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Money Mom Podcast
65: From College Professor to $147K Virtual Assistant: How Moms Can Start a Profitable Side Hustle from Home
Ever dreamt of making a full-time income from home without sacrificing time with your kids? In this inspiring episode of The Money Mom Podcast, Rachel sits down with Laura Nicole, a former college professor turned six-figure virtual assistant and VA coach, to talk about the REAL path to starting a profitable side hustle that actually fits mom life.
Laura shares:
- How she went from $46K/year to $147K/year as a VA
- The skills you already have that make you qualified
- Why this is one of the most flexible and accessible work-from-home options for moms
- What being a VA really looks like (hint: it’s not just answering emails)
- Who it isn’t a fit for...and how to know if it’s for you
This episode is full of practical advice, personal stories, and encouragement for any mom who's ready to explore new income possibilities without committing to a 9–5 or a business she doesn’t love.
🎉 Want to see if this could be your next step? Grab Laura’s free masterclass (plus get her income calculator + 150-task VA starter list!) here → [LINK]
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Hello and welcome back to the Money Mom podcast. I'm your host, rachel Koons, and I have a very special guest today, laura Nicole, who I asked to come on the podcast because we're gonna have a conversation about something that I work with a lot with our members inside the Money Mom Club, and it is how to step out of like just being a stay-at-home mom and bringing in some extra income from home, starting a side hustle, starting something that can help your family financially and I think what Laura does is going to be so attractive to some of you and just giving you some ideas on possibility, what the possibility is of how you can start to make an income from home. So, laura, welcome to the podcast. I'm so happy you're here with me today.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Okay, so can you start off and tell us a little bit about your story, what you do, how you help women, all of the things?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. I will go with the cliff notes because otherwise it'll take the whole time. I've learned that about myself. So I work as a virtual assistant. I also am a virtual assistant coach. So I am a mom, a dog mom, a wife. I live out in the freaking desert in Arizona. Somehow we've made our way from the Midwest to the desert and I work from home as a virtual assistant.
Speaker 2:So prior to this, in another life, it feels like I was a restaurant manager for a long time and then I was a college communication professor for about four years Before my husband and I finally got pregnant. We struggled with infertility for a couple of years and then we got pregnant and I had my daughter. And I very, very quickly realized, when I had to go back on campus after my maternity leave, that I didn't want to. I spent my whole life thinking, oh, I'll never be a stay at home mom, like I love working. It just wasn't what I pictured. But then, once she was here right, it was so hard to leave her just because I had a set schedule and somewhere that I had to be at a certain time. Um, but I had no clue what else to do to be able to earn an income.
Speaker 2:Right, I had gone to school, I had a master's degree. I was using it. I felt like I was doing what I should be doing, um, but it wasn't fulfilling. And now it was costing me time with my daughter, which I wasn't okay with. And a friend was actually like hey, have you ever heard of a virtual assistant? It'd be perfect for you. And I was like no, what are you talking? I'm, I was 33.
Speaker 2:I'd never heard of it, um, and so my friend explained it what it is, what it looks like, and she was like it's perfect for your personality. And at the time this was 2020, the only real other way to be making money from home as a mom was to do like network marketing which no shade to network marketing. It's just not for my personality and so I knew that wasn't a path I wanted to go. So I felt pretty stuck until this VA thing came up and I figured why not try? Right, I might as well give it a go. I was able to sign two clients in the first month very minimal hours, which I wanted. I was still in the throes of postpartum and working full-time as a professor, but I realized that it was something I could do by kind of dipping my toe in and just doing about five hours a week was something I could do by kind of dipping my toe in and just doing about five hours a week, and then, about five months in, I signed one client that was a $4,000 per month contract.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow.
Speaker 2:And everything changed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Everything changed?
Speaker 1:Yeah, speak to that and tell. Tell us what. What because of that? Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it really opened my eyes to being like okay, this could actually be the solution, like this. So at the time, as a college professor, I was teaching double course loads and I maxed my highest salary, um, to date, was 46,000. And I am not a mathematician, that's why I taught communication. But 4,000 a month times 12 is 48,000 a year. So one client had fully replaced my college professor salary and so I was like, okay, this is not just like a side hustle or a way to bring an extra income. This can be the thing that I can do and be home with my daughter and completely replace that income.
