Issue 63

AI Isn’t Replacing You. It’s Taking Your Busywork (Finally)

You know what’s wild?

The people most afraid of AI replacing them are usually the people who’d be dangerous with it… If they’d stop treating it like a Roomba in attack mode and start treating it like a teammate.

I just had a conversation today with one of my clients where I just about burst with pride because she is literally doing exactly what I’ve been teaching her!

Here’s what happened.

She started using AI the way most people do at first, as a tool. A helpful little assistant for one-off things.

But then something clicked. She stopped asking AI to “help” and started partnering with it. Like: “Cool, you’re on my team. Here’s the outcome. Here’s the context. Here’s how we do things. Now let’s go.”

And watching her take that mindset from her own private business into her industry at large, not to cut corners, but to increase quality and speed, was one of those moments that makes you realize:

The next wave of entrepreneurs who scale aren’t the ones who are “good at AI.” They’re the ones who are willing to use AI to get better at what they already do well.

Because this whole conversation comes down to one difference:

Scarcity mindset says: “AI is coming for my job.” vs an abundance mindset says: “AI is coming for the parts of my job that keep me stuck doing low-level work.”

And no, you don’t have to become a coder to do this. You just have to be willing to learn a new skill long enough to get past the awkward first date stage.

Here are the takeaways I want you to steal from that conversation:

AI isn’t replacing experts; it’s replacing manual steps. If you know your craft, AI can make you faster, sharper, and more consistent (because the busywork stops eating your brain).

Stop bolting AI onto the old workflow. Rebuild the workflow. The biggest wins happen when you let AI change the process itself, not just speed up one tiny part of it.

AI works best as a partner, not a tool. The people who win aren’t dabbling. They’re training AI like a team member and letting it multiply their capacity.

And I’ll give you a super personal example of what this looks like.

I’ve been building my own websites for… honestly, since I was doing hobby podcasting. People have always told me how good my site looks. I invested in a great theme. I taught myself WordPress. I learned Elementor. I’ve always written my own copy.

And over the last 2–3 years, as my business has evolved (freelancer → OBM → “I teach people how to use AI to run the backend of their business”), my website needed to evolve too. Especially when I got laser-focused on Notion (because that’s my new obsession, if you haven’t gotten that memo) and it’s where my work is going.

But the problem wasn’t the copy. I had the copy. I’d already used AI to help me write and refine it.

The problem was the manual labor: updating pages, building new ones, messing with layouts, tweaking sections… all the little things that turn into “I’ll do it later” for six months.

So I decided to treat AI like the partner instead of the assistant.

I asked Claude to teach me how to use it like my AI-powered website builder while keeping my voice, my brand identity, my colors, and even my personal photos… because I didn’t want a website that screamed: “AI made this.”

And in about 2.5–3 hours total across two days, it banged out a brand new six-page website. I was genuinely blown away.

Then I ran speed tests and plugin checks (because I’m me), and I fed it the feedback: “This page is loading slow. This image isn’t optimized.”

And it fixed it. It coded it. It told me exactly what to update and where to paste it and how to upload it.

That was my “abundance mindset” moment: I didn’t just use AI to tweak my copy. I handed over a whole chunk of the process and used AI as a partner to build the site WITH me.

So now let’s talk about the moment your brain tries to opt out of all this being possible for you…

Before you read this week’s challenge, I want you to REFUSE to say: “Yeah, but I’m not tech-savvy,” or “I’m not good at AI.”

Weekly Challenge

Pick one gap in your industry that makes you roll your eyes. The thing everyone complains about, but nobody fixes.

Now ask: “If AI was my business partner, how would we solve this differently?” Not faster. Differently.

Start super small (one task, one workflow, one deliverable).

Use your expertise to guide it (because that’s the unfair advantage).

Build a scrappy first version this week, then tell someone who still does it manually what you did.

Because when you solve a problem in a way your industry hasn’t seen yet, you don’t just save time… you accidentally create demand.

This is literally what I’ve been doing in my own business for the past 18 months.

I saw a gap in the market: People were “using AI” in a way that just gave them more to do, not less.

So I built a different approach: AI as a partner in crime that helps you actually run the business, not just generate more ideas and content you’ll never use.

In fact, I’m showing off that exact process in my free webinar on June 18:

Build Your AI-Powered Business in Notion

It’s a free live training (not slides and theory). You’ll watch real work move in real time inside my actual Notion workspace, including:

A complete AI-powered workflow running start to finish

How an AI “team” hands off work step-by-step (one finishes, the next picks up)

The CEO Dashboard as the operating system that holds it all together

🕐 June 18, 2026 · 1:00 PM Eastern (US & Canada)