Being a Solopreneur Doesn’t Mean Doing It All Yourself
When I made websites, or helped people launch their podcast, it was very easy to explain. But when I talk about saving 25 hours per month by...
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Small Systems That Cut Freelance Admin: Live Coaching with Rachel Alvarado
How do you cut the manual admin around client work when every project feels different? Copywriter and content strategist Rachel Alvarado and...
My Essential Apps, Devices, and Techniques
I’ve spent the last few episodes telling you the tools don’t matter. How you organize your day and spend your time is what really matters. B...
The iPhone Duo Didn't Come But I Still Talked About It [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about why The Haunted Mansion is my favorite Disney attraction, and the lesson it has for solopreneurs: use new technology...
Protect Your Best Hours and Fix Your Pricing (Live Coaching with Amy Beardsley)
How do you stop feeling like an employee in your own business? In this live coaching call, Amy Beardsley and I work through it. We cover pro...
Tools Are Not the Solution
Sponsored by Heartbeat , the platform for building a community people will pay for. Run your membership, courses and live events in one plac...
No One Will Die if You Don’t Respond to Email Right Now
Do you really need to answer every email right away? You definitely don’t. That’s a story we tell ourselves. But the truth is no one is sitt...
Is AI Really Saving You Time and Money? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about whether AI is really saving us time and money, and how using Claude to rebuild my WordPress theme between sections ma...
4 Questions Before You Vibe Code a Tool Replacement
Should you replace your software subscriptions with tools you vibe code? I've replaced several of mine, but I'll never replace others. Here'...
What I Learned at Ecamm's Creator Camp [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I share what I learned after speaking at Ecamm's Creator Camp: why listing the simple automations I use landed better than I expec...
What Would You Do With 25 Hours?
My clients spend more time with their families, serve their community, and even have time to write their book. What would you do with 25 ext...
Should I Burn It All Down? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about converting casabona.org from a 20-year-old WordPress site to a flat-file site in two days — and whether my mailing li...
Stop Figuring Out the Same Task Every Single Time
I hate lunch. I’m never prepared for it, so I just end up wasting a bunch of time before picking the fast, easy thing. If I did some meal pr...
Pick Two: Voice Memo Apps
This week I'm doing a Pick Two for Voice Note apps (plus the one I’m not using, and a bonus transcription app) #1 is Whisper Memos, which I...
I'm Getting iPhone Duo [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about the iPhone Duo — my first real foldable — and why I'll trade away the telephoto lens, action button, and fast chargin...
Telling AI to Write It Doesn't Mean You Wrote It
When I was 17, my high school organized a two-week trip to Italy and Ireland for $900. My dad offered to pay for it. I said, "Why do I need...
Should You Stop Teaching to Get Clients? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about a Steve Thompson video that's had me rethinking my whole approach — the idea that teaching tactics on YouTube actuall...
Conscientious AI Usage: How I Built a Quiz in Two Hours
There was a time when building a quiz as a lead magnet seemed insurmountable to me. The setup, the configuration, the routing — not to menti...
Writing With AI Isn't Like Using a Calculator [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about why writing with AI isn't the same as using a calculator for math — financier Stanley Druckenmiller defended his AI-w...
When to Use Automation vs. When to Use AI
AI and Automation are not the same thing. But people seem to use the terms interchangeably. Tools like Zapier and Make are deterministic aut...