The Virtual Hustle

In this episode we get into two core values - mindset and balance. These are the foundation of a great life, excelling at a career or building a business. They make it so you can physically and mentally do the things you have always dreamed of.

You can go against the grain, you can be selfish with your time and you get to choose how you're going to feel today. It's no other life than yours. Emily Elizabeth Duong, a multi passionate entrepreneur, corporate seller, podcast host, e-book author and career growth expert - gives us all the details.

It takes rewiring your brain to focusing on what matters and what areas to spend your time on- to live a fulfilling life.

Topics

Topic 1: Balancing owning a business in college (5:00).

Topic 2: About Elite Skatewear, her product based business (7:30).

Topic 3: Mindset and career blog & more about the e-book (9:35).

Topic 4: What Fulfills You Podcast. About life fulfillment while incorporating all the things you have in life - in relationships, in health, mental health and wellness (13:10).

Topic 5: How to push other people's opinions aside and do things that genuinely make you happy (17:00)

Topic 6: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (19:00) and finding people who align with you.

Topic 7: Prioritizing your life, give up the Netflix (25:00)

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- rating/reviewing the The Virtual Hustle podcast - comment on most recent post of TVH Instagram letting me know what you thought of the episode -comment on Emily's most recent post on Instagram letting us know you listened

Resources mentioned

Emily Elizabeth Duong Instagram Emily Elizabeth Blog What FulFills You Podcast

Alicia Baldino Instagram The Virtual Hustle Instagram The Virtual Hustle Community The Virtual Hustle Website

This solo episode Alicia get's into the importance of putting yourself up to challenges. This is a business development, entrepreneurial, work remote podcast but at the very core of your business, is you. The only way to get stronger, better and more focused is to put yourself up to uncomfortable things.

Alicia talks about her experience backpacking through Europe, what she learned and how it was the ultimate challenge that she signed up for— it was life changing.

Good news, you don't need to get on a plane and backpack Europe to gain extraordinary results in your life, you can start with challenges right here, right now in your daily life.

In the episode Alicia presents a challenge program that every single person can do and benefit from. It isn't easy, but it builds grit, confidence, credibility with yourself, time management skills and improved physical fitness.

Topic 1 - The importance of challenging yourself in different areas of your life (1:09).

Topic 2 - Talking about it and being about it, which are you (4:40).

Topic 3 - TVH Community is where we're going to start challenges and act as accountability (6:00).

Topic 4 - The Camino De Santiago backpacking trip and what it taught me about challenge (6:30).

Topic 5 - Create challenges that don't need to be such a commitment (12:16).

Topic 6 - 75 Hard Challenge, what it is and how to gain mental strength and overcome an ultimate challenge (13:42).

Topic 7 - Join the challenge here (facebook group) (18:43).

Resources mentioned in this episode -

The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

We sit down with the queen virtual assistant of the wedding industry, Taylor Daniels AKA, 'It's Va Tay'.

We talk all about how to become a virtual assistant and the importance of niching down. We talk about how it's almost more important to get started, build solid relationships, work hard, learn and then figure out your niche.

We give ideas for good industries to get into and how to set up your pricing and contracts — really everything you need to know about starting a VA business and working from home.

Topic 1 - Why and how to pick a niche (4:55 and 6:25).

Topic 2 - What services to offer as a virtual assistant (10.05).

Topic 3 - Make sure the relationship meshes (20:15).

Topic 4 - Know your worth (20:30) & hourly rate (22:00).

Topic 5 - Working from home with a toddler (19:50) and the importance of creating a schedule (22.30).

Topic 6 - The importance of keeping a good relationship with your clients + how to communicate as a virtual assistant (26.50).

Topic 7 - Setting up payment and contract that works for you (29:10).

Resources mentioned in this episode -

It's VA Tay Website

It's VA Tay Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

This episode of is about how to become a 5:30am wake up person and why it is so crucial in productivity, having more energy, and getting hours back in your day to do the things you need to do, and the things you want to do.

Alicia get's into the nitty gritty steps it takes to be an early morning riser, and actually use that time effectively.

