I'm Deb. I write a weekly newsletter called Mostly Human, I run a community called Joy Prompt Club, and I teach midlife women how to use AI without losing their minds or their dignity. I've been doing this every single Monday for 43+ weeks without missing one. That's not discipline. That's stubbornness and a deep fear of letting people down.

Here's how I got here: I spent 24 years at Accenture. I expected to retire there. Instead, I got laid off in March 2024 during one of the worst job markets in recent memory. I was 54, freshly diagnosed with ADHD, and staring down a system that had no idea what to do with me.

So I built something instead.

Not because I had a plan. Because sitting still felt worse than starting from scratch. I founded Accent on Our Future - a community of over 1,200 folx who got laid off alongside me. I started teaching AI to people who were terrified of it. I launched a newsletter, then a community, then workshops and cohorts. I built a whole business out of the thing everyone else was panicking about.

This newsletter is for women like us. Professional. Smart. Experienced. And quietly panicking that the entire world moved to AI while we were doing actual work. You're not behind. You're not too old. You're not too late. You are exactly who this technology was built for - you just haven't had anyone show you that yet without making you feel stupid.

Here's what I do differently: I start with the fear, not the features. Most AI training assumes you're excited. I assume you're nervous, skeptical, and one bad experience away from giving up entirely. Every issue of Mostly Human uses the ROCO framework - Role, Objective, Context, Output - because good prompts aren't about memorizing magic words. They're about knowing what you actually need and saying it clearly. That's a skill you already have. You just haven't applied it here yet.