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Hello, hello, hello my podcast people and thank you for joining me for yet another episode of my favorite podcast. So today we are talking about how to find and hire a great virtual assistant. I get asked this question a lot. I kind of hate saying that cuz you know, it's like such an influencer speak. “I get asked this question a lot,” but I actually do get asked this question a lot, typically from people I'm actually working with, not just
you know, random people on Instagram. And my people are the best, right? The people that I, I have been fortunate enough to work with and hire, they are the best. And I wanna help you out with this same thing. Now as it relates to what we're gonna talk about today, the title of the episode is How to Hire a Great Virtual Assistant, but what we're gonna talk about relates to hiring anyone, right?
So it's not necessarily exactly about teams, but same same. So as it relates to my team and my virtual assistant, we'll start there. Lex, I've brought her on the podcast before. Courtney, if you can link that episode, thank you. JoeJoe, same thing. Thank you. Uh, Lex is, Lex Lancaster is technically my virtual assistant, but if you ever receive an email from her, uh, lex@themovementmaestro.com, it's going to say in the little signature, Executive Assistant and General Badass, cuz she does so much more.
And not that there's anything wrong with the title of virtual Assistant, but this chick does all the things, and also this is gonna speak to what we're gonna talk about later, there's something really cool about building a team and having people, you know, feel seen and really inviting them to like be part of something and not just like, they work for me, check the box.
Uh, so yeah. The rest of the team, I have Courtney. She edits the podcast. I'm always shouting her out and asking her to, to link things. So shout out to Courtney. She edits the podcast. I guess technically she produces it cuz she uploads it and things like that to, um, WordPress and subsequent to the, to the other platforms.
I have Joe brought him on, or I haven't brought him on yet. I will bring him on, I should say. Um, but I've spoken about him. He runs my YouTube channel. And I also have a Facebook moderator for each of my two Facebook groups. One for the Mafia and one for, uh, the Intensive. Uh, also, I'm gonna circle back. I brought Lex on the podcast, so if you wanna hear from her directly and you haven't yet, uh, you can check that out in these show notes right now.
I'm like, did I actually ask Courtney to do that already? If I did, thank you again, Courtney. All right, so let's get right into it. That's my team, talking about the VA. Let's get right into it. How do you find these people and then how do you hire them? Most important thing, be willing to pay your people.
Stop being cheap. Stop worrying about overpaying people. I hate that discussion. No one ever seems to be concerned that they're underpaying people. It always seems like when people are reaching out, like, oh, how much should I, should I charge? How much should I, should I pay someone? It's always cuz they're worried about paying too much.
Right. Stop worrying about overpaying people and start worrying about people feeling undervalued. Now, I get it. It's not always all about money, but money is a very easy way to, you know, a very easy thing, a very tangible thing to exchange to help someone start to feel valued. If we get objective with this, the only way to actually overpay someone or to truly overpay someone is to pay,
or exceed your salary cap. Now, all that that means is how much you have allotted for paying people. And this allotment is based on being able to keep the lights on and not, you know, running out of money and actually being able to run a business here. So yes, this is gonna require that you actually know your
numbers. And if you feel a little bit overwhelmed with that, and we'll number one, check any of the episodes I've done with Sandi York, she's my accountant. I've brought her on like two or three times and I'll bring her on again next year, uh, for the beginning of 2024. But if you're overwhelming by numbers, you can start with that.
But this, I think, speaks to the fact that you probably shouldn't be hiring if you don't have somewhat of a grasp on your numbers. Right? So there's a bit of like maturity here before you actually just go and hire someone. I think that it gets kinda get thrown out there of like, you know, hire out and outsource things and that makes you legit.
And I'm like, that will actually make you poor if you don't do it correctly. So how much you can afford is typically gonna be based off of a percentage. Now, if you Google this, the percentage of what will come up differently. So you can either look at it as a percentage of your operating expenses, aka how much it costs to run your business, or a percentage of your revenue.