5 steps to do before bed in order to set yourself up for success in waking up early.

1. PUT THE PHONE AND THE SNACKS DOWN.

2. HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR EARLY MORNING.

3. LAY OUT YOUR WORKOUT CLOTHES.

4. SWAP ALCOHOL FOR TEA OR MAGNESIUM

5. TAKE A HOT SHOWER.

4 steps to do right when you wake up.

1. DRINK A LITER OF WATER FIRST THING.

2. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THE SNOOZE.

3. GET MOVING.

4. COLD SHOWER.

Resources mentioned in this episode -

The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

Calm Magnesium Tea

We chat with Christine Seibold, a freelancer, coach, community creator and author to discuss the importance of setting boundaries in your work and life to get what you want.

Don't let your someday goals stay someday goals. Christine's tangible steps to setting boundaries will help you actually achieve them and help to create confidence and success.

Topic 1: Christine's story about travel, work and how she decided she wanted to become location independent as a virtual assistant (2:55).

Topic 2: About being a virtual assistant, services to offer, how to get more clients (6:45).

Topic 3: How to get started with a new client as a VA (10:05).

Topic 4: What boundaries are and how they lead to a happy life, self esteem and success (13:25).

Topic 5: More about the women entrepreneur group Christine started in Spain (23:00).

Topic 6: What is your passion? We get into your WHY and setting boundaries to make it happen (35:10).

Topic 7: What are boundaries and how to use them to succeed (35:30).

Resources mentioned in this episode -

Christines Freelance N Freedom Instagram

Christines Blondie without Borders Instagram

Freelance N Freedom Website

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The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

On this episode, Alicia brings on marketing agency owner, Whitney Eckis, to discuss what it's like transitioning from freelancer to business owner.

If you're wondering how to scale your freelance or soloprenuer business, this episode is a must-listen. It's the natural progression of a freelancer to want to figure out how they can transition from trading their time for money, and scale their business.

Whitney speaks big truths around the life of starting a business, what questions you ask yourself before making the leap, and how to set yourself up for success.

Topic 1: Background on Whitney and the transition from freelancer to agency owner (3:00)

Topic 2: How to grow, scale, hire and delegate, so you can expand. (5:10)

Topic 3: How to know when you're ready to finally hire and bridge the gap from freelance to business (8:15).

Topic 4: Positions within Eckis Marketing and their titles to give you an idea of types of rolls to fill (12:30).

Topic 5: About the podcast (13:50) and influencer marketing/social media (17:00).

Topic 6: Creating time for future plans and not just work in work everyday (20:10).

Topic 7: Advice to transition you from freelance to business owner. How and why to map out your 5 year plan (23:00).

Topic 8: Most Instagrammable office in Forbes (34:10)

Resources mentioned in this episode -

Whitney Eckis Instagram

Life with Whitey Blog

Eckis Marketing Instagram

Eckis Marketing Website

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The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

This episode is all about how to get organized in your business using 3 easy and free applications. As business owners and managers, there are so many things that need to be logged, saved, kept track of and these are tools to help with it all. Alicia gets into how to use each application and how to set them up to best work for a small business. It covers everything from logging hours, planning marketing, scheduling tasks, planning goals and more.

Topic 1 - Trello - a tool that organizes your projects into boards and a way to track the progress of each. How to set it up and what to use it for (5:10)

Topic 2 - Evernote - the home of all notes. This is a digital filing cabinet of all your notebooks and notes. How to use it for all your notes for your blog, projects, podcast, webinars that you learn from (9:04).

Topic 3 - Google Sheets - a live excel spreadsheet. Whether numbers are a love or hate relationship, a spreadsheet is the only way to track data like income, expenses, contacts, etc.(12:50)

Topic 4 - Download templates for Google Sheets

Resources mentioned in this episode -

Get the blank templates for your weekly/daily calendar in Google Sheets

Get the black templates for income/expenses in Google Sheets

Get Started with Trello

Get Started with Evernote

Get Started with Google Sheets

Last episode about Email Marketing

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The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

This episode is on a very specific topic - email marketing and how to create an email marketing strategy. The question often comes up, "How can I make more money online?" INSERT EMAIL MARKETING.

