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I finally got to check out location for their free Coworking Days, today and tomorrow! (Also happening at the Phoenix location ) I love the community vibe here - esp that partnership with !

If you’re the Winston-Salem, NC-Area this weekend, you may enjoy this event! Tell Jennifer of Listening to The Still Small Voice that I sent you!
(Have a great workshop, Jennifer!)

An important part of my preparation for facilitating today’s Community Productivity Time is lining up my drinks! Work sprints & concentration requires hydration! Today’s hydration: Green tea, hot water, & Hydration IV

“Duane the Rock” crocheted keychain is ready to be part of the Upper Elementary gift exchange. He’ll bring joy & cuteness to a new home, thanks to the fine work and creativity of !

Hello, nonprofit friends! Giving Tuesday is coming soon - are you ready for it? This workshop may help!

Upcoming Events - Nonprofit Academy.live A Member.buzz Space

Viewing support roles differently…

When Virtual assistants, virtual executive assistants, and practically all the operational support roles in your business and/or life are considered PARTNERS in your success, you’re making more space for yourself and everyone to expand.

Frankly, the time of people serving as “the help” has passed. We can be in relationship with the people who build and maintain a business with us.

Thank you to Rachel Everington - The Executive Ninja for the reminder in this post & graphic.

VEAs are not “the help.”

They are partners that are ready to:

➡️ Stand beside you in your business.
➡️ Offer support and guidance with tasks.
➡️ Hold you accountable the same way a partner would.

Many people say that they want an assistant on their level but subconsciously prefer to feel unsupported and like they’re the only person who can be trusted.

This creates an unhealthy dynamic that leans on control instead of trust.

If you want to fully trust your VA, you must be trustworthy too.

Are you ready for that level of accountability?

If so, we’re here to support you.

[ New episode alert! ] This week’s episode Sheroes of Small Business is about Debra’s and my writing processes: she just having published her 5th novel, and me struggling to just make the time.

What’s your relationship with writing for yourself or for your business?

The Sheroes discuss their writing processes—or rather, the lack thereof. Janice Plado Dalager (Janice Your VA) says when writing, she comes from the "school of suffering," meaning any amount of writing causes a lot of trepidation. She doesn't have any problem starting a project, but finishing an article or post is another story. Debra Ann Dotson, who writes 80,000-word novels, has difficulty putting 250 words together for a simple blog post, and would prefer if Janice wrote the description for each podcast episode.

Debra and Janice discuss the benefits of keeping up with a writing practice and some ways to get past the "fear of writing" by joining writing communities (such as NaNoWriMo) and taking part in online writing challenges (such as a 30-day blog post challenge). Janice and Debra have committed to doing a follow-up episode to report on how they have progressed with their writing efforts. Stay tuned!

- Sheroes of Small Business: https://sheroesofsmallbusiness.buzzsprout.com/

She’s done it! Congrats to my friend and cohost of the Sheroes of Small Business Podcast, Debra Ann Dotson , on the release of her latest book, Unwitting Prey !

There won’t be any small business stories in this book - unless your business is murder and suspicion! 🫣

Seriously though, if reading murder mysteries is how you unwind,
1) I don’t know how you’re also friends with Janice the Scaredy Cat, but no judgement, and
2) Consider getting into “Unwitting Prey,” Debra’s latest edition in her Harrington Palmer series, or
3) Consider her other murder mystery series of books, because yeah, this lady’s got TWO sets of characters to fill your cup full of suspense before the summer’s over!

Enjoy!

It's here...FINALLY! The second book in the Harrington Palmer series—UNWITTING PREY! Learn more about this story and where you can get your copy at https://www.debraanndotson.com/unwitting-prey/

When you own your own time, everyone wins! Learn more on this week’s episode of Sheroes of Small Business!

In this episode of Sheroes of Small Business, Debra Ann Dotson and Janice Plado Dalager (Janice Your VA ) discuss “Owning Our Time.” We do this by creating schedules that work for us as well as our clients.

As we work with people in different time zones, it no longer makes sense to work the standard 8 to 5. And since we are building our own businesses to have a better work-life balance, we need to create a schedule that allows us to work when we are at our peak and affords ample time off to recharge.

When you “own your time,” everyone wins. You’ll be happier, more productive, and both you and your clients will reap the benefits.

- Sheroes of Small Business: https://sheroesofsmallbusiness.buzzsprout.com/
- July 2022 Community Productivity Hour: http://bit.ly/cph-july2022

Next time, on the Sheroes of Small Business podcast…

Get an inside look at how Janice Your VA’s monthly Community Productivity Event came to be and how they continue to evolve!

