Your Job Title Was Never Your Identity


Hi Reader,

Danielle LaFleur ran a 22-person marketing agency. Then she took it apart and rebuilt it as a 4-person AI operations company called EasyAsPie.ai, where everyone does work that matches their actual strengths instead of their job description.

The catalyst wasn't strategy. It was sitting down with each person's values and natural gifts and realizing most of them were in the wrong seats.

What we covered:

  • The nail salon reframe: a salon owner's real skill isn't owning a salon, it's making people feel good about themselves. The talent under the title is what's transferable.
  • Her company mantra: "We refuse to work for any company that will use our services to fire people."
  • Why operations, the boring stuff, is the fastest lever to give people back their time.

Key takeaway: Automating yourself out of a job doesn't mean working yourself out of existence. It means clearing the busy work so you can do the work only you can do. That's the whole Automate Yourself idea in one conversation.

One question for you: If your job title disappeared tomorrow, what's the skill underneath it that would still be yours?

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Connect with Danielle: Website | LinkedIn | TikTok | Substack


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Dina
Founder, Chill Labs

PS: Danielle's line that stuck with me: "It's not as hard as where you currently are." We've been in survival mode a long time. The tools to step out of it have never been more within reach. 💙

Chill Labs

Chill Labs is a boutique consultancy helping companies think strategically, solve business problems, and streamline operations utilizing Product Management, Software Engineering principles and AI. Combining a decade of experience running complex, globally distributed software products with expertise in product discovery, user research, and strategy, Chill Labs helps companies build products that users want and do so in a way that supports growth and scale. Dina Levitan, Founder and Principal at Chill Labs, based out of Seattle, WA, brings over 15 years of experience as a product and technical leader ranging from startups to companies like Google.

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