Are you still treating ChatGPT like Google? If so, you’re missing out—big time. It’s like comparing a calculator to a math teacher: one spits out answers, the other helps you understand the problem. In this episode, we’re diving into why ChatGPT is NOT a search engine and how it can actually change the way you think, work, and make decisions.
I’ll share three real-life stories—sinus infections, a broken toilet, and an iPad shopping dilemma—that prove AI is way more than just a search tool. Plus, I’ll reveal how real business owners are using AI in ways you’d never expect.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover…
- Why ChatGPT isn’t just a search engine—it’s your personal assistant
- How AI can help you make better, faster decisions (without decision fatigue)
- Real-life stories of using ChatGPT for health, home repairs, and shopping
- How pet business owners are leveraging AI for productivity, marketing, and client relations
- Why treating AI like Google is holding you back—and what to do instead
Timestamps:
[02:18] The sinus infection that ChatGPT diagnosed better than Google
[09:51] How AI saved me time & money on a broken toilet repair
[16:18] The iPad shopping dilemma—how ChatGPT made the decision EASY
[19:46] Mind-blowing ways real business owners are using AI today
[22:47] Google vs. ChatGPT: The BIGGEST difference you need to understand
[25:07] Why AI is a freight train—and why you need to jump on NOW!
Notable Quote:
“Google helps you find answers. ChatGPT helps you think through the answers. And that’s the game-changer.”
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hey hey welcome back to another episode of Bella in your business my name is Bella vasta and uh today we’re going to dive into something that quite honestly I think a lot of people are still confused about and it’s okay chachy BT is not Google it’s not even close and yet I still hear people saying things like oh I don’t need chaty PT I can just Google it and I have to take a deep breath and be like no stop it’s like saying a calculator is the same thing as a math teacher one just spits out numbers and the other actually
helps you understand exactly what the heck you’re doing so today we’re going to talk about why Chachi BT is not like Google and why that actually matters to you and how AI is straight up changing the way we think we work and we make decisions we’re going to go through three real life stories I’m going to give you like my own stories from this um I know you guys love hearing what’s going on in my life I get like the most comments uh on the podcast when I’m just kind of casually talking to you like
we’re just two girlfriends chilling out right um but I’m going to tell tell you kind of some funny stories one about my sinuses a broken toilet and shopping for an iPad this sounds like the beginning of a bad joke um because let’s be real those are the three of the most random things I could possibly string together in an episode but I promise they’re going to connect um then we’re going to talk about some real ways that you that people are using AI this week like your actual colleagues and they’re ways that
you would never have thought of um and literally I asked people like what they’re using AI for and some of these answers really did blow my mind some of them are genius and I might even do it too and some of them are hilarious um but all of them prove why AI is so much more than just a search engine and finally we’re going to break down exactly what’s the difference between Google and chat GPT or Ai and so and how you can start using it as smarter my goal is really to just get you to think it’s this paradigm shift that we’re in
the middle of right now and I want you to think about it and I want you to realize just how much you might be limiting yourself okay here we go Story number one the sign is infection and the doctor’s visit that wasn’t you guys this is absolutely crazy this is like uh WebMD on steroids okay so picture this Arizona is basically a big giant Dust Bowl especially right now um the dust storms have been out of control like literally we have these things called haboobs where the dust just there’s a wall that you can see
Google it um it’s amazing um but it’s terrible like you can’t open your windows like it’s finally not freezing it’s kind of like our spring like we have one month of spring before it gets so hot that you can’t like open your windows and you can open your windows right now cuz you like literally can’t breathe um and every single year like clockwork my sinuses decide to betray me and I get it they’re working overtime now if you’ve ever had a sinus infection then you know how miserable it is my
eyes were watering my head is pounding because my sinuses are blocked it’s giving me sinus pressure which is giving me a sinus headache like I could notot function and I was like okay is this just my normal yearly sinus infection or is it the flu because truth be told a couple days prior to that Olivia had the flu and she like was on and off of um uh uh temperatures and just the poor thing like it was horrible and as you know as a parent it’s like it’s hard right like you’re trying care for your kid but also
not get sick yourself so I did what any logical person would do I asked chat BT hey here’s what I’m feeling do I have sinusitis or is it just the flu now pause for a second and imagine if Google had answered this instead you already know what it would have happened I would have got 5,000 pages of symptoms all that overlap I would have read some random Forum post where someone said they had the same symptoms and ended up in the hospital and by the end of it I probably would have convinced myself that I was dying because that just
happens when you Google health symptoms right like you get everything in the kitchen sink and then it’s your duty to sift through it to analyze it to use your common sense and to pick through what you want to you know like really take to heart but chat gbt it actually had me follow up with some questions it said do you have a fever nope are your symptoms worse on one side of your face yep do you have muscle aches nope boom sinus infection and then it did some I did something really smart I asked it what should I tell
