
Ari Meisel
Productivity entrepreneur, author, and "Overwhelmologist" who founded Less Doing, helping people and businesses optimize, automate, and outsource their work.
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Sep 8, 2026
Ep 337 The Bottleneck in Your Business Has Your Name on It with Ari Meisel
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Ari MeiselGUEST
So, I mean, first of all, so this is actually a really interesting thing about AI is that, so I've spoken in seven or eight, no, like eight different countries at this point and to thousands of people at different times.

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And I always like to ask people, hey, everybody, you know, raise your hand if you've ever outsourced something.

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And then I'd say, okay, now raise your hands if you've ever had a bad experience outsourcing something.

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And 100% of the time that I've ever asked that question, more people raise their hands the second time.
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13:51Rocky LalvaniHOST
And the way I look at it is what are the things I don't enjoy doing and how the hell do I get them off my plate so that I don't have to do it? Because that to me is the motivator of getting rid of stuff.
The Founder Trap: Why Your Business Depends Too Much on You
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Ian GatzkeHOST
So first question, why do you think delegation is one of those things that we aren't just out-of-the-box good at? And then what goes into being-- like, what goes into effective delegation?

Ari MeiselGUEST
It's just like, "Hey, I just wanna get this thing off my plate and get it done, and you deal with it." That's what most people do when they delegate.
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1175: Reclaiming Time through Effective Delegation to Humans and AI with Ari Meisel
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Ari MeiselGUEST
So this is gonna sound really reductivist, [chuckles] but a lot of times people don't convey the outcome that they're trying to achieve.

Ari MeiselGUEST
Actually, it's one of my favorite outsource... one of my f- favorite virtual assistant stories ever.

Ari MeiselGUEST
I was going to Canada for the day to go to an event that I had to be at the event, I think, about 8:30 in the morning, and I'd, I'd go to this event somewhat regularly.
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22:39Pete McKinnonHOST
Any other powerful questions, guidelines, principles you're using as you consider optimizing, automating, and outsourcing?
Rethinking Email, Focus & Doing Less w/ Ari Meisel (TPS621)
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See mintmobile.com.

Ari MeiselGUEST
It's one of several things in most people's lives where they were given access to it without actual instruction, right? You know, it takes seventeen seconds to set up a Gmail account one-- as a thirteen-year-old.

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And then you're off to the races, and you're getting spam, and you're responding to people, and you're sending emojis, and you're, you know, and you're replying and threading and forward.

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Maybe there are in college to some extent now, but i-it's, you know, it, it's literally be like giving somebody the keys to a car and saying, like, "Okay, see you in a few years," you know? That's what email is like.
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