Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
Meet Jen Cohen, EssentialJen.
Jen Cohen’s workday ends at 1:00. Her clients know that, and they plan around it. If one of them hands her a big project on a Thursday at 12:30, she tells them she’s signing off in half an hour and they’ll pick it up Monday.
If someone asks for something outsi...
When you’re just starting out as a Virtual Assistant, pricing feels like something you figure out later. After the first client. After you know what you’re doing.
I hear a version of this in every Launch Pad training I do: “I’ll figure out my pricing once I have a client.” Or “I’ll start low and r...
Meet Cindy Howard, Lightning Admin VA.
When Cindy decided to learn to knit, she told a friend her first project would be a pair of socks.
Her friend gave her the advice every beginner gets: start with a scarf.
Cindy wanted to knit socks. So she bought a sock pattern and everything that goe...
When I opened my first business in 2001, an online baby gift boutique called Blueberry Babies, I wanted it to look bigger than it was.
So I set up email addresses for departments that didn't exist. A whole company's worth of inboxes. Every single one of them was me.
I thought that was confidence....
It's gray and wet here in Virginia this morning. There's a long list on my desk. And when I sat down to write this newsletter, I had nothing.
No story. No big idea. I waited a few minutes for one to show up. It didn't.
So I'm writing about that.
I started this newsletter on April 16, 2018. Ever...
Meet Wendy Gregory, Crescendo Solutions LLC. 
When Wendy joined VA School, she had been out of work for over a year.
Not for lack of trying. She'd been applying to dozens of places. Wendy has a resume most people would envy: she worked on Capitol Hill for two members of Congress, then spe...
This weekend Greg and I worked on the new chicken coop and run for Chicken Village.
We'd been working on it for a few weeks and knew we were getting close. We thought the new chicks might move into their new home this weekend.
Before we started building, we had measurements, we had a plan, and th...
Meet Shamayne Brown, Camp Virtual Assistance.
A few weeks ago, Shamayne walked into a Boot Barn that just opened in her area.
She used to be a retail store manager for Boot Barn, so walking through those doors brought back great memories. She enjoyed that work, and she's the first to say so....
I spent my life waiting for someone to pick me.
That was true long before business. Gym class, when the captains chose teams. Friend groups. I stood there waiting to be chosen, and the power always lived somewhere outside of me.
I wonder if you know that feeling too.
In 2010, I was 50 years old...
Starting is easy.
Starting feels like progress. You buy the program, open the notebook, tell everyone you're doing it.
For about a week, starting even feels like winning.
I talk with women every week who are excited about what they've just started.
Ask what they've finished lately, and the co...
