The AI Framework That Will Change Everything For You with Geoff Woods

**Hal Elrod** (0:02)
Hello, and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals Podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go.
Are you using AI to its full potential to take your life, your business, your relationships, every area that matters most to you, to the next level and beyond? My guest today is Geoff Woods, and Geoff came on the podcast a year ago. He's the author of the number one international bestseller, The AI-Driven Leader, Harness AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions. And today we're talking about AI, not just for professional use, but how do you use AI to accelerate and amplify your ability to think as effectively as possible? He's going to share with today how he and his wife have used AI to transform their marriage, to make them better humans. The way that Geoff sees AI is it's not to replace you, it's to make you irreplaceable by acting as a thought partner while you're still the thought leader. So you can think better, make better decisions, and I've used it in every area of my life over the last year. Today, I also ask him the tough questions. What are his biggest concerns with AI, and what are the biggest advantages that you can apply to your life today? Whether you're not using AI at all, whether you don't like AI or you're already using it on a daily basis, Geoff is literally one of the world's leading experts in this topic. Again, his book, The AI-Driven Leader, is the number one book in its category, and today you're going to learn a lot about how to take yourself, your life, your business to the next level using AI to not replace you, but to enhance you and make you irreplaceable.
Geoffrey Woods, I haven't seen you since the 4th of July party at my house, dude.

**Geoff Woods** (2:12)
I know, right?

**Hal Elrod** (2:13)
It's been like a week.

**Geoff Woods** (2:14)
I miss you so long. I know.

**Hal Elrod** (2:16)
Yeah, dude, it's good to do these with friends. It's like I'm just talking to my homie, and he's also happened to be a brilliant number one international bestseller. When I talked to you last, it was roughly, I don't know, year, give or take, last year at some point, and I had you on. I started by saying like, Geoff, I represent the percentage of people, maybe it's 50 percent, maybe it's 70, I don't know, that aren't using AI. Then I said, I fall between, I don't fully get it yet, but also I'm not convinced it's good for humanity, right? So I was on that edge. I tell this story all the time, by the way, whenever I'm talking to somebody about AI, I say, I interviewed my friends, Geoff, he wrote the AI-Driven Leader. It's like one of the best-selling books in the AI space. In fact, number one in its category, I said, and I told him, I'm like kind of anti-AI, I don't know.
And you're essentially the way I describe it is you convinced me, you're like, look, AI is not going anywhere. This would be like someone that's like 30 years ago, I don't trust the Internet. I'm not going to use the Internet. It's like the Internet is now part of our life. And so using it for good and utilizing it to make you a better human, and AI is just kind of the next technological advancement in that regard. So here's the premise of today. So a year ago it was, why should I use AI? Like, Geoff convinced me, and now I've been using AI for the last year or so, and very effectively, personally and professionally, and still have my concerns. But now it's how do we use AI effectively? And I imagine some people listening are still like, I'm still not really using it, or they're like, I tell my mom, I think a lot of people use AI just like a search engine, like an advanced search engine, right? So let's start with answering the question, not why should we use AI? I just answered it. AI is here to stay.
It's a tool that we've got to use. You can use it for good or evil. How are people using AI in a very primitive way, and how can they get the most out of it?