From product stock to office supplies, you can save more on your business expenses when you shop at Sam’s Club. Sam’s Club offers bulk buying options for technology, furniture, groceries, and so much more that can keep your business running for less.

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Using a Sam’s Club membership to shop bulk business buys is a smart decision for your bottom line. Whether you’re looking for restaurant quantity rolls of tinfoil or office party disposable plates and utensils, you’ll find some of the best savings to stretch your business budget in the club.

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In today’s fast-paced world, the constant flow of information and opinions can overwhelm even the most resilient minds. While the pursuit of knowledge is essential for growth, it is equally important to create mental space for clarity and focus.

Without setting boundaries, this noise can drown out our ability to think critically and make informed decisions. Here are a few strategies to clear your mind and foster both personal and business growth.

Related: Feeling Stuck? 5 Ways to Clear Your Mind and Be Your Most Productive Self

1. Be more selective

There are many influencers and marketing ploys that are vying for your attention. This can impact your ability to be authentic due to the pressure to say yes. How you appear as a professional is part of your brand and allows others to know if they can relate to or trust you. You will also feel relieved the more you push back against toxic pressures and can show up in the world with devotion and purpose.

Remember that you can only take in so much at one time. While you may be ambitious to consume information, you need to balance that drive with managing your business operations and dealing with the unknowns of the day. Try to process information in a compartmentalized way. Designing a tempo for how you take in data can give your mind the clarity it needs to learn.

Try designating your mornings as the time to take in news or your jog on the treadmill as a chance to study new methods or marketing tips. I like to make my travel time “Nancy University,” where I absorb as many podcasts as I can about topics I am interested in. While I am jumping from articles to videos, I focus my learning on solving a problem or question in my life. This makes absorbing the content easier to digest even in large quantities.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed with so many voices trying to share the spotlight. When consuming information, it is important to consider the source. Verify that the writer is in alignment with your values and do your research before you commit. On one hand, you want to be objective in understanding whether the learning can benefit you, instead of being distracted by its delivery. At the same time, you want to be inquisitive and vet if a resource is genuine or self-serving, which can leave you feeling taken advantage of.

The way you quiet the noise of opinions and advice is to choose content that resonates positively with you and your beliefs. I like to seek referrals from my social circle and feel more trust and confidence in learning from a person who they align with. I also know that in this busy world, a genuine public review about a company or product speaks volumes. The key is to vet your potential purchases or partnerships before taking the leap and investing time and money.

Related: How to Stop Overthinking and Calm Your Buzzing Mind

2. Navigate social pressures

You might find people asking you where you stand politically. Perhaps you are constantly questioned about your career or personal life, always feeling the need to be achieving. This societal noise can cause you to feel overwhelmed by the need to please others or match their points of view.

The best way to not feel loaded down is to be honest. Rather than struggling to find common ground, try to converse from a place of authenticity. It is okay not to have the answers to everything and simply say, “That’s interesting, I will look into it.” If someone is prying into your personal life, there is nothing wrong in saying, “All is good, thank you for caring about me.” However, keep in mind that choosing not to engage means you may be missing out on an opportunity to grow.

In that moment of conversation, you can also lean into sharing and potentially receive tips or advice from a person who views your life circumstance differently. The goal is to strike a balance between the information you take in and having outlets to express yourself.

As a keynote speaker, I am always telling stories to illustrate a point. While my intention is to give the audience valuable coaching, I find that working through an experience in my life and finding the silver lining is therapeutic for me. My point of view tends to be honest in my convictions that I am still learning, and we are all students in the school of life.

When someone asks you questions and you are unclear on how to answer mainly because you do not know enough about the topic, try turning the tables. Rather than needing to have on-the-spot answers, redirect the question to ask what makes the topic important to them. While it may feel like you are dodging the situation, this approach allows them to express their views or share about their lives. Oftentimes, when you are asked a question, the person is longing for you to ask it back because they have things to share as well.

Related: I Was Experiencing Extreme Burnout Until I Practiced These 3 Things to Come Out Stronger

While I run in many social circles where many have conflicting political or spiritual points of view, I find my greatest tool is not falling into the need to debate, but to listen. The way to release the pressure to appease others is by letting them share their views. Consider asking thoughtful, open-ended questions that prompt them to relate deeply about a topic. You may need to research and develop some strategies, but you will truly feel a sense of relief, and maybe learn new insights at the same time.

