Automate the Boring, Amplify the Brilliant: AI Workflows with Jennifer Michtavy

Empowered by AI

In this episode of Empowered by AI, host Michelle Muncy-Silva speaks with Jennifer Michtavy, a creative AI technologist and product strategist helping entrepreneurs rethink work by designing smart, human-first AI workflows. Jennifer shares her journey from science to creative innovation, and how she now helps others break out of burnout culture and into a future where delegation, automation, and curiosity are key to success.

Whether you’re job hunting, building a business, or reimagining your day-to-day, this episode offers real strategies to start designing your own AI-assisted worklife.

Time-Stamped Highlights:

[00:02:00] – From molecular biology to AI workflows: Jennifer’s career pivot

[00:03:00] – Why women hesitate to own their innovation—and how to shift that

[00:06:00] – The double barrier: being early to AI and being a woman

[00:09:00] – Reframing productivity: from hustle to high-impact delegation

[00:13:00] – Jennifer’s go-to method: reverse-engineering ideas with ChatGPT

[00:17:00] – Why outcome-based pricing is the future of work

[00:22:00] – The solopreneur advantage: fewer barriers, faster ideas

[00:26:00] – AI and the future of education: ask better questions, unlock new paths

[00:29:00] – The automation mindset: where to start (and what to let go of)

[00:33:00] – Why passion needs support systems—and how AI can help you get there

Jennifer reminds us that we don’t have to do it all ourselves. From building smarter workflows to challenging inherited definitions of productivity, AI is the tool that lets us amplify what we do best—and let go of the rest.

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