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The Business That Runs Without You: Alane Boyd on Automation, Exits, & Finding Purpose After Success

  1. The Business That Runs Without You: Alane Boyd on Automation, Exits, & Finding Purpose After Success Mike Konrad 1:01:42

What happens when you finally build the business you dreamed of, grow it, sell it, and then discover that freedom doesn’t feel quite the way you expected?

My guest today is Alane Boyd. She’s a serial entrepreneur, Growth strategist, keynote speaker, AI and automation expert, and co-founder and CEO of Biggest Goal. 

She’s built and led multiple SaaS companies, grown a tech company into an 8-figure business, and successfully exited two companies. On paper, that sounds like the entrepreneurial dream. But as we’ll talk about today, the dream has a second side. 

After one of those exits, Alane experienced the silence that can come after years of constant motion. The business was gone, her identity tied to the business had changed, and the next chapter wasn’t immediately obvious.

Alane now helps business owners tackle their biggest operational challenges through systems, automation, AI, and workflow design. 

She also co-hosts the podcast Automate Your Agency, where she and Micah Johnson help founders systemize and automate their businesses so they can scale more efficiently without being trapped in the day-to-day grind.

So today, we’ll break this conversation into two segments. In the first segment, we’ll talk about Alane’s entrepreneurial journey, the wins, the Stress, the Burnout, the exits, and what success really felt like once she got there. 

In the second segment, we’ll shift into her area of expertise: AI, automation, workflow design, and how entrepreneurs can build companies that don’t depend on them being in the middle of every task, every decision, and every emergency.

Biggest Goal:
https://www.biggestgoal.ai

Automate Your Agency Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/@BiggestGoalAI

Mike Konrad Podcast Host

Mike Konrad entered the electronics manufacturing industry in 1985. Four decades later, he continues to dedicate his career to advancing reliability within the industry. In 1992, he founded Aqueous Technologies, an equipment manufacturer serving the electronics sector. Becoming an entrepreneur was never part of his plan, he simply had a passion for a product he designed. When his employer declined to build it, he realized the only way forward was to create it himself.

Mike entered business with strong technical skills but no business acumen. His early assets were ego, passion, arrogance, ignorance, and above all, a poor assessment of risk. Ironically, those traits proved useful in the beginning, ignorance really was bliss. But as his company grew, Mike recognized that those same traits could lead to its downfall. To survive, he had to transform himself, developing business acumen, adopting sustainable strategies, and evolving from reckless enthusiasm into purposeful leadership.

Today, with 40 years of industry experience, Mike shares both his technical expertise and his entrepreneurial journey, offering lessons from personal and professional growth, the near-misses that almost derailed him, and the strategies that carried him forward. He is also a strong advocate of “conscious marketing”, moving beyond traditional chest-thumping advertising toward education-driven authority building. By offering value through knowledge rather than hype, Mike helps organizations connect with a new generation of decision-makers who prefer independent research over bold claims.