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\nToday’s guest understands you can’t do it all yourself. Her clients are at a tipping point, launching the next phase of their life and business while creating multiple business income streams – which is why she’s their expert resource for finding the best virtual assistant for their needs.
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\nBased on the positive response to her two books “Become a Successful Virtual Assistant” and “Hire the Right Virtual Assistant” she decided there was a need for an association to promote a high standard of excellence among VAs. Thus, she founded the Association of Virtual Assistants.
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\nIn 2017, she became location independent and traveled to 16 countries in 12 months while growing her business at a rapid rate. Since then, she has become a sought-after Remote Work Consultant, helping individuals looking for remote work, as well as those in need of better hiring and managing their remote teams.
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\nPlease join me in welcoming Melissa Smith.
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\nWould you leave an honest rating and review on Apple Podcast?\xa0Or Stitcher? They are extremely helpful and I read each and every one of them. Thanks for the inspiration!
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\nIn this episode we discuss:
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\n* her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is knowing your strengths and weaknesses and making sure you have the ability to have people pull them out of you while you also do that for them.”
\n* how anonymous, random of acts of kindness with her dad and watching her mom as a soft-spoken but powerful “quiet” leader influenced who she is and how she operates today.
\n* how she finds joy in seeing others get over the humps in their lives to achieve the greatness they are capable of.
\n* the Association of Virtual Assistants she recently launched and what she loves about it.
\n* how she knows when she needs to hire another Virtual Assistant.
\n* her methods for networking and investing in relationships over the long haul.
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\n* Melissa Smith on LinkedIn\xa0and Twitter.
\n* www.thepva.com
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\nBooks mentioned in this episode:
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\n* “Hire The Right Virtual Assistant: How the Right VA Will Make Your Life Easier, Create Time, and Make You More Money”\xa0by Melissa Smith
\n* “Become A Successful Virtual Assistant: Learn the Business Side & Ditch the 9 to 5”\xa0by Melissa Smith
\n* “The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders”\xa0by Elena L. Botelho
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\nOther Resources:
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\n* Learn more about Steven Pressfield.
\n* Learn more about the Association of Virtual Assistants.
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\n\n\t\tRobbie Samuels\n\t\t\n\t\tOTS Encore 150: Investing in Relationships - Melissa Smith\n\t\tclean\n\t\t46:18\n10474\t\t\n\t\n\t\tOTS Encore 120: Spreading Ideas – Seth Godin\n\t\thttps://robbiesamuels.com/ots-encore-120-spreading-ideas-seth-godin/\n\t\tTue, 24 Aug 2021 04:01:31 +0000\n\t\thttps://robbiesamuels.com/?p=10475\n\t\thttps://robbiesamuels.com/ots-encore-120-spreading-ideas-seth-godin/#respond\n\t\thttps://robbiesamuels.com/ots-encore-120-spreading-ideas-seth-godin/feed/\n\t\t0\n\t\t\nTwo decades ago, Business Week said today’s guest “may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age,” because he’s as focused on spreading ideas as the ideas themselves.
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\nHe is a world-renowned speaker and author of 18 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. Entrepreneur\xa0said his blog was “one of the most-loved marketing blogs on the internet.”
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\nHe writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting leadership, and most of all, changing everything. Some of his most well-known books include “Linchpin,” “Tribes,” “The Dip,” and “Purple Cow.” At the time of this interview, his latest book was “This Is Marketing.”\xa0
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\nHe has founded several companies including Yoyodyne and Squidoo – and he is the founder of altMBA and The Marketing Seminar, online workshops that have transformed the work of thousands of people. In recognition of his ability to create and spread powerful ideas, he was inducted into the American Marketing Association\'s Marketing Hall of Fame.
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\nPlease join me in welcoming Seth Godin.
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\n* his thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is earning the trust to have people hear and believe you and the discernment to differentiate between the people who want to go there and those who don’t.”
\n* how he learned to accept loss, discovered he is not good at getting elected, and ultimately learned how to be a great leader.
\n* his belief that true marketers learn how to identify things that need to change in the world, come up with a solution to make change happen, and find the people who need that change.
\n* his thoughts about how school has been designed to raise kids to be compliant, and the importance of parents to use the time with their kids to help give them the future skills they need.
\n* how he does not view himself as a great writer. Instead, he has written over 7,000 blogs and 120 books because he learned to speak more clearly and to write what he was going to say.
\n* his marketing strategy that asks “who’s it for and what’s it for?”
\n* what status roles are and how important they have been in his life.
\n* how he keeps a generous abundance mindset and thinks “how do I give them the most that I can?” instead of “how do I get the most out of them?”
\n* his thoughts about “tit for tat” mindsets and networking with other people.
\n* his mindset about people taking his ideas and running with them, and how it makes him happy to see people use his ideas to create positive change in the world.
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\n* Seth Godin on Twitter\xa0and LinkedIn
\n* www. sethgodin.com
\n* www.seth.blog
\n* Seth’s podcast: Akimbo
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\nSonder – n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Watch 2-minute video\xa0from “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.”
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