It's Tuesday morning. You're sitting in a room that smells like fresh coffee. Around you are a dozen women. Business owners like you. And not one of them pretends she already has AI figured out.
For the next 90 minutes, a former teacher walks you through building one thing. Not watching a tutorial. Not saving another prompt. Building.
And when you leave at 9:30, you open your laptop later that day and the thing you built is still there. Still working. Still yours.
That's Ladies of the Lou.
Sound familiar?
You've been learning AI. But you still haven't used it.
You've watched the tutorials. Saved the prompts. Downloaded the PDFs. You have a folder somewhere on your desktop that you were going to get back to.
You've opened ChatGPT, typed something, gotten a weird answer, and closed the tab.
You know AI matters for your business. You're smart enough to figure it out. But every time you sit down to try, it feels like everyone else is three steps ahead and you're still stuck at "what do I even type?"
The worst part? You're not behind because you can't learn this. You're behind because you're trying to learn it alone.
The cost of waiting
Here's what happens when you keep waiting.
Every month you put off learning AI is another month of doing things the slow way. Writing every email from scratch. Creating content from a blank page. Running your business on memory and willpower.
Add it up. Four hours a week on content alone. That's 16 hours a month. Two full working days, every month, that you're not getting back.
Meanwhile, the women who figure this out first? They're getting hours back every week. Not because they're smarter. Because they stopped trying to learn from a screen alone and found someone to sit next to.
The saved prompts folder is not going to save you. The next YouTube video is not going to save you. What changes things is the morning you sit down in a room and actually do it.
The tool was never the problem. The system was. And you can't build a system from a YouTube video.
The solution
Ladies of the Lou. Coffee, connection, and AI.
A monthly Tuesday morning meetup for women entrepreneurs in St. Louis. One AI topic. One practical build. Real coffee. Real people. No tech background required.
Every session, you learn one thing and you build it before you leave. Not "learn about it." Build it. On your laptop. In your business. Done before 9:30 AM.
This is not a lecture. It's not a networking event with name tags and elevator pitches. It's a room full of women who want to learn something new, taught by someone who actually knows how to teach.
Your guide
Angelina Shively
Hey friend, I'm Angelina.
I spent 25 years in education. Teacher. Technology coach. School principal.
In that time I watched thousands of people learn new things. And I noticed something that never changed: people don't struggle with tools. They struggle with systems.
So when I started my own business and discovered AI, I didn't just use it. I built a system around it. I gave each part of my business its own AI team member, with a name, a job, and a skill set, and I watched my week get easier in a way I wasn't expecting.
Now I teach other women to do the same thing. Not with hype. Not with tech speak. Just by sitting down together and building it, one piece at a time, until it works.
That's what Ladies of the Lou is. Me and you and a small group, building something real over coffee.
25
Years in Education
100+
Women Coached on AI
5+
Hours Saved Weekly
From the community
They started where you are.
I was so skeptical about AI. I thought it was going to make everything sound fake. Angelina showed me how to make it sound more like me, not less.
AI Amplified Community Member
The thing that got me was how she explains it. No jargon. No overwhelm. Just "here's what we're doing and here's how to do it."
AI Amplified Community Member
I saved 6 hours last week. Six. And I built it in one session. I kept waiting for it to stop working. It hasn't.
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