How AI Can Give You Back Your Time with Megan Christie
Guest name: Megan Christie
Business name: AI with Megan
AI is everywhere right now—and whether you're already using it every day or still a little skeptical, it's becoming harder to ignore. But instead of asking how AI can help us do more, what if we started asking how it could help us create more time and space for the things that actually matter?
In this episode, I sit down with Megan Christie, a local photographer of 20 years who now teaches and consults with small business owners about AI. Megan helps women use AI to reclaim their time, income, and confidence by handing off some of the busywork that can make running a business—and managing everyday life—feel overwhelming.
We talk about practical ways AI can help with everything from emails, scheduling, and business admin to family calendars, meal planning, research, and all those little tasks constantly taking up space in our brains. But this isn't a conversation about handing your entire life over to AI.
Megan and I also dig into the concerns surrounding this rapidly changing technology, including privacy, personal and health information, kids and AI, and how to make sure we're still thinking, creating, connecting, and making decisions for ourselves.
We also talk about a different way to think about productivity. Instead of using AI to squeeze even more into an already full day, what if we used it to create more space—to spend time with our families, be more creative, grow the businesses we love, get outside, or simply step away from our screens?
In this episode, we cover:
How AI can help reduce mental load at home and at work
Practical ways busy families can use AI
How small business owners can hand off repetitive busywork
Where to start if you don't consider yourself “techy”
Using AI without losing the personal touch in your business
Privacy and what to consider before sharing personal information
What parents should know about kids and AI
Why AI shouldn't replace critical thinking or human connection
How to ask better questions and get more useful answers from AI
Using AI to create more time instead of simply becoming more productive
Megan's approach to helping women confidently incorporate AI into their businesses
Whether you're already using AI every day, have only experimented with it a little, or still feel skeptical about the whole thing, this conversation offers a balanced and approachable look at how to use AI thoughtfully.
This episode is your reminder that just because AI can do something doesn't mean it should. The goal isn't to outsource the parts of life that make us human. It's to let technology help with some of the things that drain our time and energy so we have more capacity for the things that actually matter.