How to Be Awesome at Your Job

1099: How to Buy Back Your Time with the Right Assistant with Jess Lindgren


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Jess Lindgren shares what it takes to build a working relationship that helps give you back your time and focus.


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The must-have traits of any great assistant

2) The key to hiring an assistant

3) Where to find great assistants hiding in your own network


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— ABOUT JESS — 

Jess Lindgren has worked in the C-Suite of small companies for 20+ years, and developed a diverse skill set by wearing many hats on any given day. She focuses on supporting her current CEO in his many endeavors, works to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of EAs around the world, and has very low tolerance for any meeting that could have been an email. Jess hosts the wildly popular* business podcast, Ask An Assistant.  (*in her Grandpa's woodshop)

She loves living in Syracuse with her husband and three cats in their century home. An avid fan of putting pen to paper, Jess personally replies to every handwritten letter she receives.

• Podcast: Ask An Assistant

• Website: JessLindgren.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• Service: Fancy Hands

• Service: Care.com


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