#190: 💻 Ladies Who Claude: What 30 Women Built in Three Weeks

And The AI Gender Gap That Ladies Who Claude Is On A Mission To Close

Hey friends,

Here’s a few stats that made me want to throw my laptop across the room.

Only ~1/3rd of women use AI at work.

There’s a 25% gender gap in adoption between men and women.

Only 9% of women use AI multiple times a day.

Meanwhile every headline out there is telling us AI is about to change how we all work and live.

So I did the only thing that made sense to me, I opened up my living room in Lisbon and started teaching my girlfriends how to use Claude.

And my program, Ladies Who Claude was born.

That was three weeks ago. Since then I’ve taught more than 30 women across group classes and private sessions. Next week I’m moving the class out of the living room and into a larger venue in central lisbon for a class on July 22 from 17:00 - 19:30. Sign up here.

This week’s note is the story of what happened and what my students have built.

Cheers,

Nina

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In this note:

• 💻 Ladies Who Claude: What 30 Women Built in Three Weeks

• 🎥 A Original Animation Created in 30m with Claude Code

• ⚡️ Claude’s Science Beta

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#190: 💻 Ladies Who Claude: What 30 Women Built in Three Weeks

I learned Claude Code through Nick Sarafa’s class back in April and wrote about it here.

It completely changed my life.

In the very literal sense that I don’t start a task anymore, I go to Claude.

Let me repeat that.

I do not start a task. I do not open a spreadsheet. I do not open a software.

I just go to Claude first and tell Claude (with my voice, not typing) what I want to do, then I watch Claude help me do it.

This is the future.

No more software. No more keyboard.

It’s not only a mindset shift but a tooling shift too.

So when I read that women are adopting AI at a fraction of the rate that men are, I couldn’t just be annoyed about it on the internet.

It’s not just that women aren’t adopting AI. This also means they aren’t learning the new tools that support AI. They don’t yet know that soon the keyboard will be obsolete.

And that made me want to bring a room full of actual women together to do something about it.

I’ve always believed women learn differently without men in the room. Something opens up.

People actually say “wait, can you say that again” instead of nodding along and then Googling it later.

So that’s the room I built.

From My Living Room to a Waitlist

My 5th group of Ladies Who Claude students learning in my living room

Three weeks ago it was me, my laptop, and a handful of friends on my couch. Since then it’s turned into group Zoom classes, hours-long private 1:1 sessions, an in-person workshop planned for next week, and a growing community in a WhatsApp chat.

I’m sending the WhatsApp group a weekly Monday prompt “What are you building this week?” and I’m impressed by every reply of what these ladies are building.

I’ve also started doing 10-minute onboarding calls for every person before the in-person classes so we don’t waste time downloading software during class time.

And now, the next step is my new in-person class at a bigger venue in central Lisbon (Sign up!).

I did not see this coming three weeks ago.

I just wanted to teach my friends.

The Four Ways I Teach Claude

Every session starts the same way because there are four doors into using Claude, and most people only know about one of them.

Chat is the one everyone already knows. Drafting, brainstorming, asking basic questions. Using it as a thought partner.

Cowork is where you start to see the power of AI. This is where you connect your Gmail, your calendar, your Google Drive (and more), then let Claude run light automations and scheduled tasks for you.

Claude Code in the desktop app where you start actually building things. Tools, workflows, small apps, and websites.

Claude Code in the Terminal is the deep end and also the most powerful Claude tool. It’s where Claude was natively built, and it’s the only one with real persistent memory through local project folders.

Almost everyone arrives only knowing Chat, and by the end of class everyone has all 4 options installed and has built their first AI automation.

That’s a win in my book.

The Moments That Made Me SO SO Happy

One of my students, Grace, runs a communications agency across three time zones and told me she resisted Claude “so much” before the class. By the end of our session she said,

“My productivity is insane. Like, I’m quick anyway. But now I’m, like, chaining it. It knows my tone of voice. It’s talking to all my tools. It’s in the Google Drive. It’s in my shoes. Like, it’s just amazing.”

It’s in her inbox, her Drive, her tone of voice, and she said her productivity now feels insane.

That’s Ladies Who Claude in one sentence.

Hayriye, a chef and restaurant owner, opened her session with “I’m a chef, I don’t need AI,” and by the end of class was connecting her restaurant’s Gmail to manage orders.

She almost downloaded a lookalike app with a logo just close enough to Claude’s to fool her, which is a useful thing to watch out for if you’re just getting started. Always download directly from the source, not just the first result in a Google or app store search. (FYI - Claude desktop app can only be downloaded from the Claude.ai/download link.)

