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Paints, brushes, and endless possibilities. At 16, working in an art supply store meant spending my days surrounded by everything I loved to create with.
A teacher at heart and an entrepreneur by nature.
I'm Rachael Leventhal Garnett, a Fort Worth AI strategist, educator, speaker, AI-certified consultant, and founder of EaaS AI. I help organizations bring AI into real work through training, strategy, governance, and custom solutions.
Founder of EaaS AIAI-certified consultantCo-author of four international bestselling books
The short version
From art supplies to AI systems.
I've taken a winding route through art, entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership, and AI. Running businesses taught me how to figure things out. Teaching taught me how to help other people do the same. Those two instincts drive my work.
Today I teach, speak, and build practical AI solutions through EaaS AI. The longer version of how I got here is below.
How I got here
Age 16
August 3, 1998
2001
2007
2011
2016
2018 onward
2022
2023
2024
Today
A few detours. One very curious career.
Fourteen years to finish my degrees. A jewelry business, an art classroom, an estate sales company, and a few unexpected turns before AI. It all taught me something.
CHAPTER 01
The creative years
The date that changed my life.
The partying went on well into my twenties. On August 3, 1998, I got sober. Twenty-eight years later, that date still means the world to me.
PrayerWear. Then back to school.
Rough grades meant a full-time job and the scenic route through college. Along the way, I founded the jewelry business PrayerWear in 2001 and started a master's in art education in 2004.
The art teacher.
The fun was in the making. My art students explored all kinds of materials and approaches, and I wanted every one of them to finish the year with something they couldn't wait to show off.
CHAPTER 02
The entrepreneur
Businesses I loved, problems I didn't plan for, and a lot of reinvention.
Garnett Estate Sales and Dry Goods. I loved it.
Garnett Estate Sales and Dry Goods became one of DFW's top 25 estate sales companies. It was part history, part detective work, and full of wonderful people.
Lyme disease changed the plan.
Lyme disease upended my life and career. Nonprofit fundraising, development leadership, and grant writing became the next chapter. I loved the missions, but the workload was relentless. Being stretched thin also made me wonder how much of that busywork could be done differently.
Give me an old chair and some fabric.
Upholstery became a client business in 2018. Today, an AI app I created helps calculate fabric needs and prepare estimates. Even an old-school craft can use a modern helper.
CHAPTER 03
The AI chapter
Creative experiments turned into work I couldn't stop thinking about.
AI experiments. Obviously, cats.
First came AI-generated cat art and Midjourney. Then ChatGPT arrived in November 2022. Overworked at the nonprofit, I started experimenting with ways AI could make the everyday workload more manageable.
I went to learn hypnosis. AI had other plans.
A trip to Las Vegas for a hypnosis certification took an unexpected turn. I came home thinking about an AI business and what it could do for people with too much on their plates.
AI-certified consultant.
With my AI consultant certification completed, EaaS AI kept growing around practical training, policies, strategy, and tools people would actually use.
Still teaching. Still building.
These days, my work helps organizations use AI with more confidence, better judgment, and less busywork. And yes, I still make creative things just for fun.
A note from RachaelSee How I Can Help
You Have Better Things to Do Than Everything.
Dear Fellow Entrepreneur,
Ever finish a ridiculously busy day and wonder what you actually accomplished? Your inbox is full, your to-do list is longer, and somehow everyone still needs something from you.
I know that feeling. As an entrepreneur, I've worn just about every hat, including a few I probably should have returned. I've worked 70- and 80-hour weeks, convinced that keeping everything moving meant keeping my hands in everything.
Sound familiar? Every decision needs your approval. Your team can't move forward without asking you. Even when you finally take a day off, the business is still taking up space in your head. And you're wondering why you can't seem to get ahead.
Meanwhile, you're paying for software you barely use. Your team is entering the same information in three different places. You've tried a few AI tools, but nothing has really changed. The work keeps piling up because you're still running the business the same way.
Here's the uncomfortable question: How much of this are you allowing to continue?
You're the one who can decide to stop doing everything manually, put the systems you've already paid for to work, and give AI an actual job. Until you do, you'll keep spending your days solving problems that shouldn't need you in the first place.
My favorite parts of this business are watching someone discover they can do something they never thought possible and seeing owners get hours of their week back. Today, I use AI to work differently, and I help other business owners do the same.
So if you're exhausted, buried in the day-to-day, and still convinced nobody else or nothing else can do it quite like you, consider this: You may be the biggest bottleneck standing between you and the business you actually want.
You've built the business. Now give yourself room to lead it.
Rachael
What I believe
AI should make people more capable, not less essential.
It can help us think, create, communicate, and solve problems. The decisions that matter still need human perspective, accountability, and care.
Beyond the work
An empty nest. A full house. You can thank the cats.
Life with Matthew includes a house full of cats and an empty nest. All fabulous, obviously. I'm still waiting for the cats to learn how to load the dishwasher.
Community leadership
Mind & Machine. Fort Worth and beyond.
I'm part of the founding team of Mind & Machine DFW and lead the Fort Worth chapter. We bring people together to share what they're learning about AI, ask the questions everyone is thinking, and connect with others who are putting it to work.