Hey,
I’m Chelsea.
I'm using AI to build my dream life. Here's how I went from slogging it out in an office job I hated, to working full-time whilst travelling around the world in the span of a year.
IT ALL BEGAN ON A SUNNY SUNDAY IN 1997...
But for the sake of this page I'll skip over the first 27 years and jump to the genesis point — My Dream Job — something I’d wanted to do ever since I was a child, in an industry where it’s notoriously difficult to get your foot in the door. Particularly for someone who never went to uni (that's a whole other story in itself).
After years of working in many different roles and wearing many different hats (childcare worker, trivia host, dog walking business owner, freelance graphic designer, toothpaste company founder, food content creator, production coordinator on Border Security, associate producer for a show on Amazon Prime…) I landed a job as a TV Producer for the biggest morning show in Australia.
Like, THE EXACT JOB I had dreamed of doing ever since I visited the studios when I was 11. It was the first time in my life where I thought, "Yes - this is exactly what I'm meant to be doing and everything up until this point has led me here."
I worked my guts off in that role. I was convinced that if I threw everything I had at it, I'd eventually be rewarded. I worked weekends, I worked overnight, I worked on every public holiday for a year.
I was working irregular, unpredictable hours. Had zero social life. Sleep schedule down the drain. Couldn’t even book a Dr’s appointment because I had no idea what my roster would be on any given day.
MY DREAM JOB WAS ACTUALLY A LIVING NIGHTMARE
I was working ridiculously long hours, but I was technically just a casual employee — which meant no annual leave, no sick leave, no job security, just an empty promise that if I stuck it out long enough, maybe I’d be rewarded with a full-time position, possibly, eventually… (but I shouldn’t count on it).
If I chose to eat my lunch outside instead of at my desk whilst continuing to work, that was frowned upon. Whenever I wanted to take a day off or told them I was unavailable, it was a massive problem. They told me they desperately needed me, but refused to make me permanent full-time. I was miserable and my mental health absolutely tanked but I stuck it out with the hopes that it was just a means to an end.
And then reality came crashing down when I was pulled into my boss’ office in March 2025 and told that actually, no permanent full-time positions would become available anytime soon.
I had the bleak realisation that chasing this specific career path had led to me sacrificing absolutely every single other thing I valued in life.
THE GREAT MENTAL BREAKDOWN OF 2025
I walked out of that meeting with my boss, I had a full-blown mental breakdown in the office (lol!) and I quit the next day.
And honestly I had a bit of an identity crisis because I thought that everything in my life had led me to that career, and I was absolutely terrified of not knowing what I’d do instead.
Once I got my shit together and picked myself up off the floor (after said mental breakdown), I turned to good ol’ Claude, and I made it my personal career advisor. I fed it absolutely everything — my education, my previous experience, everything I hated about my job in TV, my non-negotiables for my next role.
And then I started dreaming a bit bigger — and I asked myself, what does the best-case scenario ACTUALLY look like? And instead of letting my job dictate my life, I first decided what kind of life I wanted to live, and then reverse-engineered career ideas based on what I actually valued. So I came up with a checklist, and I allowed myself to include anything and everything that would actually make me happy.
MAYBE IF I WRITE A CHECKLIST I CAN SOLVE ALL MY PROBLEMS
(For some reason when my mental health takes a dive I really do think to myself, "ya know, if I just make a really good checklist, everything will be solved." And it kinda does work most of the time. Could be an ADHD thing.)
So anyway I got a big piece of paper and began crafting My Ultimate Career Checklist, which looked something like this:
My Ultimate Career Checklist
- Freedom to travel and work from anywhere in the world, 100% remote
- Complete autonomy
- No micro-managing
- Set my own schedule, work the hours that suit me
- All the benefits of full-time employment (paid leave, job security etc)
- Clock in, clock out, don't think about work outside of work hours
- Job where I can be creative
- Like-minded colleagues, good workplace culture
- No pointless meetings about meetings
- Wouldn't mind a break from answering to middle-aged white guys
- Make a shit tonne of money so that I can buy my dream coastal farm and retire at 40 if I choose to
And I continued adding to my checklist all the things I wanted and all the things I definitely didn’t want, and the non-negotiables, and the “nice-to-haves”, not paying attention to whether any of it was actually possible, just designing the most ideal situation I could possibly imagine.