And again, if you're feeling overwhelmed, please go check out Sandi on, uh, Instagram, she's @FitMoneyCoach on Instagram, or check out any of the episodes that I've done with her. These are things that I really didn't look at until later in my business, right? I was making money before then, but I wasn't hiring anyone.
I didn't, you know, I didn't feel that I needed somebody. And actually Lex approached me, we're gonna get to that. Um, but I didn't know all these numbers. I didn't have to know those numbers. I wasn't ready for other things, right? So to go on hire, just to hire would've been dumb and probably would've, I would've lost money there.
So you can start to kind of inch your way towards these things, and like I was saying before, when you go to hire someone, this salary cap will ba be, will be based either on a percentage of your revenue or a percentage of your operating expenses. They are interconnected, so it's kind of, you get to choose which one you wanna base it off of.
You don't have to get too into the weeds here, and if you were to Google this, you're gonna see like varying percentages of how much of your revenue or how much of your operating expenses should be allocated towards quote unquote payroll. It's going to depend on how you're running your business, right?
So just to like give you some quick numbers here so you can understand how they're related: If you were to bring in $100, right? That is your revenue. 100 monies. If you spent $20 in order to make that $100, spent it on whatever, you know. Um, I almost said furniture, not furniture. If you spent it on, uh, tech or marketing things, whatever.
You spent $20 and then you brought in $100 in sale, right? Revenue is 100, operating expenses are 20. Of that $20, if five of those dollars went to somebody else, I'm using smaller numbers here. It's just easier to understand. If five of those dollars went to somebody else, then we would say 5% of your revenue was allocated towards paying someone, or 25% of your operating ex expense.
Now, of course this number doesn't include if you're paying yourself, if you're an S-corp. I don't wanna get in the weeds with that. Suffice to say that if you're gonna go on Google, how much did you pay? You're gonna get these, these ranges, and that's why I just wanna kind of explain that to you, and you have to understand that it's gonna be based on your business.
The best thing to do is to be in business for a little bit, have at least three months of reserves, operating expenses in an account. I'm all about Profit First. Again, go listen to those episodes that I did with Sandi, they're just tremendous. Uh, and so you have three months of reserves in there at least.
And then from there you can look to think about hiring someone and starting someone off either project-based or as a as needed, right? So when you're doing this, you're not gonna hire someone full-time. You're not gonna be like, okay, you are a W2 employee. No, cause most of you are probably LLCs or you might just be sole proprietors.
We're not even there yet. Majority of the people that you're gonna bring on will be contractors, which will be 1099s, uh, W-9, you know, employee, W-9 contractor. That's what everyone is for me. There are benefits to each thing. I don't wanna have the responsibility of having a W-2 worker. Some folks may say, okay, well that person's gonna really be committed if they're a W-2.
Yes. And also I think there's other things that you can do and they don't have to be a W2 and they can be a W-9, AKA a 1099 or a contractor, and they're still committed to doing the things, and then they have the freedom and flexibility to go and do other things on their own to make even more money.
Again, I know I'm speaking quickly. Sometimes these numbers and things get overwhelming. Check out the episodes with Sandi, check out Sandi's resources. It's not nearly as complicated as it sounds, right, but to recap what we just said, don't worry about overpaying people as it relates to this kind of general concept.
Worry about your people feeling undervalued. If we're gonna look at payment, we wanna make sure that we stay within a salary cap, and that is just the amount of money that we have allocated for paying someone to do something. The way that we can determine that is get three months of reserves, right?
Three months you'll have operating expenses. You'll see how much does it cost to run this business, okay? And you take a percentage of that. You get to choose. It can be small, and that's gonna be allocated towards hiring somebody to help you. Very, very simple. This way, if it doesn't work out, you still have money to cover your business.
You can still pay for your things and you will be ok. Next part, how do we actually find someone? The easiest way my friends, to find someone is not to go on Fiverr or anything like that. It's to create something that people want to join. Now, clearly this takes a long time, and I'm speaking from my own personal experience and how I like to do things.
