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It's Better to Just Do the Things

Colleen's first week at a new AI consulting contract is off to a great start. She's building automations for marketing ops and customer success, self-hosted n8n on Hetzner to cut costs, and got her YouTube shorts roasted by her 12-year-old.


Colleen's first week at a new AI consulting contract is off to a great start. She's building automations for marketing ops and customer success, self-hosted n8n on Hetzner to cut costs, and got her YouTube shorts roasted by her 12-year-old. Joe sent two contracts, wrote a flagship mobile framework comparison article, and learned some lessons from his first round of cold outbound emails.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Olympics and Curling
  • 05:50 Customer Success and AI
  • 11:09 Workflow Automation and Cost Reduction
  • 17:05 Selling AI Automations
  • 28:04 YouTube Shorts and Content Creation
  • 56:09 Upcoming Solo Trip and Secret Project Teaser