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- AZ TRT S06 EP06 (267) 3-23-2025
What We Learned This Week
- ChatGPT is an AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, that can engage in human-like conversations
- ChatGPT can read docs, edit docs, answer Qs, and transcribe
- Elevenreader – app that turns any document into audio
- Google Drive – office suite of tools for spreadsheets, docs, powerpoints, & more
- Todoist – task management program
- Pocket – web research tool that saves & organizes links
Guest: Denver Nowicz, President - Wealth For Life
http://wealthforlife.net/
Denver is an advisor with nearly 20 years experience working with clients in investments and insurance, designing retirement plans with a combo of both. He takes us through different strategies for clients to get the best allocations for their money over the long term. It is the Combo Strategy of both Offense and Defense, the synergy of the mix, not ‘All or Nothing’.

Notes:
Seg 1
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, that can engage in human-like conversations and generate various text formats, including articles, emails, and code, based on the prompts it receives.
Denver uses ChatGPT daily for both business and personal use
You can have live interaction with ChatGPT where you can actually talk with the AI program using a microphone
Example of this, Denver had to fix his boat motor and suspected something was wrong with the fuel line. Able to turn on the camera on his computer to show it to ChatGPT who helped diagnose the problem in real time.
Another example is you can use ChatGPT for cooking to help with recipes
It’s important to understand how you frame the questions to ChatGPT, to get the best answer as possible. ChatGPT can create work docs and summary docs.
Common use is as an editor to what you write.
Denver uses ChatGPT to help with his weekly newsletter. He will voice text into his phone the Notes. Then he copies those notes into the AI program and it helps create and write the newsletter. Then Denver can make edits on it.
Can also upload previous docs that you have written, so the AI can figure out your writing style, and philosophy. Then the AI can write future docs in your style.
The speed of AI is amazing where it literally saves you time and makes you more efficient.
AI program can even read PDFs and screenshots, or you can give it a link to a video and it can pull the audio transcript.
AI can be used as a teacher to discover new things, and even as a psychologist.
There is a tech arms race going on in AI with programs like Microsoft Copilot, Google Bard, ChatGPT, and now Deepseek.
Seg 2
Productivity apps recommended by Denver
Many of the apps he uses are free or a very low cost, here are some he likes:
Elevenreader AI voice app
Turns any document into an audiobook. This can be time saving as you can listen to it vs reading it. App also has a library to store your audiobooks.
https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-elevenlabs-reader-app
Google Drive
Has a number of programs you can use like docs, storage, PowerPoint, share forms, and folders with people, an easy to tag and organize
https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/
Todoist task management program
The program can also sync up with your Google calendar, so you can voice task, text a task and then categorize it
Carl Pullen on time blocking – videos on LKIN
YouTube link: HERE
Pocket - web research tool so you can save links of website websites you search
Also can organize your web, searches and links, and it saved in an app on your phone
Search features in categorize in a folder
Visual dashboard with links
Very good to use with work or especially if you’re saving notes for a newsletter
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