I am a content marketer through and through. I love attraction marketing, right? Where you do things and you attract that audience. Part of the audience that you'll be attracting are people that may want to work for you. So you give yourself time. You build this thing that people actually want to be a part of.
I speak about this all the time when folks are like, how do I get more followers? And I'm like, be worth following. Be a leader. Don't ask yourself what will make people want to follow me. Ask yourself, what will make people want to join me. Big difference. Once you've built this thing, then you can put out a call to action and ask your people.
Say, hey, I'm looking for help with X, Y, and Z from the audience, and typically you'll get bites from there. The beautiful part about this is that the people, they know what you stand for. They know you know how much this thing means to you, and it means how much to them too. Oftentimes people will have gone through your ecosystem.
They will have gone through your programs or your products, and they're in it. They're bought in, they had their own transformation, and they're like, I wanna get this thing out there to other people. I wanna help. When you utilize attract marketing, when you build something and then you invite someone from within to be part of the team, it goes from being transactional to being relational, right?
When you just hire someone, sometimes it's, it's transactional and it's about money. Not there's anything wrong with that. But to me, if we're looking at sustainability and longevity and quality, we wanna make things relational. A cool part with this, if you build something that people actually wanna join, is that oftentimes people will ask before you even put that call out.
So that's what happened with Lex and myself. She brought me in to teach a RockTape course, and I think she found me through a friend who had posted or shared one of my Daily Maestroisms. So this was years ago, 2016, something like that, 2015. And she put that call to action out. Oh, excuse me. What am I saying? She puts that call to action out.
No, she asked me to come speak and to come teach a RockTape course. I taught Blades, I believe Blades and Blades Advanced, I think, I can't remember what class. It was a two day course. And that evening I do, I used to do socials when I was, when I would teach, and that evening she came up to me and she's like, you always say that if you want something that you should ask, so I'm gonna ask, and I'd love to work for you and like be an assistant in any way.
And I was like, I'll think about it, but probably yes, but like, I don't even know what you could do. I was not at a point that I was like, oh, I wanna outsource something. So I didn't have things, you know, specific things that I could ask her to do. But I went and thought about it and Lex actually just reminded me of this, I don't know, a we, a week ago we were talking and she was just like, yeah, I remember that you called me from the beach and it was a big deal.
I don't call people. Like, I'll call the police. Cause if someone calls me, I'm not trying to call people. And she's like, you called me from the beach and you know, you were just like, that saying that you wanted me to be part of the team and I was like, holy shit, I don't even remember this. But I do remember when I first moved to California in 2016, I would drive home from CrossFit and I'd have to drive past the beach and sometimes I just wouldn't go home.
Like I would just pull over and I'd go sit at the beach cause it was my, you know, I was new to being here. And I in those moments, and I still get them, it's just like extreme gratitude. And when I get that extreme gratitude, I wanna share it with other people. And that is very likely what happened, that I called her and I was just like, yeah, I want this for other people.
I want this happiness for other people and I'm grateful and let's do this. Uh, and that is how Lex became my VA, right hand woman, executive, you know, executive assistant slash general badass. Um, with Joe. I asked Joe, but I found him from my audience, right? He's been in my Mafia. He's a dope guy. He just, I see his passion for things.
I know that he cares about what I'm building just as much as I do. Uh, and so it was a no-brainer with that. I found Courtney through Jill, um, right. And Jill, I found through social media. That was again, attraction marketing, uh, and Pip. That was also Pip. If you listen to the episodes I've done with Jill, the most recent one, especially, I think we talk about that.
Um, but the whole thing here, if you want to find the best virtual assistant, the best help, build something that people want to be a part of. Your own success, whatever success looks like, that can be just happiness, right? Your own success will be magnetic. It attracts people. It's something that they wanna get on board with, and oftentimes they will ask you before you can even ask them.
