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Have you ever been sitting at your 9-5 thinking, “Surely this isn't all there is?”
Today, I'm taking you all the way back to my corporate era before I was a virtual assistant coach, before I had an online business, and before I was working remotely from wherever the hell I wanted.
I was working a corporate job in the UK, commuting THREE HOURS a day, living for the weekends and constantly wondering why I was spending so much of my life working towards... retirement?!
I knew I wanted more. I wanted to travel. I wanted freedom. I wanted to be my own boss. I just had absolutely no idea how I was going to make that happen.
Until I went backpacking around Southeast Asia and started seeing people working remotely from their laptops.
And I thought...
“If they can do it, why can't I?”
That's when I discovered the world of online business and, eventually, the virtual assistant business model.
And honestly? Becoming a virtual assistant felt like something I could actually do.
I already had skills from my corporate career. I didn't need to become an expert in something completely new. I could take the skills I already had and use them to build a business of my own.
So that's exactly what I did.
I quit my 9-5, came home from traveling, hired my first business coach, and built my virtual assistant business from scratch.
Within three months, I was fully booked and had replaced my 9–5 income.
And that was just the beginning.
In this episode, I'm sharing the full story of how I went from corporate girlie to full-time virtual assistant, to traveling around Europe with my laptop, to building an agency, and eventually becoming a virtual assistant coach helping other women do the exact same thing.
In this episode, I'm talking about:
- Why I knew the 9-5 lifestyle wasn't for me
- The corporate moments that made me think, “What on earth am I doing?”
- Why I decided to take a sabbatical and go backpacking around Southeast Asia
- The moment I realized I wanted to build an online business
- How I discovered becoming a virtual assistant
- What a virtual assistant actually does
- Why you don't need 10 years of experience to become a VA
- How I used the skills I already had from my corporate job
- Why I quit my 9-5 without having a perfect backup plan
- How I became fully booked as a virtual assistant in just three months
- How I replaced my corporate income with my VA business
- What it actually felt like to work remotely while traveling
- How becoming a virtual assistant became my first step into entrepreneurship
- Why I eventually started building an agency
- How people started asking me, “Lucy, how are you traveling?!”
- How I ended up coaching other women to build their own virtual assistant businesses
- Why you can start a VA business while still working your full-time job
- Why you don't need to have your entire life figured out before you start
If you're currently thinking...
“Can I become a virtual assistant with no experience?”
“How do I start a virtual assistant business?”
“What does a virtual assistant actually do?”
“Could I really quit my 9-5 and work remotely?”
“How could I make money online and work from anywhere?”
Don't worry it's possible, you just need to figure out the how.
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I'll see you in the next one, future business owner. 💻✈️
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