Guest: Hadas Frank, Founder of NextGenAI
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Summary
What does it look like to make a plan, follow it perfectly, and then have to write a new one in a new country, at 19, with twelve months of waiting before you’re allowed to work?
Hadas grew up in Israel where she was diagnosed in third grade with learning challenges. The doctors told her mother to lower her expectations and to expect a 60 average, not a 90. Her mother refused. Hadas spent her childhood and teenage years grinding harder than anyone around her, getting 90+ on every exam, joining a Tel Aviv University accelerated diploma program in tenth grade, and building a meticulous plan: study hard, government job, Israeli career.
Then at 19 she married an American, moved to New York, and found herself with a year of waiting for her work permit and a plan that no longer fit her life. So she did what she’d always done; she studied her way through it. A book on investing led her to learn the markets. The markets led her to follow tech. Tech led her, in 2022, to a Yahoo Finance article about generative AI. She called her family in Israel: you don’t understand, this is going to be huge. From there she built Next Gen AI, strategic consulting for businesses figuring out where AI actually belongs in their roadmap, plus AI education for non-technical teams who want to use it without it becoming another thing they have to manage.
This episode goes deep on what it really means to throw out the plan you spent a decade building, the practical difference between prompt engineering and prompt design,, why she sees her Orthodox Jewish identity as leverage at non-Jewish business conferences rather than a limit, and the advice she gives every woman whose original plan no longer fits her life.
Takeaways
Don’t take entrepreneurship advice from people who’ve never built anything. Find the ones who’ve done what you want to do.
AI prompt skill is less about engineering and more about translating what’s in your head onto a page.
Standing out is leverage. Being the only Orthodox Jewish woman in a thousand-person conference room makes Hadas findable, memorable, and curious.
Stay positive. You’ll find a thousand reasons to be negative if you go looking.
Soundbites
“If I want to be a successful person, I will learn from a successful person.”
“It’s easy to find me. I’m the only one with hair covering.”
“I came for business not for dinner.”
“Why not to be positive when you can?”
Connect with Hadas:
🌐 Website: https://nextgenaiadvisors.com/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadas-frank-ai1/
📸 @hadas_frank
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