From Player to Coach: How to Delegate With AI

From Player to Coach: How to Delegate With AI

July 15, 2026 · 53 min

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The episode discusses how to effectively delegate tasks using AI, featuring insights from Bodhi Gallo on transitioning from a player to a coach in business.

I spent years being the bottleneck in my own business, and I know a lot of you are still there right now — running every job, taking every call, afraid to hand anything off. On this episode I sit down with Bodhi Gallo of Stryker Digital to talk about the biggest lesson he learned in 2025: going from player to coach. Bodhi took 120+ sales calls a month for two and a half years before he figured out how to delegate without losing quality, and he's laying out exactly how he's using AI to train his team faster than he ever could on his own. If you run a land clearing, forestry mulching, or wildfire mitigation business and you're still the one holding everything together, this conversation is for you. What we get into: Why delegating too early kills a business How I use ChatGPT and Claude to turn sales calls and job recordings into training handbooks The SOP method to onboard crew Why a semi-exact match domain and localized Google Business Profiles beat generic keyword domains for local service businesses What $300K in Facebook ad spend taught Bodhi about cold traffic, and why building a real brand matters more than ever with AI changing search How to record one piece of long-form…

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