The new episode will drop on July 5th, just in time for you to join the next Productivity Hour on July 13 ! Links below:

- Sheroes of Small Business: https://sheroesofsmallbusiness.buzzsprout.com/
- Community Productivity Hour: http://bit.ly/cph-july2022

We're back!!

Please join us for our new, exciting, and fun episodes beginning July 5th!

Join me this Tuesday, May 17, for Community Productivity Hour, and feel good about getting some stuff done! Info and registration on the website or at http://bit.ly/cph-may17 .

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Community Productivity Hour - May. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Community Productivity Hour - May. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us tomorrow! 🎉

Our March Community Productivity Hour is Thursday, March 24th at 12:00pm Arizona time!

Registration is required, so please make sure to sign up with the link in my bio.

Hope to “see” you there! ❤️

How valuable is your VA or OBM to your business operation? How would your business run without your VA, OBM, or other people you contract?

Current industry standards don't reflect the full value that many gig-workers, freelancers, independent contractors bring to build your business vision.

Remember that that contractor is still a human being - and work is still just work.

https://explorewhatworks.com/the-abundant-value-of-virtual-assistants-janice-plado-dalager/

Got the lovely, shiny “Thank You” stamps from , and it’s a blessing to use them to send my autumn cards for the from !

Thanks for the recommendation, : made my lunch dreams come true today - delicious food, , , introducing my daughter to … Pictured here: Their current location (144 S. Mesa Dr., Mesa - get there before they sell out today), Navajo taco, Asian Persuasion (think, grilled teriyaki chicken), and fry bread with Nutella. 😋😋😋

For her homework, my daughter came up with this sentence: “Almost everything in this world has a process to it.”

Fall Break in North Dakota and Minnesota: excellent weather allowed for a Nature walk in Buffalo River State Park and checking in on the (& other animals) at the Red River Zoo .

Some people have an emotional reaction to...
"Managing Admin and Maintenance Systems in Your Business"

What do these systems bring up for you? Comment below and tell me more!

“Admin and Maintenance Systems in Your Business”

Sounds stark, doesn’t it? What kinds of tasks and systems do these sound like to you?

As a business owner who specializes in systems and operations in others’ businesses, this is the topic I’m being interviewed on next week - and I was hoping I read the title wrong!

Maybe the first saving grace is that NOBODY does admin and maintenance systems perfectly. Unless that is your actual job.

You know why? Admin and maintenance systems work IS a whole job, in and of itself. Here we are, either trying to squeeze it into scattered minutes here and there OR cramming the entire two days before month-end to clean it up, and still lamenting what a mess it is at the end of the month.

So let’s start by recognizing that establishing and executing admin and maintenance systems is necessary work - if you don’t want your life to suck at every month-end or quarter-end or year-end, when compounded with the stress of ignoring it, amounts to all year long. When we don’t recognize how much it matters - to our bottom lines, to our stress levels, to our relationships - then we don’t make an appropriate investment of time or effort to change it.

“Admin & Maintenance Systems”
What’s ur 1st reaction

With regard to Boundaries, here’s a different consideration than the popular “If it isn’t a ‘Hell, yes’”-argument.

http://anchor.fm/in-full-flow

Celebrating last day of school with mochi ice cream & bubble milk tea at .cutea.az !

At-home haircuts were fun while it lasted. But thanks to , none of us have to look at my sorry mop anymore.

[ Productive Together ]

Whether you were working with us live or in spirit, we had a great Productivity Hour for May! I got my master list done: Now I can see ALL the things I'm trying to manage! ;-P
https://mailchi.mp/47fc89b6e757/may-community-productivity-hour-is-complete

The May newsletter is out! Mother's Day thoughts and your invitation to Tuesday's Productivity Hour! - https://mailchi.mp/089882a205c7/community-productivity-hour-may-11

“What goals have you set for the quarter or the year?”
I get cringy, just asking about it, like when I got cornered at my high school graduation party by a well-meaning grown-up asking about my plans for my future.

We’re breaking down the patriarchal tendency of goalsetting on , so what’s been your experience with ? How have you gotten around it being oppressive?

Goalsetting: It’s a love/hate relationship for most of us. Goalsetting has somehow made “desire” the enemy. What’s your love/hate story with Goalsetting?

I’m getting ready to record a series on Goalsetting on with , and we’d love to hear about your own experience with setting goals, professional or personal.

Essential reading in a business owner’s library! Now available on Kindle for just $1.99, for a short time!

Thanks for sharing, Pamela Slim!

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