The Business of Being a Virtual Assistant – Pt. 2
The business of being a virtual assistant is first and foremost a lifestyle business. Whether your lifestyle needs more freedom and flexibility, more challenges, more money, or all of the above, starting a VA business takes thinking like a business owner. Otherwise, you will easily fall into the employee mindset trap. Last week in […]
Continue readingNo Frills VA Podcast: Melissa’s Word for 2023
In this episode, AVA Founder & CEO, Melissa Smith shares her word for 2023 and what it means. In this week’s episode, Melissa shares: 0:43 – A reminder of her word from 2022; 2:08 – Why she gives herself a year to live to out her word; 3:35 – How Melissa picked her word […]
Continue readingNo Frills VA Podcast: Already Overwhelmed?
In this episode, AVA Founder & CEO, Melissa Smith shares why she’s already overwhelmed this year and what she’s doing about it. It can work for you too! In this week’s episode, Melissa shares: 0:45 – Why she is overwhelmed; 1:02 – Where the overwhelm is coming from; 2:55 – Why goals are goals, […]
Continue readingThe Business of Being a Virtual Assistant – Pt. 1
The business of being a virtual assistant is first and foremost a lifestyle business. Whether your lifestyle needs more freedom and flexibility, more challenges, more money, or all of the above, starting a VA business takes thinking like a business owner. Otherwise, you will easily fall into the employee mindset trap and start working like […]
Continue reading#3 No Frills VA Podcast Episode of the Year
This month we’ve been bringing you the best of the best episodes of the year from the No Frills VA Podcast. Coming in at #3 is: Natural Born Leader with Latrice Prater. Latrice Prater is the CEO of The Digital Solutions Team, an agency providing tech solutions to female business owners. In this episode, […]
Continue reading#2 No Frills VA Podcast Episode of the Year
This month we’re bringing you the best of the best episodes of the year from the No Frills VA Podcast. Coming in at #2 is: Transforming Your Life & Mind with Sherry Parks. Sherry is a CPA, a money mindset coach, and a certified Life Coach who helps clients escape feeling trapped by their […]
Continue reading#1 No Frills VA Podcast Episode of the Year
This month we’re bringing you the best of the best episodes of the year from the No Frills VA Podcast. Coming in at #1 is: How to Find What Your Clients Truly Value. This is a very popular topic among VAs so it’s no surprise this episode received the most downloads of the year. […]
Continue readingPlaying the Long Game As A Virtual Assistant
Playing the long game as a virtual assistant is very much how it sounds – it means you’re committed to your VA business for the long haul. Founder & CEO of the AVA, Melissa Smith remembers vividly when she told a friend of hers that she was going to start a VA business but […]
Continue readingNo Frills VA Podcast: Returning Kindness to Yourself
In this episode, AVA Founder & CEO, Melissa Smith shares why the practice of gratitude is not enough unless you return kindness to yourself. In this week’s episode, Melissa shares: 0:43 – How returning kindness to yourself is part of the gratitude process; 1:37 – How VAs return kindness to others but not themselves; […]
Continue readingNo Frills VA Podcast: Dorie Clark: The Long Game In Your Business
Dorie Clark is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game and teaches for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. In this episode Dorie shares: 3:29 – What it means to be a short-term thinker; 6:41 – Why we should be excited about exponential growth; 10:45 – The trade-off of being bad […]
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