By LaToya Russell
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Allie Pasag, CEO of Streamline Mavens and a Certified Online Business Manager, is a powerhouse of systems and business transformation who has been breaking down barriers in the online world since 2003. As a Filipino virtual service provider, Allie faced many challenges before finding her success - from x-rated scams to discrimination around her accent. I invite you to join me today on a wild ride of a conversation with Allie, as we hear about her incredible road to success.
We also dive into:
The importance of work/life balance and finding joy
Embracing the opportunities that come from failing
Value-based pricing regardless of where you are located in the world
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Learn more about Allie by visiting her website!
You can also connect with her on her VA Agency website, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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You can also find me on YouTube & Pinterest.
A bit about Allie:
Allie Pasag is a veteran in the world of virtual assistance and online business management. With a career that stretches back to 2003, she is a proven authority in creating systems and automation that are not just sophisticated but also user-friendly and easily implemented. As the CEO of Streamline Mavens and a Certified Online Business Manager, Allie brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in breaking down business barriers and putting client businesses on autopilot.
With a focus on Systems Creation and Optimization, Launch Management, Operations Management, Website and Funnels, Workflow and Blueprints, and Business Process Documentation, Allie's expertise is in designing, improving, and managing business systems and processes. Her primary mission is to create the optimal environment for passion-driven businesses to thrive.
Allie’s journey in the freelance world began in 2003, and she received her certification as an Online Business Manager in 2018. In 2009, she started her VA agency which unfortunately had to close its doors in 2019 due to the pandemic. This closure was a difficult but necessary decision as she prioritized her daughter's health, who is asthmatic and more susceptible to COVID-19. This challenge led Allie to adapt and shift her approach, which has resulted in the birth of Streamline Mavens.
Together with two other certified OBMs, Streamline Mavens is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and the unwavering pursuit of excellence. As they navigate the digital landscape, they're not only changing how businesses operate, but they're also setting new standards in the field of virtual professional services.
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As a heart-centered business coach and scaling strategist, Andrea Elibero specializes in coaching ‘Soulpreneurs’ to scale their businesses through focusing on intentionality and strategy.
After achieving her goals in the corporate world, Andrea embarked on her own entrepreneurial journey as a Virtual Assistant in 2019. Through hard work and sacrifice, she was able to quit corporate in 5 months since she completely replaced her 9-5 income. LaToya and Andrea chat about what it really takes to make this dream a reality, and Andrea shares her top 3 tips for making the leap.
We also dive into:
What it looks like to truly make your entrepreneurial dream a priority
Pivoting careers during Covid
Taking risks despite fear and criticism
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Learn more about Andrea by visiting her website!
Find Andrea’s free resources for growing and scaling your business here.
You can also connect with her on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Want to learn more about becoming a Tech and Automations Service Provider? Sign up for my FREE info session.
Learn how to use any platform to set up automations with The Anatomy of Automation.
Ready to quit corporate? Visit my website here.
Let’s connect on Instagram or Facebook!
You can also find me on YouTube & Pinterest.
A bit about Andrea:
Hi! I’m Andrea Elibero, a business coach & scaling strategist for soulpreneurs.
I am fiercely passionate about empowering soulpreneurs to intentionally grow & scale mission-driven businesses that both celebrate their unique magic and support their dream life through embodiment, coaching, strategy, & implementation so they can live the aligned laptop lifestyle of their dreams.
My path has taken me from therapist to nurse to fulfilling my desire for freedom and embarking on my entrepreneurial journey in 2019. I replaced my >$70k 9-5 income in 5 months as a virtual assistant. A few months later, I grew into a virtual assistant agency, and soon after, I expanded to a certified online business manager. My journey culminated as a business coach & scaling strategist.
My passion is working with soulpreneurs to help them scale their businesses in an intentional way so it supports their life and not the other way around.
When I am not doing that, I keep myself busy by adapting to my new life abroad (I moved from Miami to Spain in 2022), teaching my dogs to bark in Spanish, having lots of travel adventures, and practicing pilates & yoga.
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As a Finance major who became a military spouse, Molly Rose quickly realized that her 20s were not going to pan out the way she expected. Having tried life as a ‘cubicle-dweller’ in Corporate Finance, she faced the truth that she hated it and leapt feet first into entrepreneurship instead.
Now, with over a decade behind her, Molly Rose talks to us about her journey; what she learnt along the way and how she is loving her latest venture - teaching people how to be General Administrative Virtual Assistants (VA).
We also dive into:
The value of jumping in and learning on the job
The realities of VA finances when getting started
Creating a career around your life and not the other way around
How she made the move from VA to VA trainer/teacher
Resources mentioned:
Learn more about Molly Rose by visiting her website!!
You can also connect with her on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Want to learn more about becoming a Tech and Automations Service Provider? Sign up for my FREE info session.
Learn how to use any platform to set up automations with The Anatomy of Automation.
Ready to quit corporate? Visit my website here.
Let’s connect on Instagram or Facebook!
You can also find me on YouTube & Pinterest.
