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Leadership & Personal Development

From Stress to Success: Practice Meditation to Build Resilience for Business Founders

As founders and business owners, resilience and a growth mindset are skills and qualities we must possess and protect

Your Mindset is Everything – Finding Business Success Through Getting Your Head Straight

It’s never easy starting anything. A new job, relocating, or even getting married, can all be mind-boggling and nerve-wracking.

Cracking the Code: How to Choose the Right Virtual Assistant Agency

We get it: you’re stressed beyond belief, drowning in an inbox with 3,000 emails, double-booking yourself left and right.

Quiet Quitting: A Problem or a Reminder?

If you get on any sort of Social Media site or watch or listen to news regularly, you’ve likely

Roadblocks That Keep Us From Achieving Our Goals

Kristin Burke’s mission is to help others maximize their potential and achieve their definitions of success. As a goal achievement

What It’s Like to Recruit Virtual Assistants During the Great Resignation

What’s it like to recruit for flexible, remote jobs during the great resignation? Busy. Busy as in we’ve added

Personal Assistant Tasks to Delegate to Your Virtual Assistant

Many of our clients at Trusty Oak delegate professional and business-related tasks to their virtual assistants – from invoicing

How Smart Leaders Onboard (and Retain) Virtual Assistants

If you’re looking to onboard with a new virtual assistant, you’re likely also looking for ways to make sure

How Women-Led, Values-Based Companies are Transforming Remote Work

When I started my virtual assistant business in 2015, the remote-work revolution was in its early stages. I was

Introverts: 4 Healthy Habits to Cultivate Your Work-From-Home Skills

As we near the end of 2020 during COVID-19, some companies have moved all of their positions to remote,

5 Tips for Building Your Author Brand

There’s just something about earning the title of “author” that is extraordinarily satisfying. Writing a book is undoubtedly a

Personality Tests: Are They Really Useful?

There are many different personality tests out there and you may have even taken some but…how useful are they