Next part, do things yourself so that you know what the end product is gonna be like, right? So we're still within this attraction marketing, and this is the value of having done all the things, built this brand, built this business, and done it yourself to start off with. When you do things yourself, you know what you want the end product to look like.
It's not as important that you know the process. It can be helpful that you know the process, but it's more important that you know what the end product is gonna look like and you have a true brand so that people can very easily replicate that. I can very easily go say to Lex or Joe, Maestrofy this. I can say it to my sister, of course, Maestrofy this, and they know what that means.
They can put the spin on it and I can like, you know, finalize it and tweak it. But the brand has been established. So when we're doing this stuff ourself and we're building this business, three big, uh, benefits to this: One, you know what the end product looks like, which means that's easy for other people to look to replicate.
Two, you value the process now, right? Which makes you more willing to pay someone. I see it thrown out there of like, oh, I'm just gonna get an editor, like, do this thing real quick. And because people don't edit themselves, they don't know how in labor intensive it is. That shit takes a long time and if it doesn't take someone a long time, but you still get a good product, it's because they're phenomenal at what they do and they've spent years refining that craft and they are definitely worth whatever they are asking for.
All too often, just like, just cuz we are not willing to pay it doesn't mean that it's not worth that, right? We're like, oh, it's like a $10 job. To you. Because you don't know how to do it and you know all the things that go into it. Right? So doing those things yourself first. Typically makes you more, it makes you value the process and subsequently more willing to actually pay someone to take over that process for you.
The third valuable part of doing stuff yourself, as we're leaning into this attraction marketing and creating something that when people wanna be a part of, is so that you can very easily document the process, right? When you document the process from a technical perspective, that looks like using something like Loom, uh, you could do it on Zoom, can do a screen recording, you can, you can natively do a screen recordings on um, uh, what is it called on Apple.
Uh, you can do it with script now as well, which I did get an affiliate link for themovementmaestro.com/partners has all of the things on there, but more specifically, themovementmaestro.com/descript should take you to my specific, uh, link cause it's not a code or anything like that. But they have a program in there that you can do a screen recording and like you get like the picture in picture with like your little head in the side.
Um, I used a thing called Screencast-o-Matic before, like just something that you can actually record the process if it's a tech kind of process, so someone can very easily replicate it. When I, uh, brought Courtney on to do the podcasting, there's, I use WordPress and Blubrry, which is different than other systems, and I had done it myself for a bunch, like 150 of them.
And so I was like, cool, here's the process. Here's how I do it. If there's a better way that you like doing it, cool, but like, here's what it looks like. Here's the nuts and bolts of this program. Most recently, when we were, uh, adding transcripts, I did the same thing. I did the first two episodes myself, and then I was like, Hey, all right, Courtney, I'm screen recording it.
Here's how I, you know, pull the podcast. So I still am gonna make the transcript, but here's how you're gonna import it. Here's how you can make the page for it, link these things, and then the person can just replicate that process very easy, very easily. Right? So first half of this podcast, three things that we're looking at:
Number one, be willing to pay people. Just, point blank. Be willing to play. Be willing to pay people. Number two, the best and easiest way to attract someone or to find someone to be a VA is to create something that people want to be a part of. And then within this, doing these things yourself and creating this is that number one.
it becomes easy for people to know what that end product is gonna look like. Uh, number two, it makes you more value, it makes you value that thing more, that process more, which makes you more willing to actually outsource. Uh, and then number three, it makes it easy for you to actually, uh, record the process and then you can outsource the process and somebody else can do it very easily.
What I wanna talk about here are the kind of eight steps that are involved in finding and hiring a phenomenal VA. Let's get logistical with it. I am aware of the time. This is gonna be longer than 22 minutes. I'm aware of the time. All right. But eight steps that I've come up, with wrote it out for you.