One participant created a time-audit and she watched Claude surface that her job search should be her top priority right now, instead of a packed social calendar of Lisbon summer events. (Harsh Claude, but ok).

She also used Claude Code to diagnose why her laptop storage was full, and found close to 150GB of forgotten screen recordings from 2023 she didn’t even know she had.

And then I introduce all my students to my favorite app of all time right now, WisprFlow, the speech-to-text tool I recommend in every single session. I talk at 185 words a minute and type at 80, so the math there isn’t even close. One student clocked in even faster, and asked me, only half joking, why she would ever type again.

Suzy’s Idea Is Now Part of the Program

At my last in-person class on Monday, Suzy (an IFS therapist who came in with a healthy dose of resistance) suggested we end with everyone sharing what they built. I loved it so much that it’s now a permanent part of my program format. Some of the best ideas in this whole program haven’t just come from me, they’ve come from the room.

Nicole, who joined from Barcelona, had already built her own website and brand guide with Claude before ever meeting me.

She mentioned offhand that her WhatsApp group of 27 professional moms was already trading AI tips, things like grocery lists for nannies, school email triage, and multilingual homework help. There’s clearly a “MomBosses Who Claude” workshop waiting to happen, and we’re piloting it.

And there’s Joseph, a private client referred from a ‘Ladies Who Claude’ Alumna, who is a fractional CFO trying to build a slower paced life.

He asked me the question I think everyone secretly wants to ask: has this actually made you more money, or is your life just easier?

My honest answer is both. Claude 100% has made my life easier. I’ve created more hours in the day to enjoy my life - to spend time with friends and do ceramics.

I’ve also made money with Claude. I’ve had Claude help me design guidebooks that I’ve been able to launch within 3 hours, a task that would have taken me hiring a designer and a week’s worth of time before. Claude has helped me to create prospect lists for sales outreach that have landed me podcast sponsorship deals.

And well….*clears throat* I’m launching a movement to empower women with AI because of Claude, and money is flowing in through that too.

Claude helped me to build the entire Ladies Who Claude website and payment pages in one day, making launching this company the easiest launch I’ve ever had.

Mastering Claude is like having a personal assistant with you 24/7. However, you also have to think about Claude the way I’d think about an eager intern, smart, fast, occasionally saving a file in the wrong folder, but completely unbothered when you point it out.

That analogy I took from Nick Sarafa’s class back in April, and I believe it gives people more patience with AI because we shouldn’t expect perfection from AI, just like we don’t expect perfection from humans.

Want to Join Ladies Who Claude?

Next in person class is Wednesday, July 22 at 17:00 - 19:30 in Central Lisbon.

The online program is TBA, but you can sign up for updates on the Ladies Who Claude website through the contact form.

Head to ladieswhoclaude.com to see what’s coming up, or just reply to this email and tell me where you’re stuck with AI.

I read every single message.

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🎥 Content of the Week

No book this week, and honestly no show either. The only thing I’ve actually consumed lately is my own AI experiments, so we’re counting that. Besides that I’ve been teaching women how to AI in my living room.

But yesterday, Claude blew my mind. AGAIN.

I built a 20 second teaser trailer for an upcoming guidebook I am launching.

I prompted Claude Fable 5 with this super simple prompt in the terminal:

“I want to create a 20-second teaser trailer for my upcoming guidebook, Longevity and Psychedelics. I can give you the videos of three lectures I gave on the topic. I can also give you the entire text of the guidebook, and I want you to use Higgsfield to create the teaser trailer.”

14 min later, Claude created an animation - gorgeous, colorful, all on its own with no brand direction or creative guidelines.

Then I just had to give it a voiceover file with my own voice, add the Nina’s Notes original jingle, and some small edits. Another 14 min later I had this.

I can’t believe it.

This would have cost me a few hundred dollars, hiring a designer and an animator, and probably 2 weeks of my own time.

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⚡️ Check This Out

Claude Science Beta just went live.

I’ve clicked around in it for 10 minutes and I can already tell you this would have saved me at least a year of my PhD.

The first suggested task “Map Recent Literature of the Subfield,” is what most first-year graduate students spend a year doing.

I had to try it.

I asked Claude Science to map the literature of the Psychedelics + Longevity field, which is a small emerging field, and after 20 minutes. It gave me these 2 figures and a list of 42 of the most relevant papers.

This is insane. It’s built for exactly the kind of research-heavy, cite-your-sources, repeatable biology lab bench work that I used to do in my PhD and at my biotech startups.

I’ll report back as I dig deeper.

But already, Wow.

I wish I had this 10 years ago.

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