Part of an ongoing series exploring how women are experiencing the rise of AI in their work and personal lives.
AI's Most Underrated Benefit May Be Mental Clarity
When people talk about AI, the conversation usually revolves around productivity gains, automation, or job disruption.
But those discussions often miss a more subtle benefit.
For many women balancing multiple responsibilities, AI isn't just helping them work faster. It's helping them think more clearly.
Whether it's organizing schedules, reducing administrative burden, summarizing information, or removing hundreds of small daily decisions, AI can create something increasingly valuable: mental space.
That's what stood out in my conversation with Jazz Cole. Her story isn't about replacing employees, creating content at scale, or building the next AI-powered business. It's about using AI to bring order to a demanding life that includes a full-time job, a nonprofit organization, and a newly launched company.
Meet the Interviewee
Jazz Cole is the CEO of Cole International Enterprises LLC and a business operations professional based in the United States.
Interview
Before AI became widely adopted, how would you describe your work and daily responsibilities?
Before AI, I was doing a lot of manual admin tasks considering my business recently launched in 2026. I had to go through my emails one-by-one and deciding which ones were worth reading. Whenever I needed research done, I had to decipher through what I really needed given that google or whatever search engine would be feeding me information that wasn't actually relevant. I also had to create all of my documents and content from scratch rather than having templates I can reference.
How does AI currently intersect with your work or personal life?
Gemini will summarize emails for me when needed, I had a strategic assistant to help with marketing and sales which was an area of improvement for me in the beginning), Gemini will create my scheduled timetables so I don't have to organize my day.
I also run a nonprofit organization outside of my start up and it's helpful to plan my weeks so I can switch gears strategically without confusion. I no longer have to create templates from scratch, I can reference another document in my Google Drive and generate a new document and all I have to do is go through and create the content therein.
In my personal life, it's helpful to use AI for me to process anything from a logical point of view or if I need advice on a certain situation where I'm overthinking and I need to get it out of my head outside of my usual journalling.
I don't take everything it says at face value since I'm a critical thinker, but if it makes sense I'll conduct a trial and error experiment and see if it its suggestions work.
What AI tools do you regularly use?
Primarily Gemini because it connects to all my Google accounts, and the Notion AI agents.
Can you describe a specific moment when you realized AI was directly affecting your life?
In a negative way, I think there was a moment where I really needed to go to bed. I go to bed around 7:30-8pm, but I remember it being almost midnight on a Friday because my analytical brain kept coming up with questions I wanted to ask especially since I'm an otherthinker and I'm naturally curious and I kept going over specific scenarios about social dynamics.
What was your initial reaction?
Curiosity
I have a natural need to know things and anyone who has ever met me in person knows that I love to ask questions.
I'm an operations specialist so I'm constantly looking at how things work and I enjoy dissecting events, people, and places. I think there's a lot to learn about the world around us and I can't help myself, but keep asking questions.
What has been the biggest positive impact AI has had on your work?
Time tables have been a game changer!
I'm an HSP and I get decision-fatigue quite often and it took the guesswork out of how I'm going to get all my work done. I had a 9-5 job, running a nonprofit for almost 10 years and starting up a new business venture based on skills I developed. It's so easy to be overwhelmed by all that.
In a matter of months, I was able to juggle all three things and make it look easy.
What has been the biggest challenge or downside?
On a personal level, the challenge is to make sure it doesn't replace my faith.
It's easy to just ask ChatGPT or Gemini, or any other AI tool to answer all my questions, but I don't want AI to be the first thing I run to when I encounter life challenges or obstacles without consulting God.
I don't want it to take His place because I think if I were to rely on Gemini to solve all my problems, it's not going to allow me to trust myself when it comes to decision-making, and I don't want to make decisions from potentially biased information. Not to mention, that AI tools, from my perspective, look at things logically and sometimes a logical approach to certain circumstances are not required.
Has AI changed how you think about your skills, value, or professional identity?
I don't think it has, it's been more of an assistant to help me expand my ideas into something feasible.
Have you ever felt pressure to learn or adapt to AI faster than you were comfortable with?
Not at all. I was actually very anti-AI for the longest time. I heard people talking about how AI was going to take over everything, and I didn't believe that. I think AI is helpful and is not going away, but I started looking into it with a skeptical lens. I did my research to ensure it wouldn't take over my life.
Have you experienced any situations where AI created unfairness, bias, exclusion, or unexpected opportunities?
Not at all.
Do you think AI has affected expectations at work?
It actually sped up my productivity when it comes to building templates and data recycling for documents and forms I use consistently.
It saved me a lot of time to where I could focus on the content and not figuring out how to outline what I'm doing.
What is one thing about AI that most people misunderstand?
That AI is going to take over everything. I'm not a fear mongerer. I originally was skeptical about AI because I wasn't familiar with it, I'm not an early adopter of anything. I usually like to see how it works out for others and then that's how a build up my trust. I think that AI requires the willingness to learn how to use it responsibly and having the discipline to not rely on it all the time for everything.
What advice would you give other women navigating AI?
I would say that you need to educate yourself on what it does and what it can do for you. You don't want to adopt an AI tool and you don't even know what to do with it.
From a business operations perspective, I would say to look at what aspect of my business and/or life is unorganized or chaotic and look into what AI tools can do to help you and even ask friends/colleagues what they might be using it for so you can get an idea of what it can do for you. I remember asking some business mentors of mine how I could use it in my life and business and they said they use it to plan out their day as to what gets done.
Are you more optimistic or more concerned about AI's future?
Given what I know now, I'm a little bit of both. I'm optimistic about how it can help people, but I'm concerned about the younger generation and that they're taught how to use AI responsibly as they navigate our digital landscape, not to simply do their homework for them, but to use it as a tool to help them grasp concepts in their course work like an AI coach.
Complete this sentence: "AI has changed my life by..."
"...taking the guesswork out of my schedule."
Final Thoughts
What struck me most about Jazz's story is that she views AI very differently from many business leaders.
She doesn't talk about replacing work.
She doesn't talk about cutting costs.
She doesn't talk about building an AI-first company.
Instead, she talks about reducing mental clutter.
That's a perspective we don't hear often enough.
Many professionals today aren't struggling because they lack capability. They're struggling because they're carrying too many competing priorities at once. Work. Family. Side projects. Community commitments. Endless notifications. Endless decisions.
In that environment, AI's greatest contribution may not be helping us do more. It may be helping us decide what deserves our attention in the first place.
I also appreciated Jazz's emphasis on balance. She embraces AI without surrendering her judgment to it. She uses it extensively while remaining thoughtful about its limitations. In a world that often treats AI as either a miracle or a menace, that middle ground feels refreshingly practical.
Perhaps that's the real lesson from this conversation: the most successful AI users won't be the people who ask it to think for them. They'll be the people who use it to create enough clarity and structure that they can think better for themselves.
Are you a woman using AI in your work, business, studies, or daily life I'd love to hear your perspective. If AI has changed how you work, create, learn, lead, or think about your future, share your story in the comments. I'm always looking for new voices and would be happy to interview you for a future edition of this series.
