This episode started as a question on a plane ride home: What's the difference between content that moves us and content that just... exists?

The answer? Soulfulness.

That emergent property—the thing that happens when your thoughts, emotions, and words are completely congruent. The resonance you feel in your bones when someone writes from a place of truth.

AI can learn grief intellectually. But it's never cried in the bathtub on a Sunday morning and shown up to work anyway. It's never felt the ache that makes you need to create. And that's the unique human touch only YOU got.

In this episode, I break down:

• The psychology and science behind soulfulness
• The difference between understanding something cognitively vs. feeling it in your bones
• How to use AI to amplify your soulfulness, not strip it away
• 5 practices for training AI on your energetics so it reflects YOU back, not some polished robot version

Here's the truth: AI can give you the template for a song, an Instagram post, a piece of content. But only you know how you write. Only you know what place in your body you create from. Only you have the lump in your throat that needs to speak.

If you're a creative, a coach, or a personal brand wondering how to stay resonant in an AI-flooded world—this one's for you.

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SOULFUL AI PROMPTS:

1. AI as Mirror, Not Master

• "Clean this up and make it flow better, but don't take the heart, essence, and soul out of what I had to share."
• "What is the emotional tone of this? What feeling is brewing underneath this piece of writing?"
• "If I were to feel [emotion] 20% more here, how do you think this would've been different? What could I have said? Where might you invite me to stretch more into that feeling?"

2. Train AI on Your Energetics

• "What is the vibe of my voice based on [feed it journal entries, DMs, poetic rants, voice note transcriptions]?"
• "What words, cadences, or emotions do I consistently repeat?"
• "How might you describe me?"
• "Remember this as [Your Name]'s voice. Is this congruent with [Your Name]'s voice?"
• "If we were to turn up the volume of [Your Name]'s voice 20% more in this piece of content, what might that look like?"

3. Widen Your Perspectives

• "Rewrite this but as a love letter to my past self."
• "Rewrite this but add a tone of [reverence, longing... etc.]."
• "Rewrite this but make it sound like an even more honest version of me, based on what you actually know about me."

4. Get Friction & Feedback

• "Does this sound like me? What do you think I think, feel, and believe based off of these words?"
• "What do you sense that I'm trying to say that I haven't said yet?"
• "If I were more brave/courageous/honest, what do you think I haven't said yet?"
• "Where am I not congruent in this writing?"