252: This Military Spouse takes Training 💪… to a Virtual Level | Molly Rose Speed of Virtual Assistant Management

252: This Military Spouse takes Training 💪… to a Virtual Level | Molly Rose Speed of Virtual Assistant Management

Background on Molly Rose Speed of Virtual Assistant Management:

Molly Rose Speed is the founder of The Virtual Assistant Academy, a certification for the best Virtual Support Staff in the country, and the owner of Virtual Assistant Management, a placement agency for entrepreneurs in need of top virtual assistant talent for organizations. Her expertise is in online business, systems, and outsourcing. Molly is a talented strategic thinker with cultivated skills in online tech solutions, systems, and processes that improve company efficiencies.

With a background in finance and analytics, Molly started her own business in 2014, serving online entrepreneurs as an outsourced COO: managing systems, online programs, and processes. Today, she is focused on her role as the Founder and Owner of Virtual Assistant Management. She is also an awarded military spouse and solo world traveler who believes in creating a business and a life that allows her business clients to do more of what they love.

Time-Stamped Show Notes:

[1:16] Molly provides an overview of her business, which is Virtual Assistant Management.
[2:31] At 24 years old, Molly quit her job in finance to become a virtual assistant for several business owners.
[4:35] More details about Virtual Assistant Management and the VAs in her company.
[5:18] The difference between hiring a VA in her company and in Upwork.
[8:30] Many marketing agencies come to Virtual Assistant Management to look for VAs.
[10:25] High earning real estate agents and financial advisers are some of their clients in need of virtual assistants.
[13:11] Virtual assistants can work as personal assistants and handle tasks such as travel booking, ordering groceries or gifts, Amazon purchases, and so on.
[18:39] Some male clients ask their VA to plan dates for him and his wife.
[21:06] Born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa, with a population of 70,000 people, Molly went to Iowa State University.
[22:38] After graduating from college, she got a job at a furniture manufacturing company in Iowa.
[25:35] At 23 years old, Molly became an Executive Team Leader at Target.
[28:00] Molly offers an example of how she used her communication skill to be an effective leader.
[34:04] Wanting to have some type of control over her schedule and a little bit of freedom, she left her financial analyst job and became a virtual assistant.
[35:54] Her first experience in the virtual space was working as a social media manager.
[40:21] Taking on too many clients and outsourcing some of the work became an eye-opener for Molly.
[41:58] Molly shared the story of how she initially trained her first virtual assistants.
[44:23] The Placement Manager is the backbone of the company and runs the business efficiently.
[46:00] Molly explains how the working hours are set up for the virtual assistants and the clients.
[47:42] Over the years, Molly and her team are still learning, tweaking, and adapting to help improve the company.
[52:14] Something that Molly has struggled with is to stop being the doer and learn to step up as the company owner.
[53:20] Molly talks about her work-life balance and work boundaries.
[57:16] Tips, recommendations, and advice for people who are looking for virtual assistants.
[1:02:20] Last words of advice from Molly.

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Key Point from Our Episode with Molly Rose Speed:

“This job allows me to create my career around my lifestyle, not my lifestyle around my career, which is completely opposite to the old school corporate America way of thinking.”

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