Speaker 2:Um, I, I'm very type a, I'm very, um, I overthink things. So I did not leave teaching right away, I was just nervous to do it. Uh, so I stayed in top for another semester and a half, cause I was mid semester at the time, um, but then I was able to leave teaching and just my income as a VA only continued to grow. I doubled it in a year and a half and I tripled it in two and a half years. Um, yeah, I mean a good job, right, being a professor. Society is like, oh, that's a good job, like it's respectable, but I couldn't break 50 K a year and I had really kind of just convinced myself that I never would, and like making a hundred K a year was out of the freaking question, right Like there's just no way. But in two and a half years, my uh, that full, third full year as a VA, I made 147,000.
Speaker 1:Wow Just as a. Va just working with clients. Wow, and, and how did it? How did that translate from like the time that it took to be a professor? And what you had to do with your daughter and then what happened when you switched transition to VA, because I can think of people saying like, yeah, that sounds awesome, but I don't want to like trade my nine to five job for this job and work the same amount of hours and still be away from my kids.
Speaker 2:Right. So I, when I transitioned out, I made that income with just two clients, um, and so they were bigger contracts, right, they were more hours. So there was a point in time where I basically did shift my full-time teaching to full-time VA. But the fact that I could do it from home and there was nobody like I didn't have class times, I didn't have office hours Right, like I was still working for a while, for probably about a year, I hustled really hard and I did work the same amount of hours because we were also trying to buy a home.
Speaker 2:We had moved with our 10 month old into my mom's basement to try and save for a house which we ended up paying for the down payment with my VA income, wow. So I was in like full hustle mode, right, like we were looking to keep our cashflow as high as we could at the time. But even having even working 40 hours a week as a VA, the flexibility that comes with that is so much different than having a set schedule, having to go to an office, having to have someone watch my daughter. You know like, yeah, like totally, but you can make it be as a VA, it doesn't have to be 40 hours, you can do it for 20. You can do it for 30 hours, you can do it for 10 hours a week and still be bringing in a great supplemental income. Um, that was just the phase I was in at the time, and then I had gained more experience. So now I still make six figures a year, but I work probably 20 ish hours a week with clients.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's one of the things that I think is so, so magical about even what we do online as business owners and what VAs can do online is it's so whatever season of life you're in, whatever time you have, and, honestly, I do it where it's like this week I have more time, next week I'm going on vacation, the week after that I have more time, and so I can literally build whatever clientele, whatever type of of job I want to have. I don't have to answer to somebody, and and that, to me, was like the reason that I wanted to start my own business, and that's a reason I think so many moms are worried about going out and getting a job or, you know, tying themselves into set hours each week to help their family financially, and the whole conversation that we're having here today is like you don't have to do that. There's so many opportunities that you could just work a couple hours a week. You could sign a client for a couple hundred dollars a month, and we have and Laura came into the money mom club a couple of months ago and did a masterclass for our members, and I've sent you some of the screenshots of some of the girls, but we have people who went on from that masterclass to then go pitch themselves to online business owners or whatever, and we have girls that are making like a thousand dollars a month. We have a girl that made like $400 a month the first month.
Speaker 1:Like that's the thing about this and and that's why I wanted to have Laura on here is because it is it's so mendable to your life and you can work when your baby's sleeping, you can work at night when, after the kids go to bed. This does not mean you can't go to park dates, you can't take your kids to school every day, you can't go to meetings that you need to go to or doctor's appointments or whatever. Like it really is so flexible for a life of a mom and that's why this is so awesome. Right, right, I think.
Speaker 2:I'm preaching to the choir here, but yeah, flexibility is far and away the number one thing. Like I, I'm very transparent.
Speaker 2:I tell women all the time like this is it's work, it's a job right Like you're working with a business owner, you have to take it seriously, all the things but the benefit of being your own boss and having the say for when you work like nothing, nothing compares my daughter. We just went on a trip last week. I just put a posted a reel to my Instagram today about how I took eight days off as a VA right Like how I was able to prep for that. And I got to go take eight days and be completely unplugged from my clients and from my work. And then we got home and I realized that my daughter probably couldn't go to school on Monday morning because we traveled a 13 hour travel day and we got home at 11 PM at night and it would be kind of mean, almost to be like go to school.
Speaker 2:have a good day. I'm going to get back to work, you know, but I was able to just keep her home and nothing changed. I didn't have to cash another day of PTO or get permission from somebody. I just adjusted my day around what my daughter needed and I was able to meet her needs, prioritize her and what my family needed and still get stuff done for my clients and still be bringing in income for my family.
