The AI Disruption is shifting the job and career ecosystem. This publication shares real stories of how we are all adapting to the new reality. Let's approach the future with excitement instead of fear! What if the best career move you could make is to automate yourself out of your job? Here's the thing - while everyone's worried about AI taking their jobs, some people are leaning into the "Automate Yourself" mindset, using automation to catapult themselves into new and exciting opportunities. They're saving 20+ hours a week, creating space for higher-impact work, and reinventing themselves.
Automate Yourself
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The AI Disruption is shifting the job and career ecosystem. This publication shares real stories of how we are all adapting to the new reality. Let's approach the future with excitement instead of fear! What if the best career move you could make is to automate yourself out of your job? Here's the thing - while everyone's worried about AI taking their jobs, some people are leaning into the "Automate Yourself" mindset, using automation to catapult themselves into new and exciting opportunities. They're saving 20+ hours a week, creating space for higher-impact work, and reinventing themselves.
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July 1, 2026
From Survival Mode to Creation Mode: How Automation Changes Everything
<p>What if AI's biggest opportunity isn't efficiency, but breaking 10,000 years of human survival mode? Danielle LaFleur is the founder of EasyAsPie.ai, an AI operations company helping businesses streamline their work and free their people. She built it after pivoting her 22-person marketing agency down to a 4-person team, rebuilt around individual values and natural strengths. In this conversation, she shares the company mantra ("we refuse to work for any company that will use our services to fire people"), why operations is the boring lever that lets people become their best selves, and her message for anyone worried about being replaced by AI: your job title was never your identity in the first place.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>00:00 Introduction to Danielle LaFleur</li><li>01:08 The Values Reset That Reshaped a 22-Person Agency</li><li>02:35 Why Operations Became the Leverage Point</li><li>04:06 Why Chris the AI Skeptic Came Around</li><li>05:04 The Nail Salon Analogy: Your Real Skill Isn't Your Job</li><li>06:27 Job Titles vs Identity in the AI Era</li><li>07:34 Automating Yourself Out of a Job as Liberation</li><li>09:19 The Mantra: We Refuse to Help Companies Fire People</li><li>10:11 Out of 10,000 Years of Survival Mode</li><li>13:39 Clifton Strengths and Finding Your Natural Gifts</li><li>16:50 Why You Need Honest Feedback Outside Your Inner Circle</li><li>17:23 What She's Building Now: A VIP Day for Small Businesses</li><li>18:16 Where to Find Danielle and Easy As Pie</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Keywords</strong></p><p><br></p><p>AI operations for small business, automate yourself, EasyAsPie.ai, Danielle LaFleur, values-driven company pivot, marketing agency to AI operations, automation frees people, Clifton Strengths, work identity, survival mode to creation mode, small business automation, AI for solopreneurs, AI ops consulting, find your purpose through automation</p><p><br></p><p><strong>FIND ME ONLINE</strong></p><ul><li>LinkTree: <a href="http://linktr.ee/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">http://linktr.ee/chillaborate</a></li><li>Newsletter: <a href="http://newsletter.chillaborate.com/" rel="nofollow">http://newsletter.chillaborate.com</a></li><li>Podcast: <a href="http://bit.ly/automate-yourself-podcast" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/automate-yourself-podcast</a></li><li>X/Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/chillaborate</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/company/chill-labs" rel="nofollow">http://linkedin.com/company/chill-labs</a></li><li>Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">http://instagram.com/chillaborate</a></li><li>TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@chillaborate" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@chillaborate</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>FIND DANIELLE ONLINE</strong></p><ul><li>Website: <a href="https://easyaspie.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://easyaspie.ai</a></li><li>TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@easyaspie.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@easyaspie.ai</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellelafleur/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellelafleur/</a></li><li>Substack: <a href="https://easyaspie.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://easyaspie.substack.com/</a></li></ul>
June 1, 2026
She Has No Tech Background. Now She Teaches 10,000 Women to Use AI.
