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𝔸𝕞𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕞𝕪 𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕕𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕖... ⁣ 🏡 Orders housewares for our big move and follows up on any missing items, returns or late deliveries⁣ ⁣ 🔍 Researched and ordered me an entire home gym⁣ ⁣ 📝 Orders my home office supplies, face products (cancels auto ship if needed!), weekly meal and smoothie delivery, and routine grocery/household items ⁣ ⁣ 🧹 Coordinates and books home cleaning, handy men, travel, and excursions locally or when we travel (even booking dinners + buying local event tickets!) ⁣ ⁣ 🎁 Sends birthday cards, gifts and flowers (also for Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day!) ⁣ ⁣ ✉️ Pays personal bills, deals with health insurance claims or bills and car insurance or DMV needs ⁣ ⁣ 👩🏼‍💻 Watches and takes notes in virtual webinars, classes or long articles for me to quickly read through ⁣ ⁣ 🎙 Coordinates my podcast recordings with guests and submits interview requested info for when I’m a guest ⁣ ⁣ ✍🏼 Takes an audio note, email, quick note or whatever and turns it into an IG post for me with emojis, spacing and fonts ⁣ ⁣ 🎤 Takes quick audio memos and turns them into podcast outlines in our backlog so then when the time comes I can beef up the content and record later⁣ ⁣ These are saving me HOURS every week and my assistant @claire.kinnell.va is located in the UK 🇬🇧 she works virtually on her own schedule.⁣ ⁣ Are these things you could do for someone? Then guess what, you can be a virtual assistant too! 👏🏽 ⁣ ⁣ The best place to start is with my free class linked in my bio 👆🏾⁣ ⁣ PS for my business owners, if you want to hire an amazing VA like mine then DM me ✉️ for the free hire form to snag one of our AMAZING already-trained students

Today she would have been born, I would have been

Today she would have been born, I would have been a first time (birth) mother.⁣ ⁣ Instead I’m crying in bed and lighting a candle for her little life “gone” too soon.⁣ ⁣ But then I remember Jesus telling me she cannot possibly be “gone” when time isn’t linear, we just aren’t physically together at this moment. It makes me feel a little better...but I’m still sad. ⁣ ⁣ So today we cry and mourn. And that’s ok.⁣ ⁣ I decided to plant a succulent for each year on what would have been her birthday. My Mom is sending me the first one so then we can propagate off of it. ⁣ ⁣ I imagine it’d be pretty sweet to be surrounded by succulents I can actually see and talk to when I want. ⁣ ⁣ In this moment, I feel surrounded by women who have also lost their babies. I visualize myself unable to stand up and them literally pushing and holding me up. Just as everyone did for them before. ⁣ ⁣ I chose this photo because I’m pregnant in it. I went to tea when we still lived in Bali with my friend Mary who was also pregnant. She had her baby a few months later, I did not. Watching friends and family go on to have their babies is such a weird mix of joy for them and deep grief for yourself all over again.⁣ ⁣ Were you a little girl or boy? What would we have named you? Where would your cradle go in our new house? Would you have little curls? Blue eyes or brown? ⁣ ⁣ We remember you little baby. And can’t wait until we get to meet you one day to find out how your hair curls and what color your eyes turned out to be 💜⁣ ⁣ PS please don’t send me fertility treatment suggestions or anything unless it’s to the tune of “I’m so sorry for your loss...” ⬅️ this is how you support someone grieving even if it makes you uncomfortable to not be able to fix it 💕

