Carly Meyers has one of those stories that sounds unlikely until you hear it properly. She started on London’s West End, performing in shows like Wicked and sharing the stage with Monty Python at the O2. Then one bad landing during an audition ended that chapter overnight.

What followed was a full reset through waitressing, sewing custom clothes, working at the Apple Store, building a network marketing business, burning out, and starting again. Eventually, she found her way into tech, automation, and AI. Today, Carly runs Made for More, a lean AI-powered business, coaches entrepreneurs, and works with a small human team supported by AI agents.

In this episode, we get into reinvention, resilience, and what building looks like when AI becomes part of the way the business runs. Carly shares how curiosity changes the way founders use new tools, where automation actually helps, and how to build lean without letting the pace of it all take over.

What we cover

1️⃣ The mindset that makes AI useful

Carly explains why curiosity beats resistance, and why the best founders are the ones willing to test, learn, and keep asking better questions.

2️⃣ Running lean with a small team and AI support

This part gets into how she uses AI across finance, legal, marketing, and operations without turning the business into a mess.

3️⃣ Fixing the system before adding more tools

Automation only helps when the foundations are clean. Broken workflows just get amplified faster.

4️⃣ What failure taught her about resilience

Carly talks about rejection, setbacks, and why her bounce-back rate matters more than trying to avoid failure altogether.

5️⃣ Protecting time as the business grows

The episode also gets into designing your days properly, keeping space for learning and creativity, and building in a way that still feels sustainable.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Carly Meyers

02:35 From West End to AI: reinventing after injury

05:39 Finding purpose after losing identity

08:21 Network marketing lessons: building resilience and grit

13:58 From burnout to breakthrough: fitness, focus, and mindset

16:05 First steps with AI: content creation and curiosity

18:25 How AI helped build a business without a big team

21:48 The “I wonder” mindset

22:45 Building custom GPTs: your first virtual team

28:07 AI agents trained on Hormozi and Martell

30:52 Claude vs ChatGPT

33:52 Creating AI financial advisers and legal agents

36:33 Virtual assistants, automation, and n8n

45:43 AI agents vs employees

50:00 Inside Carly’s AI audit framework

56:01 Why clean data is the real AI advantage

59:16 How to fail fast and build resilience

01:02:49 Protecting time and mental freedom

01:06:39 The lesson she’d tell her younger self

01:08:00 What ambition and kindness mean for her kids

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