Stories from Manon Dave’s students

OK Y'all before this Quest, I was your typical tech-savvy grandma - you know, the one who could debug your computer but couldn't figure out why ChatGPT kept calling me "dear user." After 27 years in tech, starting at the Department of Justice in '97, I thought I'd seen it all. Boy, was I wrong! Picture this: a…

I stopped looking at AI as just another technology and started treating it as a development partner... The biggest change was realizing that I didn't need an entire engineering team to turn an idea into a working product. I could do much of it myself... I no longer measure what I can build by the size of the team I have.

In November 2025, instead of the layoff I feared, I was offered a brand new role: Applied AI Architect. A title that didn't exist at AMD until they created it for me... Mindvalley gave me the belief that I was allowed to use AI tools and conduct them at full power.

My interactions with ChatGPT helped me uncover blind spots and cognitive biases that blocked my clarity and agency. This transformation gave me the confidence to help others create their own transformations... We no longer need to know the right way to design a solution-we simply need to know how to ask intuitive questions to the right tool for a given use case.

I was an entrepreneur with a fundamental problem: ideas were never my limitation-execution was... Over the next six weeks, I built Expand Health AI-a complete, production-ready healthcare practice management platform. Not a prototype. Not a landing page... I've gone from idea person to builder. From entrepreneur to founder-developer. The ventures I'll create from this point forward won't be limited by my ability to find or afford technical talent-they'll only be limited by my imagination and willingness to ship.

I've become a force multiplier, teaching others how to harness this revolutionary technology for their own success... I'm empowering others to create their own books, training programs, and company brands using AI, showing them how to leverage it for everything from content creation to music and art.

Before this Quest, I was like most people - dabbling with AI tools, getting decent results, but knowing deep in my gut that I was barely scratching the surface of what was possible... Not only have I mastered AI tools for myself, but I've become a FORCE MULTIPLIER - teaching others how to harness this powerful technology for their own success!... I've published my book 'AI Prompts for Profits,' just launched my fiction book 'Threads of Resonance,' and I'm helping others create their own training programs and books.

I wanted to create a way to help make the importance of veterinarians in private practice more visible to the world.

I've released 3 AI-generated music albums, created a GPT-powered home inventory system, built a virtual teammate chatbot that improved team workflows, and even tackled DIY plumbing, saving hundreds of dollars... This course revitalized my mindset, reignited passions, and brought a renewed sense of purpose.

Our workflow has improved dramatically, and our speed to market has skyrocketed... Incorporating AI into our creative process has brought us so many opportunities, and I'm thrilled to share that we even won an award for our efforts!

I had used artists to illustrate my work, often taking days to achieve the results I wanted. I cowrote music with other musicians. Again this could be a long and arduous process... I can now hear an idea or arrangement in many different ways, styles and instrumentations. This is like having an orchestration prof say - try this or try this!

They were sharing so many practical things, tools that they're doing and using in their lives and how it's changing even their roles and their companies... During the Summit, I've got a list of around 15 tools that I've written down that I haven't even heard of, and I can tell you that I've been pretty much reading about AI every day.