Breaking it down. All right, so number one is how do we know what to actually outsource? My personal preference is wait until you hate it. Do all the things, and then when you're like, I don't wanna do this, anyone can do this, I'm gonna hire my cat Rupert to do it. It's time to outsource. You can probably outsource before then, and oftentimes people will try to encourage you to outsource before then.
I know I read Tim Ferris's The Four Hour Work Week, and I went and hired a VA from overseas just to like try it cuz he kept talking about it in the book and I was like, well this is kind of stupid. I don't, I don't actually need this person. So for me, I like to wait until I hate it and then I can outsource it. You can outsource things you hate, things that you can't manage.
You're like, I'm just too overwhelmed. Like I just have too many inquiries, too many emails, too many things to move over to this thing. Whatever. You can outsource for help with that. You can outsource things that you wanna do. That you, excuse me, things that you just don't wanna do. Outsourcing of things that aren't directly revenue generating or perhaps outsourcing of things that are more like from an integrator versus visionary,
if you've ever read that book, um, Rocket Fuel, outsourcing, things that are more integrator based, that will typically come later in your career and later in your business, right? So it's not like, oh, well this isn't directly revenue generating so I should outsource it. No, we're looking at longevity and sustainability here.
If you like doing this thing, you don't need to outsource it. Hence why I do a lot of my own editing, uh, with certain things and I edit. I don't edit the podcast anymore, but when I'm talking, when I'm doing videos, I'm doing my social media it's not necessarily directly revenue generating, right? It's not client facing like a coaching call.
But I still love it and so I'm gonna hold on to that. So that's how you know what to delegate. If you're kind of like, I don't even know what I would outsource, then wait, wait. I promise you will know what you want to outsource when the time comes. You're just like, I either can't grow, I can't keep doing this,
I'm overwhelmed, or I'm not doing this thing. I'm avoiding doing this thing in my business because it takes so long, or it's so much time, it's so difficult. You probably wanna outsource that. Maybe you don't have to necessarily fully outsource it, but you can go and ask for help with that thing. Number two, do things yourself so you get a rough idea about how long they take.
This is great for when you're gonna look to outsource and say, okay, I need this many hours roughly. Now of note, you may just be really slow and so you outsource and you're like, okay, I'm thinking about five hours. And the person's like, I did it in 45 minutes. And you're like, wow, okay. That may be the case.
That's a, that's a best case scenario. That's amazing. But either way, it just serves as a nice ballpark for like, when you're thinking about, hey, I'm gonna outsource this. I want to kind of pitch this to someone. How much time do I think it's gonna take to do it, right. Another valuable part of doing things yourself.
Number three, put out that call to action and say what you're looking for. So that you've waited to outsource, you said, okay, it'll take about this long. Now you know the specifics and you're like, hey, you put it into your audience: I'm looking for somebody to help me with X, Y, and Z. It doesn't have to be the most formal terms,
just say what you need, say what you're looking for and see what kind of bites you get. From there if you get some bites, have a discovery call. Remember, this is for both of you. It's not just you grilling them, it's to see if it's gonna be a good fit. So encourage them to bring their own questions as well.
If this person's coming from your audience, they probably know you, they know what you're about, and it could be a phenomenal fit, but let them know that you're looking to create a team, right? You're looking to build a team. It's not just you're looking to hire someone and have this be purely transactional.
Step number five, decide on a rate. Again, remember that your salary cap is gonna be based on objective numbers. So you're gonna say, okay, I make this much, this is the revenue. I wanna use this much of that revenue, or this much of the operating expenses to go towards paying people. And then use that as the metric for
whether or not you're overpaying someone. To me, if you're gonna hire a VA minimum of $25 an hour. Now I know people like to go overseas and like get super cheap labor. I find that problematic. I'm just gonna throw it out there. I find that problematic. Also, to me that's annoying that the like back and forth of the time zones and things like that, that's annoying.