This episode will give you the fundamentals on how to create a simple and cohesive email marketing strategy for either your business OR you can use the tools we teach and apply it to offering email marketing services to other businesses as a freelancer or virtual assistant. Win, win. Those are 2 options on how to make more money working remotely, right there.

Alicia brought Jena Bagley, expert in email marketing and advocate manager at Aweber, on the show to explain how truly important email marketing is, how it doesn't have to be over complicated, and how to create a solid strategy.

If you are not even sure where to begin with email marketing YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE and this episode is for you.

Topic 1: More about Jena and Aweber and how Aweber is different than other email platforms (3:12).

Topic 2: Why email marketing is needed for any business, soloprenuer, coach, freelancer, podcaster (9:00).

Topic 3: Where to start with email marketing strategy. Creating a landing page or sign up form, build your list by exchanging something they want for a subscriber (10:20).

Topic 4: Why an engaged list is important (13:00).

Topic 5: How to grow your email list (14:50).

Topic 6: Welcome email and what should be in it (17:50).

Topic 7: What types of emails to send- topics and ideas (20:00)

Topic: ROI and how to troubleshoot emails that don't convert (25:00)

Resources mentioned in this episode -

AWeber - email marketing service - 30 days free

Jena Bagley Instagram

Jena Bagley Linked In

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The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram

Have you felt like you wanted to make a drastic move or change? But you could list off 109 reasons why you "just can't"

We get so side-tracked by what we "should" do and where we "should" be that we let excuses and complacencies get it the way of doing what we WANT.

I often get asked, "How were you able to make such a drastic move across the country?" and I have to always start with the same answer. Yes, I was extremely motivated to make a big change, but really, it was greatly due to the opportunity I got to work remotely.

This episode I explain why and how I made the move, 3,000 miles away, in a 2 door Jeep Wrangler.

It's one thing to be location independent, and live the laptop lifestyle, but it's another to actually create a life you love by doing it.

Topic 1 - Why making a big move will help other areas of your life. Feeling fulfilled, being productive. (3:00)

Topic 2 - Listen to your gut and make that tough decision. (5:40)

Topic 3 - When I first got the opportunity to work remote. (7:00)

Topic 4 - Tradeoffs and what you leave behind making big decisions. (10:00)

Topic 5 - About the cross country road trip on a budget and with almost no plan. (12:20)

Topic 6 - How having my remote work and income allowed me to actually make the move, and not let excuses get in the way. (20:00)

Resources mentioned in this episode -

The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

More about The Virtual Hustle

Does anyone else feel like they know they should be using social media ads like Facebook and instagram ads to grow their business? Because same. But where do you start? How do you target, how do you come up with a good strategy? As business owners and marketers, we are already working so hard at our organic strategy, do we have the time or budget for ads? SO MANY QUESTIONS which is why I brought on this guest on the show today.

This episode is an interview with Jocelyn Panton, a Facebook and instagram ads manager expert. We talk about ways anyone with a business can have an ad strategy and it isn't too far out of reach. With simple steps you can stand out from the rest and have a successful ad that converts leads to costumers.

Topic 1 - Staying on top of trends and knowing when and why to use ads.

Topic 2 - Facebook Ads Manager explained (9:00)

Topic 3 - Get clear on your objective, your strategy is determined on what your goal is. (11:40)

Topic 4 - Steps to getting started on Ads Manager (13:00) and how to set up your first ad (14:00) start by knowing your audience

Topic 5 - Mistakes businesses are making (15:20)

*giveaway - 30 minute call with Jocelyn to learn how to run ads yourself or if you want to run them for someone else.*

Resources mentioned in this episode -

Jocelyn and Company Instagram

Jocelyn and Company website

Free 15 minute discovery call with Jocelyn

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The Virtual Hustle Group on Facebook

The Virtual Hustle Instagram

The Virtual Hustle Website and Blog

Alicia Baldino Instagram