# Beyond the WARN Notice - The Rise of the AI Entrepreneur
# Why the Next Great Business May Be Built by One Person, a Laptop, and an Idea
A Special Invitation to Oracle Employees, Tech Professionals, and Anyone Who Wants More Control Over Their Future.
This is Session #1 of an ongoing Denver meetup series focused on helping professionals create income they control, attract customers faster, and compete with organizations hundreds of times their size in the age of AI.
What if June 1st isn't the end of a chapter? What if it's the beginning of a new and better one?
For decades, building a business required significant capital, employees, marketing departments, designers, programmers, and years of trial and error.
Today, AI has changed the rules.
The Corporate Advantage Is Shrinking.
AI is giving individuals and small businesses capabilities that previously belonged only to large organizations with significant budgets and resources.
The professionals who learn how to leverage AI may discover that what initially felt like a setback becomes the catalyst for greater freedom, flexibility, and income they control.
Artificial Intelligence is changing the world faster than most
people realize.
Some people see AI as a threat. We see it as one of the greatest opportunity-creation tools ever made available to individuals willing to learn how to use it.
Whether you've been laid off, are concerned about a future layoff, are approaching retirement, or simply want greater control over your future, this interactive workshop series will show you how AI can help you create opportunities that would have been difficult, expensive, or impossible just a few years ago.
For Oracle employees approaching the end of their WARN notice period, as well as anyone concerned about the future of work, this interactive series explores how AI can be used to create new opportunities, launch businesses, attract customers, and build income streams that don't depend on a single employer.
A career disruption doesn't have to be the end of the story.
It may be the beginning of your best chapter.
This is not a "get rich quick" seminar. And it certainly isn't MLM!
This is a practical, hands-on workshop series designed to help professionals, business owners, and future entrepreneurs understand how to use AI to create new opportunities, additional income streams, and greater flexibility in their lives.
## What You'll Learn
### Turn Your Experience Into Opportunity
Learn how to use AI to analyze your skills, professional experience, knowledge, interests, and hobbies and transform them into viable business concepts and business plans.
### Build a Marketing Plan in Minutes Instead of Months
Discover how AI can help create marketing plans, content, lead generation strategies, and customer acquisition systems that traditionally required large budgets and marketing teams.
### Attract the Right Customers
Most businesses fail because they try to serve everyone.
Learn how to identify your ideal customer, why it matters, and how to build offers that naturally attract the people most likely to become loyal members, clients, and customers.
### Income You Can't Get Fired From™
We'll explore why membership, subscription, community, and recurring-income models are growing rapidly and why many professionals view them as a potential path toward creating Income You Can't Get Fired From™. You'll also learn why they could be the perfect defense against future AI disruption.
### Your Financial Runway
One of the most important concepts for anyone facing a career transition.
Learn why understanding your financial runway can dramatically improve your decision-making during periods of uncertainty and help you create a more thoughtful and confident transition plan.
### Important Retirement Plan Mistakes to Avoid During a Career Transition
Career transitions often involve major retirement plan decisions.
We'll discuss common mistakes people make during layoffs, job changes, early retirement, and entrepreneurial transitions, along with important considerations that can impact long-term financial flexibility, retirement readiness, and future opportunities.
### And Much More...
Every meetup builds on the last one as we continue exploring AI, business creation, recurring-income models, career reinvention, automation, marketing, and building a future that is less dependent on a single employer.
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## Event Schedule
## 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
### Networking & Idea Exchange
Meet other professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, and career transitioners.
Discuss ideas, opportunities, challenges, AI tools, and future plans.
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
### Interactive AI & Business Building Workshop
Bring your laptop or tablet and participate as we walk through practical AI tools and strategies you can begin using immediately.
You'll learn how to:
- Turn your experience into business opportunities
- Use AI to create business plans
- Build marketing systems faster
- Identify the right customers
- Create membership and subscription revenue models
- Evaluate your financial runway
- Avoid common retirement plan mistakes during career transitions
- Build income streams you control
This portion is designed to be practical, hands-on, and immediately useful.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (and Beyond)
### Founding Members Social at Wynkoop
Join us for complimentary appetizers and beverages as we continue the conversation and begin building what we hope becomes Denver's premier community for professionals navigating the future of work, AI, entrepreneurship, and Income You Control.
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## Why Attend?
The LifeByDesign360 team brings more than 30 years of experience helping individuals navigate major life, career, and business transitions.
Between 2006 and 2018, we were regularly brought in by a major outplacement firm to help professionals experiencing layoffs, career disruptions, organizational change, and major life transitions. Those experiences provided a front-row seat to what works, what doesn't, and what people wish they had known sooner.
Today, AI has changed the game.
The people who learn how to leverage AI effectively may find themselves with opportunities that simply didn't exist a few years ago.
A layoff, career disruption, or desire for something more doesn't have to be the end of a chapter.
It may be the beginning of the best one.
Bring your laptop.
Bring your ideas.
Bring your curiosity.
## This Is More Than a Meetup
This is the beginning of an ongoing Denver community focused on helping professionals navigate AI, career transitions, entrepreneurship, retirement, and creating Income You Control.
Each session will build upon previous discussions and introduce new strategies, tools, technologies, business models, and real-world examples.
Future topics may include:
- Advanced AI business-building strategies
- Membership and subscription business design
- Building your first 100 customers
- AI-powered marketing systems
- Personal branding and thought leadership
- Consulting and advisory businesses
- Retirement and lifestyle design
- Creating recurring income streams
- Business automation and scaling
- AI tools every professional should know
Whether you're actively building a business, evaluating your options after a layoff, planning for retirement, or simply preparing for the future, you'll find practical ideas, valuable connections, and a community of people moving in the same direction.
The best time to start building your next chapter isn't after you're forced to. It's before.