urgent care to make sure I get the right treatment now I say this because last year I remember I called urgent care and I had only been experiencing symptoms for like 2 days which was exactly the same timeline as this right now and said oh we’re sorry we have to wait more days to prescribe you anything and I’m like are you kidding me like I was let’s just you could just imagine how upset I was um I was like I’m not going to sit here and keep you know um suffering so I literally wanted to know
what was the right thing what was the wrong thing to say so um I said let’s be honest because sometimes when you go to urgent care they’re like drink fluids and rest or they’re like we need more time for it to develop into a an infection so that we can give you a zpack and then you know we’re just G to leave it there okay um and so what happened is that Chachi b t told me exactly what I needed to say it helped me explain my symptoms in a way that made it really clear I needed to reduce the swelling I walked I
I I called Urgent Care they called me back I told them exactly what CH GPT told me to say and guess what I got the meds that I needed and no wasted time no um horrible stuff but something else happened that was kind of interesting so I was like I know I need like a Zack and um and steroids well I wasn’t actually sure I needed a zpack but I definitely needed the steroids because I was so inflamed so about an hour later I’m at CVS and they’re like we have four medications for you and I’m like four why do you
have four so of course they kind of overprescribed right I’ve got the steroids I’ve got the zpack I’ve got a um like a nose spray and then I forget what the last one was quite honestly and so I’m like oh okay shoot well I don’t want this to get worse but do I really need a zpack right now and sometimes it’s okay like I believe that it’s kind of cool to have a zpack on um on hold at home in case I ever need it um luckily I don’t use them too much but you know it’s just kind of neat to have them
stocked up uh my own personal preference of course and so I went back to chat gbt again and I said do I really need to take this zpack and it again asked me all these questions you know what color is the discharge coming out of my nose um and basically went through all the these symptoms to find out if I had an infection and which we concluded I didn’t and so I took the steroids and in a couple of days I was really great now I hate to say it and I’m not getting political but no matter where you might
stand um you know with with medicine or homeopathic stuff or whatever it might be you know I’m trying to make the best decision to get like healthy as fast as I possibly can and I know that I have a sinus blockage and I know that I needed steroids to like help the inflammation so that I could get better and a week later I’m better like thank God actually within 12 hours I was already experiencing better Sy sympoms or less symptoms rather um but this day to to to get an appointment with a doctor I’d have to wait for that
then I have to go to the doctor then I have to hope that you know they prescribe me properly then I’d have to wait for the call in for the prescription and then it would probably be at least 24 hours and so being able to do tella health and then also have chat gbt that can literally act as a family doctor was helped helped me get better better faster than a traditional way or a way that if I went to Google and I’d have to Google my own symptoms I’d have to try to um I’d have to try to make that conclusion myself right and I
could make mistakes and I didn’t so that was cool the second thing the Second Story and I promise you I’m going to like tie all these stories together was the toilet disaster and my dad advice dilemma so the same night that this is all going on let me tell you it was like a really like exciting Thursday night for me I finally got home I took my meds and I’m like working on a Blog because I mean why not now I’m like hopped up on prazone and a little like jittery and um I’m I’m working on it it’s late night
it’s about 11:30 about to go to bed I go to the bathroom guess what my toilet’s leaking I’m like wait what what did I do to deserve this right now and it’s leaking like actively like the toilet bowl so I quickly like dump out whatever was in my trash can and put my trash can underneath there and who do I text I text my dad because that’s what you do um and my dad’s basically like a walking Home Depot um and he sends me back this long text like go to H Depot look at the different toilets compare the sizes see
if the city gives you rebates I didn’t even think to think that the city would give me rebates on a toilet and I’m like nope too much overwhelmed like it’s 11:30 at night dad like oh my gosh like that’s too much work it’s too much brain power so what do I do I literally open up chat gbt and I talk to it and I’m like hey this is this like like it’s my friend right I’m not talking to it like you would type something into a Google search I’m talking to it like it is a human that understands what I’m talking
about hey what’s up like I you know thanks for all that sinus help but it got a new problem um can you help me with this toilet situation I need to get a new toilet I know nothing about toilets I had no idea they came in different shapes um I mean I know that you had like your bed or like you know the press the button at the top instead of like crank the lever but I had no idea there was like different chair sizes and oh man and so what I did is I told them the questions that my dad asked and I was like what should I do and it came
back and um and I even took a picture too and about what was instantly happening and it was like boom it told me what was wrong it told me whether I needed a new toilet and get this it even told me that my city had rebates and what kind of toilets I should look at to get the rebate for those toilets which means I actually saved money by using AI Google would have sent me down a YouTube rabbit ho I would have been watching videos trying to listen to what they’re saying um comprehend it at like midnight by now and I’d probably still be