I actually love that Lex and Joe are on the East Coast cuz then I, I wake up, especially with Lex, man, I wake up and things are done! And I'm like, well that's great. Amazing. It also creates like this almost like systems of checks and balances within the business. Cuz I can work on something till very late at night and then Lex will get up early and looks at it.
And so like I'm on the back end there checking it and then she wakes up while I'm still sleeping and checks it. And I wake up and I'm like, all right, either something needs to be fixed or it's okay. And it's just, it's just a nice system there. So for me, I'm gonna say a minimum of $25 an hour, like, like I said earlier, just because you don't value the task
doesn't mean that the task isn't worth that amount. So you're, you're like, oh, it's a $10 task. Is it? Is it, would you want someone to pay you $10 to do that thing? Probably not. Probably more cuz you hate it. You're like, I wanna charge pay me a million dollars. Same. Same. Just because someone likes something doesn't mean that they should get paid less.
And just because someone was good at something, efficient at something, doesn't mean they should get paid less. So it's really cool to start your own business cuz suddenly you get to look at your own values and you get to run a business the way that you wanna run a business. And you gotta ask yourself, cuz now you, you're put in the driver's seat and you're like, oh, I see why people cut corners.
Or like, why these big businesses like do this shady shit trying to save money. Don't be like that. Don't be shady. Minimum $25 an hour. Think about what you would want to get paid. How much is it worth it? What would make it worth it for you? I do the same thing for like a bigger picture for like a monthly. So with my moderators and things like that, you can kind of do the math of like, I think it'll take 'em this many hours,
okay, multiply by 25, how much would that be a month? Um, but same thing, like what would make it worth it for me to do this thing? Okay, cool. I'm gonna pay people accordingly. Big point there. All right, number six, get a contract, make it legit. You can Google contracts or my favorite, you can just, uh, go to bradendrake.com.
I don't have any affiliates or anything like that though I should probably reach out to him cuz he's probably all about that. Um, but I know him from Claire Pelletreau, actually I met him on one of Claire's webinars and he's just a super social outgoing guy. And, uh, good. I'm just checking my watch to make sure that I, I had definitely just looked down folks to make sure that I, uh, had the other camera going.
This is like part of the growing pains of running, uh, you know, doing new things. And I'm, I have the Apple watch going for the B-roll and I was like, wait, did I start that? Uh, but, Braden Drake met on Claire Pelletreau's show, uh, excuse, excuse name, Claire Pelletreau's webinar, and he's, uh, all, he's a lawyer, um, but he's all about the financial side of things as well, and he is @bradenadamdrake on Instagram.
We'll link all the things in the show notes. You can also go to themovementmaestro.com/431, uh, that I, if you're watching the video, I just did terrible hand signs. Like I could never be in a gang. That was just, that was terrible. Uh, but you can go there. All the show notes will be there as well. Everything's gonna be linked.
But he has Like a contract vault. It's like $30 a month, which is amazing. And you can go, you can get contracts for VAs and things like that. Um, just make it legit. That's one thing that my lawyer, uh, Jamie taught me, like, get it in writing, make everything legit. It's pretty simple. And I did not use him for my initial contracts.
I was using someone else. And one of the things he writes on his sales page is that $300 for a contract is fucking whack. And I was like, it is. Like I paid a lot of money for this thing and it's annoying cuz it seems like it's just a template and I have to put all the important stuff in anyway. Like all the little like logistics and the names, and the prices and things like that and the dates.
So get a contract, bradendrake.com. You will be able to get all the things from there. Step number seven, have a test run and a test period. A test run is before you actually like commit to working with this person. So have them do one task, have them complete one task. I had Courtney do one episode and I paid her for it.
Don't just like make it for free cuz then you end up with this finalized product, like pay them. All right. And then you have a test period. We, we've all done this with work and things like that. Clearly outline a timeframe. Three months tends to be like the standard, whatever you can pick to your, this is the beautiful part of running your own business.