Speaker 1:Awesome, I love that. So tell us a little bit about what, what it looks like. If someone is like, yeah, this sounds great, but I'm not good at technology or I don't know how to work computers very well, so tell us you know what kind of opportunities there are and what options people have when it comes to being a VA. I think a VA is a really umbrella term. Can you kind of talk about the different options?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and just to give like a really baseline if anyone's like. But what is a VA Like? What do you actually do?
Speaker 1:What does?
Speaker 2:that mean Right. So when you are a virtual assistant, you're a 1099. So you're an independent contractor, which is why I mentioned being your own boss, right Cause technically you are, but you work with small business owners to help them essentially run the behind the scenes of their business. Most often it's with online business owners, but you absolutely can work with local brick and mortar boutiques, coffee shops, chiropractic offices places like that as well, depending on just what your interests are and what kind of business you want to be supporting. But a lot of times it's really just helping with, like, admin on the backend right, answering customer service emails and questions that come in for them, helping them to keep their calendar organized or keeping you know their digital calendar where people can book calls with them, making sure it's up to date. Doing things like helping them manage their online community right, a lot of online courses, just like you have.
Speaker 2:You have a membership. You have a group. I'm sure there are things that get posted in there, right. You come up with the content, but you don't have to be the person who actually goes and types it into the group and then hits post. You know what I mean. That can be done by your VA. The VA is there. The purpose you serve as a virtual assistant is to really take the backend things off of the plate for small business owners so that they can show up in their business in the parts that have to be done by them right the forward-facing, the relationship building, the marketing, the selling so that they can free up their time by not having to deal with the stuff on the back end that can absolutely be handled by somebody else and you definitely don't. It's a thing. You mentioned the word tech savvy and I hear that from women all the time and they're like but I'm not tech savvy. I have not met a woman in 2025 who doesn't have enough computer skills, right? Yes, like we live in a computer world.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:If you can send an email, if you can email your kid's school or you can add their doctor appointment to your Google calendar. Right Like then, you have the skills. You don't need to be a tech wizard, you don't need to know HTML code, you need to know the basics. I always say like you just need basic computer proficiency.
Speaker 1:that, again, 99% of us have in this day and age in order to lot you know people have come and go and the the VAs that I've brought on have not been proficient in the systems that I have. Right, every online business owner uses different software, different structure with their business, and so I literally have videos like SOP videos, operating procedures, where I go through and I show you, step by step, exactly what you have to do. Like it's like follow an instruction manual. Can you follow an instruction manual?
Speaker 2:You can be a VA, right? I always say, if you're teachable, like if you're coachable, and that's something I'm really glad you said that, because it's one of those things I tell women all the time and I don't know, I get the vibe that, like they maybe don't believe me, that I'm just trying to make it sound better than it might be, cause I tell them all the time. I say you don't have to know all these softwares and programs, because every client is going to train you, every client is going to teach you. This is their small business, this is their livelihood, it's their baby. They're going to want things done the right way, so they're going to be happy to train you.
Speaker 2:But the caveat here is that they want to be able to train you or give you that SOP or, if they don't have one yet, hop on a zoom and screen, record it right and show you how to do it, so that you can make your own SOP, which is that standard operating procedure, aka just instructions. Um, but they just expect to not have to train you on the same thing five times. Yes. So that's why I say, as long as you are proficient enough on the computer and you're a quick enough learner that you're teachable and you can take those instructions and then write them down and be able to go duplicate it yourself. That's all you need. Like that is the skillset that you need.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I can't even speak to that enough because I have hired. So when I first started my business, I realized very soon after starting my business that I needed help on the backend. I could not do everything I wanted to and be the front facing, creating the content, creating all the things that I needed to do, and so I just put out a plug on social media to my followers. I like didn't even go through like a legit thing, and I was like is there are there any moms out there who would like to work with a small business? Like I didn't even call it a VA.
Speaker 1:I just you're like I just need help. Exactly, send me your resume. And the two people that I hired were people that had never been a VA before, they had never been formally trained. They were like I just want to help you, that was it. And. And we worked so well together. They were amazing. They were so good at what they did and they didn't have formal training. It was literally just like hey, come on in, do this with me. And there are and we could talk about how many businesses there are Like this is not a saturated market.
Speaker 1:I am in a, we are in Laura and I are in a network of thousands of business owners. That's how we met and I mean I see posts constantly in our Facebook group that we're in together. I'm looking for a VA, I need help on the backend, like there's so much need for this, so much need for this. And then the cool thing like Laura did with her own story is you start, you get, you kind of learn about it. You learn how to be a VA, you learn how to work with a business owner, and then you can go off and like you're just constantly getting more clients or you're becoming more valuable, right, so, as someone who's been in business a little bit longer. I have VAs that I pay more money because they know more things. They're able to do more stuff for me. So you become more valuable over time the more you do this right.