And then Claude took that data, and helped me come up with an exact plan to make that my reality.
That was in March 2025. As of March 2026, I am currently working full-time in a job that ticks pretty much every single one of those boxes, from my laptop, whilst travelling solo around the world for 9 months.
I found a role that was 100% remote, and timed it so that when I asked if I could work from abroad, I knew they’d agree.
I DEVELOPED A HYPERFIXATION ON AI
I became obsessed with AI and spent all of my free time playing around with different AI tools, watching lectures online, learning how LLMs actually work under the hood, and just USING it and testing things and tweaking and reiterating until they worked.
I became the 'go-to' in my circle for anything AI-related. Then I became the go-to at work, delivering AI training to my whole team in Jan 2026 and implementing a bunch of AI-powered systems to streamline the business' operations. I made myself indispensable, so that when I asked if I could work from anywhere in the world, I knew they’d say yes. All part of the master plan I'd devised, using Claude, so that I was strategically positioned to get what I wanted.
THAT is the power of AI. And that’s how AI can change your life when you use it for bigger things than just “rewrite this email for me”.
OPERATION HOT, HAPPY, HEALTHY AND WEALTHY
So of course, the natural progression was then to see how many other areas of my life I could transform using the same system. And so I started looking at every single area of my life and listing out absolutely everything I wanted to achieve in each area — physical, emotional, occupational, financial, environmental, intellectual, social and spiritual. I became obsessed with figuring how I could do exactly what I’ve done for my career, across every other area of my life.
PLAYER 1, CUSTOMISE YOUR CHARACTER
I approached my life like a game, and started thinking of all the possible ways I could customise my character. Then I handed Claude the controller.
Once the system architecture was all built, I decided to run an 8-week experiment on myself to test its effectiveness. The premise: set up one pillar per week, so that by the end of the 8-week experiment, I have a completely automated, AI-powered system that allows me to live the life of my dreams and actually achieve my goals.
Because I can't tell you how many times I've sat down and created a Dream Life Journal or printed out a vision board or visualised my ideal future self, I've been doing this shit since I read my first self-help book in my early 20's, but NOTHING HAS EVER FREAKIN' WORKED!!!
And as soon as AI became available to me, I unlocked something I've never been able to successfully build before - a system that is expertly designed to make me succeed. It has access to allllllll of the evidence-backed, psychological levers that actually drive adherence. It knows how my brain works. It knows where I'm currently at and where I want to be, and all the things stopping me from achieving my goals. And that's a very, very powerful system.
I’m in the middle of that experiment right now — 3 weeks in — and I’m making tweaks and adjustments as I go, sharing it all live on Instagram.
NOT A SELF-HELP GURU
It's a slippery slope between being motivated to improve your life and reading inspirational stories and listening to motivational speakers... and slowly being sucked into the world of self-help grifters with their get-rich-quick schemes and online courses and pyramid schemes disguised as MLMs disguised as legitimate businesses, until you find yourself on a call with a 'high-ticket closer' trying to manipulate you into paying $9k for some sort of life coaching program.
It's slimy and gross and I never want to become that.
I'm literally building this system for my own benefit, and then making it available to others so that if they want, they can benefit from it too.
I believe that AI literacy is a skill that should be accessible to everyone — which is why I’ll keep updating this site with a tonne of free resources, prompts, codes and workflows so that anyone can start benefitting from AI, for free, no matter what their experience is.
While my goal is to make enough money through this project that I can focus on it full-time, I still believe it’s really important to make this info free and accessible, so I hope that even if you never buy anything from me, you still get a bunch of value and learn real things that you can start implementing to improve your own life. My 'Resources' tab is updated regularly with a bunch of free prompts, workflows and secret codes.
I’m excited for whatever’s next, so stay tuned for the journey :)
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