<p>What does it look like to build a business that works with how your brain actually works, not against it? Brooke Wright is the founder of Wright Mode, an AI strategy practice that helps women founders and small business owners use AI to build their businesses. After a corporate career and a stint running women's running retreats, Brooke started using AI to bridge her own idea-to-execution gap. She's now on a mission to teach 10,000 women how to use AI by 2026. In this conversation, she shares the Brain Buddy GPT she built to handle her own to-do list, the coaching client who sold 3,000 copies of a custom GPT at $37 each, and her core message for anyone overwhelmed by the pace of AI: you're not behind.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><ul><li>00:00 Introduction to Brooke Wright</li><li>00:45 From Corporate to Wright Mode</li><li>01:17 The 60-Second Origin Story</li><li>02:16 Building Self-Understanding (and Self-Compassion)</li><li>03:42 From Stuck-on-Ideas to Brain-Dump-to-Execution</li><li>05:21 Building the Brain Buddy Custom GPT</li><li>07:08 Automating Time Tracking, Invoicing, and Content Repurposing</li><li>08:17 Maintaining Your Voice While Automating Content</li><li>08:42 Moving From Builder to Teacher</li><li>10:05 Why Teach Others to Build Their Own AI</li><li>10:18 The Workshops She Runs</li><li>11:27 A Coaching Client Sold 3,000 Copies of a Custom GPT</li><li>13:24 Lead Qualifier Automations for a Marketing Agency</li><li>13:32 The Surprise Automation: GPT to Notion to Email Marketing</li><li>15:25 Discovery Call to Proposal in 30 Minutes</li><li>16:49 Reducing Mental Load with Automation</li><li>17:27 How Building Wright Mode Changed Her Identity</li><li>19:24 "You're Not Behind" -- Her Message to the AI-Overwhelmed</li><li>21:19 What's Next: AI Dream Team Workshop and a Podcast</li><li>22:09 Where to Find Brooke</li><li><br></li></ul><p><strong>Keywords</strong></p><p>AI for women founders, AI for small business, custom GPT, no-code AI, n8n automation, brain dump AI, automate small business, Brooke Wright, Wright Mode, ChatGPT for founders, content repurposing, AI workshops, idea to execution</p><p><br></p><p><strong>FIND ME ONLINE</strong></p><ul><li>LinkTree: <a href="http://linktr.ee/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">http://linktr.ee/chillaborate</a></li><li>Newsletter: <a href="http://newsletter.chillaborate.com/" rel="nofollow">http://newsletter.chillaborate.com</a></li><li>Podcast: <a href="http://bit.ly/automate-yourself-podcast" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/automate-yourself-podcast</a></li><li>X/Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/chillaborate</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/company/chill-labs" rel="nofollow">http://linkedin.com/company/chill-labs</a></li><li>Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">http://instagram.com/chillaborate</a></li><li>TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@chillaborate" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@chillaborate</a></li><p><br></p></ul><p><strong>FIND BROOKE ONLINE</strong></p><ul><li>Website: <a href="https://wrightmode.com/" rel="nofollow">https://wrightmode.com</a></li><li>Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/wright_mode" rel="nofollow">https://instagram.com/wright_mode</a></li><li>TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@wright_mode" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@wright_mode</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-wright-aistrategy" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-wright-aistrategy</a></li></ul>
May 11, 2026
Automate the 80%. Keep the 20% That Makes It Yours.Automate the 80%. Keep the 20% That Makes It Yours.
<p>What if the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology, it's trust? Cien Solon has been on both sides. As a product leader in fintech, she built AI-powered decisioning systems for fraud, credit, and onboarding that served 7 million customers. Now, as CEO of LaunchLemonade.app, she's building a platform where anyone can launch an AI agent business. In this conversation, she breaks down what happened when her team hyper-automated everything, why you should always do it manually first, and her vision for a future where you're not going to be an employee -- you're going to be a business.</p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><ul><li>00:00 Introduction to Cien Solon </li><li>00:43 Welcome and the Automate Yourself Philosophy</li><li>01:34 From Digital Transformation to Fintech Product Leadership</li><li>03:11 When AI First Changed the Game: The 2018 Chatbot</li><li>05:05 When ChatGPT Hit: Kitchen Hackathons and Building Mode</li><li>07:21 First Thing She Automated: Epics and User Stories</li><li>08:38 "I'm Going to Be Out of My Job" -- and What Came Next</li><li>10:09 The Hyper-Automation Mistake</li><li>12:30 Playbooks First, Automation Second</li><li>13:04 Three Obstacles to AI Adoption: Trust, Price, and Risk</li><li>16:09 Security Risks, Prompt Injections, and Mitigation</li><li>17:53 Advice for Getting Started</li><li>19:30 What Launch Lemonade Is Building</li><li>20:26 "You're Not Going to Be an Employee. You're Going to Be a Business."</li></ul><p><strong>Keywords</strong></p><p>AI adoption, trust in AI, fintech AI, product leadership, hyper-automation, AI literacy, non-technical builders, AI agent business, Launch Lemonade, automation strategy, digital transformation, Techstars, chatbot, decisioning systems</p><p><strong>FIND ME ONLINE</strong></p><ul><li>LinkTree: <a href="http://linktr.ee/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">http://linktr.ee/chillaborate</a></li><li>Newsletter: <a href="http://newsletter.chillaborate.com/" rel="nofollow">http://newsletter.chillaborate.com</a></li><li>Podcast: <a href="http://bit.ly/automate-yourself-podcast" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/automate-yourself-podcast</a></li><li>X/Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/chillaborate</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/company/chill-labs" rel="nofollow">http://linkedin.com/company/chill-labs</a></li><li>Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/chillaborate" rel="nofollow">http://instagram.com/chillaborate</a></li><li>TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@chillaborate" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@chillaborate</a></li></ul><p><strong>FIND CIEN ONLINE</strong></p><ul><li>Launch Lemonade: <a href="https://launchlemonade.app/" rel="nofollow">https://launchlemonade.app</a></li><li>Substack: <a href="https://launchlemonade.substack.com" rel="nofollow">https://launchlemonade.substack.com</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciensolon/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciensolon/</a></li></ul>
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