Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
Meet Laurie McAleenan, Task Owl VA.
When Laurie joined VA School, she had been out of the workforce for years.
She'd had a corporate career for about ten years, before she had two small kids and a series of moves around the country for her husband's career.
She homeschooled. She volunteere...
The decision is the hard part.
I know that sounds backwards. You'd think the hard part would be doing the thing.
Building the business. Finding the clients. Learning the skills.
But it's not.
The hard part is deciding.
I remember how I felt before I filed my back taxes. Not for a month. For...
Meet Cassandra Taylor, Silver Thatch Solutions.
Cassandra has a background in IT. She has three kids, and after homeschooling them, she decided she was ready to go back to corporate.
So she took a job. And they asked her to move her family far from home so she could sit in an office and manage ...
My whole life I was told I was too much.
I talked too much. I said things I shouldn't say. I should know better.
So I learned to be quiet. I learned to make myself small. I held back.
And when I did get attention, I thought it was because I was doing something wrong.
It never occurred to me t...
Life is choice.
Before my family came to visit this weekend, I asked myself: How do I want to feel when it's over?
Satisfied. Connected. Peaceful. Rested.
Then I made choices that would get me there.
I picked six cups of blueberries and made a pie from scratch. I could have bought one. But the j...
Meet Debbie Guerrant, Atlas Sky Virtual Solutions.
Debbie was a high school science teacher for 30 years.
She loved it. It was fulfilling. She felt like she had purpose. But it was also 60 hours a week. Constantly thinking about everyone else. Always on.
After the pandemic she took a sab...
Before I got divorced, I kept waiting for someone to save me.
I didn't say it out loud. I didn't even really know I was doing it. But somewhere deep down, I believed that something would magically change.
Someone would step in. I wouldn't have to tear my whole life apart and start over.
My onli...
I spent my 30's and 40's trying to get somewhere that I realized in my 50's would never make me happy.
I was trying to climb the ladder of financial success, I was extremely status conscious, and felt judgement everywhere I looked.
I heard people talk about designing a life they loved, but frank...
How long have you been wondering if you could do this?
Work from home. Be your own boss. Build something that's yours.
Not a loud wondering. A quiet one. The kind that shows up when you're scrolling job listings you don't want. When you're sitting in traffic.
When you see another woman talking ...
