Her Story with a little help

The best stories don’t often make it to the web.

When I met Andrea and she told me about her life I knew it had to be shared with the world. She’s the sweetest woman you’ll ever meet. She now has the white picket fence house and family, but it wasn’t always like that. She started her adult life living in a van and calling anywhere and everywhere “home” But there were a couple of reasons her life wasn’t shared on the web for everyone to hear.

A life worth sharing

Andrea lights up the room when she enters, with her kindness and laughter. She’s lived a life most people dream about. But when it came to putting pen to paper, she wasn’t sure where to start. We talked about the idea of blogging and using the internet to reach people who’d be inspired by her journey. However, as we dove into writing, it became clear that transforming her spoken stories into polished articles wasn’t easy.

Getting Creative with AI

I’ve spent time working on my own blog, but I wasn’t sure where to share her story or how to tell it. I'm not a storyteller by any means. Then it dawned on me. I’ve been looking to learn about Pinterest, so I offered to help. We decided to try a new approach: using AI to help structure her thoughts and add polish to her story. Instead of making the story sound like something it wasn’t, the AI became more of a tool to help her voice shine through, sorting out tangents and capturing her thoughts in a way that truly represented her personality.

In some ways, AI was like a writing partner, asking the right questions and keeping us on track. It helped her overcome the barrier of a blank page, giving her a starting point to add her own personality and life into every paragraph. What could have taken hours to organize was now a manageable, enjoyable process.

Testing the Waters on Pinterest

The next step was figuring out how to turn her story into a Pinterest strategy. We wanted to see if her adventures could inspire an audience, so we brainstormed ways to make her content visually appealing and easy to find. We created a board on Pinterest and began sharing. We looked at a lot of content on Pinterest and didn’t find a lot of stories. It was mostly lists and guides, so we decided to write two articles a day. One of her stories and another that was a list or guide to travelling or life.

With the help of AI we created catchy titles and visuals that we felt really pulled the story together. A couple of notes. We aren’t making things “SEO” friendly. I think a lot of times people ask AI to write “SEO” friendly content and I think it backfires. Instead, we focus on telling Andrea’s story. In the titles, descriptions, and the articles. The hope is for people to read her stories and be inspired to live their best lives.

We learn, we laugh, and hopefully we grow through the journey

It’s been really exciting. I’ve been using AI to help me in my work, but I’ve never used AI to help someone else in such a profound way. Andrea’s story is valuable and worth sharing so to use AI to get it out to the world has been remarkable. We laugh, she cries (I’m too manly to cry 😉)

We aren’t done yet. We’re still working on finding Andrea’s voice and creating content that captures not only her story but the emotions that went with it. And I get to learn about Pinterest which has been a lot of fun!

Where We’re Going from Here

Our goal is simple. We want to see if a life full of adventure can be told using AI. Not in a fake way. Not in a way that gets a lot of clicks or sells a lot of junk through affiliate marketing. But if AI can capture Andrea’s spirit.

So here we are—two friends, a laptop, and a dream. And who knows? Maybe, just maybe, there’s an audience out there waiting to hear what she has to say.

You can find her story on Pinterest. Her profile name is TravelJammies.