Featured in Glow Up · May 14, 2026
Welcome to the Claude Queen’s Corner
Everything from today’s Glow Up session — tips, tools, and your free morning check-in skill generator — all in one place.
Featured in Vanessa Santos’s Glow Up community.
What today is
Claude isn’t another chatbot.
Used right, it becomes your operations brain, your strategist, and an automation layer that runs in the background of your day. No code required, no agency retainer, no waiting on IT.
Today we’re starting small: a daily morning check-in. We build it together, refine it until the output is exactly what you want, then schedule it to run on its own every morning.
That’s the beginning. Once you understand this one pattern, you can use it for anything — pulling context from every meeting (MCPs), automating recurring tasks (Cowork), or building entire workflows by describing them in plain English (Claude Code). All without writing a line of code.
How the morning dashboard actually works
Build it. Refine it. Then schedule it.
01
Build your morning check-in skill
Answer a few questions in the generator and get a personalized skill file you can drop into Claude.
02
Iterate in Claude.ai
Run it. Tweak it. Run it again. Refine it weekly until the output is exactly what you want.
03
Then schedule it in Cowork
Once it’s dialed in, automate it to run every morning — push to Notion, a daily dashboard, anywhere.
Most people skip step 2 and wonder why their automation feels off. Don’t.
Hi, I’m Nicole
I’m a Claude strategist and educator. I stay on top of every Claude release so my clients don’t have to, and I teach teams how to use Claude as the operating system behind their day — not just another chatbot.
I’ve been refining my own morning check-in skill for a year and a half. It’s the first thing I look at every morning, and it runs everything I do see the full system →.
Meet Vanessa
The woman behind Glow Up
Vanessa Santos is a founder, advisor, and investor who’s spent 20+ years building platforms and communities for women across four continents. She’s the co-CEO of #WeAllGrow Latina (the largest Latina entrepreneur community, acquired in 2025), founder of Build The Dream Collective, a Forbes contributor, CES Innovation Award winner, and Kennedy Center Honoree.
“I build worlds where women become unfuckable with.”
Her ethos — Build the dream. Honor the human. — is the reason Nicole loves working with her. Together they’re planning more women-focused Claude workshops in 2026: Claude foundations and power-user moves, designed for the way women actually want to learn this stuff.
Quick Tips
Things most people don’t know about Claude
A peek at three of them. The full list lives on its own page so you can come back to it whenever.
Global vs project instructions
Global is how Claude talks to you everywhere. Project is the job description for one project. Most people mix them up.
Skills install once, work everywhere
Add a skill in Settings and it's available across every project — forever.
Perfect it in chat first, then automate
Get your skill exactly right inside a Claude.ai chat before moving it to Cowork. Automating a broken skill just gets you bad output on a schedule.
Your Freebies
Take these with you
Two free tools to put what we covered into practice. Set up your project instructions first, then build your morning check-in skill on top.
Start here
Strategic Advisor Generator
Answer 5 questions, get a custom Claude Project instructions file built around your business.
Password
BEAGOODPERSON
Morning Check-In Skill Generator
Tell Claude what you want to see each morning — the generator builds your personalized skill file. Iterate on it in Claude.ai until it’s exactly right. Then, when you’re ready, move it to Cowork to run on a schedule (push to Notion, a daily dashboard, anywhere).
Password
BEAGOODPERSON
Other things you can automate with Cowork once your skill is dialed in: scheduled tasks that pull teaching moments from call transcripts, Google Drive cleanup, screenshot organization, weekly recaps — the list keeps growing.
Want help building yours?
Have questions, or want to go deeper?
In a Quick Start 1:1, we set up your Claude system together in 90 minutes — you walk away with something you understand and can keep building on. No agency retainer, no “let me build it for you” handoff.
Coming soon
Be the first to know about our next workshop
Nicole and Vanessa are building more Claude workshops for women. Drop your email and we’ll let you know the moment registration opens.