Speaker 2:Oh, a million percent, yeah, and it's not even, it's a combo. So in the U S like, the average starting rate for a virtual assistant is between 20 and $30 per hour which is pretty, pretty freaking good. I think you can hop into something you've never done before, with no degree required, no certification required, and charge $25 an hour, like, yeah, sign me up, right, right, how do I start?
Speaker 1:And it's 10 99. So you're not on W2 taxes. All those kinds of things yes.
Speaker 2:Yep, a hundred percent and the couple of ways that you are able to grow that rate right Like that's starting. That's not where your stock VAs ultimately can get up to about $75 per hour. Holy cow, there are some people out there who will tell you a VA can be charging a hundred dollars per hour. I don't subscribe to that.
Speaker 1:I was going to say I would suck me dry, Okay.
Speaker 2:I know I think you cap there Cause then you can shift right.
Speaker 2:Then there's like OBMs, who are online business managers, really niched down and specialized, and you're truly like a Pinterest manager. You're not actually a VA who handles someone's Pinterest, I mean so, but up to $75 per hour, that's pretty insane, um, and it's a combo of just one, the amount of time that you're doing it. Right, even if you keep the same service set that you start at, maybe you hop in and you start with, just like those general admin services which literally every woman I've ever talked to, I'm like, yes, you could do that. Um, but even if you keep that same set of services which literally every woman I've ever talked to, I'm like, yes, you could do that. But even if you keep that same set of services, if you've been doing it for a year, you're more proficient at those services. So you're not still going to be charging $25 an hour. You're probably going to be at 30, 33, 35, just because you have better systems. Now, right, like, you know your stuff, you know what to do, how to do it more efficiently.
Speaker 2:And the other way is to find different, like specific services that you really enjoy that are higher, like ROI services for your client Right so now ads yes, facebook ads helping them, um, you know, with a bit of their content planning, or if they do want to do Pinterest, or maybe they have a podcast and now you're the person who does their show notes and handles scheduling it out in Buzzsprout and doing the transcriptions right, like those are things that are higher level than just answering emails that are coming in for them and, just as an example, when I started five years ago, I was literally doing just blanket admin, you know, processing applications, answering emails, and I started with my first couple of clients at either 20 or 25 an hour depending. That's also the nice thing you don't have to charge every single client the same, like one client.
Speaker 2:I have a lot of women who are like my first client, I'm just nervous, so I'm going to just charge 20 an hour, Right? And it's like cause, they just feel like maybe they're not qualified or is someone really going to pay them more. And then three months later they sent a second client and they're like shoot, forget that I'm charging 25 an hour and you can they're all individual.
Speaker 2:But now, five years in, I have one client who I do some general admin for, just because I've been with her forever and I know her business inside out. But other than that, now I build like launch mechanisms for my clients Wow, okay, cool, and their email sequences and their opt-in pages right and so I'm charging $65 an hour because that work is one more complicated. And, number two, my service is leading to direct revenue for the client right.
Speaker 2:So it can change so much. You could literally be doing something in three years that you don't even know exists, right?
Speaker 1:now, yeah, yeah, don't get hung up. Don't get hung up on the barrier to entry, right Cause there, what we're saying now is there is no barrier to entry.
Speaker 2:Try, just try, it's the lowest possible, not only in terms of like having to what you have to know, but also cost, like there's literally no, there's no buy-in right, like if you have a smartphone, a computer, a wifi and some good old fashioned work ethic. Awesome, that's all you need, and again in 2025,. Most of us have those things just as part of daily life, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. Okay, so tell me who this isn't for. Like someone's listening right now.
Speaker 2:Tell me who is like if you check these boxes, this probably isn't for you who is like if you check these boxes, this probably isn't for you If you are someone who have really struggles to manage your own time right. Like you have to be somebody who can mark, like keep your own P's and Q's, you know, because it's really important. Yeah, clients are hiring you so that they can hand it off and not worry about it anymore.
Speaker 2:Every now and then you'll have that business owner who is a micromanager, but, especially in my experience, more often than not they're hiring you because they don't want to worry about.
Speaker 2:We can't be yeah, they don't have the bandwidth for it, right? So if you are not somebody who can meet deadlines right and like keep things organized and make sure that you are staying on track on your own without somebody on your booty and following up with you all the time, Um, probably not going to be you have to be, you have to be self-driven, you have to yes, a million percent, um.
