Rebel Energy

When planning this season, I took a poll of the top 5 struggles y’all are having in your Virtual Assistant businesses, and I’ve saved the best for last! One of the most important things you have to think about as a business owner is the client experience.  Every client goes through 3 phases: pre-client, current client, and renewal. It starts when they first encounter you and your content, and...

Today I’m visiting with Willow Shanks, a sales and affiliate marketing coach, and she’s here to teach us all about sales. It’s very common for newer entrepreneurs to feel nervous about seeming sleazy or slimy about sales, but we’re going to debunk some myths! Some rules of sales that we’ll explore today: Sales is service Sales are about them, not you! Willingness to give and be generous - but don’...

One of my favorite things to talk about is marketing & sales. Before I get into the techniques I use in my business and with my clients, first you need to be totally clear on who your ideal client is. If you need a refresher on how to really nail that down, I did a deep dive way back in Season 1 Episode 3: Finding Your Sweet Spot.   A few of the top strategies I use in my business are: Cr...

Today we’re going deeper into pricing with my guest Jade Jemma, former corporate sales strategist turned entrepreneur sales strategist and trainer. The big difference in shifting from working for herself instead of a corporate setting was the urge to discount her services because of a potential client’s money story. What she found was that if someone really wanted to invest, they would find the mo...

I bet this sounds familiar. Back when I started my VA business, I decided to charge an hourly rate a little lower than the 9-5 job I had just left. Honest to God, my thought process was that I was greedy to charge more because I was so blessed to be able to work from home and save on daycare expenses.  There were a few problems with that logic. It didn’t account for: Overhead Taxes Guaranteed...

Today I’m going to visit with Adina Kroll about what Human Design is and how it affects your life and your business. There are a few different types, and within each there are lots of variations of how people tend to deal with things like decision making, working with people, and taking instructions. We often get in our own way by allowing conditioning and limiting beliefs run our lives, but every...

One of the biggest struggles that people have when it comes to their virtual assistant business is knowing who their ideal clients are. Get ready to take notes because we’re working through that today! What type of business do they have? What type of characteristics do you look for in a partnership? How much profit are you wanting to make? How to reach out to them There will be some ideal clients...

As online business owners, there comes a time when we may want to hire some help for a facet of our business that is taking too much time and energy. The problem is that sometimes, business owners will hire people that are similar to themselves, which results in tension and disappointment. What needs to happen instead is to hire people that are strong in areas where you are weak. We’re not all goo...

Why is it so important to create social content consistently? It really comes down to the KLT - the Know, Like & Trust factor with your audience. Content is the way that they can get to know you, who you are, what you do, what it’s like to work with you, and build trust with them to hopefully move them into being a client. That said, content creation isn’t easy for everyone. Not everyone has g...

The whole purpose of this podcast is to inspire women to do more and to be more, and to face the fear of being that rebel and doing something different from what your friends and family expect you to do. We are changing the generational wealth and we are changing our own stories to inspire our children and their children.  In Season 4, we're gonna be expanding a little bit on who we're workin...

Mary was laid off from her corporate job during the C19 pandemic and decided to open her own wedding and event venue with her mother and two friends. She was drawn to the virtual assistant (VA) world after seeing Jessica Hawk's TikTok and decided to launch her own VA business in October 2021, and her background in graphic design helped her to succeed in her venture. Mary knew she wanted to invest...

In middle and high school, I was picked on mercilessly by my classmates. I had gotten a horrible haircut that made my already somewhat large nose much more obvious. They had awful nicknames for me, and I learned how to grow a thick skin. That served me well in the military, but it also inspired me to teach my kids to do better. Everything we do has a ripple effect to everyone around us. We’re not...

So many of you have reached out to me since last week’s episode and I truly appreciate all of you. I see you and your struggles and it was very brave and it meant a lot. In this episode I’m going to flip the script a little bit towards my clients and how we work together to overcome the internal struggles when it comes to our own businesses and our own lives. I’m talking about money mindset, perfe...

This season has been about resilience and fortitude, and doing what you need to do even when life throws you curve balls. So many women come to me having gone through a major upheaval like a breakup or divorce, or there’s been a family death, or they’re just tired of the mundane and have had an epiphany that they are done with the 9-5 grind. In this episode I’ll share some of their stories (with f...

CONTENT NOTE: In this episode I will talk about loss, specifically miscarriage. It’s a difficult topic for sure, but the experience was a very important element to how I’ve gotten where I am today. I had never planned to get pregnant at 22. Looking back now, I was just a baby myself. Regardless, after that I had everything planned out. My then-husband and I decided to wait until I had finished my...

A very common mistake I see in marketing and messaging is giving waaaaaaay too much information. People who are asking questions don’t need a wall of word vomit - that’ll get you ghosted. You don’t need to jam-pack your modules just to prove that you are a wealth of information because you will overwhelm them. Do your market research! Learn who your people are, what they need, and how they want to...

As you climb the ladder of success, and as you progress in the personal growth required to grow your business, people who don’t understand will fall away. That doesn’t mean that relationships will be imploding left and right, but as you release the people pleasing and get better with setting boundaries, it will become clear who your people are. As I get more comfortable with speaking my mind, I’ve...

I grew up in a small town, which I love. However, in a small town, everyone knows everyone and their business. When I started sharing about my success with my business, some small town haters that I went to school with came out of the woodwork and really showed their true colors. Unfortunately, that included some people that I had been really close with, and that hurt. While my haters were busy ba...

In this episode I’ll look back at 17 year old Jade who joined the military, left home, got married at 18, then divorced by 20 and had to start over with absolutely nothing. At the time, I didn’t know what a disaster my first marriage would be. There were all types of abuse and when we divorced, I was left with no money, no home, no car, and very few clothes. My parents did help make sure I had the...

After I gave my marriage one more year and hired my VA coach, my business took off and I was able to finish with a 6 figure year. At the same time, I was in the process of leaving my husband and avoiding my depression by diving into work. I later signed up for Voxer access with a coach that had no idea where my business was and convinced me that building passive offers was the answer - and it wasn...

CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes detailed descriptions of domestic abuse and alcohol addiction. I invested in a VA coach to provide for my kids and myself, yes, but the real reason was a lot bigger than that. In this episode I’ll go into more detail about what I endured at the hands of my ex-husband, how I was finally able to leave, and how I made it possible to scale my little virtual assistan...

Welcome back and Happy New Year! I want Season 3 to be a lot more personal and vulnerable. I want to talk about the hard lessons, abuse, trauma, and lies that I’ve endured and how I’ve turned them into a successful business and better myself. CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains talk of miscarriage, spousal abuse, and alcohol use. My marriage was never a good one. I stayed in it for 10 long years,...

Something I struggled with a lot as a new VA was that I was addicted to people pleasing. Maybe that sounds familiar. I’m in recovery now and it’s better, but I had to learn some hard lessons to get there. Something I often see with my Rock Solid Academy clients is that the clients they land don’t really understand what to do with a VA and aren’t really ready for one. Your job is to complete tasks...

This is probably my favorite thing I do in my business. Get ready to take some notes! One thing I hear a lot is, “I’m a brand new virtual assistant. Who’s going to want to hire me?” The trick is that you have transferable skills from previous jobs and those count. Don’t say you’re a brand new VA - say you’ve been doing VA tasks for the last 10 or whatever years, and have recently decided to go out...

It’s not enough to just show up and post occasionally and expect ideal clients to fall into your lap. There are some myths around content creation that I’m going to bust today.  The post itself isn’t going to do all the work for you. You will still need to put in the work, build that rapport, and get to know any leads that come in. You also need to show up consistently in order to get in fron...