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Hey, what's up, everybody?

Pathland here, and welcome to episode 560 of AskPath. Thank you so much for joining me today.

All right. So today we have a question from David, and it's actually about executive assistants and finding one.

And I thought, who better to ask to answer this question for me than my own executive assistant, Jessica, who's been in the industry for a long time, who can better answer this question for you and everybody else, David, and everybody else out there in the world.

So I'm really excited to listen and share David's question, but also share Jessica's answer right after that.

So here's David's question followed by Jessica.

Hi, Pat.

My name's David, and I wanted to ask a little bit about the best way to build our team with virtual or even executive assistants.

So you've talked a little bit about Jessica and Mindy and these incredible people on your team.

And I know that Michael Hyatt really talks a lot about how incredible his executive assistant is.

My question for you is, what is the best way to find real people

like this that live in the U.S.? I know that a lot of these virtual assistant sites are

incredible for finding people in the Philippines to do things like research and scheduling

and really, really useful work like that. But I'm having trouble finding ways to find people in the

U.S. that are in the same time zone or close time zone that can really help with the day-to-day work

with integrating with contacts, maybe even with doing some of the communications that I would do

in real time to sort of save me time. So I'm curious what your

thoughts are. Thank you so much and thank you for everything you do. Hi everyone. Jessica here,

Pat's executive assistant. And I have to say, I love this question. As an executive assistant

of over 10 years, I think I have a thought or two

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