Miracles, Brain Surgery & Getting Your Time Back with AI
What happens when your life changes in an instant—and you have to rebuild everything from scratch?
In this episode of Jam Packed: Business Made Easy with AI, Flora Mercury talks with Stacee Cassidy, a brain aneurysm survivor, entrepreneur, and founder of Stacey Serves.
Stacee shares how three brain surgeries, months of rehab, and three years without income led her to redesign her life and business, lean on AI to get her time back, and finally structure her gifts into services that truly help people.
Episode Highlights
- The day a Zoom call turned into a medical emergency
- Why “something feels off” might be the most important sentence you say
- How Stacee went from ICU and rehab to launching Stacey Serves Using AI tools like ChatGPT and Beautiful.ai to condense ideas, create presentations, and communicate clearly
- How AI helps her reclaim hours each week so she can focus on relationships, health, and meaningful work
- Encouragement for anyone who needs to slow down, listen to their body, and finally put their skills to work
How This Episode Helps You Use AI in Real Life
This episode is less about technical prompts and more about what AI makes possible in your life. Stacee shares how she: Uses AI to shorten long, wordy messages into clear, impactful communication Builds presentations in a fraction of the time so she can spend her energy serving clients Evaluates systems and workflows with AI to spot inefficiencies and suggest better ways of working Uses AI as a quiet, behind-the-scenes partner, so she can be fully present with her clients, her family, and her health If you’ve ever wondered how AI can give you back your time, your focus, and even your sense of self, this conversation gives you a grounded, real-world example.
Guest Profile
Stacee Cassidy is the founder of Stacey Serves, where she helps businesses build apps, websites, and smarter systems so they can operate more efficiently and serve their teams better. After surviving three brain surgeries in five months, Stacee rebuilt her life and business with a deep focus on listening to her body, trusting her instincts, and using AI tools to make her work more effective and sustainable.
