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A bonus companion to Season 3. In the main story, Renee’s mother stabilizes — and that’s real, and it happens. But sometimes a caregiving season ends in goodbye. This tender episode is for the listener living that: what AI must never become when you’re grieving, the few quiet logistics it can carry, and how to retire the Season Agent you built to care for someone you’ve lost — gently, on purpose,...

When Monique is laid off on a Thursday, the income shock threatens to write her next chapter in panic. Instead she builds a Season Agent for the transition: a runway scan that replaces fear with facts, an accomplishment inventory that rebuilds her resume and profile in her own voice, and a daily search rhythm that protects her evenings and her self-worth. The AFTER letter is Agency — because you a...

Being the medical advocate for someone you love is sacred work — and it comes with the firmest guardrail of the whole season. Drawing on her healthcare background, Lakesha shows how to use AI to prepare for a specialist appointment, capture and translate what you’re told, and build the discipline of verifying everything with the clinician. The non-negotiable rule: AI is not your doctor. It cites,...

Renee is now caring for her recovering mother and her own kids at the same time — the sandwich generation, split clean down the middle. This episode is about carrying an impossible load with honesty: a weekly triage pass that sorts the “only-I-can-do-this” from everything that can drop, the discipline of verifying AI under heavy load, and protecting your kids’ sense of normal while you care upward...

When Renee’s mother has a sudden stroke, she becomes a caregiver overnight. This episode builds her first Season Agent for the brutal first seventy-two hours: a care binder that gathers scattered information into one place, a medication-and-appointment map that translates clinical instructions into plain language, and a running list of questions to ask the care team. The AFTER letter is Empathy —...

Your three AI agents are built for your ordinary weeks — but what about the hard seasons your stack was never built for? In this Season 3 opener, Lakesha introduces the Season Agent: a temporary, single-purpose AI agent you build for one hard season and retire when it passes. It honors the Stack Rule, protects your Agency when you’re running on empty, and sets up the most personal season of the sh...

Two months into a habit is the moment of truth. Today: three honest questions to check the health of your stack, the Graduation Map for where each agent could go next, and a tease for Arc 3 — Agents at the Edges of Life. In this episode, you'll learn: ✅ The Stack Health Check — three questions, three minutes 🚀 The Graduation Map — where each agent from the series can go next 🌅 What's coming in...

Connectors give AI access to your data — calendar, email, drive. They're powerful. They're also high-stakes. Most "how to set up X" content skips the governance entirely. Today: what connectors actually are, three categories of data sorted by risk, and the three mistakes you don't have to make. In this episode, you'll learn: 🗝 What connectors actually are (no jargon) 📊 The three risk categories —...

Most working moms haven't tried voice mode because they think it's a gimmick. It's not. It might be the highest-leverage AI feature for moms who never get to sit at a keyboard during the day. Today: where it lives, three voice-trigger prompts that work everywhere, and the carline use case that might change your whole relationship with the drive home. In this episode, you'll learn: 🎤 Where voice m...

You've heard the letters M-C-P and felt your stomach drop. This episode takes the fear out of it — by showing you exactly what I've connected to my own AI, and why it wasn't reckless at all. In this episode, you'll learn: 🔑 What MCP actually is — in plain English, no engineering degree required 🪪 The four apps I personally connected (and why I chose the boring ones on purpose) 🛡️ The three guard...

A planner that can't see your real calendar is a beautiful suggestion engine — not a real planner. Three ways to fix that, ranked by effort. Pick the one that fits where you are this week. In this episode, you'll learn: 📋 Level 1 — Manual paste (30 seconds, works in every tool, free) 📤 Level 2 — Calendar export and screenshots (5 min setup) 🔌 Level 3 — Connectors with governance guardrails 🛡 Th...

If you find yourself pasting the same context into your AI agent over and over, that's not the agent failing. That's the agent telling you it's outgrown its container. Today: three graduation signals, the actual graduation move, and the discipline of knowing when NOT to graduate. In this episode, you'll learn: 🚦 The three graduation signals — repetition, complexity, and the "almost right" feeling...