watching a 40-minute DIY YouTube video okay what it was able to do was it was able to apply some um lack of better word common sense right and um critical thinking to kind of like take my problem and have a conversation with me right and not only that but it also leads to uh you know okay I understand this is all the stuff these are all the options based off of what you’re saying this is what we can do would you like me to insert the next step like it keeps moving the problem forward which is so helpful now the third story also
involves my dad um gosh I was just so grateful for him this um this week he does not listen to podcasts um let herone my own podcast but if he did I would definitely give him a shout out um and it uh you know it’s just I’m really grateful that I have him in my life um so let’s fast forward a few few few days and um my dad the same guy that sent me like the PHD thesis level on toilets um he now wants to buy my mom an iPad and it’s for her birthday right and he’s like hey kid um can you help me figure
out which iPad I should get and I was like sure like what’s wrong with her current one well she has a current iPad gen 5 and I think we’re on gen 10 or 11 right now and I was like what’s not working for her and he’s like it’s the storage right and he said that the um the storage that she has um because she can’t put as many apps that she wants on there or her videos uh or photos and I’m like okay well you’re always going to have an app video and storage problem right um or sorry apps is separate I I
think you can actually solve the app problem but in terms of videos and um and pictures you know you have to kind of solve that and up until a certain point I don’t know if you guys know but like apple would only let you do like one terabyte and so at that point I maxed myself out because I had like a thousand 100,000 videos and like 30,000 I’m sorry 100,000 pictures and like 30,000 videos um I am definitely a um a uh a person who likes to be a visual Storyteller okay let’s just say that and um and so I had to solve that problem a
while ago and so what I did is I I use Google photos so yes I have my camera roll that I use on my iPhone but everything is always backed up to Google photos and my hundreds of thousands of videos and pictures are all in Google photos and actually I really prefer Google’s Ai and how I can sort through find things a lot better than Apple but that’s neither here nor there there’s a rabbit hole um so coming back to this conversation I was like all right Dad um and so he doesn’t necessarily need you
know the full monty uh he just needs to you know he wants to upgrade my mom’s uh iPad now what happens you get into decision paralysis I could go to Costco which is where he wanted to get it and I could see all of the different iPads that they do and then I could see that and then I could go to Apple and I could say okay is Costco offering you know the most recent stuff from Apple or is it different or is it the same oh it’s Costco so it’s probably a version for Costco right and so now I get into this
like decision paralysis because it’s overwhelmed with all of the different options and then each iPad has different specs on it and it’s like how do we compare and contrast well the 2024 way would be to compare them side by side on a computer and you go straight down and then you’re wondering okay well does this feature really matter to me I don’t even know this feature is and now again you’re in decision paralysis yeah well here we go Chad gbt my BFF let’s go um so what I did is I literally said to chat gbt um I said to
it I was like hey I um am looking for let’s see if I have this here for you um I I said I just talked to it again and I just said hey I um my dad is looking to get an iPad for my mom and this is what is important to them and they’re looking at trading her old one in either at Apple or Costco and um she doesn’t need the full monty we don’t need to spend the top dollar what would be a reasonable pick for her and so what it did is it came back with three different options what they were in their specs
then it analyzed and it said based off of what you told me is important to your mom I would choose this one for these reasons furthermore here are the links that you can go and put in your mom’s serial number and find out how much Apple would give you for a tradein and Costco would give you for a tradein but again based off of the information you gave me I would suggest doing the Costco buyin program because your parents shop at Costco and you know they would use um a rebate from Costco you know the buyback
program more and so what it did is it did all that like decision making now why is this important it’s important for us because we make so many decisions a day and there is decision fatigue and when you can’t you know like when you spend your your time and your effort making so many decisions and some of those decisions could be alleviated or helped with AI That’s going to free up your mind to tackle the bigger problems in life think about it just think about how many decisions you make a day I want you to
really think about it and and when you can get to the point where you’re like okay I um your your brain isn’t so overwhelmed because you’ve you’ve had something help you bring you along rather than spend the time and anguish the anguish is the big thing for me it’s just like help me make this decision and like have a conversation with me right and so I want to tell you um I want to tell you things that people are actually using this for because you’re also not going to believe this this is
actually really fun okay so here’s my point like when it comes to like say the iPad Google would have handled it by giving me a list of iPads and reviews from people with completely different needs and no real guidance which one was best for my mom right chat GPT comes in and and because I didn’t just ask what iPads are out there and used it like Google I told them my unique situation it gave me decision-making framework instead of just information for me to sift through and that’s huge that’s
absolutely huge Chach EBT isn’t just about answering questions it helps you think through the problems so you don’t waste that mental energy at least now in March of 2025 okay if you’re listening to this in the future I cannot wait to see what’s in store store for us now I also want to transition this a little bit and you’ve heard how I’ve used AI I want to encourage you to kind of blow your mind and expand your mind a little bit here um here is uh I asked around in our community and here’s how people in
