I'm Nishma Patel-Robb, founder of Switched ON. AI enthusiast, ex-Google, brand strategist. I say out loud what others won't, test the shiny things so you don't have to, and throw glitter on the useful bits. The whole thing lives on Substack now, come and join us there π Nobody gets left behind. πͺ©
The sequel is finally here: Sparkle + AI πͺ©
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Hello Sparkler, A friend saw what AI was actually doing for me. Her face did the thing only good friends can get away with. Then she said something that made me go home and rewrite the V2 plan I'd been building for months: "You have to share this with other women." So I did. Properly. πͺ©πͺ©πͺ© Glittersphere V2: Sparkle + AI πͺ©πͺ©πͺ© is LIVE NOW The sequel we've all been waiting for. Yes, even more than Devil Wears Prada 2. Glittersphere V2 is events-led. Built around women together in rooms designed to help each other shine, laugh, cheerlead, and sparkle brighter side by side, like a disco ball. Sparkle hasn't moved. It's still the heart of Glittersphere. It is women being unmissable. Your voice, your taste, your point of view. The reason someone remembers you six months later when the right brief finally lands. Personal brand is the whole point, and it's more urgent now than ever, because AI is about to make the generic infinite. AI sits alongside your sparkle. The amplifier. The accompaniment. Never the author of you. Sparkle + AI. Unmissable, accompanied. The full story of how I learned to stop letting AI author me, and start using it like a brilliant colleague, is in this week's Substack essay: The Devil Wears Claude. It's a good one. Why now? Last week Reese Witherspoon told 30 million women it's time to learn AI. She said... "I think it's time to learn about AI. If you don't get a little bit of understanding from the very beginning, it just speeds past you. You have to have little bits of learning just to keep up. Our kids are all using this every single day. I think we should learn the basics together. Do you want me to share what I'm learning? It's time. It's time, people."
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She's right. However, the comments underneath her post made me so sad and so determined, in equal measure. Like Reese and so many women in AI - we care about the ethics and the environmental impact, genuinely and deeply. BUT I also care about what happens to women who get left behind. We need to be in the rooms shaping policy. In the boardrooms deciding how AI reshapes everyone's lives. You cannot change any of that from the outside. AI can be the greatest advantage women have ever had access to. Levelling up on pay, on opportunity, on actual financial freedom without burning out in the process. But only if we start learning now. The leaps in AI every day feel like moving through three phases of the internet in a single week.
It isn't too late. It's perfect timing.
It's a lot easier when someone shows you how they actually use it.
β πͺ© AI Supper Club, Tuesday 20 May. β πͺ© Build an AI Agent workshop, coming in May. Membership gives you first access to all events, all event tickets are discounted to members, and the thing you cannot buy separately: the women in the room. A community, a cheer-leading squad - all in the Whatsapp group and community space. And even more to come... πͺ© Spotlight Events. Work Parties. Retreats. A flagship event. Building. Everything now lives here: glittersphere.comβ Not sure about membership? Come to one event. Decide after. No pressure. ONE BIG HOUSEKEEPING NOTE Thank you for being a subscriber here. I'm so glad you joined me. I am moving you over to Substack. Free, forever. If it is not for you, one-click unsubscribe. But I hope you stay. This is where the fun starts. βUnmissable by Nishma (My Substack) πͺ© Three quick asks: 1) Venues. Supper clubs, workshops, AI sessions. Offices, coffee shops, wherever. Know one? Hit me up. 3) Support on events and social. Know someone? Send them my way. 4) Collaborators - AI experts, partners, women who want to share their wisdom: hello@glittersphere.com π To the V1 founding members who have chosen to stay with me for V2. Your trust and faith in what I am trying to build means the world to me. Properly. Thank you. V2 only exists because of you. π The disco ball is up. πͺ© Nishma x Powered by glitter. Opinions all mine. Please subscribe and follow along ... |
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I'm Nishma Patel-Robb, founder of Switched ON. AI enthusiast, ex-Google, brand strategist. I say out loud what others won't, test the shiny things so you don't have to, and throw glitter on the useful bits. The whole thing lives on Substack now, come and join us there π Nobody gets left behind. πͺ©
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