The single biggest leverage point in your AI life isn't a better prompt template. It's a one-page context document you paste in once and reuse forever. Today: the four sections of the Working Mom Briefing, where to put it across every tool you've built, and the five-minute Sunday ritual that keeps it fresh. In this episode, you'll learn: 📝 The four sections of the Working Mom Briefing 🔌 How to u...

Three autonomous AI tools. One Saturday morning. One real task with real stakes. This special episode is the bridge from the 10-Minute Agent pilot (Episodes 28–35) into what comes next. You'll hear the win, the wake-up call, and the full AFTER Framework applied in real time to autonomous agents — Perplexity Comet, Manus, and Genspark. In this episode, you'll learn: 🤖 What Perplexity Comet, Manus,...

Eight episodes. Five platforms. One synthesis. This is where you stop collecting tools and start running a system. Pick your three agents, schedule when each runs, and walk away with a workforce that actually saves you time — week after week. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🎯 The Stack Rule — why three is the magic number 🔗 How to match each of your Top 3 time-sucks to its best-fit agent 📅 The w...

Configured assistants talk to you. Task agents go do things for you. This episode is your first time sending AI on an actual errand — research, comparison, recommendation — while you do something else. With an honest take on where task agents shine and where you absolutely have to verify. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🤖 The real difference between a configured assistant and a task agent ✅ What...

If your job runs on Microsoft 365, you have an AI agent platform sitting unused. This episode shows you how to build a Copilot Agent — or a saved morning brief prompt — that answers three questions before your first meeting. Plus: the full AFTER Framework applied to work agents. In this episode, you’ll learn: 📥 Where Copilot Agents live in M365 (and how to check if you have access) ☀️ The 3-quest...

Working moms make 100+ decisions a day, and the big ones drown in open tabs. This episode builds a Perplexity Space — a free research agent — that compares your options, cites its sources, and names the trade-off in 7 minutes. No more tab-hoarding at 10 PM. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🔍 What a Perplexity Space is (and why it beats 34 open tabs) 🧮 The 3-layer decision template — criteria, opti...

A Claude Project is the difference between starting every AI conversation from zero and walking up to an assistant who already knows your world. This episode builds your first Project — Brain Dump to Action Plan — in 10 minutes. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🧠 Why Projects beat plain chat for working moms (the persistent knowledge advantage) 📁 The 3 documents to upload on Day 1 (role brief, wee...

Sunday night planning is either the most powerful or the most exhausting hour on your calendar — depending on whether you have a system. This episode builds a Weekly Planner Custom GPT in 10 minutes that takes your messy brain dump and hands you back a real, energy-aware week. The full prompt template is below. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🗓️ Why Sunday night is the highest-leverage 10 minutes o...

If you’ve ever spent forty-five minutes on a Sunday night rewriting one email to your boss — this episode is your fix. We name the Tone Tax working moms have been quietly paying, then build a free Gemini Gem that pays it for you, forever. The full template is below — copy-paste ready. In this episode, you’ll learn: ✉️ The “Tone Tax” — the silent cost working moms pay every time they hit send 🧱 Th...

Welcome to 10-Minute Agent — the new short-form series for working moms who want to actually USE AI, not just hear about it. Ten minutes to listen. Ten minutes to build. One real agent in your toolkit by the end of every episode. In this debut episode, we cut through the confusion around the word “agent” with the cleanest mental model in AI right now: two kinds of agents, one filter for spotting t...

Boundaries aren't about saying no — they're about saying yes strategically. In this episode, I walk you through how to use AI to audit where your boundaries are breaking down, build a professional response library for the situations that trip you up the most, and have a capacity conversation with your manager that strengthens your reputation instead of damaging it. What you'll learn: 🔍 How to run...

If you got sick tomorrow, could your household function without you? For most working moms, the honest answer is no — not because the people around them are incapable, but because all the information lives in one place: Mom's head. In this episode, Lakesha walks you through how to use AI to build a comprehensive emergency reference anyone in your family can follow — not someday, but now. 🧠 What Y...

You want your kids prepared for the future AND grounded in faith. This episode brings those two things together — practically, not theoretically. In this episode, you'll learn: 🔖 A biblical stewardship framework for thinking about AI in your home 📖 How to use AI to build family devotionals and Bible study experiences for your kids 🧠 Teaching kids the difference between AI as a tool and AI as an...