You can't clone yourself, but you can clone your decisions. Pick the five decisions you make every week, teach them to your AI once, and build a second brain that never forgets.

Pat Miller shows small business owners how to lower their mental load by turning their most-repeated weekly decisions into Claude skills, so the same call gets made the same way every time, even when you're not the one making it. Then it's Idea Slam tough love: what to do when you have to fire your two best-paid people for cause and lose half your capacity in a single day. Plus two AI stories you can actually use, Google Ads getting easier to run and AI watermarking coming to Claude, Gemini, and the rest.

In this episode:

00:00 - You can't clone yourself, but you can clone your decisions

00:37 - "How do I make a second me?" The second-brain question every owner asks

01:25 - The small business labor shortage in real numbers

02:55 - Pick five weekly decisions to hand off first

04:02 - Task vs skill vs scheduled task, explained in plain English

08:55 - Idea Slam: firing your two best people for cause

11:42 - Why access to capital gives you options when people leave

15:19 - AI story: Google Ads is finally getting easier to run

20:10 - AI story: AI watermarking is coming to Claude, Gemini, and more

22:42 - What's happening in the Small Business Owners Community this week

Resources mentioned:

Athena Legal Solutions, free legal confidence review: https://athenalegalsolutionsllc.com

Crown Room Live and The Daily Crown: https://crownroomlive.com

SBOC26 Conference: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Grab an Idea Slam spot: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam-pat-miller

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🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/businessing-with-pat-miller/id1870663109

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