The Automate Yourself Podcast

Conversations with people who are reinventing their careers and businesses with AI. Hosted by Dina Levitan, founder of Chill Labs.

Episode thumbnail: Brooke Wright

S1E7 -- June 1, 2026

She Has No Tech Background. Now She Teaches 10,000 Women to Use AI.

with Brooke Wright

What happens when someone with no tech background, a history of unfinished projects, and a brain full of ideas discovers AI? Brooke Wright turned exactly that situation into Wright Mode, an AI strategy practice helping women founders and small business owners. She went from burning out three-quarters of the way through every project to brain-dumping ideas into AI and shipping them fast. One of her clients, a coach, built a custom GPT that sold 3,000 copies at $37 each, reaching people she could never have coached one-on-one. In this conversation, she shares the Brain Buddy GPT she built to handle her own to-do list, her mission to teach 10,000 women how to use AI by 2026, and her core message for anyone overwhelmed by the pace of AI: you're not behind.

Episode thumbnail: Cien Solon

S1E6 -- May 11, 2026

Automate the 80%. Keep the 20% That Makes It Yours.

with Cien Solon

What if the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology, it's trust? Cien Solon has been on both sides. As a product leader in fintech, she built AI-powered decisioning systems for fraud, credit, and onboarding that served 7 million customers. Now, as CEO of LaunchLemonade.app, she's building a platform where anyone can launch an AI agent business. In this conversation, she breaks down what happened when her team hyper-automated everything, why you should always do it manually first, and her vision for a future where you're not going to be an employee, you're going to be a business.

Episode thumbnail: Nathalie Salles

S1E5 -- April 20, 2026

"I Have an Idea and I Just Go Do It." She Built 20 AI Agents to Automate Her PhD.

with Nathalie Salles

What happens when a leadership development consultant who's never written code decides to automate her entire PhD? Nathalie Salles spent her career in human development at Facebook and Google, coaching leaders and scaling talent programs. Now she's doing a PhD on AI, workplace, and gender, and somewhere along the way, she became a builder. She taught herself n8n, built a pipeline to process over 1,500 research papers, and started creating AI agents for her coaching clients. In this conversation, she shares what human-AI collaboration actually looks like when you're learning it from scratch, why the software engineers were impressed, and how she's using AI to give power back to the people who need it most.

Episode thumbnail: Elena Luneva

S1E4 -- March 23, 2026

This CPO Left a 20-Year Career to Bet on Herself. Here's What She Learned.

with Elena Luneva

What does a 20-year CPO who walked away from the corporate track actually look like on the other side? Elena Luneva spent two decades leading product at Nextdoor, OpenTable, BrainTrust, and BlackRock, and then decided to bet on herself. In this conversation, she breaks down how a "no more hiring" mandate forced her team to get creative with AI, why 60% of managers are stuck rehashing information instead of making decisions, and what she wishes someone had told her about going solo: the product is you, and the go-to-market is the hardest part.

Episode thumbnail: Yves Junqueira

S1E3 -- January 19, 2026

From Google SRE to MCP for Marketers. 10,000 Businesses in Weeks.

with Yves Junqueira

What happens when a former Google SRE notices the productivity gap in his own Facebook ad campaigns and builds the missing integration? Yves Junqueira spent nearly 10 years at Google in Site Reliability Engineering. Trying to validate a separate product idea, he started screenshotting Facebook Ads Manager into ChatGPT to figure out what to change. When Anthropic launched MCP, he wrote the integration and published it as open source. Pipeboard now has more than 10,000 business accounts connected, and he's pivoted to focus on it full time. In this conversation, we talk about the Google SRE approach of encoding best practices in code, why ad agencies are running entire businesses through chat interfaces, and how the line between automation and product has blurred.

Episode thumbnail: Jacob Bank

S1E2 -- September 18, 2025

He's Running His Marketing Department With 40+ AI Agents.

with Jacob Bank

What does it look like when a former Google PM director builds the productivity tool that does the work for you, not the one you go to do work in? Jacob Bank founded Timeful, sold it to Google, ran product for Gmail and Calendar, then left in 2021 to build Relay.app. After four years of evolving from collaborative to-do list to automation tool to AI agent platform, Relay is now framed as an AI employee company. He runs his own marketing function with himself and 40+ AI agents. In this conversation, he breaks down why 'connect calendar and Monday' is the wrong way to prompt an automation tool, why job descriptions are easier to write than workflows, and what kinds of work will and will not be replaced as AI employees get more capable.

Episode thumbnail: Deonna Hodges

S1E1 -- July 28, 2025

I Can Do Anything Now: How AI Renewed One Netflix Developer's Love for Engineering

with Deonna Hodges

What happens when a senior software engineer at Netflix gets bored, then has her enthusiasm renewed by AI? Deonna Hodges has been writing code for over a decade. When ChatGPT launched, she dove in immediately and watched her colleagues hesitate. So she started a pair-programming session for her team, then ran a workshop where 70+ engineers installed Claude Code together. Now she also creates viral AI content from her home in the North Carolina mountains and builds small SaaS projects aimed at people outside the usual tech hubs. In this conversation, she shares why the skeptics are missing out, how she leveled up her whole team, and her favorite question for anyone scared of AI: have you actually put in the 50 hours?