She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI
Aug 20, 2026 · 13 min · 9 segments
**What if the tool you keep ignoring could be the thing that saves your sanity next year?** This isn’t your typical "thankful" episode. In this raw and revealing Thanksgiving reflection, Dawn Andrews…
Dawn AndrewsHost
We were on hold for two potential evacuations, packing up everything that mattered to us in our house at the last minute.
We were worried about neighbors and friends and entire communities burning to the ground.
Then the new administration came in, and our world felt chaotic in different ways.
2024 had been my slowest year on record since I started the business 23 years ago, and January 2025 wasn't looking much better.
I looked at my calendar, not just February, but I looked at everything coming between January and July.
A marathon in March, relocating my aging mom to LA after an illness, my son graduating high school, my younger son turning 16, taxes, the normal fires that I put out in my business, and the abnormal fires happening in the world around me.
And I just sat there staring at all of it, knowing that every single month had something major that was going to require me to show up, to hold it together, to be present.
And I remember thinking, "I need to make space to breathe, or stress is going to consume me." That was the moment.
That was when I knew something had to fundamentally change about how I was working.
Not, "I need to be more productive." Not, "I need to hustle harder." It was, "I need to work completely differently, or I'm gonna break, or the business is gonna break." And here's what I figured out.
And I feel silly sharing this with you guys, but truly, it was three AI workflows that were the difference between breaking and breathing this year.
We were on hold for two potential evacuations, packing up everything that mattered to us in our house at the last minute.
We were worried about neighbors and friends and entire communities burning to the ground.
Then the new administration came in, and our world felt chaotic in different ways.
2024 had been my slowest year on record since I started the business 23 years ago, and January 2025 wasn't looking much better.
I looked at my calendar, not just February, but I looked at everything coming between January and July.
A marathon in March, relocating my aging mom to LA after an illness, my son graduating high school, my younger son turning 16, taxes, the normal fires that I put out in my business, and the abnormal fires happening in the world around me.
And I just sat there staring at all of it, knowing that every single month had something major that was going to require me to show up, to hold it together, to be present.
And I remember thinking, "I need to make space to breathe, or stress is going to consume me." That was the moment.
That was when I knew something had to fundamentally change about how I was working.
Not, "I need to be more productive." Not, "I need to hustle harder." It was, "I need to work completely differently, or I'm gonna break, or the business is gonna break." And here's what I figured out.
And I feel silly sharing this with you guys, but truly, it was three AI workflows that were the difference between breaking and breathing this year.
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