One of the more brutal realities of going solo after a corporate career?
No more button to press when the printer jams.
If you worked in big firms, you know what I mean:
- IT desk on speed dial
- PAs who booked travel and filed expenses
- Print rooms that magically birthed perfectly bound decks for roadshows
(I still remember wheeling a suitcase full of A4 paper from London to Miami like it was normal.)
Those systems were tight. When something cracked, you didn’t fix it – you raised a ticket and someone showed up.
Now?
Now, you’re the someone.
Quote of the Week
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
James Clear
Solopreneur = CEO + Intern + Janitor
Don’t get me wrong – I love the freedom.
But don’t ask me to manage people.
I already do enough mothering outside work.
So when my largest client (a senior exec with all the trimmings: assistants, analysts, espresso on demand) said,
“So… when are you hiring your analyst?”
…I felt a visceral nope in my spine.
I already manage enough:
- Kids whose schedules rival a UN envoy
- Clients who need managing even when they think they don’t
- Several WhatsApp threads ranging from school updates to investor nerves (“Navy tie or grey?”)
- A husband with the confidence of a submarine captain and the same aversion to outside input
- And two cats with enough fur to start their own pillow factory (grooming required in areas they do not approve)
I don’t need more emotional management.
What I need is systems.
So that’s what I built.
Over the past year, I’ve automated the hell out of my business.
Not to scale to a 7-figure team.
To stay solo without losing my sanity.
What I’ve Built (That You Can Too)
Today, I prep for client calls, build proposals, batch content, and analyse calls
without:
- a team
- burning out
- sounding like ChatGPT regurgitated an emoji-fest with em dashes up the wazoo.
How?
By leveraging AI.
I don’t use it like Google.
I use it like strategy and it saves me a whopping 20+ hours a week.
I now use that time to:
✔ Think ahead
✔ Deliver a better service to my clients
✔ Actually rest (sometimes… let’s be real)
Real AI Moves, No Overwhelm Required
I won’t give away all the goods (that’s what the workshop is for), but here’s a peek:
Each week, I run my business with a little crew of AI tools I’ve trained to work like me. Think of it as cloning your best self without the weird ethics.
- I skim hours of video content in minutes
- I record and transcribe every client call for better follow-up
- My scheduling, onboarding, and proposals? Automated—and on-brand
- My content gets a strategic AI assist so I never start from scratch.
I don’t use AI to replace me. I see it as a junior analyst or a VA. It helps me to replicate the parts of me that are most valuable.
That’s how I stay present, profitable, and out of burnout territory.
The best part? My coaching clients are using these tools and saving hours too. Even my own coach messaged me after watching a Supercut demo:
“Just finished watching your Supercut – this looks great! I love Notion. So many coaching programs I’ve seen either:
1. Don’t have a proper system for client-coach files
2. Use Slack to dump everything
3. Just share a Google Doc folder
This is so much better.”
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OWN IT
If you’re trying to leave corporate, you don’t want to recreate the same BS. And odds are, if you’re the same age as me, your life is equally complicated and full – read: time-scarce.
Yet if you’re still writing every post from scratch, drowning in admin, and re-inventing the wheel weekly – you’re not free. You’re exhausted and will burnout.
But leverage doesn’t require hiring a team.
If you use tools that work like a team, you can stay in your zone of genius.
You’re allowed to want ease.
And it’s allowed to start now.
Weekly Action Plan
- → Join the workshop waitlist and be the first to get access + bonuses
- Identify one repeat task you dread (proposal, caption, onboarding?)
- Reply to this email and I’ll suggest a tool to lighten it
- Block 30 minutes this week to systematise something you always wing—future you will cheer