How 3 Founders Think 100x with AI + June BTS
July just tapped me on the shoulder - so before we sprint further into Q3, here’s a quick download:
a brand-new podcast episode that will stretch your “small-team” ceiling;
four June highlights that prove AI works best when humans actually meet up;
the next chance to clink glasses at Founders Cocktails.
🎧 New on the pod - Episode 239: “Think 100 × with AI”
Three founders, three very different super-powers, one common thread: they all let AI multiply the human part of their business.
Maiko Sakai→ quiz funnels that capture leads while you sleep
Dori Adams → a phone-clip marketplace that turns 10 sec of video into 40+ assets
Renee Lindo → how AI is becoming a low-risk playground for trying colour palettes, outfit pairings and mood-board inspo before you buy
I wrap up with I close with three KEY points:
Small teams can now run at enterprise speed.
Custom GPTs are documented SOPs on autopilot.
Your next job is to decide what still needs your brain - and delegate the rest to the bot.
🌞 June in one scroll
Talking AI at Toronto City Hall
In June, I sat on a panel about AI for women + non-binary entrepreneurs at Toronto City Hall.
Women Entrepreneurship Forum 2025 was organized by the City of Toronto and Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH).
Shout out to my fellow panelists Adam Renkosinski of Vector Institute and Deborah Carraro of Coralus (formerly SheO).
Walking past the iconic TORONTO sign and up those council-chamber steps, I felt two things at once:
Surreal pride - teenage-me couldn’t have imagined being there.
Urgent responsibility - because the AI wave isn’t future tense anymore; it’s fully here, and too many founders still feel on the outside.
Double-Double at Founders Cocktails
Suzanne Huber and I turned a coach’s nudge into a standing date at Bridgette Bar (The Well). Zero slides, all strategy.
Edition 1 - 4 of us met.
Edition 2? We doubled the number.
That momentum tells me we’re onto something - and I’m buzzing to grow it.
Thank you to those who joined us! Jesse Clarke, Fifa Tran, Teecee Okore, Andrew Jenkins, Shulamit Ber Levtov, and Talya Moshinsky! Follow them. Thank me later.
🎓 My first convocation as an instructor at York University - and I felt every second of it.
In June, I donned the robes, took my place in the faculty procession, and shook 700 hands - each one full of energy, ambition, and a story I was lucky to witness a small part of.
The energy was electric. These weren’t just students crossing a stage - they were entrepreneurs, career changers, and leaders-in-the-making stepping into their next chapter.
As a continuing education instructor, I’ve always believed in second (and third!) chances at learning, and this room was full of people who said yes to themselves.
Wins from inside my AI implementation mastermind (MPC)
Member Leigh Mitchell built her Campaign Planning custom GPT to shave hours off content planning. And this is just one of many things founders are doing to buy back their time and headspace using AI.
Want your own implementation wins?
Enjoy the listen, keep building the human stuff, and see you next week.
peace.
