November 4, 2026 · With Ian McDonald
Your next useful lesson may already be inside the work you do with AI. In this session, community members share practical examples of building courses, organizing projects, creating storefronts and improving content. Ian shows how to turn those everyday workflows into lessons, one-page resources and short videos.
Choose one completed task and leave with a small lesson draft someone else can try.
Edited replay · 51 minutes 6 seconds · 20 chaptersWhat members brought
Ron showed his twenty-one-day challenge and a companion Freedom Tracker. Learners can follow the lessons, make their own tracker copy and record their progress.
He also asked about replacing an existing lesson video. Ian suggested using the replacement control; the call does not verify a completed replacement.
Try the pattern: pair one lesson with a worksheet, tracker or prompt that helps the learner act.
Jules showed a landing page for her rock-and-gem business, built with AI and linked to her Amazon store. She also described using a consistent mascot in her content.
Try the pattern: explain one offer clearly and give visitors one useful next step.
Jasheena showed how she keeps different projects in separate chats and asks her assistant for today's priorities and the next seven days. She also shared product-design and marketing examples from her shop.
Try the pattern: ask for the few decisions you need today, then review the work your assistant prepares.
Ian showed a one-page overview of how he uses his assistants, then the prepared “Three assistants, one system” lesson with prompts and visual explanations.
Try the pattern: ask what you actually did, explain the process, and give someone a small way to practice.
These are examples from the session, rather than promises about what every assistant can do. The participants' tools, connections and review choices differed.
A twenty-minute practice path
Your result: a draft with a clear learner, a short sequence, one practice prompt and a way to check success.
Bring a conversation, notes, screenshots or a result you understand and are comfortable using. Give the assistant selected material if it cannot access your earlier work.
Keep the first version small. A one-page guide to preparing a daily brief can be more useful than a course trying to cover every part of your business. Separate the steps you tested from ideas you have not tried.
The prompts below are adapted practice exercises, not quotations from the recording.
Find a completed processReview this conversation and identify three useful processes I have actually completed. For each, name the person it could help, the problem it solves and the result they could achieve. Flag missing evidence and remove private details.
Draft a lesson someone can tryTurn [process] into a beginner-friendly lesson with three to five steps, one real example, a practice task and a checklist. Use only supported information. Tell me which steps need testing before I share it.
Ian's assistant overview gave the group another format to try: a short explanation of the work, the inputs and the decisions he keeps.
Explain how I use an assistantMake a one-page guide to how I use [assistant] for [work]. Include the tasks it helps with, what I provide, what I review and one starter prompt. Leave out private conversations, client information and account details.
Adapt Jasheena's separate project chats and short daily brief to your own work. Supply the real projects and dates the assistant needs.
Prepare a short project briefHelp me organize these projects into separate workstreams. Give me a short brief containing what needs my attention today, upcoming deadlines over the next seven days and anything waiting for my decision.
Ian described reviewing a draft against examples of his earlier social content. This is an editing exercise; likes alone do not establish why a post performed as it did.
Improve a draft for its audienceUsing the examples and performance information I provide, suggest how to make this draft more relevant to [audience] on [platform]. Keep my meaning and voice. Explain the changes without inventing claims or promising better results.
Reuse something you already recorded
After the call reconnected, Ian suggested transcribing course recordings to find what could be tightened. Jasheena described selecting highlights from her community calls for short videos and her monthly email.
Plan useful clips from a recordingReview this recording and transcript. Suggest five self-contained clips, with source timestamps, a title and the point each teaches. Flag personal information, participant permissions and anything that would be misleading without context. Give me an edit plan before producing the clips.
A work-in-progress example
Ian showed a seven-second preview for a local business and explained the tools and saved skill behind his video workflow. He said the video needed more. The call does not establish that the finished commercial was complete or delivered.
A question that ran through the call
Members described connecting gradually, checking results and keeping decisions for themselves. Start with one task whose inputs and output you can inspect.
Check access for this taskFor this task, [describe the task], inspect the tools actually available in this chat. Tell me which account, community and sources you can access, my role, and the permissions needed. Explain anything missing before we continue. Read only for this check; do not change settings, publish, send messages or make purchases.
In the intended community, open Bring your AI → Connect your AI and review the account, named community and requested access.
Connected lesson reading depends on owner opt-in and rollout, eligible Main learning, your current member access and your explicit consent. Owner-connection success does not establish member-learning support.
Use the member learning guideThe owner-management connection is a separate path. Choose the guide for your assistant, inspect the connected community and review the specific action and result.
These owner walkthroughs do not verify member learning in those assistants.
Give it selected notes or material you are allowed to use, or follow the appropriate connection guide. Ask it to identify what it could read before relying on a summary. A source link alone does not grant access.
The recording describes how Ian used Muse at the time. Check what your connected assistant currently supports and review the product details and proposed messages yourself. A historical demonstration is not a current setup guide.
Follow it from the learner's starting point. Check each link, prompt and step. Ask someone to try the exercise and tell you where they get stuck. Keep a draft until the promised result is clear and achievable.
Take one useful thing with you
Your checklist stays in this browser.
Download the prompts and checklistRevisit the conversation
Find a member example, demonstration or question. Chapters, captions and transcript timestamps follow the edited replay, including the conversation after the call reconnected.
Some private screen content is covered while the explanation continues. The transcript is automatic; speaker names are not assigned.
This replay has been reviewed and trimmed where needed. Teaching, demonstrations and Q&A are retained. Chapters and captions follow the edited recording.
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