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: 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.