Career Confidence

AI certifications from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Harvard and 20 other providers, 36 of them completely free, with a certificate you can put on your LinkedIn.

Get the full list → https://www.georgiehubbard.com/ai-courses

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Georgie and Lou are taking a short break from AI Ready Women. Georgie's back in the UK with family and Lou is travelling for work, and they'll be back on the mic together again soon. Rather than go quiet, they've left you the library. Georgie sends to senior women who know they need to get current on AI and have no idea where to start.

Don't start with 45. Start with three.

Georgie's shortlist — about seven hours all in:

1. Generative AI Explained (NVIDIA) — one hour, no code, free digital badge at the end. The fastest way to stop feeling behind.

2. Career Essentials in Generative AI (Microsoft & LinkedIn) — three to four hours. This certificate posts straight to your LinkedIn profile, where recruiters are actually looking.

3. AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations (Anthropic) — three hours. Built for women who lead teams rather than build things. How to make AI decisions, not how to write code.

One honest note: 36 of the 45 are completely free with a certificate. The rest are free to study but charge for the certificate — they're marked on the page.

Why this matters more than it sounds like it should

This isn't about becoming a data scientist.

After 12 years inside recruitment, the pattern Georgie sees is this: the women who get approached for the roles that matter are not the most technical women in the room. They're the most legible ones, the women whose profile makes it obvious, in seconds, that they've kept up.

A named certificate does that before anyone has read a single line of your experience.

So pick one. Start it this week. Let confidence catch up.

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🎓 The AI course library — 45 certifications, 36 free

👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/ai-courses

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✨ Bold Move Career Accelerator — eight weeks, small cohort, for senior women ready to make the move rather than read about it

👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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📚 The Bold Move (the book)

👉 https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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One thing before you go.

If this series has been useful, the single best thing you can do while we're away is send this episode to one woman who's been putting off getting to grips with AI. Not a list. One woman. You'll know who she is.

Back soon, with some phenomenal guests lined up.

Georgie 💜

Within a matter of minutes, an interview was locked in. Within a matter of weeks, she was in her third stage interview. And she landed the job. That job was never advertised. It never hit a job board. And it's exactly the case in point of how powerful your network is.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator August Cohort ✨

Learn more & apply here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/offer/august

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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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After 14 years in recruitment and nine years running my own firm, I can tell you this: 75% of jobs aren't advertised. They go to the people who are doing what most women aren't. They're reaching out. They're visible. They're strategic.

If you're applying for jobs online and hearing nothing back, this episode is for you. If you've been keeping your head down doing excellent work and hoping someone will notice, this episode is for you. And if you think networking means awkward small talk at events you don't want to attend, this episode is definitely for you.

This is about the hidden job market. It's about the one mistake that's costing you opportunities you don't even know exist. And it's about the three types of networks you need to activate right now if you want to get seen, get hired, and stop sending CVs into the void.

I break down the exact strategy I teach inside the Bold Move Career Accelerator: the hot list, the warm list, and the cold list. Who should be on each one. How to reach out without feeling desperate. And what to say to get a response from recruiters and hiring managers in minutes, not weeks.

One woman inside the program applied this exact framework and landed a role that was never advertised. Another reached out to two connections at a company, got introduced to the hiring manager, and had an interview within days. This works. But only if you do it.

If you've been waiting for the right time to start networking, this is it. If you've been hoping your CV will speak for itself, it won't. And if you've been wondering why other women are getting opportunities while you're being overlooked, this episode will show you exactly what they're doing differently.

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In This Episode:

🟣 The one thing 99% of people miss when applying for jobs online (and how to stand out instantly)

🟣 Why customising your CV isn't enough, and the one extra step that gets you noticed by recruiters

🟣 The hidden job market: why 75% of roles are never advertised and how to access them

🟣 The hot list, warm list, cold list framework: who should be on each one and how to activate them

🟣 The real story of a woman who landed a role in three weeks that was never posted online

🟣 How to reach out to recruiters and hiring managers on LinkedIn without feeling desperate

🟣 Why your network is your biggest career asset (and how to treat it like one)

🟣 What to do if you haven't spoken to someone in years and you want to reconnect

🟣 How to turn cold connections into warm ones (and why this matters more than you think)

🟣 The visibility strategy that opens doors: commenting, liking, and being seen without posting every day

🟣 Why being proactive with your network is the new career insurance

🟣 The one mindset shift that changes everything: you're doing hiring managers a favor by making yourself known

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to me on LinkedIn. Let me know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to activate your network. Tell me if you've landed a role through networking or if you're ready to start doing this differently.

The women who get chosen aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones who are visible, connected, and strategic. They're the ones who understand that your network is your net worth.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

You don't need to be technical to break into AI. But you do need to understand what makes you irreplaceable.

This episode is for every woman who's been applying for AI roles and hearing crickets. For every woman who thinks she's too far behind, or not technical enough, or doesn't have the right experience.

Georgie and Lou sit down with Erin Ashton, AI Enablement Lead at EY, whose background is organisational psychology, not code. Erin has spent her career solving messy people problems. And it turns out that's exactly what AI needs right now.

This conversation is about why bad AI output is the result of human judgment added too late. It's about why organisations can't train their way into a new way of working. It's about the three layers of AI roles, and why the translator layer is where the real opportunity sits. And it's about why the women who feel most uncomfortable right now are actually the ones paying attention.

If you've been waiting to feel ready before you start, this episode is your permission to begin messy.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

This episode covers where the opportunity is. If you want help positioning yourself for it, that's what the Accelerator is for.

Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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Connect with Erin Ashton:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/efogg/

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Chapters:

02:21 From organisational psychology to leading AI enablement at EY

03:40 From "AI is replacing me" to "AI is empowering me"

06:22 Eight years of generative AI experience: what companies are getting wrong

10:26 Don't make AI the skill you're good at. Use it to enhance what you already do

12:15 The three layers: builders, translators, and general users

15:51 AI work slop, and why 77% say AI work takes longer to review

17:41 Bad AI output is human judgment added too late

21:18 How Lou taught Claude to be a service designer

22:16 Why Georgie AI took a 50 page system prompt, not one clever ask

24:37 Jobs are blobs: how to break your role into tasks

32:04 Smart delegation or skill atrophy: where's the line?

35:40 You cannot train your way into a new way of working

37:53 The reverse Dunning Kruger effect

39:10 Toolset, skillset, mindset

45:57 Use it every day: the gym app and the family operating system

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Erin, Lou, and Georgie on LinkedIn. Let us know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to break into AI roles without being technical. Tell us how you're using AI to make your work better, not just faster.

The women who get chosen for AI roles aren't always the most technical. They're the ones who can translate between the builders and the business. They're the ones who understand that AI is a people problem, not a technology problem.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

Two weeks. That's how long it took Jodie Coomer to go from redundancy to landing her next role. And it wasn't luck. It was visibility.

Jodie spent 12 years climbing the ladder the traditional way. Junior business analyst. Project manager. Portfolio manager. Head of delivery. Linear. Logical. Safe. Except safe doesn't exist anymore. And Jodie knows that now.

When the redundancy conversation came, she wasn't completely surprised. But that didn't make it easier. Five days of shock. Tears. Imposter syndrome. The feeling that she'd been dumped. And then something shifted. She remembered the work she'd already done. The LinkedIn profile she'd optimised. The recruiter relationships she'd been building. The visibility strategy she'd been quietly putting in place.

Two weeks later, she was in a new role. A fixed term contract. Not permanent. And for the first time in her career, that felt like freedom.

This episode is about what happens when you stop waiting for the next rung on the ladder and start building a portfolio career instead. It's about why permanent roles aren't safe anymore. It's about the mindset shift from closed to curious. And it's about the one thing that changed everything for Jodie: visibility.

If you've been keeping your head down doing excellent work and hoping that's enough, this conversation is for you.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Jodie Coomer:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodiecoomer/

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In This Episode:

🟣 From service desk to head of delivery: Jodie's traditional career path and why that doesn't work anymore

🟣 Why junior roles are disappearing and what that means for the next generation of women in tech

🟣 The moment Jodie got made redundant: five days of shock, tears, and renovating her laundry to process it all

🟣 How past Jodie set future Jodie up for success by joining Bold Moves before she needed it

🟣 Why the safety of a permanent role is false and how contract work opened up the world for Jodie

🟣 The visibility strategy that got Jodie back into work in two weeks: LinkedIn, recruiters, and coffee catch ups

🟣 What Jodie would do differently if she was starting her career today: be open minded, curious, and learn everything

🟣 Why AI won't replace humans but will shift them into higher value work, and why that's exciting

🟣 The groundwork companies need to do before AI can work: clean data, streamlined processes, and human expertise

🟣 How Jodie shifted from closed minded about Agile to open minded about AI, and why curiosity is the career skill that matters most

🟣 What a portfolio career looks like and why Jodie's now excited about contracting instead of permanent roles

🟣 The mindset shift from abundance to lack: why there are opportunities out there if you're willing to see them

🟣 Jodie's advice for women who are fearful: start small, build relationships with recruiters, and network in ways that work for you

🟣 Why Jodie's loving work for the first time in years and what her next chapter looks like

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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Jodie on LinkedIn. Let her know your biggest takeaway. And if you're hiring and looking for someone to lead transformation or delivery, connect with her. She's phenomenal.

The women who get chosen aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones who are visible, connected, and ready.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

Sometimes the most dangerous thing about AI isn't what it can do. It's who gets to decide when to turn it off.

Anthropic built the most powerful version of its AI model yet, released it to the public, and then three days later, the US government ordered them to shut it down. Worldwide. For everyone.

But here's the twist: the security loop that triggered the shutdown wasn't found by a malicious hacker in a hoodie. It centred around an elegant shift in framing, pointed out by cybersecurity pioneer Katie Moussouri, proving that a simple change in perspective can completely bypass a multi-billion-dollar tech filter.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou unpack the Anthropic drama, the race to build more powerful AI, and what it all means for women trying to stay ahead in a world where the rules are changing faster than anyone can keep up.

This is about control. It's about trust. It's about who gets a say in the future we're building. And it's about why women's voices, women's questions, and women's perspectives matter more than ever before.

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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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If this episode resonated with you, share it with one woman in your life who needs to hear it right now. Reach out to Georgie and Lou on LinkedIn and let them know your biggest takeaway. Tell them what you're doing to stay ahead of the AI era without getting overwhelmed.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it. Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

📄 Factual Note for Our Listeners: This episode discusses the global restriction of Anthropic's Fable 5 and references the industry commentary surrounding cybersecurity pioneer Katie Moussouris (CEO, Luta Security). While the initial vulnerability testing was documented by researchers at Amazon, Moussouris became a defining voice of this event by publicly challenging the U.S. government's abrupt policy response. You can read her full compliance analysis and open letters regarding the Fable 5 shutdown via the Luta Security brief - https://www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fable-5-export-controls-harm-us-cyber-defense