Speaker 2:and then, when it comes to just like actual timeline and scheduling and how it works as a VA, one thing I have some women ask me is like could I only work on weekends? And that's also not really going to work. Like it's so flexible and you can pick your hours, not only in how much you work, but when you work. But you do need to be available through the work week as well, because that's when business owners are working too, you know. So that those there's not a lot of things that I'm like oh yeah, this is a surefire red flag. This won't fit for you, um, but those two pop to mind because they're either not going to work with the client schedule or you're just not going to keep up, and then you're going to fall apart and you're going to cause more issues for a client instead of helping them, which is what we're there to do.
Speaker 1:I would say also, too, like you do have to have attention to detail. There has to be some type of proficiency in like catching mistakes Cause if I have a VA, that is, I've had to fire VAs before where it was like there has been way too many mistakes and you're, you're creating deliverables for my, for my members, and if there's issues on the back end, you're literally causing more problems for me. So that is really important too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's kind of like the flip side of being teachable, right, like if you're not able to really pick up what the client is teaching you and then, as a result, you're producing work that has a bunch of errors and it's causing them more issues.
Speaker 1:Right Like that's not good, yeah, and I, I, I will say like, don't be afraid to have errors, like we have errors all the time. I'm, I'm, and I'm causing errors all the time and my VAs are causing errors, like it's, but it's, but it's. When it's the same error over and over and over again, where I've been like this cannot happen, and then it does again, and then it does again and you're like okay, we're not learning from our mistakes. So really being attention to deal with that? Um, also, I, I like, just thinking about my own personality, like I wouldn't do well as a VA because I want to be the front facing VAs, I think, tend to be the people that are like happy to be on the backend.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, that's always how I describe it. I think, um, my brain usually just goes to explaining it ways it would be a fit.
Speaker 1:Right, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:No, I know, I'm like let me think about the flip side of that.
Speaker 1:As we're talking about all of these things, I just didn't thinking about my own self and like I would be the worst VA. I mean, I'm pretty, I'm good with time management, I'm good, but I literally hate the backend stuff and I want to be the one like doing the podcast. So I want to be the one making the content. I don't want to be the one sending the emails. I don't want to be the one, you know, doing the stuff. So so I'm like, yeah, I don't think I would be a very good VA, but I know what a good VA is and I know that there are so many people out there that are. Would I think there's more people that would be better VAs than there would be, like front facing business owners, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a million percent. And that's why I say, like I've mentioned earlier, back in 2020, when I was looking for options and there was network marketing was kind of the only one in my face. The reason it wasn't a fit for me is because I don't really want to be forward, I don't want to be selling, I don't want to be hey guys like I want to be the one behind the scenes.
Speaker 2:That's why I always say like it's just a very different personality type. I mean, the VA is the person I always say I mean, I have my microphone sitting on my planner right now. I mean like the VA. You're the person who is super organized, super detail oriented, loves making a to-do list. It always resonates with women when I'm like, if you love making a good to-do list and then crossing that shit out when you're done, like, yep, this is the spot for you.
Speaker 1:I know my VA. She always says that she's like just give me a to-do list, I just love to do something.
Speaker 2:Okay, send me the list and I will knock it out as fast as I can.
Speaker 1:Okay, so and this is I actually think it's so cool, because this is what you do, for your business is like you are a VA but you also help other women become VAs and speak a little bit about that and how you help women. You know, with a little bit of training they can go out and then charge more and be more confident in what the services that they're offering.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I like I said I had been a college professor before and then I got into VA stuff and I loved doing it and then I was really missing, like the using the teaching side of my brain.
Speaker 2:You know, I didn't miss trying to get 18 year olds to turn in their homework at all Um but I missed the teaching side and that connection that comes with teaching and I realized, like, why, like, why would I not want to teach other? Like this has changed our family's life completely. If I can teach that to other women, like, how freaking cool.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That's incredible, um. So I started it's called the superstar assistant Academy, and the way that I coach and the way that I teach um is very much helping you pull out what you already have in you in order to make this work right. I'm never going to tell you you have to have a business Instagram, you have to be, you have to be selling and be forward facing. No, if you're not comfortable with that, I'm going to teach you all the ways that are comfortable for you, that you can be networking. And I love also that you mentioned earlier that the first time you hired a VA, you just went on your social media and mentioned it, because one of the approaches I teach my women is, once you figure out the type of business owner you want to work with, the type of businesses you'd want to be supporting, go find them on social media, follow them, get on their email list, because typically the first two places they're going to mention that they're hiring is their social media and their email list, because those people are already invested in what they do. But what I really focus on and the approach that I take in coaching is helping women realize their own superpowers right, like their own strengths, but then actually turning them into what's a good fit in the VA industry. But they can monetize those skills right. They can turn those into something a client will pay them for.
