The One Thing AI Can Never Replace: Abigail Posner on Your Human Code

And I've always tapped my anthropology, right? That was like, oh, that's my crutch.

I can do that.

And of course I had my brand strategy skills.

So I knew how to like, tailor my insights in cool ways.

You know, we learned that in school.

And because I was a bit of an actress growing up, I felt very comfy on stages.

And Google had a lot of platforms, right? So they would throw me out.

They're like, I don't know what this Abigail Posner person does, but clients love her.

So we're just going to put her on stage.

And by the way, that's how I got scouted 10 years ago by the speaking industry.

But this whole story is opened me up to a totally new thought.

Because I remember people were saying, oh, you got to write a book.

You got to write a book.

And I was like, oh,

God, the last thing I want to do is write a book.

I'm not an author.

I don't want to write a book.

And I'm like, I don't even know, what would I write a book about? I have so many different things.

Like, I'm a mother in Manhattan.

Okay.

Well, you've seen that before.

Or am I going to write about anthropology? Am I going to write about creativity? Am I going to write about Humanizing tech, which was this whole platform I created, like what? Forget it.

And between that journey and then what happened to Google, I realized something.

All these sides of myself, they're actually the point.

They're not the problem, right? And we were so taught, especially in the world of brand strategy, to pick a lane, pick a lane, focus, know what your story is, right? But actually, it was these other sides of myself that gave me the leg up, that gave me the edge.