①⓪ 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 ⁣💻🌎🏃‍♀️🏻⁣ ⁣⁣ At least 1️⃣ good thing about #Covid19 is all the companies making permanent remote work moves 👏🏽 Here’s some amazing companies hiring workers around the world for full-time remote positions. 🤩 Tag a friend, partner, or family member who’s looking to go remote and bookmark for later! 👆🏾⁣⁣ ⁣ To apply for any of these companies ➡️ check out the “careers” page on their respective sites 🤓 ⁣ ⁣ Salesforce @salesforcejobs ⁣ Powerful CRM and Customer Success Platform⁣ Hiring for 👩🏽‍💼 management positions, product security handler, and accountant 🤑⁣ ⁣ Shopify @shopify ⁣ Ecommerce platform for small and midsized companies⁣ Hiring for 📧 email marketing managers, product managers, and financial managers 💸⁣ ⁣ Slack @slackhq ⁣ Communication messaging platform for businesses⁣ Hiring for 🙋🏾‍♀️customer success manager, and accountant 💰⁣ ⁣ Square @square ⁣ Card-reading application and digital payment provider⁣ Hiring for 📱 Android engineer and art director 🎨⁣ ⁣ Twitter @twitter ⁣ Social networking and news service⁣ Hiring for👩🏼‍💻software engineer, product designer, and admin specialist 💃🏼⁣ ⁣ Upwork @upworkinc ⁣ Freelance marketplace⁣ Hiring for help desk specialist 📲⁣ ⁣ Lambda School @lambdaschool ⁣ Online alternative to college⁣ Hiring for ⚙️ program manager and student success coordinator 👩🏻‍🎓⁣ ⁣ Zillow @zillow ⁣ Online real estate marketplace⁣ Hiring for👩🏽‍💼escrow officer and content strategist 📝⁣ ⁣ Adobe @adobe ⁣ Software company⁣ Hiring for 👩‍❤️‍👩 customer service manager and account manager 💵⁣ ⁣ Amazon @amazon ⁣ Online retailer⁣ Hiring for 📈 financial analyst and program manager 👩🏽⁣ ⁣ Pro tip - if you’re still using the same resume from high school or a template you found on google🤦🏽DM me for remote resume templates + resources so you can land the job 💣

𝕀 𝕠𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕚𝕫 𝕠𝕨𝕟𝕖𝕣. The business owner will text them in the middle of the night, send them work all day long and expect it back right away, or aren’t being paid enough. They blame the business owner and don’t realize what 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 did to get into this situation and how to avoid it in the future (otherwise it’ll just keep happening again and again). 👎🏼⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭:⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⏰ Did you establish clear time and communication channels and boundaries? Do you uphold them? ⁣⁣ 💸 If you were paid more from this business owner to do this work, would you be happy to do it? Would you be happy to answer whatever they need if they paid you x amount to be available all day? ⁣⁣ 🤔 What should you have done differently to avoid this situation in the future?⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦. Take 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 for the part you played and see if you can work with the biz owner to adjust your communication channels, role, and pay if that’s what’s bothering you vs just quitting and blaming them for everything or tossing in the towel that you just weren’t meant to be a VA 🙄⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ For example, when you start working together 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 what communication channels are allowed, what days you are off and if they need something in less then 24 hours that it’ll cost extra. 🚫📆💰⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Remember, a biz owner worked hard to acquire and train you. Don’t run off just because 𝐘𝐎𝐔 didn’t set clear boundaries and aren’t keeping them. I would way rather transition a team member I like into another area of my business or give them a pay increase then have to find and train and new person. This goes the same for most other business owners too! 💁‍♀️

⏰ Slamming the phone alarm off for the third tim

⏰ Slamming the phone alarm off for the third time 😴 ⁣ ⁣ Half awake preparing for the day. ⁣ 🚿 Shower, makeup, hair, fancy clothes. Try to scarf something down while phase 2 of getting Ben up and out of the door before 7am began 🏃‍♀️ ⁣ ⁣ Dropping him off crying after me leaving 😞 ⁣ ⁣ 🚗 Commuting an hour to the office. ⁣ ⁣ Counting down again until Friday. Until a holiday. Until a vacation. 📆⁣ ⁣ Now I can’t wait until Monday morning! I’m the first one out of bed every day BY CHOICE. Often I forget to shower and eat...but no longer because I am so busy, but because I am having so much fun working 😱 ⁣ ⁣ Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.⁣ ⁣ A life where everyday you can’t wait to wake up and dive into your life’s purpose.⁣ ⁣ 👆🏾This is what becoming a virtual assistant and growing into a six figure agency did for me. And that’s why I’m so passionate about helping as many of you launch your online work life as possible 💕 ⁣ ⁣ Right now my Remote Resume Blueprint is on sale for only $27 😱⁣ ⁣ It includes...⁣ ⁣ ☑️ MasterClass where I give all the best remote specific methods to help you land the job ⁣ ⁣ ☑️ 5 remote ready editable templates (including how to edit them using free software) ⁣ ⁣ ☑️ Cover letter dos/donts and template⁣ ⁣ ☑️ My biggest hack that lands my students interviews every time 🤫 ⁣ ⁣ My mission is to bring freedom to as many people as I can 💪🏼 I know the Remote Resume Blueprint can help get you there at a crazy low price of $27 👏🏽 ⁣ ⁣ Check my stories or DM me for the link 👆🏾⁣ ⁣ And LMK any Qs you have about going remote! 💕 ⁣ ⁣ PS throwback to Christmas 🎄 because I’m obsessed with these pics from @keiramasonphotography 😍 and once a year to share them isn’t enough 😉

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