Speaker 2:And I also really focus on I think this kind of separates me a little bit from a lot of other coaches is that I think it's really important that women spend the time up front to figure out what type of business and what type of human they want to be working with and supporting.
Speaker 2:Right, we're not just going to go find any old client Like, not all money is good money, and part of the perk of being a VA and being, I mean, you are a small business owner technically as a VA too right Is that you have the ability to work with clients who you feel aligned with personally and that you believe in their business.
Speaker 2:Because my approach also is that I want to help you find clients that you can grow with over time. Right, that's how you create steady, stable income, even in the 1099 scenario is by taking the time on the front end to get really clear and spend time networking and building connections with those ideal clients so that when you sign with them it's not hey, you know, we'll try this out for two months and see how it goes. It's like, no, we're both in this for the long haul, yeah, and you can grow with them. Your responsibilities will grow, your rates will grow, your income can grow with them. But I want to help women find a steadiness in this, and not just have it be, you know, piecing together their income.
Speaker 1:Totally. Yeah, I love it. I'm here for all of this. I just think it's such a good opportunity, um, and I think there are. So there's so many, there's so many ways that moms can go out and make money, and this is one of them, and this is, I think, probably one of the easiest and quickest ways to do it. Um, there's a lot of other side hustles that you can start, but this is one that's like more stable, more like you're getting yourself into a long-term opportunity career.
Speaker 1:You know paycheck and, um, like I said, I'm so passionate about the work that I do and I've seen how it's changed my family's life and what I do, and I also think that this is a great thing as well. You know, to bring in that extra money every month to help the family financially. Truthfully, like you helped pay for a house with the money that you made. There are so many areas and so many women that I work with feel stuck in their financial situation. They don't have enough money at the end of the month. They're stuck in debt. They, they want all of these things, but they can't get there because money is what's holding them back, and and what we're here today saying is, no, don't let that be a barrier, like there's opportunity out there for you.
Speaker 2:You do.
Speaker 1:Yes, a hundred percent, you do. I want you to do a challenge workshop masterclass. What is that? We're going to put the link below. If you guys want to join Laura's um, I don't even know Tell them what it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm going to. I'll give you the link to my free masterclass because that's evergreen, it's anytime, they can just get it directly to their email. But it's a 60 minute masterclass that will really break down specifically what you do as a VA, who you support. It's the whole purpose of it is to help you really get enough of an understanding to say, yes, this is something I want to pursue right. Help you understand. Is it a fit with your lifestyle and your goals and your personality? Is this going to be something that you'll flourish at, along with some tangible action item steps?
Speaker 2:We give you our income calculator so that you can see how much you could actually be generating right now, but you could also play with it and see in six months or in a year from now, if you increase your hours or increase your rate, what could this actually look like for you financially? We also do an activity that will help you figure out at least three to five services that you could start offering right now, based on the skills that you have. We help you look at them and kind of assess them and you get it's kind of like all inclusive. It's great. You can also get 150 tasks PDF.
Speaker 2:That a lot of the women when I did the masterclass with you a couple of months ago, loved this PDF. They got emails back that were like, oh my gosh, this is so helpful. It lists out 150 different actual tasks and the things that you would do as a VA for clients, and it's just really eyeopening to be like, oh, as you scan the list, I can do that, I can do that, I can do that. Holy guac, there's a lot of stuff that you know what I mean, yes, yes, um, and so that's super helpful. It's just a really nice kind of all inclusive like getting started tool to help you figure out if it's something you'd want to pursue, and, if so, we give you some action item steps to kind of get that ball rolling too.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, yeah, We'll put that in the show notes. They also. You have a Instagram. They can find you on Instagram. What's your handle?
Speaker 2:It's hey like H-E-Y dot, Laura Nicole.
Speaker 1:Hey, Laura Nicole. Hey like hey, rachel Coons, hey love it. Okay Well, thank you so much, laura, for coming in and sharing this with us. I really I I'm so glad we did this episode, cause I do think I think people are going to resonate with this and, um, hopefully, they'll go register for your class and learn a little bit more.
Speaker 2:Love it, thanks for joining us, absolutely. Thank you so much for having me.