our community are using it in no particular order per uh personal productivity and life hacks people are doing voice detects brain dumping using AI to talk through ideas instead of typing they’re using it to sleep for Sleep optimization determining ideal sleep needs bedtimes and learning about their sleep cycles with things like their wearables they’re creating dinner recipes asking AI for meals based on available ingredients planning birthdays coming up with creative ideas for celebrating a spouse spouse’s birthday
successfully might I add they’re doing it for business and work efficiency they’re reducing workplace interruptions teams are using AI Bots more and more leading to fewer distractions the vet Outreach strategy they’re developing a structured approach to reaching out to vet offices client contract reviews they’re refining their contracts client Avatar development I just did a whole uh thing in our AI lab last week on that and did a short training on how they could get their ideal client Avatar
using AI petor appreciation planning generating and handwriting personalized thank you notes for employees sop update hiring process support did another video on that this week too uh creating marketing packages brainstorming new package ideas and refining them with AI they’re also this but wait there’s so much more Tech problem solving um uh like research and selection uh for learning about new toilets um a tree frog diet debate exploring whether cricutfree a diet is possible for frog without actually buying any yeah because
some of my clients have these for pets I’m telling you it’s just the most off-the-wall things customer experience in reviews automating review requests tracking customer responses because you can analyze all of your Google reviews and find out what is the common theme that people are saying about you medical assistance like I was talking about you know my own support but someone else was doing pots um postoral orthotic Tech karious I can’t pronounce that um they were learning about the symptoms and
testing for alternative treatments see AI isn’t just about random questions it helps people be more efficient less stressed and more strategic strategic is a big part of it and it holds us it brings us back to why chat gbt is not Google Now Google versus generative AI what’s the difference Google is a search engine right it retrieves it goes out it finds your information and it plops it right there for you to sift through it chat GPT is generative it analyzes and it adapts the information to your needs
it is what so many of you say out there that you want is common sense Google helps you find the answers chat GPT helps you think through the answers and this matters because we don’t need more information you don’t need more classes on how to build your business you don’t need more uh you don’t need more stuff you need less you need less stuff and of the right things AI isn’t replacing thinking because you can’t get what you don’t ask for you have to be able to think in order to get those results
it’s freeing up our mental energy for bigger important decision ideas to come through and so I want you to take one thing from this episode it’s just don’t use chat gbt like it’s Google because it’s not it’s your personal assistant talk to it and when you don’t know what to say tell it you don’t know what to say but this is your problem what questions does it need to ask you and I’m I’m doing this episode today because I want you to really think about it and so many people out there are using AI
right now they are using it but as I posted on my Facebook page today most of you are using it wrong and it’s it’s pitiful like it’s copy and pasted and it’s generic and it’s terrible like good that you’re doing it but please I want to help you use your time effectively and be really like precision and not just throwing pasta up against the wall and seeing what sticks because there’s so much more that you could be doing and I want to help you please let me help you if this sounds like you if
you want to take that jump if you want to be around a bunch of other people that are using AI in their daily personal and business life please jump on into the Mastermind jump consulting.net slm Mastermind and um there’s a whole bunch of people in there that are killing it we already have 17 short trainings so you can pick what you want in there and I am right there I’ll get on camera and help you oneon-one you want to work with me let’s do it in the Mastermind like I am here and having so much fun but I want to leave you with
this you only have so much mental energy in a day why waste it on toilets and iPads like think about it I know that you get to a decision fatigue it’s some maybe it happens by noon for you and you’re just like I can’t make any more decisions nope I’m done I’m done I’m done I’m done right this can really really help you and so I hope that this episode has helped make helped the paradig shift helps you think about that that Google chaty BT is not Google or AI or Claude or whatever llm that you’re using
whatever large language model you’re using and it’s really important for you to understand how this is working this isn’t like oh AI is here and you can jump on it whenever no no no no no AI is here and we’re on a freight train right now so if you get on the train now and you get acclimated the faster this train goes the more advanced you your life your business your personal life will be this is a whole journey this is not a destination and we have only just pulled out of the first station so I really
encourage you to join us and join me I will not let you down I’ll be right there with you the whole entire way I hope that uh and I look forward to hearing your stories too what have you used um AI for and how has it helped your business um and not just as Google you guys I want to encourage you to remember that when life gets you down always keep jumping I’m going to see you back again next week for another episode of Bella in your business please please please don’t forget to subscribe and share and like and leave a comment that
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