Erica Vander Sande on automating a business in a single day, why AI feels like kryptonite for ADHD, and learning when to turn it off.
Erica is back with more AI, and this time she is sharing the conversations she has been having behind the scenes with her business owner friends. The big question she keeps coming back to: wasn't AI supposed to save us time?
She walks through a single day where she used Claude to turn seven or eight messy spreadsheets into one clean service dashboard and then rebuild her most complicated client onboarding process, work her team had struggled with for years. She is honest about how much good this has done for her small business, including faster RFP applications and a more organized, profitable operation.
She is just as honest about the other side. When you can see everything that is possible, it is hard to stop. Erica talks about hitting her usage limits, the ADHD pull toward one more project, why she thinks women are especially prone to AI burnout, and the boundaries she is putting in place, like picking only two or three projects a month and carving out AI free days.
Conversations in the Dark podcast, Erica Vander Sande, AI for small business, AI burnout, ADHD and AI, women in business, automating business operations, using Claude for business, client onboarding automation, RFPs for small business, The Mina Company
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