A bit about Molly Rose:
Molly Rose Speed is an expert in creating what everyone wants more of -- time freedom. She is the creator of Virtual Assistant Academy and the Founder of Virtual Assistant Management, which provides trusted VA certification and placement in the online market.
Molly Rose is an awarded military spouse and solo world traveler who believes in creating a business and a life that allows you to do more of what you love.
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As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, Natalie Franke is a superhero in disguise . She’s a small business advocate, author, former Chief Evangelist at HoneyBook, Co Founder of The Rising Tide Society and now Head of Community at FloDesk!
Natalie thrives on community and believes in the importance of infrastructure for independent business owners. We get into the cultural differences while working in corporate vs becoming an entrepreneur.
We also dive into:
Natalie’s love for photography.
Deviating from traditional upbringing.
Becoming an independent business owner.
The importance of education and running a business.
Building a community instead of focusing on competition
What holds people back much more than failure
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Learn more about Natalie by visiting her website!
Get 50% OFF your HoneyBook subscription here.
You can also connect with her on Instagram and TikTok.
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Want to learn more about becoming a Tech and Automations Service Provider? Sign up for my FREE info session.
Learn how to use any platform to set up automations with The Anatomy of Automation.
Ready to quit corporate? Visit my website here.
Let’s connect on Instagram or Facebook!
You can also find me on YouTube & Pinterest.
A bit about Natalie:
Natalie has built a six-figure photography business, started a movement through an online hashtag, #communityovercompetition that quickly became an established company, survived a brain tumor, and is the author of Built to Belong: Community over Competition. This book discusses the importance of community and the lessons she’s learned throughout her entrepreneurial and leadership life. Her other book, Gutsy, released in August, is a guide on how to overcome your fears and be bold in both your personal and professional life.
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If you’ve had some mental struggles on how to move forward with your business or started and you’re dealing with the lack of a good support system, make sure you listen to this entire episode.
Ryane LeCesne, Master Your Mindset Coach, shares the three specific mindsets that are holding us back in business. You may have dealt with one of these before, and that is okay. You are not alone.
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Ryane LeCesne is the Master Your Mindset Coach. Since 2012, she has coached nearly 1,000 high-achieving women – specializing in the unique needs of high-achieving Black women – to advance their professional dreams by overcoming and healing from the self-limiting mindsets of Impostor Syndrome and Perfectionism.
Ryane understands how frustrating it is to have followed the "blueprint to success" only to feel like you secretly lack the 3Cs – clarity, confidence, and courage – to advance your career or build your dream business on your terms. She knows what it feels like to have done "everything right" and still feel stuck and trapped second-guessing yourself and your dreams. She also knows the mindset required to take big, bold action in the face of your fears.
Her coaching process is evidence-based, holistic, transformational, and proven to be instrumental in helping high-achieving women professionally advance. When Ryane’s not coaching or with her nose in a personal development+leadership+spiritual book, she is the wife of a very loving and supportive super-guy and mommy to a very special love bug. She’s a proud member of The Links, Incorporated and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and a graduate of Spelman College and Georgetown University.
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In episode 27, Naketa Ren Thigpen, #1 balance and relationship advisor spills all the tea on the importance of being intentionally selfish when it’s most needed and figuring out what makes you happy. And not allowing the hypocrisy of our industries to hold us back from our version of happiness.
Naketa takes us back to her journey from college to getting into a field in which she excelled. There was a time when she was doing really great and being able to focus on her skills but learned it wasn’t what made her happy. If you feel that way, know that there is hope and you too, can fulfill your life with all things you love.
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Naketa Ren Thigpen is on a mission to build stronger families that L.E.A.V.E new multi-generational imprints witnessed from the ripples of love, empathy, adventure, victory, and edification they create from their wholeness.
Naketa’s the #1 Balance (and) Relationship Advisor in the World activating power couples and potent humans who are ready to recalibrate and own their right to be intentionally selfish to amplify relationship intimacy as they grow to live in the space of (and) fully.
After a successful career helping families push through trials caused by trauma, lost confidence, and communication challenges impacting intimacy within their relationships, Naketa Ren Thigpen, broke barriers and glass ceilings when she decided to break free from outdated expectations and binding patriarchal definitions that limit the ability to self-actualize.
Formerly trained as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Naketa architected her core professional skill set as a Psychotherapist, Trauma Specialist, Sexology, and Relationship expert with strategically infused tenets of metaphysics and coaching to set a new bar, creating ripples inside the personal development industry.
Utilizing her distinct experiential, intuitive, and highly energetic style, Naketa is the host of the Balance Boldly Podcast & International Best Selling Author of the book Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love, and Laugh Your Way to Joy. A highly sought-after Transformative Empowerment Speaker and CEO of ThigPro Balance (and) Relationship Management Institute, this brilliant beauty has revolutionized how to heal traumas while balancing work/life (and LOVE).
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On episode 26, Nicholle Overkamp, personal finance expert and business coach for womxn, is going to inspire you to become the best version of a powerhouse.
If you need a little nudge so that you can stand up for what you deserve, this episode is for you. Nicholle and I are sharing our experiences and want to empower you to leave that job, start that business, and do what you’ve been planning to do, all while having your finances in order once you get there (if it’s been on your to do list of course).