In a world overloaded with distractions, it is easy to get lost in the noise, but remember that true growth stems from clarity and authenticity. By being selective about what you consume and setting boundaries with external pressures, you can create the mental space needed to thrive both personally and professionally. The key is to not just absorb more information but to engage with content that truly resonates with your values and goals.

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready says AI deserves credit for the “healthy” results the social media company reported on Thursday.

For the first quarter of the year, ending March 31, Pinterest’s global revenue was $855 million, a 16% year-over-year increase, while global monthly active users increased 10% year-over-year to 570 million users. In the U.S. and Canada, revenue grew by 12% to reach $663 million.

“Our business, including our top-line revenue growth, remains healthy,” Ready stated on an earnings call.

Ready said that Pinterest’s use of AI to tailor the user experience helped set it apart from competitors. He called Pinterest a “shopping destination” with 85% of its monthly users tapping into the app on mobile, a 10% increase from 2022.

Related: 4 Pinterest Hacks You Can Adopt to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

“Our ability to leverage AI to personalize our users’ experience is a key differentiator and has enabled us to find our best product market fit in years,” Ready explained.

^{Pinterest CEO Bill Ready. Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images}

Ready stated that AI helped drive “deeper engagement” among users through personalized recommendations that factor in more user signals, like what they click on. AI has enabled Pinterest to generate more revenue and become “a vital partner” for advertisers, Ready said.

Pinterest makes money by selling promoted pins or posts to advertisers. It also has a “buy it” button that allows users to purchase products straight from Pinterest instead of a separate site. The company has been using AI in some capacity since 2016.

Ready also said on the earnings call that Pinterest is using its AI to better understand users and predict ads that are best suited to them. The company has seen a 4% increase in click-through rates with these AI-recommended ads.

Ready added that another one of Pinterest’s “core differentiators” is its visual search feature, which resonates with the company’s “largest and fastest growing” user base: Gen Z (born from 1997 to 2012). Pinterest is tasked with matching search queries with content from its library of billions of pins, and it is using its AI to help personalize search results.

Related: Is ChatGPT Search Better Than Google? I Tried the New Search Engine to Find Out.

Pinterest announced earlier this week that it is releasing new AI-powered visual search tools for women’s fashion content in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., with plans to expand to more categories. The tools allow users to search for clothes without words, by selecting elements within a picture, like a pair of shoes or a particular color.

Pinterest was founded in 2010 and operates like a virtual pinboard that users can curate with images, videos, recipes, and other content. It is one of the largest social media sites in the world, with over 89 million U.S. users.

Most entrepreneurs are still using AI like a sidekick, just scratching the surface with simple prompts and chatbots. But if billion-dollar brands like Klarna and IBM are using AI to replace entire teams, why aren’t you?

Inside this video, I’m revealing three powerful AI tools that let you automate your business, eliminate bottlenecks and scale without hiring a single employee. If you’re ready to run a profitable one-person business without the overhead, this is your step-by-step guide.

Key takeaways:

1. Build your own AI team (without writing a single line of code): Discover how AI agents can act, think and execute like real employees, handling tasks like lead qualification, follow-ups and even decision-making. Forget basic chatbots — this is the next level.

2. Automate your workflow bottlenecks: Free up your time by eliminating the repetitive tasks you’ve learned to tolerate. From email management to SOP creation, these tools turn busywork into business growth.

3. Predict what’s working (before it’s too late): Stop guessing and start optimizing. Learn how to use predictive AI to track what’s actually working, before your funnel breaks. This is how you make data-driven decisions without a million-dollar budget.

I’ll walk you through each tool step-by-step, no tech background needed. If you’re ready to build a high-performance, one-person business that scales while you sleep, this video is your blueprint.

Download the free ‘AI Success Kit’ (limited time only). And you’ll also get a free chapter from Ben’s brand new book, “The Wolf is at The Door – How to Survive and Thrive in an AI-Driven World.”

A new survey from website hosting company GoDaddy found that entrepreneurs are still optimistic about the economy, despite new pressures from tariffs.

According to the new report, half of microbusiness owners surveyed said that they predict a “weaker economy in the next six months,” but 66% of respondents still have “positive revenue expectations.”

Only 9% of the 2,100 business owners surveyed forecasted a sales decline.

Related: GoDaddy’s 3 Best Tips for Small Business Marketing Success

“Small business owners believe in themselves,” said GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani, in a statement. “GoDaddy’s research shows they remain intent on pushing their small businesses forward.”

Microbusinesses are defined in the report as “small businesses that typically employ fewer than 10 employees.”