Pick a timeframe, see if it'll be a good fit within that timeframe, right? That's what that timeframe is dedicated for. Three months where you see, and you, should outline things of like what will determine if it's a good fit or not. And this goes both ways, right? Give them some power within this too.
And then lastly, number eight, relate, revisit, and revise. Be a goddamn human right? We said we're gonna move this away from a transactional relationship and into something where we are actually relating with the person who we are hiring. Say thank you, lead from the front, and create an en environment that people actually wanna be a part of and they feel like they're part of a team and it's not this weird power dynamic
going on with that. Allow them to not only feel valued, but to provide value. And the way I like to do that is ask them like, Hey, do you have any ideas about this? Now, one of the things you may notice is that when you hire people for positions like this, this is where we talk about visionaries versus integrators. And visionaries are kind of the ideas person,
whereas integrators are like, I just wanna do it. I wanna do this thing. I wanna do this next thing. And some people love that. Lex loves lists. She loves crossing things off. Just like cross it, cross it, cross it. Loves it. So you may ask someone, do they have any ideas or changes? And they may not say, they may say, no, they don't have any.
It doesn't mean that they don't like you or that they're not interested. Just this is part of being a good team leader and understanding people's strengths and you know, how they like to provide value. And then lastly, within this relate, revisit, revise, bonuses and surprises. I love celebrating with my team.
Send 'em a coffee, send 'em a bonus during holidays. It's really cool to have something that you can share with people. Where you're like, I can just give money away. I can give things away. Like I can just text this person and say thank you. That's freaking incredible. All right. And from there you just keep doing that.
You revisit the contract if you need, revise things, change things as needed. And I didn't put this in here, but obviously sometimes it's not a good fit and you let that person go. I had, before Lex, I did have someone else that worked for me for, I don't know, a month, two months, I don't even remember. And it just wasn't a good fit.
And so you say that. You're running your own business now, you're an adult. Put on your big adult pants and have the conversations. All right. All right. I'm looking at the list. I'm looking down here, and we killed it. I love this episode. This was a fun one. I'm having a, a really good time with these more tactical episodes.
Um, just having a great time with the video and just doing all these things and creating. Definitely December has been a time where I am leaning into creation and part of that's cuz I hurt my knee. The knee's doing great. I, I should be, by the time this releases, I should have taken a semi-private lesson last week and so, hopefully that went really well.
You know, we're like in the future, but in the past. But, um, but the knee is great. It's just, I've been leaning into content creation and kind of getting the, uh, flow down and I'm loving it and I'm super grateful for all of you that watch and that you listen and you tag me. I had those, you know, Spotify top five.
I listen to Pandora, so I don't have like the year in review for Spotify, whatever it's called, but seeing people share that Maestro on the Mic is their top podcast or it's in the top five, like, that's freaking awesome folks. I am so grateful. Those things make my day. I wake up, I go on Instagram and I'm like, damn, my people are the best.
So I hope that, uh, you're having as much fun listening and watching as I am creating. Don't forget, uh, if you wanna search for an episode, you can't do that on Spotify. Maybe you can, I don't really know what Spotify works. You can't do that on Pandora. But if you go to my website, or if you just go to themovementmaestro.com/podcast that will take you to like the podcast episode page on my website
and then you can search. Someone was in my DMs and asked me, Hey, I know you're really busy, but like, if you ever have time, could you just like shoot over like a suggestion for how to get outta your own way and, and how to get unstuck? And I was like, you're in luck, I did a whole episode on that. But people may not know that you can search over there and then you can go listen to it on whatever player you want cuz you have the episode number.
Um, as long as it's after episode 100 cuz it only shows the last 300. So kind of whack. But either way, you can search for everything over there. That my friends is how you find and hire a great virtual assistant. I hope you've enjoyed this episode. Hope it's helpful. I am, like I said, I'm just having a blast with all of this and I hope that you're enjoying it and finding it to be just as helpful. As always, endlessly appreciative for every single one of you.
Until next time, friends, Maestro out.
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