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Nicholle Overkamp, MBA, ChFC®, CDFA® is a personal finance expert and business coach for
women. She’s the Founder and CEO of Wilcox Financial Group and PowHERhouse Money
Coaching.
PowHERhouse Money focuses on business coaching for ambitious women, wealth coaching and educational programming! Wilcox Financial Group is a comprehensive financial planning firm. It was founded to create an environment that’s progressive and client centric with outstanding high-touch service.
Nicholle is the Co-author of the best-selling book Money Bitch: A no BS guide for smart women to own their financial future.
Empowering women isn’t only a mission for Nicholle through her companies but also in her personal life as she serves on the Board for Girl Scouts of WNY, SheCAN!, and The Center for Hope of WNY.
She’s a fitness fanatic, outdoors lover, caffeine addict and Audible obsessed.
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This week I have a conversation with Natalie Gingrich, founder, and CEO of The Ops Authority, as she shares her transition from corporate to entrepreneurship and how she now helps others with their business.
Natalie shares how she cut the cord with corporate without a concrete plan because she was on fire to fulfill the goal of building her legacy.
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Natalie Gingrich is the founder of The Ops Authority, where she certifies and mentors women who leverage their natural skillset of operations and administration. She's driven to help women earn an income with ease while doing what comes most naturally to them.
She spent 15 years in corporate operations and leadership. Her entire professional life has been built around human resources, project management, process development, and people leadership. Natalie ended her corporate career as the Chief of Staff for a Fortune 150 CEO. With legacy being her driver and her kids getting older, Natalie left corporate America in search of balance. She matched her drive, leadership, and operational skills to create her own business.
In her first 3 years of business, Natalie scaled dozens of online and small businesses to 7 and 8 figures, worked alongside industry icons, and developed diverse teams. She merged her corporate career with her entrepreneurial learnings to create the Director of Operations Certification Program, the only strategic operations certification for leaders.
She continuously pours into operations experts on her weekly podcast, The Ops Authority.
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This week, I’m excited to sit down with Tasha Booth, CEO, and founder of The Launch Guild. She shares her journey from being in the musical theatre world to now running her own full-service launch support business.
Tasha shares how she took her blog writing hobby to the next level by learning what a virtual assistant was, to making more money than she did in the past working in a director-level position.
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Tasha Booth is an agency owner, coach, and podcaster. She is the Founder & CEO of The Launch Guild - a full-service launch support agency working with established coaches and course creators with Course & Podcast Launches. Her team is over 20 members strong and works together to support their clients in being able to focus back onto their zones of genius.
Additionally, she mentors Virtual Support Pros, Launch Managers, & Agency Owners who are passionate and ready to grow their businesses while living life on their own terms, and she is the host of the How She Did That Podcast -- a podcast for Virtual Support Pros to learn business and tech tips. Tasha has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Entrepreneur, and she has appeared as a guest speaker for various summits and podcasts including Amy Porterfield's "Online Marketing Made Easy," and Julie Solomon’s “The Influencer Podcast.”
Tasha is an Air Force wife to her husband Scott, stepmom to Grace & Meredith, and work-from-home dog mom to Stanly and Boomer. In her spare time, she watches true crime tv, sings karaoke, and tends to her organic vegetable garden.
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In this episode, I get to sit down with my friend Susie Liberatore as she shares her journey from receiving her bachelor’s in fine arts to building a full scale creative agency.
Susie talks about how she was more of the artistic type compared to her engineer brothers. Soon after college she joined the corporate world, but quickly realized that was not her style. Since then, she has focused on building her agency and helping small businesses thrive by marketing locally.
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After working in the creative field for over a decade, owner Susie Liberatore realized that corporations were missing out on creativity. Franchise owners come to Visions2images for full-service marketing because they feel that they are missing out on local marketing opportunities. Franchises are small businesses right in our neighborhood.
Corporations send out mass marketing daily on all platforms and nothing is customized per location. Personality and storytelling will win every time and should be created into campaigns per each location, not as a whole.
When digital marketing is canned, it doesn’t convert. With over three years of being in the franchise industry, Susie has created signature systems and processes that work and convert for franchises. This is exactly what will be implemented into the software. It is important and necessary to have corporate branding, but local branding is what took a franchise from 12 million dollars to 72 million dollars in one year; it works.
When I started my journey in the creative field, I started working at a startup agency in Nashville TN, and I loved every little piece of it; I loved the fast-growing pace, the creativity, and the unique customers. Even though it was specific to dental offices and the healthcare industry, we created something different and unique. I loved the dynamics and uniqueness each client had.
When I moved to Ohio about five-six years ago, I took a corporate job, still freelancing on the side. And you know how that goes, right? You're trying to manage life, child, working full-time, and freelancing on the side, it was crazy.
When people are in franchises or large corporations, they think they can't be creative. They might have corporations sending out emails, but they are missing their local presence and don’t know how to build it.
This is exactly where we come in and is our sweet spot. We help local franchise businesses get visible and generate leads in a variety of ways. You are more than a ‘franchise’ in your local community; so you want to make sure to stand out.
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The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.