37: Virtual Assistants & Organization Tips with Gina Horkey
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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How to use virtual assistants to start & grow your small business, and organization tips to make you more effective. Gina Horkey explains how small business owners can use virtual assistants to grow their business, and the tools and systems she uses in her business to stay organized and productive. She also shares how she became her own boss by growing her small business, and tips & advice for other entrepreneurs. She believes "you too can start living the life you want, without having to be filthy rich or waiting to retire."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business. |
| 0:10.3 | The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way. |
| 0:18.6 | This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues, |
| 0:22.6 | challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of |
| 0:27.7 | the how of business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of the how of business. It's |
| 0:36.5 | Henry Lopez with you here today. And we have Gina Horky with us. Hi, Gina. |
| 0:42.4 | Hi, thanks for having me, Henry. I did pronounce your last name correctly, right? You did. I was lucky to be married into that one. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, let me tell our listeners a little bit about you, and then I'll have you add to it. |
| 0:56.7 | Gina, at one point, was working for a financial services company, had two children. |
| 1:01.9 | She still has them, as far as I know, was responsible for the family income while her husband |
| 1:07.3 | stayed at home and helped raise the kids, which is wonderful, and then ventured into |
| 1:11.7 | freelance writing and providing virtual assistance services while maintaining her day job, which is |
| 1:17.9 | tremendous. And so we'll definitely be chatting about that. Within six months of starting her side |
| 1:24.3 | freelance business, she was earning $4,000 a month. Again, this is all while working full-time |
| 1:30.8 | and raising her two toddlers. And it wasn't much thereafter that she gave her boss pink slip, |
| 1:37.6 | in other words, quit and became a full-time freelancer. And we're going to chat with Gina |
| 1:42.5 | today about what that means and what that |
| 1:44.5 | entailed. Quote that I love somewhere I found, quote, you too can start living the life you want |
| 1:50.9 | without having to be filthy, rich, or waiting to retire. So we're going to chat about that as well. |
| 1:56.9 | And her business is called Horky Handbook. So once again, Gina, welcome to the show and please add a bit more to your background as we get started here in today's interview. |
| 2:07.7 | Sounds great. So I'm Gina Horky. I'm from Minnesota. I call myself a married millennial mama to two precocious toddlers. Our daughter just turned three and our son will be five this |
| 2:19.0 | fall. So they'll both be in preschool coming up here in a couple of months. And I work from home. |
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