Stories from Vykintas Glodenis’s students

I was using it like a fancy Google search. Copy here, paste there. No system. No philosophy. No real integration... What I was hoping to learn was a few better tools. What I actually got was a complete rewiring of how I see intelligence, work, and what's possible... I went from feeling behind to feeling like I'm living in the future and pulling everyone around me into it.

I couldn't feel my body, I couldn't get out from under years of backlog, and I couldn't tell the story I knew I was here to tell... Over several months it put me back in my body for the first time in 15 years. I feel strong, supple, and powerful... PTSD is finally disentangling from my identity. I stopped remembering myself as a physician with PTSD.

AI Mastery didn't just show me how to prompt ChatGPT. It showed me how to architect systems around my life... What started as a search for anxiety relief through Jeffrey Allen became a complete redesign of how I navigate conflict, leadership, and complexity. AI didn't remove the challenge. It gave me structure inside it.

AI didn't remove the challenge. It gave me structure inside it. And that changed everything.

Learning AI wasn't just about understanding new technology; it was about joining a community of like-minded individuals passionate about making a difference... The AI Mastery Program empowered me to turn challenges into opportunities, and our efforts have borne fruit. We successfully secured three investors from a pool of 56, validating our innovative approach.

I was managing my coaching practice of 15 years entirely manually - client notes scattered across documents, time-consuming session preparation, and no centralized system... Session preparation time is cut by 50%, client communication is automated with professional branded emails, and I have complete visibility on my client portfolio... The human doesn't disappear with AI... they become more powerful.

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.

Vishen has said that the AI Mastery program can free up two business days for personal pursuits, but for me, it was the opposite; it has given me the FREEDOM to work. Within 4 months of graduating from this program, I designed, developed, and launched Shine.Online, a business that expresses my life purpose but that also accommodates my health limitations. Essentially this program has given me an entirely new life and a drastically better future.

At 50, with a full-time job in child welfare and no AI experience at all, I built the memory my own brain stopped providing... I stopped trying to hold my life in my head and started building things that would hold it for me: a summer garden plan, a travel app, a photography guide and a Hub.

I started applying what I was learning to my situation and built a personal Career Assistant. It scores every job posting against my actual criteria first, catching things like vague compensation or unrealistic scope before I spend time reviewing the full listing... Prompts got me started. Systems thinking is what made it self-correcting.

I had the knowledge and the passion, but not a way to package it into something scalable... I used Claude to co-develop my entire Leadership Operating System™, which is a 12-month framework integrating Emotional Intelligence with Authentic Leadership... What would have taken months alone, I built in weeks!

This quest opened up an entirely new world for me. It honestly felt like stepping into a time machine - traveling into the future, learning how things work there, and then returning with knowledge that immediately elevated my life and business... My biggest takeaway was the confidence and knowledge I gained to write and complete my first book. Before this experience, that felt out of reach.