Sarah Pirie Nally

AI for Humans.
A FREE workshop with Sarah Pirie-Nally

Feeling overwhelmed by AI? You are absolutely not the only one.

As one attendee put it, “there are so many out there it becomes overwhelming” — and staying stuck in the fog is getting expensive.

In this free workshop, I will cut through the hype and show you what AI actually looks like inside a real business. No jargon parade, no vague futurist talk — just a clear, practical starting point you can actually use.

People describe my sessions as “super practical and fun,” “never wordy or presumptuous,” and “both enjoyable and educational” — even frequent ChatGPT users say they “still learned something new.”

AI for Humans is designed for people who want to stop guessing and start understanding where AI can save time, sharpen decision-making, and make day-to-day work easier.

You’ll get a grounded look at what matters, what doesn’t, and how to spot useful opportunities without getting distracted by every new tool shouting for your attention.

One attendee left “so inspired to have a go,” another loved the idea of becoming “my own creative director.”

Totally new to this? You’re in good company. As one guest said: “I’m totally clueless about AI and learnt a lot of new words I’ll have to google — oops, I mean, ask AI about!”

If AI has been sitting on your to-do list, lurking in the background, or making you feel a little behind, come join us. You’ll leave with more clarity, more confidence, and a much better sense of what to do next — or in attendees’ words, the “best AI session I’ve EVER been to.”

Bring your questions, your skepticism, and your curiosity.
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Here is what took me until years after my divorce and once I was remarried to admit: I wasn’t building success. I was building safety.

I didn’t see it intellectually. Not as another insight to file away with the others.

I saw it in my bones.

It came at the end of a run of losses so absurd I genuinely believed I was cursed. Eighty to a hundred thousand dollars of my life, gone in pieces. A box of contents that vanished into the back of a taxi. My laptop left on a plane. Priceless heirlooms. My jewellery box lost on a Virgin voyage. My earrings abandoned in a Darth Vader themed hotel room. A diamond ring down an aeroplane toilet. 🚽

Drama after drama after drama, and I kept asking what I had done to deserve it.

It felt so bad I went to an Etsy witch. Yes I even looked at the neuroscience of surrender as I was paying a stranger on the internet to lift a curse, but the truth was I already knew what to do. I had simply lost connection to myself.

Then it landed.

The abundance I was so busy trying to manifest was literally flushing down aeroplane toilets, because the one thing I had never built was the thing that holds abundance in place.

Safety. Self worth.

You cannot keep what you do not believe you are allowed to have.

For years I thought I was trying to earn belonging. To be accepted. To prove myself. But underneath all of it was something far more human.

I was trying to feel safe. Safe in my relationships. Safe in my family. Safe in my business. Safe in my place in the world. Safe in my bones.

I can see now all the ways I worked overtime to create that feeling. I explained myself. I over-delivered. I over-functioned. I became helpful, successful, accommodating, endlessly resourceful.

Now those things weren’t wrong. But somewhere along the way I learned that belonging was something you earned. That safety was conditional. That acceptance was something you worked for.

The painful part wasn’t seeing it. It was realising how exhausted I had become carrying it.

The beautiful part was realising I could put it down.

Here is what I found when I did.

1. Name the need beneath the behaviour.

Every behaviour is trying to solve a problem. People-pleasing, perfectionism, over-achieving. They are often just trying to create safety.

Before you judge yourself, ask: what was I trying to protect? Compassion starts there.

2. Stop confusing belonging with approval.

Approval is external and can be withdrawn. Belonging is internal and cannot. The moment I stopped treating approval as proof of my worth, I became free.

3. Notice the “membership applications”.

Please like me. Please choose me. Please understand me. Please tell me I’m enough. Nobody had asked me to submit them. I was volunteering.

When I stopped applying, I realised I was already in the room.

4. Safety cannot be built on someone else’s opinion.

External validation constantly moves. If your peace depends on everyone agreeing with you, you will never rest.

Real safety is trusting yourself even when someone misunderstands you.

5. Release responsibility for other people’s healing.

I can love people, support them, wish them well. But I cannot heal them. I cannot process their grief or complete their journey. That responsibility belongs to them.

6. Build evidence of safety.

Safety isn’t only a feeling. It’s evidence. So I looked at the facts. People who loved me. Children who needed me. Clients who trusted me. Friends who chose me. A life I had built. The evidence had been there all along. I simply wasn’t looking at it.

7. Issue your own membership card.

I stopped waiting for someone to tell me I belonged. I stopped waiting for a verdict. I stopped waiting for permission.

I issued my own membership card.

Because it was already mine.

Belonging was something I thought you earned. It isn’t.

No application required. No approval needed. Valid for life.

Case dismissed. 💕✨🫀

I lost a hundred thousand dollars of my things before I understood what I was really missing.

If you recognise yourself in this, tell me which lesson landed 🛬

📚 Looking at this stack of books, I realised something.

I’ve read hundreds, maybe even a thousand books over the years.

These are the ones that stayed.

Not because they taught me how to use AI.

Because they taught me how to think.

And right now, as every second LinkedIn post screams about the latest AI tool, I’m noticing something interesting…

Most of the lessons we need for the AI era were already sitting on my bookshelf.

✨ Thinking, Fast and Slow
✨ Blink
✨ Nudge

Humans are beautifully irrational. The future belongs to people who know when to trust AI and when to challenge it.

✨ The 4-Hour Workweek
✨ Buy Back Your Time
✨ The Personal MBA

Systems beat hustle. AI doesn’t fix messy businesses. It accelerates them.

✨ The Alchemist
✨ Eat, Pray, Love
✨ Braving the Wilderness
✨ Thrive

The goal was never efficiency.

The goal was always a meaningful life.

✨ The Tipping Point
✨ Outliers
✨ Freakonomics
✨ How to Win Friends and Influence People
✨ Start With Why

Big shifts start with small changes in perspective.

The more I work with AI, the more convinced I become of this:

Technology is rarely the bottleneck.

Culture is.

Mindset is.

Trust is.

Identity is.

Relationships are.

Meaning is.

The irony?

The books that prepared me most for the future weren’t about technology at all.

They were about being human.

📖 If you could only take 5 books to a desert island, which ones are making the cut?

And a little nod to my friend who recently shared her own bookshelf and inspired me to do the same. Sometimes the best recommendations don’t come from algorithms. They come from people who love learning enough to pass it on. 💛

👋 I have a whole new set of community recently so wanted to re-introduce myself (and pip, my pink sidekick)