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Shameless Leadership

316: Abbey Ashley: High Achieving Guilt Free Mama

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7800 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Abbey Ashley is the Founder of The Virtual Savvy. She helps aspiring virtual assistants launch and grows their own at-home business from scratch. Abbey started her own virtual assistant business in 2013 and was able to double the salary from her full-time corporate job, working only 20 hours a week... in just 30 days! She's since gone on to grow a multi-six figure business and retire her husband ALL from her at-home business. It's now her passion to help others start their own VA business so they can taste the freedom and flexibility of entrepreneurship as well. Listen in to hear Abbey share: How she started her virtual assistant business and replaced her full-time income while on maternity leave What kinds of work moms can do from home as a VA How to get started as a VA (it’s easier than you think!) The pros and cons of working for a VA company vs starting your own VA business How she has gotten over mom guilt in order to embrace being a high achieving entrepreneur Links Mentioned: Join me at Shameless Mom Con on April 26th & 27th: Shameless Mom Con Connect with Abbey: The Virtual Savvy Get Abbey’s Checklist: Checklist Abbey on Facebook Abbey on Instagram Abbey on YouTube Thank you to our sponsors: Grove Collaborative: Shop at Grove Collaborative today and get a FREE $30 Mrs. Meyer’s gift set with your first order at Grove Collaborative. Headspace: If you’ve been wanting to add mediation to your life, check out the Headspace app and get a free month trial at Head Space Open-fit: Join the Open-fit 30-day challenge and get a special extended 30-day free trial membership to Open-fit when you text SHAMELESS to 303030. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 316 with Abby Ashley. Show notes for this episode,

0:05.8

including any links mentioned in the episode, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors,

0:10.1

can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 316.

0:19.2

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other

0:24.7

passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead

0:30.8

more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the

0:36.2

Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be

0:38.4

sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you.

0:43.7

You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's

0:50.2

episode.

0:59.3

Abby Ashley is the founder of the virtual savvy.

1:03.9

She helps aspiring virtual assistants launch and grow their at-home businesses from scratch.

1:05.0

Abby started her own virtual assistant business in 2013 and was able to double the salary

1:09.9

from her full-time corporate job working

1:12.0

only 20 hours a week in just 30 days. She's since gone on to grow a multi-six-figure business

1:18.6

and retire her husband and run all of her business from home. It's her passion to help others

1:24.4

start their virtual assistant businesses so that they can taste the freedom and the flexibility of entrepreneurship as well. I specifically asked Abby to come on the show

1:32.8

because I know that there's a number of you who are curious about work from home kinds of jobs

1:37.8

and how you could be in these support roles that have a lot of flexibility, but that allow you to

1:42.1

work from home, be on your kids' schedule,

1:44.8

and still do something productive and have impact in the world and support other businesses and

1:49.5

other missions. So I think this will be really eye-opening for you to see what is possible.

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