#42: Valentina Brega
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Valentina Brega is the founder of Hire Train VA, which helps busy entrepreneurs reclaim their time by hiring world-class support staff.
In this episode, Valentina shares her story of immigrating to the U.S. from the poorest country in Europe, and – with just $400, a 1-year-old daughter and no car – building a skill set while working remotely and eventually launching her own company.
She also delivers a mini-masterclass on how to hire a rockstar virtual assistant and begin to delegate your lower dollar-per-hour tasks.
Plus:
- Valentina's journey to the U.S. and how she made ends meet
- Getting started as a remote assistant to real estate investor Bill Allen
- Negotiating with homeowners on cold calls
- How she built a team of virtual assistants
- Examples of tasks you should hand over to an assistant
- Which countries she's found to be the best sources of talent
- Why hiring a remote assistant will turn you into a better leader
- Writing a job posting that attracts A-players
- Using personality tests, mini-projects and role playing when hiring
- Why "visibility beats ability every time"
Valentina's Charitable Cause:
Operation Underground Railroad, which fights child sexual exploitation and human trafficking worldwide.
Books Mentioned:
- 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall
- Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
- Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
Connect with Valentina:
- 100 Tasks to Delegate to a Virtual Assistant: https://hiretrainva.com/delegate/?src=af
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | No one's coming to save you. No one's coming to give you what you need. No one's coming to see like, okay, well, I'm better than this person. Why don't I get the same? Why is, why does everybody know that person and not me? Well, because visibility, it's ability, you know, this you have to be known. But also, no one's coming to save you. No one owes you anything. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share |
| 0:26.6 | their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, |
| 0:30.9 | and the beliefs that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons |
| 0:35.1 | to your own. |
| 0:53.6 | Valentina Brega, welcome to the show. |
| 0:54.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:56.1 | Super pumped about this. |
| 1:03.3 | So I know you as, first of all, Alex introduced me to you as the master world's best at helping him find a virtual assistant. |
| 1:03.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay. I know that about you. |
| 1:05.4 | I know you can help you with that. |
| 1:06.3 | I know that you moved to the U.S. not all that long ago. |
| 1:09.4 | And I want to dig into that today. |
| 1:14.1 | I know you help with, like, real estate lead generation, and I know you got a cool story, |
| 1:17.8 | some kids, cute husband, hi, and much more. |
| 1:19.3 | So that's who you are today. |
| 1:20.8 | But take us way back. |
| 1:22.2 | Who was Valentina? |
| 1:25.6 | You know, I realize that everything that happened in my life happened for a reason. |
| 1:27.5 | You want to cast a certain vision, you want to do certain things, and they don't turn out the way you want to. And then I'm like, |
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