The report also found that entrepreneurs are changing their long-term goals to adapt to the current climate. About 40% of respondents said they expect to remain “solo entrepreneurs” (up from 36% last year) rather than start hiring and grow a bigger business.

“Entrepreneurs are planning for what is ahead,” Bhutani added. “They are navigating these times by staying focused and determined. At GoDaddy, our job is to make sure they have the tools they need to succeed.”

For the full report, click here.

Related: How to Transform Companies From Within as an ‘Intrapreneur,’ According to a Microsoft Office and Yahoo Shopping Cofounder

Running a business already means wearing a dozen hats. The last thing you need is to discover your website went down hours ago and no one told you. What if there were a way to know instantly, without having to check it yourself every five minutes or hire an IT department to act as a watchdog?

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NBA Hall of Famer and “Speak on FS1” host Paul Pierce predicted on Wednesday that his beloved Boston Celtics (where he played for 15 seasons) would win Game 2 of their playoff series against the New York Knicks.

On the air, he said: “If the Celtics lose Game 2 at home, I promise you, I’m walking here tomorrow.”

“In my robe,” he added.

Well, the Celtics lost (now down 0-2 to the Knicks as the series heads to New York for Game 3 on Saturday) and Pierce was stuck setting his alarm for 4 a.m.

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— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 8, 2025

The former Boston Celtics star known as “The Truth” chronicled his journey on Thursday. Although he said he’d do the walk barefoot, he did end up putting on some shoes.

Thousands of viewers watched Pierce, in his robe, walk the almost marathon-length journey to his job at Fox Sports, which ended with him sitting outside the studios with his coworkers cheering him on in the background.

Paul Pierce actually walking to work at FS1 after saying he’d do it if Celtics lost Game 2 lmao pic.twitter.com/3I6NxEm9Un

— Ryan Glasspiegel (@sportsrapport) May 8, 2025

“Boston in six,” Pierce said at the end of the journey. “I dropped about five pounds today, I feel it.”

Maybe Pierce should stop making predictions, or he might be swimming to work tomorrow.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts a future where AI will understand you so well that different AI personas will become your “friends.”

In a new interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg said that he thinks “the average person wants more connectivity, more connection that they actually have,” and thinks AI chatbots trained to have different personalities could help fill that void.

“The average American, I think, has fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends,” Zuckerberg told Patel. (He was likely referring to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, which found that 40% of Americans say they have three or fewer friends, while 38% have five or more.)

Zuckerberg says AI has the opportunity to fill that gap.

Related: Meta Is Building AI That Can Write Code Like a Mid-Level Engineer, According to Mark Zuckerberg

Although he said that AI would “probably” not replace in-person or real-life connections, it could help people feel less alone. He added that users are already tapping into AI to prepare for difficult conversations with people in their lives, and other companies are already offering AI personas as virtual therapists and romantic partners.

“For people who don’t have a therapist, I think everyone will have an AI,” Zuckerberg said in a separate podcast with analyst Ben Thompson last week.

Related: Meta Is Testing AI That Can Catch Teenagers Trying to Get Around Age Rules on Instagram

However, not everyone is on board with having AI “friends,” and social media users criticized Zuckerberg for his comments.

The writer Neil Turkewitz wrote on X that Zuckerberg’s perspective “is what happens when you believe that humanity is reducible to binary data — you think of friendship through the lens of supply & demand.”

Other users questioned if AI friends would tell humans how to vote and what to believe, while another tracked Meta’s evolution from a place to connect with friends in 2006 to a place to connect with “imaginary friends” in 2026.

Some were more optimistic, writing that they “wanted an AI friend.”

Carolyn Rogers, head of marketing at the agency Blokhaus, wrote on X that the next step would be for AI friends to start recommending products, enabling Meta to monetize that friendship.

2006 – Join Facebook to connect with your friends
2026 – Join Facebook to connect with your imaginary friends

— WRLB? (@WRLB2) May 1, 2025

Zuckerberg’s comments arrive as Meta released a standalone Meta AI app last week to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok.

Zuckerberg revealed in an Instagram video about the app’s release that almost a billion people use Meta AI globally across the company’s apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Related: Meta Takes on ChatGPT By Releasing a Standalone AI App: ‘A Long Journey’

Former employees at IBM were replaced with AI, the company’s CEO confirmed earlier this week.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that the tech giant had tapped into AI to take over the work of several hundred human resources employees. However, IBM’s workforce expanded instead of shrinking—the company used the resources freed up by the layoffs to hire more programmers and salespeople.

