Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
A few weeks ago I wrote about the fear of being seen.
How I used to make myself small. How I believed struggling made me more relatable. How putting myself out there felt dangerous.
A lot of you wrote back. You felt it too.
But here's the thing I didn't say: hiding doesn't always look like hidi...
Meet Amy Schmitt, Savvy Schmitt VA.
Amy was out on a walk when her son called.
His brother's fiancée had planned a surprise birthday party in Cleveland, and he wanted to go, but he was short on money for the hotel. He's still in school and works very part time, so needing a little help is no...
I used to think people wouldn't like me if everything was good.
Not consciously. But somewhere deep down, I believed that struggling made me a better friend. More human. More real.
If I said things were going well, I'd feel like I was bragging and it would make the other person feel bad.
So I l...
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...
