Hey hey! Hannah here :) I am harping on about Threads so much lately, but for very good reason. I’ve been watching our community experiment with it over the past few months, and something really interesting is happening. The people who are trying the least to go viral are often the ones landing clients (and often going pretty viral too haha). Here’s what I mean. Mistake #1: Treating Threads like Instagram You don’t need a polished graphic. You don’t need a carousel. You don’t even need a...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Hannah here :) A quick story on how I got my first good client... now, when I say good, I mean they didn't bat an eyelid at my pricing; they paid on time every time, trusted me, respected me, and, in turn, I did great work with them. 🙌 I found her in a Facebook group. She had posted asking for help with a task I happened to know inside out; I replied thoughtfully. She clicked my name, poked around, saw that my messaging was consistent, saw that I worked with people just like her,...
27 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, Hannah here :) I've been in the VA and freelancing space long enough to watch the landscape shift in real time. And one pattern I see over and over again is that the people struggling to find clients are almost always looking in the wrong places... ...or in the right places, in the wrong way. I just published a full blog post on this, 10 Places to Find High-Paying Freelance Work in 2026, and I want to share a few highlights here with you. Here's what's working right now: LinkedIn:...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey there, Hannah here :) As we kick off a new week, I want to invite you to a fun little anxiety-busting exercise I often do. One thing I see all the time, whether someone is starting their VA business, raising their prices, changing careers, launching an offer, moving abroad, or making a big life decision, is that they often get stuck in the same loop: “What if it all goes wrong?” And then letting that consume them to the point that they become paralyzed. Truthfully, I think we spend way...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hannah here, coming to you from hot and sweaty Florida, where this weekend I got to hang out with one of our team members, Tara! 👋 😊 We got to talk about business, life, and the world in person; it was great! One topic that came up, as it often does, was niching... Now, can I tell you a secret that might take the pressure off of the big, bad, scary beast that niching is often made out to be? 😎 I never sat down one day, opened a notebook, and decided on my niche. It found me. And it happened...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hey, it's Hannah here, just back from my short trip to beautiful Canada 👋 Something's been on my mind since attending Web Summit, and so much AI talk... There's a headline doing the rounds right now: "AI is replacing virtual assistants." From my time at the summit, and looking at both the data and what's happening for many VAs in my world, that's not exactly the truth. The VA industry is actually still growing. What is shifting is where the money goes, and I don't think that's a bad thing....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey there, Hannah here! I've been on the move for over 18 years. You'd think by now the pre-travel prep would be second nature, autopilot, even. And in some ways it is, yet I've still been burned. Not literally (well, once in Morocco, but that's a different story 🌶️), but by the small things I thought I had covered. A friend of mine missed a connection in Istanbul last year because of a transit visa requirement she had no idea about. Another got off a 12-hour flight to find her phone plan...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hey there, Hannah here. Today's subject line? That’s what I said for years as a kid. I’d never win singing competitions at school, I never won first place in sports, nowhere near first, and I didn’t win in academics. I just didn’t win in ways that were deemed important by society’s rules. So I started to think, well, if I’m never a winner, then perhaps I’m a loser. I didn’t participate in competitions anymore because there was no point, being a loser and all. But things changed for me in...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Howdy friends, Hannah here :) I've been seeing a hell of a lot of talk about fractional work lately. “Fractional” is having a moment. And yes, it’s great for some! ✨ But here’s what I see after over a decade in this space:👉 Most fractional workers are freelancers by nature. A handful aren't.Not all freelancers are fractional.👉 Just like all VAs are freelancers, but not all freelancers are VAs.Freelancing simply describes the WAY you work. Self-employed. Not the type of work, your income, or...
2 months ago • 2 min read