Women are adopting AI about 25% less than men, missing out on time savings, economic upside, and a voice in policy and product design; even simple experiments (like using AI to summarize school emails or plan care) start to close that gap.
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Use AI as a coach and thought partner, not a crutch.
Ask AI to interview you, challenge your plans, suggest reframes, and rehearse tough conversations so you become clearer, more confident, and more effective—rather than offloading entire tasks and weakening your own thinking.
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If your employer bans AI with no plan, skill yourself up anyway.
Miller argues that knowledge workers at AI-averse companies are becoming less competitive; she recommends learning AI independently, proposing projects internally, and being prepared to move if leadership refuses to adapt.
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Notable Quotes
“Maybe instead of saying, ‘AI is coming for my job,’ the reframe is, ‘AI is a part of my job.’”
— Ally Miller
“Use AI to become the person you want to be.”
— Ally Miller
“Women are adopting AI 25% less than men, and I just think about what societal opportunities we’re missing out on.”
— Ally Miller
“If you’re worried about it, don’t sit back. If you’re worried about it, this is when you lean in.”
— Ally Miller
“People that take advantage of it now are going to gain this velocity that is gonna be really hard to catch up on in the next two years.”
— Ally Miller
Questions Answered in This Episode
What is one area of my life where I feel most overloaded, and how could I safely experiment with AI there this week?
Mel Robbins interviews AI expert Ally Miller about how everyday people—especially women and caregivers—can use AI to save time, make money, and expand their capabilities. ...
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If I gave AI full context about my career history and what I enjoy, what surprising job paths or business ideas might it propose?
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Where might I currently be using AI in a ‘lazy’ way that risks weakening my skills instead of strengthening them?
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How could I introduce AI to older family members or caregiving situations in a way that respects privacy and builds trust?
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If my company is not using AI, what specific pilot project could I propose that clearly shows its value while addressing leadership’s risks?
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Transcript Preview
Women are adopting AI 25% less than men.
It has exploded. It has accelerated. And I don't wanna get left behind. I don't want women, in particular, to lean back and get left behind.
My hope is that these groups see AI as a source of agency and not of anxiety.
Let's start at the beginning. What is AI?
AI, at its core, is just a system attempting to do a human-like thing. That could be as crazy as self-driving cars, your Roomba in your house. AI is actually so much more than everything that we've seen in the last couple years. These systems are so accessible. We have never had tech be as accessible as it is today. Every single job that we already have out there, marketing manager, legal, finance, will be AI supported, and you'll have a switch in the types of things that you are doing.
Maybe instead of saying, "AI is coming for my job," the reframe is, "AI is a part of my job." And if you're worried about it, don't sit back. If you're worried about it, this is when you lean in.
People that take advantage of it now are going to gain this velocity that is gonna be really hard to catch up on in the next two years. If you have not been using AI, use it. Not because I'm telling you you have to use it every single day or else, you know, the world will explode. But I'm saying, I want your voice in the conversation.
Ally Miller, welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast.
Thank you for having me.
I am really excited to talk to you because I know this is gonna be a conversation where I selfishly am going to learn so much. This is a topic I've been dying to have an expert on. I am so glad we could pull you off all the stages where you're speaking around the world and have you here in our Boston studios. I would love to start by having you tell me how is my life going to be different if I take to heart everything that you're gonna teach me today about AI, and I put it to use in my day-to-day life?
If you take everything that I'm about to share to heart, you are going to learn how to use AI, which is the most basic value that I could deliver to you. You are going to save time. You are going to get more support that you need in your life, in your work. You are going to expand your capabilities and your superpowers, and you are going to be shocked by what you can actually get done with these systems.
I love that because you talk a lot about the fact that you can use AI, and the thing you're most excited about is that it can help you become the best version of yourself.
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