What if you just... worked less?


Hey Reader!

If AI saves you 45 minutes of work, what are you supposed to do with those 45 minutes?

According to approximately every productivity bro on the internet, the answer is apparently more work. Create more content! Build another offer! Optimize something else! 🙃

It's the same pressure to squeeze something useful out of every second of your day, now with a whole new set of tools to help you do it. And honestly, it's exhausting...

So I loved where my conversation with Erika Stanley went on this week's episode of Bold Women in Business.

Erika, who hosts one of my favorite podcasts, AI Queens, is all about helping people get time back, and use that for the things that actually matter.

Go to the gym? Spend time with your family? Do something outside your business?

This is the entrepreneur's dilemma (with which I'm far too familiar): how can we keep ourselves from immediately filling that time with more work?

The women I work with started their businesses for a reason that goes deeper than how much they can get done in a day. But it's very easy to lose sight of that when all anyone seems to want to talk about is efficiency.

In this conversation, Erika and I also got into the complicated stuff: having real concerns about AI while still finding it useful, the doors it can open for people who struggle with writing, and how Erika repurposes content without taking the humans out of the process.

If you have mixed feelings about AI, you'll be in good company for this one.

Boldly yours,

Rachel Honeyman

CEO @ HoneyBeBold


HoneyBeBold, Oceanside, NY​
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