I was thrown for a loop not that long ago when a colleague in the virtual assistant industry asked what hours I kept. I almost answered, “All of them”. (In hindsight, I should have! I mean, come on, when it’s your own business – especially, I would assume, when running it out of your home, [...]

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When my son was a baby, much like a lot of you I couldn’t let him cry for more than a few minutes. I just couldn’t do it. No way. Until one day I could. I was putting him in his bed for his nap one afternoon and he would have NONE of it. He [...]

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In preparing my newsletter (premier edition!) earlier today I came across an old article I wrote in 2008 about jumping on your own bandwagon. About getting things moving when you have an idea. About acting on those “A-ha” moments. Pretty much about getting off your butt and just doing it. When I was still working [...]

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I’m all about making life easier. Because really, life is pretty complicated. And busy. We’re constantly being pulled in every direction at once, whether it’s from our children (talk about constantly, lol!), family (birthday dinner at so-and-so’s, brunch at the in laws, nephew’s high school grad, can you come over and fix this, Auntie coming [...]

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“Hi, I’m Stephanie Lee <handshake>. I have a 15 month old hurricane-of-a-child, Oscar, and I run an Admin Services company called Scratchpad Secretaries dot com. I’m just about to launch a program to help moms start their own businesses so they can stay at home with their babies, called Moms Who Mean Business, and I [...]

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Good morning! So happy you popped by. I do hope you get some great information from the show this morning…it’s my first time being on and I’m a bit nervous! Don’t forget to sign up for my Moms Who Mean Business ezine (look over there on the left!) to get monthly news, tips & tricks [...]

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