If you don’t already know me, I’m a somewhat overweight millennial called Matthew Hitcham.
In January of 2022 I was preparing to declare bankruptcy.
I had lost my previous job due to COVID, and was unable to make payments on my credit cards and my loan.
I was 3 months late on my rent, and the world felt like it was crumbling down. I had two kids and a wife to support.
At night time, when everyone else was asleep, I would stay up trying to figure a way out of this mess I’d found myself in.
Then one day a few weeks later, browsing a ChatGPT group on Facebook, I saw someone offering a bundle of 2,000 prompts, and the response they received was astounding.
ChatGPT had its public release just a couple of months before this, and I’d already been dedicating a lot of time in trying to build skills with it.
It clicked at this moment – I can do this, and I can do it much better.
The following day I started my TikTok channel and started to post my prompts and methods.
And that’s when everything changed.
I was getting hundreds of thousands of views on each video, some even getting up to 10 million views each!
Some of my ChatGPT methods were so well received that they spread far, becoming adopted by AI enthusiasts the world over.
I see them cloned, modified, and claimed by others regularly.
In the background I was working on the first version of ChatGPT Black Magic, and it was launched shortly after, in February 2023.
It was with the release of ChatGPT Black Magic that my world really started to change.
I no longer had to worry about bankruptcy, and quickly I had gone from rock bottom to owning a 6-figure business. I was interviewed on podcasts, invited to international speaking events, and more.
It has been an incredibly journey.
But one of the best things for me personally is that having a solid knowledge of how to use AI tools, I am able to use them to my advantage.
I work around 25 hours per week, and I get to see my kids grow up. I drop my son at school in the morning, and pick him up in the afternoon.
My working hours fit between this.
I tell you this story for two reasons.
1. Transparency
I don’t claim to be a developer, a deep learning specialist, an MIT graduate who has been creating complex AI systems. I am just a regular guy with a dash of creativity who has spent time using these tools. And if I can do it, you can too.
2. To Highlight The Power of AI Tools
A lot of people are very negative of AI, many even fearful. (Trust me, I run a lot of ads on Facebook and get a lot of comments!).
But these incredible tools available to us really do have the ability to turn us into superhumans. Especially entrepreneurs and small business owners, to whom there aren’t usually enough hours in the day.