“Our total employment has actually gone up, because what [AI] does is it gives you more investment to put into other areas,” Krishna told The Journal.

Krishna specified that those “other areas” included software engineering, marketing, and sales or roles focused on “critical thinking,” where employees “face up or against other humans, as opposed to just doing rote process work.”

Related: IBM Exec Says 7,800 Jobs (or Nearly 30% of Its Workforce) Could Be Replaced By AI

IBM CTO Ji-eun Lee said earlier this year that IBM’s AskHR agent had automated 94% of simple, routine human resources tasks, like vacation requests and pay statements. Meanwhile, IBM’s AskIT agent reduced the number of calls and chats for the IT team by 70%.

IBM saw a “productivity improvement” of $3.5 billion over the past two years by using AI in more than 70 business areas, Lee stated.

IBM did not disclose when the HR layoffs and subsequent hiring in other departments occurred. The company employed 270,300 workers globally as of its 2024 annual report.

^{IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images}

This week, IBM held its annual Think conference and introduced new products and services to grow its generative AI division, which has become a $6 billion business. The tools allow customers to build their own AI agents, capable of autonomously carrying out complex tasks, in under five minutes.

The service is similar to offerings from Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft.

Related: AI Agents Can Help Businesses Be ’10 Times More Productive,’ According to a Nvidia VP. Here’s What They Are and How Much They Cost.

Krishna has worked for IBM for over 34 years and stepped into the CEO role in 2020. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told Business Insider on Wednesday that Krishna was in the process of transforming IBM into an AI company.

“It’s still the first inning in a nine-inning game,” Ives told the publication.

Krishna isn’t the first CEO to say the company has replaced people with AI.

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski stated last year that its AI chatbot did the work of 700 customer service agents and later announced that the company was undergoing a hiring freeze and filling in the gaps with AI.

Meanwhile, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in September that the company’s new AI agents could replace gig workers during busy seasons.

Money can ruin your relationship — so when you say “I do” at the altar, you need to also say “I DO” with your finances.

I DO is a framework I developed for navigating your finances as a married couple. It goes like this:

Initiate the Conversation
Divvy Up “Yours, Mine and Ours” Accounts
Opt For a Prenup

To show you how it works, I’ll give you a real-life example — with the celebrity couple Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green.

Step 1: Initiate the Conversation

Initiating a money conversation seems like it would be a no-brainer — but a lot of couples put it off.

This is what happened with Sharna and Brian. “ We had a baby a lot quicker than we thought we were going to,” Sharna told me on my podcast Money Rehab this week. “I think because it was like going through a tunnel at full speed in the beginning of our relationship, there were some conversations that just got missed.'”

If you haven’t had this conversation yet, have it now. Don’t wait a moment longer. If you wait until the “right time” to have the money talk, it’ll be too late.

So, what should you talk about? Here’s a place to start:

Step 2: Divvy Up Accounts

Here’s the first question that couples face: Whose money is whose?

This is a personal decision, and there’s no system that works for every couple. Some couples combine finances. Some keep them separate. Personally, I like a system I call “Yours, Mine, and Ours”.

It’s simple: You keep a bank account that’s just for you, your spouse keeps an account just for them, and you both contribute to a shared account. This way, you retain some financial independence but also build a financial life together.

This is what Sharna and Brian do. For Sharna, it helps keep the magic alive. “I don’t want to be over his books, because that’s not my job,” she said. “I feel like that takes some of the romance away.”

But as you create a plan to merge finances, you should also create a plan to disentangle them. Which means…

Step 3: Opt for a Prenup

If you have any form of an “Ours” or joint account, a prenup is critical.

This conversation can make people uncomfortable. I first spoke to Sharna a year ago, and asked her whether she and Brian have a prenup plan. She visibly froze, then told me it would be too awkward to discuss with Brian.

But a year later, she’s changed her tune. “ I think protecting yourself is a beautiful thing,” she told me more recently. “Knowing that everything is fair and you’ve made the big decisions, I think it’s incredibly smart.”

I completely agree — but I understand her fear from a year ago.

Prenups feel unromantic and stressful, mostly because people think of prenups as divorce planning. But really, it’s just insurance. You don’t get car insurance because you’re planning on getting into a car accident. You get insurance in case of an emergency, and you hope you’ll never have to use it, but it makes you feel a little more comfortable in your car.

That’s how a prenup should feel — it’s an emergency measure that makes you feel more secure in your relationship, not less.

The intersection of love and money can be messy, but if you follow the I DO framework, you’ll be doing right by your partner, yourself and your wallet.