Automate Your Life Pt.2

In this episode we conclude our 2 part series on automating your life. We focus on services that can save you money, get you time back and make your life run more smoothly.

Episode 110 of the The Better Show podcast, hosted by Ian Mikutel, March Rogers, Darren Austin, titled "Automate Your Life Pt.2" was published on November 18, 2019 and runs 77 minutes.

November 18, 2019 ·77m · The Better Show

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Summary

In this episode we conclude our 2 part series on automating your life. We focus on services that can save you money, get you time back and make your life run more smoothly.

Episode Description

Show Notes

1:27 — We got nominated for a “best health and fitness” podcast award!!
5:20 — March recommends checking out Episode 56: Better Morning Routines.
6:48 — What benefits can you reap from using services to automate things in your life?
8:25 — Automating your laundry with LaundryHeap.com
12:16 — How to automate your grocery shopping
16:10 — Ian’s experience using TaxFyle.com to outsource his tax preparation.
19:39 — A few of the lesser known outsourcing services that Darren and Mardee use including Dolly, Fiverr, and 99Designs.com.
22:00 — How to decide which outsourcing services are the best value for your lifestyle.
25:50 — Ian reflects on the benefits of having a roommate to “outsource” some activities around the house.
27:01 —March almost confesses to making phone calls to random people. :-)
32:00 — The two categories of automation / outsourcing services.
34:19 — Are we already living in a dystopian future of automation?
38:42 — Darren offers to do Ian’s taxes. (Not really.)
40:00 — The precarious task of putting up Christmas lights.
43:10 —The 3 weirdest things that have been outsourced using TaskRabbit.
49:45 — The difference between Fiverr and TaskRabbit.
51:38 — What is Mechanical Turk by Amazon?
1:00:01 — The different options for food and grocery delivery.
1:01:00 — The different personal shopping services and how they work.
1:05:20 — A service called OffTheRecord.com that will contest your traffic tickets on your behalf.
1:07:19 — Automating the setup of a company and payment system using Atlas by Stripe.
1:07:59 — Services that automatically coach you on sales calls or for live presentations.
1:10:01 — Services that help you automate your travel planning.
1:13:05 — Services like Dolly that can help you find people to move large, heavy objects.
1:15:05 — How you can get rid of three feet of snow using the Shovler app.