My Story

Ten years behind the chair. Then this. Here's how it actually went.

10+ years

Behind the chair

Zuleema styling a client's hair in her salon

I did hair for over a decade. Standing up most of the day, income tied to how many heads I got through the chair. The money stopped the second I put the flat iron down.

I liked the work. The ceiling is what got me. Earning more meant working more, and I had already run out of hours to give.

The first prompt

I used AI like everybody else

Zuleema on her laptop at the kitchen counter, casual and relaxed

ChatGPT showed up for me the way it did for you. I used it as a smarter Google. Captions. Texts I didn't feel like writing. Free plan, no strategy behind it.

Then I'd watch women online making money with AI and file them under a different category of person. Technical. Already had a business. Definitely not me.

Seeing the line

There's a line and I was on the wrong side of it

Zuleema leaning on a glass table, direct and thinking it through

One day it clicked. Some women use AI. Other women get paid by it. Same apps. Same free plan. Completely different outcome.

I could see the line clearly. What I couldn't see was how to get across it without going back to school for something I had no interest in learning.

Crossing it

Building the first thing that ran without me

Zuleema working at her desk, laptops open, phone in hand

My first system was small and honestly kind of ugly. I built it on my phone. The part that mattered is that it kept running on a day I didn't touch it.

That's the whole thing I'm trying to hand you. Not a clever prompt you use once and lose in your notes app. Something that still works next Tuesday.

Today

The AI Income Girl

Zuleema present-day, The AI Income Girl brand

This is what I do now. I pay for the tools, run them on my own business, and tell you which ones were worth the money. When something flops, I say that too.

If you're reading this on your lunch break with your phone tilted under the table, you're who I make this for.

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