Hey Reader, When I just started out as a VA, I thought I needed to work 40 hours a week. Because I thought that was the only way to make a full-time income. I spent all my time searching for clients, and if I wasn’t doing that, I felt guilty. I was making no money at all until I signed my first client. But she only needed me for a project, so while I worked on her online course, I also had to look for new clients. Maybe you know this feeling: you’re so happy you’ve found a client, but after...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey gorgeous, When I just started my business, I thought I needed sooooo many clients to make enough money. I saw myself working 40 hours a week or more. That would have been the case if I had kept working as a general VA who only did projects. The moment I decided to pivot my business to become a tech & ops specialist was the moment I started signing clients who wanted to work with me month after month and wanted to pay good money for it. As a tech & ops VA, you definitely can work with...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hey gorgeous, Wouldn’t it be freaking amazing to have the ability to close your laptop at 2 pm, knowing you did everything you needed to do for your awesome clients, get your iced latte ready, and sit on the couch to start a new chapter in the book you’re reading? That’s what my life looks like now, and I LOVE it. My life didn’t always look this way. I started my career in 9-to-5s, so definitely no 2 pm reading sessions for me. But even when I started my VA business, I didn’t have this yet. I...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hey gorgeous, When I started my VA business in 2017, it took me 3 months to get my first client and another 3 months before I signed a client who wanted to work with me month after month. I knew this was what I wanted to do. No way in hell I was going back to working a 9-5. So, I kept going. What I wished I had was someone telling me that offering all these different services was not something that was going to fix the problem that I wasn’t making enough money. So, let me be that person for...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Hey gorgeous, It was 6 years ago, and I was enjoying the sun in Florida. I went on my very first workation. In the morning, I worked for a couple of hours, and then I went to the beach. I spent the rest of the day under an umbrella, reading books like Wolfpack by Abby Wambach. That book planted the first seed for the WolfPack Membership. Because we as women are more powerful and pretty much unstoppable when we work together. It was definitely a lazy workation. I left the hotel only once. I...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hey gorgeous, Yeah, you read that right. I was so unhappy. I lived for my vacations, not even the weekends because a lot of the time I was just to damn tired to do anything fun. I was existing, you know the song Eat Sleep Rave Repeat by Fatboy Slim? Well, substitute rave with work and you'd have my life. That all ended when I decided things needed to change. Of course, that was not an overnight decision. I was avoiding reading ‘You Are a Badass’ by Jen Sincero for over 6 months because I was...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hey gorgeous, More and more, I hear from virtual assistants that their potential clients ask for their portfolio. And what the fuck do you do when you don’t have any or that much clients. By the way, I have never been asked to show a portfolio. But it’s better to be safe than sorry, right? So, I’m going to help you figure this out. When you don’t have any clients yet or when you have 1 or 2, you can still create an amazing portfolio. You are going to use your own VA business and fake...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hey gorgeous, It was one of the hot summers we've had in the last 5 years in the Netherlands. Beau, the 32-year-old horse from my best friend, was still alive and needed her hooves done. My friend had to work, yes, she’s still in a 9-5, and she asked me to be there. As a virtual assistant, I have the power to schedule my day, so I rearranged my schedule and could help out. It’s something I love to do for her because she lets me ride her horse every Saturday, at least now. Back then, we walked...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hey gorgeous, I’m definitely not a big crowd kind of person. Every year, we have a 3-day carnival in the village where I live. There are some rides, but the main thing is drinking. When I was 16, I could drink (in 2014 they changed it to 18), but no way that I was setting foot in the bar where ALL THE PEOPLE were. I spent my evenings going over and over again on one of the rides with my friend, who now lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, btw. We were the only ones because the kids who normally...
6 months ago • 1 min read